Mary Sue testing: Sophie Foster 🤎

Hello, my fellow crazies 🤪💓

TodAy we’re gonna do something new: Mary Sue tests!

Basically, I have a list of criteria (I forgot where I got it from ;-;) and I’ll grade Sophie a 0/0.5/1 (there are 34 questions). We’ll judge her from there…

((Feel free to request characters in the comments!))

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Naturally attractive and hates it for an unexplained reason

Uuh. She’s definitely “naturally attractive,” but I can’t really remember if she hates her looks.

She definitely doesn’t care or realize she’s pretty.

So, 0.5

Great singing voice without lessons

…has Sophie ever even heard elven music??

(Personally, I have a headcanon that Sophie is a terrible singer)

Zero!

(Unrealistically) super powerful

Um, yes.

I. Do. Not. Care. If she’s a genetic experiment.

She has waaaay too much power—she’s a Telepath, a Polyglot, an Inflictor, a Teleporter, and an Enhancer!

Most elves have one ability!

Plus, all of those are canonically pretty rare

So, one.

Basic hero traits—selfless, strong, brave, talented, fierce, kind, admired, noble, smart, heroic, and wise

That’s literally all Sophie’s personality is—plus the ‘cute’ clumsiness literally every Mary Sue has… for some reason.

One again.

An odd name

Technically??

She has a ‘human’ name, so that’s odd, right??

Let’s say 0.5

Fishes for complements

Kinda, a little bit, sort of…

0.5?

Always the hero

It’s in Sophie’s literal (altered) DNA to be the hero.

She’s also the MC (main character) so she has those special rights 😌

A nice and even 1

Unique traits without contacts or hair dye

Technically????????????????

I don’t know—

Cause most elves have blue eyes, and she has brown eyes (wIth fleCks oF gOld) but good ol’ Soph grew up with humans where that was common?

Let’s go with 0.5 I guess

Other characters degraded for their sake

Uh if anything she’s actually the one getting degraded (which makes no sense, I know—)

Finally, another zero!

Always complemented without earning it

Yeah, kind of, honestly

Especially by Keefe but we don’t talk about that

I don’t know anymore. 0.5 I guess

Looks constantly commented on

Yep. Yep. Yep.

Well, I don’t know about “constantly,” but definitely quite a few times

Especially Keefe again—

One maybe??

Multiple characters falling for/hitting on them

Um, yes!!

Three out of the five main guys (and the three that were introduced first) live for her.

One literally immediately fell for her. *cough* Dex *cough*

One, duh

Unrealistic feats without logic

~yesh~

Like healing broken minds, “beating” the Neverseen—just not dying (Stina had that much right), and being able to do many advanced and rare Telepathy tricks.

One. Sophie, honey—

Creator’s pet

I’m pretty sure Sophie is.

I could be wrong, but whatever

0.5?

No flaws called out

*thinking really hard because I am not flipping through thousands of pages, even for science*

…I can’t even think of any solid flaws she has, period.

Another one.

Always loved or trusted immediately

Yeah, pretty much

At least, really quickly

A sprinkle of… 0.5

Love and trust from the most closed-off/distant characters

Yeah, Tam and Linh.

And does Marella count??

And Grady and Edaline, technically

And Dex and Keefe were both a bit distant.

One… again

Wish fulfillment for readers

Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.

Sophie’s got special power, she’s respected and a bit feared, she’s got a lot of pretty boys chasing after her, natural beauty, and amazing friends.

One 🤦‍♀️

Kind but deadly

Literally her entire personality summed up.

One 😎

Powers they controlled well without training

~~~~~yes~~~~~

Literally all of Soph’s abilities just appeared and she could use them incredibly well.

Yes—that includes her “broken” Inflicting and Enhancing. She could still use it, and after it was fixed she immediately figured it out.

o n e .

Gets relationship they want

(That being Sophie and Fitz)

Eehhhhhhhhh

It was pretty toxic, lasted for, like, a month, and then Sophie decided Fitz was just a friend.

Zero-point-five

Author’s self-insert

…probably, honestly.

I’m not sure though—

Sure, 0.5 I guess

Tragic backstory

Kind of?

~I’m too lazy to explain it, so 0.5~

Never shows weakness

*laughs*

Oh, no, Sophie cries and whines all the time.

She’s good in this department.

Zero… at long last

Thick plot armor

y e s .

The amount of times she should have died is through the roof.

Like, honey, I don’t care if you’re the main character! Die already!

One 🤪

Never/rarely injured

{{pfft}}

Nah, your girl over there has more holes than a block of Swiss.

Zero 🙏

Contradictory traits

I mean… kind of???????????????

~I’m literally done with this but I want it to be published~

Zero! Point!! Five!!!

Relationships with beloved characters

She’s friends with literally all of the characters introduced (that are her age)

And if we want to talk about beloved… k e e f e .

One 🥱

A rival to make them look good

No, not really.

Well, does Stina count?

I feel like that’s a “kinda”

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Seen as perfect/angelic in everyone’s eyes

y e a h p r e t t y m u c h

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Skilled in many things

*think* *thinker* *thinkest*

I mean, she’s overpowered, so sort of…

(There’s been a lot of this 🙃)

one half

A resurrection

*tempted to say yes because of how many times she should have died*

^but no, I must remain truthful^

+-0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0-+

Never fails

Oh, boy, has Sophie failed a lot.

The main one being that the bad guys are still perfectly fine (haha!)

00

Always the one to figure things out

…there’s really been like two mysteries.

And she’s only helped with one…

As for fights, she usually starts an internal monologue about how terrible things look then sometimes the deus ex machina shows up and everything’s all sunshine and rainbows again.

~~~seven fourteenths~~~

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Let’s tally ‘em up!

*starts counting on fingers*

…Sophie’s score is 20.5!

With fourteen 1’s and thirteen 0.5’s, she’s pretty OP. Maybe not quite a Mary Sue, but definitely getting there.

Alright, this was a painful post to write.

Good day.