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The perfect girl in original fiction, fanfiction, Roleplays or (occasionally) real life. Most people have Sues they keep to themselves, but some people (usually preteen girls) will let their Sues run rampant on the internets, thus becoming Suethors.
Telltale signs of a Mary Sue include eyes that change colour, hair that takes more than three words to describe, speshul magik powers (even in fanons or games where magic doesn’t exist), gigantic angel/dragon wings, ability to master anything with ease, common names with unusual spellings (i.e. Ravyn, Jennifyr, Aeris, Elizabetteth Honey Moon) a cute baby version of an imaginary creature for a pet (baby ancient dragon, baby griffon, baby unicorn, baby great cthulhu, baby goatse) and the ability to make male canon (and original) characters fall instantly in love with them.
Mary Sues are sporked by such fagging loser groups as Deleterius, GAFF, the PPC, and various MSTs. Their main haunting ground is Fanfiction.net.
[edit] Also Known As
Mary Sue has many faces, and also many names. Mary-Sue and Sue are both used, and all three are acceptable. Using “Mary” as a name for Mary Sue is uncommon, and may confuse some readers.
Mary Sue’s brother is a bit more complicated. The male version of a Sue is called Marty Sue, Marty Stu, Sephiroth, Mary Stu, Gary Stu, and several other male-ish variations on Mary Sue. Also, some people may refer to a Male Sue as a John Doe.
Some Mary Sues are also author insertions, characters the author uses to put themselves into the story. Not all Mary Sues are author insertions, though, and by some definitions not all author insertions are Sues. Although most are. If not all.
The name itself comes from what is considered the classic, if not the first, Mary Sue story—a Star Trek fanfic about Ensign Mary Sue Somebodyorother, "the youngest officer in Star Fleet", who fell in love with Kirk or Spock or somebody and died tragically in his arms after saving the Enterprise and/or the known universe. See also Wesley Crusher.
[edit] Definitions
Different fan fiction writers define Mary Sue in different ways. The most harsh readers instantly label all original female characters as Mary Sues, but most people disregard that particular definition.
A Mary Sue is, in general, a character without realistic flaws. Not being able to play the banjo isn’t a flaw, being honest-to-goodness shy, that is, not being coy, which is faking shyness, can be a flaw, and brooding over your Dark!Traumatic!Past is an annoyance, not a flaw.
Some generally agreed upon facets: she is always stunningly beautiful (Which, for the love of god, is not a flaw either, retard), even to the point of being physically impossible (except maybe through surgery) and often completely unaware of the fact that all the boys are falling at her feet. She is generally created for the purpose of getting with/being the True Love of the suethor's favourite canon character. In slashfic or Yaoi, she tends to matchmake the suethor's two favourite canon boys.
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[edit] The Many Faces of Mary Sue
Sometimes, due to
laziness, Mary Sues are nothing more than a combo of two equally shitty characters from different fandoms.
Because so many fags write Mary Sues, there are many different kinds of Sues in the world. Trying to list them all would be impossible, but here are a few of the general categories into which a Sue can fall, to help you identify a canon-obsessed fan fiction fag by his rants about them.
[edit] Helpful!Sue
This Sue is everybody's friend, and a natural savior of the day. She heals the hero's broken leg with her expert medical prowess (because at only seventeen she already has her MD), gently coaxes the token kid's cat out of a tree with her sweet singing voice, rescues innocent goats from cruel cashmere salesmen, and gives the canon gals a friendly shoulder to cry on - before, of course, eventually stealing away their boyfriends with her bubbly personality and compassionate nature. But it's not her fault that everybody loves her! She's just written that way. Our pal Helpful!Sue is usually the antithesis of Angry! or Evil!Sue. Oftentimes writers will throw in one of those too, just to give her a nemesis, who she will either a) come out looking better than, or b) change for the better with her fairy godmother ways. See Sonicrocksmysocks.
"OMG Ron WTF R U TLKNG about I've been cutting since I was born see the scar OMGLOLZ!"
