I've been here long enough. I've played with a lot of characters and looking back, it's a bit painful admitting that albeit the double digit symbolizing the number of characters I've written with I can only cite 5 characters worthy of the term; they are characters. The rest, I could call Mary Sues.
Mary Sue is not a term for self-insertion in a fictional character. Rather, it's a term brought to life by Paula Smith back in 1973 through a satirical ten-paragraphed plot of Star Trek's youngest lieutenant (only being 15 and a half years old and already in service!) for most fanfictions of the said franchise revolved around characters too unrealistic. Mary Sue, is basically, an embodiment of a character too perfect, lacking realism, and consequently making everything that revolves around this character uninteresting.
Or maybe, this isn't the case? I do debate with myself whether this was a Mary Sue case or something else. It had come to my attention that on some parts, it is very Mary Sue, and on most parts, very cliche.
Take for example this certain background format:
Character is an orphan (parents died/ran away). Xe is struggling through life but is very strong.
Xe dons a mask and is rather cold but when you get to know xyr, xe is definitely bubbly
and sweet (and everything positve like maybe rainbows and unicorns).
Xe knows how to cook, and is a hunter, plays the violin, speaks Mandarin,
French, Hangul, Nihonggo (and all the crazy ).
Considering that the character is 14.
I am not pointing this out because I have characters worth praising. I'm just saying that if everyon in the rp is Mary Sue (who's awesomely young and can go through hardships by being so poor and overly pretty and talented and is still smiling but is cautious and cold when---oh my god look at that list!) it makes everything dead; uninteresting.
But I'm ranting.
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