Raphael Is Good At Guessing Who The Criminal Is, But His Reasoning Is Ludicrous At Best. He Would Say

Raphael is good at guessing who the criminal is, but his reasoning is ludicrous at best. He would say someone is the bad guy because 'it felt like it.'

Donatello could reason like Sherlock Holmes. But he always gets the wrong guy.

Can I please just headcanon that Don and Raph would watch criminal shows like NCIS and Criminal Mind or BONES? Pretty please with cherries on top! 💓🥺😂 - - They don’t get a lot of interaction together and that makes me sad. They tend to be my favorites. - - -

The 'Final' Definition of Mary Sue

The commonly held concept of the Mary Sue is that of a poorly designed character. A poor character archetype comprising a person, usually a girl, who is perfect.

Not much else to say for this definition of a Mary Sue. Perfection defies any attempt to describe it. Which is what makes the Mary Sue the bane of good story-telling.

However, I believe that the Mary Sue is a problem with story-telling rather than character development.

More specifically - A Mary Sue is what happens when the Main Character's story pushes out the story of the other characters over the course of the narrative.

The narrative of a tale is like a river, through which the stories of the narrative's characters cross like the tributaries to the main channel. There is one main narrative within which are a multitude of stories. The stories that the audience focuses on become the main characters whom the audience follows through the narrative.

A narrative with a perfect character, the smartest man or the strongest warrior, works because the story is not entirely about the perfect character. A good example of this is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is the smartest man in the room and the narrative never lets the audience forget it. But the story is not about Sherlock. The story is about the clients who brings their mysteries to 221B Baker Street. So while we are reading about a perfect character, namely Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is a narrative device which frames the real story. Whether it is about a Red-Headed League, or a missing Silver-Headed Horse.

Harry Potter is an example of a Mary Sue. Under my definition, and only in every book after the Goblet of Fire. In the first three books, Harry is like Sherlock Holmes. He is the narrative device through which the audience explores the Wizarding World. By following Harry's adventures solving the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone or the Chamber of Secrets. Harry's title of 'the Boy who Lived' was merely a justification for Harry getting involved in these mysteries.

But once Voldemort returns, Harry's story overshadows everyone else's as the narrative progresses. Everything becomes centered around Harry and the fact that he is destined to kill Voldemort. So much so that previous adventures are retconned into Dumbledore essentially 'fattening' Harry up for the slaughter. Something no amount of apologies in a deserted train station could really gloss over.

If a Mary Sue was simply the 'Perfect character', Superman would not be one of the world's most beloved heroes to date. However, even the most relatable character can become a Mary Sue if the author buys into his or her own hype.

Ah, a fellow Harriet Lover of Culture.

harriet my babe

It seems like young fandoms these days are programmed to react to buzzwords like 'Gay', or 'Queer'.

Young fans don't recognize good stories anymore or have that part of their tastes wired out by modern cartoons.

Is that just me?

Can you imagine the awkward cringe when Blake and Sun reunite? Their last moment together was back when blacksun was going strong with the implication they would pick things up when they see each other again. Something dumb like Sun hooking up with Velvet offscreen and becoming a bmblb wingman. Or him being single and accepting Blake moved on from him no questions asked and even though he had every right to still have feelings for her that aren't so easily forgotten. It's going to be a shitshow.

I imagine RT would just make it a throwaway gag during the final fight. Like Blake would see Sun with Velvet and they would just say 'good luck', and head off to fight Salem.

I have a feeling that RWBY is building toward an Avengers Endgame style thing.

When your friend hitting the notes so high during Karaoke that you have to use your Semblance to hold her down.

Just...don't ask

Tadano Hitohito has a communication disorder

He is compulsively average.

Tadano's 'average persona' is an affectation.

He reads the minds of his classmates so that he could make the choice an average person would make.

He speaks in a way that is calculated to be 'average', but sounds overly formal because it is an affectation.

He is skilled enough in a variety of activities like baseball to present himself as average as possible when he engages in such activities. So much so that even Najimi considers Tadano to be so average, there is no point paying attention to him.

Which is what Tadano wants. As a reaction to his chunni days.

Tadano's communication disorder is that he is 'average'.