Rules:
If you're doing this quiz because te want to proove your character is not a Gary-Stu/ Mary-Sue, then don't bother; they are.
If te don't like your results, don't blame me; it's your character, not mine.
Please be honest: There's no point doing this if you're not.
Each 'yes' is worth one point. Each 'no' is worth nothing. Tally the score to get the end result.
So, get you're pen and calculator out; time to see how bad your character really is!
PART 1: They have my nose.
*Name here* is my name - o my preferito nickname, my pet name, my Internet chat handle, my initials, my last name, my middle name, my name as an anagram, o any other clever thing I may have done to hide the fact that my character is named after me.
I didn't used to be known as *Name here*, but now that I write about him/her I ask my Friends to call me that, o I use *Name here* as a handle on Internet message boards o chatlines.
*Name here* has a nickname o pet name which is my name (favorite nickname, pet name, Internet chat handle, initials....)
He/She is of my gender.
He/She and I have the same hair color, skin color, o physical type (height, weight, and/or build).
All three.
He/She and I are in the same general age group (teenagers, twenty-somethings, et cetera).
He/She and I share a sexual identity: straight, dom, trans, et cetera.
We share a religion, political platform, ethical stance, o strongly-held set of beliefs.
più than one set of beliefs.
All his beliefs echo mine.
We dress alike.
*Name here* has either my job, my former job, o a job I've always wanted to have.
We share a hobby (or one of us has a job that closely resembles the other's hobby.)
I think everyone who reads this story will like and empathize with *Name here*.
When someone tells me they don't like him/her, it's hard for me not to take it as a personal attack.
Sometimes I pretend to myself that I am *Name here*.
I have fantasized about him/her mostrare up and besting someone who's just pissed me off, o I put people who piss me off into the story and let him/her beat up on them.
PART 2: Yo!
*Name here* is remarkably handsome/ beautiful.
He/She has an unusual eye, skin, o hair color, eyes which change color depending on his mood, o is remarkably tall/short.
più than one of the above.
All of the above.
He/She has a very striking scar, birthmark, tattoo, o other marking.
And yet this scar, birthmark, et cetera, doesn't detract from his/her appearance.
*Name here* carries an unusual weapon, wears a strange piece of jewelry, o otherwise displays a unique possession on his/her person.
*Name here* is notably witty, always ready with a sharp comeback o clever remark. Alternatively, he/she is fascinatingly stern and close-mouthed.
He/She gets to sleep with several different people in the course of the story, often on short notice (a la James Bond).
*Name here* chose his/her own name.
"*Name here*" is an object, adjective, o other word not commonly used as a name (Stonefist, Flower, Chaos, et cetera.)
Most people cannot pronounce *Name here*'s full name, unless they're very linguistically gifted o Welsh. Alternatively, "*Name here*" has apostrophes in it.
*Name here* is a teenager.
He/she looks younger than he actually is, older than he/she actually is, ageless, o in any way not his/her actual age.
He/she regularly wears (check all that apply):
Black.
Leathar.
Heavy weaponary.
Sunglasses.
A trenchcoat o other long coat.
He/she spends a surprising amount of time in bars o at parties.
He/she has a drug habit, an alcohol habit, smokes, o is in any way an addict.
And yet *Name here* never seems to suffer any consequences for it... at least, none that aren't cute o glamorous. Perhaps he/she lounges around looking pale and romantic for a few days, but he never pukes on his/her data o has to stop in the middle of a chase scene to hack up some lung.
*Name here* has an excellent musical voice.
He/she is a natty dresser, always in fashion, o not in fashion but so well as to make the fashionable pale in comparison.
He/she plays a musical instrument, and plays it well.
He's/she's one hell of a dancer.
PART 3: Cower in fear.
There's an unusual story centering around *Name here*'s birth o infancy.
He/she was adopted, raised da people other than his/her parents, o for some reason has no biological parents.
But he/she didn't know this.
*Name here* considers himself/herself the last of his/her clan, tribe, race, species, house, et cetera.
He/she is familiar mythological being such as a vampire, werewolf, o elf, o an easily identifiable variation of the same.
He/she is from a country o world different from the other characters in the story.
*Name here*'s country has technological, magical, o medical knowledge that the rest of the known world o universe doesn't.