[edit] Angry!Sue
Sometimes refered to as a Bitchiwitch in the Harry Potter fandom, these Sues are typically rebellious, with some sort of angsty past, and known for wearing more black than should be humanly possible, especially Gawth! and PunkRawk! Sues. Often they are Warrior!Sues, capable of killing everything in their way in order to get revenge, or just because they can. (One of the best-known examples is The Bride, in the Kill Bill films by well-known Suethor Quentin Tarantino.) Only their "true love" can ease their angry, angsty angst, although this type typically plays hard to get, generally fangirling a rebellious or angsty male.
[edit] Depressed!Sue
Depressed!Sue is filled with angst. Generally, this angst derives from some tragedy in her past (with the far-and-away winner being dead parents). She evokes the sympathy of at least one of the main characters (generally of the opposite sex) and develops a relationship based on crying about how hard it is to be an orphan. She is also fond of trivialized rape and or suicide attempts as means of provoking sympathy. Depressed!Sue will generally manifest some great power once she believes in herself.
[edit] Evil!Sue
An Evil!Sue is typically involved in some way with the existing villain of the fandom, whether it be as a relative, boyfriend/girlfriend, or any other relationship, but can sometimes exist by themselves or replace the canon villain. This Sue type is characterized by the stereotypical villain behavior such as sadism, long bouts of insane cackling, and attempting to kill canon characters, usually punctuated by angst-ridden soliloquies. Another common element of the Evil!Sue is some sort of mysterious and/or abusive past, but this is often shared by the other categories of Sue. The only reason it's worth mentioning is that the sordid past is often pointed to in explaining the Evil!Sue's behavior, where as with most other Sues a tragic past explains fuck all.
The patron saint of Marysues is clearly the unicorn.
[edit] Canon!Sue
Canon!Sue is a corruption of a legitimate canon character within the fandom to the point that they resemble the fanfic author itself. They may acquire new powers, undergo a makeover (including the dreaded Hot Topic punk variety), become good friends with canon characters the author loves, usurp the positions of-- or become enemies with-- canon characters the author hates, or just act completely out of character in a way that makes those fags familiar with the canon scream in horror. The Canon!Sue can be used as a self-insert in and of itself or in combination with an author's original character Sue.
It is generally agreed that Jesus is a Canon!Sue.
[edit] Anti-Sue
The most standable out of all of them (or at least they would be if fanfiction writers knew how to write them correctly.) Anti-Sues are supposed to be the complete opposite of Mary-Sues, meaning that every character usually hates them, they don't hook up with anybody, hardly ever get the spotlight in the fanfic (this is rare), they're usually very ugly and weak, and have no desire to fight the bad guy, save the world, or sleep with every character. Usually Anti-Sues are created to piss off the creators of Mary-Sues. Either that or the author finally has realized that writing a Mary Sue is annoying as fuck. Most of the time, however, Anti-Sues are just as horrendous as their Mary Sue counterparts.
[edit] Famous Mary Sues
[edit] Sample Mary Sue- WARNING, CONTAINS TL;DR
From a Final Fantasy MUX.
Character Name: Satrina
Hair: Rainbow - As in, all colours possible
Eyes: Red
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 90lbs
Age: 21
Description:
Well, this is an interesting sight. The girl appears to be a furred bird/cat being. Probably only about 20 years of age or so, and about 5'9 with a slim build, the bird/cat exudes curves and body form in all the right places. To start with, her hair. It trails nearly to the ground behind her, bright red, orange and yellow swirls. Clumped up like a mane of feathers, it shifts and sways easily as she moves, almost seeming to weigh nothing. Out of the top of her head pokes a pair of cat-like ears, same colour as her fur. Along her cheeks and forehead are stripes like those of a tigers, dark red in colour, they offset her fiery red orange fur. 8 in all, 4 on her forehead and 2 on each cheek. Her eyes are rather unique too in the fact that they are a bright yellow colour, and catlike as well. Swirling plumes of fire travel the inside of her eyes, traversing the pupils and iris'.
