[ SECRET POST #4857 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4857 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

+100000000 I truly cannot second this enough.

The term was coined to describe a certain type of OC in fanfiction. The fanfiction aspect is inherent to the definition of the trope.

Mary Sues were considered annoying because people came out to read fanfiction of a particular set of characters, because they were fans of the canonical text - and here was this random-ass OC who was not native to the story, upstaging the main characters in their own story. The issue was not merely that the character was too sparkly, or drew too much focus unduly, it was that it wasn't her story, and there she was, totally appropriating the entire thing.

When you apply the term to an original character in their own story, it changes the nature of the term pretty significantly.