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(08-29-2014, 06:41 PM)Verad Wrote:(08-29-2014, 06:37 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I'd get annoyed. ÂÂ But there's so many fish in the sea, I'd be like, "yeah, whatever" and move on. Â Or at least try to clarify what the other person believed made my character a "Mary Sue."
I wouldn't come to the RPC and post about my private issues with them by name, however.
Setting aside the public airing of private grievances (in short, I agree with you), "Mary Sue" is such a broadly overused and misapplied term that I might as well get mad because somebody called me a hipster. It could mean anything.
These days, I interpret that term, however used or applied, as someone trying to get the following gist across:
"Your character is either too close to perfect, or else has too many things going right in their life. They are too competent, too secure, and/or too disruptive when placed into a situation with other characters who are less perfect, less lucky, less competent, and/or less secure."
Verad Wrote: I think it's high time we took it back.
Liadan, I love your character, she's so Mary Sue!
LOL.
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