Currently, she is clothed rather well(except for the top), her fire red/orange furtone constant over her body, just a tiny bit lighter than her face fur. Her breasts are large sized and are currently covered by a large wrap, that extends to covering her shoulders and tummy and top of her body. It is wrapped rather tight and seems damned warm. Going further down, you can tell her stomach is rather thin, as there is no fat. Perhaps it is the feline in her that keeps her physically active enough to maintain it. Anyways, stripes extend from her mid-back all the way around her sides and to her front center, where they almost meet. 6 altogether, evenly spaced.
On her back is probably the most magnificent sight about her, her wings. Large and long, they trail the ground behind her for several feet when not folded up. The spine of the wings is a dark orange colour, offset only by the splotches of fiery red and sun yellow. From the spines(that travel well above her head and back down, forming an arch), there are dozens upon dozens of long plumes, trailing the ground and ruffling with her movements. Ranging in colours from the deepest red to the brightest yellow, it is a pure cacophony of colours. The same applies for the tail sticking straight out from her spine, trailing down behind her rump and onto the ground. It is about 4 foot long and seems to be comprised of the same formula of colours as her wings.
Something else to notice about her is the fact that she has a few sections of scales. Much like those of a large reptile, they line parts of her body where neither fur nor feathers are. This includes along the spines of her wings, shoulder blades, v-ing down to her mid back. Also, around the joints, those being ankles and wrists.
If you continue down to her lower half, she is wearing a pair of pants that seem to be of a warm cotton type, almost like a thick denim if it weren't for the blatantly not denim fabric.. Her legs are long and lithe, tapering down to rather tiny feet. On her legs are stripes just like the rest of her body, encircling them a few times before stopping at her feet. On her feet, she wears a pair of tennis shoes that seem to be quite to her distaste, as they are kept rather tight because she can't stand the flopping.)
One thing for sure, though, her clothing looks quite worn and ragged.
Class: Wanderer
History/Background:
About 150 years preceeding to the great war with Kefka and the regieme of the empire, Satrina was born in the newly-founded town of Zozo. Long before this town was full of crime, it was more of a low-end less-than-hustle sort of feeling town. Village, truly. About 400 people total, maybe. Anyways, I digress. Slavery, serfdom, landlords and all that crap. A true village based around the leadership of the village and not much more. Brought up as a peasant in the town, Satrina was taught little to nothing in the ways of the higher, or even lower education. She was only brought up with enough knowledge of how to serve. When she was 12, she was chosen by the local landlord to come to his house and learn to be one of his personal servants.
During her time there, which lasted close to 7 years, she was taught everything in the ways of upkeeping the property, dealing with children, helping the others prepare everything from dinner to baths as well as tending to the master. At the age of 16, she started to lose her sight, and by 17, was completely blind. However, she managed to cope with this and continued to do all of her tasks just as well as she had before, save sweeping. Which was fine in her masters eyes, as she was still doing her job. So, he kept her. As she reached 19, her owner caught fancy for her and decided to take her as one of his harem members, which doesn't say a lot, speaking he had probably 10 others in that group. This was actually perfectly fine with Satrina, as she had fallen deeply for him while she was there, with little to no reason other than the fact that he owned her, life and soul(in her mind, the soul part). There was, however, another person he was thinking about adding to the harem, and it was going to be more of a competition between the two to see whom he would take. Satrina assumed it was on beauty standards only.
Days before her 20th birthday, she went out into a neighbouring village to try and find something that she might be able to dress herself up with. You know, something to add to her 'plain look', in her view. She eventually came upon the jewelry store and, with the assistance of the owner, found a piece of jewelry that she believed would look good on her. However, she was just short of the amount of gil it would have taken to buy it(she had saved every gil she ever got for years, she had about 8500, the thing cost 8995 gil). The owner of the store had already taken a fancy to her and made her a deal, that if she did a certain sexual favour for him, he'd give it to her. So distraught, she ran from the store, only to come back later, begrudgingly agreeing to it for fear that she wouldn't be taken and would be cast aside.
