Subject: Interesting.
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Posted on: 2010-06-27 03:37:00 UTC

"A nourishing, oily mist of complex, and rather implausible, organonarrative compounds." Hormones, perhaps? Sues tend not to exist in brains capable of much logical thought, which Lustin certainly seems to hinder. It's especially applicable if you follow the theory that authors have a fundamental difference from non-authors, a sort of "narrative complex" if you will... I forget where I found this theory, but it certainly sounded plausible.

If the Sueness of a character is determined by the amount of nGlitter over the amount of cGlitter, then couldn't this be a theory of all OCs, including canons? Good OCs are simply Sue-like organisms with a high amount of nGlitter, and therefore less cGlitter and "speshulness". Although, there would be a threshold where the amount of nGlitter overwhelms the amount of cGlitter, turning the OC into a boring lump of matter with no individuality whatsoever, good for little more than a bit part.

On the other hand, my theory has some vaguely blasphemous principles--it suggests that some of the best canons (Tolkien, for example) are merely populated with relatives of the creatures we despise, only differentiated by a chemical imbalance. Ah well--such is science.

On the other hand, there would be a defining point at which the amount of nGlitter over the amount of cGlitter is too small, and we could clearly define "This is a Sue," "This is not a Sue." Ah, that would be glorious...

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