User blog comment:William See/So ya wanna make a creepy OC./@comment-44778745-20200111183338/@comment-4849011-20200116183633

"I think a good way to avoid the whole "mary sue' trap is by making the character off putting to you in some way. Make them disgusting, have them picking their nose..." This is A) pretty sound advice and B) eerily similar to how my cousin and I used to do Mad Libs.  When it asked for a noun we'd often say things like "barf" or "booger".  One could debate if we were being juvenile or thinking outside the box.