Alliquam

Opinions on fan characters for popular franchises have been vacillating from person to person, sometimes clouded by false interpretations conveyed as fact in more recent years. Some people have been convinced that many, if not every fan character is a Mary Sue only by the fact that they're a character created by a fan. However, just because a character has neon blue hair and a highly saturated outfit that makes little to no sense does not mean that they are a Mary Sue. It simply means that the creator needs to take a second look at their character, reconsider how their character would fit in a fandom's world, and revise the character after attaining the proper information. After all, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Definitions do change in interpretation over time, and while that might not be a bad thing, people just might learn an incorrect definition of a word. By definition, a Mary Sue is an "idealized" and "perfect" fictional cha