Do you see yourself in your characters?

[RL4]

Hi all! I'm pretty new here on Tapas, and I just wanted to ask y'all if you see yourselves in the characters that you write/draw? I've only published two episodes for my webcomic, but I'm curious if I'll start projecting who I am onto my characters later on.

Also, check my series out if you'd like — it's called Tales of Hinari. I'm here to support any of your works too!

[Arieso_Here]

Well, whenever I get a story idea for myself, the main character in the story is always me... The main character has its own characteristics and I always imagine myself as the main character !!!

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Well, I split some of my traits and modify it (upscale or downscale) to create multiple characters, so I can see exaggerated or less-similar version of my traits in them. For example I am being lazy and innovative, I make a very lazy character and a slightly innovative character.

However, I have no character that is heavily inspired by myself or as a self insert. I hate myself enough not to do that.

[AmysGames]

I don't really go out of my way to make my characters similar (or dissimilar) to myself. I focus more on the individuality of the characters, and what seems appropriate for them.

That said, I can definitely recognize traits I share with my characters, and relate to their struggles at times. It can be pretty convenient when I get to channel my personal experiences into my writing, haha.

[R.n.P]

Me and my writer tend to add a part of our personality to each important character we create, so yeah.

[shfra13]

For me, I try to create a more distinct personality; but as I am not a good writer (lol) I keep projecting a little bit of my personality on them. Well, I never intend to make a character based on myself, though -- as I lack personality -- but I do realize how my own voice affect my character's.

[BreakingChalk]

I do indeed, but try to keep them as different to myself as possible, is not healhty to become your character imo; however, I don't see the problem with giving our characters a few of ourselves as long as they are still who they are meant to be.

After all, the stories we make are part of ourlselves (but a part and a part alone)

[NellieVP318]

I give my characters a little some of my personality or basing it on other people. I do have some characters that I do resemble close to me. But I try to lower down characters who are like me.

[Kura]

Not completely, but I def have split up traits / life experiences of my own and divided them amount my characters in various ways.

[Puck]

My exgirlfriend said that this character looks like me when I was 16

[KhanSpring]

I originally came up with some of the character as OC for series I won't reveal, Originally they were pretty similar to me, but as my writting started to grow so did they. So now they are almost nothing like me.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

I think I put a little bit of myself in all of my characters, but mostly my main characters, as someone else mentioned, I kinda imagine myself as the MC, the adventures and choices they make is always a little bit part of what I would (want) do myself I guess. Now I only have one comic that I recently started but I have so many stories, and most of my MCs are maybe a bit to much like me that most of them are introvert and not very loud but can make some very impulsive choices

[Fuzzyman818]

That would the depend on what I was feeling at the time on making my characters. Sometimes you base your character around what you once were and what you want to be.

[f0nkart]

i kinda seem to sprinkle a bit of myself into my characters no matter what. Sometimes it's bigger things sometimes smaller but bc it's easier to write what you know it comes almost naturally. I'm not one for self incerts tho, feels weird to write fully about myself

[WOSTR]

When I think about it, pretty much.
It may be a something one has done, anothers effort, the scenario they've found themselves in or an interaction that's familiar, once I see through the fantasy settings.

[darthmongoose]

I feel like it's easier to write characters you have at least some kind of common ground with, so generally I think there's a little bit of me in all of them, and no single character I can point to and go "yeah, this one is me."

Rekki definitely looks the most like me, so a lot of people who don't know me too well might think she'd be the one who represents me in the story. She's a short white lady with a similar sort of build to me, her natural haircolour (pre-magical empowerment) is close to mine, and like me she's got intense expressions and big bodylanguage and is short-tempered. She's also prone to selfishness and wants to be important and for people to admire her. I feel like in a lot of ways, she's like a lot of my worst traits turned up to eleven! She's a lot braver and tougher than me though, and much more straightforward.

Sarin is in many ways a lot more like me than Rekki. She's one of those people who gave off "teacher vibes" even as a teenager, like me, she takes everything very seriously and she tends to be much better at executing a plan than improvising. She's intensely proud and a bit prickly, and rather moralistic and come across self-righteous to some people; traits we definitely share. She's also really, really, really gay and full of lesbian yearning for all those cool ladies. My partner tends to say that Sarin is really more like me than Rekki is, and they're probably right.

Subo is the character who's the least like me, because I wanted him to be like this... really relaxed guy who is personable, sociable and chill, and who doesn't really pay much attention to politics, while I'm kind of a weird and intensely anxious person with zero chill and very political. We do share a love of small comforts though. Like me, Subo doesn't really care about having a big fancy house or car, he just wants to chill and have a nice drink in a comfortable environment. I don't think I'm like Subo, but I'd like to be friends with him!

Jules, who we'll see a lot more of this chapter. is definitely in the running for character who's most like me, because she's the character who inherited my sense of humour and she's also autistic. She makes a lot of jokes to cover for her anxiety and discomfort in social situations, tends to ramble, over-analyse situations and come up with solutions that make sense though her logic but make everyone else go "ummmm.... why didn't you use this way simpler, more obvious solution?" Of course... she's also a cool goth and a lot less forthright about what she's thinking than me!

[DiegoPalacios]

hmmmmmm...............nope

[domisotto]

There are a few characters who are my wishful-filling fantasy in what I have written over the years, but they are never the main characters and rarely have anything to do with real me. More with what I would have wished I was.

[ble]

No, actually my characters are the opposite of me.

"I normally would do that" = this is something extremely boring, so my characters will do the opposite of what I would do.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Personality wise, no. But there is one trait I possess that I put into my two main characters.

Anger issues. Rip fights his internal rage, striving to be better; Freya allows it to reign.
I've always had a temper, and it's been a lifelong struggle learning to control it. My comic's overall theme is overcoming strongholds, both literally and figuratively.
So yeah, that piece of me is there, but besides that, I don't have many characters that are like my personality at all. (Well, maybe Peregrine xD)