Still waiting on my copy of Corambis to make it to Sweden, so I've held off on commenting on some of the questions and answers (I'll have to admit to reading some spoilers, one of which I think it was very good for me to see), but I just had to slip in a little "whew" at the fact that you didn't come up with Felix at 34 instead of 19. ;)
That is, not to necessarily imply that it would have made him a bad character, but some of my favourite characters from various books (and this includes Felix) are what I guess one could call Mary Sue-ish in nature, or at least characters with some traits common to Mary Sues. But, I think they're all well-written Mary Sues, and I don't tend to see a Mary Sue as an inherently bad thing (though perhaps as something that can very easily go very wrong).
This probably has something to do with how fond I am of well-written angst (and "romantic" male characters; 19-year-old me and 34-year-old agree on a lot of things) and how the emotional impact of a book tends to come a step or two ahead of the intellectual appreciation.
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Date: 2009-04-18 05:07 pm (UTC)That is, not to necessarily imply that it would have made him a bad character, but some of my favourite characters from various books (and this includes Felix) are what I guess one could call Mary Sue-ish in nature, or at least characters with some traits common to Mary Sues. But, I think they're all well-written Mary Sues, and I don't tend to see a Mary Sue as an inherently bad thing (though perhaps as something that can very easily go very wrong).
This probably has something to do with how fond I am of well-written angst (and "romantic" male characters; 19-year-old me and 34-year-old agree on a lot of things) and how the emotional impact of a book tends to come a step or two ahead of the intellectual appreciation.