His/her country is significantly più politically o socially advanced than the rest of the world - a democracy among monarchies, a society where war is unknown, a society with female sufferage o class equality, et cetera.
His/her country is technologically backwards compared to the rest of the world, but the people are più honest, brave, chaste, caring, fearless, o otherwise morally superior.
*Name here* is any sort of nobility o royalty.
And doesn't know it.
There are prophecies about *Name here*.
He/she is a hybrid of two o più species.
*Name here* has psychic abilities, exceptional strength, magical powers, can heal with a touch, o has any other skill, talent, o power that we would consider superhuman.
più than one special power.
Practically no one else in the story has similar powers.
He's/she's not subject to limitations that affect the rest of his/her kind - an immortal human, a vampire who isn't affected da sunlight, et cetera.
*Name here* appears to die but later turns out not to be dead after all.
più than once.
*Name here* looses a loved one, only to subsequently bring that loved one back to life.
più than one loved one.
The same loved one più than once.
*Name here* dies but is restored to life.
più than once.
PART 4: Oh, the trauma...
*Name here* was abandoned da his/her parents o guardians.
He/she is o has been a slave (or a slave in all but name.)
He/she was raised in extreme poverty.
He/she was physically abused as a child.
He/she was sexually abused as a child.
He/she has been raped.
He/she has been tortured.
*Name here* is a member of a despised race, social class, species, o similar group.
He/she is illegitimate (in a society that attaches a stigma to this).
*Name here* suffers terrible guilt for something he/she did in the past.
But it wasn't actually his/her fault.
Everyone sensible can see it wasn't his fault; other characters spend a lot of time trying to convince him/her of this.
*Name here* is persecuted da an authority figure (parent, superior officer, et cetera) out of spite, jealousy, revenge, o general meanness.
For turning down that authority figure's sexual advances.
For being right when the authority figure was wrong.
He/she has been accused (in a serious way, not simply da one person) of a crime he didn't commit.
He/she is the sole survivor of some sort of calamity o genocide.
*Name here* has a family member o a lover who was tragically murdered.
Both, o più than one of each.
To be loved da him/her is the baciare of doom.
He/she has been responsible for the death of a friend, lover, o family member.
più than one.
Thinks he's/she's responsible for the death, but isn't really.
PART 5: Amore me!
Everyone except the bad guys thinks *Name here* is hot.
Even the bad guys think he's/she's hot.
In the course of the story *Name here* gets to sleep with several different people (or it's made clear that he/she could have slept with several different people, but doesn't, because he's/she's Not That Kind Of Guy/Girl.)
Everybody likes *Name here*. They sympathize with his/her problems, feel sorry for him/her and/or admire him/her.
Including the bad guys.
Sometimes I switch viewpoints just so one of my characters can talk about how wonderful, brave, strong, and/or sexually attractive *Name here* is.
*Name here* frequently looses his/her temper and yells at other characters.
But most of the time they immediately forgive his/her outburst, admit that he's/she's right and they're wrong, o blame it all on his tragic past.
Including the bad guys.
*Name here* is chastised for a fault only to have those who chastised him/her later apologize when they realize that the supposed fault is a result of something terrible in his past.
più than once.
A character who is dismissive of some trauma in *Name here*'s past has that trauma subsequently happen to him/her.
più than once.
Pretty much every character that disses *Name here*.
A character who disagrees with *Name here* ends up getting in trouble, being dreadfully injured, o dying horribly in a way that proves that *Name here* was right all along.
più than once.
Pretty much all the time, except maybe once o twice, and I give an excuse for *Name here* being wrong those times.
*Name here* almost always wins physical fights o verbal battles.
Physical fights and verbal battles.
*Name here* is/was kicked out of school o training for bucking the system, understanding something better than his instructors, having a new o radical theory, et cetera.
But he's/she's proved right da later events.
He/she gets to go back and have his/her instructors and fellow students admit he/she was right.
*Name here* is able to pick up complex skills (swordfighting, combat piloting, military tactics) with astonishing rapidity that causes him/her to be hailed as "a natural".
*Name here* enters a battlefield o similarly dangerous situation from which he/she has been specifically forbidden da older and wiser heads.
