pensnest | December Meme, Day Twelve (Reply)

frausorge asked for my favourite intra-Backstreet pairing.

And my favourite intra-Backstreet pairing is…

Hmm.

Do I even have one of those? I tend to pair everybody with my adored Lance, so the intra-BSB possibilities get overlooked most of the time.

Still, I think perhaps I do… but it's quite hard to tell, because really, I don't think there would be an intra-Backstreet pairing I couldn't like. I've just had a look to see what I've written, and reminded myself that AJ/Nick is adorable, particularly with them both being young and a bit clueless. Brian/AJ works surprisingly well as a mixture of caring and guilt—not that I do that sort of thing very often, but with that particular pairing, that's how it turns out, which is odd given how sunny Brian is. Howie/Kevin is a thing that there ought to be more of in the world, totally the opposite of AJ/Nick because these are two grown-ups and delightfully self-assured, and that's also something I like.

But I think my favourite has to be AJ/Kevin, which I wrote in my post-apocalyptic SeSa story back in, uh, 2009. I see them balancing one another out really well, with Kevin being sensible and with a sneaky sense of humour, and AJ being strong on the emotions.

But, really. Is there a wrong Backstreet pairing? I don't think so!