I once had a Self-Insert MC in a book of mine with this system. He had 4 parts:
1) The Kid: Scared, cowardly, wanting peace, friends, love, stealth and stagnation as the now was better than ever before and every step forward meant a possible pitfall that could be avoided
2) The Killer: Essentially what happens when the Kid gets proven right one too many times but the now isn’t good enough anymore. Maniacal, violent, selfish, no values or honor, An animal that has stripped all intellect but what it needs to scrape back up to a better place so the Kid can have another chance in the right now, Can only think in Short term impulses and solves for the best outcome in days at best or hours at worst.
3) The King: The one who wishes for progress, improvement, and building. The one ruthlessly looking for long-lasting optimization of everything, who wishes to satisfy the Kid better than ever before, the one who will build the best future even if he has to get his hands dirty, but only if getting his hands dirty won’t hamper him a decade down the line
4) The Icon: An imaginary version of the MC, speaking to him from a future of luxury and joy and tribal perfection, where he’s loved and respected. He exists mostly to consult the King as every action in the now echoes in the future, and since he’s an ideal, he always counts down from perfection, always making it a point to remind him what he just took away from him
I once had a Self-Insert MC in a book of mine with this system. He had 4 parts:
1) The Kid: Scared, cowardly, wanting peace, friends, love, stealth and stagnation as the now was better than ever before and every step forward meant a possible pitfall that could be avoided
2) The Killer: Essentially what happens when the Kid gets proven right one too many times but the now isn’t good enough anymore. Maniacal, violent, selfish, no values or honor, An animal that has stripped all intellect but what it needs to scrape back up to a better place so the Kid can have another chance in the right now, Can only think in Short term impulses and solves for the best outcome in days at best or hours at worst.
3) The King: The one who wishes for progress, improvement, and building. The one ruthlessly looking for long-lasting optimization of everything, who wishes to satisfy the Kid better than ever before, the one who will build the best future even if he has to get his hands dirty, but only if getting his hands dirty won’t hamper him a decade down the line
4) The Icon: An imaginary version of the MC, speaking to him from a future of luxury and joy and tribal perfection, where he’s loved and respected. He exists mostly to consult the King as every action in the now echoes in the future, and since he’s an ideal, he always counts down from perfection, always making it a point to remind him what he just took away from him