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Do you have any particular ones for certain fandoms? Like for Harry Potter, Pokemon, etc.

I've never really been into self-insert stuff, although I think that's basically a function of my particular psychological issues more than anything

When I was a kid, I wrote a long... well, self-insert I guess for Pokemon. It wasn't based on the anime, just the games, so it was me and my adventure. It was just about 9-year-old me. Except I could also transform into a Meowth. As you do.

I think the best series for self-inserts are ones where the premise of the series is some kind of institution, instead of being just a cast-driven story. So Pokemon and Harry Potter work perfectly for that, because you can imagine your character going on a Pokemon adventure or going to Hogwarts.

irl: Comfortably retired and live with a couple of well trained large dogs, I spend my ample free on my hobbies all which I'm skilled at

I have one for every fandom I am in. They are all pretty much like me but smarter and more attractive.

This, except add in some kind of fun, relevant profession relating to the universe (ex. Pokemon trainer/researcher, sweets cafe owner, inventor, etc.)

If it's a universe where there's a character I have a crush on, we have an UST/mutual crush thing going on that never really goes anywhere.

I don't really read self-insert fics. In my own, unwritten, self-insert fantasies, I'm generally the hero of the story or a female version of a hero character. Female Harry Potter. A combination of Luke and Leia because Leia is awesome but I'd want to be a Jedi. A female member of the Fellowship. That sort of thing. Basically, my self-inserts aren't about shipping (though sometimes it happens as a part of it), they are about being badass and saving the day and being the hero.

I find the phrase self-insert to be a bit inaccurate since my self-inserts are nothing like me. So, maybe they're Mary Sues? Except that I do try to add a few flaws, and my stories tend to have other relationships and canon things because I can't pretend canon doesn't exist.

Basically, I go for the timid, bookish types. Healers, librarians, scholars, etc.

This is actually very true. My head characters are nothing like me (other than maybe a passion for justice and helping people), so self-inserts may not b the best word. They are definitely Mary Sues, though. The strongest, the most brilliant, the best, the hero of the story. I go for the intelligent but also physically strong type because that's what I can't be, so I like to imagine if I was like that.

I imagine myself being way more badass and cool/collected than I really am lol. And also more charismatic/someone people listen to.

Yup. Exactly this. The things I'm not are the things I imagine myself being (or the absolute best of a trait I have a little bit of like being a genius as opposed to being a little bit smart). I figure, it's my fantasy, who cares, why not imagine myself being the best at everything. It is a fantasy, if I want to be the hero who saves everyone, then why not?

When I was maybe 14, I wrote what was in hindsight a pretty hilarious Tolkienesque fantasy story where I was like... an elf healer? Or something? I also put my friends in it. Every week I'd add on a little more to the adventure and my friends would read it and demand that they get a magic sword or kill orcs or whatever. It was probably a terrible story, but writing it and sharing it was fun and I don't regret a thing.

Mind you, because I'm old this was pre-Internet and I was writing this stuff out longhand in a notebook. But if it had happened today, I'd probably post it online just because it's easier.

SA as above - I forgot to add that I'm glad nobody was unkind about it at the time. I was writing it for fun and it was good practice. I still write today and have a couple things published! But I doubt I would've learned to love writing if people had mocked or discouraged my early efforts as a newbie writer.

My self-inserts tend to be Leroy Jenkins. Too aggressive at the worst possible time, dying in the process, and creating a big damn mess that makes all the important characters go, "So this is how it ends."

True to life, I gird my loins just in time to be assertive when the situation really doesn't call for it, and eventually my mother, exhausted from doing damage control, will turn to me and give me this, "I survived the Blitz to have this child, where did things go wrong" look.

Never written amything, but I've been imagining Doctor Who companions for years - actually just one companion, but she has changed a lot over time, so it's like multiple people.

All of mine are badasses. Sometimes ridiculously overpowered badasses, although that tends to be limited to canons where that falls within the normal scope of what could be "possible" even if unlikely. So if there are superpowers, then my self-insert's gonna have them, but if everybody is a normal human, then she's going to be a super-awesome badass normal human being.

Generally (but not always) with a close familial connection to someone in-universe, although there's no real pattern as to whether it's to the hero, the villain, or just someone who seems interesting.

Shipping-wise, they're almost never the One True Love of a canon character, though they may have a flirtation or a brief fling with someone I find hot. (Recently de-fobwatched Time Lord meets Jack Harkness and decides she's gonna Tap That.) There have been a few that have had a crush on a canon character, but I can't imagine myself as the "other woman" in a cheating scenario. Or, in one case, as the one who changes a characters canon sexuality.

Sometimes my self-inserts are in the middle of the main action of the story, and sometimes they're in a "next generation" scenario.

#LustoftheTimeLords

Primarily RPG fic, where you're openly encouraged to build onto the universe with original characters.

Most of mine have been for video games, no surprise there. But idk if they really count as self-inserts since the similarities are usually only superficial at best?

Dark hair, grey or blue eyes, short, quiet. That's the similarities.

Some are super morally-upright honorable types, others are dudes who struggle with that. One, my Dragonborn, is a badass. The rest are regular dudes by the standards of that canon. One of them I ship with a minor background character (Primarch Victus hahaha), the rest I ship with OCs or not at all. One of them is related to a minor background character.

idk, I've never really pushed myself into the world like that. It would feel very arrogant I guess. My self-inserts are always someone I can relate to, but never ME and certainly not me turned into some godlike Stu.

I like to imagine myself as exactly the weird human wreck I am because it tends to make for a more interesting story and more fun in a way. My weird ass chillin with fictional characters. Yup.

I rarely ever put myself into a story I'm writing (my maladaptive daydreams are another matter), but when I do, it has always involved me dying in a hilarious manner. I've always kind of figured that's my ultimate purpose, anyway.

I try to make mine as close to what I'm really like as possible, actually.

When I was a kid, I wrote a bunch of self-insert fics. The characters never looked anything like me and were sometimes the opposite gender, but they all had the same interests as me, were insta-best friends or lovers with my favorite characters, were loved by everybody except the bad guys, and played a major role for saving the day. Looking back, they were the worst Sues and my writing does make me cringe, but I sorta feel protective of them because I wrote all those characters when I was going through a rough patch where I had no friends and felt like no one loved me.

I only wrote one self-insert character when I was much younger and he was the benevolent and generally OTT awesome type who didn't get paired up with a character buf rather was a matchmaker for a (canon) couple. Might have been my first clue that I'm asexual, really.

The one time Mimi Sardinia was in a fic, she made a starship air-con system rain fish. That was while I was still going by the name "Hyperbole".
I have idly considered what she'd do since then, in other fandoms, and once thought she'd be Slytherin.
These days she mostly just hangs around Sim towns, she lives in Roaring Heights, though there are AU versions in both Istilnan and Aurora Skies. The Aurora Skies version is a celebrity.

I have also contemplated ideas of the Hyperbole Twins "rescuing" a young Harry Potter, and Harliquin (not the Batman character) becoming a somewhat Mary Poppins-inspired mentor to Harry and even have two ficlets of that idea buried somewhere on my LJ (there is probably copies on this account, since I copied everything over).

I don't consider the Silmarils as self-inserts the way I do for Mimi and the Hyperboles (I actually don't consider Harliquin a self-insert either), but they are RP characters so a lot of myself is there in them.

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