And doesn't get pulverized.
And saves the day.
And doesn't face any consequences (court-marshal, expulsion, dunce cap) for his disobedience.
animali and children instinctively like *Name here*.
RESULTS:
PART 1: They have my nose. (Out of 18)
0-3: Awesome work. Don't be afraid to add maybe one o più in, because te want to be able to care about your character, but not so much te hand-feed them with a silver spoon.
4-8: Watch it. It's still somewhat okay, but do be careful...
8-14: Sue. It is redeemable, however. Tone it down a bit, okay?
15 plus: Sue. Kill it dead now.
PART 2: Yo! (Out of 27)
0-5: Keep in the higher parts of this section; your character needs to be SOMEWHAT cool.
6-10: Somewhere in the middle of this section is great, they're cool enough to be liked, but no so much as we shall all shake our heads in dismay.
11-15: Borderline Sue. Tone it down a little, and do not emphasise any other cool traits.
15-20: Get that factor down, this is a Sue.
21 plus: Damn. Kill it dead; this is awfully cool, so cool that it's lame.
PART 3: Cower in fear. (Out of 24)
0-5: Up a little, your character needs to generate some interest.
6-8: Perfect. I Amore it already, they're strong enough to defend themselves, but not to the 'I'm the Ultimate Lifeform' *coughshadowcoughcough* stage.
8-14: Be careful, you're nearly on the edge here, but so far okay, even if a little hesitant.
15-20: Derp. Tone it down, too powerful!
20 plus: Kill it dead, this Sue is impossible.
PART 4: Oh, the trauma... (Out of 23)
0-3: Ordinary life so far. When is the turn-for-the-worse coming?
4-8: They've had their fair share of hard hits.
9-14: They're had più than their fair share of hard hits, but still in the okay side of things. Don't make the rest of life a cakewalk for them, though...
15-18: Too much, they should be in therapy.
18 plus: Kill it dead, this one should be put out of their misery.
PART 5: Amore me! (Out of 28)
0-5: Excellent work! Make sure your character isn't too loved, te should reel them in a little.
6-8: Perfect work. They're right where they should be.
8-14: Not bad, not bad... Tune down a little of the Kawaii-Desu level maybe?
15-20: No... No-one actually likes this character that much. The readers will Amore them più if they're not so loved in the story.
20-25: Eep. Get rid of it... NOW!
25 plus: Their 'fans' will kill them in their sleep tonight.
If you're doing this quiz because te want to proove your character is not a Gary-Stu/ Mary-Sue, then don't bother; they are.
If te don't like your results, don't blame me; it's your character, not mine.
Please be honest: There's no point doing this if you're not.
Each 'yes' is worth one point. Each 'no' is worth nothing. Tally the score to get the end result.
So, get you're pen and calculator out; time to see how bad your character really is!
PART 1: They have my nose.
*Name here* is my name - o my preferito nickname, my pet name, my Internet chat handle, my initials, my last name, my middle name, my name as an anagram, o any other clever thing I may have done to hide the fact that my character is named after me.
I didn't used to be known as *Name here*, but now that I write about him/her I ask my Friends to call me that, o I use *Name here* as a handle on Internet message boards o chatlines.
*Name here* has a nickname o pet name which is my name (favorite nickname, pet name, Internet chat handle, initials....)
He/She is of my gender.
He/She and I have the same hair color, skin color, o physical type (height, weight, and/or build).
All three.
He/She and I are in the same general age group (teenagers, twenty-somethings, et cetera).
He/She and I share a sexual identity: straight, dom, trans, et cetera.
We share a religion, political platform, ethical stance, o strongly-held set of beliefs.
più than one set of beliefs.
All his beliefs echo mine.
We dress alike.
*Name here* has either my job, my former job, o a job I've always wanted to have.
We share a hobby (or one of us has a job that closely resembles the other's hobby.)
I think everyone who reads this story will like and empathize with *Name here*.
When someone tells me they don't like him/her, it's hard for me not to take it as a personal attack.
Sometimes I pretend to myself that I am *Name here*.
I have fantasized about him/her mostrare up and besting someone who's just pissed me off, o I put people who piss me off into the story and let him/her beat up on them.
PART 2: Yo!
