Color me Mary-Sue

[cieo]

When I sit myself down to write, I first purge myself of all Mary-Sueesque tendencies that might be lurking in the shadowy corners of my questionable psyche. The last thing I want is for my character to be a ridiculously romanticized paragon of everything you could ever possibly want to do or attain. Mary-Sues cheapen your stories, making them

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[cieo]

Oh, of course :)

[xuenay]

When it comes to Mary Sues, don't forget about Harry Potter, or Luke Skywalker, or Drizzt Do'Urden, or... or most of the popular fictional heroes in the first place.

This is exactly the reason why I find intense Mary Sue-abhorration so amusing. Sure, introducing Mary Sues in fan fiction is annoying when they so obviously outshine the original characters that it's obvious to everyone what their point is. But in original fiction, where all the characters are equally original... you can't outshine the rest of the cast in the same way as in a fanfic. And even if you do, most people'll just end up liking the character.

People like their Mary Sues, even if many wouldn't admit it.

[cieo]

Now, I'll have to disagree that most popular fictional heroes are Mary Sues. Most of them have some weakness, a whole horde of people who hate them (the humans v. vampire thing doesn't count because I say so ;)), or some tragic thing that happens to them with permanent repercussions. Rice's characters stand out in their utter perfection.

But I do hate me some Mary Sue, don't get me wrong. I refuse to write them into my own stories. I just appreciate that Rice provides me with such great Mary Sue templates in which to indulge myself. Like having a third slice of pie and yes, I'll take a dollop of ice cream would be heavenly.

[cieo]

That's AWESOME.

But in my version, the Eunuchs would be feeding me chocolate covered strawberries, the castrati would be singing to me, and I'd have a harem of sexually functional men whom I might touch inapproprately.

BWA HA HA HA!

[lollypox]

I must read more of you.

Consider yourself friended.
*found you through Scarletdemon's meme.*

[cieo]

Thank you, and welcome!

[fizzyland]

And she graduated from Lestat & Co. to writing about Jesus Fucking Christ, just to up the perfect & untouchable to a new level. And moved from New Orleans to LA, dumped her Angelica Houston goth wardrobe and is now living in the sunny land and being all Catholic. Ugh.

Found you via Scarlett Demon.

[cieo]

Is she really in L.A. now? Oh, bother. I never wanted my home town to have that sort of ignominious distinction.

[fizzyland]

So apparently she moved from New Orleans to La Jolla and from there has moved to some place called "Rancho Mirage."