![]() ![]() ![]() But if you expect other people to enjoy your story too, you're going to need to insert all the things that make you a real person, like your flaws. After all, there's nothing wrong with a little Wish-Fulfillment. It doesn't even mean that you're a bad writer. Note that self-insertion isn't a bad thing. See Emergency Impersonation, You Will Be Beethoven, or Possession Sue for different versions of the latter. The Self-Insert Fic has two primary varieties: the Self as New Character, where the author simply opens the top of the story and drops a copy of themselves right in, with a few smiles thrown their way to acknowledge their presence and a few lines chipped in, and the Self as Existing Character, where the author finds himself forced to take over the life (and sometimes the body) of an existing Canon character, without necessarily being restrained to staying "in character" for their new role. The main rule is to never put the character in a high-ranking story position, although they may be the narrator. ![]() Care must be taken to not still make themselves more important than anybody else. However, equally common is the subversion, where the author applies This Loser Is You to themselves and ends up as The Ditz, The Fool, or in extreme cases a Butt-Monkey. In rare instances, it might work well, especially if the people in the setting - heroes and villains - react accordingly to the new situation and the character that knows all the stuff he saw in the (anime/game/etc) and the situation changes in ways they can't anticipate. ![]() In the most extreme cases, the insert character gains some degree of godlike power, or retains considerable knowledge of the series in which he's been inserted, or both, and uses them to adjust things to his or her liking. The original Mary Sue ( she who gives that trope its name) was a Parody Sue of the standard Self-Insert Fic. Used with permission.Īs the name implies, a Self-Insert Fic is one where the author has made a simulacrum of themselves, commonly called an avatar, in the story's world as a key character (usually The Protagonist, but any other role that's vital to the story qualifies). " Strong Bad, I don't think that's how they would act." note Image by tredlocity. ![]()
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