StarlessAnya
Kairi Nightingale
How is she cowardly if she learned how to be courageous from her teacher? And why would she want to kill people for a living as an assassin later in life if she's suppose to be honorable? Isn't she suppose to change for the better?
Of course, those contradictions (if they are, that is) don't make her mary-sue. It really depends on how you write whether she turns out to be a mary-sue or not. All profiles seem very generic at first glance but it's how the characters actually interact within the story that makes them interesting. That's what I believe, anyway.
Those things are referring to the RP story I used her in last year. And the potential assassin thing is just something I used as a description for her fighting style. I'm sorry for not making that clear.
I'm sorry but I don't see why you can't change the details to make sense just because it was based off a role play....
An assassin is an occupation. It doesn't have any particular fighting style attached to it and it wouldn't need one seeing as all real martial arts have deadly techniques. They originated out of various wars, after all. Hence, they were originally made to kill enemies.
Assassins kill people for money. It doesn't matter how.
If you want her to have a fighting style, then you should research various martial arts. Even if you don't find one you like, it's possible to use the information on each of them to make up your own.
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