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susiecarterwho is the best (or most ridiculous) self-insert for Star Trek that lives in your heart? And for Star Wars?
So for starters, SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER, wow, I'm no good at all at maintaining a Tumblr. /o\ And then OH NO, anon, you will so regret asking this. :D A) It's most ridiculous, I'll tell you that for free right now, and B) SERIOUSLY, REGRETS.
For Star Trek, my self-insert is at least half-Betazoid, and she was 200% Deanna Troi's girlfriend when they were younger (and they're still ~a little in love but not really, just enough for some angsting over what ~could have been. Seriously, Troi is one of the reasons why in retrospect I should have known I wasn't straight much earlier—anon, she was SO PRETTY and I liked to look at her SO MUCH *__________*). Her empathic abilities are sufficient to let her navigate social situations with relative ease; most people end up with a sort of vaguely positive impression of her, even if she doesn't interact with them for very long.
Placed in any canonical episode, she would of course notice or realize whatever's necessary to make what I want to have happen be what happens (Yar doesn't die in a goo monster! Lore is out-maneuvered! &c &c), and for maximum wish fulfillment, she'd start out as an ensign new to the ship and worried about screwing up, screw up in only minor and fixable ways and do so many other things right that no one cares, and occasionally be dramatically injured trying to ~save people. :D She'd feel unnecessarily guilty about her failures, and other people would tell her she'd done her best, not realizing the whole problem is that her best wasn't good enough! BUT SHE'D GET THROUGH IT IN THE END AND SAVE THE DAY \o/ and also probably end up dating Ensign Ro. :D :D :D (They'd dislike each other at first, and then end up stuck in situations where they needed to work together often enough to slow-burn their way to friendship AND BEYOND.)
And for Star Wars, oh, yikes, my self-insert is DEFINITELY one of Padmé's handmaidens, just Force-sensitive enough to be capable of some cool stuff with a little training. In the most self-indulgent of all possible universes, she was a slave as a girl before ending up on Naboo and being freed, and possibly lived with the Gungans for a while—thus A) it would absolutely occur to her to make sure they popped back and freed Shmi, and B) I'd have the opportunity to invent a genuinely functional, grammatical Gungan creole, because that's totally what a linguistics minor is for, y/y? :D
The Jedi would be impressed with her intuitive use of the Force (though I'd probably be able to rein myself in enough to let her need training instead of just BEING SUPER AWESOME AT EVERYTHING BY HERSELF :D), and she'd feel her way to what I personally believe is the best possible interpretation of Jedi philosophy (short version: it's not about not HAVING emotions, it's about not doing anything stupid because of them/not believing they're more important than anything else). The training she'd get on the side during TPM would allow her to intervene and save Qui-Gon; many, many things about Anakin's training would be less of a mess; she'd be BESTEST FRIENDS FOREVEREST with Ahsoka, she would HELP BARRISS, it just—all the things would be better, anon, people who needed help would get it and things that shouldn't happen wouldn't, she'd learn to let the Force guide her at critical moments and thereby make 99% excellent choices, and the remaining 1% would turn out okay anyway because she'd realize she'd screwed up and get help to fix it. /contented sigh (And then she'd end up Leia's beloved sort-of-aunt and wear lots of amazing Nabooian dresses because YESSSSSSS.)
So for starters, SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER, wow, I'm no good at all at maintaining a Tumblr. /o\ And then OH NO, anon, you will so regret asking this. :D A) It's most ridiculous, I'll tell you that for free right now, and B) SERIOUSLY, REGRETS.
For Star Trek, my self-insert is at least half-Betazoid, and she was 200% Deanna Troi's girlfriend when they were younger (and they're still ~a little in love but not really, just enough for some angsting over what ~could have been. Seriously, Troi is one of the reasons why in retrospect I should have known I wasn't straight much earlier—anon, she was SO PRETTY and I liked to look at her SO MUCH *__________*). Her empathic abilities are sufficient to let her navigate social situations with relative ease; most people end up with a sort of vaguely positive impression of her, even if she doesn't interact with them for very long.
Placed in any canonical episode, she would of course notice or realize whatever's necessary to make what I want to have happen be what happens (Yar doesn't die in a goo monster! Lore is out-maneuvered! &c &c), and for maximum wish fulfillment, she'd start out as an ensign new to the ship and worried about screwing up, screw up in only minor and fixable ways and do so many other things right that no one cares, and occasionally be dramatically injured trying to ~save people. :D She'd feel unnecessarily guilty about her failures, and other people would tell her she'd done her best, not realizing the whole problem is that her best wasn't good enough! BUT SHE'D GET THROUGH IT IN THE END AND SAVE THE DAY \o/ and also probably end up dating Ensign Ro. :D :D :D (They'd dislike each other at first, and then end up stuck in situations where they needed to work together often enough to slow-burn their way to friendship AND BEYOND.)
And for Star Wars, oh, yikes, my self-insert is DEFINITELY one of Padmé's handmaidens, just Force-sensitive enough to be capable of some cool stuff with a little training. In the most self-indulgent of all possible universes, she was a slave as a girl before ending up on Naboo and being freed, and possibly lived with the Gungans for a while—thus A) it would absolutely occur to her to make sure they popped back and freed Shmi, and B) I'd have the opportunity to invent a genuinely functional, grammatical Gungan creole, because that's totally what a linguistics minor is for, y/y? :D
The Jedi would be impressed with her intuitive use of the Force (though I'd probably be able to rein myself in enough to let her need training instead of just BEING SUPER AWESOME AT EVERYTHING BY HERSELF :D), and she'd feel her way to what I personally believe is the best possible interpretation of Jedi philosophy (short version: it's not about not HAVING emotions, it's about not doing anything stupid because of them/not believing they're more important than anything else). The training she'd get on the side during TPM would allow her to intervene and save Qui-Gon; many, many things about Anakin's training would be less of a mess; she'd be BESTEST FRIENDS FOREVEREST with Ahsoka, she would HELP BARRISS, it just—all the things would be better, anon, people who needed help would get it and things that shouldn't happen wouldn't, she'd learn to let the Force guide her at critical moments and thereby make 99% excellent choices, and the remaining 1% would turn out okay anyway because she'd realize she'd screwed up and get help to fix it. /contented sigh (And then she'd end up Leia's beloved sort-of-aunt and wear lots of amazing Nabooian dresses because YESSSSSSS.)
