Your First Mary Sue

[TheLonging]

I don't think I've ever written a legitimate Mary/Gary in actual seriousness, rather, as parodies.

But when I fuck up, I'll let you guys be the first to witness how awful he/she is.

[Dmatix]

I had some pretty terrible ideas for characters, but luckily they stayed trapped in the dark corners of my mind.
Like that blind ninja that everybody disses but can shot a huge laser. Bluh.

[SandmanEnjoysHonor]

Back in the early days of my internet infancy, I partook in what we called Sim Battling (not The Sims, but simulated battles). It basically amounted to creating a character, then roleplaying a fight between yours and someone else's. At peak elasticity of memory, my first character(s) were incarnations of myself with the powers of, essentially, every single living entity in the Dragon Ball/Z universe.

Ah, good times.

[PriffyViole]

Oh, I got you ALL beat with this one.

Her name was Minnerva. She used to be human, but then she was a tiger thing, one of the harpie ladies from Yu-Gi-Oh!, and finally the embodiement of an elf goddess. She could do anything, was a scientist, and she was so powerful she could knock you around the world a hundred times with a finger poke, but she could control it. She was also Spongebob's girlfriend, AND BFF's with the Prince of the Cosmos.

I'm actually planning on salvaging this character to be tolerable.

[Amarisnsaned]

Lol, I had a Mary Sue at one point I think. If I can recall far back, it was some cat or panther character, who basically had gold eyes, and had everyone like her for her beauty and was the stereotypical "Oh I'm always happy and I love everyone " personality, but also had this...well let me just put it this way. She finds out she's a princess from a faraway kingdom somewhere in a different friggin planet/dimenion and basically went through the process of learning all of her 'powers' and whatnot. She pretty much not ONLY was some half-cat panther but she was also a vampire, goddess, princess, mage... so many things, so many things. Let me not forget of her horrifically 'troubled' past where just the worst things happened to HER, and every horrible thing that ever happened was directed toward her, and everyone wanted to kill her, she had amnesia and all of that good stuff. If the world was destroyed, it'd be because someone went through great lengths to kill her. Of course it wouldn't work. Somehow.

It was sad, really. XD

Never even made sense... luckily, I learned quickly of it's ridiculous character, story which had no sense or morals and whatnot... so I quickly threw her off to the side. :3

[archaicTome]

Okay. My first OC was a self-insert for Pokémon... who was....

• Ash's twin sister
• Half Ditto (as was Ash)
• Able to shapeshift
• Had to take injections regularly (or was it cranking a dial on her arm?) in order to not die
• Giovanni's kid (as was Ash, no sneaky messing with twin from another parent here!)

Did I mention Giovanni was the Ditto?
And Pikachu was actually Giovanni and some random Raichu's kid?
Yeah.

I must admit that I was PROBABLY influenced by 'Brother, My Brother' from the first movie. Oh, and the whole 'half-Ditto' thing? I came up with THAT little beauty well before I found the glories of the internet/fanfiction. Two years later, I found the Nickelodeon Website. A few years after that, I joined Fanfiction.net, and discovered the wonderful world of writing down what I had 'thought up'.

This all started in, oh, third grade or so, 1998 or '99.

[P_equals_NP]

My first Mary Sue's adventures were basically detailed within my forum adventure "The Unstopapable Protagonist". He's undergone a lot of changes since then like wearing a fire fighter get up constantly but whatever.

I never thought of an actual name for him that stuck in my head. Basically, though he had no super powers, he was able to stop any superhero if I could devise a strategy within certain internal universe rules (he can have perfect bullet proof armour everywhere, but he cant have an exoskeleton that gives him super strength and speed, and also i broke it once by letting him time travel which i entirely regret and i couldve done it without that) for beating that superhero. He was insanely well prepared and had more contingency plans set up than I think would actually be physically possible in a single lifetime. Because I am a creative guy, short of reality warpers, i was usually able to think of something and so he was just a stupidly broken character. Like Batman, but no beating people up, and only having plans to beat Superman.

Unlike with most people's Mary sues though, i still like him and still make stories for him because he's awesome and if i could just come up with a stable art style i would totally seriously write stories about a moderated version of him because he;s awesome. AWAESOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (okay im done)

[Aerok12]

http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread...=1#post3902288

[Adalbert]

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[WooShooMoo]

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[Deanna.]

I seriously think the first fanfiction I wrote was a Ron/Harry slash thingy O.O
But there was one chick I created to live in the Teahouse world... She was fairly plain.

[ASBusinessMagnet]

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Idea for a Mary Sue:

A person who lives solely on a forum and becomes its memetic symbol, similar to TV Tropes' The Advertisement Server.

[shudder]

my first, and only, was in the second grade. basically i had gotten the idea that i was the god of this fiction i was about to create, the first story i had ever written. my thought process was this: "hm... well i don't want to display all my faults in this story!" -----> "hey, this is fiction! i can do anything! -----> "i can just make myself awesome!"

i became a kick-ass detective, akin to a MOE DESU DESU and seven-year-old Sherlock Holmes.

