Subject: Oh, Mary-Sues and Mary-Sues...
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Posted on: 2008-06-19 22:57:00 UTC

To my recollection, there are now at least three canonical explanations on how Mary-Sues come to be. Thus:

a) Mary-Sue Factories which breed them specifically as 'Sues (cf. The Reorganisation, among others)

b) Schools which take normal girls and teach them to be 'Sues (cf. Diary of an Undercover Sue, which enters the PPC canon by the intervention of Dafydd and Selene)

c) That they are a completely non-human lifeform with numerous very strange traits (cf. The Theory of Suvian Origins on the Wiki)

All three of these are true, in that 'Sues have been attested to come from them. Which isn't to say that there aren't other ways they show up, too. They're a versatile lot, and there's always room for another origin story.

hS

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