Mary Sues are fine and dandy

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• One-Winged Eagle

  2014-10-03 21:17:22

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  This is true, but that is unfortunately not what Mary-Sues are about.
• Calica

  2014-10-04 00:23:27

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  fine and (space) dandy
• One-Winged Eagle

  2014-10-04 01:25:42

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Mary-Sues are about narrative weight. About extremes, about importance. They're about being interested in solely one thing.

  
  

  A character with whom the story is in love with, whom we are told is amazing and perfect and sexy and can do no wrong is assuredly a Mary-Sue. But at the same time, a character with whom the story absolutely hates, whom we are told is hated and abused and ugly and cannot do anything right and is just suffering so much is also a Mary-Sue.

  
  

  Sure, both are different forms of an ideal. Both are different forms of wish-fulfillment, where one justifies the "uniqueness", the other justifies the universe out to get them.