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void-kissed · 1 year

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✨ for a random fact about aria? :3

..I mean, Aria is a self-insert rather than an OC, but- thank you anyway for this, friend!

(source: this post by dragonsmooch)

Send me ✨ for a random thing about one of my OCs! (Optional: You can specify one!) - I know I've mentioned this before, but I can never remember how widely it's known, so I'll say it again anyway. Aria is the self-insert I've had the longest as a proper "this is me, but with lore to fit the game world" self-insert, as well as being one of the self-inserts that's existed the longest overall (the few that may beat her would include Camille, Amber, and technically also Emily, but I don't tend to count her since she didn't have story until after I started selfshipping unlike the other two). She started out as my player character in KHUX, who I gave the lore of "uses darkness instead of light" right from the beginning of playing the game, but then the rest of her lore (such as her being a Heartless) came about from the start of 2018 onwards. Some of her story, like leaving her original party under bad circumstances, reflects how things actually went for me playing the game!

This means that Aria is who tends to be used as a placeholder for whenever I want to make a new self-insert for something, which is partially ironic considering that - by virtue of being from Kingdom Hearts - she could technically appear as herself in many other game worlds. Examples of self-inserts that started out as "Aria but in something else" that I can recall off the top of my head include Alectra (actually probably Lamia too - the two of them together kind of combine a lot of Aria's aspects, Alectra personality-wise and Lamia lore-wise), Telanthera, possibly Sapphire despite how different she now is?, I think Ardea, Catarina to some extent, maybe Echo, and most recently (and perhaps most obviously) Lorenza. By contrast, self-inserts that definitely didn't derive from Aria include Adriana, Calanthe, Citri (since she kind of derived from Calanthe), Emily, Seralune, Alise, and Amber.

Hopefully this worked as a fact! Thank you very much once again for sending this, friend!~

#a call from the void #heart of the void #self-inserts #self‑insert: darkness' champion (aria)#as well as a myriad of others but i don't think these mentions warrant each of their tags #out of the inbox #simon tag!#when I say lamia came from aria lore-wise it's more because they're both technically ''monsters trying to be human''#even though alectra has the ''died and came back wrong'' aspect that aria technically had through turning into a heartless #when it comes to early self-inserts like amber and cat and camille it's hard to remember what aspects of them predate those aspects in aria #but at the end of the day all my self-inserts are me (and maybe that's why it's tricky to draw specific lines in the history)#I hope that all of this makes some semblance of sense #also yes i may have gotten distracted in the process of going to sleep after playing FFXIV with you. what of it -w-#i will probably go now i've wound down a bit though #i'm just trying to get the inbox clear #as an aside: I’m fairly sure I was using the name aria before making aria in KHUX #however I do not know what the reason behind my originally using it was #but I do associate it with myself a lot now and the fact I still do to this day is because of my self-insert aria

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