This is my preference, too. Mostly I want to read the authors’ stories as they wrote them, not make a self-insert to star in a plot with a totally generic MC. Even if there is full CC, I usually will leave whatever the default is, or maybe change one or two features if they bug me a lot. I remember one story I read recently had an MC who looked a lot like me already, and then in the story she was soooooo not like me and that disconnect made me stop reading altogether. So now I actually customize to look LESS like me!
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