Subject: About Mary Sues...
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Posted on: 2010-05-20 04:33:00 UTC
I read most of the types but what the ones that uses something like a mecha? I thought of this since I want to deal with badfics in mecha anime. Also, how do I deal with High School AUs?
Personally, I'm actually quite fond of them, especially for anime continuua (that is the proper plural of continuum, isn't it? If not, I apologize). Depending on the story, the characters might still retain whatever superpowers/odd physical traits they had in canon, or still have part of them, or have nothing but the name. These last make me sad, but oh well. Moving on.
Killing them is both easy and not, I would imagine. (All of this is hypothetical, mind, since my agents a) aren't assassins, and b) have never worked in an AU before. Actually, for that matter, they've never worked anywhere, officially. I've been slacking on the writing of their missions. But that's completely off topic.) Most AUs are set in what can be assumed to be World 1, so you have access to all of the World 1 weapons. On the other hand, getting guns etc. into High School isn't terribly easy, and they tend to be chock-full of OCs who would notice. I'd say if you had something subtle like a curare-tipped blow dart, it might be the most effective. Killing someone in math class is surely fun, though charging them in class might be a bit disrespectful to the teacher.
--anamia
It's "continua," only one U. {= )
~Neshomeh
Every new thread you make pushes another off the front page, and another at the very back off into oblivion. With your three threads you've already shoved another three off in a short period of time.
If you have any more questions or ideas, mind keeping them to one of these threads that you've already made for now?
Otherwise you're crowding others off of the first page, and hardly anyone goes back farther than this one.
This isn't a regular message board, so just ask all your questions in one post, or append them to another question thread.
Don't worry about not knowing enough about the PPC. Nobody does at first. Besides, you've got a whole month before you can ask for permission anyway--which is a mercy, because it really does take that long to learn everything well enough. I'm three weeks in and still feel like I don't know enough yet. (Not that you have to request permission in exactly a month, or ever for that matter). Agents often get dumped in without much training, but their writers generally don't. :)
If you're dealing with a continuum that has mecha as very commonplace, you may be able to use a disguise that will be able to deal with your sue or possessed canons. If not, you'll have to use a disguise that's normal for that continuum, and get creative. It's almost always preferable to disable powerful Sues by stealth and trickery rather than trying to fight them outright. Sometimes you can wait for a part of the fic where they're hurt or unconscious and capture them then.
I don't like High school AUs, but they're a well known fanfic genre, and good ones (presumably) exist. They are written with three basic rules in mind:
1. The characters have grown up in a modern world.
2. The characters are all the same age--namely, teenagers.
3. The characters are all attending high school.
Like any AU, the issues aren't with the changes that make it AU, but with not fully exploring the results of those changes, with general bad writing, and with creating unrealistic, implausible situations that are meant to do no more than set up a favorite pairing.
Pulling the characters out of character in any way that couldn't be justified by having them grow up as, and be, modern high school students is still bad writing. You will often find that a Mary sue is at the center of the plot, either a sue version of a canon character or an OC.
....so like sabotaging the Sue's mecha with the agents disguised as mechanics and let her die in battle or let irony run its course.
Another hypothetical scenario. At some moment, the agent incognito suggest the target couple to a fancy restaurant. Are we allowed to lead some people to the other locations?
You can get creative. I don't know which fandoms you like, but go here and read some of these mission reports:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/TheCompleteListofPPCFiction
Check out how other people have gone about it. Oh, and remember the Sue has to be charged first, while conscious. The important thing is that she ends up dead (though some Suefics have the Sue commit suicide or make a heroic sacrifice, and these must be killed some other way before they can manage it, since that sort of thing cements their influence over the canon).
List of assassination methods people have used is here:
<a href="http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Assassinationmethods">http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Assassination_methods
You'll notice some straightforward cases of simply shooting the target or killing them with some weapon (or their bare hands); other agents will use some aspect of canon to kill the sue (a canonical monster, natural disaster, dangerous location, etc.) or to dispose of the body. Portaling a Middle-Earth Sue into Mount Doom is practically standard, for example.
You'll have to re-state that last question; I don't know what you mean by "lead some people to the other locations".