/lit/ - Literature

>>4550994
dead parents
>>4551142
scar
>>4551177
orphanage
>>4551186
rape

Do you feel that? As if millions of readers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

>>4160797
>Well other than haaving natural blue hair and pointy ears, the way I am different may scare you.
>Tragic past, deceased father
>As for me I'm the only one of my kind or mix of any kind so I stay in a place of my own.

Gatsby was a criminal who got rich and surrounded himself with the shallowest people in America by throwing big parties hoping that he could date a stupid bitch. Not exactly Mary Sue material, there.

He would be a Mary Sue if everyone actually liked him for who he was, something which only Nick did.

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Yes. Mary Sues will always be poorly written.

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Yes, self inserts are bad. Because your ego will get in the way and instead of writing a compelling story with flawed characters struggling to overcome obstacles you'll be worried about making your fictional self look awesome and be content.

The real problem is that no story a Mary Sue inhabits can ever be entertaining.

The drama will either be forced or non-existent.

Eragon is the best thing Paolini wrote.

It has the least amount of purple prose, the plot isn't all over the fucking place, Eragon isn't a mega-sue quite yet, there aren't any god awful sub plots that exist for the sole purpose of adding to the page count, there aren't any pretentious scenes where Eragon ponders the nature of war to himself, and it's the shortest book.

Oedipus Rex is a Mary Sue.