Willow ,'Showtime'
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I saw that, Connie -- how funny you got cited!
I sort of suspect we all basically have the same understanding of what a Mary Sue is here, and are differing only in terminology. Mary Sue is flamingly obvious, to my eyes, and I can't imagine it being very hard to identify, but like obscenity, it's hard to classify it sight-unseen.
Le sigh. The vast amount of MarySueiana implies a gaping hole in the self-examination skills of a great number of people.
Well, funny-good, anyway. I still feel all validated and stuff. :-)
Should I be worried that I'm reading Georgette Heyer slash?
Whatever could be worrying about it?
Oh, man. A friend of mine just discovered MPREG. *snort* She's boggled, and has a theory that it has to do with balancing the author's desire to see two manly men fuck with her distaste of homosexuality/desire for a normal family life. So giving one character the ability to bear children makes it not gay sex but... something else.
I dunno. It's an interesting theory, anyway.
Nothing worrying, and the author has done a pretty good job of writing like Heyer. I just had never thought there would be such a thing.
So the Mary Sue discussion gives me an idea for ... a Mary Sue. Or an OFC, anyhow.
Is it stretching canon too far top give Willow an older quasi-sister? I was thinking of her mother's stepdaughter from a previous marriage, specifically -- someone who might view Willow as family of a sort, but not someone she was raised with.
Make her a cousin that she used to hang around a lot with when younger or something. Cousins are useful relatives.
Cousin might be good. Thanks.
(I don't know if this one will ever make it past the first graph and outline I have in my head right now. Don't expect to see it anytime soon, in any rate. Not that you would, but I like lowering expectations.)