Sue profiles #13

[valis2]

[Recap: Some of you might remember that at one of the HP conventions, gmonkey42 and I put together a Snape and his Mary Sues presentation. In order to put the presentation together, we had to read a bunch of HP fanfics featuring Sues who were paired with Snape. The other night, I was scribbling notes on scrap paper, and realized that the paper in question was from a printout of the spreadsheet that we built to house the data. And then I started laughing at the quote, and I thought that we really should share the profiles because they're just too much fun not to.]

• Name of Sue: Eris Greyback


• Eye color: dark blue


• Hair color: brown


• Clothing: often Snape's clothes, also midnight blue lace


• Outcast or beloved: outcast - she's a fugitive from the Death Eaters


• Went to Hogwarts with Snape/Marauders?: maybe? It's unclear how old they're both meant to be


• Related to canon character: Fenrir's niece


• Unique magic ability: super dooper good at Transfiguration; uses it to design clothes


• Special pet: Siamese cat named Epis


• Totally uncharacteristic Snape moments: Snape's roommate calls him "Tyke" and Snape doesn't object; gets all jealous when another dude comes over and just sort of sputters about it; does magic in front of Muggle kids because his girlfriend thinks it's cute


• Relationship with Snape: already a couple when the story starts, apparently fated to be together from a past life


• Other: author has obviously just taken a class on the history and language of Wales


• Sue House: Sparklypoo

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You've helped me understand just why I disliked certain stories. They were fill of Mary Sue...

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I am on my iPod and did not se I was not logged on. :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee! no worries. And yeah, I find it hard to read some MS stories, though seriously, some of them are just...hard to put down. They have a very special verve and energy, honestly.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Fenrir's clothes designing niece? Serious WTFery.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Isn't that strange? I had to include it just because it was so unusual. Usually Suethors pick "awesome" characters, or even "awesomely evil" characters, like Voldemort. But...Fenrir? So surprising.

And I cannot imagine that calling Severus Snape "tyke" does not provoke a reaction. lol.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't even see Snape's hex coming :P

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Totally. The issues there are too many to count, lol.

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

I think I can explain "Tyke": it's an English nickname for Yorkshiremen.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thank you for the clarification!

[artystone.livejournal.com]

Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire!

[todayiamadaisy]

Eris has a cat named Epis?

ETA: I pressed send too soon! My mother's partner is from Yorkshire and he has a cross-stitch of this on his wall:

Yorkshire Tyke's Motto
See all, hear all, SAY NOWT
eat all, sup all, PAY NOWT
and if ivver tha does OWT FER NOWT
allus do it fer THYSEN

(Nowt being nothing and owt being anything.) I think that's quite Snapey. :-)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hahah! Heard and understood. *grins*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

lol! Oh, this is awesome. Thank you so much!

And the Eris->Epis thing really confused me.

[thedoingofit.livejournal.com]

Snape's roommate calls him "Tyke" and Snape doesn't object
Just as well. This is my pet name for Snape too... EYEROLL. ;oP

[valis2.livejournal.com]

lol! Some of these fics are just too amusing, aren't they?

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Heehee, classic!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Isn't she, though? I love Sues so much!