#my self-inserts

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As a follow-up to my post about shipping my self-inserts, my partner wanted to know which of my self-inserts would NOT get along, so here's a few of them!

Rick and Morty s/i + Stormlight s/i: my Rick and Morty self-insert is one of my only s/is who does believe that shooting people can make the world a better place, and my Stormlight s/i is very much on the pacifist side of things.

Hellaverse + Slasher Parent: I think my demon!s/i would be a bit of a threat to the Orphanage, mostly just in mischief, but they would unsettle the dynamics and would not be welcome

League of Villains + Vampire!Echo: both are at the center of messy polycules and they occupy a bit of the same space, and they would be soooo threatened by each other. They would have a very toxic relationship.

AHS!Echo and Magnus Archives!Echo: Both from horror sources, but coping in very different ways. My TMA s/i is very much using their power to protect themself and harm others, while my AHS s/i is all about patience and love. They would clash so badly.

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So during the hype train of people freaking out that they can now put in their Sonic OC, I haven’t had the chance to share my Sonic Forces avatar yet, A.K.A. my Sonic OC/self-insert plsdonutsteel (seriously, he’s my OC. Please don’t copy or steal my character.)

Name: Caleb J. Wolf

Nicknames: Bolt the Wolf (preferred nickname), Captain Alpha (leader of mercenary group), Cale

Species: Wolf

Age: 18-20+

DOB (Date of Birth): Unknown

Gender: Male

Fur Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Skin Color: Tan

Head Shape: Type 2

Gear: Grey-silver goggles, white headset w/mic, white fingerless grip gloves, Resistance scout backpack

Clothes: Black jumpsuit, red (or blue) soap shoes

Alignment (Evil, Good, Neutral, etc.): Good

Affiliation: P.A.Q. Unit (mercenary group, Powerful And Quick) Resistance/Team Sonic (leaves temporarily, later formerly) 

Abilities: Boost, Double Boost (requires Sonic), Triple Boost (requires both Sonic and Classic Sonic), Homing Attack, Wire Attack, Spin Attack

Skills: Rail grinding, heightened sight, reconnaissance, leadership, marksman (good with weapons), brawler

Powers: Speed, Item Draw, Lightning Wispon, Fire Wispon

Personality: Heroic-like, tough, friendly

Strengths: Super physical strength, speedy, deft, skilled at fighting, good at leadership

Weaknesses: Competitive to a fault, lacks self-control, excitable

Backstory: 6 months after Sonic’s disappearance, Bolt joined the quickly formed Resistance led by Knuckles. Bolt became the third-in-command shortly after Sonic’s return, since Knuckles is lead command and Sonic being second. During the 6 months, he became the scout on the front lines gathering intel from Eggman’s armies and labs on weapons and Sonic’s whereabouts. With his skills and abilities, Bolt is able to take on various Badniks, Eggpawns, and more on his own and his squad, meaning his bite hurts more than his bark. After Sonic, Classic Sonic and the Rookie managed to take down Eggman, Bolt left the Resistance temporarily to find and regroup his mercenary team the P.A.Q. Unit. He would later return to help the Resistance defeat the little remaining forces left behind by Eggman. Afterwards, he would help rebuild most of the various destroyed cities, leave the Resistance, and bring back the P.A.Q. Unit to its former glory. Every now and then, Bolt and his pack would help Sonic and his friends and join him on some adventures.

Fun Facts:

He’s formerly part of a mercenary group before Eggman conquered 99.99% of the world, causing every member to be scattered. The mercs he was with are either presumed dead, M.I.A. (missing in action), in hiding, and/or became slaves for Eggman. Some survivors of the mercenary managed to join the Resistance. Little by little, Bolt managed to bring back the P.A.Q. Unit back together. 

He gained the nickname “Bolt” for how powerful he is and how his speed nearly matches that of Sonic and Shadow. And how fast he eats and finishes meals. 

Bolt was born and raised in Station Square, lived in Empire City for a short while, and is now currently living at Sunset Heights in the City.

Bolt loves to race against Sonic every time either one challenges the other and will not pass up the offer.

Bolt may act tough and look intimidating, but he’s got a heart of gold and cares for his friends.

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I finally decided to draw my sdr2 self-insert so I can have some of my own self-inserts and self-ships on this blog and then my confidence crashed to the floor and I backed out of posting it hahaaa oops

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"Echo" and original names

This has been lore I've been considering sharing for a while, but some of my self-inserts were named Echo from the beginning, and others chose it later! So here's a little tour of my self-insert's original names and when they changed them :)

BNHA (League of Villains) self-insert: Originally called Sophie, changed their name when their family moved to Japan when they were fourteen (saw the chance for a new start).

Cosmere self-insert: My name is the word 'Echo' in the language of whatever area I'm in: the linguistic magic in Sanderson's universe is something I'd love to dig into because I think it's underdeveloped compared to a lot of other worldbuilding, but Hoid always hears my name the same way, despite the fact that it's pronounced differently by different people!

Homestuck self-insert: The only self-insert who had my IRL name as their original name. I love my real name too much to ever change it, so I don't think most of my self-inserts started there: but this one did, and took the name 'Echo' on Earth C to get away from their old life.

Vampire Chronicles self-insert: Originally named Bethany Sky (a name my irl parents briefly tried on me and decided I wasn't a Beth), went by "Sky" through high school and changed it to Echo when they left for university. (specifically chose the name because of Echo and the Bunnymen)

Witcher self-insert: Originally named Lilia, took a new name when they left home to be a bard. Still wears lily patterns and jewelry as a nod to their family and history.

