Author Avatar is usually a background character not affecting the story much, while Self-inserts often either the heroes of the story or at least among the main cast.
Such is the nature of Self Insert Fics that quality is rare and fleeting thing in them. But then again, there's loads of such fics, so looking for the good ones is a pain.
Maybe create a Fanfic Recs category, to list those elusive actually good examples there?
Wondering if there is a classification for inserting an Existing character from one series into another character from another series with knowledge of the series they are entering, for the duration of either from birth to end or more limited such as the soul leaving the body or similar?
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May I add the roleplaying/strategy game Game Of Thrones Ascent where the Player Character is a self-made noble appointed by King Robert Baratheon?
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I didn't see anything about it on the forum, so I guess it was just somebody deciding that profanity was a no-no and taking it upon themselves to get rid of it, but whoever did it put up some hilarious results, like censoring the word "bastards," censoring the word "hell" in an entry about the Divine Comedy, and one instance of "Philip K. !@#$%."
Changing the latter two, leaving everything else just in case this is some new policy and I just completely missed it. It probably isn't that big a deal anyway, aside from being a bit stupid-looking.
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Topic: Discussion of fan fiction trends in different countries... Or something.
Interestingly, in Russia use of Self-Inserts, crossovers with Earth as we know it (aka someone from our world SUDDENLY! appears in a fictional one) or OCs from their original fiction is rather prevalent both in original fiction and in fan fiction, taking place in different forms from Reincarnation (Dreaming of Sunshine style) to Afterlife gone Weird (they do die, but do not become alive again - happens in Bleach and/or Naruto fanfiction most often) to Freak Accident (aka unstable portal) and more.
In comparison, most fan fics by English-speaking authors prefer to operate with canon characters, crossover characters, and OCs native to the universe in question, as viewpoint characters.
One way of looking at this is that Russians tend to live their stories vicariously, while occidental writers tend to come with a more puzzle-piece view.
Why is there a big ol' "No examples" warning, yet the page is full of them?
Just thought like to mention a page I found concerning this topic:
http://www.bast-enterprises.de/ranma/MarySue.html
It has a very interesting commentary about how self insertion isn't automatically bad... Perhaps we could integrate some of the ideas into the main page?
Is there some quick way to explain what the difference is between this and Author Avatar?
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