I recently finished The English Client and I loved it! I'll leave a longer comment on ao3 when i get around it. What I wanted to ask is do you ever visualise your reader inserts/original characters and if so, how does the main character in aforementioned work look? I know you don't describe them because well, they're intended to be self inserts, but I'm just curious in the case inspiration strikes and i want to draw her (no promises tho, art block is kicking my ass rn 🫣)
Hello, dear reader! Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it and that people are still reading that fic 🥹❤️💐
For this specific story, because it was written as a gift for someone, it was written with her OC in mind. At the same time, as it was written to be posted online, I didn't want to exclude any other interpretation of the main character so it can be read both as a reader insert and as a specific story for an OC.
But yeah, the fic was written for @esolean and specifically her OC Lydia, which you can see in various posts here, and here's also an example (I can't reblog within a post but I don't want to repost without credit, so I'll just printscreen, and yes it's AI but it's accurate):
So if you do end up making some art, remember to tag her too 🤭
In general for my fics, I try not to envision the reader too concretely, because I don't want it to bias my writing, so in general I only have the vaguest of ideas about them. I usually think of them in comparison to the other main character, namely ways they would be similar or ways they would contrast, which means it will differ with every story.
