Is Your Character a Mary Sue? | Comments

I have a feeling that i typed past the limit. Darn. If i did, then heres a continuation. So one day this kid in the orphanage who is nine years old and is part cat set the whole thing on fire bc she 'accidentally' knocked something down. Most of the lab ppl got infected by the unfinished serums they made, and they turned into mindless killing machines, forcing the orphans to fight back using their abnormalties. The surviving orphans(very few) are currently on the run from the lab company. The oldest is 23, legal age(i hope) to own a house. Lunaxa is bi, no love interest besides her star companion and rarely smiles, besides when someone makes a joke. She often speaks very fast and is very impatient. She hates misunderstandings. She has slightly above average knowledge but isnt super smart. Nothing of her physical apearance is exaggerated. She wields control over fire whereas the 23 yr old controls ice. Not original, ik.

(ooo s--- theres a character limit) and never was found by the people laura works for, having been assumed to have fled to another world. laura never realizing that cecily is immortal might seem like a plot hole, but you have to recognize that laura is really, really dumb and never actually decoded human lifespans.

i didnt expect to have to answer yes to as many of these questions as i did. i do project bits of myself onto aviv (we have the same ethnicity which shows in our appearances, a similar fashion sense, some of the same major interests such as music, like a lot of other characters in my story shes coded as autistic, and shes a bit younger than me when the story kicks off but in general were around the same age), but our personalities are very different, and i dont try to make her perfect, excessively normal, or excessively abnormal. a mary sue is a trope often found in fanfiction generally written by neurodivergent normally afab kids from 11-13 trying to figure themselves out and expressing what they want in their lives through media they fixate on. ive written mary sues too. most notably a literal interdimensional traveler who managed to force herself into the world of saiki kusuo no psi nan and i think i gave a comphet crush on kaidou although i was a gayass 11 year old and didnt actually feel anything i was writing. it was part of how i coped with trauma i had experienced and expressed the way my mind works as an autistic person and i think i gave up and gave her a female best friend eventually. aviv isnt that. mary sues are not unnatural or to be shamed, but the only real symptoms of us being the same is her being the center of like 3 prophecies about the girl with the golden eyes who can see the unseen, her having yellow eyes, and us looking slightly similar bc though im not a person of color, i am a member of a marginalized ethnic group i rarely see properly represented in media. though my current name isnt a. real name (its the same as my username, s

somehow it wasnt taken) my deadname is very ethnic and has an apostrophe in it. anyways my story lasts like 6 arcs and what i was describing was just the first one. here are some comments i have for the quiz:

- 1 - 3 is the lowest answer in the how many characters fall in love with your character question. my story does have romance in it, but i feel like not every story needs to. what if no characters fall in love with your character, because the story isnt about romance? thats fine too.

- i dont think mary sues are to be shamed, but honestly, getting a low result isnt a bad thing. making your character cooler isnt spicing them up, spicing them up is giving them a personality. what i like about the characters i get invested in is that they have personalities. its hard to decode whether or not a character has a personality from a quiz like this, you kinda just have to listen to the person talk about their character.

- i guess this is true in general since fan characters and oc x canon are often written by younger fans who tend to right mary sues but its hard to get a higher result if your character isnt a fan character. i havent made a quiz on here so idk, but is there a way to make an option that doesnt affect your result? if so, not a fan character should be one of them.

- r*tarded is actually a slur towards autistic people and telling people who are probably pretty young and have been raised in cultures where these terms are constantly used isnt going to stop them from using them isnt going to automatically make them not ableist, but just keep that in mind, okay?

anyways that was a fun quiz! even though i really like how my character is written, it made me think about her through a different lense and its been fun to read through the other people on heres descriptions of their characters. thanks! :)

also why does this old ass quiz website hate apostrophes lol