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| | The Mary Sue Litmus Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | It's only when the character takes over the story, making the canon characters act out of character, or when the so-called original character is the same damned character from the last five fanfics we just read with a different wig and colored contacts, that you start pulling out a litmus test. |
 | | If your character really and truly is you, with all your awkwardness and shyness, and every good and bad trait you honestly know you possess, with your own neither entirely happy nor terribly tragic childhood, and with your own massive unlikelihood of meeting, much less befriending, the canon characters, then maybe. |
 | | When creating a new character, no matter of what species, at his or her most basic level, the character will be human, because the author will be human. |
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