Self-insert

Quick meaning: Self-insert is a noun meaning (fandom slang) A character in a story who represents the author's own person.

Meaning

(fandom slang) A character in a story who represents the author's own person.

More Meanings

1. (fandom slang) A character in a story who the reader/viewer is meant to identify with.
2. To insert oneself.
3. To insert something into one's own body.
4. (fandom slang) To insert one's own person into a story as a character.

Example Sentences

[Joss Whedon] loves sexualizing her, like […] making her fall for his self-insert Bruce Banner.

For centuries, the commonest forms of implant had either been grown in situ or were designed to self-insert painlessly via existing orifices […]

The character looks like Goldman and is voiced by him, so critics said he was self-inserting himself into a romantic situation with an underage character.

In Oregon, a group called Ceek Women's Health has begun clinical trials for a series of new devices—including […] a speculum that patients can self-insert.

Word Forms

• self-inserts
• self-inserting
• self-inserted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include personage, personifier, characterist, anon, science-fictioneer, personator.

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