Or the Mary Sue is accompanied by something else, like legolas by laura's transcendentally terrible prose.
It's particularly infuriating because there's that one PPC writer who decided that their main agent was a Mary Sue because of that litmus test shit, retired her for a while, and brought her back as an angst punching bag.
I mean, to be fair, Iximaz does a lot of angst anyway, but that's pretty clearly what happened to Rina/The Aviator.
They're all classified as proper nouns by virtue of being names. A good deal of them are words that are nouns, but some are derived from adjectives and the like. Jameel for example is an Arabic adjective meaning "beautiful". However as a name Jameel is read as a noun and subject to the rules surrounding nouns.
God I am so glad I stepped out of the PPC ages ago. It wasn't intentional at the time but I don't hear much good about it from my friends anymore, those who are still in.
I'm enjoying being there, for the most part, but yeah its not something to sink your entire life into
I mostly miss the camaraderie. Everyone I knew left and it wasn't fun anymore. Remaking the characters I used though.
As a preteen who definitely should not have been reading those fics... I just hung around the outskirts. Mostly I didn't care very much about the fics; I just liked some of the agents. :P
Well, today, everyone's pretty much admitting that the actual fun part isn't the missions, it's the characters.
I think "Mary Sue" is a useful term that has been unfortunately diluted through overuse, much like "plot hole". "Can your main character ever be wrong about something" is a good test, a couple others are "can you imagine how your story would play out if the main character wasn't there" or "could there be a character in your universe who is a good person and doesn't like hurting others, but still dislikes your main character for valid reasons".
