(10-14-2019, 11:31 AM)Chrysalis Wrote: If you devote yourself to developing one character or another intimately, and with devotion, it's always going to be a self-insert to an extent. Because let's be realistic, where do these characteristics come from if not some part of yourself. You need to empathize with your creation on a significant level to be able to breathe life into them. If they weren't a part of you before, they become as such through the whole process. Unless they're on the other end of the spectrum, i.e carbon copies of other fictional characters.
It's unavoidable in the realm of, pretty much any character can be said to have occurred before in RL,Movies, TV and novels. But yes, I agree. I'm guilty of being inspired by outside sources at times, to a degree where I dialled it back with some (stopped quoting BSG on my Unioner for one :V)
