*cracks knuckles*

but in the badfic (that's still permission pending) me and my sis have decided to stop at around chap. 14 but there's this one character called Ciel (no not that one) and though he very much is a Gary Stu in latter parts, we meet him at a part that has him doing very little.

When we get to him the most charges he has to his name are: introducing a non-canon race into Tokyo mew mew (though by this point he is technically the only one we meet), obviously ripping off another canon character's name, being the non-canon race's prince, and having some poor grammar.

I'm not sure what the minimum number is on a charge list to be considered savable (or even the severity) but, well, me and my sis both actually like this character. Don't get us wrong, in the latter parts this character is a Gary Stu and is an angsty, ranting jerk. At the same time though, his rants were funny to us (even if we couldn't understand what he was saying) and he was usually the only one with any emotion to his character, even though it was usually set to angry or angsty.

So, can we save this guy? If we can't that's ok, but its better ask and know what to do then to not say a thing and never know you could (or couldn't).

Okay, I've actually had charge lists where potential Mary Sues/Gary Stus didn't have enough charges to be charged as such. But that's not really what you're asking. What you're asking is "can we adopt this guy considering where we stop at".

Well, consider for a second that, when you first meet the Stu, your agents are thinking of wrapping up that mission. Whenever I get to the point that I want to start wrapping up the mission, you basically tend to disregard anything that comes after that point (unless the main Sue/Stu of it is so epic that the stuff that follows epically fails at everything, but those cases are very, very rare). So at that time, he might be savable on the charge list.

Again, like bit characters, it depends on author preference.