I made a trip to the boorus looking for pics of these two and an old question came to my mind... Why is the "self insert" rhetoric so common in fiction discussion?
I mean, you can't go anywhere without hearing arguments about ego, escapism, power fantasies, compensations and general dissociation of self when talking about works of fiction. And some people treat self insertion as this unavoidable psychological drive that compels us to project ourselves onto the lives of someone else... I genuinely don't get it at all, not once I've seen myself projected onto the life of any fictional character no matter how generic and relatable they are. If I had to take a guess, I feel like a lot of people don't know what it means to be themselves, and so we have this problem where people practice self insertion and in turn make others predisposed of making every argument about ego. If its really just that, then boy, some people really have to unironically get a life, cause their sense of self is rather non-existent.
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These two are the cutest.