On the Gary-Stu-ness of Gary and Emeris

Just for fun, I took the ULTIMATE MARY SUE LITMUS TEST for Emeris as both Emeris and Gary.

Emeris scored an iffy 29 able to go a few points either way depending on how you defined some of his traits and future plot points.

Gary on the other hand... um... Gary scored 156. When 50+ is considered a lost cause...

... wow.

Just...

...

Wow.

Comments

[Midnight_Splendor]

I think that wow is an understatement but no one word yet exist to describe the shock at seeing that score.

[Redderject]

513124 Infinite agree.

[Andoriol]

Correction: Emeris is about a 26, but as Gary it was even higher than that, I totally missed a third of the questions. Eesh.

I'm tempted to put the Mary Sue score that Emeris/Gary has at the top and bottom of each chapter to show where he's at... heh.

[banjo2E]

513493

The scoring system tends to err on the side of too many points, though, and as always it's only a metric. Introducing a plot twist centered around your character adds like 20 points to your score.

[Andoriol]

514568
While this is very true, Emeris did have those boxes checked, while Gary did not. It's mostly just something amusing, but I don't think I've ever seen a score that high for that test

[banjo2E]

514773

I see what you're saying, though you might want to swap "Emeris" and "Gary" in that sentence.

[Andoriol]

516181
Actually, no. Gary had no major plot points/twists revolving around him, whereas Emeris (eventually) will, as such, Emeris has those boxes checked, whereas Gary does not.

... unless I should check those because the GSE made the *world* revolve around the guy while he was Gary, in which case... uh... 150 somethin is pretty low