*Name here* is remarkably handsome/ beautiful.
He/She has an unusual eye, skin, o hair color, eyes which change color depending on his mood, o is remarkably tall/short.
più than one of the above.
All of the above.
He/She has a very striking scar, birthmark, tattoo, o other marking.
And yet this scar, birthmark, et cetera, doesn't detract from his/her appearance.
*Name here* carries an unusual weapon, wears a strange piece of jewelry, o otherwise displays a unique possession on his/her person.
*Name here* is notably witty, always ready with a sharp comeback o clever remark. Alternatively, he/she is fascinatingly stern and close-mouthed.
He/She gets to sleep with several different people in the course of the story, often on short notice (a la James Bond).
*Name here* chose his/her own name.
"*Name here*" is an object, adjective, o other word not commonly used as a name (Stonefist, Flower, Chaos, et cetera.)
Most people cannot pronounce *Name here*'s full name, unless they're very linguistically gifted o Welsh. Alternatively, "*Name here*" has apostrophes in it.
*Name here* is a teenager.
He/she looks younger than he actually is, older than he/she actually is, ageless, o in any way not his/her actual age.
He/she regularly wears (check all that apply):
Black.
Leathar.
Heavy weaponary.
Sunglasses.
A trenchcoat o other long coat.
He/she spends a surprising amount of time in bars o at parties.
He/she has a drug habit, an alcohol habit, smokes, o is in any way an addict.
And yet *Name here* never seems to suffer any consequences for it... at least, none that aren't cute o glamorous. Perhaps he/she lounges around looking pale and romantic for a few days, but he never pukes on his/her data o has to stop in the middle of a chase scene to hack up some lung.
*Name here* has an excellent musical voice.
He/she is a natty dresser, always in fashion, o not in fashion but so well as to make the fashionable pale in comparison.
He/she plays a musical instrument, and plays it well.
He's/she's one hell of a dancer.
PART 3: Cower in fear.
There's an unusual story centering around *Name here*'s birth o infancy.
He/she was adopted, raised da people other than his/her parents, o for some reason has no biological parents.
But he/she didn't know this.
*Name here* considers himself/herself the last of his/her clan, tribe, race, species, house, et cetera.
He/she is familiar mythological being such as a vampire, werewolf, o elf, o an easily identifiable variation of the same.
He/she is from a country o world different from the other characters in the story.
*Name here*'s country has technological, magical, o medical knowledge that the rest of the known world o universe doesn't.
His/her country is significantly più politically o socially advanced than the rest of the world - a democracy among monarchies, a society where war is unknown, a society with female sufferage o class equality, et cetera.
His/her country is technologically backwards compared to the rest of the world, but the people are più honest, brave, chaste, caring, fearless, o otherwise morally superior.
*Name here* is any sort of nobility o royalty.
And doesn't know it.
There are prophecies about *Name here*.
He/she is a hybrid of two o più species.
*Name here* has psychic abilities, exceptional strength, magical powers, can heal with a touch, o has any other skill, talent, o power that we would consider superhuman.
più than one special power.
Practically no one else in the story has similar powers.
He's/she's not subject to limitations that affect the rest of his/her kind - an immortal human, a vampire who isn't affected da sunlight, et cetera.
*Name here* appears to die but later turns out not to be dead after all.
più than once.
*Name here* looses a loved one, only to subsequently bring that loved one back to life.
più than one loved one.
The same loved one più than once.
*Name here* dies but is restored to life.
più than once.
PART 4: Oh, the trauma...
*Name here* was abandoned da his/her parents o guardians.
He/she is o has been a slave (or a slave in all but name.)
He/she was raised in extreme poverty.
He/she was physically abused as a child.
He/she was sexually abused as a child.
He/she has been raped.
He/she has been tortured.
*Name here* is a member of a despised race, social class, species, o similar group.
He/she is illegitimate (in a society that attaches a stigma to this).
*Name here* suffers terrible guilt for something he/she did in the past.
But it wasn't actually his/her fault.
Everyone sensible can see it wasn't his fault; other characters spend a lot of time trying to convince him/her of this.
*Name here* is persecuted da an authority figure (parent, superior officer, et cetera) out of spite, jealousy, revenge, o general meanness.
