Do you do it?
Do you insert people you know?
How do you feel about it?
This inspired me to make this thread:
For those who read my story, it is absolutely self-insertion and wish fulfilment.
...Hmmm/
.......My characters may be more extreme versions of myself. Not a self insert, I don't identify with them. But my personality, my values, can shine through with some of them. Not all of them, I make characters that can have totally opposite thoughts and opinions of my own.
But I know three characters throughout all my stories that do, in fact, mimick my personality and values. However in a more extreme way. What do I mean by that?
Well lets say you got cheat on by four different women or men. At that point, I would say, "well damn, what happened" but I wouldn't go, "well at that point its obviously your fault."
One is more polite, the other is straight up telling you the whole thing is on you. Because once or twice can just be a bad hand, but four times? No, fuck you, you PROBABLY did something to cause it. Either you chose bitches who would cheat on you anyway, or you did something that caused them to cheat on you where they otherwise wouldn't.
In real life, I can be nice about things. Online, I'm more frank and I don't give a fuck if you think I'm being mean. I just call it like I see it, cuz despite what people like to think, sometimes it IS their fault. And we gotta be responsible for ourselves, eh?
Thats what I mean. My characters are more like my online self, because they WILL tell you what the situation is like. They wont bullshit you. They wont sugar coat shit to save your feelings. They will ask questions. They will go, "well did you ever consider you may be a shitty person?"
Because lying to you, trying to be polite, wont help you. In real life, I like my current relationship so I obviously wont be too harsh and too honest. But my characters don't care about things like that and don't need other people to survive, so yeah. They can be more open.
This means they're kinda dicks, but they are helpful dicks.