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The Overflowing Bra

Mr. GreyMan
thegreygreyman@gmail.com
The Quintessential Mary-Sue
This story was written to maximize a score on any and all "Mary-Sue" tests. Let me know what my score is. 
Description:  Mary-Sue's is already perfect in every way, yet she still feels something is missing from her life.  Could she be meant for more? Follow her on her journey to become more perfect, more powerful, more superior, and hopelessly loved by all. "Hopelessly" being the key word here. Abandon hope all ye who read here.
Average Scores:

DG
Overall= 1, BE= 3, Characters= 2, Technical= 4

Pretty good for a parody XD

kitty
Overall= 4, BE= 4, Characters= 3, Technical= 2

It's a little flat, but I think you're improving! ^_^

T
Overall= 3, BE= 1, Characters= 3, Technical= 3

As a parody of overpowered and cliche characters, this story is rather amusing, although it does drag on long after the charm has worn off. A couple parts were actually rather clever, like how you didn't give any other characters names until you mentioned that point. I agree with ?: after you have the personalities merge it seems to fall apart.

I don't really think this belongs on a BE site, though.

Mr. GreyMan
Overall= 3, BE= 3, Characters= 3, Technical= 5

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding. This story was written to maximize a score on the "Mary-Sue Litmus Test." (google it) I was hoping I might get an unbiased opinion on how "poorly" I did.
But, despite all that, I am surprised people are giving is a "1" for technical. I thought ML did a wonderful job with proofreading. Sincerely, Mr. GreyMan

anon
Overall= 3, BE= 2, Characters= 2, Technical= 4

Clever, but dumb. A parody of bad writing and characterization still needs to have good writing and characterization; just calling attention to its horribleness doesn't make it interesting.

Daiyuki
Overall= 1, BE= 1, Characters= 1, Technical= 4

"Laying it on too thick" certainly applies here. I know the intent was to illustrate perfection in every way, but describing perfection in every way isn't an interesting read.

On the technical side, nothing really stands out; just one plain sentence after another really.

?
Overall= 4, BE= 2, Characters= 4, Technical= 3

Story was fine until the memory merge, then it just became disjointed. BE there, but nothing to really entice.

9gagger
Overall= 3, BE= 3, Characters= 2, Technical= 3

I stopped reading when she beat the South Korean in the videogame...
IMPOSSIBRUUU!!
Also the story is really boring and flat.

Dukat
Overall= 2, BE= 2, Characters= 1, Technical= 2

A story like this has got a lot of great potential. At first it was fairly solid, even in spite of the fact that it took too much time describing the complexities of Mary-Sue's perfection and lifestyle. Where it dropped off, for me at least, was the extremely detailed and over-complicated plot regarding Mary-Sue's extraterrestrial origins.

Having Mary-Sue improve herself would have removed the need to include something so convoluted. I have to say that I don't hate the idea of the perfect becoming moreso, but I'd much rather something less complicated.

Gary
Overall= 1, BE= 1, Characters= 1, Technical= 1

meh.

justix
Overall= 1, BE= 3, Characters= 1, Technical= 1

Is she a god or what??? too much is like too litle...

Xanadu
Overall= 4, BE= 5, Characters= 4, Technical= 4

I don't know if you intended it, but this reads like a satire of your own work. Usually a character starts out normal (or a bit above normal) and becomes a perfect god/goddess; in this one a character begins (effectively) a goddess and becomes an even greater one. I found it pretty enjoyable when read in that light.

deus
Overall= 1, BE= 1, Characters= 1, Technical= 4

I stopped reading after the second page and started skimming. After the first four pages were all about how perfect she was, I gave up. At 28 pages long, there might be a story in there somewhere, but I just gave up. This feels more like satire lampooning long character descriptions of "Mary-Sue"-type characters rather than a story in itself.

Xx
Overall= 5, BE= 5, Characters= 5, Technical= 5

Kk

no
Overall= 2, BE= 4, Characters= 1, Technical= 3

This story is boring. The characters are flat and it just drags on.

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