Her name is Ayla.
She's the main heroine of the book series I'm reading, Earth's Children. And you know what? I like her. I love how the author writes the book, and I love Ayla. Just proves it's possible to make a GOOD series and a GOOD character with Mary-sue qualities.
Let's start with the little stuff.
Ayla has blonde hair and blue eyes. The series takes place in the days of the Ice Age, so most of the people don't have blonde hair or blue eyes. Not only that, but she's gunna marry a blonde-hair, blue-eyed Gary-stu, who also isn't that bad. This is pretty much the only Mary-sue trait that doesn't have an excuse, since we don't know who her original people are.
You see, Ayla was adopted by what we call Neanderthals, who call themselves the Clan, after an earthquake orphaned her and she was attacked by a cave lion. The very beginning to a tragic mary-sue past. This was when she was five. Clan people are opposite to us; they are unreceptive to change and innovation, but remember what their great great great great grandmother ate for her first breakfast. That kind of thing. Now, because Ayla is one of us, she doesn't have this superb memory. The Clan people talk with their hands, too, as well as their body language. It is impossible for them to lie, only possible to withhold information for sake of privacy. The result of these two things when Ayla leaves the Clan is that a) she has a superb memory compared to ours, since she had to try and remember everything the first time like other Clan members, and b) that she can learn new languages quickly by being able to read body language and compare the words of different languages she has already learned.
Not only that, but when she lives alone for a time, she domesticates a horse. The first person to ever do this.
The list goes on, and I will include a little in a short bit. But the thing is, it's not like the author just shoved all this information in the face of her readers. If you jumped in on, say, the fourth book and read it, it'd probably be crap. But start from the beginning, and you get all the information in a reasonable way at a reasonable pace. Currently where I'm ast in the series, Ayla is nineteen. In the begnning, she was five. There's been no time-skips longer than, say, a month. Throughout the first five books, fourteen years of Ayla's life passes. You get insight about everyhting about her; the story is not rushed, it is not poorly portrayed. I just... it's nice to see a character that in reality is quite profound (especially if she existed in a modern-day setting) and should be a poor quality character be written in such a way that they seem entirely plausable, and a type of person you'd probably want to me.
Anyways. Now to list off all her mary-sue qualities. XDD
- Blonde hair, blue eyes
- Superb memory
- Very strong for her gender
- Oblivious & innocent to customs
- Never lies
- Was chosen by the Cave Lion, which is considered the most powerful man's totem in the Clan
- Was raped in the Clan
- Domesticated the first horse
- Domesticated a cave lion
- Domesticated the first wolf
- Is the most skilled medicine woman presented in the series thus far
- Can tell what people feel and if they are lying by their body movements
- Is thought amazingly attractive by pretty much all men she comes across
- Is loved and adored by 93% of the people she comes across, with 1% having previously hated her
- Helped invent what I believe to be a cross-bow type thing
- Invented the sewing needle
- Is mated with a man 99% of the women he comes across find amazingly attractive
- Was adopted by a well-respected group of people
- Seems to know everything
- The first to figure out babies come from sex (not even joking)
- One of the only women on the planet who know about birth control
- She hunts (80% of the women in the series don't seem to hunt)
- She helps anyone she crosses pathes with
- Is probably the most '
- She can cook almost anything
- She learns things amazingly fast ('cause of her memory)
- She is the first to discover iron pyrite's use for starting fires
- She can make some of the softest skin known to anyone aside from a certain tribe of people
- She is THE master of the sling
- She invented horse shoes (in a way)
- She and her mate had a misunderstanding that lasted a WHOLE YEAR and almost would've went on forever if she hadn't had a last-minute realization.
- She invented stitches
I'm sure if I sat here and thought about it I could come up with more, but here's from the top of my head. x3








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