Deep Space Nine: Mary Sue is a failed Bajoran monk (a female one), with surpsising similarities to my own faild attempt to become a nun. In fact, I wrote this piece to deal with the trauma of having to leave the convent, and another one where I was physically attacked in the parrish church office.
Original Trek (Lost Years series): The Sue in this one is actually a Tellarite (you know, the pig-headed aliens) who shows lowly humans how wrong it is to ridicule someone because of their appearance.
Babylon 5: It's actually a canon character: the canonically female Pope of the B5 universe.
LOTR ficdom: - Mary Sue #1 was a red-haired female Elf, complete with tragic past, in undying love with Legolas (who else?). To my defence, I've conceived her back in the early 1970s. I know better now. - Mary Sue #2 is married to Halbarad. - Mary Sue #3 has a bastard child with Boromir. - Mary Sue #4 is a female Blue Wizard. - Mary Sue #5 is the Frustrated Fanfiction Author from "The Joys of a Beard".
Actually, although all these are self-insert characters, I don't really think that any one but #1 is really a Sue. The same is true for the sci-fi self-inserts above. But again, one person's genial OC is another person's Mary Sue, so we can never be completely sure, right?
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Date: 2006-10-06 12:56 pm (UTC)Mary Sue is a failed Bajoran monk (a female one), with surpsising similarities to my own faild attempt to become a nun. In fact, I wrote this piece to deal with the trauma of having to leave the convent, and another one where I was physically attacked in the parrish church office.
Original Trek (Lost Years series):
The Sue in this one is actually a Tellarite (you know, the pig-headed aliens) who shows lowly humans how wrong it is to ridicule someone because of their appearance.
Babylon 5:
It's actually a canon character: the canonically female Pope of the B5 universe.
LOTR ficdom:
- Mary Sue #1 was a red-haired female Elf, complete with tragic past, in undying love with Legolas (who else?). To my defence, I've conceived her back in the early 1970s. I know better now.
- Mary Sue #2 is married to Halbarad.
- Mary Sue #3 has a bastard child with Boromir.
- Mary Sue #4 is a female Blue Wizard.
- Mary Sue #5 is the Frustrated Fanfiction Author from "The Joys of a Beard".
Actually, although all these are self-insert characters, I don't really think that any one but #1 is really a Sue. The same is true for the sci-fi self-inserts above. But again, one person's genial OC is another person's Mary Sue, so we can never be completely sure, right?