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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The gag for chapter 8 "Mush" has a gratuitous "Canadian penguin". [[TalkingAnimal It talks.]]
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...until chapter 12, when Rachel notices that she is a MarySue, just like in bad fan fiction. Rachel doesn't want to be what she hates. Rachel runs away from Rivendell and tries to evade her fate; but she remains trapped in a Mary-Sue story.

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...until chapter 12, when Rachel notices that she is a MarySue, SelfInsert, just like in bad fan fiction. Rachel doesn't want to be what she hates. Rachel runs away from Rivendell and tries to evade her fate; but she remains trapped in a Mary-Sue this story.



* CursedWithAwesome: Rachel is a MarySue but doesn't want to be one. Her "Mary-Sue Factor" includes the power to become an elf (with [[MsFanservice beauty]] and [[TheAgeless immortality]] and also an [[BeautifulSingingVoice excellent singing voice]]), to have an "[[TranslatorMicrobes internal translator]]" for [[{{Conlang}} Sindarin]] and [[CommonTongue Westron]], to find [[LikeADuckTakesToWater easy acceptance]], to command horses, to attract and befriend one's favourite characters, and to romance important elves. She hates all this, because it seems too much like bad fan fiction. In chapter 18 "Trouble", Rachel becomes most angry, blaming her Mary-Sue Factor when the death of a RedShirt triggers a PlotTwist.
* DamselInDistress: Discussed in chapter 18. Orcs might kidnap a Mary Sue (so that her LoveInterest can rescue her, or "to create the [[RapeAsBackStory in-the-past Orc-rape]] plot twist"), and Rachel does not want this role.

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* CursedWithAwesome: Rachel is a MarySue ParodySue but doesn't want to be one. Her "Mary-Sue Factor" includes the power to become an elf (with [[MsFanservice beauty]] and [[TheAgeless immortality]] and also an [[BeautifulSingingVoice excellent singing voice]]), to have an "[[TranslatorMicrobes internal translator]]" for [[{{Conlang}} Sindarin]] and [[CommonTongue Westron]], to find [[LikeADuckTakesToWater easy acceptance]], to command horses, to attract and befriend one's favourite characters, and to romance important elves. She hates all this, because it seems too much like bad fan fiction. In chapter 18 "Trouble", Rachel becomes most angry, blaming her Mary-Sue Factor when the death of a RedShirt triggers a PlotTwist.
* DamselInDistress: Discussed in chapter 18. Orcs might kidnap a Mary Sue (so that her LoveInterest can rescue her, or "to create the [[RapeAsBackStory in-the-past Orc-rape]] plot twist"), and Rachel does not want this role.



* ParodySue: This would have been a straight Mary-Sue story, but Rachel flags herself as a Mary Sue. This doesn't change the fact that she is stuck inside a Mary-Sue story. Rachel fails to convince anyone else that she is a Mary Sue. The story works against Rachel by maintaining her "Mary-Sue Factor" and supplying excuses to justify her Sue powers. [[spoiler:By chapter 38, Rachel drops her belief in Mary Sue.]]

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* ParodySue: This would have been a straight Mary-Sue story, example, but Rachel flags herself as a Mary Sue. such. This doesn't change the fact that she is stuck inside a Mary-Sue this story. Rachel fails to convince anyone else that she is a Mary Sue.poorly written. The story works against Rachel by maintaining her "Mary-Sue Factor" and supplying excuses to justify her Sue powers. [[spoiler:By chapter 38, Rachel drops her belief in Mary Sue.this belief.]]



* ThePowerOfLove: In chapter 19, Rachel discusses how MarySue has the power to destroy the world. "Mary-Sues aren't TECHNICALLY evil. What they do, they do out of love...no, scratch that, they do it out of lust, as well as admiration, and are completely unaware that they are doing it."

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* ThePowerOfLove: In chapter 19, Rachel discusses how MarySue bland [=OCs=] has the power to destroy the world. "Mary-Sues aren't TECHNICALLY evil. What they do, they do out of love...no, scratch that, they do it out of lust, as well as admiration, and are completely unaware that they are doing it."
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* CursedWithAwesome: Rachel is a MarySue but doesn't want to be one. Her "Mary-Sue Factor" includes the power to become an elf (with [[HelloNurse beauty]] and [[TheAgeless immortality]] and also an excellent singing voice), to have an "[[TranslatorMicrobes internal translator]]" for [[{{Conlang}} Sindarin]] and [[CommonTongue Westron]], to find [[LikeADuckTakesToWater easy acceptance]], to command horses, to attract and befriend one's favourite characters, and to romance important elves. She hates all this, because it seems too much like bad fan fiction. In chapter 18 "Trouble", Rachel becomes most angry, blaming her Mary-Sue Factor when the death of a RedShirt triggers a PlotTwist.

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* CursedWithAwesome: Rachel is a MarySue but doesn't want to be one. Her "Mary-Sue Factor" includes the power to become an elf (with [[HelloNurse [[MsFanservice beauty]] and [[TheAgeless immortality]] and also an [[BeautifulSingingVoice excellent singing voice), voice]]), to have an "[[TranslatorMicrobes internal translator]]" for [[{{Conlang}} Sindarin]] and [[CommonTongue Westron]], to find [[LikeADuckTakesToWater easy acceptance]], to command horses, to attract and befriend one's favourite characters, and to romance important elves. She hates all this, because it seems too much like bad fan fiction. In chapter 18 "Trouble", Rachel becomes most angry, blaming her Mary-Sue Factor when the death of a RedShirt triggers a PlotTwist.

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