-She speaks a language other than English (namely German).
Especially the last point seems a grave sin indeed. An extra language – what could I have been thinking? ;-P
Let me weigh in on this for a sec because I'm sort of on an "OFC-Liberation" kick right now:
So your character speaks German. Well...her name is Brynhild. As such I'm guessing she has some German ancestry, and anyone who objects to an Anglo-German character speaking German has spent just a leeeeetle too much time in the suburbs.
If the fact that Brynhild is bilingual makes her a Sue, then continental Europe is home to a whole lot of Sues. Hell, Switzerland is a whole nation of uber-Sues. Under that criteria, the graduate programs of most major universities are peppered with Sues.
The really hardcore Mary-Sue-naysayers of ficdom seem to object to OFCs with any higher education. The anti-Mary-Sue crew seems to insist that every non-canon female in the British-European Wizarding world must be a high-school-educated, firmly middle-class Jane Doe, devoid of artistic talent or intellectual curiosity, and certainly without panache of any kind.
This of course would mean that the Wizard world is a less varied and exotic place than urban Los Angeles - and that jest ain't right.
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Especially the last point seems a grave sin indeed. An extra language – what could I have been thinking? ;-P
Let me weigh in on this for a sec because I'm sort of on an "OFC-Liberation" kick right now:
So your character speaks German. Well...her name is Brynhild. As such I'm guessing she has some German ancestry, and anyone who objects to an Anglo-German character speaking German has spent just a leeeeetle too much time in the suburbs.
If the fact that Brynhild is bilingual makes her a Sue, then continental Europe is home to a whole lot of Sues. Hell, Switzerland is a whole nation of uber-Sues. Under that criteria, the graduate programs of most major universities are peppered with Sues.
The really hardcore Mary-Sue-naysayers of ficdom seem to object to OFCs with any higher education. The anti-Mary-Sue crew seems to insist that every non-canon female in the British-European Wizarding world must be a high-school-educated, firmly middle-class Jane Doe, devoid of artistic talent or intellectual curiosity, and certainly without panache of any kind.
This of course would mean that the Wizard world is a less varied and exotic place than urban Los Angeles - and that jest ain't right.
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