A story of mine.

SYNOPSIS:

MARY SUE GOSE CRAZY

BY

GREGORY BARONE

A Mary Sue is a type of fictional character, usually a young woman, who is portrayed as unrealistically free of weaknesses. Originating in fan fiction, a Mary Sue is often an author's idealized self-insertion. Mary Sue stories are often written by adolescent authors.

overwhelmed with admiration for her beauty, wit, courage. She's exotically beautiful, often having an unusual hair or eye color. exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare. outstrips them in their areas of expertise and solves problems. possesses unusual physical traits, and has an irrelevantly over-skilled or over-idealized nature.

school setting - not very clean, old, poorly lit, bad food, Jerk Teacher.

one track/goal in mind - Sapphire Silverstar is a bit of an overachiever. She is very popular with everyone at her school; even the goth girl Amelia Oxton because she's pretty, smart, and everything she does is interesting. Sapphire Silverstar is what every girl dreams of being: confident, beautiful and noble. She is very interested in politics and has a high concern about herself and her appearance. a beautiful, mature, and popular girl at Eric Sinclair High School and acts as Marko’s second-in-command for the other students. Her popularity is an ongoing source of contempt for her

internal conflict - Sapphire Silverstar is a popular girl. She's into school politics, but sacrifices her role in student government to her older brother Marko. She risks her own well-being to nominate her new dad for "Father of the Year" -- and breaks every law in the book attempting to please her classmates by getting Stella Steel and the iron maidens to perform at the junior prom. She is a great fan of TV-star idols Tom Rose and Max Defau, Despite Sapphire Silverstar’s reputation, she has her share of problems, such as unrequited crushes, insecurity over having not having things go her way.

they think they are doing good - Although she has a few bouts with ego problems -- like getting a swelled head over a part in the school play or wanting to be accepted so badly she forgets to "be herself" —Sapphire Silverstar is pretty much the perfect teenager. She's a cheerleader, Frontier Scout and Senior Banquet Night co-hostess. She's also a great singer (as she proves on Family Frolics Night). She knows when to make a sacrifice, whether that means giving up her privacy so Marko can have the attic room or going on a date with an unpopular boy like Sam Stafford instead of Walter Simmons.

the ultimate power overly used - One of Sapphire Silverstar’s most famous moments is when she gets hit in the nose with a football, "Oh my nose!" Her nose didn't look good, and it was right before the dance! Seeing her nose, Walter, one of the most popular boys in the school, dumped her with, "Something suddenly came up...", but Sam, her date to the dance, was happy to be going with Sapphire, broken nose or not. Unfortunately, Sapphire Silverstar’s nose didn’t heal before the dance, Walter instead goes with Amelia to the dance to the embarrassment of Sapphire. and insecurity over receiving a swollen nose from a stray football thrown by Abe Hawthorne.

spiral slowly downwards - Despite Sapphire Silverstar’s reputation, she has her share of problems, such as unrequited crushes, and getting a swollen nose from being hit in the face with a football by Abe. She has a fragile ego, it goes amok when she becomes so hard to get along with she is dismissed from her star role as Juliet.

they die mentally and spiritually. - her ego began to take such a beating she briefly turned to murder for solace, take hostages, set fire to school and house. later sent to a mental ward.