>>58855787>It's fun, but the dynamic of the character is a bit weird.>>MC insists isekai parents aren't hers and calls them by their first names. Constantly reminds reader that aren't really her family/parents and has uselessly short "I miss my past life family" moments despite no real information being given except "she does kung fu so the aura people are impressed that she has the form to throw a punch">It feels like the author has an aversion to letting the MC be a part of their family whenever it comes upThrough the years, whenever I see a fic do that, 99% of the time it is the author inserting their IRL issues into the story. Their personal hang-ups. Not in a "the MC is literally me" way but in a "these are my complexes and I'll make sure everyone knows them and will make them everyone problems" kind of way. The kind that no amount of therapy in the world will be able to fix.
Every fic I've encountered that's been like that I've ultimately dropped because after some point it becomes "uncomfortable".
I can take power fantasies, edgefests, I can take a cast where there's not a single straight character, I can take the author's disguised fetish fetish, but stuff like that is way too much for me.
The only way I can think those things work out is on straight-up "ventfics" that are 120% dedicated on whatever IRL issues that author has, that you can tell are them letting it out, to try to move past it, to forget it, to feel better, something. They are doing "something" about it. But when it's like that? When you keep shoehorning it into a "normal story" that way? It reeks of the worst kind of self-pity. Unbearable.
