Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150618003008/@comment-26397825-20151119204520

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: Though I have had a few fantasies where OC creators turned into those OCs that followed Cannon universe rules. The only time I accept Self Inserts is when it is a literal Self Insert - as in, they don't get magic, they don't get strength, they don't get to know all of the motivations behind person X's desire for anarchy, they don't have perfect memory which means they can't remember what happens off the top of their head, and if they do remember something I want to see believable but big changes happen.

Such as the Infiltrator stuff. We know she is Cinder. If someone from our world went in and told Ozpin Cinder was the one doing it, I'd want Ospin to either not believe them and possibly get them arrested after they try to persist with telling him, and basically they get called a crazy person, or believe them, try to do something about it but Cinder slips away and changes her plan, which means all your future knowledge is worthless anyway.

Also, SI's abilities to always have exactly what they need kind of annoys me. You know what I have in my pocket? My phone, and on Fridays I have my iPod. That's it. None of this 'oh look, I have this random [whatever] just sitting i my pocket which just so happens to be exactly what we need for this situation!' And if the SI is female, I'd argue against even the phone and iPod; female clothing tends not to have pockets capable of holding much, which is why we have handbags.

And about aura....I'd be very iffy even giving a SI aura in the same capacity as the Remnant people, simply because we cannot use it the same way. Just because we are transported into another world does not mean that our physical and mental makeup is going to be changed, which means our aura will not be unlockable simply because our souls don't quite work the same way. We'd have one; the Remnant technology and ability that people have to sense souls in a way would be able to find our soul, but it wouldn't be unlockable. Which means no Dust, no damage mitigation, and no Semblance.