Meme!

In psuedo-celebration of the whole 83,000 words thing, and also because I am bored, a meme:

Ask any of the characters from any of my stories a question, and they will answer. Possibly even honestly.

It was fun last time. Ask away! (and yes, you can ask more than one. I'm filing. I have plenty of time on my hands in which to mentally compose good answers)

Mary-Sues and Fridays Alone

After joking about some of my characters being a bit Mary-Sueish to anariel_di_gaia, earlier today, I went and located a very comprehensive Mary-Sue Litmus Test and ran a few of my characters through it, just for kicks. The results were moderately amusing, so I'll share them with you.

The characters I tested were Valmai, Ametrine, and Emlyn, as I think the three of them have had the most face-time in the Valmai Hammerhand stories, so far. I might do Wynn, Kaadin, and Sondra some other time, and so on. Anyway, the results were as follows:

Valmai - 20 points - "The Non-Sue. Your character is a well-developed, balanced person, and is almost certainly not a Mary Sue. Congratulations!"

Ametrine - 32 points - "Borderline-Sue. Your character is cutting it close, and you may want to work on the details a bit, but you're well on your way to having a lovely original character. Good work."

Emlyn - 87 points - "Irredeemable-Sue. You're going to have to start over, my friend. I know you want to keep writing, but no. Just no."

Hehe... Of course, the authors of the test do note that "the test isn't always correct. Morpheus from the Sandman Comics scored nearly 70 points, and yet we don't believe he's a Mary-Sue. He's well developed, suffers the consequences of several major personality flaws, and has very few powers or talents besides those necessary to perform the duties of his station. Of course, research, an interesting story, and good writing always help too", so I shall, of course, choose to believe that Emlyn is the exception to the rule... ;-) Still, I'm a bit horrified with just how high he scored. Poor Emlyn, being terribly attractive, a half-breed with a traumatic childhood, and having worked as both an assassin and a spy...

At least he doesn't have wings, yo.

In other news, I find that Jameson being out of town leaves me rather at loose ends. I've got a whole evening ahead of me, and no really clear idea what to do with it. Do any of you have a preference?

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