Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25343309-20150430230909/@comment-25857155-20150508053451

Almost every one of my characters started out as a self-insert version at some point that I evolved to not be self-insert. ...That is, I would often (still sometimes do) imagine myself in an improbable situation, then create a character to take my place with whatever abilities I had previously assigned to my "me" of the moment. Alternately, a love interest for "me." Sometimes a female "me," but that is a whole other story. XD