my best friend suggested that i get back into writing by starting at my roots. making self-insert ocs and inserting them into the canon stories before branching out into my own worlds. which is... weird. i evolved so much that i forgot that that was how i began writing. my very first stories were about self-inserted sailor moon ocs.
so... now i'm wondering what my lore path and playable paths would be for honkai star rail. regardless of which hyv game i insert myself in, i know that my element of choice is ice or ether/quantum, but when it comes to actual mechanics, i... i dunno. not sure what i'd be.
like for example: a genshin version of myself would have a cryo vision and wield a polearm or have a catalyst. either one works for me. but as for where my vision comes from and which nation i'd be from... idk. maybe sumeru? probably sumeru, i guess.
for zenless zone zero, i can see myself as either an ice anomaly agent or ether anomaly. in terms of faction... i dunno. i'd probably be a proxy or have something to do with bangboo. idk.
honkai star rail is more complex in that each character has a path that they follow in the lore, but a path that they wield in gameplay. like yao guang being elation but being a hunt pathstrider, or sparkle being a masked fool (elation) in lore while being a harmony unit.
personally, i dunno where i'd stand and i DEFINITELY have no idea where i'd be from/what faction i'd follow. element would either be ice or quantum for sure, but path? i... have no idea. my best friend seems to think that in terms of playable paths, i'd either be ice nihility or imaginary remembrance, but like... where does the nihility come from? what about remembrance? i don't really have any object that people often associate with me that could serve as my memosprite so like... huh? and IMAGINARY?? really?????
idk. i'm really excited to do this because i'm working on actual game mechanics for myself. how i'd function in combat, what role i'd play, voice lines, etc. but it's hard when you don't really know yourself, and have a hard time understanding how/why people see you the way they do.