It just so happens, though, that her master had taken it upon himself to get her a present for her birthday... and walked in upon the two while the owner was having her please him, causing him to cast her aside right then and there, leaving her with nothing but the clothing she had on, the gil, and the necklace that was given her by the store owner for the service. On the verge of killing herself in shame, she wandered out of the town and into a cave nearby, intent on drowning herself. However, while in there, she was attacked by a monster, which nearly did kill her. As she was on the verge of dying, the monster tried to consume her essence, only stopped by a group of hunters that had been chasing it down. These hunters, were, in all truth, three espers that had been sent to track down the beast with a taste for esper essence and dispose of it, as it had already consumed an esper and tried several more times to do so after getting a taste for the esper essence.
After disposing of the creature, they noticed that it had partially consumed the essence of a girl, already her body starting to vanish. Trying to reverse the process, they started to try and take apart the beast and try to find out if there was some type of magical pocket in which the essence was kept or whatever. However, when they started to process the creature, it turned into an esper-esque crystal. The main portion of it shattering off and vanishing, the other half fell and was absorbed into Satrina's body, having landed on one of her many open wounds. When this happened, she started to become corpoeral again, which caused the espers to take their leave, having assumed she would be fine, her essence returning to her. However, they didn't realize that the essence given her was more part of the monster than what was of hers.
Before she fully re-corporealized, she was cast into the converged world, just prior to the triumvirate war. Finding herself in the forests near where the war took place, upon coming to and being completely lost, she tried to hide herself inside the forest itself. During the days and weeks she was there, she managed to survive only by chance, having found a cave that had a stable supply of gyshal growing there. Wasn't the best stuff... but it was enough to sustain her. While there, she began to change into the form she is in now, taking painful weeks to completely the transformation while the essence of the esper-eater infected her.
One day, a wounded Chocobo wandered into the cave, intent on trying to eat some Gyshal. She, however, at the scent of the blood, went crazy and wound up killing and devouring the chocobo fully... However, the owner of the Chocobo came looking for it and discovered what had happened. Trying to kill her upon sight, mistaking her for a monster, she was backed into the rear part of the cave, forced to traverse the corridors and eventually coming upon a convergence crack. Upon slipping in, still in her blood-lusting state, she was cast about a year into the future, onto the outskirts of New Zanarkand.
Personality/Quirks:
Bloodlusting - When Satrina gets around the smell of blood, it sets off part of the blood-thirsty esper-esque creature within her. She goes into something of a 'primal' state, craving some type of meat(be it bloody or raw, or even cooked). And, to that extent, yes, she will chew on someone should they present the chance. When this happens, it would take over the most of her attention, though it wouldn't fully hinder her from doing something else should need be. It would just take a lot of effort from her to ignore her hunger.
Obsessive Bather - In and of itself, the name says it all. She's obsessed with cleanliness. Not to the point of germophobia, but, she has to have a bath every day. If not once a day, twice a day. Time to relax, wash her body clean, clean her hair and face and such things. This was partially due to the lifestyle she was raised to be in. However, she's also become accustomed to such thing and now simply enjoys it.
Not that bright - Rather self explanitory. She was never schooled, given any type of education, be it formal or non. She has no street smarts, nor book smarts. She only knows what she was directly brought up to do. Serve... among other types of services. This isn't to say she's retarded in any form(Slow to learn, unable to), but she just doesn't know a lot of things.
LEAVE THAT ALONE! - She carries with her at all times a little bag of stuff. And in that little bag, the stuff is arranged just the way she wants it. Of course, this is the same with all things she ever even briefly considers hers. She arranges things. Rearranges them til she gets them just right in her eyes... and if someone fucks with it, SNAP, she goes after them verbally and starts griping til it's back the way it was. This, of course, has gotten her punished on many occasions, but it's a habit that's never quite left her. You touch, you die... at least, from her words.
Character Goals:
Try to get her old body back - Pretty self explanitory, really. Figure out why she's trapped in the 'horrible monster shape' she's in, and, in doing so, try to get rid of it and get back to her own shape. This is, of course, the character's goal. I wouldn't mind her staying the way she is, but that's not her wish.
