i dont even like. talk abt my hp self ins which is my most fleshed out one. ever since my bf (bestie gf) reignited my hp interest weve been brainstorming the perfect polycule: tom riddle x my self ins x kawakami tomie. "where did tomie come from" well you know. things happen
anyway i remember being obsessed with trying to fit things into canon (well i always try to do that w my self inserts to make it feel more natural that they know the chars) so i looked up the full list of students in harrys year and picked lily moon. now she is mine. fuck u jkr. can she copyright all the side characters. no. she didnt even put this one in the books so Shes My Oc Now.
anyway the story originally didnt have tomie and involved the original canon timeline and had to do with lily finding ravenclaws diadem in the room of requirement and hiding it, thus harry doesnt find it and voldy wins. then i told my bf abt this and we birthed the alt timeline au where tom is born in harrys era instead and tomie kawakami is girlbossing her way thru europe or smth. Hell yeah