Does anyone else notice this, if you’ve read the series? He’s a Gary Stu, I swear. Though a likable character I suppose…

He is the child of two gods, but not only is he a god, but he is one of the few gods that is a God killer. His three half sisters cursed him to be the end of the world, and his father wanted to kill him. His mother fled, and cut him from her womb, had the goddess of desire hide him in the human world, in the womb of a queen, so he would be raised well and have everything he wanted. His life force was to be tied to the other babe that the queen was pregnant with so the queen and king couldn’t kill him.

When he was born, he was born first in ancient Greece, and the oracle had said he was deformed, because his eyes were a swirling silver color, like mercury. He grew up shunned and hated by his parents and his twin brother, sold by his parents to his uncle to be a sex slave at the age of 7. Tortured, abused, on and on and on…

Need I continue on? Cause I can. For ages.

Ho boy.

No need to go on, I can see where this is going.

Well, I guess this is a case of a Stu done well enough to be liked, though he’s certainly got qualities of a Gary Stu. Quite a few, actually.

Any other opinions on this guy that our dear followers want to submit to add on to this post?

I don’t get on often enough.  Damn you e-mail for never alerting me to when we have messages.

Anywho.  Considering the recent submissions, I’m able to fill in a little more on Artemis Fowl since I’ve read the books more than once.  I’m not even going to get into The Hunger Games since I’ve never read them.

So Artemis.  He’s a young lad from Ireland, he’s rich, he’s got his faithful butler, his dad (as of the first book) has been missing for a long time and he’s apparently some kind of crooked businessman.  Artemis himself is a supergenius criminal and he’s all of 13(? I think?)  He pulls a fast one on the elite fairy forces who have literally centuries of experience and is able to master the fairy language just by comparing it to Egyptian Hieroglyphics.  In a later book, I think he’s become a master of art theft and has built himself a very powerful piece of fairy-human techonology that a Big Bad in another book really wants.  He saved his battle butler from dying by putting him in a cryogenic freezer then using fairy magic to heal him.  The fairies consider him to be one of their greatest allies and I think he and the main fairy girl have a thing for each other.  I could be wrong, but I was getting definite subtext in, like, the 6th book or so.

So yeah, he’s a Stu.