Unusual takes on common stories

[Dartz]

What makes it fun, despite it being incomplete, is that one of the Scotts was genuinely unfamiliar with Utena at the time -- he wrote the pseudo-insert character, Skyler Sands, while the other Scott wrote around him.  The results are pretty interesting.

Didn't read it, but from description it's not deconstruction of self-insert, but one that is properly made and not suck.
PS. For that matter I tend to stay away from anything characterized as deconstruction of self-insert genre, because it's usually means excuse to write self-insert even shittier than usual.
PPS. If anything such fic would be not deconstruction of self-insert, but of mary-sue. Which most of SI are.

I dunno. I wonder if the best way to deconstruct the SI is to do one otherwise straight, but which turns out not to have been an SI at all. Naturally, this comes as a bit of a surprise to the character involved, whose just spent a good chunk of the story coming to terms with their new reality and accepting their identity.

Then again, I never get these trope-terms right so maybe I have it wrong.

I think there was some Naruto fic that deconstructed the concept of the Sue very well... I'll try find it.
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