Self-Insert Fic: Difference between revisions

== Meta Examples ==

 

* The fic ''Martian Manhunter'' turns the concept of the Self-Insert Fic on its ear, along with the [[Fusion Fic]]. [[Veronica Mars]] finds herself, along with her supporting cast and backstory, shoehorned into her favorite TV show, ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. It plays out as a self-insert fic, and yet it isn't. Much [[Better Than It Sounds]] here.

* Similarly, ''[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Shoujo-Kakumei-Utena/utena.ma-vie-et-roses.gz Ma Vie Et Roses]'' by Scott Johnson and Scott Jamison subverts and plays with Self Insertion. In this ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' fic, an anime fan finds himself shoved into a show he's barely even heard of. One of the authors, who was genuinely unfamiliar with the series at the time, wrote the actions of the pseudo-[[Author Avatar]] Skyler Sands, while the other wrote the rest of the fic around him. Acting out of true ignorance, Skyler manages to thread his way through the main action while still ranging far afield (such as ending up joining the Shadow Girls' avante-garde theatre group). Skyler is very [[Genre Savvy]], which helps (but not enough), and eventually ends up speculating on the existence and motives of the "meta-Skyler" who put him in the story.