Sheryl: It's true some hunters become sues themselves but not all. Alex has a flaw in that she can be quite sadistic, it's not enough for her to just shoot a sue when she can tie her up and torture her first. She's also bad in relationships, she can get guys but she can't keep them because they lose interest when they realise what she's really like. To give you a clue, Alex was originally a character I had for a story about a serial killer so that should give you a hint about her personality.

Toby has flaws in that he's impatient and thinks he knows what's best, and doesn't appreciate Alex protecting him because he thinks he doesn't need it. In the end he doesn't realise that he's still practically a kid.

And if that wasn't enough I ran Alex and Toby through the Mary sue litmus test and they both passed.

People don't like Mary Sues because they're unrealistic. These days people want to read about realistic characters, not perfect demi-gods. That's why Spider-Man has become more popular than Superman because he's more relatable to the readers. It's also why Breaking Dawn (latest book in the twilight series by Stephanie Myer) got such bad reviews because Bella lost all her flaws once she became a vampire and stopped being relatable to the readers. Relatability is what people want these days, not perfection. There are people who enjoy Mary sues (and if that's their thing it's not my place to judge, it's the sues themselves rather than the readers and writers that I don't like) but overall people don't like them for more reasons than just being overdone.

Apollo Night has been writing a story about some Mary Sue hunters and they aren't sues because she's smart and a good writer and gave them flaws. Not only are they flawed but it's the kind of flaws you never see in Mary sues, so I don't see her hunters becoming sues any time at all.

I think you have a very cynical way of looking at things when it comes to looks and love, but I can understand your view if you've had some bad experience with relationships.

I've seen some very unattractive people have good relationships, and if everyone went after the pretty people the whole human species would have died out a very long time ago, because only a tiny fraction of the human population is what you'd call "perfect" and even those people have flaws.

I saw an article in a magazine about a woman who had a severe deformity and she got married because her husband admired her courage. I'm not shallow, I don't care what a guy looks like because the way I see it we all get wrinkly anyway. Looks don't last but personality does and that's one of the reasons I believe personality to be more important, and I think it's unfair to lump all guys into the "shallow dickhead" pile because of a few arsehole. Looks are the reason people want to have sex with each other, personality is the reason we fall in love.

The best piece of advice I ever got was from a woman in her forties in my TAFE class. She said her husband told her "guys have sex with blondes but they marry brunettes." When it comes to serious relationships, people look for someone they can take seriously. People want marry a person, not a doll.

But this is just one person's opinion. Good luck to you.

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And because I'm not allowed to post chapters that are just made up of authors notes;

Alex and Toby sat down and started playing a game of chess.

Then they got sick of it and went for a walk around New York city and met spider-man. Alex was like "yo" and he was like "Hey, I was attacked by a Mary sue, I tied her up with my webbing." And they found the tied up sue who was like "mwmwmw" sounding like Kenny from South park because there was webbing on her mouth. And so Toby and Alex stabbed her to death and blew her up with a pumpkin bomb to make sure she wouldn't come back to life, and their dog peed on the ashes.

The End.