(02-05-2015, 11:55 PM)Bopdoot Wrote: I agree for the most part with the general consensus, except for oooone thang .. and maybe it's just me!
I personally don't have anything against "self insert" in games. I mean I constantly do that in single player games because I love being immersed in a story!
And I 100% admit that I like playing an aspiring musician who happens to like to physically exert herself for the sake of training because these are things I can bring an actual knowledge to in RP. With as casual an RPer as I can be (casual as in, I don't always invest a lot of time into for IRL busy life scheduling reasons) it's easy for me to settle into a familiar role that I don't have to study for hours on how to RP it correctly. So I guess I just have more fun, personally, to RP something I know a lot about.
For a "real world" example: an old friend from GW2 RP liked to RP being a doctor because she was actually a DR IRL. It made "Dr" RP with her really immersive and genuine.
That being said, I don't act like my characters ARE me. I'm not going to get personally offended if someone says blonde girls with blue eyes are the ugliest thing on the planet.
Forgive me if someone already said something along these lines, I kinda just skimmed
There's nothing inherently wrong with self-inserts. I'm still 100% against it personally, but people are free to do whatever with their characters. The only problems are:
1. Someone playing a self-insert may be more likely to take thing involving their character too personally.
2. Someone playing a self-insert may be more likely to assume other RPers do the same and lump another player's character and RL personality into the same entity.
As long as these two things are avoided (though I've never seen it entirely happen) there's absolutely no problem. But it's not necessarily when self-inserts are criticized about physical traits that people get upset. It's usually when someone points out a flaw in the character's personality or actions, since the person behind the character would typically have the same personality or choose the same action in any situation.
Part of playing a character is understanding and embracing their flaws. That's a little difficult for most people to do objectively when their character's flaws are their own. Some people are kinda conceited and blind to their own flaws (the more likely for someone playing a self-insert), or dwell on their flaws and see no positive in themselves. Basically, it's hard to look at yourself without some bias, be it good or bad.
And just to clarify, by self-inserts I don't mean a character with a few similar traits to yourself. That's natural, actually a good thing, and probably inevitable. I mean a "it-would-be-really-cool-if-I-were-a-Miqo'te-and-lived-in-Eorzea" character.
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