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Sorry for the late reply, busy week.
>usually don't mind self inserty characters
Of course, you're watching Epithet Erased: all the characters run the risk of being a little too self-inserty, given that the whole thing is based on a tabletop RPG session. But the thing I've noticed about Naven is how ... improbable his character is.
Like, he's a CEO who's also an ageless megane twink with a Kardashian thigh gap who's also an awkward introvert English teacher who also has all the right opinions? That comes off a little contrived.
The crucial thing is that lots of people on Twitter seem to think that he's Blaber's outright self-insert. It's crucial because that's the right direction, but inaccurate: he's not Blaber's Mary Sue, he's his puppet. He is the audience and writer surrogate, a morally upright person expressing both anger/frustration with and forgiveness for Lorelai, as well as empathy and clarity for Molly. He's the one to tell off Lorelai's entitled delulu ass, and he's also the one to try to help Molly by getting CPS involved. It's very fan fiction.
He's also a puppet in the sense that he's nubile little toy for the writer to play with: pretty hair, pretty face, cute outfit to peel off, obedient bottom energy: you can sense all of that in his writing and design.
Compare this to Giovanni, who arguably is an actual self-insert, but he doesn't have the Enoby Dark'ness vibes of Naven gives out (despite not quite being a self-insert) that some of the fanbase has already picked up on: Gio is an actual character with internality and a real POV, he isn't just a tool for the writer or the story, but his own separate person.

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