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 Post subject: Tell me if I'm entering Mary Sue territory here...
PostPosted: March 4th, 2007, 4:38 pm 
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Alright, I recently came up with the idea for a new LotR RP character, and I'm a bit worried if one apect of her history would cause others to consider her a Mary Sue. She is not exceptionally beautiful or skilled in anyway (except in hunting), but I wanted to have her be a sort of lost child of Denethor II and his wife Finduilas. And of course by extension her siblings would be Boromir and Faramir.

I have no plans for her to ever meet her family, but I just need some opinions concerning whether or not having her be of royal blood would place her in the Mary Sue catagorey.

Any and all comments will be very appreciated.

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I'm not a Mary-Sue expert, but as long as she has some flaws, then she should be fine.

I like the idea, though.

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Shadowcat wrote:
I'm not a Mary-Sue expert, but as long as she has some flaws, then she should be fine.

I like the idea, though.


Okay, thank you very much. I'm just trying to make sure...


Anyone have any other thoughts?

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PostPosted: March 5th, 2007, 7:11 pm 
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There's a "Mary-Sue litmus test", the link's somewhere's about here-I'll go try to find it.
Anyway, I don't think she sounds too Mary-Sue-icidal (love that word. lol). Like Shadowcat said, as long as she has flaws, she should be fine.

Edit: Here's the test! http://www.springhole.net/quizzes/marysue.htm


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PostPosted: March 8th, 2007, 8:45 pm 
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Ha...Sue-icidal. I love that. :]


Thank you so much for posting that link, not only was it quite entertaining, it also helped me realize how much "worse" you could get in making a character.

Anyway, this character got a 14 which according to this test is in this range:

0-15 Points
Your character should be fine at this level.


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