Ngl it's kinda funny how much my writing has improved ever since i realized i could project my mental issues onto characters. I've just recently re-read a small bit of ludicrous life and while the way i wrote hat kid WAS based on myself and my experiences with social anxiety (because she was my comfort character at the time and looks kinda like me IRL) her characterization was very stiff and kinda unrealistic but in my more recent work, mundane believers, pretty much most of the second half of the story was just me venting through khilana, cierra and weedix and ngl it made the story a whole lot better (albeit i WILL admit there are a lot of flaws)
Now emotions are like, my most favorite thing to write