#arguably tim is more of a reader self insert so i think dixon overall put less of his own views into tim to keep his character

[scintillyyy]

some batkids + author self-insertion

dick

gets a hot red head alien girlfriend based in part on perez's first wife (wolfman and perez)

"one bad apple spoils the bunch" view on cops (dixon)

sees a couple of girls and assumed the redhead is the one with the irish accent, surprised when it's the asian girl (dixon, based on a real story where he heard an irish accent on tv and was surprised when it was an asian girl)

implications of bisexuality that align explicitly with the writer's very own personal experience of bisexuality (greyson)

unable to not flirt with anything that moves (greyson)

let's just go ahead and put greyson's entire run here.

jason

entirety of red hood and the outlaws (lobdell, enough said)

tim

anti-drug (dixon)

can be condescending to his friends and girls (dixon)

honestly i don't think the good moral boy who would never have premarital sex thing is actually self-insertion, that's more dixon wish fulfillment of his ideal 14 year old boy. rules for the characters and not for him!

the weird military circlejerking (willingham)

obsession with bernard (fitzmartin)

steph

pro-life (dixon)

anti-welfare (dixon)

hates bill clinton + the court system (dixon)

personal vengeance over restorative justice framed as the right thing (dixon)

bootstraps mentality (dixon)

damian

child who never met his father because father was too busy saving other people (morrison, morrison has explicitly said that their parents marriage didn't work out due to their father's inability to prioritize his marriage and family over helping other people + the affair)

child who was saved by their father from a life of darkness (morrison explicitly has credited their father with saving their life at their lowest by giving them a typewriter)

child who suffers and pays the price from divorce conflict due to parents being so caught up in their own conflict they refuse to listen to the child's wants and needs (morrison, as racist as the conflict between bruce and talia is damian's entire story is intrisically wrapped up in morrison's working through their own personal feelings of their parents' divorce)

becomes a vegetarian (morrison)

#anyways this isn't a judgement or anything or even a comprehensive list #just some examples of writers self inserting into their characters #arguably tim is more of a reader self insert so i think dixon overall put less of his own views into tim to keep his character #more wide reaching #but stephanie is honestly filled to the brim with self-inserted dixon thoughts and feelings as her base character #not a full list of batkids either there's too many