My Inner Life? Not even remotely. Keiran is a guy who has some sort of a love for overpowered characters who are assholes and has a perchance to steal from canon. Link's Queen is just a weird fangirl who is a huge drama llama.
They're both way overpowered, but for different reasons. Link's Queen is just full-on personal wish fulfillment. Keiran's was power wish fulfillment (like "Look at me! I wrote something better than Rowling! My character is so strong and sexy and smart!")
According to the story, Rose is underage but has the canon but very rare ability to change her body to look however she wants, so of course she gives herself giant knockers and the body of a twenty-year-old when she's eleven. And she trots around naked all of the time, but wears an amulet so she *looks* clothed. Any time she does dress up, she dresses like a call girl.
What, that's not normal behavior for an underage teenager? -_-
You know, she is a failure in many ways. She has all those impossibly amazing powers, and she still makes the same big mistakes as Harry. She has Occlumency, but still reads Voldemort's thoughts; she can teleport, but stays at Voldemort's resurrection; she could have killed Pettigrew earlier, but she let him escape; the list goes on and on. In trying to make a better Harry, the author made a Mary Sue that is worse than the original.
You know, I love Rose Potter. Only, it's that kind of love I have for absolute FAIL. Keiran felt canon lacked "common sense"? How so? Rose is not better than Harry; Harry had flaws, which characters need in order to not be dull and boring. In fact, Harry's a damn good protagonist simply because he's a lot more realistic than Rose the Homicidal Bitch.
And why, exactly, is Rose able to get away with blatant murder? "She's a good guy" isn't an excuse for that. Good guys need morals, otherwise there's not much difference between them and the villains. And that reasoning wouldn't work in the real world, either. Not that the Wizarding World is the real world, but I'm pretty sure they still have laws regarding that sort of thing.
I honestly don't know why I'm so interested in Mary Sues, especially blatant ones like Rose here. Maybe it's because it reassures me that, while I do have a lack of confidence in my own writing skills, at least I'm not dishing out blackholes like Rose Potter...
"I honestly don't know why I'm so interested in Mary Sues, especially blatant ones like Rose here. Maybe it's because it reassures me that, while I do have a lack of confidence in my own writing skills, at least I'm not dishing out blackholes like Rose Potter..."
I myself have a lot of bile fascination with them. I just can't stop trying to figure out how people think those characters are GOOD.
Sorry for the ranting. Bad writing brings out the worst in me. XD
But yes, that's something I don't understand. An overpowered, do-no-wrong protagonist is not a good character. If Rowling had written the series the way Keiran did, it would have been nowhere near as successful as it is now, period. That's one of my biggest issues with Girl Who Lived stories; the girl in question is never just a female Harry, it's always a character who is allegedly "better" than Harry ever was. If he had figured out everything as quickly as the Sues do, the overall story would have been a lot less captivating. Mystery elements are a big part of the plot, after all.
I've been reading the sporking of Holly Potter, and that one just really irritates me, even more than Rose does. Holly is actually like Bella Swan; she does nothing for the entirety of the story. It's her "friends" who drive the plot. And Holly is also an ungrateful little bitch, much like Bella. Why do people think these are good protagonists? They're not. They're annoying.
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Rewrite Sues in particular amuse me, because all their attempts to "improve" the character just make them less impressive. Despite all their powers, they won't accomplish anything that Harry didn't manage without said powers, and even that usually requires people just handing them information, read-ahead syndrome, or back-breaking logic. At best, some tertiary characters, like Sirius or Cedric, might survive.
And yeah, while Rose is a judgmental bitch, she's at least up front about it, and is trying to help. Holly just whines about how mean everyone is and sits on vital information because revealing it might possibly inconvenience her in some vague way.
Real Us!Harry is even worse than Holly, though. ::shudders::
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What, that's not normal behavior for an underage teenager? -_-
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And why, exactly, is Rose able to get away with blatant murder? "She's a good guy" isn't an excuse for that. Good guys need morals, otherwise there's not much difference between them and the villains. And that reasoning wouldn't work in the real world, either. Not that the Wizarding World is the real world, but I'm pretty sure they still have laws regarding that sort of thing.
I honestly don't know why I'm so interested in Mary Sues, especially blatant ones like Rose here. Maybe it's because it reassures me that, while I do have a lack of confidence in my own writing skills, at least I'm not dishing out blackholes like Rose Potter...
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I myself have a lot of bile fascination with them. I just can't stop trying to figure out how people think those characters are GOOD.
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But yes, that's something I don't understand. An overpowered, do-no-wrong protagonist is not a good character. If Rowling had written the series the way Keiran did, it would have been nowhere near as successful as it is now, period. That's one of my biggest issues with Girl Who Lived stories; the girl in question is never just a female Harry, it's always a character who is allegedly "better" than Harry ever was. If he had figured out everything as quickly as the Sues do, the overall story would have been a lot less captivating. Mystery elements are a big part of the plot, after all.
I've been reading the sporking of Holly Potter, and that one just really irritates me, even more than Rose does. Holly is actually like Bella Swan; she does nothing for the entirety of the story. It's her "friends" who drive the plot. And Holly is also an ungrateful little bitch, much like Bella. Why do people think these are good protagonists? They're not. They're annoying. ( ... )
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And yeah, while Rose is a judgmental bitch, she's at least up front about it, and is trying to help. Holly just whines about how mean everyone is and sits on vital information because revealing it might possibly inconvenience her in some vague way.
Real Us!Harry is even worse than Holly, though. ::shudders::
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