me creating an OC five years ago: i have to make this character as different from myself as i can, or they’ll be self-insert mary sue trash. they have to be my complete polar opposite. i will have no idea how to characterize them, but they must not share any traits with me whatsoever
me creating an OC now: and YOU get my social anxiety, and YOU get my fear of intimacy, and YOU get my inability to admit when i’ve made a mistake, and YOU are basically just me in a hat,