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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Jjairr on February 18, 2006, 08:55:22 am

Title: Mary Sue Test
Post by: Jjairr on February 18, 2006, 08:55:22 am: So my friend showed me this test earlier... And, truth be told, I would -love- to see some people\'s scores...

What you do is, take one of your characters (in this case, of course, a PlaneShift character) and answer the questions concerning them. For example, I tested Jjairr (of course!) and on the first question it would be (i) - a really unusual sounding name that I made up myself.

Oh, here\'s a quick definition as to what a Mary Sue is ... (And for guys it\'s a Gary Stu, evidently)...

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Who Is Mary Sue and Why Does She Have to Die?

I honestly wish I\'d kept a copy of the first essay I read about Mary Sueism. It was well-done, and I don\'t think I can do the subject half the justice the original did. However, I\'ll give it my best shot.
You already know Mary Sue. Mary Sue is the perky, bright, helpful sixteen-year-old ensign who beams about the ship. Everyone on the ship likes Mary Sue, because Mary Sue is good at everything. Mary Sue is an engineer, a doctor in training, a good leader, an excellent cook, and is usually a beautiful singer. Mary Sue often has mental powers that may manifest themselves as telepathy, precognition, or magic. Her past is tragic, more so than any other character on the series. (Many Mary Sues have a backstory that reads like a V.C. Andrews novel. This is a clue.) If Mary Sue is very young, she is often the offspring of one or two already established characters. If she\'s a little older, she will probably end up sleeping with the author\'s favorite character. Sometimes, she fills both roles. Her name is often the author\'s name, be it a net.name, a favored nickname, or the author\'s middle name (this is seen in the most famous Mary Sue of all time, Wesley Crusher, who was named after Trek creator Eugene Wesley Roddenbery). By the end of the story, Mary Sue will be in bed with the desired character, will have beamed away amid cheers from all the regulars, or will be dead, usually accompanied by heavy mourning from the cast. The reader, on the other hand, will be celebrating. BTW, Mary Sue\'s twin brother can often be identified by his brooding, solitary behaviour, matched by his maverick disregard for authority (for a great example, see the very beginning of TNG\'s \"Hollow Pursuits\" alias Barclay, Part One).

by: Merlin Missy
Copyright 1996, 2005

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So basically, it\'s the perfect person who we hate with a passion but would love to be, and because we can\'t be said perfect person, we make an RP character to do it for us. :D

LINK! -> http://www.springhole.net/quizzes/marysue.htm

Right then! Take the test - it\'s lengthy, I warn you - and answer it TRUTHFULLY! Then post your score. Unless you\'re to embarassed. XD There\'s a box with your score in it and a scale at the bottom of the page.

Jjairr\'s a 39, by the way.
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Post by: Kiirani on February 18, 2006, 12:41:51 pm: 29 o.O
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Post by: Drey on February 18, 2006, 01:12:31 pm: 16-30
A fanfic character can go either way at this point, so authors should maintain a healthy amount of caution here. For an RPG character, however, you should still be within a safe level.

got 26.
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Post by: Cyl on February 18, 2006, 01:21:21 pm: 33. Hope you dont hate me for it
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Post by: neko kyouran on February 18, 2006, 01:50:54 pm: lets just say it was a number between 1 and 85 and leave it at that.
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Post by: Einnol on February 18, 2006, 04:10:42 pm: 31 for me.
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Post by: dragonfire999 on February 19, 2006, 05:23:58 am: 11 \\o/
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Post by: Jjairr on February 19, 2006, 06:09:24 am: Woot for Taser on being non-uber! \\o/
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Post by: Kixie on February 19, 2006, 08:07:26 am: I don\'t get it. I got a 66, but when I roleplay my character I neither elaborate nor do I steal the spotlight. There isn\'t anything largely unusual about my character or anything ulber. Something isn\'t adding up. ?(
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Post by: Kiern on February 19, 2006, 08:20:54 am: Looking at the test, it seems that anything that could be called \"unique\" is looked down upon, rather then corresponding with the description given of being \"perfect\". I can\'t truthfully take the test, but that is just what I gather from reading it.
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Post by: lanser on February 19, 2006, 10:52:48 am: 24 for me :)
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Post by: steuben on February 19, 2006, 02:59:56 pm: steuben as i\'ve writen him, seems to score a 50. but i could be mistaken.
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Post by: Sarrow on February 19, 2006, 04:56:10 pm: Im a 23.
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Post by: c-2501 on February 19, 2006, 06:17:21 pm: 15 \\o/

ok so its not quite as low as Tasers but i think its pretty good XD
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Post by: Niavard on February 19, 2006, 06:23:50 pm: Niavard is a 21.
The test mainly punishes uber or copied cliche characters, Niavard happens to be both fairly useless and a selfish bastard who is only loyal to himself, there are few such characters.
I\'m curious as to see how far into negative UTM\'s Arnigus goes.
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Post by: Watcher on February 19, 2006, 06:52:59 pm: For Aerium I got 13, quite good.

Edit: Woha I went up a rank.
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Post by: Under the moon on February 19, 2006, 07:13:02 pm: Arnigus Faymore: 31 :/

One of my characters from CoS: 138 ;( (but I knew that already)
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Post by: Lordbug on February 19, 2006, 07:38:50 pm: Lordbug Dosaki is a 83
Hume Silveraxe is a 31
:P
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Post by: ou8i8uo on February 19, 2006, 08:50:13 pm: Erm,..is 53 good or bad?.... :)

Wouldn\'t have thought Sat\'s score would be that high really.
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Post by: steuben on February 19, 2006, 09:03:38 pm: the mary sue essay (http://missy.reimer.com/library/guide.html)

read it. learn it. i dispair of it. all my chars are mary sue wannabes.
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Post by: zorbels on February 19, 2006, 10:43:54 pm: 26 for me :D
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Post by: steuben on February 19, 2006, 11:03:50 pm: /me runs around the thread waving a piece of paper.
found it! found it! the original mary sue essay.

here (http://www.merrycoz.org/papers/MARYSUE.HTM)
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Post by: Cherppow on February 19, 2006, 11:52:59 pm: Hi

Cherppow Greywood: 12
Right between Taser and Aerium. :)
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Post by: dragonfire999 on February 20, 2006, 12:52:42 am: if it was old, l337+1 of uberness Taser, it would probably be over 200. But now I am more normal :P
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Post by: Under the moon on February 20, 2006, 01:07:43 am: Bah. I still have you beat. :)

The challenge is to make a Mary Sue character believable and not clich
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Post by: Cherppow on February 20, 2006, 01:26:18 am: Hehe, I can\'t stop smiling at this:

53. Does your character fly?
a. Without wings?

(http://users.tkk.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/fly_nowing.png)

*edits*
To Under the moon: Aye, so true.
To Taser: Awws. Love you too. :)
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Post by: dragonfire999 on February 20, 2006, 01:35:56 am: I love you cherppow
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Post by: steuben on February 20, 2006, 01:36:56 am: Quote
Originally posted by Under the moon
The challenge is to make a Mary Sue character believable and not clich?.

heck that\'s the challenge with any character.
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Post by: Father Sengus on February 20, 2006, 01:50:03 am: 63...

I guess this just proves I\'m more honest than most of you! :P

I got 8 points for saying he was from another universe. Did I misunderstand the question :D
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Post by: nightstalian on February 20, 2006, 02:21:44 am: I got a 80 on my char, read his story, they didn\'t have was your character cursed or fated for something, and what are canon charcters
http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=22058&boardid=15&styleid=3&sid=d18cabd69ffd69eaf3c4e1d8aa1f3041
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Post by: steuben on February 20, 2006, 02:27:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by nightstalian
and what are canon charcters

characters that are the main stay of a gven series, spock in trek, carter in sg1, creighton in farscape, etc.
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Post by: neko kyouran on February 20, 2006, 02:39:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by steuben
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Originally posted by nightstalian
and what are canon charcters

characters that are the main stay of a gven series, spock in trek, carter in sg1, creighton in farscape, etc.

oh, oopsie, I thought they were like side kicks or something. hmm, that makes my test results a bit off.

Edit: 67 down to 23. Yay, I\'m a conformist.
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Post by: Cherppow on February 20, 2006, 04:45:16 pm: My awesomest, the armoured character: 61 ;)

Also did a little test there:

- Flies without wings
- Has telepathic/empathic connection or ability to communicate with any kind of animal
- Posesses power that can take out cities/legions of soldiers/general all-around-evil
- Is from another time, world or reality
(Sounds pretty uber to me)

Score: 15 \"Your character should be fine at this level.\"

And inspired by that...
(http://users.tkk.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/max_damage.png)
\"Gimmie that lollipop, or I\'ll make everything explode!\"
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Post by: Watcher on February 20, 2006, 06:09:20 pm: Cherppow I am not sure which scares me more, the fact that he/she is headless or the fact that they are standing in a star.
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Post by: Stephen McNaire on February 20, 2006, 07:23:58 pm: 12

I\'m stretching on some of the answers too because the test was set up for people who are fighters, not a chareter like mine who almost never fights. The test does not apply well to Hyung :|.
The biggest ding I got were the other languages Hyung would know as a scholar :p.
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Post by: Kixie on February 20, 2006, 09:54:14 pm: Yeah it seems things that are unique give you a negative score. Things like being spunky or if you have that whole \"I\'m a woman in a man\'s world\" cliche, you\'re a mary sue as well.

I\'m really confused at how some of this makes bad roleplaying. In fact, if the roleplaying world consisted of the boring characters they seem to be promoting I doubt it would be half as fun as it is.

But that\'s just my two cents.