#lol imagine naming your oc something like yuun reader

[doctorrabbit]

Do people actually imagine themselves when they read chatacter x reader fanfiction? Do they actually substitute Y/N with their real names, and any vague physical description (like “your h/c colored hair”) with their details of appearance?

I've always imagined Reader as this human shaped faceless person with gray skin, like artists usually draw anon x character arts. And I never could imagine myself as the reader. Maybe because default reader is a thin white girl with longish hair and big boobs.

But even when I read fanfiction with specified physical characteristics (like fat!reader, tall!reader, etc.), I still can't really get into it. Probably because reader's default personality is more boring and banal than cheese flavored chips. She is just snarky enough to not seem like a complete pushover (even though she is, in fact, a pushover), just nice enough to seem kind, just reactive enough to not be a wordless decoration and always, always submissive in the end, both sexually and socially.

And I’ve always thought that people did this too, because creating a “universal” character who is the ultimate self-insert for every single reader is impossible. Every person is unique, not only in appearance, but in personality, tastes, reactions, etc., and fully submerging yourself in the story is also impossible because sooner or later you’ll notice the differencies.