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(08-29-2014, 06:41 PM)Verad Wrote:

(08-29-2014, 06:37 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I'd get annoyed.    But there's so many fish in the sea, I'd be like, "yeah, whatever" and move on.  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.