Is Your Antagonist Or "bad Guy" A Mary Sue/gary Stu?
12 Questions
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A test to see if your fanfiction, original fiction or roleplaying antagonist is a Mary Sue or Gary Stu. Don't know what a Mary Sue is? Read here before continuing: http://www. Springhole. Net/writing/whatisamarysue. Htm
Questions and Answers
- 1.Does your character have an abnormal hair colour (blue-black, red, white, "pitch-black") that is not regular to their race?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- C.
Yes, but it is a box dye.
- 2.Does your character have a strange sounding name, one that is not regular in its culture?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- C.
It's a different spelling of a regular name.
- D.
Yes, and I made it up myself.
- 3.Does your character wear a lot of leather, furs, black, red, or abnormally tight-fitting clothes?
- A.
Yes to all.
- B.
Yes to four.
- C.
Yes to three.
- D.
Yes to two.
- E.
Yes to one.
- F.
None.
- 4.Does your character particularily hate children or bubbly people?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- 5.Is your character a professional torturer?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- C.
No, but he knows how to and is good at torture.
- 6.Does your character have, "Dark" or "Death" in their name? Do people often call them something like that?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- C.
Yes, but it is relevant to species / I'm writing about the Grim Reaper, literally.
- 7.Does your character have constantly greasy hair even though they live in a time where they have access to a shower?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- 8.Does your character always smell bad, or like "death" for some unknown reason? Exception: They only smell bad to a certain race or they have no access to a toothbrush, deoderant stick or shower, or you are literally writing about Death (Grim Reaper).
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- 9.Do they have a very witty sense of humor and are always capable of tossing the best comebacks, or on the opposite, do they have no sense of humor whatsoever and are very stoic?
- A.
Yes to both.
- B.
Yes to one.
- C.
No.
- 10.Do you ever describe them as having "sharp features" or "eyes that gleam of death/malicious intent/their true hatred"?
- A.
Yes to one.
- B.
Yes to both.
- C.
No.
- 11.Were they ever abused, and now they're only the way they are because they "don't know any better" or "never got over the pain"?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- 12.Do you ever describe their look as "goth", "steampunk", "emo", "punk", "greaser", or "gangster"?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
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