For turning down that authority figure's sexual advances.
For being right when the authority figure was wrong.
He/she has been accused (in a serious way, not simply da one person) of a crime he didn't commit.
He/she is the sole survivor of some sort of calamity o genocide.
*Name here* has a family member o a lover who was tragically murdered.
Both, o più than one of each.
To be loved da him/her is the baciare of doom.
He/she has been responsible for the death of a friend, lover, o family member.
più than one.
Thinks he's/she's responsible for the death, but isn't really.
PART 5: Amore me!
Everyone except the bad guys thinks *Name here* is hot.
Even the bad guys think he's/she's hot.
In the course of the story *Name here* gets to sleep with several different people (or it's made clear that he/she could have slept with several different people, but doesn't, because he's/she's Not That Kind Of Guy/Girl.)
Everybody likes *Name here*. They sympathize with his/her problems, feel sorry for him/her and/or admire him/her.
Including the bad guys.
Sometimes I switch viewpoints just so one of my characters can talk about how wonderful, brave, strong, and/or sexually attractive *Name here* is.
*Name here* frequently looses his/her temper and yells at other characters.
But most of the time they immediately forgive his/her outburst, admit that he's/she's right and they're wrong, o blame it all on his tragic past.
Including the bad guys.
*Name here* is chastised for a fault only to have those who chastised him/her later apologize when they realize that the supposed fault is a result of something terrible in his past.
più than once.
A character who is dismissive of some trauma in *Name here*'s past has that trauma subsequently happen to him/her.
più than once.
Pretty much every character that disses *Name here*.
A character who disagrees with *Name here* ends up getting in trouble, being dreadfully injured, o dying horribly in a way that proves that *Name here* was right all along.
più than once.
Pretty much all the time, except maybe once o twice, and I give an excuse for *Name here* being wrong those times.
*Name here* almost always wins physical fights o verbal battles.
Physical fights and verbal battles.
*Name here* is/was kicked out of school o training for bucking the system, understanding something better than his instructors, having a new o radical theory, et cetera.
But he's/she's proved right da later events.
He/she gets to go back and have his/her instructors and fellow students admit he/she was right.
*Name here* is able to pick up complex skills (swordfighting, combat piloting, military tactics) with astonishing rapidity that causes him/her to be hailed as "a natural".
*Name here* enters a battlefield o similarly dangerous situation from which he/she has been specifically forbidden da older and wiser heads.
And doesn't get pulverized.
And saves the day.
And doesn't face any consequences (court-marshal, expulsion, dunce cap) for his disobedience.
animali and children instinctively like *Name here*.
RESULTS:
PART 1: They have my nose. (Out of 18)
0-3: Awesome work. Don't be afraid to add maybe one o più in, because te want to be able to care about your character, but not so much te hand-feed them with a silver spoon.
4-8: Watch it. It's still somewhat okay, but do be careful...
8-14: Sue. It is redeemable, however. Tone it down a bit, okay?
15 plus: Sue. Kill it dead now.
PART 2: Yo! (Out of 27)
0-5: Keep in the higher parts of this section; your character needs to be SOMEWHAT cool.
6-10: Somewhere in the middle of this section is great, they're cool enough to be liked, but no so much as we shall all shake our heads in dismay.
11-15: Borderline Sue. Tone it down a little, and do not emphasise any other cool traits.
15-20: Get that factor down, this is a Sue.
21 plus: Damn. Kill it dead; this is awfully cool, so cool that it's lame.
PART 3: Cower in fear. (Out of 24)
0-5: Up a little, your character needs to generate some interest.
6-8: Perfect. I Amore it already, they're strong enough to defend themselves, but not to the 'I'm the Ultimate Lifeform' *coughshadowcoughcough* stage.
8-14: Be careful, you're nearly on the edge here, but so far okay, even if a little hesitant.
15-20: Derp. Tone it down, too powerful!
20 plus: Kill it dead, this Sue is impossible.
PART 4: Oh, the trauma... (Out of 23)
0-3: Ordinary life so far. When is the turn-for-the-worse coming?
4-8: They've had their fair share of hard hits.
9-14: They're had più than their fair share of hard hits, but still in the okay side of things. Don't make the rest of life a cakewalk for them, though...
