Things poor Ross gets particularly bitchy about:
1) Stereotypical portrayals of DID/MPD (Guess why)
2) "Male twin of the pair" Stus (I think he's afraid that he himself is, in fact, one of them, but just doesn't realize it. His sister laughs at this...)
3) Inaccurate representation of a character's ethnicity.
4) Falsifying Twinning relationships.
5) Falsifying Twinning likelihood. (Seriously. Twinning is rare unless there is twinning in the family, and then it skips a generation. So one of a set of twins is likely not to have twins unless her husband's parent was a twin...)
6) Trivializing Twinning relationships.
To name his top six...

And this fic had... 2, 3, 4, and 6.

... I like having the "Sane, controlled" one go off his rocker every now and then. There are two types of Ross Anger you have to deal with. The yelling, stomping, facewalling kind is easy to get him to calm down from. It's the slow, cold, deliberate stuff that gets out of control. As can be seen by... well, WRITING a Stu to death.

This is Badfic. *sigh*

It's in every edition that I've managed to come across in the past eight years. Including the ones that I first read, which were the same ones that my MOTHER first read... Yeah. That poem is in basically every edition ever, as it is the basis for the WHOLE DAMN STORY.

And you are right. Dark lord and Darklord are pronounced differently, and the second doesn't scan right...

Ross is of the opinion that "Oh, you want to trivialize your relationship with your twin? Let's see how you like it when that relationship is severed wholesale!"

I just hope I got that part at least partially right. The one book I don't have in that series is, in fact, the first one, so I couldn't really check... But so far as I remember?

Had the author actually finished the story (or at least not abandoned it) I would have put it forward for potential Legendary status... I mean, there are some horrible stories out there, but this one was for me at least a whole new level of awful..

Watch as my Agent(s) go on a killing spree of all of that author's work that they have any knowledge of...

She's got purple eyes and red hair, and she's chosen by the Goddess. Other than that?

Well, she has Knightly Skillz, yes, but remember how she worked her arse off in training, because girls are naturally weaker? It's not Sueish to have muscles after a hell-camp like that, it's realistic. Actually, it would be more Sueish to have her still be weak, or complaining about not being as strong as the guys.

She was chosen by the Goddess, I think, because she was the first woman knight in centuries. (I'm sure Tammy mentioned somewhere that there were lady knights, long ago in the past.)

Anyway, if you want to find a Canon Sue in that series, I'd point to Daine, love her though I do. She's a girl with a tragic past, (bastard-like birth [redeemed of course] AND orphaned by bandits, AND traumatized by her powerz, and awesome beyond-the-ken-of-man powers that she can't quite control, AND of course immediately liked by [almost] everyone (given this is Tortall, where generally the cast is pretty friendly), AND gets the Older Wiser Court Wizard to fall in love with her, AND has Brand New Speshul Magicks.) Canon Sue, much more strongly than any other character, I think. Everything always comes easily to her, with just the right amount of angst. But, as I said, I do love her, because Wild Magic was my first Tammy book. And because, what can I say? AMINALSSS.

But she's a Canon Sue. Not only that, she's OUR Canon Sue. And we love her, for the most part. Except when we don't...

And yes, done well, it might be awesome. But... extra rings, Daughter!Sues, and Legomance?

I just put her through The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test (Springhole version) and... She's about a 78. Test-point factor: 50+ - "Kill it dead. Or make sure you read the instructions properly (some people don't do this, which causes freakishly high scores) and take the test again."
Ah, poor Alanna. You know, it's really hard to make a first character in a place like Tortall, make them the first female knight in a century, and not make them Mary Sue-ish. Alanna had it coming to her, being the Goddess's Chosen and purple eyes and all. I still like her character, anyway. At least she isn't freakishly gorgeous or decides to always speak in this stupid condescending manner like this: "Duke Roger, you are a worthless, zombiefied maggot. You are not fit to even kiss the ground of Tortall. I shall kill you now!" Oh, wait...