I wear glasses and was great at school, self-insert train here we come!
I actually would mind a loser-type MC because it is basically all I remember getting out of shoujo—naive idiot and also bully victim (which, not to victim blame, bullying is awful, but it is tiresome seeing this over and over). And in Western media, almost every high-school age protagonist also fits the bill of “average, and also bully victim”. So
I guess I’d like a girl who was more than “unremarkable beyond being kind and pretty cute.”
Oh, I wasn’t thinking “naive bully victim,” more like “classic otaku,” which can be done without being bothered at school or anything. Like by having really good grades that diverts attention from her obsession with [insert thing here], or by not being a student at all. 😁 Or someone alt would be called a loser by some people too, but if she has friends from the same/a similar subculture shielding her or is too tough-skinned to even entertain haters, bullying won’t be prominent either.
I wear glasses and was great at school, self-insert train here we come!
I actually would mind a loser-type MC because it is basically all I remember getting out of shoujo—naive idiot and also bully victim (which, not to victim blame, bullying is awful, but it is tiresome seeing this over and over). And in Western media, almost every high-school age protagonist also fits the bill of “average, and also bully victim”. So
me too.
Oh, I wasn’t thinking “naive bully victim,” more like “classic otaku,” which can be done without being bothered at school or anything. Like by having really good grades that diverts attention from her obsession with [insert thing here], or by not being a student at all. 😁 Or someone alt would be called a loser by some people too, but if she has friends from the same/a similar subculture shielding her or is too tough-skinned to even entertain haters, bullying won’t be prominent either.