Mary Sue- The True Horror.
A brief and valuable lesson endowed to you by Vicelin.
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It is not uncommon here on MMO Tales to see a badly-written piece of fan fiction being damned and scrutinized as cliché.
So…What is cliché, exactly?
Let us take a tour to the wonderful world of Webster, where our aural sustenance shall delve and be cleansed by the divinity of the mankind’s most astonishing creation- TEH DIKSHONARIE.
Cliché
1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace
So naturally we recognize how well the term cliché fits into todays day after day MMO Maple Story fan fiction.
But now, let us investigate deeper into nautical fan fiction jargon and lingo! Today, I will educate you all concerning the most tarnished, feared, and loathed term in all fanfiction-dome.
The true root of all that is cliché, the REAL foundation of the appalling evil that plagues all of our fanfiction experiences.
The Mary Sue.
The Mary Sue, if you take heed, is not to be found in the Holy Dictionary of Webster.
Why, may you implore?
Because her mere presence in written form is so accursed and hideous, that should any divine dictionary ever place her within its pages, the planet Jupiter would most undoubtedly explode, consequentially launching Mars towards Earth, driving our planet directly into the extremely large, fiery inferno of the sun.
And no dictionary would wish that upon its populace, would it? ^__^
I did not think so.
Now that I have EDUMIKATED you in the total grossness which is Mary Sue, I will provide you with the true definition that oh holy and powerful Webster is too chickensh!t to add.
And yea, I’m done talking like a British archeologist.
MARY SUE
Every. EVERY. Cliché story known to man begins with the author’s creation of a Mary Sue. The author creates the Mary Sue for one single purpose…
Their own selfish self-indulgence. This character ALWAYS gets the sexiest man who smexes her up for all eternity because love NEVAR EVAR DIES!!
She gets the utmost respect from every other character, and the happiest ending.
The sun always shines on her home, and even her feces smells like roses.
Perfect examples of Mary Sues found in famous stories in the real world:
~Any Ann Rice character
~Layla Harrison from the X-files
~Buffy the Vampire Slayer
~Every teenage girl who gets sucked through her TV into Middle Earth and shockingly lands right in Legolas’ pants.
~KAGOME (Thank you Indigo, I totally forgot about this one)
Remember, every cliché story begins with Mary Sue. She never eats. She never sleeps. She never showers unless the male lead is ‘accidently’ watching.
Beware the Mary Sue.
~Vicelin
eDIT : Alright, off the phone.
Hee hee, nicely put x3 I love how everyone’s becoming more aware of the STD known as “Being Cliche”! >:o
But yes, ugh. . . DARN THOSE MARY SUES! DX
Another example of a Mary Sue is Kagome from Inu Yasha. She’s reason number five why I hate that show.
I concur thoroughly and I wish horrible, flaming death to the Sues by the ‘s2 of m1 lIfe’ who they try so desperately to achieve their fantasies with.
Gods. I never knew about the reason why the Sue was not mentioned within the pages of the Holy Dictionary. I never knew. Now I shall go and possibly worship the one I enthroned on my shelf a while ago.
YES, WORSHIP TEH DIKSHONARIE! (>._.)>
Death to the Sues >:O
Whatthe **** is wrong with sues plus little author of the blog this has hellishly nothing to do with maple.
. . .well, seeing as half the fics on MMO contain at least one Sue, who is the MAIN CHARACTER AND OMG SHES SO HAWT AND GETS SAVED LYK BY TIHS AMAZING WARRIOR GUY HU IS ZO COOOOOL. . .I think we can safely say that this relates to MMO, if not Maple.
. . .what is wrong with Sues? Everything. Firstly, people run away from stories with Sues in them; secondly, they annoy people; thirdly, they are a bane upon the world of writing.
Whee. *goes off to write a Sue-parody fic*
Hmm, if you hate Mary Sue so much, make a story where she will be so drugged up, the world will be happier without her.
I don’t want to write a Mary Sue on purpose, because people have obviously done that already, you pathetic fool :
Repty- Everything is wrong with Mary Sue. And yes, it relates to MMO tales, because this entire post is ABOUT the fanfiction on it, thus it is perfectly fine for me to post. Please be quiet now ^.^
eh. . .i like inu yasha
its fun to watch something pointless and cliched once in a while when all u get is the all original “ZOMG-i-have-to-kill-my-bro-to-avange-my-clan” type of anime.
LMAO!
Rose smelling feces. COOL!
“Every teenage girl who gets sucked through her TV into Middle Earth and shockingly lands right in Legolas’ pants.”
lol, true. I’m scared of Mary Sues now
Wow, I have a good idea.
Someone (*cough*vicelin, since she seem to know so much about sue*cough*) write a fictional story completely and clearly exploiting a Mary Sue. She could actually be named Sue, and everything she does as well as the things that happens to her would be a characterized as a Mary Sue! Hahah, that would clearly demonstrate what one is and hey, I would read it. O_O
>_>; I dunno. I know I can do it, it’s all a matter of how many trash cans I can fit by my desk for all the barfing I will do while writing it. BLEH.