The Book of Sue
And Catch 23 spaketh thus unto the readers "Lo! For I hath created another parody for thee, that thou might partake of it and becometh wise in the ways of the Mary Sue." And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Verily, forsooth.
Mary Sues. The bane of fanfiction everywhere. For the readers, merely a minor annoyance. You don't like a story? Hit the back button and all you've lost is the five minutes you spent reading it. But for the characters themselves, how terrible must it be? To have reality warped around them, their very personalities eroded until they are nothing more than witless puppets playing cheerleader to an unstoppable paragon of virtue. Join me as I explore the more sinister side to the OC phenomenon. Or don't. Whatever floats your boat.
I don't own anyone except Melissa and I don't really want her.
To make things interesting, I've tried to tell this story through the eyes of two of the most despised and neglected characters in this fandom. They deserve more love.
Chapter 1
And behold, and evil shall come, yet they shall not know her for what she is
It had started on a perfectly normal Friday morning. It had been strange in only one respect; though the forecast had been for clouds and light showers, the day had been beautiful and sunny. Still, the weathermen got it wrong all the time.
Anyway, a nice sunny day, the weekend only a matter of hours away, and nothing more worrying on anyone's mind than whether the teacher would spring a pop quiz.
A pop quiz had not been sprung. An announcement had been made, but an exchange student arriving was not particularly upsetting. Admittedly, the last exchange student had trapped their souls in a tabletop role-play game, but whatever. They'd had other exchange students who weren't evil and crazy with magical powers.
And then Melissa Crystal Anderson walked into their lives.
She was beautiful. There was no denying that. But even now, when trying to describe her Anzu found that she couldn't. She didn't remember her hair colour, her eye colour, what she'd been wearing (she didn't think it had been a school uniform…), all she had left was the general impression of loveliness.
She had introduced herself, and given them some of her life history, but Anzu couldn't remember any of that either.
Melissa had sat down at a desk in the middle of the room, between Yugi and Kaiba, which was odd, because Yugi sat at the front next to her, and Kaiba sat at the back, by the window.
Yugi, his usual friendly self, had smiled and welcomed her. Kaiba hadn't even looked up from his book. Jounuchi, who was sitting in front of them (though she was certain that he usually sat on the other side of the room), turned round to say hi, and, knowing him, stare at her chest.
And then it got really spooky.
Anzu turned back to the front, waiting for the lesson to start, but the teacher wasn't there anymore. It was as if he'd vanished into thin air. She turned around again and was shocked by how empty the room was. The only people there were those that she knew personally: Yugi, Jounuchi, Bakura, Ryuuji, Honda and Kaiba.
Kaiba finally managed to tear himself away from his book and stared around at the empty desks, frowning and looking vaguely puzzled. He saw her looking at him, shrugged and returned to his book.
No one else seemed any the wiser. They were all chatting with Melissa, completely oblivious to the disappearance of their classmates.
Anzu got up and walked over to where they were sitting. Yugi had switched minds with his other self, something he never did in school, and in front of a complete stranger…She was starting to get very scared.
"Hey…you guys? Did anyone notice…?"
Melissa looked up and smiled. All worry and confusion vanished from Anzu's mind. She completely forgot what she had been about to say. It was probably stupid anyway. When did she, Tea, ever have anything to say but "we believe in you, Yugi"?
That's not my name…she thought vaguely, but it wasn't important. And neither was she. She was happy to bask in the brilliance that was Melissa, greatest duellist of this age.