Humour?! What humour?! That is a perfectly valid fear and I will not tolerate you mocking Scott for it!

ANYONE would be terrified at the though of someone else flying One... Let alone a Mary Sue!

Very nice :)

With a challenge like 'Face the Fear' I was expecting all of the stories to be angst so this was a nice surprise. I totally understand why Scott's fear is us, we do like to write angst and whump about the Tracys, just read all of the other stories in the challenge and you can see that!

I have to say it was very brave to twist the challenge like that and not write what was expected, but well done, I think you pulled it off. Although I think you tried to add too many cliches in, bits of it seemed a little forced.

Overall a good story though and the choir singing every time Mary-Sue's name was mentioned did make me giggle.

LiGi x

This story gave me a good giggle. I was a bit afraid that a 'face the fear' challenge was a recipe for angst, injury and death, so it was amusing to see a different take on the concept.

Having said that, I'm not a huge fan of parodies, so I did feel this exploration of Mary Sue went on just a little longer than I might have preferred. That's just personal choice though, and I did enjoy the overall idea of TIWF being what Scott feared most. Given what the poor guy has been through in the force of so many challenges, I can see why!

Thanks for sharing.

I loved this story! You took every conceivable Mary Sue trait and rolled them into one. Not just Mary Sue either- you had Scott doing the impossible and walking on a broken leg! What a guy.

I loved the way the fairies talked, I could picture them with tea cosies and dreadlocks on their heads.

Hi Chrysexthane

I have been reading the previous reviews and really find it interesting how different readers like different things.

This was such a clever idea and I really enjoyed the first part of it. I laughed my head off at Virgil’s earlier observations. However I felt as the story went on and the “choir sang” it began to collapse a little. The tense changed and I found myself laughing a lot less. It did recover at the end. I wonder if the problem (for me) is that "the fun" went on for too long. In my experience with parody less can certainly be more.

It was certainly a a novel way of expressing every Tracy's sons worst fear and I commend the attempt.

mcj

Crying with laughter. Oh, you really maid my day. At first it didn't make any sence to me but when you spoke of those birds and little men things i thought: Hay, something are really um, wrong here. I can see that you had Tin Tin do quite a bit to make Scott look away. Grandma. Well, i could only think of what she did with Virgil. Shame. And alan . Ow. John. My poor John. Jef. Shame. That's nasty. Lastly. Gordon. Shame. Taking him from his swim. Brains. Poor guy. Don't hurt his feelings like that. Don't worry guys. I'll give you lot a hug and make it all go away. That is if i don't end up in the mess you lot have ended up in. Haha! Good one. :-)

I can't really claim much credit, apart form saying 'go for it'.

You certainly should try humour again if you can come up with more like this. Poor Scott certainly had cause to be afraid - you managed to work in every cliche in the book, and give them all a wry twist. (I think the idea of carrying a splint in your back pocket was the final one that did it for me).

Anyone who even thinks about writing a Mary Sue should be directed to this story so they know what to avoid.

So talking of cliches, I shall use the ultimate; *great story! write more!*

Pen

I really should not have read this in work. I nearly ruptured something.

Tin-Tin's "who else was close enough?" did it for me. And when the choir turned out to be pizza-loving fairies, well, this Harry Dresden fan just lost it.

I think it would have been relatively easy for you to take a dip at particular stories here...and I'd have to say that you very much _didn't_. I thought it was very cleverly handled in poking fun at "Mary Sue" rather than "someone's character/plot which some people call Mary Sue."

Nice one. Well done.

Gordon developing a water allergy and Scott getting laid would be too easy.

"She checked him over and informed him that his leg was quite broken (as if he didn't know that already). She carefully slipped an inflatable splint on his leg to immobilize it." That cracked me up.

"It's alright Mr. Tracy, I can fly Thunderbird one," Mary Sue told him." What she actually ment to say is, 'I can fly Thunderbird one better than Scott'.

Every Mary Sue to ever grace this site rolled into one perfectly perfect 'person'.

Certainly made me chuckle.

Oh. My. Lord. I haven't laughed THIS hard over a TB story in FOREVER. My dear, that was SUCH an awesome parody/comedy, holy COW. LOLOLOL You had me howling laughing, it was PERFECTLY executed. I commend you; it takes real skill to pull something like this off. Am I mistaken or did you pay homage to "Mohotani" in there? ;-D Please do more of these, I beg of you. ROTFL

Hi, Jackie, I really did enjoy your story-especially the choir. It made me giggle.

i loved this. you wrote both Scott and Virgil really well here. this story is so going into my favorite list now. will done xx

Hi Jackie! Now- I'll be honest, I don't really get this. Is this another one of those instances where the TIWF pokes fun at every story that isn't written by one of their own members? Because I don't see why other people's stories/OCs/AUs need to be made fun of.

If it isn't one of those instances, and just *looks* like it, then I apologise. But I have to admit, it looks like the TIWF getting up to its old tricks, and you shouldn't be making fun of other writers like this. And no, I haven't had a 'sense of humour bypass'! :)