😄Adding flaws to your characters can make them more relatable and interesting.
😬Making everything go wrong for your characters can create empathy and sympathy from the audience.
😠Creating unlikable and self-centered characters can defy expectations and challenge traditional storytelling.
🤔Writing passive characters who do nothing can create a unique narrative perspective.
🧙♀️Giving characters insignificant or worthless powers can subvert the typical hero narrative.
What is a Mary Sue character?
—A Mary Sue character is an idealized and overly perfect character that can be seen as a self-insertion of the writer.
Why should flaws be added to characters?
—Adding flaws to characters can make them more relatable, grounded, and interesting for the audience.
Why make everything go wrong for characters?
—By making everything go wrong for characters, it can create empathy and sympathy from the audience and add tension and conflict to the story.
Why create unlikable and self-centered characters?
—Creating unlikable and self-centered characters can challenge traditional storytelling norms and create unique narratives that defy expectations.
Why write passive characters who do nothing?
—Writing passive characters who do nothing can provide a different narrative perspective and explore themes of powerlessness and existentialism.
00:08The video begins with a humorous remark about being too cool for someone named Mary Sue.
00:32The definition of a Mary Sue character is explained as an idealized and overly perfect character that can be seen as a self-insertion of the writer.
02:33The importance of adding flaws to characters is highlighted as it can make them more relatable, grounded, and interesting for the audience.
03:22The concept of making everything go wrong for characters is discussed, emphasizing how it can create empathy and sympathy from the audience.
05:02The idea of creating unlikable and self-centered characters is explored, suggesting that it can defy storytelling norms and create unique narratives.
10:39The video concludes with a satirical overview of the challenges of being a writer and the obsession with not being called out for writing a Mary Sue.
