A Mary Sue must SUFFER. This is required. She must be abused, misunderstood, maligned, and disparaged [also frequently deprived of food: I do not even begin to know what's going on in the zeitgeist there] before people discover they have been OH SO WRONG ABOUT HER WONDERFUL SELF and dissolve into large puddles of self-hating guilt. Whereupon she forgives them with her trademark noble humility and/or nurses them back to health. [This comes after her own tragic brush with death, in which everyone else gathers at her bedside to mourn the passing of such radiant perfectness and youth.]
It is also very important that she have ties to the canonical characters. Whether she's Spock's adoptive sister or Jack O'Neill's goddaughter or simply The Only Woman Who Could Ever Make Daniel Jackson Forget Sha're, she's tightly bonded into canon and interacts frequently with the canonical characters, all of whom either love her, are in love with her, or unworthily despise her. It goes without saying that she's a genius philanthropist prodigy with dark secrets, psionic powers, and sektrit ninja warfighting skillz. [She is often seen with a cute alien animal pet, or at least a wolf she's raised from a cub.]
Your OC doesn't have silver hair? I'm shocked and saddened.... ;)
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Date: 2014-08-17 07:31 am (UTC)From:It is also very important that she have ties to the canonical characters. Whether she's Spock's adoptive sister or Jack O'Neill's goddaughter or simply The Only Woman Who Could Ever Make Daniel Jackson Forget Sha're, she's tightly bonded into canon and interacts frequently with the canonical characters, all of whom either love her, are in love with her, or unworthily despise her. It goes without saying that she's a genius philanthropist prodigy with dark secrets, psionic powers, and sektrit ninja warfighting skillz. [She is often seen with a cute alien animal pet, or at least a wolf she's raised from a cub.]
Your OC doesn't have silver hair? I'm shocked and saddened.... ;)