Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.151.164.187-20141130095923/@comment-25555436-20150119213101

Heh, Starboy, do you know how Self-Insert OCs work? They are supposed to be what their lonely, little creators want to be, or see themselves as, yet don't even try to do a shit about it for it to become real.

9 out of every 10 Self-Insert OCs, and often just OCs, in history, at least fanfic wise, are NOTHING like their authors. A badass, solitary, jerkass dude in full black jacket and leather pants, with a 10m long Sword-Cannon that can shoot lasers, has a Semblance so OP that it could make any other single Hunter in history completely irrelevant, and despite being such an emo dude that hates everyone, every single girl, from Ruby to Glynda, and in some cases even REN, all fall in love with him, want to have sex with him, in many cases they do, especially if the character is Yang, even if the guy deserves a bloody shot to the face.

And you know who made that OC? A fat 30something years old weeaboo on a computer, who lives with his mother, has no real friends, doesn't work, was bullied for like 1 and a half year in High School (and only high school), it's too ugly, and boring, for a girl with at least half a brain to love him, and it's too fucking lazy to fix that, yet believes he's so much more than that, and anyone else.

Long explanation short, around 90% of the Self-Insert OCs are nothing at all like the author that is supposedly inserting themselves into the story through them. And sometimes it's not even an OC, or at least one that doesn't even bother calling itself that.

Jaune being nothing at all like Miles, doesn't change the fact Miles is using him like a Self-Insert OC (but more "balanced", otherwise this show wouldn't even call itself RWBY). Why? Because Self-Insert OCs are just like that: Nothing like the author (or in this case, the writer Princess Miles Luna) at all.