Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43947254-20190927203038/@comment-38538389-20191004024040

ReverieDream27 wrote: Sophie is my favorite character and I’m here to defend her. Firstly Mary Sue is a fanfiction term and needs to stop being applied to real books. If Sophie was really a Mary Sue she would have defeated the Neverseen a long time ago without any help. Nor would she doubt her every word and action. She has severe anxiety and maybe even some depression. Not to mention very low self esteem. Sure she has a lot of powers but she can barely control them. Inflicting hurts everyone around her so she doesn’t want to use it when her friends are nearby. She can’t use polyglot as a weapon and enhancing only helps her friends not herself. So how is she supposed to attack? She tried reading the ogre king’s mind against his will and look how that turned out. She still does use that power when she feels she can do it safely. But it’s still not much help when being attacked by the Neverseen. She even tried to practice skills over abilities and learning to use weapons in Flashback but the Neverseen are too cunning and always one step ahead. They beat her every time. If Sophie were truly a Mary Sue she would have the wits, power and and strength to take them all out in the first book. That’s what Mary Sues do in fanfiction. She didn’t hand Tam over to the Neverseen. It was HIS choice. She didn’t mesmer him into it. She didn’t fight back because she had just gotten defeated again. She was upset that all her hard work still wasn’t paying off. That nothing she ever did was enough to save those she cared about. She was feeling completely helpless. The stress was clouding her judgment. She didn’t want to hurt Tam further by trying to contact him. When Keefe was in the Neverseen they didn’t have a telepath who could read his mind and know he was lying and that he was talking to Sophie daily and sharing secrets. But now they do so they’ll know if Sophie has reached out to Tam and they will make him and those he cares about pay dearly. So after all that horrible stuff happened she was exhausted and worried about Fitz who just got betrayed by his brother again. She loves him and wants to cheer him up so of course she decides to go do the matchmaking thing, knowing it’ll make him so happy. And she was a bit curious about it all herself, even if part of her was against it. She’s not selfish, she certainly has selfish moments but all the characters do at some point or other. Her heart is in the right place at the end of the day, she cares about her friends and family. Yes she was obsessing over Fitz in Flashback but I think she should be allowed some slack. She’s a teenage girl who found out her crush liked her back. IDK about the rest of you but when something similar happened to me, I was over the moon and all I could think was my crush liking me back. It’s a new exciting emotion that feels so good and you just want to keep feeling it and block out everything else. In the first book Alden even says she shouldn’t have to be dealing with the stuff she faces, that she should be able to be a normal teenage girl thinking about boys. So 7 books later she’s doing just that and I think she deserves it after staying strong for so long. To have a little normalcy brought into her life. I’m certain she and her friends will find a way to help Tam and get back at the Neverseen but she needed a break for a little while, which she didn’t even really get now that she’s found out she’s unmatchable. Don’t blame romance taking over the plot on the characters, it’s the author who did it. Which I might add she did specially for us fans since we love shipping so much. - Meet TVtropes definition: The prototypical Mary Sue is an original female character who obviously serves as an idealized version of the author mainly for the purpose of Wish Fulfillment. She's exotically beautiful, often having an unusual hair or eye color, and has a similarly cool and exotic name. She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws — either that or her "flaws" are obviously meant to be endearing.

She has an unusual and dramatic Back Story. The canon protagonists are all overwhelmed with admiration for her beauty, wit, courage and other virtues, and are quick to adopt her as one of their [http:// True Companions], even characters who are usually antisocial and untrusting; if any character doesn't love her, that character gets an extremely unsympathetic portrayal. Other than that, the characters are quickly reduced to awestruck cheerleaders, watching from the sidelines as Mary Sue outstrips them in their areas of expertise and solves problems that have stymied them.