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⌈ Secret Post #5862 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I love reader insert fics! Took me a while to get in Y/N because I always just see it as literally "Y-N" (Yana or Yuna are cute names! I'm going to try that tactic from now on! I used to give my self-insert characters in different fics the same name). I've read reader fics where the writer is able to find workarounds on using "Y/N" (IE. "You hear someone call out your name"/"you tell him your name before he hands you a name tag"), and that's nice too.

But TBQH I prefer just picking a name. I'm OK if the reader insert is a name I don't care for.
As a writer, I actually find a lack of a name for one of the leads (if not THE lead) a handicap.
I like thinking about how a character might give them a nickname or maybe there's a connection between two names. Like, IDK I feel like having a name opens up to a more vivid/lived-in world for the fic and characters in a writer's head, but I'm aware that most likely reader insert writers/readers don't care about that as much or they find other ways to get creative (but I know it's more the former).

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon above who reads Y/N as Yuna, also love self insert fic (it's the first kind of fic that got me into fandom as a kid so many years ago...oh God, almost 20 years ago lmao). Lately (over the past few years) I've encountered more of the workarounds (especially when the author is using 2nd POV, which is where I personally cut my teeth in fandom, if you will, so it's got a special place in my heart), and I really enjoy those too.

I also kind of do prefer it when the character/self insert has a name -- partly for all the reasons you mentioned, and also, I guess it's just how I process/read self insert fanfiction? Like I'm never out here thinking "oh, this is me!" From the beginning, it's always been more of an avatar type of thing -- here's this character that looks like me, having this adventure with the MC. I make comments while I read, shake my head, criticize and love the character all the way through, but they're essentially OCs with a similar face /possibly experience to mine. Does that make sense? That's kind of how I read them, unless I'm writing the story, and even then, when I write it, "Y/N" is always given a name, always has a set personality, and is written in third or second POV (although maybe one I wrote in first POV?).

There have been fics where I'm like, yes, this is actually how I'd react, yes, this is actually pretty spot on for me, as a person (lol), but for the most part I'm not going astral plane marriage on it, ya know?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
I make comments while I read, shake my head, criticize and love the character all the way through, but they're essentially OCs with a similar face /possibly experience to mine.
Yes, I do the commenting and criticizing and loving the characters for the choices they make or reactions they have too! For me, I've thought of it like reading an alternate universe version of me so the reader insert isn't quite me; probably thought of this when I was high and watching Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse