Not exactly a self insert fic as they aren't fanfiction but this troper oftentimes writes original stories and one of his favorite things to do is create characters that possess different personalty traits that he possesses.

This troper has a work-in-progress crossover fanfiction series. The third installment has more or less an all out war between the villains of several series (including MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, FullmetalAlchemist, TokyoMewMew, NeonGenesisEvangelion, SoulEater, DisneyAnimatedCanon, TengenToppaGurrenLagann, and {{Hellsing}}), teamed up with Organization XIII of KingdomHearts, against the heroes of their respective series. Joining the villains, because she is bored, is a Haruhi Suzumiya who is fully aware of her powers. The only thing preventing the good guys' total destruction? Self-inserted me, Katie, who may or may not be a RealityWarper like Haruhi, and set the events of the whole series in order. Please note this is not OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow; this is taking my personality and turning it into a character - no foreknowledge of things to come due to creating the whole mess, and though she does get a Keyblade, if it were actually a Keyblade in the game it would probably be the horrible weak one no one would actually use. No special skills outside what I have, either - just my skills as a writer/artist, and 3+ years of Tae Kwan Do I've never used outside the Dojang. I think my overall goal was to deconstruct the whole thing - actually writing how I would react if I was dropped into the world of these characters (said reaction would probably be the following: Holy crap this is so cool, I'm hanging out with Roxas and Namine! SQUEE! -> Kidnapped by Org. XIII? Wait, this is how they really act? I'll...I'll just go curl up in the corner and cry terrified tears now. -> Can I go home now? -> Rescued by the heroes! Can I fight with you? -> Too scared/shy to talk to anyone -> Okay, I really do want to go home now) and how a normal person being suddenly and violently brought into a world of weirdos would be incredibly weird at best, and HighOctaneNightmareFuel at worst.

This troper has written herself into her Gears of War fanfiction very carefully (made sure the AuthorAvatar passed three MarySue litmus tests before writing the first chapter, then repeated the tests the chapter she was introduced). Despite the fact that she's a rather obvious avatar, most of the readers happily accept this fact and continue to praise her as a believable and likeable character.

This troper's original LXG fanfic character has passed the fandom's MarySue litmus test with flying colors. Despite this, she unashamedly admits that the character is "pretty much me in a corset."

This troper admits that one of the main characters in a comic he's working on is based on him. He's hardly a MarySue, altho I do admit there is some wish fulfilment involved sometimes (I can't really build a working railgun, but RulesOfCool say railguns are awesome and that's good enough for me!).

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Titan/Akira Shirai. Although she is funnier than me, and her mom is more of a Genki Lady and TheDitz than my mom. Also, I'd ''never'' use miniskirts. Funnier thing is that she passed the Mary-Sue Litmus Tests nicely enough to be considered a good character, probably because her secret identity doesn't even have the same name... Oh, and her father is really rich. Mine is quite dead. Expect plot twists, if you ever read such FanFic.

Tenchi Muyo was my poison. I wrote a horrifyingly bad fanfiction that I have since deleted off the internet involving me, Ryoko and Vegeta. I actually got compliments on the first chapter, oddly. I gave myself the ability to summon characters (one from each universe-cannon only) and mimic one ability of theirs and none was my choice. I still feel it would be an interesting idea, but I, from this moment forward disavow any and all knowledge of Sing For Me My Friend.

This troper has a friend who, unfortunately, seems completely incapable of writing a fanfic without including a character who is a blatant MarySue AuthorAvatar. This includes a ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' character who is the reincarnation of the Millennium Items' creator and owner of the Millennium Eggbeater (he was a real gourmand, apparently) and a ''GundamWing'' fanfiction where a girl from the modern era is cryogenically frozen until After Colony, where she instantly acclimates to the distant future and starts a relationship with Duo, who had lost Hilde thanks to her overbearing German mother (this last part was this troper's suggestion for a reasonable and non-vindictive way of splitting up the couple).

This troper has a pet Self Insert character who's developed on her own on a different path. She's a bit more mature than me, but has a small anger management issue. That often leads to AxCrazy. In any and all series where absurd levels of supernatural power are reachable, she tends to become a PersonOfMassDestruction when she's pissed.

This troper has done this with every single fandom she's ever been in. It's cathartic. She keeps it all in her head, though.

This troper is definitely "guilty" of this. ''Twice''. Though I've been trying to avoid making either of them a MarySue. In fact, I have this odd habit of making them the {{Buttmonkey}}s of the multiverse in certain ways. Such as the second one having The Cat, Urd, Shadow, Monkey D. Luffy, Phoenix Wright and Rodney McKay as voices in his head. Also, being saved from certain death by, of all hedgehogs, Amy Rose. I'll leave the rest of you to find it for youselves, because I can't be arsed.

This troper was epically bad at this during her boy band fangirl days. There are two deeply, deepy embarrassing examples that come to mind: the first being a modern retelling of Cinderella in which she was the titular character and her favorite Backstreet Boy was the prince, and the other was not only a self-insert for me, but for three of my then-best friends, and we all got to be with our favorite boy bander.

This troper wrote himself into an English assignment. As it had to be read out, he opened up by announcing that he makes a cameo in the story. The cameo is an un-flattering description of himself saying 'Hi'.

This troper has written three stories featuring himself. One has him fairly realistically, another has him with psychic powers (part of a joke with a fellow writer buddy on Fanfiction.net), and the other has him as an amnesiac henchman of the BigBad who knows only that he's in fact a double agent working for the heroes and plans on betraying him. The story, by chance is ''When Dreams Become Real'' on Fanfiction.net, which was based off of a dream this troper had, and is his best work to date (if only he could get back to writing after his computer crashed and lost the second chapter). He also made his first SurvivalOfTheFittest character, Christopher Carlson (participating in the v4 pre-game at this moment) a complete self-insert.

This Troper proudly sports what she firmly believes to be THE most blatant AuthorAvatar in the history of ever. She a recurring character in many stories (she's a Legendary Pokémon and does not die) within the Archiverse, she is referred to either as Giratina or 'Giratina, the Celestial Librarian of Arceus' Archives/Grand Ruler of Never-Turn-Back the Interdimensional Bus Terminal' (Giratina for short)'. As if the fact that this Troper's screen name on most places is Giratina and she has a female Giratina in the fic doesn't make it obvious enough, she performed the ultimate act of blatant AuthorAvatar-ness: '''Switching the perspective from third-person to Giratina's first-person whenever she appears,''' with the exception being already first-person stories so as not to confuse the reader. (This is justified somewhat by the fact that she is actually recording/typing up the adventures of the stories' characters on Word for reference in Arceus' Aforementioned Archives...) But her readers accept it, and she personally loves the idea, so her flying Author Avvie won't be leaving the recurring cast soon.

This troper blatantly inserted herself into two fanfictions for no reason at all other than the fact that she wanted to. The character played absolutely no role in the story, but was just there for the purpose of taking up space. These stories have since been deleted, and all evidence of them wiped from the computer's hard drive. They were terrible.

This trope-reader did this in her early years of RP-ing. I cringe when I remember that time because I was arrogant and believing if everything went my way the world would be a better place(I was also twelve). In one, my insert's name was "Marisu". How Ironic.

I once wrote a Sue version of myself into a Pokemon fic I was writing. The character was the Champion, could shapeshift, could speak to Pokemon, and owned several legendaries. She has since been through major retooling, and is now no longer an author insert, and only keeps the Sue traits that I've been able to justify. She can speak to Pokemon because of TranslatorMicrobes that are available to everyone who works with Pokemon, and owns only one legendary, which she captured for selfish reasons and which used to hate her because of that. Though said legendary is one of her most-used Pokemon, I've taken great pains to make sure it's not overpowered and doesn't effortlessly win every battle. The other Mary Sue traits have been retconned out of existence, since they didn't have any major effect on the story to begin with. So even though my character is still a little bit of a Sue, I think I've managed to get it under control.

Back when TheIncredibles was released, this troper was a huge fan. I loved it so much that I wrote a fanfiction about it and made a blatant Marty Stu self-insert. And probably in the worst shoehorning of a character into a story, I said that my character was an adoptive son of the family. When I grew older I realized how bad and embarrassing it was, I deleted it from site it was on.

This one once made up a darker and edgier sequel to the Teen Titans cartoon. Looking back on it, my kinda-sorta-self-insert character was a jerkass Marty Stu, it was full of violence and sex and I made my character tie up all the loose ends the cartoon made (and it was incredibly depressing). For clarification, my character was a werewolf/psychic alien hybrid, he could fly, use telekinesis, had super-strength, could turn into a wolf, could grow Wolverine-style claws out of his knuckles, could make impenetrable psychic shields and was stronger than the entire team put together. I didn't think that he was a Marty-Stu because he bleeds and the team calls him out on his jerkassery on a few occasions. I never put it on paper so don't try to look for it. I'm actually making another self-insert {{Pokemon}} story, only it has nothing to do with Ash & co and it's all about how I saw the world of Pokemon from the games I played. Also it's going to be full of RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, CrazyAwesome, badass mounts, maybe a bit of TearJerker material and badass longcoats. :3

Most of this troper's major fanfiction projects have involved self-insertion of some type or another. My first one involved me as a mutant, alongside several OCs, fighting the Sailor Scouts (this was before I knew where SailorMoon originated from) in random locations across the United States; it was my first real attempt at fanfiction, and quite frankly I'm too embarrassed to post it on the Internet. My second one involved me, also as a mutant, fighting bad guys alongside the SamuraiPizzaCats; better, but still not up to par. My third one, based in the Slayers universe, had several chapters where I, as an easygoing mazoku resistant to positive feelings, was sent by Phibrizzo to kill the main characters out of spite for his defeat in Next (it failed, just for the record). My most recent one dropped me and Inuyasha inside Phibrizzo's head due to a wish made on the Shikon no Tama, eventually leading him to a mix-and-mash universe of various anime and cartoons. If anything, I learned that great caution must be exercised where self-insertion is involved, lest the character in question be considered too much of a MarySue.

This troper's guilty of appearing as "that curly-haired security guard" in more than one fic set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture... and does it count if you write your friends in as supporting cast members in a "Character A does a semester abroad, what happens to Character A and Character B's relationship?" scenario? (What makes the latter funny is that she's not at university with any of them...)

In this troper's Pokemon series, which he has dubbed the Aura Chronicles, the main character's name is my real-life name. I don't believe that he's a Marty Stu, though. In the first story he doesn't take a bath for most of the time, and he has his doubts and he doesn't get along with everyone he meets or hangs out with.

Is it self-insertion if it's just a physical description of someone either getting incidentally killed in the crossfire or being found dead under a collapsed building? Just askin'...

That'd be more of a DeathByCameo.

This troper is trying a {{Buffy}} fic that could almost be called a deconstruction, given just how ''badly'' the self insert screws over everything she comes in contact with. I've made her a little less self-insert-y because, well, I'm not sure I could make it through the fic with her as an actual self-insert and not need major therapy. Oh, and I say "trying" because the fic is actually really boring until, well, season 2 - that's actually where the self insert proves herself pretty morally grey.

This troper has been writing a ChronoTrigger SelfInsertFic for about five years now. It's almost done, and the link can be found on my contributer page.

This troper didn't write himself into the fic...he wrote his ''Guild wars'' character into an abandoned fanfic. Karel the Swift was known as an Assassin who apparently couldn't hold still and was on a constant sugar rush. Another character that was a guild-wars character self-insert fic was a Mesmer who spread rumours and followed the crew to the Kurzicks.

This troper wrote a story in middle school that, along with other problems, featured a self insert as the main character. The character had my hair color, my eye color, was short, was shy at first but funny once you got to know the character, etc. etc. etc. The kicker though? The character's name was Eddie, and he was obviously a guy. This troper, meanwhile, is very obviously a girl.

This Troper is very, ''very'' guilty of this. She is currently in the middle of writing a {{Kingdom Hearts}} self-insert that takes place after the end of KH2. She is also attempting to ''not'' make her self-insert character into a Mary Sue, and is also attempting to ''not'' involve the standard KH Self-Insert cliches (pairing up with cannon characters w/ immediate results, gaining one/more than one Keyblade for no apparent reason, standard method of getting {{Trapped in TV Land}}, excessive {{Purple Prose}}, knowing just about ''everything'' for...well, ''any'' reason, etc. etc....). Not only is she writing the whole thing in first person, but she describes it simply as this: what happens when you take a perfectly normal person and suddenly drop them into a video game...''realistically''? So far, reviews have stated that they like it, but she's ''still'' not getting any good criticism on what needs to stay/go and how to further improve.

And for any of you who have a fanfiction.net account (along with writing experience and ways to help me further prevent things from getting too out of hand), the fic is here. [/shameless advertising]

This Troper has wound up writing a self-insert into all my Fan fics as a central character. Thankfully for everyone, only one (so far) has actually made it onto the internet, here, the others only existing on paper or buried deep in my Hard Drive. In theory, this one's not too bad, but not good either, clocking about a 30 on two MarySue Litmus tests.

Scrap that, there's now three more.

This Troper both subverts and plays this straight in the same fic. The main character is a "reverse" self-insert, and when writing him, I ask "What's the last thing I would do in this situation?" The PluckyComicRelief, on the other hand, is an exaggerated version of me, who gets on the main character's nerves at any given opportunity.

This Troper has an actual canon that he use for self inserts that generally involves himself with varying levels of knowlege of the fandom (but almost never any other powers), a Self Aware ActionGirl named Jayne, and a villain with a grudge. villain is a self insert was abandoned in my first fic and has been wandering the multiverse gathering power ever since. Sometimes I'll place other people I know in as well, however with only one exception they never have any meta knowledge of the fandom and are mostly just the version of themselves living in that 'verse.

I've self-inserted myself in my fanfiction a few times, but all of them didn't have a fourth wall and was purely for comedic purposes. It usually leads to me admitting that I enjoy making a ButtMonkey out of certain characters and said characters wishing my death. Other times characters attempt to harass me and I rarely come out on top.

I'm writing an AnimalCrossing fic that stars my character from the game. I guess that counts. I'm also thinking of making fun of this trope by inserting myself into the climax as the big hero only to either die against the imomortal god of evil or just have me show up as the least important character EVER (as in, there have been people walking around WAAAY in the background of one shot in a movie that are more important than me).

This Troper has a self insert in Sonic RP/fanfiction, and she is not intending for that character to be the lead role

This Troper and his friends brutally subverted this trope. We all got together and wrote a teen slasher horror story just for the fun of it, with all of us as self-insert characters. No Mary Sues to be found though, as we spent the entire story making fun of each other and killing ourselves off in horrifically gory ways. It was some of the greatest fun I ever had.

This Troper and his best female friend are collaborating on a Series/DoctorWho fic with the two of us as Self Insert Characters: me as the Doctor-equivalent and her as the companion. We take absolutely no shame in doing so and have a blast writing our adventures across the universe.

ThisTroper is finally giving in and writing a self-insert fic in Series/DoctorWho. Basically, after all the weirdness that was Journey's End, the walls between realities started not being happy where they were, throwing me-- literally me, from this universe-- into the Doctor's world. I'm not idealised, I don't hijack the plot or have a romantic relationship with any of the characters, for most of the fic the Doctor wants nothing more than to get me back home, and I don't mess up the canon, so I think I'm safe...

This Troper has a tendency to use these, but generally only in ElsewhereFic; they tend to not stay very insert-y after a while as well. The first, most Sue-ish attempt eventually turned into a {{Jerkass}} that had driven all of her friends away, then went crazy in a mixture of GoMadFromTheIsolation and a bizarre case of CloningBlues / PinocchioSyndrome caused by the mechanic that I'd written to make her a Sue/enable most of her insane adventures in the first place. Yeah, it was weird... The second was more of a prediction of how I'd be after having my life screwed up by the events of the world that the story took place in. Others have been a lot more minor.

While This Troper has a strict rule about no self-insertion, he ends up writing the characters being placed into situations where they'd interact with the troper's environment, though not the troper himself. Most glaringly found in one Buffy ficverse he is still working on, with a *very* long term crossover into MassEffect and the Chronicles of Narnia, among other things, where an original character is in such a position that, if she existed, she would have interacted with the troper himself and his sister and various points of her life, and is affected by such, though, again, the troper is NOT himself in the story, nor is his sister. Why does he do this? He doesn't know, but still thinks its cool

A couple years back, this troper and her roommate started an epic self-insert HarryPotter fic. They put themselves two years behind the main cast, in Hufflepuff and Slytherin respectively, and in maybe thirteen years of fic-time didn't ever contradict the books directly (although they took a couple liberties here and there). It never got posted anywhere; the whole thing was really just to see if they could do it without turning themselves into Mary Sues. This troper, in her humble opinion, managed it. Her roommate... didn't.

This troper had the joy of squirming uncomfortably as her friend went on and on about her awesome Harry Potter roleplay character that just so happened to have her name, looks, and falls in love with Harry (The boy my friend consistently fangirls over), has his children, finds another husband after he dies that she likes because he's similar in looks and manner to Harry (This also seemed a bit obnoxious to me), is a "true Gryffindor" is extremely brave, and people are just drawn to her. I mean, really, this girl IS a good writer, but she didn't catch on!?

Humorously titled "Self Insertion: Not A Porn Fic".

This Troper is writing a G Gundam humor fic where he plays the role of the new Neo Germany fighter who goes on to win the tournament . Domon even lampshades it by saying that I sound like a bad self-insert. I balance it out by only being mentioned and not actually appearing.

This troper was bored and wrote a crossover fic of a lot of original works which involved her having to show up a few times, mostly for comedy purposes, and was actually more of a thing where the characters in a story told in third-person would break the fourth wall by talking to the narrator, than me actually being part of the action. Although really it was more focused on the mayhem of what goes on inside my head with all these characters in vastly different situations and what would happen if they were all together.

This troper has had self-inserts in a few of his stories. The first time, in an original story, the self-insert character (Who was named after myself in the early planning before a name change just before I wrote Chapter 2) was surprisingly simple and managed to avert the trope these sort of characters typically fall under; he was just your average kid, without any special powers or anything (Although, he was a decent swordsman).

This troper self-inserts as a writing exercise sometimes, since it's easy to WriteWhoYouKnow. Usually, it's fair and balanced. Sometimes however, she indulges in a bit of blatant wish fufillment and Mary Sue-ism.

This troper often deliberately writes these, just to see if she can do it in the most blatant way possible and still pull it off. Usually these include the author herself being inserted into the universe, complete with realistic flaws and full knowledge of the canon. The best of these is a StarWarsRepublicCommando fic where the author is transported from her bedroom into the body of the player character while retaining her knowledge of the plot. She, unsurprisingly, attempts to save lives with her knowledge, only to find that the continuity actively resists any changes. This revelation leaves her suitibly distressed, as does the realization that she is horrible with a blaster rifle and is very likely to die. There's more than a little Deconstruction going on.

This troper has been writing a semi-SelfInsertFic for Resident Evil, FanFic/TwoWeeksNotice. The two original characters are Kate and Matt, a S.T.A.R.S rookie and an Umbrella scientist respectively. Matt is less an AuthorAvatar and more TakeThatMe, as he's fat, slow and gets beaten up a lot. Kate was conceived as a DistaffCounterpart to Matt/this troper, but quickly pulled away with CharacterDevelopment and backstory. Though she's as skilled or better than most canon characters with firearms she gets hurt just as much as them, including two near-fatal beatings from Wesker.

On that same note, this troper wrote Jade's role in IntoTheWild as a DistaffCounterpart to himself and an AuthorAvatar for his AuthorTract. But he also brought in Marty, the Na'Vi original character who was also a TakeThatMe who got beaten up a lot. As the story slid from comedy to drama the two leads defined their roles through CharacterDevelopment even more clearly

This troper is writing a self-insert fic set in reality. It's shameless Mary-Sueism, which is why I don't plan to publish it. It's just a power fantasy. So far I've kidnapped the President, conquered Somalia, defeated several rogue nations, and am working on global domination.

This troper has (jokingly, then seriously) self-inserted himself into his fic, [[FanFic/ToyHammer]]. Vincent (the character) is a classic self-insert; same name, same appearance, same fashion choices, same ''everything'' except he's actually a little older than I am (his early twenties, I'm still 17). First starts off as a CreatorCameo, then starts appearing until he becomes TheAragorn of the story.

This troper wrote an Axis Powers Hetalia/Katekyo Hitman Reborn/Own Made Up Anime fic, and one of the characters was herself in an alternate reality. And then, she was able to freely roam the anime world. Somehow. Not only that, but her character was a tsundere, stoic, and psychotic. And a bunch of guys (Mentioning Gokudera, England, Japan, and a lot more) are after her. Too much Mary-Sueism also, so... yeah.

This Troper used to do this a lot when he was younger. (Never posted anything thank God) And has had to tread very carefully to avoid it in a fic he's writing.

