Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2013-09-02 14:47:00 UTC
While that might be true, a lot of people would find that demeaning or offending. Here there be dragons, methinks, and it's best not to tread there.
Subject: Well...
Author:
Posted on: 2013-09-02 14:47:00 UTC
While that might be true, a lot of people would find that demeaning or offending. Here there be dragons, methinks, and it's best not to tread there.
I just thought of this and had to share it.
I was reading about Hitler and how he was exterminating anyone who wasn't part of the 'Aryan Race'. Basically, blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair skin.
So wasn't he basically trying to make a world of Sues?
Maybe Sues exsisted before FanFiction was born, but in different ways!
Could make an interesting story...
(I'll try and cram these into some kind of structure, so be warned: Here Be Lists)
1/ Mary-Sues are of course not defined by their appearance. There are almost certainly millions of blonde/blue characters who aren't 'Sues - and equally many 'Sues who don't have blonde hair! For that matter, what self-respecting 'Sue would have an eye colour as boring as 'blue'? Now, if 'Aryan' meant 'and I mean like with these really vivid purple orbs only when she gets angry they glow red'...
2/ I know you weren't, but let's be careful not to compare 'Sues - or, especially, Suethors - to Nazis.
3/ Hitler, of course, doesn't pre-date fanfiction. Fanfic is ancient. To pick a random (and if you can believe it, relatively modern) example, the Aeneid, by Virgil, is fanfiction of the Iliad - and is over two thousand years old! I'll leave it to someone who's read the thing to decide whether Aeneas is a Gary-Stu...
4/ Coming round eventually to your original idea... what if Mary-Sues existed before they were a common feature in fanfic? What if, indeed, a society on Earth (or a canon world) dedicated itself to breeding them?
A few thoughts:
-The League of Mary-Sue Factories, along with a number of other groups in the Multiverse (there's a city somewhere named Sparklee...), are doing just that: producing 'Sues, one way or another, and sending them into fanfic. The League have used them to attack the PPC on occasion. Sparklee, actually, goes even further - it's set up as a city-state populated entirely by 'Sues and 'Stus, pretty much exactly like you're thinking of.
-For that matter, the Mirror Multiverse Enforcers of the Plot Continuum (EPC) are doing much the same thing - building a society of 'Sues, and attempting to conquer everything else. They're a dictatorship with no regards for morality or ethics, so I'm sure Nazi parallels have been drawn...
-What I'm not sure anyone has written is a society of normal people which - by choice or by external/dictatorial force - turns itself into a nation of 'Sues. It could be an interesting story, indeed - but I wonder how hard it would be? After all, Mary-Sues, by occasional definition, aren't exactly well-rounded characters - and aren't (usually!) intentional villains. Writing a story about 'Sues taking over, while ensuring the 'Sues can keep their own worldview (how they are the best thing ever to happen to everything) intact... it would be a big challenge.
hS
While that might be true, a lot of people would find that demeaning or offending. Here there be dragons, methinks, and it's best not to tread there.