De Tsuchiya Ruka

So interesting fact: Tsuchiya Ruka, of Shoujo Kakumei Utena, is clearly a self-insert character.



No, really. Permit me to present the evidence:

1. he has Special hair, of a sort not found in nature (and to stand out amongst the colorful Utena cast, that's saying something!);
2. he comes out of nowhere partway through the season, usurping the position of one of the main cast;
3. he knows everything;
4. he successfully manipulates an existing cast member into being his pawn (and a disfavored one, at that);
5. he defeats Juri in a duel (which even Utena never does outright);
6. he kisses Juri;
7. he steals Touga's line.

Seriously. He knows what's going on because he (= his author) has already watched the show, and is bending the usual rules to make him all shiny. Even when he ‘loses’ it's half a victory (by his own measure).

A very long time ago — what, a decade now? — Scott K. Johnson and Scott K. Jamison were coauthoring an Utena fanfic — a subversion of the usual self-insertion trope — by the name of Ma Vie et Roses. Alas, the former has dropped off the face of the earth, and the latter seems no longer to write; I should dearly have loved to see Skyler Sands' reaction to Tsuchiya Ruka.