Slasher Orphanage self-insert: Can't remember their original name, but it was Sophie. They relearned that at one point and then forgot it again. Echo is their name in all the ways that matter, anyways.

Self-Inserts that were always named Echo: Critical Role, Hellaverse, and my Sandman self-inserts were all named Echo by their parents!

Everyone else doesn't have a specific name history, but I might add one later! These are the ones I know.

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All my primaries are getting shipping templates! Vox and Valentino previously finished, and the blank template is here <3

Favourite Details: -Sun has been around for more than five years, but that's when his memory banks go back to, and he hasn't always been in the Daycare, so... his "age" is a big approximation -gender and sexuality for a robot made for childcare (but with way too much additional awareness) are very complicated and cannot be broken down into a human label -this is a relatively new selfship so I don't know what the heavy-hitting toxic elements of this selfship are but rest assured it's got some wonky understones but also a lot of fluff -as a biome, this self-insert is an Arboretum and Sun is a city planning blueprint (a hypothetical and idealized urban centre) -as an item, Sun is construction paper and I'm patterned band-aids -Sun's album is Revolver: I played with a few brighter albums but he just needs both Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby to feel complete to me -as weather, Sun is obviously a sunny day, and I'm a summer sunrise <3

First Meeting: I was originally hired for admin and was running around with incident reports and vaccination records, so Sun and I had a lot of interactions before I was moved to the Daycare officially

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I hope I'm reading your last post right, but I would love to know what your mha and hazbin s/i's would think of each other's partners👀

Yessss hell yeah!! (send me a self-insert to swap into a different universe!! they're all me but they're also very different from each other so I think it's fun to put a different facet into a new universe and see how they would react to the surrounding characters!)

I'm going with my League of Villains self-insert because that's my main MHA s/i at the moment.

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In the Hazbin universe, my MHA s/i would be a cat Sinner-- I think that they would do pretty well at the Hazbin Hotel, they would definitely get along with Niffty and Angel, probably Husk as well. Might end up on the Alastor team because of their friendship with Niffty!

That said, I don't think they would do well with Vox and Valentino. They're either fight or fawn and I just don't think it would go over well with Vox, or hold Valentino's attention for long. They might end up being a distraction for a few days or weeks, but they would definitely get killed off in Vee Tower pretty quickly.

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In the BNHA universe, my Hazbin s/i would have a pretty distinctive Quirk! I think they would still be in sex work, but much less focused on the celebrity aspects and more specialized on 'helping heroes relax,' keeping behind the scenes a lot more.

Obviously friends with Nemuri, and no less ambitious than in their original universe: they want the most high-value clients, they've been zigzagging around the UA staff and are interested in the most recent hire.

My Hazbin s/i really values established systems and safety (although they make very unsafe decisions, they like to do it with a safety net as much as possible), so I don't think they would actually be doing work with villains in this universe, even if they expressed an interest.

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I wanted to compare my self-inserts on some kind of scale sooooo here they are ranked by their experience of my neurodivergence I guess??? This graph style is inspired by the autism pie chart and a lot of the options are autism-specific but a few of them are just added in because I personally experience them and wanted them to be in the ranking system.

A little run-down of each of them under the readmore if you'd like more details on any of them :D

I'm ironically posting this at around 2am while struggling with a bout of insomnia so wish me luck getting more than four hours of sleep before I have to go to work this morning.....

Slasher Orphanage: Has large swaths of childhood missing from their memory, and occasionally loses days from more recent years/months. They've gotten pretty used to navigating around all of that. They got a few official diagnoses in one of their foster homes as a teenager. They do well with routine, which is a trait that they share with a few of their kiddos, and have some problems with insomnia and 'praise seeking' which is my term for feeling like their purpose is to 'serve' the people around them.

Vampire Chronicles: Very reliant on external structure and reinforcement from others ('need for routine' can also mean 'need for structure' in this chart), very much a praise-seeking example, wanting to remake themself to please those around them. Their reflexive submission is tied to their dissociation, which is a constant companion to their nights. Also one of my self-inserts who still struggles with thought spirals/intrusive thoughts, especially when they're left alone.

FNAF Daycare: Has a relatively good grip on their day-to-day mental health, but changes to routine can really throw them, and they're not very good at masking. Their speech patterns and overall affect are visibly off: they're over-exaggerated with kids, which usually goes well, but has a hard time recalculating with the adults, and their eye contact ability is Not Great. The parents are unsettled by them sometimes.

Critical Role: Fantasy-diagnosed when they flunked out of Bard School: they're kind of doing better on the road, but they'd be doing better if they didn't keep getting into life-or-death situations. Their symptoms will probably flare back up when they take a break from adventuring.

Tumblr: High school suuuuuuucked and this self-insert is right in the middle of that. Hyperfixations making it impossible to think about schoolwork or hold a normal conversations, or even to sleep at night. Hyper-empathy with characters leading to flashbacks to fictional events, memory gaps they're not even aware of. They're a mess, basically. They'll get diagnosed eventually and get a handle on everything.

Hellaverse: They do very well at their job, but their social skills when out with coworkers can be a little bit lacking, they don't really feel comfortable interacting without their work-persona between them and the people around them. Their executive function when it comes to chores and self-care is also a little iffy, and their chronic insomnia has been a problem for them since childhood.