What is your most memorable Mary Sue/Gary Stu character?

[Fus ro dah]

I was talking to a friend and this topic came up, now I'm curious about everyone else! I've been roleplaying for 20 years and of course, I had more than my fair share of Mary Sues and Gary Stu's throughout the years.


My most memorable one was from Final Fantasy 7, her name was Gossamer (no last name) and she was a member of the Turks. She had long, soft red hair and I think green eyes? She of course, was perfectly built with large breasts and a small waist. She could hold her drinks like a champion and loved working for ShinRa.


So, she is put on a job to watch Sephiroth's actions and of course she falls for him and he for her in the end. She leaves ShinRa because by then it's obvious how evil they are. The two get married and have... I think 11 kids? Of course, Goss keeps her figure and Seph is a wonderful father. (HAH!) The two raise an army underground where they live to take on ShinRa and the world.


They go to find Hojo, because he's a little prat of course. Then it's revealed that Gossamer is one of a metric buttload of clones with the Jenova gene. (of course) Hojo presses a button and the clones start to leap out of his tower, all the imperfect ones. (Which Gossamer isn't, surprise!)


So, Goss jumps out of the window and is saved by her silver-haired lover who uses the Lifestream to pull her back in and helps her regain her senses with a kiss.


I don't remember anything else past that, but yeah, that's my most memorable Sue. What's yours?

 

[sadladsalad]

Hoh, this is interesting. My first mary-sue happens to be the first original character I have ever created in my days of drawing random stuff. I laugh when I think about it, because back then, I was trying to achieve a dark romance setting (that surprisingly would resemble Twilight alot. Ack.


Her name was Blackie. She had a twin brother name Whitmore.


She has a color scheme of black and purple. Her brother is red and white.


She would wear something like a short sleeve hooded dress, that had string wrapped around in Xs in the v-neck area. Because I couldn't draw any eyes at the time, her bangs were so long, that you think she'd be blind under them.


She is supposedly super strong, super energetic (like a dog. woof.), super pervy, physically attractive.


I forgot her flaws.


I know she had several bachelors to persue.


Prince Edgar: The prince of the land, who happens to be the next demon lord, but too afraid to take the throne. Sin of Hope. (Pandoras box reference) He would have this tiny tiara on his head, as well as eyepatch the shape of a pumpkin.


Unknown: A ghost who remembers her in his past life. He had sleeves so long that they draped to the ground.


Unknown: An emotionless witch who has a halloween bucket styled cauldron with a face on it to convey her emotions (as well as talk.)


Unknown: A brother elder vampire who has adopted her, when she got separated from her brother. I remember checkered shirt and had bangs that covered one eye.


Trance: And the mysterious human guy, whose like "I'm a human, but I could be a monster." Cool af.


And then her brother. Whitmore.


Oh my god.


What maker her a sue? I have no idea. I don't think I even gave her a plot to run on.


I think it might of been the fact that she could have had a reverse-harem with her.

 

[Blumenkranz]

The closest I got to a Mary Sue was my first roleplaying character in an MMO. She was a master alchemist (justified through game mechanics, though), vat-grown daughter of the most famous alchemist in the world, with a gorgeous body and a cute face, and also an evil split personality formed after a near-death experience in a zone surrounded by evil energies.


Still, despite the special snowflake everything, I didn't play her as much of a Mary Sue. Although her stats said otherwise and often had moments of lucidity, she was fairly silly. In addition, she had matrimonial issues (mostly caused by her fondness to sleeping in other people's beds) and was married to a man that didn't love her anymore, although he still enjoyed her horrible almost-biological-weapon poisoned (she actually thought poisons were suitable ingredients) foods.


That character was fairly fun, and even though I am still fond of her, looking back makes me see the edgy background was completely unfitting. She should have been a lighthearted dumb-blonde archetype character, nothing more.

 

[kibou]

Oh man. As someone who started rping around when they were 11, a lot of my early characters were Mary Sue-ish.


Since I played most of them years ago I just can't remember how I played them, but a few things still stick in my mind.


When I started rping it was almost all OC Naruto rps. I've had my Uchihas, OP children of the canon cast, and 9-tail jinchuriki.


One of the 2nd category is an OC I actually still use today, although her background is completely different and her personality's changed.