Someone to love - She was madly in love with her previous master. But, being thrown away and now quite alone, she finds herself in need of someone to call her own. Or, at least, someone to take care of her. Although she was raised in an environment that made her take care of herself, while tending to others, to an extent, she's never really been that good at it. She knows this, and as such, wishes there to be someone to help make decisions for her, to take care of things that she can't figure out.
Player Goals:
Honestly... I've been gone for so long, and have RP'd so little in the past months, that I feel that I've let people down. I really want to be able to start fresh and start up RP and all that. Given that, I'm willing to give up my two old characters for a chance to start anew once more. No one is anywhere near Atria, from what i've been told, Rane is... well, Rane >< Everyone knows him, no one likes him. So... I decided to apply this character. It's a culmination of several things. One, a character that I use on a lot of MU's(general premise behind character and personality). Two, it's a concept that I would like to see expanded upon on the MU, that being the breaching of espers from FFVI. This character isn't a full-blown esper or even half so, but, its enough that it may be allow it to be seen that not all esper applications will be abused and misused. If I can get that across, I feel that I might be able to make a difference in things^^ As far as how I want this character to be built up in story, I really... have a hard time saying. So much is left open for other people to interact with that it would seem almost goofy for me to plan it out. There's so many possibilities that could alter something that would entirely change my plans. However... if I had to pick how I wanted this character to go, I believe it would be more of a learning RP. As she's not all that smart, perhaps find someone to travel around with... learn things from, figure out society, slowly become more at ease with herself in this 'monster' form.
Sample Pose:
"Have... to get... away..." Satrina pants as she runs with a rather apparent limp. Having just twisted her ankle in a pot-hole on the field, she's not in quite a good position. "GET IT!" someone shouts from behind, a teen-aged boy. Him and a few cronies are chasing after her, weapons in hand. Letting out a panicked squeak, Satrina launches off the ground, flying straight into the air... hoping that there isn't anything above her. Luckily for her, there isn't... however, one of the boys happens to be carrying a crossbow of sorts. Raising it and taking aim, he fires off three shots. And he's a good shot too, because one impales her thigh, one grazes her chest, and the other shoots straight through the spine of her wing, causing her to curl up into a ball, falling straight into a river that was ahead of them in the field. Current strong enough, she's carried down stream far enough underwater that the people chasing her don't notice her appearing no the surface again, unconscious from the impact of the water, injured and floating down the river.
Twink Definition:
What I was when I first started this MU and what I might still be, according to some. Someone who powergames for the sake of improving their character, not the storyline or another's character. Someone who doesn't take into consideration someone elses wishes in RP.
Battle Abilities:
Desperation attack - Archaeo Burst - When Satrina is pushed to the verge of death, there's a VERY tiny chance she will be able to burst forth with her only grain of magic in her entire being, the Archaeo crystal. It's a large grain, yes, but only one. Wings outstretching, her monster side takes over, causing her to snap and go into a fully feral state. While in this state, she tries to kill each and every thing that is living around her, her senses(other than sight) increasing many fold to the point where she can smell someone 100 feet away, hear them walking and breathing. This goes for anyone, with her or otherwise.
Magic:
She was born almost no magical ability whatsoever. This means she can, in no way, EVER, use any form of magic. Be it Magicite-based, natural, materia, drawn... any form. At all. The ONLY exception is her desperation attack(not really magic, but close enough), which completely drains her of any ability she has for the attack to possibly happen for... probably, a good three months.
Summoning:
Nope. She can't summon anything. However, here, I WILL describe the esper-esque crystal that is embedded within her. She can not use it, nor does she know of it's existence, but, it's there. It wouldn't be included in her powers, but, speaking it IS there, here's the information.
Name - Archaeo
Description - Archaeo was originally a varitant of a Coeurl. But, after consuming the essence of an esper that had a form similar to a Archeoptyrex, it found itself in a much different state. One that was a large combination of both. Wings, feathers, fur instead of down. Some scales around the joints('writsts', 'ankles').
