Is Your Character Too Awesome?

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Pays to be prepared when you're eventually in a Q&A at a con and a fan/hater stands up and asks, "Why do you feel your Mary Sue characters are so successful?"

1) I look forward to that day!

2) I think you would say to the fan/hater that people didn't hate Mary Sue in the original fanfiction context because she was super-awesome. Kirk & Spock were pretty awesome themselves. They hated her because she was a new, non-canon super-awesome character, made the canon characters the fans knew and loved behave in ways that were completely out of character, and made the canon characters the fans knew and loved play second banana to her awesomeness. None of the above applies to original writing.

 

[glutton]

My heroine who's so scarred up that children run away from her in fear got a 51 mainly for being the best warrior in the world.