Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-209421-20150105024055

LiveandSound wrote: ...Geez Flash, what kind of stories do you make, to reach that size of rosters? Not even my Judgement had that big of a character roster, and last time I checked, (in the prototype version anyway) there were at least 23 characters I intended to be part of the story.

Hm, well, I try my hardest to make my series a saga, although in terms of characters used I come closer to an epic. For the Rose General, I have a heroic core of twelve - Teams RWBY, JNPR, Sun and three OCs. Then add on the Beacon staff - four canon, one OC. After this comes the Vale Police department, fleshed out as part of a "punishment" for Yang - four more OCs. Criminal organization has the four canon villains, then at the very minimum five OCs. Team CRDL make routine appearances, and that's not going into the vast array of OCs that I can tap into to flesh out scenes, as well as characters created by other people for me to use. That's thirty-four characters, although they don't appear every chapter. Not all the characters have appeared yet, but my character profiles document has rough outlines for the required OCs. That number is also going to expand as I go.

I would say that it's arguably a self-insert, but at the same time arguably not. Most of the self-inserts I come across have literally no offered backstory, they're just there, and half the time they're balls-deep inside the female cast so they bring nothing to the story... if it even counts as one. With me, there's multiple characters with facets of me. Noir, the most major one, has my habit to blame myself for things and hold guilt, while at the same time has no priority for self-defense, preferring to protect others. His cousin, Kieran Argentium, also known in-series as Obsidian, has my curiosity and my smart-ass nature on top of my interest in technology - he's also partly based off my older cousin, but at the same time isn't quite as insane. One of the female OCs has the caring part of my nature, and so on.