Glad you liked QaS. As you commented, I believe, married het need not necessarily be boring.....
On the main topic, re Mary-Sue - is she all bad?
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Glad you liked QaS. As you commented, I believe, married het need not necessarily be boring.....
On the main topic, re <i>Mary-Sue - is she all bad?</i> <ljuser="lizbee"> did say in that interview for zendom that when Melanie first appeared she thought "Oh no, here's Mary-Sue to act as [Draco and Neville's] relationship counsellor" and was relieved that such was not the case, so I suspect that the opinion that all OCs (at least all female ones) are OCs is sufficiently prevalent for <ljuser="lizbee"> to want to raise the issue explicitly in relation to Melanie if only to specifically dispell it. Actually, I think one of the problems is that the Mary-Sue test (you know, where you get points for relationship to existing characters, special features, getting off with key main character, etc) produces a high percentage of yes answers with regard to Maud, so perhaps the answer is how one defines one's terms: either she <i>is</i> a Mary-Sue, but the use of the term is therefore not necessarily perjorative, nor need it exclude a well-written character <i>or</i> that the test is flawed if it is intended to identify only Mary-Sues, Mary-Sues being by definition bad.
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On the main topic, re Mary-Sue - is she all bad?
On the main topic, re <i>Mary-Sue - is she all bad?</i>
<ljuser="lizbee"> did say in that interview for zendom that when Melanie first appeared she thought "Oh no, here's Mary-Sue to act as [Draco and Neville's] relationship counsellor" and was relieved that such was not the case, so I suspect that the opinion that all OCs (at least all female ones) are OCs is sufficiently prevalent for <ljuser="lizbee"> to want to raise the issue explicitly in relation to Melanie if only to specifically dispell it. Actually, I think one of the problems is that the Mary-Sue test (you know, where you get points for relationship to existing characters, special features, getting off with key main character, etc) produces a high percentage of yes answers with regard to Maud, so perhaps the answer is how one defines one's terms: either she <i>is</i> a Mary-Sue, but the use of the term is therefore not necessarily perjorative, nor need it exclude a well-written character <i>or</i> that the test is flawed if it is intended to identify only Mary-Sues, Mary-Sues being by definition bad.