This Troper, who's been wanting to write one for a very long time, has finally given in to his own temptations. His vice is KamenRider, and as such, is writing out his dream: a KamenRider story (if it were real, it'd be a film) that pits all the Hesei Riders against evil counterparts of themselves (Kabuto vs Dark Kabuto, Ryuki vs Ryuga, Den-O vs Nega Den-O, etc.) (The Riders that don't have evil counterparts - Kuuga, Agito, Hibiki, Decade, and Double - get ones that I made myself, which are fairly well thought out, I might add...except for Agito's. I put his together at the last minute. Sorry.) Of course, the fic includes my own Self Insert Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Shine (horrible name, but I don't care), who introduces a new type of Ganbaraide card: the Fusion Ride Cards (when used, they allow a certain number of Riders - max. of 3 at a time - to merge their Final Form Rides together. Example: Faiz Blaster, Blade Blade, and Kiva Arrow. "FUSION RIDE: BLADE-KIVA-FAIZ!" Merges them into a giant crossbow - by "merge", I mean each one is stacked onto the other and it somehow works.) Other fun events in this fic are... Diend finally getting a Final Form Ride (No, I will not spoil it), KamenRiderG making a cameo appearance, the Showa Era Riders appearing to fight off Shadow Moon, ''Kuuga Amazing Ultimate Form'' Ultimate Form repainted to be white with silver trim, white eyes, and larger spikes. What? He's already got that hideously bulky Rising Ultimate Form, and I wanted Amazing Ultimate to be similar to Ultimate, simply because Ultimate is what a true SuperMode should look like, and four words that are sure to be the epitome of awesome for at least one fan out there. Wait for it... "FUSION RIDE: A-A-A-ALL RIDERS!" Yes, that will happen. No, it will not be a big BodyHorror mess. What will it look like? Wait and see, my fellow Rider fans. Wait. And. See. Note that this won't be a MarySue SelfInsertFic since my character doesn't take away massive amounts of attention from the other riders, doesn't get a love interest, doesn't walk away from every fight unscathed, and dies near the end from using the Fusion Ride All Riders card.

Do potential novels count? If so, almost all the main characters in my eight unpublished novels (or novellas, as none of them are above 200 pages) have traces of my nature in them on a extreme level, from the coward (a teenager in a extraterrestrial war) to a person who wants revenge against his former friends (a chaplain in a 40k novel: actually five short stories describing the lead up to a war on a planet) to a engineer in over his head (the designated hero in an alien infested power station on Mars) to the unfortunate doctor in second world war Germany which suggests Hitler and his most senior officers were aliens (told via journal entries, a la Dracula) to a story about a teenager with magic powers fueled by extreme emotion. Surprisingly, only three of my stories have teenagers as the protagonist. When you consider that I'm 17...

This troper used to write HomestarRunner stories starring a simulacrum of sorts of me, but as a ShapeShifting Strong Bad lookalike FROM SPACE!!! A later character of mine, HELLO IM SILY, was supposed to be literally born from my mind, and so comparisons will be drawn; SILY's just my silliness made pseudo-flesh and able to do near anything!

This troper is working on a novel where the main two characters are basically two halves of my personality and share many traits with each other. Arguably the male lead is a bit more like me since I'm a guy, but the female lead has a lot of aspects of my personality as well. The male lead used to be named after me, but that was taking it a bit too far...

This troper actually got to write one for an English assignment on "one of your favorite fantasies." After the obligatory jokes about specifying that they had to be ''school-appropriate'' fantasies, it actually worked out pretty well. The plot was that the cracks in the wall had eaten enough of the universe that everyone but the Doctor and anyone with the radiation you get from traveling in the TARDIS believed that the events of the past five years (the ones concerning the Doctor, anyway) were all part of a TV show. The TARDIS landed in the middle of my science class, and me being one of the five people in my school that actually watches Doctor Who, I (of course) had a hand in figuring out what had happened and why the Doctor was real. It got about as far as there being a crack in the wall of the classroom, and I tried not to make myself very Sue-ish. Really the only hint that the character was me (it was from the Doctor's third-person perspective) was that I had a habit of wearing pencils stuck through my hair at the time. My alias was Pencil Girl. The story was at the point where I had it fairly mapped out, but it was dropped because first I had to write Rory in, then I had to write him out, then I had to write him in again, and then the whole thing with cracks in the wall was solved anyway. For anyone who cares and/or is bored enough to still be reading this, I was actually ''not'' going to end up traveling with the Doctor - I'm a writer, not an adventurer. I wouldn't be able to keep up with the physical demands of running around saving worlds, and I haven't even finished public school yet. I can't exactly take a break from it to go off with the Doctor, and people would question it if I looked a heck of a lot older this afternoon than I did this morning (me still going through puberty and shooting up like a weed). Basically, all the problems that would inhibit your average fifteen-year-old from traveling with the Doctor that would disappear were I, say, ten years older. If you've read all that, kudos to you, because that is one huge block of text about something that really will not affect the universe at large. Or anything at large, really.

