Genuine question for the people of this sub

so i play gacha games, and i find myself enjoying a lot of the female characters and designs, and i spend on them pretty consistently. but when i consume media of a character, like art, let's say sunna, i actually get annoyed when the MC is part of the art. ive never really been able to associate myself with any gacha MC, so i much prefer it when the character is alone. like when i look at wise, i'm like: "that's not me" and having the character be solo helps me imagine im actually with them, and the MC just feels like a third wheel. like im not gay, so when i see some dude with my favorite character it doesn't feel like that's me with them yk this is why i prefer blue archive for its ML content, because "Sensei" is whoever you want them to be, and doesn't really have a face outside of arona's drawing and the manga/anime version i kinda just want to understand the other perspective if that makes sense