Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25229725-20150128010644/@comment-209421-20150206025250

Link, I would respectfully disagree with that. The best self-inserts aren't self-inserts at all. Sure, cameos work for official self-inserts, but all my fanfics do have a self-insert element. How? I invest myself as a writer, and I add attributes of myself into my OCs. Noir has my protective nature. Tira has my desire to make everything better for everybody else at the cost of her own self-esteem. Another character, Kieran, has my curiosity, and so forth.

No one character is me, and if you add them all together, you don't come up with me. But you do get traits from my personality shining through.