Mary Sue Quest
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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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.
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.