How to make a camera that acts like a cam parented to a character, yet, is in its own blueprint?

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There are no tricks here, no offsets, everything is at defaults; recreated this in the 3rd person template:

To me it seems like you do not have a springarm in the camera actor? I do not know how your world is set up. Do note that the camera stays at X: 0. Not sure what the desired effect is supposed to be.