Young Writers Society

Are you worried that one of your characters is a Mary-Sue? Well, if that's the case, you can take the Mary-Sue Litmus Test. The higher you score, the more of a Mary-Sue your character is. I should remind you that the test is no guarantee, and only serves as a guideline, an aid for character development, if you will.

Have fun testing your characters! Perhaps, when you're done, you could share your score?

I posted a link to one of these in the "Character Development" usergroup recently. I find them handy and amusing.

If you're lazy (or suck at math, like me), there's a check-box version here that calculates your score for you. Just click the box if the answer is yes, and it'll do the rest.

Muaha! I have to do the checkbox one or I'm always tempted to cheat on these things >.> But my newest character only got 11, which makes me happy ^^

Lol, one of mine got a 67! (Kivan, BotS)

EDIT: and another got a 2

Yay, Miea only got 15. ^_^

The (main) character I play in "the arepee" with my friend Baz came out with a score of 87. (Then again, when in doubt, I checked yes.)

I'd bet all of the characters in that would score pretty high, though. (Fanservice on both of our parts.)

My character Ayla got 10

Somehow one of my characters got a 0. O.o

Oh, I did this. I was amazing, my characters were 4 and 7. One got 3 more because her eyes were green.

...

And now you'll all hate me.

Rohsair got 14, and I can't believe it, but the Raven got 28!!

That's crazy, as I know that she's not a Sue, so I took it again and she got 20. With some things they give, there isn't an option for the one I want, so I'll um and ah over what to put.

Rhen got a 64.

ShadowTwit wrote:Rohsair got 14, and I can't believe it, but the Raven got 28!!

That's crazy, as I know that she's not a Sue, so I took it again and she got 20. With some things they give, there isn't an option for the one I want, so I'll um and ah over what to put.

Don't feel too badly about it. In the check-box version, they mention that Morpheus (from the Sandman comics) got 70, but they don't think he's a Stu. Some characters just score high, but what really, really matters is how you write them. Even the most obnoxious Mary Sue ever could be okay if the writing was good.

Seth only got 7, whereas Elayna got 52! If it hand't been for mental handicaps, then she would have been uber-sue. But they didn't inlcude some things that would have lowered her score by about 10. Still, i always knew she was a bit of a mary-sue, but the way I write for her doesn't show it obviously.

Er, rather amusing test.

Tov got a -5. I suppose that clears things ^_^

My newest character got a 12. Not bad...

-Kylan