Are you a Mary Sue?

[Kaijyuu]

Like anything with literary analysis, there are no hard rules or must-follow guidelines.


You could potentially make a compelling character that scores horribly on this quiz. That's a given. That's unavoidable. It serves as a helpful guide to those who are new at writing, though. Good writers follow the "rules" all the time; excellent writers know when and how to break them.

Every single goddamn thing on that quiz's list can be retorted with this. That does not diminish the value of it. It's just to show how likely the character is going to suck, especially in the hands of an inexperienced writer.