[ SECRET POST #3263 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3263 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fixing A Sue

[philstar22]

That's not it exactly, but Leto II is kind of suish in terms of power level. Except by being that powerful he's blessed with suck. He has to endure horror and becoming a monster and having no one in his life for centuries after everyone he has ever known is dead. And he's doing it for the greater good: taking on what no one else would have had the strength to take on.

So in my mind it balances out. I'm okay with really powerful characters when it balances out with a really sucky life or downsides that are equal to the power level.

Re: Fixing A Sue

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That description reminds me of Janelle Angelline in the Black Jewels series. Massively powerful, but with massive downsides to her powers, trouble learning how to handle them, and an abusive culture that wants to destroy her.

Either massively super-powered characters need to be minor in-and-out characters, or they need massive obstacles in their way.

Re: Fixing A Sue

[ketita]

Either massively super-powered characters need to be minor in-and-out characters, or they need massive obstacles in their way.

I think it's not just that they need massive obstacles, they also need OTHER obstacles. As in, challenges that cannot just be barrelled through on sheer strength. Like people not liking them, or being able to smash mountains but that doesn't help with acquiring food, stuff like that.
I once wrote a superhero AU where one of the characters was an OP shapeshifter. This was mitigated by some limits on his power (if he's wounded, he basically can't shift at all, if he falls asleep in shift he finds it very difficult to return to himself), a massive self-hatred complex brought about by his childhood and serious lack of social skills, and the fact that the plot is not actually about him using his superior powers to smash through everything in his path. It's about the local team of superheroes rescuing him and trying to convince him to stop being a supervillain.

Goals do not have to 100% align with abilities.