Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25229725-20150128010644/@comment-25195920-20150206034211

LiveandSound wrote: Oh. Well, you have to admit, all those RWBY Self-Inserts out there are shitty. At the very least, 90% of them. The 10% are always forgotten, even the actually-good ones.

The most usual problem with them, is the Clichéness:

-SI person has, or gets, an impossibly cool weapon that they never used or even saw in real life, along with an strong Semblance. Usually OP or borderline-OP.

-They 90% of the time end up in a romance with Yang. Because boobs. 5% of the time, with Weiss. 3% of the time, with Velvet. 2% of the time, with no one.

-SI person ends up in the RWBY Team as a 5th member, despite this going completely against established Canon, and how it would completely ruin the Acronym.

And that's when not going to other usual, more general aspects of Self Inserts. You could say I've spent too much time in Fanfiction.net, but it's the truth: At least 90% of the Self Insert RWBY fanfics, are shitty. Made worse by how those narcisistic kids who think they are so much cooler and stronger and attractive than they really are almost all the time just downright refuse to hear any kind of criticism. Ah, i tend to avoid fan fic forums for those very reasons so you got a point. Sorry bout my comments. I don't post any of my fan fiction simply because i write that for myself and myself alone and i know how i would react if someone criticised it so i avoid the issue. If ya can't be keepin to the canon but got to write it, dont throw it onto the forums where it will upset someone, thats just stupid.