Rin_Penelope wrote...
I think self insert is fine as long as it doesn't ends up with OC X any touhou characters/touhou harem. Maybe it's just my preference though.
Exactly. You're not the only one, a LOT of people don't like when the pairings go like that as far as self-inserts are concerned because it starts getting a little crazy and the sense of the storyline starts to get lost in between then insert's interactions with the characters, then it's no longer something about plot but instead something about simply... whatever the author wants to do, and not what he/she wants to give the readers.
We have enough garbage on the Internet as it is, and if my story ends up adding to that pile then so be it, but I'll be damned if I'm taking that route from the get-go when I'm being so careful planning ahead as much as I can. But then again, I might just 'wing it' here and there and see how it goes.