Hello all. Drachen is here with a slight rant of a horrible older story, "The Adventures of Mary Sues - Marvel Edition!" It is so bad I'm left wondering if I was using the unrealistic "purple prose" to show my love for the OC or how bad she is. Yes, it is that confusing. Please don't waste your time reading the original. It only has 2 chapters anyway.
However, you can now use your time on something else. This will be a new version of "The Adventures of Mary Sues - Marvel Edition!" [I hate that exclamation point.] Again, this will use some serious purple prose that will most likely come off as cringey, but it is for the sole purpose of exposing how "perfect" the characters used in this are. The OCs will often have several powers. Most will not make sense [one OC has both demon AND angel powers] and many will not have any limitations [another OC has all the possible mutations and powers in the Marvel world. I'm not kidding, and I wish I was.] OCs will also possess many skills like singing and insane athletic abilities. Some are even crossover characters who have abilities that are extra unrealistic to the Marvel universe. Many will be referenced in cringeworthy purple prose.
Not only that, but there will be some serious alteration of beloved characters in the Marvel Universe. In the biographies of some characters, main characters that are technically still alive die, heroes become villanous and anti-heroes and villains are very soft and kind-hearted to our bland and oh-so-"perfect" Mary Sues. Get ready for there to be references to characters singing as if their life is one big child-oriented musical, and for useless moments of sexual stuff, gore, and more that could technically count as R-rated but ultimately fail in being mature and instead come off as "edgy."
To sum this garbage, these OCs will be individual examples of what NOT to do when creating characters. This story is a sadly not all-that-exaggerated compilation of OCs that my 3 sisters and I about 3+ years ago. We were young when we created them, but the purple prose that capitalizes on how over-the-top we made our characters, describing mature stuff that we probably shouldn't have known about at a young age. That's the reason why this story varies from a somewhat mild T to M. This will be in order of the "least worst" Mary Sue to the most cringeworthy abomination. There will be around 10 - 15 Mary Sues in this story. Many of them won't see each other face-to-face, but many will be related biologically.
In accordance to the Marvel shows and universes, all of these characters will NOT be from the comics. In fact, they will be from the shows. X-Men: Evolution and Ultimate Spider-man are two that immediately come to mind.
As for the OCs, the chapters will mostly be dragged-out information about the OC with one chapter for each of the following traits: appearance, personality, biography and powers combined in another chapter, strengths and "weaknesses" in another, and finally a long purple prose-laden roleplay excerpt. Therefore, there will be 5 chapters about one character. This is definitely a lot, but it would probably be much more overwhelming reading one whole 5,000 - 10,000-word chapter with a character template AND RP sample of the Mary Sue.
I'll be focusing on posting at least 1 chapter biweekly. Some weeks may have as many as 1 - 3 chapters, but 1 per every 2 weeks is the minimum.
Good luck to getting through it all, and happy first day of Allergy Season,
Drachen
