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Lucki Middling
Apr. 13th, 2007 05:09 pmAbout a year back I was trying to figure out what to write for the newest chapter of Unoriginality OT. I knew exactly what I wanted to write it about - a middling sue.
I'd been reading some of the longer works of fiction in the Pokemon category, and found a lot of them horribly mary sueish, but well enough written that reviewers praised them as "original" and "totally not a sue!" They never did any one thing that was obviously over the line, or at least they managed to justify it after the fact, meaning direct concrit was hard to do. They also tended to have infuriating levels of luck.
And so I decided to write an entire story to demonstrate my point. Lucki, an apparently straight original trainer story, posted over on Serebii under a different name. It chronicles the life of Lucki Middling - a middling sue by virtue of luck - as she gets a starter (shiny), adopts a pokemon (eeveelution), wins battles, and so on.
And then, well...
Lucki stops being lucky, and things stop happening because she wants them to.
Edited to add: It's up on FFN! I managed to surmount their screwy upload and I now have a story with the start date of 4/13/07. Could life be better?
I'd been reading some of the longer works of fiction in the Pokemon category, and found a lot of them horribly mary sueish, but well enough written that reviewers praised them as "original" and "totally not a sue!" They never did any one thing that was obviously over the line, or at least they managed to justify it after the fact, meaning direct concrit was hard to do. They also tended to have infuriating levels of luck.
And so I decided to write an entire story to demonstrate my point. Lucki, an apparently straight original trainer story, posted over on Serebii under a different name. It chronicles the life of Lucki Middling - a middling sue by virtue of luck - as she gets a starter (shiny), adopts a pokemon (eeveelution), wins battles, and so on.
And then, well...
Lucki stops being lucky, and things stop happening because she wants them to.
Edited to add: It's up on FFN! I managed to surmount their screwy upload and I now have a story with the start date of 4/13/07. Could life be better?
