Reverse Self Insert?
Feb. 27th, 2007 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaI've spent the last couple days immersed in Kingdom Hearts fandom, reading through fanfic and livejournal comms. A lot of it's familiar ground but phrased differently and going off on new tangents.
I was reading "don'ts" about self-inserts, mainly revolving around the OC telling everyone that they've a video game, and really, wouldn't that be a bit upsetting? I mean, think about how you'd react...
Which, in turn, gave me the idea of a character falling into our world.
Then looking around and going, "Oh my god! I'm in a video game! Wow, I arrived right at the beginning!"
And then, "Cool! The attack should start any second now!"
Because, if you think about it, most videogames involve bad stuff happening. Especially at the beginning. If you're told you're in a videogame, your family is probably going to get die shortly or something. Someone who pops up going "Yay! Fun!" as a catalyst to everything you care about being destroyed, who knows the whole plot without being anything resembling useful or managing to change things.
I'm toying with different arrangements for the story itself - I like the idea of writing two stories together, alternatives chapters with a story the way self-inserts are supposed to go. But it'd probably be easier to do more normally.
Or would be, because I'm probably not going to ever write it. Maybe when I finish up some other things.
I was reading "don'ts" about self-inserts, mainly revolving around the OC telling everyone that they've a video game, and really, wouldn't that be a bit upsetting? I mean, think about how you'd react...
Which, in turn, gave me the idea of a character falling into our world.
Then looking around and going, "Oh my god! I'm in a video game! Wow, I arrived right at the beginning!"
And then, "Cool! The attack should start any second now!"
Because, if you think about it, most videogames involve bad stuff happening. Especially at the beginning. If you're told you're in a videogame, your family is probably going to get die shortly or something. Someone who pops up going "Yay! Fun!" as a catalyst to everything you care about being destroyed, who knows the whole plot without being anything resembling useful or managing to change things.
I'm toying with different arrangements for the story itself - I like the idea of writing two stories together, alternatives chapters with a story the way self-inserts are supposed to go. But it'd probably be easier to do more normally.
Or would be, because I'm probably not going to ever write it. Maybe when I finish up some other things.
