Subject: What makes a Sue?
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Posted on: 2008-11-28 23:50:00 UTC

This is not about the definition of Sues. Instead, I have a question about what seperates a merely poor fic from one PPC-worthy. This fic caused me to write this:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4567793/1/WindwalkerFirstTest

Its main character, Kyranon Ilaren, is the daughter of a police group called the Starhawks. She is naturally force-sensitive and is the daughter of Jinn. Other offenses include being the Chosen One of her subgroup, using the Dark side as well as the light and claiming immunity to corruption (although this charge is dubious due to canonical precedent), creating a race of force-sensitive, sentient Cute Animal Friends, stating that her Starhawks saved the Jedi and saved them from the Sith in the distant past, mucking with the timeline and Jedi policy on marriage, using techniques reserved for Masters in the canonical timeline, being more powerful than any other Padawan, and having her character's mother intimidate the Council.

Despite all this, and the occasional bad description, the fic is much better written than the usual tripe in the Pit, and there are some redeeming elements. The Starhawks upstage the jedi, but they would fit perfectly in their own fic. In short, they appear to have been grafted into the Warsverse.

My question is as follows: is the above fic bad enough to PPC? I'm somewhat undecided...

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