Our Mary Sue is called Baby, although that’s not her name really. Only Spike knows her real name and he usually calls her ‘Dove’ or ‘Rose.’ He’s such a romantic, bless his heart. Anyhoo, we don’t think of Ebony Silver’s Baby as a Mary Sue, but I guess she is one. It’s not a very nice name to call one’s heroine, but there you go! It’s usually used in a derogatory sense, but how can something that gives so much pleasure be all bad? I still don’t think of Baby as a Mary Sue.
However, she does exciting things and has adventures and all the males love her ergo she’s a Mary Sue. Wonder what one would call a male Mary Sue? I think I’ve seen that somewhere on the Net…Gary Hugh or something ridiculous.
There have always been Mary Sue’s as long as there have been writer’s but the name is fairly new. It came about in the seventies, the original Mary Sue being Paula Smith’s heroine of ‘A Trekkie’s Tale’ first published in the 1974 fanzine Menagerie #2.
I got this from the Mary Sue site, click the link below, they got it from Katherine Langley and apparently Paula Smith still writes fanfiction…how amazing is that. So, we can all relax and blame Ms Smith whilst continuing having fun and games……
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