Sigh…Just because there's an original female character doesn't mean they're automatically a Mary-Sue. Although I suppose Clara could qualify as one since she's related to another character and also dating a character. Still, she's important to the overall plot of my little fanon universe, and I beg you all to let me get more of my stories up featuring her before she can be labelled a Mary-Sue, and since calling someone's character a Mary-Sue is a very harsh insult, PLEASE make sure the character is annoying enough to deserve it! I spend lots of time and energy crafting my original characters, and yes, many of them are relatives of the canon characters. This is for the sake of giving them proper backgrounds, nine times out of ten.

And this is not just because of the one review saying she's a Mary-Sue. I'm not that whiny. I'm anticipating more of the sort. I really should've put an author's notes up like this explaining Clara's existence before I put up the story. Sigh…

There will be more Clara stories coming later. And you will also see the emergence of a character named Cleo who is dating a canon character, but she is also NOT a Mary-Sue. I've spent time working on her. And she's not there for author self-insertion (I use Lily for that ^_^).