Hell it's been awhile since I've commented on this fandom be surprised if many of the Heavy Hitters from my generation have left from posters to lurkers... okay Jokes Aside, after the whole anime is going to be paused till April I realized I'm going to have time to reflect on One Piece. Don't get me wrong I'm still going to read the Manga and whatnot.
My whole thing when I first got into one piece was the devil fruit system, and I thought well Shucks dude let's make one of our own. So then I did make one and then I made some modifications and then I created a character. And then I kept creating characters but none of the characters ever were me they were always some idea or a concept or had a main focal theme. Sure some of the time I throw in something about me into the character like oh this character's favorite food is also my current favorite food oh this character hates spiders like I do oh this character is you get the point but my real question is have you all ever made a self insert and if so what do you think about them?
I mean I thought about it but I've never really thought about it if that makes sense. It's just how do you make a character that is 100% you when all you see is the good when you hype yourself up a little too much like come on I'm not going to be that guy but let's just say I'm not going to be king of the Pirates.
Okay this isn't really me trying to say let's do self inserts and show them off this is just being more of like figuring out if that's something the fan base relatively does I know every fan base kind of does it but I want to know what the common idea of this concept is in the one piece fandom.