The Weird World Of Mary Sues

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  @Izzzyzzz · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @hamburgermelper · 4 years ago

  oh my god i remember being TERRIFIED of “accidentally making a mary sue” so i literally spent hours researching how to make a “good oc” out of fear that i’d be made fun of

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  @jackylxlantern · 4 years ago

  When I was 12 I used the Mary Sue litmus test religiously and when I got into a fight with any of my friends I would take the test with one of their characters and try to see how many points I could rack up on them. I never told them the results I just would silently stew in my frustration.

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  @KrakoanSinister · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s cute how instead of finding OCs on DeviantArt to mock, you got your fans to submit their own. That&apos;s really wholesome.

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  @119Agent · 2 years ago

  As a 1970’s Star Trek fan fiction reader, you cannot fathom how common this trope was at the time. New Starfleet Academy graduate, youngest ever, highest accolades, gifted at everything and anything, loved by all, and oh my god the PLOT ARMOUR. They are invincible. It was really just in fandom until Luke Skywalker, the paramount of the Mary Sue.

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  @lavenderstarzzz · 3 years ago (edited)

  i used to have a character called Willow who had black hair covering one eye with some burned off her head because she had uncontrollable fire powers. basically, she was so powerful that she had an outburst and accidentally burned her house down with her parents in it so she ran away to the forest and changed her name to the first tree she found. not really that &quot;mary sue&quot;, just kid of bad and overused

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  @RapaceHawk · 4 years ago (edited)

  As a kid on the internet I became so afraid of accidentally making Mary Sue OCs (I had received horrible comments, been harassed, reposted on &quot;cringe oc&quot; blogs, etc) that I started looking at those &quot;How to not make your OC a Mary Sue&quot; guides, which led me to read more about character design, which led me to watch chara design courses on Youtube, which eventually... led me to become absolutely IN LOVE with character designing and concept art. I&apos;m a professional character designer now, haha.

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  @thanatoast · 4 years ago (edited)

  I think the whole Mary Sue thing went from an earnest attempt at helping newbie writers avoid a common pitfall to bullying kids for not being immediately aware of said pitfall.

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  @parakodraws · 1 year ago (edited)

  my Mary Sue was a humanoid kitsune with nine tails, four wings and a scythe (of course) who could control black magic and turn into a fox whenever she wanted to. she had glowing teal hair and a glowing teal kimono. her name was Yumi and her personality traits included being overpowered, being quirky, impressing everyone around her and liking cookies (because she’s not like other girls, of course).<br><br>edit: when someone takes her cookies, she becomes all black-and-red and starts levitating, because why wouldn’t she?

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  @Jovian12 · 3 years ago

  I swear all OC creators go through this same pipeline. &nbsp;Making mary sues, to hating them/being scared of creating them, to being chill with them and finding them cute/cool as the fun self-insert wish fulfillment they actually are. &nbsp;That&apos;s growth.

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  @Dionirica · 4 years ago

  Someone once mentioned Mary Sues are an answer from kids who were bullied into believing they couldn&apos;t do anything and so they made characters that could do anything. Been kinda hard to hate on Mary Sues ever since I read that, it&apos;s just a way for traumatized kids to cope and dream.

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  @Raidcruise · 4 years ago

  I love how the non Mary Sue character in that diagram had “clumsy” “can’t dance” and “bad at math” as character flaws as though those aren’t the most token ideas of flaws.

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