*Ponders*

Question regarding unfinished fic by IndeMaat on 2008-06-23 13:27:00 UTC Reply

In Februari/March 2007 I started PPCing a fic that at that time was not yet finished. There are two Sues in that fic (one male, one female) and the canon characters barely make an apparence. And when they do they seem quite OOC. The mission has long since run a dead spot, 'cause there was no more story. I initially deemed it too early yet to kill the Sues 'cause despite being Sues and gross deformation of character of a diversity of military institutions (and not researching whether there is actually moon or sun light at 4am on 24 august) the number of crimes against canon are slim. Just that each of the canon characters did one thing they would never ever do, and it isn't specified whether the canons have age 20 years or the story is AU.

So, I'm caught in a dilemma. I read what I had written so far again this weekend and it's one of the funniest missions I've ever written and it be a shame to let those jokes go to waste (and there is only a very slim chance I will ever be able to use the one about the date and moon calander again). There's plenty of evidence and grounds to charge the Sues with being Sues, not doing research or even take grammar lessons, but there's hardly any canon breakage (unless you take real world military as part of canon (which you can considering the canon supposes it is part of the real world), 'cause then there is plenty of breakage).

Any thoughts on whether I should go ahead and charge the Sues, or just forget there ever was this mission? ~~Did I mention that one of my agents is quite psyched about encountering her first male Sue?~~

Hm. by SealRat on 2008-06-25 02:53:00 UTC Reply

Well, if the fic hasn't completely slammed the canons out of character, you could always just give them a warning. But if they make a bunch of other mistakes with grammar and common sense, then it's probably enough to kill them off towards the end of it.

You can either mention that there's no more story, but the Sues are ridiculously upstaging the canon characters enough to be sporked, or you can just kill them off with what's been given and pretend like it's some kind of screwed up ending(Example:'Look, the Words stop because the author has failed. I think we should kill them before they run out.').
*Ponders* by Artic Blade on 2008-06-23 14:02:00 UTC Reply

I guess it's really up to you. It probably depends on how severely out of character the characters actually were. Something completely opposite of what they're character would do, and supposing there were a lot of them, would easily be enough to charge 'em I reckon.
I tihnk you can also charge them for making the Canon Characters disappear, if it was set in an important area to those characters, or at an important time. I.e.: Battle of Helm's Deep and Aragorn wasn't there, stuff like that. Then of course, there is the charge for just being a 'Sue. Maybe you could kill them, and claim you were 'nipping it in the bud' before they could turn into full-blown 'Sues?