Mary-Sue: A life

by Jas

Published April 17, 2010

In Short Stories

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Hi! My name is Mary-Sue Smith. I am a senior in my high school in a small town above Albany, New York. I have long brown hair with natural blond and red highlights, large eyes that change color depending what I'm wearing and not a flaw on my face. I am naturally thin and tall and never wear make-up but I still end up looking like Giselle, no matter what I had just been through. Despite my obvious perfection, I still think I'm rather plain looking. I am a straight A student, never had detention in my life and all my teachers love me. I'm the most popular girl in school and everyone is my friend and loves me, even the stoners and people who don't really care about life in general! I volunteer at a nursing home, tutor delinquent children and work with disabled children and sick animals. I am an only child and my mom is the top doctor at the local hospital and my dad is the town sheriff. I get asked out by pretty much every boy in town every day but I don't date any of them because they just aren't "right" for me. :/

Whenever I go to NYC with my best friends (basically half the school), I always get stopped by random people asking me to marry them. Once, Jay-Z himself stopped me and asked me if I could model for him in his next music video. My parents were completely fine with me going off to LA to be in a music video and I made millions of dollars off my modeling career.

Once I came back to my small little nowhere town, I went back into the routine of things. Wake up, shower, throw on anything, grab my book bag and take my shiny Mercedes to school, finish school, hang out with friends, volunteer/tutor/help sick animals, go home, sleep.

I am also a black belt, have an amazing voice and dance like a super star. I am not afraid of anything, can skate board, surf, roller blade and ice skate like a professional. I can play any sport perfectly and never mess up a nail. I love my life. Of course, this entire story would be pointless without a conflict.

Here's a secret, I have wings plus I'm part vampire, part werewolf, part angel, part princess of an underground world, part mermaid, part fire faerie, part spy, part member of a secret assassin organization, part chef and part witch. Shhh. You can't tell. There is this one boy in school whose new. He *GASP* has the same secret as me.

I could tell you the whole story but I have to go help the Alpha team make sure the King of Hell doesn't take over Earth so here's short version.

The boy, whose name is Gary-Stu, finds out and immediately resents me and avoids me. Over time, after we defeated the robots that the French government sent who almost ruined America and the daemon faerie from planet Xertod was defeated, we came to love each other and lived happily ever after, never worrying about jobs or money or danger. From these epic battles, we don't have even one scar on our magically perfect bodies. We have two beautiful human/vampire/werewolf/royal/mermaid/fire faerie/spy/secret assassin/chef/witch children.

THE END

*Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. I so annoyed with Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus in stories -_- :)

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Jashael
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Jashael wrote a review Review · Mar 30, 2011

This has been featured for a while I think a couple of months ago. Never really got the chance to take a look at what it was about. But here I am... Dear Jas, Jash here for a quick review.

There was one sentence I didn't quite understand.

There is this one boy in school whose new.


But anyway, this story was full of nonsense that it was actually super fun to read. :lol: It's a good thing that this is very short and straight to the point with compound and simple sentences. That's really all I can say. xD

Keep writing!

~ Jash ♥

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AsxLoversxGo
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AsxLoversxGo commented Comment · Feb 28, 2011

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-takesabreath-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Loved that.

Mary-Sues/Gary-Stus annoy me, but I LOVE creating them on purpose.

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emoinpink commented Comment · Feb 27, 2011

Haha. I thought this was a really crappy story until I realised it was satire. I'd never heard of those terms before, (luckily TvTropes never disappoints) but still found this hilarious.

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Jas
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Jas commented Comment · Feb 26, 2011

Woah. I got more likes for this than any other piece I've ever done. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad, considering I wrote this as a joke...:D

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spike71294
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spike71294 wrote a review Review · Feb 25, 2011

You, my girl, have captured the whole fantasy genre in this piece.
I love the piece, but I hate the fact that fantasy has been restricted to just a few imaginary creatures.
I am gonna change all that.
According to me, this piece makes a pretty strong statement. Although most probably it's unintentional.

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Skorpionne commented Comment · Feb 25, 2011

Love. This piece is amazing, in a completely over-the-top way. Made me smile. Don't get me wrong, if I was reading that as a book, I'd shove it into a bin, but you've made it work really well. 24 Likes. Congrats, I've just made it 25.

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Amfliflier
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Amfliflier wrote a review Review · Feb 24, 2011

Haha this was great! I didn't know what a Gary-Stu was, but I knew what Mary Sue was! That was so true though, which was the bad part, but the worst part was that I felt guilty of doing that! :( This story really opened up my eyes, and I'm glad it was featured because some people might read it and change the way they write. Awesome job! :)

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92nida commented Comment · Feb 24, 2011

Whoa! You tore it down.. This is like a blast.. really! This is one of the best pieces i've ever read! You have an awesomatic future.. You have completely mocked the hell outta them! Way to go..

