Do you find yourself annoyed by Mary Sue-ish qualities when the rest of the work has been done on character development?
Well, that's the thing. Mary Suedom is the lack of actually doing the work on developing the character. That's another thing. It's when all those characteristics are meant to hide that the character isn't really all that interesting, unique, or otherwise sympathetic.
One of the things that bothered me about the character in the review I mentioned was that when you got past all the artificial trappings - the quirks and the superpowers - there wasn't much to found. Strip away the details, and what's left is a character that really doesn't leave an impression.
Would the last name thing have bothered you less if there'd been an allusion to why the character does it?
Maybe, maybe not. I think it would've bothered me way less if it hadn't been surrounded by so many other annoying things. It is a bit of a peeve of mine in any circumstance - not that people in real life doing it annoys me - but it comes across rather pretentious on the page. It's an idiosyncrasy of mine I think, because it seems as though other people aren't bothered by it at all.
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Well, that's the thing. Mary Suedom is the lack of actually doing the work on developing the character. That's another thing. It's when all those characteristics are meant to hide that the character isn't really all that interesting, unique, or otherwise sympathetic.
One of the things that bothered me about the character in the review I mentioned was that when you got past all the artificial trappings - the quirks and the superpowers - there wasn't much to found. Strip away the details, and what's left is a character that really doesn't leave an impression.
Would the last name thing have bothered you less if there'd been an allusion to why the character does it?
Maybe, maybe not. I think it would've bothered me way less if it hadn't been surrounded by so many other annoying things. It is a bit of a peeve of mine in any circumstance - not that people in real life doing it annoys me - but it comes across rather pretentious on the page. It's an idiosyncrasy of mine I think, because it seems as though other people aren't bothered by it at all.