Subject: I am not entirely sure it's all power fantasy.
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Posted on: 2014-02-01 15:44:00 UTC

Because most Sues tend to be surprisingly powerless. Unless it helps them get their "hott man".

Or, you know, maybe it's because I work in the BBC Sherlock verse pretty often. Sues there have a very common 'power' termed superdeduction, which, as we all know, is honed through observation and is most definitely not genetic.

Anyway. Most of my Agents are reformed Sues in a meta sense. Lori Starrett even had her own fic that almost got published disguised as a goodfic that was getting debunked by more blatant Sues, but only Trojie and Pads were aware of it since they looked it over and caught me before I published. And then from there it's a simple matter of just completely rewriting her backstory so that she doesn't originate from Middle-earth like previously, but from Earth with a keen interest in Tolkien, etc.

And Agent Eledhwen used to be way more Suvian as well. She was more or less a one-sided drama queen (or as I termed it, 'emo') and a cardboard foil to an Agent Lily who was, putting it nicely, hyperactive. A bit of that remains to this day in the form of Eledhwen's clone Lilith from the Mary Sue Factories, who got killed in IAHF1.

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