"Robyn, Duke of Amber" <seraphim@sentex.net> wrote:

I'dd have to say that NXE has one of the mose unlikeable main 

characters

who seem to be walking (If renamed) SI characters...

"Some stories are 'Mary Sues': they maneuver our heroes into 
situations where another -- usually a woman with *unbelievable* 
talents and qualities -- has to get the hero out of trouble.  They 
then inevitably fall in love."
    -- Ingrid Cross, "The Three-Foot Pit and Other Stories", in
       _The Best of Trek #9_ (1985)

DJ is a Mary Sue character, but if you compare him to Gryphon's 
avatars in UF, Hopelessly Lost, Warrior's Legacy or Gods Willing, 
he's not exactly an SI character.  He shares some of the author's  
opinions, interests and sense of humor, but so do a lot of other 
fanfic characters.  (By the definition I cite, NXE didn't qualify as 
a Mary Sue story until DJ became Asuka's love interest.)

Some, but not all, Mary Sue stories are SI stories, and vice versa.  
For example: BGZone is both a Mary Sue and an SI; Gods Willing (based 
on what little that's been written of it) is SI but not Mary Sue;
Ranma 1/2 Naisen is Mary Sue but not SI.

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