[Darlos9D]

I... actually have one of these. Way back in the day I wrote part of what was supposed to be a short DBZ (yes, DBZ) fanfic where Piccolo, while still dead, gets bored and starts wandering around the afterlife. Pretty soon he meets up with this girl named Viola (who looks strangely Namekian, aside from being obviously female). I didn't really get much farther than that so mary sue-ness was kinda non-evident at that point (sure she kills some dudes handily offscreen but they were mooks and this is DBZ so its not exactly alarming). BUT there was a point in my head where I wanted to get her back to Namek and have her be super-awesome fighting Freiza or something, lol.

Luckily that thought didn't last long, and I quickly just decided that Piccolo and her would just have their little afterlife adventures and then part ways. And then I never actually finished it.

But still... the Mary Sue thoughts... they were there. And deep down I've never forgiven myself.

[Melodies]

Not sure if this is a true mary sue, but SAD BACKSTORY SAD LIFE SOB SOB SOB

Actually I'm pretty sure some people call characters like her anti mary sues but they're just as obnoxious.

[Catstorm]

I think my Digimon self insert from the fifth grade counts. It makes me recoil in horror whenever I must revisit it.

- I told all the characters they were on TV and everything they did.
- I had to command Gatomon for a while (who was my favorite.)
- I was immediately Digidestined and got some made up Digiegg. (Of imagination, nonetheless. this is a cool idea but in the story it "appeared out of nowhere" and nobody knew about it beforehand)
- My partner(s) were blatant copies of Agumon and Gatomon.
- I never underwent any bad event.

It wasn't too bad, considering it was only two pages long, but it is still embarrassing to look at. I'm glad that now I can write myself as a much better character.

[ErinKitsune]

Well. Once, I was in a Furry roleplaying chatroom (I got out of there ok) when I made my first ever fan character. I have no idea if it's sue-ish or not but.
Anyways. She was an Energy Being, a race of... well, beings made from energy. She also had these wristbands, that expanded into gigantic sawblades. She could also concentrate energy into her hands and eyes and expend it, and she sucked the electrical energy from anything electronic. She was also nearly unbeatable but she did have one specified weakness: nuclear radiation would kill her. And, well, she did eventually die by the hands of another Energy Being. Her name was Darkus.

[Zolen]

I intentionally make most of my RP characters Gary sues to some extent. It means less work for me, and half the time the plot of that story will make what is a flat character "3d" thanks to things that are fully out of its control. Unlike most Sues who somehow have everything eventually go right.

[maid0ftime]

I used to have a warriors cat that was originally a four year old girl, one of the weirdest mary sues I've ever made.

[KawaiiMelon]

jesus fuck this page is full of unneeded bumps

[Izzus]

Before a session of D&D:
I jokingly stated that I wanted to play as a half dead character, which would be the Revenant. The DM took it seriously and, on the character sheet, began to write down all sorts of stuff on the back (we didn't have a double sided copy machine). I took a look at what he wrote. He gave my character all sorts of bonuses- even ones that weren't in the monster manual's entry for the Revenant- and decided to balance it out with the perk that makes your flesh rot. Just that one perk, nothing else.

During that session of D&D:
My human ranger was slowly turned into a shapeshifting wizard multiclass type who's familiar was a baby dragon. There was all sorts of other crap he had, but I don't know if I bothered saving the char sheet and I certainly don't remember what the hell he had off the top of my head.

The lesson is that sometimes Mary-Sue is unavoidable. In this event, I suggest denouncing it and moving on.

[Crowbar]

Well shit, I don't know what my FIRST was, because in my crouton years I was one of those kids whose idea of a good time was rolling around on the floor, imagining stupid crappy stories. One that I just remembered was a Pokemon trainer character called Gary (because I thought Gary was a cool name and that Gary Oak looked cool, because primary school kids are stupid), who had a bunch of unstoppable Pokemon (also made-up) and stupid technology and shit. I remember pissing off one of my friends with his antics even, and it's normally REALLY HARD to come up with something that doesn't fly in make-believe games.

One I harped on a lot was the Hierophant (this was when I was twelve and suffering the curse of an expanding vocabulary), who was this bad guy who wore cool black clothes and had cool green fire powers and had armies and EVEN MORE stupid technology. I thought he was the most fun and used him whenever I thought he would fit. I think the fact that my first favourite character was this amoral bastard says something about me.

I have an interest in Mary-Sues - the design, the implementation, the psychological backgrounds that determine a Mary-Sue's traits - that is extremely clinical while still bordering on the obsessive.

[Tirgo]

i actually ended up writing a male version of the mary sue who was attractive, smart, awesome, the main character, had powers nobody else had, and was desired by every single girl he came in contact with

the same character exists in a newer draft but is toned down a lot and has issues instead

the powers thing is still there i think

[Crowbar]

It's a bit of a fine line to walk. A character can still be attractive, smart, awesome, the main character, with powers no-one else had and desired by every woman he comes across and still not be a Mary-Sue. It's all in the execution.

Try to think to yourself, "What makes this character interesting, compelling, sympathetic?"

[optimusjamie]

I once wrote a character for an RP forum based on Freelancer (old spaceship game) who was part-human, part-some-alien-race-in-Freelancer-that-made-everything.
I... don't want to go any further.