Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-209421-20160428154908

On that, we agree. I've been writing creative essays for university, as well as my original short stories and, of course, my fanfiction projects. Now, in creative essays, you have a narrator, and even THEN, the narrator is not all of the author. And that's the closest I can think of that is respectable.

Hell, I could go through all my characters and identify what traits of myself I used for them, with a few exceptions being derived from people I am close with.

Now, Canon x OC is another issue, but one that can be avoided if the story is written well enough that the relationship seems natural. It's why I don't ship Ruby - no relationship with her currently feels natural for me to write, since I write her as close to canon as I can. I mean, I've written Lancaster stuff for private requests, and... I actually felt like I had to force Ruby's thoughts to work in a way they don't in the show for it to work.