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SmylinG wrote a review Review · Feb 24, 2011

Oh my goodness.. This was by far one of the best things I've read on this site ever. Ingenious!! But need I say more? It seems you've been discovered by all on this site. It seems any good review I give will probably seem as if it's already been said. But I will say this: your story made me think, laugh, and enjoy every single word right down until the end. So thank you for this piece of literary eye-candy. I absolutely LOVED it! Keep on writing!!!!! --Really!! :)

IgnisandGlacialis wrote a review Review · Feb 24, 2011

Haha, Jasmine! The first word that came to my mind when I was reading this was - LOL. Seriously, it's pure genius. Certainly deserves to be featured. ;) Only, now I'm kind of afraid of one day thinking up a Mary-Sue. :?
Anyway, great work, really funny. Keep writing, and don't you ever stop!
- Ignis :pirate3:

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Flux commented Comment · Feb 23, 2011

Man! I wish I were friends with Mary-sue! And Gary-stu -- gosh, he's the darn-tootinest hottest man I've ever seen!

But really, this is great! It's got Mary-sue's down to a tee! Totally agree with everything in here!

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Jas
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Jas commented Comment · Feb 22, 2011

Wow, guys! Thanks soooo much for the featured and stuff! :DDDDDDDDD

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aliepalie wrote a review Review · Feb 22, 2011

This story is good. I love it!
Personally I hate Mary-sues, but who doesn't.
This story gave me a good impression of a mary-sue and her daily life. (A)

I bet everyone who reads your story thinks twice about making a practically perfect charakter (AKA Mary Sue).
And I'm perfectly fine with that. *nods*
Well done!

ShadowKnight155 wrote a review Review · Feb 22, 2011

Very nice, but I do have to say: I guess I'm lucky I've barely read any books with MCs like this! At my school we're forced to read so much, and it's sadly making me utterly hate reading. And, the books we're made to read are the bland, in-descriptive plot based books. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing...

Anyways, nice work! Makes even me look at everything, nice work!

Oh, and: "There is this one boy in school whose new." Fix that! Is it saying he knew the secret, or that he is new to the school?

--ShadowKnight155

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Jennya
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Jennya wrote a review Review · Feb 22, 2011

Amazing, lovely satire dips of the computer screen. I love how you did this. It seems to perfectly serious and even has a ' a little girl wrote this' tone. Great work! Sounds like every teen novel shoved into one little piece. This most definalty deserves to be featured!

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Shortasaurus commented Comment · Feb 21, 2011

Oh my holy! This made me smile for the first time today. :) Super fantastic job! It's all completely true too!

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xDudettex wrote a review Review · Feb 21, 2011

Hey jasmine!

I loved this!

It's just so true - the amount of times I've wanted to gauge my eyes out because an author has made everything so cliche, is uncountable :P

There is this one boy in school whose new.


I know this totally isn't in need of being nit-piked, but I found one anyway :P

'whose' should be 'who is'

This made my day :)

xDudettex

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borntobeawriter commented Comment · Feb 21, 2011

Aw man, Jasmine this was hilarious!

You deserve to be featured.

Tanya

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RoseGryffindor commented Comment · Feb 20, 2011

ahahaha Perfect! I found this just made my day, right here. This was awesome, just sayin'.

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BondGirl007
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BondGirl007 wrote a review Review · Feb 3, 2011

Ohh my god. I love you so so so much. This was a fantastic example of what NOT to do with your characters. I see so many MCs like this unfortunately, and it's really frustrating. I just love this whole thing it's really fantastic and so overly cliche, but you red so many stories similar to this is what makes it really funny.

we came to love each other and lived happily ever after, never worrying about jobs or money or danger.
LOVE. Just so much love for this Jas. Awesome job!

Also just one little tip, don't post on your own works, it shows up as a review and more often than not people will skip over it because they think it has more reviews than it really does.

Just a tip ;)

~Hope

shineondiamondeyes commented Comment · Apr 20, 2010

EEWWWWW!!! *shudder* That was awful! I know that was the purpose of the exercise but still. I liked this a lot because of the way things were generalized and perfect in a such a way that it was comical (and barf-worthy). I applaud you.

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Jas
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Jas commented Comment · Apr 20, 2010

OMG! I'm featured! Yay!

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Bandgeek commented Comment · Apr 18, 2010

This is so funny its sad and so sad its funny. Perfect characters aren't meant to be.

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Jas
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Jas commented Comment · Apr 17, 2010

It's surprising how many stories have a flawless main character. It's soo annoying :(

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crescent wrote a review Review · Apr 17, 2010

:) Lol. I was wondering why the name Mary-Sue sounded so familiar at first. Yeah, that's pretty much how a lot of stories go. Flawless chracters achieving everything and ending up falling in love with the one chracter who hates them. That was funny after I recalled what a Mary-Sue and Gary-Stu was. Lol.

-Crescent

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Jas
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Jas commented Comment · Apr 17, 2010

Aww thanks :) Maybe I'll add another with her mother's life.

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Elinor
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Elinor wrote a review Review · Apr 17, 2010

Hi! :lol:

Oh my god, this was hilarious! I think you did a perfect job of satirizing Mary Sues and Gary Stus, because they're basically what you've described and very prevalent in stories.
My only minor qualm would be to expand on what mary-sues are like in regards to the story, because you just saved a few sentences for that.

Otherwise, it was amazing!

My Rating:
10/10

PM me if you have questions!

-Elinor xo



One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World