To Avoid Being an Annoying Author [GUIDEBOOK]

People Hating on "Mary Sues"

Asiya Hiya:

Apparently, a "Mary Sue" is a female character that is so perfect that it's annoying. Usually, the Mary Sue is so smart, so strong, has a tragic past, too OP for the setting and things like that.

OR

A Mary Sue could be too useless that it drives everyone crazy. For example, Damsel in Distress (+whiny, crybaby, way-too-fragile) and the HOT ASS GOODNESS has to save her everyteim (;_;)

//I'm getting this from Urban Dictionary by the way\\

Okay, so, when a girl is too strong, you complain.

And when the girl has too many weaknesses, you still complain. Like WTF do you want!?

DANiEL, take it away

Dan Howell:

Right. So, I don't understand why people hate characters with tragic backstories.

Like, almost every anime or show have characters with tragic backstories, and that is where their potential or character development comes from. How else do you expect the character to develop?

They kind of have to experience that in order to mature. It's a human thing.

Plus, every character needs their strong points and weak points. If their strong points are strength and intellect, and their weak points are aloofness and being bipolar then there's nothing to hate, really.

Like, they need to have a few weaknesses to be an acceptable character. Because most characters that people claim to be a "Mary Sue" DO have weaknesses. So, there isn't anything wrong with it.

Asiya Hiya:

Ex-fucking-actly

<(￣︶￣)>

Tobio Kageyama:

Uhm, don't you think that labeling "Mary Sues" is also kind of sexist, maybe?

Dan:

How?

Kageyama:

Well, on Urban Dictionary, the second definition of a Mary Sue says that it is

*Morgan Freeman's voice* "A sexist term used to enforce the misogynistic ideals that female characters/authors shouldn't be allowed to fantasize or write anything along the lines of wish fulfillment. Its misogynistic qualities are exemplified in many ways, most notably being the fact that it's not a term dominated by the male counterpart despite existing in a patriarchal society, as well as the fact that the male counterpart is largely undecided upon in name and also undefined (see urban dictionary's entry which has no definition but to say "A Male Mary Sue", and the entry which involves the "Mary Sue" definition to define it).

It's usually used on the whole to bully new authors out of writing female characters altogether, making the task seem so daunting to some that they now only write slash fictions with two male characters, also exemplifying the misogynistic qualities this term involves"

Dan:

Perfect impersonation of Morgan Freeman, lad (-‿‿-)