Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27603392-20141020022447/@comment-24122714-20141025223219

Maki Kuronami wrote: DE-Note wrote: The thing is, you want your character to be in that range. Anything under 25 is rated as an anti-sue which can be a bit bland, as there are many cliches we cannot live without, and originality is a combination of everything. Personally, it comes down to how you utilize your OC. 50% of my OCs fall under Anti-Sue territory, but I compensate via personality and ability. You can have the most balanced OC in the fanon, but if you don't write them decently, then you're not really pulling his/her inner potential out, even if they score 25-75.

Let's take for example one of my more prominent OCs, Usha/Melira Goldstein. She got a 23 on the test. She's also one of my better written OC, and is either your worst nightmare during an RP, or an intellectual that will break your will and spirit through words.

I blame the fact that the Mary Sue Test is too student-centric, and still mostly undeveloped. To add, there's a bunch of questions that are only applicable if you operate outside the fanon, such as Humanoid Grimm (though this is technically canon, but still not under use in the fanon due to unconfirmation) and the existence of a Fifth Kingdom, just to cite some examples. Sorry, what I meant is that you want your character to have some commonly-used elements, I wasn't trying to go for the score. I understand that the scores were not a really good representation of what your character should actually be rated.