EBETH'S PROFILE

Dishing out comedy gold on snapchat. (not really but let me dream okay)

Does the lizard man look like the geico gecko because that is exactly what I an picturing

@Liberty

That is definitially something I would read/play :D

@ Housekeeping

While Dante certainly isn't the most important figure in The Divine Comedy, and he sort of serves as a vehicle for the audience to put themselves in their shoes I would say that because he is a self insert there is definitively some power fantasies going on, like Slashphoenix said with who went into hell or not. I also say that the inclusion of of Beatrice and Virgil as the guides ,(essentially the girl you had loved for many years and the equivalent of a (dead) rockstar in the writing world then esp. for a poet like Dante) is a form of wish fulfillment. Uh thats sort of the point I was trying to make with Beatrice.

I think that if you work with a self insert character you're always going to have some amount of wish/power stuff going on even if it isn't blatant "and then I saved everyone!" And that's not necessarily bad, I think its why so many people enjoy superheroes. I don't think that having a self insert or author avatar directly equals bad writing, just,like you've said, waaaay more challenges for the author.