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I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

All of my OCs start out as Mary Sue’s and Gary Stu’s. It’s called beta testing

Wrought from the firm marble of enjoyment into competent interesting characters

The process of making a "Mary Sue" character into a good one is a process of developing both them and the world they exist in, not one of dragging them down to earth.

I just had a Vietnam flashback of those Mary Sue litmus tests of the 2010s which could basically be summed up as “never make your character more interesting than a piece of cardboard or else they’re a Sue and thus BAD.”

Young me used to literally run all my OCs through these tests so I could deem them acceptable to be published. I would literally keep revising my characters until the scores would reach the acceptable range as decided by the tests. I would make my characters screw up and get mistreated by the cast purposefully just so I could say they’re not a Sue.

And I wasn’t alone because this resulted in a trend of Blank Slate characters on FF.Net at the time. These characters had no personality, weren’t noticed by the canon cast at all, contributed nothing to the plot, and you could easily remove them from the story and nothing would change. It makes you wonder why they bothered to write an OC at all.

Today, not much has changed. Except instead of “is your character a Sue” it’s “is your character problematic”… which is even worse.

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