Let me tell you about Hitomi.
Kanzaki Hitomi was the first girl I really considered a self-insert. When I became aware of her, I hadn't yet accepted my own distaste for being physically male. It was there, and had been since well before puberty, but I grew up in a conservative family, and it was the 80's/early 90's and, well, things were different then. I was in the military in those days, and I had no vehicle with which to get off base, nor, as a junior enlisted, sufficient income to justify getting one. To remedy this, I spent most of my off-time milling about the swamps and backwoods of the base on which I lived, with occasional trips to