[Tenchi Hou Take]

Originally Posted by Tempest35

Yay! A Mary Sue!

A story about a (virtually) perfect person! There aren't enough of those that actually go the mile.

Spoiler for Mindless rant because I stayed up all night - XP:

The question is - can a perfect person even exist in a non-perfect world without becoming 'imperfect' themselves? Will they lose their luster after all the mud and crap that will be thrown at them for even existing as such? Can they be blamed for trying to change their part of the world into something that they can exist in without having crap thrown at them? Do they have a 'right' to that, or were the basic human rights meant for the 'Joe and Jane Regulars' instead of 'Gary/Marty Stu' and 'Mary Sue'. Because we see something in them that we do not like, we throw things that we are familiar with onto them until they become bearable for us to look at without feeling inadequate - mud and crap, usually. So what is the stuff on us or in us that make us want to throw that at other people to make ourselves feel better (which is essentially what people do when they engage in that sort of thing)? Hnnn...

Of course most people hate to have to be compared to other people in that sense because it places that part of you on display for others to judge, to measure to a standard that someone else created.

HAHA! the Erza avatar says it all. Medaka isn't really perfect she's simply ridiculous in comparison to her contemporaries and that just makes her a rather boring character and even more boring to follow. Aijimu would be closer to a "perfect" character, but she isn't half as disliked by the western fanbase because she has more interesting character traits and doesn't actually directly interfer with the story.

Also this stories excution of a perfect character in a flawed world is rather subpar in making the reader care as seen in the majority of the fanbase.