Well, after consulting Wikipedia on what "Mary-Sue" means, I'd give this advice:
Be origional.
Oddworld is an entire planet, and we only know what Abe did in a small portion of it. Okay, so your character is unlikely to be the next blue mudokon who's fate is to save the entire race... but if you can come up with an origional story based around the next savior, go for it.
Using Abe, Munch, Stranger or any other big-name character as one of your main characters is not a good idea, IMO. Use other ones. Make one up. Make a whole village up, why not?
It's fan-fic, so you are limited a bit, but as long as you avoid a re-write or "what happened next" situation I'm sure it'll be origional enough to be respected.
Then all you have to worry about is if it's good enough to be respected. ^.-.^
|