Just curious: When you guys read Reader-Insert fics in which you go by a fake name for part of it, so you prefer that the fake name be Y/N, or the real name? Is it better, in that situation, to simply use an OC? Where is the line between that and Self-Insert?
I know a lot of people prefer when authors simply avoid the use of Y/N by never having them addressed directly, but when a double-life type thing is involved a fake name is significant so I don’t think it could flow smoothly without it.