Mary Sue Litmus Testing at 2am

[yomkippurzombie]

Checking around to see what's up with my characters, making sure they're not going overboard. I'm particularly worried about the Doc, since I probably post with him more than I do with my other guys combined (huge-ass post with Amadeus Cross nonewithstanding

Comments

[sono_cat]

You play Dr. H great. For seeeerious. <3 Back in October we all watched Dr Horrible on the ride to FurFright and I was like "HOSHIT THIS IS EXACTLY HOW ALLY PLAYS HIM" and spent the entire time bragging about you instead of letting everyone else in the car watch it. XD

Also a lot of the things in that test that are circumstantial. Lorena gets a ridiculously high score whenever I do that because there are a lot of things about her that out of context seem very sue-ish (for example, being able to manipulate divine power), but put into the context of her canon, it's stuff that any one really has the ability to do.

[yomkippurzombie]

Dude, you're making me blush. ;--; And reminding me how late it is, but dammit my cough is keeping me up. My issues run more with him getting into fights and tumbles, even if it is hilarious to me that he gets his ass beat by everyone he comes across. Does that make me a bad person? I daresay it does.

And indeed! I always play it safe and check anything that looks reasonably close and then be all "WTF" at high score. And some of the questions about similar tastes in movies and reading materials I can't help but draw on because I only go to movies I'm sure I'm gonna like, and then when I need to expand on what he's watched, I'm gonna turn to stuff I've seen and enjoyed.

It's not like I'd say "Oh, yeah, Dr. H was a tremendous fan of the Gummi Bears tv series when he was a kid. He couldn't get enough of those goddamn bouncing bears."

[sono_cat]

I'm totally serious about that story. It happened. The two guys I was in the car with were like "FF WE DON'T CARE" but I kept telling em anyway. <3

There are some parts that are really complicated, like the fact that in spite of everyone being able to manipulate gods, Lorena can do it to a greater extent than a good amount of people because the gods play favorites and her patron likes her a lot because she's entertaining so he lets her use more power. (there are other people this also happens to. not just her. but she's in a minority) but I mean that just helps make for entertaining story, right? It would be boring if she was like "Oh yeah I can do this but I'm just kinda mediocre at it."