15-18: Too much, they should be in therapy.
18 plus: Kill it dead, this one should be put out of their misery.
PART 5: Amore me! (Out of 28)
0-5: Excellent work! Make sure your character isn't too loved, te should reel them in a little.
6-8: Perfect work. They're right where they should be.
8-14: Not bad, not bad... Tune down a little of the Kawaii-Desu level maybe?
15-20: No... No-one actually likes this character that much. The readers will Amore them più if they're not so loved in the story.
20-25: Eep. Get rid of it... NOW!
25 plus: Their 'fans' will kill them in their sleep tonight.
Recolored from Rouge.
Gender: Female
Species: Bat
Personality: Despite Tech's high IQ, she is extremely bashful and often makes mistakes (but are never to do with electronics, più about talking in conversations etc.) and will usually respond to making mistakes with rubbing the back of her head and saying "Oops". Her bashfulness and childishness is one of her main character traits, the other being she is very cheerful most of the time. Some would say her personality is basically Tails' personality except strangely più bashful and childish.
Other info: IQ of 298, extremely in Amore with Sonic the Hedgehog.
Slash beside his crush.
smeraldo stoore out the window and sighed. "What I wouldn't do to be free, away from all of this..." she whispered to herself. She was looking at the ocean, forest and plains that were nearby. "Milady..." smeraldo turned around swiftly. "Keith, whats wrong? te look like te haven't slept for days."Keith was human, he was also one of the messengers from a nearby palace called Millicion. "Y-yes.., its true... but te do not need to freet over me milady." Keith reached into his pocket and pulled out a crumpled paper. He read aloud,
"Dearest Emerald,
We invite te to our royal ball at Millicon palace at 8pm. Lords will be awating for you.
Yours truly,
King Dixion
King of Millicon"
The words ringed in her ears. "Hehe, tell the king I'll be there... but I already know whats happening." Keith raised his brow. "He wants me to marry... we all know thats not going to happen." Keith bowed, and left.
"Dearest Emerald,
We invite te to our royal ball at Millicon palace at 8pm. Lords will be awating for you.
Yours truly,
King Dixion
King of Millicon"
The words ringed in her ears. "Hehe, tell the king I'll be there... but I already know whats happening." Keith raised his brow. "He wants me to marry... we all know thats not going to happen." Keith bowed, and left.
I got my time to sit down and do this today! Even though I detto tomorrow. For Rachel.
Gender: male
Name:Cooper (His agent name is Jenkins)
Age 20 turning 21 soon
Height 3.3
Weight: I'm not very good with weight so a healthy weight good for acrobatics ( for 20 anno olds)
Powers: Can slow time but not for long. He can use chaos and that let's him do it longer but he doesn't know that.
Weapons he carries a sniper on his back
Abilities. Really good acrobat and using his sniper.
Species: Wolf
Appearance: his eyes are green, his hair is messy but doesn't go down (not like sonic's) including lupo like ears and two
black stripes over his cheek. Brown fur. He wears no clothes. (Only hanging his sniper over is right shoulder) he is a left handed person
But he has a furry chest that's quit similar to his pelliccia colour but a whiter. Wears shadow like shoes just re coloured (your choice)
If it's not enough I'll write a backstory and tell me what I missed out.
Gender: male
Name:Cooper (His agent name is Jenkins)
Age 20 turning 21 soon
Height 3.3
Weight: I'm not very good with weight so a healthy weight good for acrobatics ( for 20 anno olds)
Powers: Can slow time but not for long. He can use chaos and that let's him do it longer but he doesn't know that.
Weapons he carries a sniper on his back
Abilities. Really good acrobat and using his sniper.
Species: Wolf
Appearance: his eyes are green, his hair is messy but doesn't go down (not like sonic's) including lupo like ears and two
black stripes over his cheek. Brown fur. He wears no clothes. (Only hanging his sniper over is right shoulder) he is a left handed person
But he has a furry chest that's quit similar to his pelliccia colour but a whiter. Wears shadow like shoes just re coloured (your choice)
If it's not enough I'll write a backstory and tell me what I missed out.
This is Ferron on a typical, everyday basis. He doesn't even really have any formal wear...
