Kathryn Andersen kat_lists@katspace.com wrote:

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:51:42PM -0500, jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:

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"Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:

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<grin> you're too kind, but then you haven't *seen* the half-finished burbles on my half-drive (or still in my head) that I mentioned. Though I still have a fondness for the blatant Mary-Sue fantasy (unwritten, of course

• doesn't everyone have at least one?) where the Original Female Character

(small, round, clutzy, absent-minded, makes Vila look brave) loses Orac's key, breaks her teleport bracelet, loses her teleport bracelet, loses all the teleport bracelets, breaks Orac, loses Avon, breaks *Zen*, loses the entire crew ... and never does recall the vital piece of information which both the good guys and the bad guys are trying to get from her :-)

I would say that she is not a Mary Sue, but a different sort of character perhaps?

Yes, it isn't a Mary Sue, that's a "self insertion" character.

The classic Mary Sue is too perfect to be true.

Kathryn Andersen

Do it right & it could be spoof (think 'Naked Gun')

Jacqui