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Author Topic: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread  (Read 6337 times)

Tiruin

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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2012, 10:26:45 am »

Hmm, now this is an opportunity I won't miss.

Now...who were all my cha-oh wait. Now I remember!

Starting with my first ever character made, ever. Then shifting to those that are on the forefront of my mind. Ending with...well, ranked in the spoiler. With notes, for I won't pass this chance up!

Part I, IV and V taken. II and III do not relate.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2012, 11:03:25 am »

Out of curiosity, I filled in every non-minus answer. I got a 726. I don't think there's any possible way to recover from that. Help... Help!

The Black Hole Sue is manifest!

Still, villains have far too easy a time keeping their score low. Melritch got an 8.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2012, 11:17:14 am »

My Homestuck RPG character got a 2. I'm a terrible and boring writer, but it's better than the alternative.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2012, 11:26:17 am »

I don't think having a low score means your character is boring. To be fair, a lot of the choices have nothing to do with personality, and a lot of the stuff in the "De-Suifiers" are just straight up flaws.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2012, 01:21:32 pm »

Testing on Maelrigar Desraktu, my water orc battle sorcerer from Shoruke's D&D game. The name is weird, but so is everyone else's. They've all traveled, most people know at least 3 languages in the campaign, etc. Also assuming that having the ability to get a crappy snake pet due to a feat doesn't qualify for the 'animal companions' thing due to its commonality. (Counterbalanced by the fact that I'm counting enemy mooks as 'armed forces' later.

According to the race test, water orcs get a Mary Sue score of 1.
According to the character test, Maelrigar gets... 4.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2012, 01:30:20 pm »

Hmm, now this is an opportunity I won't miss.

Now...who were all my cha-oh wait. Now I remember!

Starting with my first ever character made, ever. Then shifting to those that are on the forefront of my mind. Ending with...well, ranked in the spoiler. With notes, for I won't pass this chance up!

Part I, IV and V taken. II and III do not relate.
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Feleris Valinar - Sylvan Elf based partly on Mythology and J.R.R. Tolkein's work - Dungeon Crawl RTD and other works by Dwarmin and IronyOwl = 16

Feyri Nirel - Human Mercenary of the Crimson Ire and soldier of the HMRC - Einsteininan Roulette/Ship and Game thread = 16

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- Human 'Crusader' in the duelist arena of the I.D.A. - Los Desperadoes = 19

Turiel - Star God Hybrid: Angel in a world about to fall - Their Coming is at Hand = 34
Ires Reon - Human Architect-in-training in both a horror RTD and a heroic RTD - Sanity's Eclipse//Roll to be Heroic = 4//18...strangely.

Rylee Javier - Human, Based on a very good friend I know in my locality  ;) - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. RTD = 2

Falion Arvīndell - Human Renaissance Knight in a world much similar to ours - Covenant of Arcane Steel RTD - 20

Ire Fidel - Human Assassin who is partly allergic to strange substances - Ascend Sky Tower! = 10

How the hell did you get a TCiaH charcter to have that high a score?
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2012, 01:34:37 pm »

My character in the Persona RPG got a 4, which is cool, I guess.
Meanwhile, my character in the P5:DHW RPG got a 28.

That's a bit of a gap between scores there :v
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2012, 01:46:33 pm »

Maybe I should go through the test again, to make sure I got it all.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2012, 01:51:40 pm »

Hmm, I might have to do mine, for the persona game

I got a 33. Might be off a few points though.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2012, 02:17:20 pm »

I tested the necromancer I played at one point in shoruke's D&D game, who I personally considered the most sue-ish character I played so far. As it turns out, he only scores a 19. Most of my other characters don't even make it to 10. Yay?
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« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2012, 03:02:08 pm »

@Turiel and TCIAH: the most I could get on him was around 16, man. There must be a hell of a lot of dark past on him you haven't revealed yet! And this early in the game!
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #26 on: June 22, 2012, 03:07:21 pm »

Hmm, lets try this.

Jack Dendy (From my novel): 15

Mark Denoron (From my novel): 27

Dammit.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #27 on: June 22, 2012, 03:10:39 pm »

You might want to try this instead;

http://www.onlyfiction.net/ms-test.html

It's what I've used for original characters in the past and is in my opinion superior to that one. Sorry for no fancy url tag magic, iPads hate that.
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #28 on: June 22, 2012, 03:22:04 pm »

My score on the new place is 544. Hurray, an Irredeemable Sue am I!
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Re: Mary Sue Litmus Test- The Thread
« Reply #29 on: June 22, 2012, 03:24:26 pm »

Got a 5. *rubs hands together* I smell a suggestion RPG coming on.
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