But before I gave her the make-over she was a clone of Orochimaru that was meant to, in the future, be his next body for his whole immortality thing. During the rp though, since it took place in the Leaf Village my excuse for her being there was spying on everyone, even though thinking about it realistically/strategically that would never happen. Why was she spying on them? For the same reason she was made in the first place, scouting out them genin's bodies . Which that makes no sense either. She had powers way too far above the level she was at, was capable of elemental and summoning jutsus that no just-made-genin should be able to do and etc. She was tough and 2edgy4me.


While she wasn't the absolute worst of my early-day OCs, the others are just incredibly embarrassing xD

 

[Thorn Darkblade]

I intentionally played a Gary Stu type once in a generic fantasy world RP, because every other character in the game was so edgy/with so many intentionally dysfunctional and imperfect characters, THEY became the new Gary/Mary archetype. Seriously, if you didn't have at least 5 dead relatives, a mental defect, and some sort of dark curse.


So, I make Albrecht Silverheart, Knight of the Golden Cross, heir-apparent to the throne of the kingdom, betrothed to the princess of another land. Money, power, charisma, training as a paladin, so, ridiculous holy powers and shining plate mail. Ironically, while I was playing a two-dimensional piece of cardboard, everyone else's too-gritty characters actually made him deeper by comparison, making him the only shining light in a world that was altogether too dark, by player choice. It was sort of surreal, and it was hard for me to take it seriously.

 

[sadladsalad]

A Gritty past like that also proves to be a symptom of Mary-Sueism. I use katfeete's test a lot to check on my characters, and judging by the way these other people's background sound... They kinda sound like they really are. I think I know why my first of was a Mary Sue. Probably because she was too like me, and she was everything I wanted to be. A hero. With a harem.

 

[Draconus297]

Alright, I've written more than my fair share of overpowered characters, mostly during my stints as DM to provide a plot reason to keep other absurdly powerful characters in line.


Most notably, however, have been a few literal reality warpers, most notably among them was a godly psionic with spec-ops training and a freaking fleet. He was named Agent Shadow.


I know, I know, I suck at names. I've been getting better.

 

[Valor Green]

I first discovered roleplaying when I met someone who RP'd a vampire on World of Warcraft, so mary-sue tendencies were inevitable. My most memorable character on there was Welis Dawnblade; a notably zealous Blood Knight who hunted Darkfallen and underwent a heel-face turn in which he destroyed the Blood Knight headquarters with an obscene amount of nitroglycerin. That was when I fell in love with the Fight Club movie, and things got more ridiculous. He developed a Tyler-esque alternate personality who sewed discord in the most stereotypically chaotic manner possible, until he was "defeated" by Welis shooting himself with a flintlock.

 

[FallenKINGDOMS]

I started roleplaying quite young as well...maybe 10 i think???


SO I HAD MANY MOMENTS LIKE THIS.


It was one Oc i had, that i'm still quite fond of and her backstory and character traits have been changed quite a bit as well.


Anywho she was a winter spirit who was just a genderbent version of her canon Jack Frost...which is enough to make any good roleplayer cringe.


She obviously had vast powers, quirky, pouty, very happy personality. But she seemed to always be an overachiever who fought through everything. Like this one time i was roleplaying with a villian and he sent her flying back into an avalanche. But she just stood right back up and threw a glacier at him...Which is just sooo stupid. I can't believe i ever roleplayed like that.

 

[HalfTime]

My first ever character, made back when I was 13-14, was an abomination. When I dredged up his character sheet a few years after the fact, I almost cried.


His name was Shaydus. He was a demonic bounty hunter. He had a spiked chain in place of his left arm. He had a super powerful eye that was in no way a Sharingan. He dresses in leather. He had whatever powers I could think of and cram onto a piece of paper. His backstory was literally "Think of something cool later." His personality was just Shadow the Hedgehog without the character development. He looked like the bastard child of a Sableye and Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. If I didn't know that he had erupted from my brain, I'd have assumed that he was made by a punk anime fan with a really bad fever and some really shifty medication.

 

[adrian_]

I had a character that could alter reality, Dat bad?

