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Long story short: a Mary Sue crashes headlong into a Gary Stu's story. Sparks fly, and not the romantic kind, while the each keeps trying to usurp the story back from the other.
And now the long story not so short.
Ages ago, I had a character named Marie Suzette who was as shallow a Mary Sue parody as you can get. All of her Sue-ish traits were superficial and really humorless, all things considered. Lately, I've been reworking her into a PROPER parody.
Basically, I took a Mary Sue's typical 'flaws' and wrote the story around her so that her flaws actually got her in trouble for once!
Broods over her tragic backstory and has a 'feisty' temper? Nope, she's just a punk with a bad attitude who's stuck in the past. Clumsy, but in a cute way? Nah, she's ACTUALLY clumsy and it causes trouble at the most dramatic moments when she misses a target, or falls short of a jump during an action scene. And so forth.
I've also been writing the characters and setting she inhabits as satire for modern YA fiction, not just amateur fanfiction, with its stereotypical bland protagonists and unnecessary love triangles and one-dimensional villains. Yay affectionate parody! Emphasis on affectionate, because who hasn't written the occasional hackneyed plot with wish-fulfilling self-inserts?
And now the long story not so short.
Ages ago, I had a character named Marie Suzette who was as shallow a Mary Sue parody as you can get. All of her Sue-ish traits were superficial and really humorless, all things considered. Lately, I've been reworking her into a PROPER parody.
Basically, I took a Mary Sue's typical 'flaws' and wrote the story around her so that her flaws actually got her in trouble for once!
Broods over her tragic backstory and has a 'feisty' temper? Nope, she's just a punk with a bad attitude who's stuck in the past. Clumsy, but in a cute way? Nah, she's ACTUALLY clumsy and it causes trouble at the most dramatic moments when she misses a target, or falls short of a jump during an action scene. And so forth.
I've also been writing the characters and setting she inhabits as satire for modern YA fiction, not just amateur fanfiction, with its stereotypical bland protagonists and unnecessary love triangles and one-dimensional villains. Yay affectionate parody! Emphasis on affectionate, because who hasn't written the occasional hackneyed plot with wish-fulfilling self-inserts?
Nuzlocke: Update
Fuckit, I'm gonna use both the Nuzlite and Gift Run rule set. I'll be using the Gift Run rules only for the X and Yellow runs, however, since I specifically made the set for the former in the first place (though I will modify the rules for Yellow so that retiring is a necessity, since more than JUST six party members are available as gifts.)
... Though it's likely that no actual content will come out of me until after Christmas, what with my final two (holy shit next semester is my last semester) semesters at uni.
I'm actually passing a math class.
It literally just occurred to me today that 1. I'm probably a semester away from graduating university and I don't know what to do after school and 2. I'm passing a college/uni-level math class on my first try for the first time in my life.
Hell, I'm passing ANY math class on my first try for the first time SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What the fuck is happening.
Writing Progress
HI YES I ACTUALLY FUCKING MANAGED TO ACTUALLY SERIOUSLY WRITE
Okay, a little context. I'm still chipping away at my ancient Nutcracker adaptation that actually has conflict in the second act-thingy. I had four chapters before I realized that I already needed to revise if I wanted to make the story flow the way I wanted it to (I wanted each chapter to alternate between Claire's and Peter's (the Nutcracker Prince) POV.) Now I had about 13 pages (double-spaced) before I needed to revise, and I was finally figuring out how to not have my descriptions be fucking boring or out of nowhere.
... But NOW
I've only revised one chapter and it's alread
Thinking of starting a Nuzlocke?
Well, let me elaborate.
I'm thinking of starting a series of documented self-imposed challenges for a handful of Pokemon games. However, I can't quite decide what kind of self-imposed challenge to take. I'm stuck between a modified variant of the original rules, or a new rule set entirely.
Nuzlocke Lite Rules
Catching Pokemon: Only one Pokemon can be caught per route, but the player may hunt for a specific one. This is only if the player actually uses what they are hunting for. Otherwise, the player must catch the first Pokemon they can on the route, but they are not compelled to use it. Pokemon given as gifts, found as fossils or hatched
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