[ SECRET POST #2202 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2202 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry, early today!

Also: I'm not going to officially warn for tongue-in-cheek "triggers" just to provide anyone with a fandom-specific in-joke when there are none in the secret.

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 140 secrets from Secret Submission Post #315.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fromherbones]

Hahaha, basically what anon said. I really liked the books when I first read them (probably middle school or early high school,) but when I read them again a few years later it... just... nope. I had nostalgia to help me get through it, but yeah. Massive Sue. And this is coming from someone who tends to be completely oblivious to Sue-ishness.

(Also, anon forgot that Rhapsody's waist is soooo tiny that her man-friend can wrap both his hands around her and his fingers meet. (I seem to recall that at least, and I'm pretty sure it was in there, because I've been baffled by how the hell that's possible for years now.))

[truxillogical]

HA! Every now and again, I'll put my hands around my waist (I've got a pretty small one) and remember exactly how unorganed Rhapsody must be.

Let's not forget how down she is on herself. "Achmed says my greatest fault is trusting too much." And being too wonderful.

In all fairness, Ash was the most awful Gary Stu as well. They were both just terrible. Achmed was fun times, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Loved Achmed! He deserved to be in a better story, no?

[(Anonymous)]

Really? To me, Achmed came across as an ~edgy~ Gary Stu -- that is, Gary Stu abilities + asshole. It didn't so much work for me.

[truxillogical]

If I went back and read it now, I don't doubt that's exactly what I'd see him as. But I guess I have a little more tolerance for ugly-and-angry Gary Stu characters than noble-and-angsty ones. Personal preference.

[kamino_neko]

Look, just because a dude has freakishly long fingers doesn't make him a bad person. >_>

[fromherbones]

Clearly this long-fingered man cannot be trusted. What's he usin' them prodigious digits for, anyway? Something nefarious, I bet! Bein' all dexterous and shit. Very terrible indeed.

[something_greater]

For what it's worth, my waist is natively 25 inches (I'm 5'8" and weigh about 150 pounds) and when I was 18 and in the middle of a pretty well developed eating disorder I had at least three male friends who could do that.

All of them are over 6'2" and have very large hands, but. It's definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

[truxillogical]

It's not completely impossible, but it was sort of the icing on the cake of this character who's fault was that she was too kind, and who magicked her way through a cleansing fire to come out so beautiful anyone who saw her stopped and stared, overcome by her beauty, and for the better part of a whole book, she just assumed she was so ugly and that's why everyone was staring, even if they told her she was pretty.

Rhapsody...she's a wee bit grating.

[something_greater]

Augh, yeah. Those are the worst kind of wish fulfillment Sues.

I just always get sad when people start talking about how ludicrously unrealistic things like that (or the anime characters with heads as big as their waists) are, because I basically am that person.