This troper is a fan of giving himself short cameos that frequently result in hilarious injuries or something similar. For example, I wrote a fanfic where one of the characters commented that people who don't know the lyrics to some tune or the other are subhuman monstrosities. Mostly so I could have the next shot of me committing suicide. ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdea...

This Troper is in the works of a self-insert series...but is trying to avoid Mary Sue-dom by actively encouraging critique of said character. So, hopefully, TMNT fans will be more than gentle with her self-insert.

This Troper is working on a self-insert for Dragon Age, based on TroperWorks/MassVexations, and is trying his hardest to avert Sue-dom. In the two fight scenes so far he has won basically due to luck and intervention by other characters. He only gets accepted into the party basically because the Warden (F!Cousland who's nice and a little happy-go-lucky) finds him interesting. The only party member to like him from the get-go is Leliana, by virtue of her YMMV sweetness. He plans to get better at fighting and grow more familiar with the party as time goes on. will end up in a relationship with Morrigan, but the sex will basically be Morrigan wanting a quick lay which results in him feeling really odd and unsatisfied. The relationship will eventually follow the same lines as Warden/Morrigan, but only later in the story.

This Troper roleplays AND writes self-inserts, unashamedly. However, unlike her early manifestations, she's a lot less Mary Sue-like and a lot more flawed, and usually has to work for her 'happy ending' for lack of a better term, or at least, she hopes so. Once she gets her webcomic off the ground, we'll see.

In my earlier years, I wrote a few humorous (possibly) fics where I existed as an omnipotent director figure who kept the story going and filled in for minor roles as necessary. The most drastic action I could take against a misbehaving character was the Snap of Non-Existence, whereupon the victim ceased to exist in all times, past and future.

This Troper is rather fond of deconstructing the SelfInsertFic and once wrote a story inspired by ''FireEmblem'' where the characters were all Author Avatars submitted by members of the forum it was written on. Good turned out to either a) be ''very'' dumb or b) end up as LawfulStupid Knights Templars (including his own avatar) who alienated most of their allies; cuties and haughties were broken; the only ReasonableAuthorityFigure jumped off the slippery slope to become the second BigBad... It was fun. : D

Most of my online friends who write fanfiction used to put a "Character Registration" topic before writing a fanfic about any series. Therefore, not only they had the chance to be part of the story, but also the people from the boards they were from. I eventually got the same tradition and started doing the same. However, I tried that the few (and incomplete) stories I got to write were about the main original characters from the series, even if our Avatars were in the middle of it.

I like to insert myself into the verse I create. The story's always a variation of: I get dropped into the verse per dimensional crack (which happens quite a lot there), manage to "be found" by people I consider nice, try to hide the fact that I know everything about their world, am found out and watched in fear of me doing something really stupid. Sometimes, if danger is around, I also try to acquire some kind of talisman which provides magical powers to me so that I can defend myself, but HowDoIShotWeb ensues. Also, my omnsiscence weirds out most people (except for the resident omniscient weirdo). If I try to sue up, there's always someone calling me out on it.

Another, more recent example, would be a hypothetical {{Homestuck}} fanfic with me and two of my friends, one of whom reads the comic. While the latter is having super happy fun adventures in her land, I team up with the other guy and promptly find out that prototyping Creepers isssssssss a bad idea. I end up as my dream self, return to the planet and manage to carry the guy to his quest bed just before he dies too. In general, my self inserts involve much RealityEnsues.

This troper plans on making a web comic with the protagonist characters named after, vaguely based on, and looking like me and my friends: Mike, John, and Colin.

This troper tries to fantasize about being sent into the world of whatever her favourite fandom is at the time. I used to be able to do it without difficulty, but now my inner fanfic critic can't keep her nose out of them. She points out how my actions are entirely unrealistic and that I would end up mangling the canon future by interfering... Trying to write a believable self insert HP fic ended up with my {{Author Avatar}} breaking down into tears during Chamber of Secrets because of the petrified students and eventually transferring back to muggle school.

