Mary Sue Quest
Mary Sue Quest is an MSPA forum adventure by Goldwright, and is a parody and partial deconstruction of Mary Sues, detailing the day-to-day activities of one particularly egregious offender, Marisu Goldwright.
Recently you found out that your real name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fana Bo Besca III!
—Marisu Goldwright casually explains her real name.
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The forum thread can be found here [dead link].
Tropes used in Mary Sue Quest include:
- Alternate Character Interpretation: The fanbase theorises that Marisu is in fact a manipulative bastard.
- Art Evolution
- Art Shift: Sometimes a little scribbly style appears.
- The Bechdel Test: If boys are mentioned, most of the time its off hand. Given the type of the story this is quite surprising.
- Canon Sue: Hardly surprising.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Marisu, and possibly Pale Kid.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience / Painting the Fourth Wall: All the characters talk in a colour associated with them
- Common Mary Sue Traits: Marisu pretty much covers all of them.
- Deadpan Snarker: Cindy, Joey and Morgan tend to fall into this category a lot.
- Genre Savvy: Most of the cast has shades of this though Marisu's powers makes it hard to tell how savvy they are.
- Joey figures out Paige's identity straight away, but can't deduce Marisu's identity at all.
- Morgan immediately decides that Purple Marisu is a Weaboo.
- Genki Girl: Cindy. Marisu and Paige also count.
- Mary Sue: Duh.
- Minion with an F In Evil: Pale Kid.
- Parody Sue: A-yup.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Marisu with herself and Alex
- Shout-Out: The author makes numerous references to The Legend of Zelda:
- Midori Rinku means Green Link in Japanese.
- Four Marisus Adventures.
- Jane looks quite a bit like Jade from Homestuck, even to the point where she wears the Bec shirt.
- Alex wears a shirt depicting the symbol of The Operator.
- Madoka and Harry Potter were also mentioned off hand.
- Theme Song: According to Word of God it's this.
- The Woobie: Jane
- Iron Woobie: Despite whatever happens to Jane, she soldiers on.
- Wangst: Marisu
- The Watson: Paige shows shades of this.