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If people want to do self inserts in stories (OG or fanfic) you can’t just make them the protagonist or the love interest or the villain!!! (I mean you can but that’s too easy)
What you gotta do is make the self insert a silly little guy that pops up in the narrative arc like two-three times and fucks EVERYTHING up for the protagonist and co. It doesn’t have to be malicious, it could just be like an “oopsies accidentally ruined your plan my b” thing.
Cause if you really think about it, that’s the roll of the writer (you) in relationship to the narrative. Your job is to make your character’s life difficult in one way or another so that the story is interesting
PLUS if something (god forbid) is actually PUBLISHED, characters are gonna get cut anyways so the self insert needs to be just barely relevant enough to the plot that removing them would mess up the story arc