 

[Archie]

My first ever character, made back when I was 13-14, was an abomination. When I dredged up his character sheet a few years after the fact, I almost cried.
His name was Shaydus. He was a demonic bounty hunter. He had a spiked chain in place of his left arm. He had a super powerful eye that was in no way a Sharingan. He dresses in leather. He had whatever powers I could think of and cram onto a piece of paper. His backstory was literally "Think of something cool later." His personality was just Shadow the Hedgehog without the character development. He looked like the bastard child of a Sableye and Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. If I didn't know that he had erupted from my brain, I'd have assumed that he was made by a punk anime fan with a really bad fever and some really shifty medication.

Lol I can relate. I started playing young to and my first character ever started cool, then turned into a total abomination. He was an energy mage (cool idea to a kid) who didn't know his background in a fantasy world and was left abandoned, trying to go to the main mage citadel to become a mage, then someone went the other way and he was just like "Okay". He joins this quest to fight evil, then in two weeks, wins a civil war in an Orcish kingdom, forging a massive empire by attacking the enemy by surprise in the snow (in the desert). Afterwards, he dies and his friend in the RP resurrects him. His memories come back and he learns he's an alien.


I mean it was a good rp but...

 

[Flashko]

jesus mine was probably the most horrific that I could think of out of all my 9 years of rping.


So we start off in a sonic roleplay. oh joy.


So my character Al, my original OC is honestly really well put together now, but when it came to his first appearance in a major rp. Jesus christ it was so traumatizing for me. So pretty much, we had a brown fox clone of tails, set from the future traveled back in time. Apparently he was a clone of tails using his DNA, but oh no I had to get even more ridiculous. So not only did he have Tail's DNA, but he also had Sonic's so he could go 2fast4u. He had knuckles DNA which made him an ungodly Godmodded character. He was in a future where robotnik actually killed everyone. He had the ability to track chaos emeralds, he could influence nature to the 3rd degree. He's died so many times, that the whole cast of dragonball Z would give him funny looks, and had a super hyper mega transformation


Yeah, it was pretty bad.

 

[Jack Rhode]

I remember one of the very first character's I made was a guy called Ark Thompson for a Resident Evil RP. He was basically Wesker but he was a good guy so he'd come in when other characters were about to die and save the day. He also had a Magnum that could kill anything in one shot which was pretty hilarious. His personality was basically Dante from DMC3&4, so he'd crack all these puns and I eventually ran out of puns. Ark would fight against Wesker and it would always end in a tie, even if the fight was in favor of one of them. Overall it was a pretty crappy character resulting from the desire of making a cool hero character for my favorite game series. I think I killed him off to be honest.

 

[Doomshroud]

[QUOTE="Thorn Darkblade]
I intentionally played a Gary Stu type once in a generic fantasy world RP, because every other character in the game was so edgy/with so many intentionally dysfunctional and imperfect characters, THEY became the new Gary/Mary archetype. Seriously, if you didn't have at least 5 dead relatives, a mental defect, and some sort of dark curse.
So, I make Albrecht Silverheart, Knight of the Golden Cross, heir-apparent to the throne of the kingdom, betrothed to the princess of another land. Money, power, charisma, training as a paladin, so, ridiculous holy powers and shining plate mail. Ironically, while I was playing a two-dimensional piece of cardboard, everyone else's too-gritty characters actually made him deeper by comparison, making him the only shining light in a world that was altogether too dark, by player choice. It was sort of surreal, and it was hard for me to take it seriously.

[/QUOTE]
I did that as a matter of fact, intentionally, due to the general generic feel of the RP itself

 

[Purple Kitti]

Your description of the FF7 story made me laugh.

xD (Actually, so do the rest of the stories.)

You know, I've been in a lot of RPs and while I hear about these little monsters all the time, I've actually never been involved with one, and I've always enjoyed making characters with solid flaws and weaknesses. Guess I'm fortunate.

Although, when I was little played with Barbie dolls with my friends I could really piss them off with my Mary-Sue-ness. When you think about it, that's how the company builds her, anyway.

"Okay, now let's have Barbie and Ken break up."


"NO!! Nothing ever goes wrong in Barbie Land! Nothing! NOW STOP IIIITTTT!!"


"...This is stupid. I'm going home."

xD

Oh wait-- SARAH THE ELF! I was nine when I created her for my first table top role playing game. She was a perfect blonde/blue swordswoman with large muscles, and she could (in my mind) defeat EVERYBODY that she couldn't just intimidate first. Her intimidation technique was to oh-so-casually-and-gently toss her sword in the air, and it would spin fiercely, rapidly in every single direction, then land gently as a flower in her hand as she smiled and then pointed the sword tip at her enemy, who would then scream in terror, hurl all of his weapons at her feet, and run away with arms flailing.

"Sarah the Elf." TT^TT
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[Lady Luna Ravenswood]

Oh man my character Emily Kenobi (Obi-Wan was her uncle) from my star wars fan fics.


Her actual bio that I have for some reason:


Emily is from a family of spies that work for the rebellion. She started training to be a Jedi since she could remember. She spied on pirates on Tatooine since she was 5. When she was 10 her family was assassinated by the empire. She survived by running into the Dune Sea and saving thousands of tusken raiders from being killed by kyrat dragons the tuskens considered her a god and gave her a large tattoo on her upper right arm that will stop any other tuskens from hurting her. After running for 6 years she was finally captured by the empire not knowing of their intentions to use her to destroy the rebellion. Knowing that her ties with the empire could be used to destroy the empire she gives in. After 6 years of working for the empire and being a sith lord she found out that her brother Aiden is still alive and works for the empire under an assumed name. She also marries the prince of the empire and then starts leaking imperial information to the rebellion after doing that for a few years she falls in love with Anakin Solo and then kills the emperor and the prince then destroys a million stormtropers and officers combined. The weakened empire captures Emily an then exiles her on Tatooine none of them knowing that she protects the tuskens. The 3 years exiled on Tatoone she ends the conflict between the tuskens and the citizens of Tatooine. After reuniting with Anakin she destroys the valley of the sith and then marries Anakin on Naboo when she takes a break from ending conflicts. Emily can use the force to do anything like stop a person’s heartbeat, stop the rotation of a planet, split a planet in half, and also produce a sonic boom by using the force. She dies after she has brought total peace to the galaxy. Cause of death her ship crashed. She also has 3 children.


I just.....this is embarrassing for me.....

 

[The One Called X]

Hmmm... looking back, I invented my fair share of princesses and speshul snowflake Macguffin girls, but thankfully I never had the motivation to write anything down about any of them.


But they all looked exactly like me, except grown up. And they were all drop-dead gorgeous. Poor child-me was laboring under the misconception that my hair would remain straight and easy to manage and that adolescence would gift me with a luscious womanly figure instead of acne.


For the brief time that I roleplayed as a 13/14 year old, I actually did okay, I think. Most of the OCs I made for Warrior cats rps were decent enough. My favorite was Nightheart. She was an inexperienced young warrior who really really wanted an apprentice. She was bubbly and showed affection by teasing, but didn't always notice when other cats weren't in the mood for it. She was not particularly extraordinary.


Then there were these two siblings I'd use in any role-play with humans or mutants or whatnot. The boy was older and mature and calm, but had a temper on him. The girl was basically Nightheart but human. Honestly, my biggest sins were probably lack of originality and wooden writing. I could probably do these characters today without making them Sues.


...aaaand now I'm all nostalgic. Darn.


BUT ANYWAY


The point I was tryin' to make with this freaking thing was that the difference between a good character and a Sue is often just how they're written. I mean, picture this: blond-and-blue, thin, petite, pretty girl. She has perfect fashion sense and looks like a regular high schooler... but she also has super strength, psychic abilities, and spends her nights killing vampires and demons with so much ease it's practically a joke. She fends off horrific apocalypses on a regular basis. And at least two vampires and half the human boys she meets are in love with her.


I just described Buffy Summers. And if anyone tries to call her a Sue, I will fight them. Badly. But I'll try, darn it.

 

[Red Sinfonia]

Oh gosh. Okay, I have two, because they're both embarrassing. I started role-playing in chatrooms when I was 10 or 11, so I mean... that character was "HotHuntress" and I feel that just says it all.


The second, and the first one I remember from that time, was a Monster Freak Circus Master. Don't remember her name, but she had long, black hair, pale skin, top hat, and as much revealing clothing as I could pile on her. Of course, because she basically saved all the Circus Beasts, they alll loved her, and she was gorgeous, and oh gods, if I talk any more about her, I'm going to disappear into my chair.

 

[Honey Bee]

Oh man, I don't remember the details of my first Mary Sue but what I do remember is that she was some kind of kitsune maid and that some how she was in a love triangle between Hiei from Yuyu Hakusho and Miroku from Inuyasha. My only question is HOW.

