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Post by aoibheni on Nov 6, 2017 15:15:51 GMT
For anyone not sure what that is... a Mary Sue (or, apparently, a Gary Stu...) is a character who's perfect and brilliant, smart, and great at both their job, and everyone else's too... with great hair, fabulous eyes, who everyone loves and who rarely, if ever has flaws. Basically, a Wesley Crusher type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_SueWe all lapse into that kind of thing occasionally, god knows I did it a lot starting out... So, I'm wondering, what is the most Mary Sue thing one of your own characters has ever done?
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Post by Andrew Rice on Nov 6, 2017 16:22:17 GMT
I think the whole first 6 months of playing Soule. He was a fighting machine; strong, smart, with no remorse. Coming up against any kind of warrior race, he'd match their aggression with his own, and giving zero fucks about his humanity or human morals, he'd mirror his opponent's. One particular moment, was on Kobliad when he split of from his tactical team, to try out as a master of disguise, to get close to these terrorists, so they could be neutalised before setting off tricobalt bombs. Successfully getting close enough, he essentially executed them; stabbed one through the lung, and shot the other in the head with a disruptor. In his eyes he did nothing wrong, just dealt with hostile forces as quickly and efficiently as possible. You remember what Danna thought?
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Post by CO_Capt_Savage on Nov 6, 2017 16:50:33 GMT
Honestly, I don't think I've ever played a "Perfect" character before. I got exposed to too many people who played the perfect model Starfleet Officer who was super proficient at everything they did. So I kind of made it my purpose to play character's that were in some way or in more ways flawed than they should be. Made for some fun Role play.
Sokoth Qultuq - USS Dark Angel (RFSG/TOL/RFSG) - The Character I played probably the longest, 7 years I think. He was great at a lot of things, but because I built the character around someone who was specifically a Helmsman who was great, at his job he eventually turned towards Engineering and was okay at that. He was great with his ship because he built it and knew what it could do. So I guess in a way he was probably as close to my Mary Sue type. But his anger, and his family values were probably his biggest flaw. He would drop anything for you if you were part of his family. So much so to the point of disobeying orders to do a thing.
Andrew Lyons - USS Endeavor (ECF) - I played this character for 3 or 4 years I cannot remember. He was a great helmsman, could fly anything becuase it was both his job, and a hobby, and he was a decent shot. But was not really great at everything else, Socially awkward. He wasn't played as a huge "go getter", he did his job. Did whatever he was asked without question. I honestly had no desire to be anything else but that post and help as needed. I had just come off a huge let down with TOL, and slowly a retirement of the Dark Angel and my long run character. He was fiercely loyal to his Captain and XO which in a way was a flaw because he would just blindly follow, got him in trouble and almost killed on more than one occasion.
One night in a shuttle of some kind....
"Hey Andrew, fix this." "Uhhh.... I'm not an engineer..." "You took Engineering basics at the Academy right?" "Yeah!" "So fix it!" "There's a big hole in the blinky thingie!" "The what?" "You know the thing that pulses..." "You mean the warp coil?" "Yup! The blinky thingie!" "Shit! Computer Emergency Beam out to planet surface, energize!"
I had people rolling that night. It was great. LOL
I would say those two were as close to a Mary Sue/Wesley crusher type as I could get. LOL
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Post by Nola on Nov 6, 2017 19:03:50 GMT
I think Henry took to soldiering a bit too easily. I almost kinda retconned his being physically fit in order to fit CTO slots because I liked blowing things up.
Sara... I think Sara finds her conviction too quickly at times.
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Post by aoibheni on Nov 6, 2017 19:07:12 GMT
You remember what Dannan thought? Ooooh, I remember that. I remember his rushing past her and attacking a terrorist who she was actually, successfully disarming with conversation at that moment. And I remember all the murders. Hah, I swear, Douglas would be in rags and chains if this was really Starfleet.
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Post by Andrew Rice on Nov 6, 2017 19:30:40 GMT
You and I remember the hostage situation differently. I remember the terrorist getting steadily more ready to shoot Danann and the planetary representative. Izzy gave him the word that the bomb the dude had strapped to him, had been disabled... and well... guns aren't as scary as bombs. So Soule took him out with a one-er... And he didnt murder those guys... he disabled with extreme prejudice. The level of disability was, however, death. Swings and roundabouts.
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