Subject: There's only so far...
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Posted on: 2016-08-19 23:01:00 UTC

At least, I hope so.

The character I have in mind was definitely not the Worst Sue (TM) I've encountered by a long shot but I was forced to share the most intimate, enduring experience with her. And her sister.

Her profile reads as follows:
Race: Human (half Rhodinian- Aritownian)
Skill set: Reasonable when it comes to cooking.
Can sew well
Character Description: 18 years old. Patient and mother-like. Cares dearly for her younger sister, Lilac. Her Aritownian Mom and her Juctimian Father ran away after giving birth to Lilac for an unknown reason. Lyra had to find herself a job at Thornspike Hall to feed herself and her sister. However she is very depressed and has low self esteem due to the racism she faced during her time at Thornspike Hall. As well, all the other maids and servants seem to be comparing her appearance to Lilac - although Lyra is actually better looking than all those servants and maids. She finds this world unfair and is secretly determined to seek revenge on her parents and the society - practically everyone.

Which sounds reasonable enough. But this description doesn't even begin to describe what she was actually written like.

I had to work with this for years in a writing collab. I'm still working with this. I joined the project late, so it took me a while to catch up on things, and since the character had been accepted I just assumed she was less Sue-y than I was thinking, or that Character Development happened. I only learned recently that the lead writer just never had the heart to tell her.

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