Mary Sue test · 6:01pm Apr 24th, 2014
It seems that taking Mary Sue tests is a thing, so I also decided to jump the bandwagon and make some for the characters from A Kingdom Divided.
Note that I base the answers on almost 22 chapters instead of just 8 that are posted...
Cloudchaser – I chose her mostly because she gets important later, and my portrayal of her differs much from other people headcanons. After all, she's not Vinyl Scratch who has well-defined fanon personality...
Cloudchaser is only a little like you. She isn't really very cool: she blends into crowds, she hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes her run into things. She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's come in for her share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And she's gotten no slack from you.
In general, you care deeply about Cloudchaser, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Cloudchaser is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
I Love Her, I Let Her Go 9
You Mean Plaid Is Out? 5
I'm Destined For What? 3
Can't Complain 4
Momma HATES Her! 1
Total: 22
Firefly – same as Cloudchaser; she's usually depicted as Rainbow Dash-like badass, yet in AKD she's a pacifist prophet (though her first appearance in chapter 8 doesn't give much of her backstory).
Firefly is only a little like you. She is not at all cool; in fact, she thinks cool is a temperature reading, and when she says "Oh, I just put on whatever old thing's lying around," she means "on the floor, where I threw it last night - but I turned the underwear inside out first." She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's had more than her fair share of hard knocks, and probably spends more time than she ought moaning about it. And she's gotten no slack from you.
In general, you care deeply about Firefly, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Firefly is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
I Love Her, I Let Her Go 9
She's The Anti-Cool 2
I'm Destined For What? 5
Angst R Us 13
Momma HATES Her! 2
Total: 31
Silver Spoon (in fact, I suspected her of being a Jerk-Sue):
Silver Spoon is nothing like you. She isn't really very cool: she blends into crowds, she hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes her run into things. There's never been anything special about her that she could see; boy, is she in for a surprise. She's come in for her share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And you've been sparing with the free handouts: whatever she gains, she's worked for.
In general, you care deeply about Silver Spoon, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Silver Spoon is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
Do I Know This Guy? 2
You Mean Plaid Is Out? 7
Plain Jane 2
Can't Complain 4
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child 5
Total: 20
Scootaloo:
Scootaloo is only a little like you. She is not at all cool; in fact, she thinks cool is a temperature reading, and when she says "Oh, I just put on whatever old thing's lying around," she means "on the floor, where I threw it last night - but I turned the underwear inside out first." She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's had more than her fair share of hard knocks, and probably spends more time than she ought moaning about it. And she's gotten no slack from you.
In general, you care deeply about Scootaloo, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Scootaloo is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
I Love Her, I Let Her Go 6
She's The Anti-Cool 2
I'm Destined For What? 4
Angst R Us 11
Momma HATES Her! 3
Total: 26
Who'd say? Scootaloo is more angsty than Silver Spoon...
Vinyl Scratch:
Vinyl Scratch is only a little like you. She may be popular, or she may not, but no matter what she's impossible to ignore; she stands out... just the way you always wanted to. She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's come in for her share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And you've been sparing with the free handouts: whatever she gains, she's worked for.
In general, you care deeply about Vinyl Scratch, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Vinyl Scratch is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
I Love Her, I Let Her Go 4
Yo! 14
I'm Destined For What? 4
Can't Complain 4
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child 8
Total: 34
Odd one out. While most of the characters in AKD are normal, anti-cool guys, she's a sassy, flamboyant large ham (well, I usually write her as large ham, except when I'm not.)
Rainbow Dash:
Rainbow Dash is suspiciously similar to you as you'd like to be. She isn't really very cool: she blends into crowds, she hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes her run into things. There's never been anything special about her that she could see; boy, is she in for a surprise. She's come in for her share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And she's gotten no slack from you.
In general, you care deeply about Rainbow Dash, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Rainbow Dash is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.
Score Breakdown
She's Got My Nose 13
You Mean Plaid Is Out? 7
Plain Jane 2
Can't Complain 6
Momma HATES Her! 2
Total: 30
whoops... Though I expected Dash to be more angsty...
I can see some similarities between characters I write: as I said before most of them aren't very cool, even badasses such as Dash or Cloudchaser (in fact, I prefer Badass Normal). None of them have normal relations with their parents: they're either spoiled, like Vinyl and Silver Spoon or neglected/abused (Cloudchaser's parents died, and the rest are spoilers). None of them is destined for great things (mainly because such thing as destiny doesn't really exist in this fic).
So did you have any that failed the test?
WHY DOES IT GIVE THE VERY SAME CONCLUSIONS FOR EVERY CHARACTER!?
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IT'S A SCRIPTED RESPONSE.
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Not in this story, but there was such a character in my first one... At least till he got a bullet to the head in the very beginning of the sequel.
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Exactly what Queue says.
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Thank you.
I made the Mary Sue test for Tom the Giant Crab:
Tom the Crab is nothing like you. He isn't really very cool: he blends into crowds, he hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes him run into things. He may have sometimes thought that he was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. He's come in for his share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And he's gotten no slack from you.
In general, you care deeply about Tom the Crab, but you're smart enough to let him stand on his own, without burdening him with your personal fantasies or propping him up with idealization and over-dramatization. Tom the Crab is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of him.
"He blends into crowds" hahaha
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I guess he blends in the crowds well for a giant crab...
*imagines Rarity yelling "ONLY MINOR DAMAGE?" and running to fetch her katana*
Generally, this test is sometimes inaccurate. For example there's no question about character being killed off for real (there's only one about being killed and brought back to life).