Fangirling

[4thofeleven]

So, there’s a minor character in Mass Effect 2. And I mean minor, as in, she’s not actually in the game, isn’t named, but is described in passing in one line of dialogue.

Obviously, there’s a request for a story about her on the kinkmeme – specifically, one of her in a threesome with one of the more popular couples. I don’t normally write threesome stories, but I got inspired by the prompt and wrote the story, giving her a name and a bit of background in the process.

Then, yesterday, I notice there’s another prompt for a story about this character. Yeah, ME fandom has very specific tastes sometimes. I decided, what the hell, my first story was well-received, I’ll fill this one too, and I might as well use the same name and background I used in the first story rather than come up with a different version of her.

And then, today I realised what I’d done. I’d created what was effectively an OC, put her in a threesome with the most popular pairing in the setting, then wrote a sequel where she sleeps with the second-most popular male character as well.

Dear god, I’ve created the Sue-est Mary Sue that ever Sued.

Eh, what the hell, if you can’t let your id run wild on a kinkmeme, where can you?

Comments

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

*grins* For what it's worth, fandom's been having quite a lot of debate lately over the Mary Sue phenomenon, and the general conclusion seems to be that writing awesome female characters who have cool powers and go on adventures and hook up with the hottest guys/girls is in fact a good thing and something that should be done more often. Because 95% of the Mary Sue hate out there is rooted in internalized sexism one way or another.

So hey, you're a forerunner of the movement, congratulations!

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Mainly I'm just disturbed I managed to write the thing without noticing what I was doing - I mean, if I'm going to write Sues, I'd like to be consciously indulging myself, you know?