Mary Sue. Yes, I've done it, too.
Nov. 8th, 2004 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mctabby, wikdsushi and tartanshell, I confess that I too have committed (Icarus takes a deep, remorseful breath)... Mary Sueage.
Although my stepfather's inability to fake a compliment (Quote: "Well. Ah. It's certainly... action-packed...") -- and the fact that PCs had not been invented yet -- spared you all the agony, I will for your edification recount the plot.
Or should I say "plot"?
The lead character's name is fortuitously lost in the mists of time, but we meet up with her during her gallant escape.
Yes. She has been on a planet (ship? spacestation? Location is actually a bit unclear) running through darkened metallic halls. She has been experimented upon, and for dastardly reasons unknown to all (including herself, her captors, the readers..) she has been given catsclaws and catseyes.
For some reason, her captors never considered these superpowers to be any threat to themselves. So when the mutations were complete, she (fanfare please) escaped! She slipped aboard a Freetrader vessel (what? You never read Andre Norton?), though it is also unclear exactly how she got there, how she knew where they were, where she was going... oh you get the idea.
Fortunately for her, a young Freetrader who bears a striking resemblance to the youthful Icarus' ideal guy (surprise, surprise) is the one who discovers her as a stowaway. He risks his career to help her... how exactly is sort of foggy, except that it involves hiding her in his *ahem* room.
Alas, this Mary Sue died a swift death at the hands of my stepfather's unwitting sarcasm.
*toothy embarrassed grin*
mctabby, wikdsushi and tartanshell, I confess that I too have committed (Icarus takes a deep, remorseful breath)... Mary Sueage.Although my stepfather's inability to fake a compliment (Quote: "Well. Ah. It's certainly... action-packed...") -- and the fact that PCs had not been invented yet -- spared you all the agony, I will for your edification recount the plot.
Or should I say "plot"?
The lead character's name is fortuitously lost in the mists of time, but we meet up with her during her gallant escape.
Yes. She has been on a planet (ship? spacestation? Location is actually a bit unclear) running through darkened metallic halls. She has been experimented upon, and for dastardly reasons unknown to all (including herself, her captors, the readers..) she has been given catsclaws and catseyes.
For some reason, her captors never considered these superpowers to be any threat to themselves. So when the mutations were complete, she (fanfare please) escaped! She slipped aboard a Freetrader vessel (what? You never read Andre Norton?), though it is also unclear exactly how she got there, how she knew where they were, where she was going... oh you get the idea.
Fortunately for her, a young Freetrader who bears a striking resemblance to the youthful Icarus' ideal guy (surprise, surprise) is the one who discovers her as a stowaway. He risks his career to help her... how exactly is sort of foggy, except that it involves hiding her in his *ahem* room.
Alas, this Mary Sue died a swift death at the hands of my stepfather's unwitting sarcasm.
*toothy embarrassed grin*
