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Boring reading is sometimes a problem in fan fiction writing with or without an O.C. character addition. I get all the people speaking about this topic's point quite clearly. Yet I would also like to point out a fallibility to the Sue/Stu write off so prevalent within fan fiction readership prejudice. I probably won't make any friends by making this case based upon personal experience, and yet I have long been bothered by this topic of what is a Mary Sue specific character. I highly doubt all writers are producing Mary Sue characters despite the all to quickly spouted accusations to the essence that any female O.C. is a Mary Sue. To me, Reviews containing the word Mary Sue equals a huge chunk of double standard cop out that people do not even recognize within themselves. I see a huge amount of prejudiced thought in the fan fic reading community, and it is easier to fob off a character you don't like by calling it Mary Sue.Stu than to consider giving a review than points to specifics about an O.C. so a writer can become aware of concrete problems in development. If a reviewer yells Mary Sue at me, I figure them too immature to give me a concrete review that addresses a genuine and fixable storyline flaw. That, or a flaw in development does not actively exist, and they simply want to hate the Female specific O.C. because it is a girl in my opinion. Parody away to one's heart's content is my ultimate philosophy since that is the spine of all fan fiction that has ever been written. I think Profile development might be about the character evolution within a story? But can't be absolutely certain as to the prior poster's thoughts. Perhaps my experience as a 20 plus year career editor/Ghost Writer gives me a vastly different perspective about Mary Sue/Stu concepts from the hobby specific writers. I have read original novels that contain Sue/Stu characters also. Twilight series is nothing but a Mary Sue fantasy that caught Hollywood's eye and catapulted it into the fame sector. So there is even "Mary Sue" characterization that can be done to gain positive results on occasion. I see Mary Sue specific accusation, not just in my work, but in plenty of other fan fic writer review pages posted here and at FFnet also. It is almost universally the female characters that get scorned, not male characters which I find highly insightful also. People do not seem to recognize that this is a symptom of something deeper, It has become my theory that is only the female OC that gets open scorn, or my male characters would likewise get tons of Stu hate, which I do not see happening in mine or other writer's story reviews. All my Original Characters are meant to push the cannon characters into action. Some are even supposed to be hated. However, my specific experience is that Mary Sue accusers always add a please keep writing this story line to every complaint I get about my O.C. female character. To me, their please continue writing this fic means it is a bunch of crap that I wrote an actual Mary Sue. I have to laugh when I get accused of Mary Sue writing since I have a diverse cast of O.C. characters in all my fan fiction, mostly male O.C. characters. Nobody ever calls the male original characters I write to give back story to the Canon anime characters, or to anger the Cannon, any form of Stu tags. Only the Female o.c. ever receives that particular whine in any review I have ever received in the two years I have been training in a new genre of writing through using fan fiction as a re-training tool. I can't help but wonder why all the complaints center around the female Original Character with zero love Interests in any of the cannon Anime series characters. Considering I am writing Yaoi, or boy love, it makes even less sense to cry Mary Sue in reviews. Only "she" ever gets Mary Sue tag and accusations, which is complete nonsense because the lady is obviously crazy from the introduction on. Based on this two year analysis, I have decided it is a dysfunctional problem on all sides, and not genuine Mary Sue characters in some cases.

Considering that I am in the progress of uploading several one-shots and drabbles, a lot of which are in the General Category, I felt it best to make a single thread to reply to reviews for all of these, and to update when new one-shots/drabbles/etc. are up. Currently uploaded at AFF: Furious. Lee-centric. Lee is furious, Fred and George help him calm down. Drabble originally written in response to a competition/challenge at FFN. Complete, One-shot, No Sex. Harry's Poem. A little poem about Harry. Parody on several HP fanfic clichés. Abuse, AFFO, Angst, Complete, MCD, No Sex, One-shot, Parody. Shedding. Crack!fic. The Basilisk sheds her old skin. Suggestive language implying Basilisk/Hogwarts. AFFO, Complete, Contro, NoSex, One-shot ----------------------------------------------- Review Replies: Harry's Poem: DemonGoddess061: Thank you, dear. Glad to know you liked it. Emptypen: Thanks for the lovely compliment! =) lia200304: Happy to hear so, and thanks for the compliment. =) BronxWench: You're making me blush, dear. I'm very glad you weren't drinking that cup of coffee - wouldn't want you to get injured by my silliness. I enjoy giving those peeks, so I'm very happy to hear others like it as well. Thanks for your review and lovely words, my dear Wench. =) delia cerrano: But not sillier than me. I think a lot of us were saddened by Sirius' death, after all - and he's not real either. XD Thanks for the review and lovely words.

I'd have to agree to a large extent. Female OCs tend to bear the brunt of these sorts of accusations, and as someone who writes both het and slash, I can honestly say that a lot of the people that read and/or write slash or yaoi are inclined to hate any female character on sight. There is also a great deal of wish fulfillment that comes into play with the female OCs. For some, they are who the author would love to be, and that causes the author to exaggerate the OC's abilities. For others, I've seen it degenerate into a sort of virtual self-loathing, with the OC representing everything the author would change about themselves. Either way, the accusation of "sue-hood" is one that is used too widely, in my opinion, to bash any character that a reader doesn't like, even if only because that character is the "wrong" gender.

Sesshomaru from Inuyasha. Do I really need to say why. Sighing right now thinking about him

Snape from HP, just can't help myself. >_>: