Child Of Grace: Chapter 40 - Child Of Fate (Part 1)

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Hello everyone, and welcome to another exciting horrendous boring as hell GODDAMMED INFURIATING sporking of Child of Grace! We're starting Holly's fourth year and boy howdy, is it a doozy! The only saving grace is that the suethor hasn't updated since she finished this year, so this very well may be the last of it. Or not. Only time

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Me again

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I think this author is the textbook example of what not to do while writing an AU. AU doesn't mean everything is better or more special. Another Brother, an Avatar the Last Airbender fic, does this by changing one big event in the past and showing the consequences, both good and bad. While Zuko, who was a main antagonist in the first season, is now allied with the heroes not everything is better for it. This is shown by events where Zuko's isn't always right. Heck, he gets one of their allies inadvertently captured, gets a village burnt down, and increases the danger to the group because his Uncle is now taking the mission personally since he thinks Zuko was kidnapped and turned against his family. All of which is interesting and believable while Holly knows too much and does nothing! When you really get down to it, this isn't an AU but some fangirl thinking she can fix the books and show J.K. Rowling up.

This fic really needs a tvtropes page so maybe this author can finally get some negative reviews on her story. Have you seen all the positive reviews? It's sickening that people actually LIKE this character.

Re: Me again

[zelda_queen]

Right, it's no better than Rose Potter and how Halcyon thought that if Harry was a girl, of *course* he'd have had a Muggle teacher who would have taught him martial arts! Um, no.

Agreed on that. And yeah, I've seen them. They really are just...augh! Although I don't think the author is TOTALLY oblivious to the Mary Sue claims, if one of her A/Ns is any indicator. XD

Re: Me again

[madamchaos]

Although I don't think the author is TOTALLY oblivious to the Mary Sue claims, if one of her A/Ns is any indicator. XD

Yee, that makes it worse. I mean, there's something almost kind of cute about an author who's only just dipping their toes into the water, or just hasn't really learned that sort of thing Is Not Done-- at least there's the excuse of ignorance, and usually they'll figure out what they're doing isn't really the best of things, and they'll work on fixing things up. Even one of the more infamous Suethors that I'm aware of is making a concerted effort to fix his characters and give them flaws. He's not doing so well -- a decade of an army of sycophants crooning praise will make it hard to want to change -- but by god he's trying, at least, and I can respect him for that.

So when the Suethor knows what they're doing and just refuses to do better... geez. When I first recognized the term 'self-insert' and Mary Sue (age thirteen), I went out of my way to make sure that the characters would be well-adjusted and human. You don't just say "Yeah... yeah, I know. OH SHE'S ALSO TELEKINETIC." You say "Yeah... yeah, she kind of is overpowered, isn't she?" and then introduce kryptonite/an enemy immune to her powers/a character arc where she suffers consequences/a sharp rock to the temple.

Re: Me again

[zelda_queen]

Oh, her excuse for Holly is just HILARIOUS. I won't say it here, for fear of spoiling the surprise. Suffice to say she is forced to acknowledge how Mary Sue her character is, sidesteps it in the most deliberately oblivious way possible, and I nearly chocked laughing when I read it.