>>4193075self inserts make sense for them, they all have well defined personas already that they can fall back on. but normal people playing for the first time tend to base it off a favorite character from movies/tv/vidya, etc. the first time i played Scion i created a character who was basically just Kamina, then my next one was Aang, etc. once you have more experience and learn the rules, you can get more unique/weird