This troper has two self-inserts (three if you count my fursona that is almost never used for anything.) One of them used to be a huge Mary Sue that got much better. The other is for a book series that I may write someday.

Same Troper: I forgot to mention also have one self-insert for each of the three Harvest Moon games I have played. Even though two of them end up married to a cannon character, they usually don't score much more than the other two on Mary Sue tests.

This tropette has made a caricature of herself in a story once. Frequently the DeadpanSnarker and JerkWithAHeartOfGold, she's often the ButtMonkey in a given situation due to being clumsy and rude, she's best friends with a shy bookish girl who serves as her {{Foil}}. Often, her lack of assets get lampshaded a lot, and she's been called "an anorexic who's had liposuction just after purging" once. I've also put my SelfInsert (along with her friend and another character) in a fanfic, but I'm afraid to tell anyone that one of the OC's is a Self-Insert.

Same troper: I actually do this a lot, more or less giving a character some traits that I have. You can always tell which {{Original Character}} is me because she's the one who gets beat up the most by other characters and serves as mostly comic relief in the story. For instance, I had a bit part character who had the honor of getting hazed by the story's honorary {{Jerkass}} (She'll probably make another appearance later on).

This troper has written a story featuring a woman with at least some of her personality traits, but as she imagined herself forty-odd years older rather than as she is now, as a medicine-woman rather than a teacher. She also wrote a ''FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' SelfInsertFic that featured her as one of those many random citizens of Central. She was an inept baker.

She's now seriously considering writing a ''{{Naruto}}'' one that features botched reincarnation and herself taking the role of Inner Sakura. The actual purpose of this is to make Sakura more awesome and give the other characters a chance to avert some of their rather horrible futures.

This troper considered putting ''herself'' in her {{Kuroshitsuji}}, {{Negima}}, {{Ouran High School Host Club}}, {{Fruits Basket}}, {{K-On}}! and {{Ghost Hunt}} (that's a ''lot'' of anime / manga XD) fanfiction, just for laughs. The end result was that I put myself ''in'' the fanfiction, just as a 17 y/o Chinese American girl who just ''happens'' to share much of my personality.

This troper is working on one for ResidentEvil. The character has different background/ backstory and different manifestations of similar character traits than I do. (For instance, the character's anxiety problem is acrophobia whereas I tend toward somewhat-OCD-sounding handwashing.) Similar personality and interests overall. Trying to avoid Sue-ness.

I was initially guilty of this. The fanfic character I wrote was a FauxActionGirl, SympatheticSue that looked suspiciously like me. The worst part is that I didn't even notice until my friend and fellow troper pointed it out. I failed the litmus test ''dismally''.

I once upon a time actually had plans to play a self-insert story for horror. Rather than the usual wish-fulfillment get-the-girl bit, instead the insert got all the girls of Sailor Moon trying to rape him, minus Saturn and the littler Moon (due to squick). Pluto (due to Pluto having the ability to make it a real short story), and Uranus (because she was a personal favorite). A lot of intrigue between those affected as they got possessive or worked together, intrigue between those who were not affected and those who were, all of them still having to save the planet occasionally, and a ''metric fuckton'' of MookHorrorShow as a regular human struggles to fight off superpowered individuals. To this day I regret I never could finish the story.

This troper made a HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi story where a girl that just HAPPENS to have her looks and traits falls for Keiichi.

This Troper has a Sonic character which is (still) basically a self-insert. I'd even named her after myself. How very original... (NOT. Hey, I was like, 10.) She USED to be an enormous Mary-Sue. (Heck, she used to be married to Shadow for Gods sake!)

I've long since gotten rid of her Mary-Sue-ness.. She's married to my other OC now. And no matter what character I'm fangirling over it's gonna STAY that way from now on... XD

This Troper tends to self-insert whenever she writes Fics for a male-dominated show/book/movie to avoid {{The Smurfette Principle}} and be a {{Naive Newcomer}}. She considers herself very plain and average, so they aren't usually Mary Sues, they're just not 100% original.

I have two friends that are the freaking QUEENS of this. Every last one of them is a compulsive writer like me but these two have this weird specialty of turning themselves into Mary-Sue self inserts. I don't read their writing for a reason.