 

[The One Called X]

[QUOTE="Honey Bee]some how she was in a love triangle between Hiei from Yuyu Hakusho and Miroku from Inuyasha. My only question is HOW.

[/QUOTE]
Well, I've never read/watched Yu Yu Hakusho, so I can't speak to that... But I imagine that it isn't terribly difficult to get into a love triangle with Miroku.


I mean, everyone involved would face the Wrath of Sango and the difficulty would vary depending on where he is in his character development, but still. Miroku.

 

[AlexSilverX]

My first ever Sue was my first original character on an online community. I believe I've very recently discussed the RP itself in DemonKitten's "First Ever Roleplay" thread.


Anyway, the character himself was *cringes* essentially a tie together of Lucifer from Biblical mythology and Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z.


He was a Sue not necessarily in personality, but in the sense that he was intended to be unbeatable.


Thankfully, that RP was loaded with Sue types, so he appeared relatively normal in comparison.


Still, with 9 different *cringes* transformation forms. So many techniques his makeshift bio required a freaking glossary and much, much more... he was definitely a Sue.


He essentially became the rival to the GM's character.


His background essentially described him as the former "god of destruction" whom suffers from Amnesia. Thus, whenever he got stronger (for plot purposes or just funsies) it wasn't due to training or hard work, but simply having had a flashback which reminded him of some more of his true power.


By the end of the RP, he was one of the highest paid teachers at the academy where characters learned to master their abilities, the husband of the *cringe* local "incarnation of beauty" and had been reborn twice following heroic sacrifices which were meant to be character development revealing that he was slowly going from his villain status to a more "anti-heroic" kind of demeanor.


It became a running gag that the academy was destroyed so often whenever he got into a fight as a result of the collateral damage that he almost never actually got paid, most of his wages going towards repair bills.


At one point, the GM and I had to agree never to let our characters fight since (being a pair of OP sues) they would probably destroy the school, it's environs, the city, the country, the continent, the planet and - in the later days of the RP - the galaxy. Really, all of it was cringe worthy, but it was lots of fun at the time and I learned a lot about what I know now as "basic RP etiquette" from those days when - towards the end - more knowledgeable RPers started jumping in and correcting our bad habits.

 

[ToryD]

Oh gawd.. my first Gary Stu would probably be the first character I ever wrote, Jomei. I had just started RPing, having been dragged to a DragonBall Z site by a good friend. I didn't have to think about it since I loved DBZ. Lol.


Anyway, so in a most terrible fashion, I penned this character who was the son of Broly (gahh), could attain the form of Legendary Super Saiyan 5 (he was working on a God form), killed everyone in sight for no reason (yay, evil!) and fathered a child with a sultry android with amnesia simply because he could. He then destroyed their home and left them to kill more people. Reflecting on this, since it was well over a decade ago, I'm only able to laugh. Why did the GM accept such a shitty character?! xD


Maybe it was to counter his Super Saiyan 10 Future Trunks, who knows.

 

[AlexSilverX]

Oh gawd.. my first Gary Stu would probably be the first character I ever wrote, Jomei. I had just started RPing, having been dragged to a DragonBall Z site by a good friend. I didn't have to think about it since I loved DBZ. Lol.
Anyway, so in a most terrible fashion, I penned this character who was the son of Broly (gahh), could attain the form of Legendary Super Saiyan 5 (he was working on a God form), killed everyone in sight for no reason (yay, evil!) and fathered a child with a sultry android with amnesia simply because he could. He then destroyed their home and left them to kill more people. Reflecting on this, since it was well over a decade ago, I'm only able to laugh. Why did the GM accept such a shitty character?! xD


Maybe it was to counter his Super Saiyan 10 Future Trunks, who knows.

That's usually the thing when it comes to situations like these. If the GM is OP, everyone gets to be OP haha.

 

[ToryD]

That's usually the thing when it comes to situations like these. If the GM is OP, everyone gets to be OP haha.

Funnily enough, only three people on the site had that kinda sway. The GM, the main villain and myself. The main villain was never around and the GM had a god-complex that I felt I needed to rebel against, as was the trend for an angsty youth. Unfortunately, they (mods/admins) just let it go unchecked on all fronts. Lol.