Powers -
Consume - NO THIS IS NOT VORE. Just a little pre-cursor in case some random pervert decides to label it as such. Archaeo has the rather unique ability to consume the spirit of a being. Archaeo, in actuality, is not a an esper, but a variant monster that consumed an esper, and, in doing so, absorbed part of its spirit. By doing so, it gained the qualities of an esper, those being advanced sentience, as well as partial humanoid features and a mind.
The power itself, though, allows the consumption of the essence of a being. Archaeo, in its prime, could try to consume anyone, but, now that Archeo's dead and in a crystal... can't. However, if the power was ever used by someone else(Someone somehow using it through Satrina, or taking it from her... ouch), they would be able to use this aiblity on weak creatures only(weak beings too, characters, HEAVY OOC CLAUSE). It literally devours the essence of the opposing being. It isn't eradicated, though, but taken into the body of the 'consumer'. Then stored along with their essence, with time, it would being to merge with theirs, changing them physically(ableit partially) to reflect the added essence. The essence could be released completely upon shattering the crystal, which, would in turn, release all essences previously stored inside of it. However, any essence that had begun to merge is forever lost.
Special Physical Abilities/Defects:
Flight - She DOES have wings. And they aren't exactly useless either. These wings allow her to fly great distances at medium speed and stay aloft with ease due to their sheer size. She can't fly through confined areas, though, without chancing hurting herself seriously. Speaking she's blind, her flight is mainly for the 'flight' part of 'fight or flight'. She can stay aloft for roughly an hour before she has to set down. Her top speed could easily be fourty, but she would have to be in a large and open space to ever attain that as well as be in a blind panic(no pun intended). The total span of her wings is 15 feet, tip to tip, extended fully on both sides of her. They won't shield her from any harm, being thin and only able to support her at most. If she were to really try, she could probably lift someone else about her size or a little more, but it would greatly hinder her movement and speed while aloft. The extra long feathers that she has on her wings are more decorational and in no way functional. They aren't the flight feathers, they are simply there, much like those of a bird of paradise.
Blind - Completely unable to see. No lights, no blurs. Nothing. This has greatly hampered any ability she has to navigate in fine movements. Not much more to say on this subject other than what the name implies. Blind as can be.
Archeao Crystal - The crystal she has embedded within her side gives her all of her bird-like 'defects' or 'enhancements', depending on the trait. Being the main source for her feathered appearance, including her wings, it has several other underlying effects on her. One, her weight. Despite the fact that she's in no way anorexic looking, her bones are nearly hollow, much like those of a bird. Due to this, she is fragile. Extremely fragile. More than 30 pounds pressure against her causes her extreme pain, making it feel like her bones are snapping(Pressure directly on a bone. Someone clapping her on the shoulderblade wouldn't hurt so much as someone pushing against her chest). The same applies to her wings, as far as bone density goes. Very fragile... easily broken. As well as that, her voice has gained a thinner pitch to it, giving her a higher-sounding voice. Not squeakily annoying, or nasaly for that matter, but, quite a higher sound. Though she's yet to experience it yet, she'll also have season's where she'll molt her feathers and regrow them. During that period... ugly as hell and all that jazz.
AHH, a monster! - Due to her form, she's quite often mistaken for a monster of some type. Fiend, monster, big ugly-ass mutated deformed bird... you name it, she'll get mistaken for it. Caused her quite a bit of grief, bodily harm and almost death on more than one occasion. Especially with her fragile condition. This is even more evident while she's in a blood-lusted state, as her canines extend slightly(or become more apparent with her change of mind, different way of presenting herself). Crazed look, quite feral and killer-like.
-TL;DR much?
[edit] Related Links
- Bean Mary-Suer who traces screen caps/other artist work to produce her OC's.Warning: Big words confuse her, limit to 1st grade vocab.
- Shinra High by Sephirothslave. There's also a sequel but you might be braindead before you reach the ending. Note it's a grueling 59 chapters.
