I want to thank everyone, absolutely everyone who reviews this. You're all so wonderful, and your well wishes really made me feel better. I can't reply to every single one of you anymore (as I'm sure you've noticed) because I'm getting so many now! I'm trying to reply to anyone who has a question, or something phenomenally interesting. Unfortunately, due to my dad's business trip, school, and a snowstorm, I had to come home a day earlier than planned.
Mundane
Misty pouted. "I'm not special."
Ash glared. "We just got the Sue antidote. Pretending might bring it back."
"No, stupid," she snorted. "I'm too angry to be a Sue without assistance. See, I'm strong willed. Therefore, I can do Sue without going Sue. Besides, you all like me too much to become that Sue anyway. At least, Gary did last night."
Ash's eyes got wide. "You are not allowed to make out with my rival. That's fraternizing with the enemy!"
Misty stood up, sticking her tongue out, and resumed her character. Her framed drooped in complaint, and she looked around the room of friends. "I'm not different. I'm so mundane. I've got hair like fire and eyes like the ocean and skin like ivory and lips red as roses and I'm so ugly with my beautiful boobs and tiny waist and gorgeous hips! I've long legs and they're athletic and beautiful and I'm so hideous! Oh, woe!"
He chucked a pokeball at her, but she caught it. Another one was flung at her head, but landed, once more, into her waiting hand. She juggled the two gently, and continued to loudly whine, "And I'm so talentless! I can sing and dance, but everyone can do that. I'm so boring. I'm so mundane. So not a Sue!" Another ball was tossed, and she was juggling three. "What oh what will become of me! I know I won't get any special jobs."
A few of the others, eager for their turn, unclipped a pokeball and tossed it to her, until she was juggling five in a large circle above her. "Oh, I just know I won't be able to save the world or win all my badges with ease or ever beat my sisters or anything. And they're so mean to me. It's not like we could possibly be the type of siblings who fight. If they scold me for mocking them or persuade me into doing something to help the gym, that's totally mean. It's not like I'm a ten year old girl who probably needs a push in responsibility's direction." She snorted loudly. "It's not like I've ever run away or anything!"
More balls were tossed, and when an eighth one was added she shouted, shielding herself as the pokeballs came raining down and several over the creatures bounced out, laughing along with everyone else. The pokeballs were collected, dinner was served, and the Ketchum household resumed it's rather mundane path.
Moral of the Story: -headdesk- Do I even have to say? It's so annoying when people turn characters into NegaSues, which is a term I have just dubbed for use on the Sues that have everything wrong going in their life, everyone hates them but they're actually filled with super special wonder. So obnoxious. There's nothing wrong with giving them believable talents.
May can sing (good job, dub, actually gave someone who was supposed to have a good voice a good voice (For those who don't know, Brock was supposed to be terrible, and Misty and Ash were quite good, but they pretty much switched that in the show)) and, give her something else. Something's she's practice. Pokémon really freaked her out as a kid, apparently, so she generally hid in her room and developed a talent for hiding, which I find to be a really great talent because, contrary to popular belief, it's not very easy to hide. Misty sucks at it. Dawn's good at…shopping? I don't know enough about her yet. We don't get a lot of insight.
Another idea is give them a talent based on personality. Misty has always been very strict in the show, with both herself and others, and very expressive. So I gave her the insanely structured poetry of Dickenson. Ash could be good at…war games. Strategy games. –flashback to Risk-
Randomly having so and so be good at some impossibly obscure talent that nobody knows without any explanation (or a terrible one) doesn't work.
