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| - The Designated Sycophant is a very common character type found in poor quality fanfiction and the victim of severe OOC. While their behavior may take many forms, and their actions may vary wildly, they all exist to blindly support or enable the Sue/Stu's/Possessed canon's actions, the Suethor's viewpoints, or anything the Suethor wishes to glorify. They are called 'Sycophants' because their behavior is often the only reason why the Sue/Stu keeps them around in the story: they act as unwitting henchmen that parrot his/her ideas and spread his/her influence around the story.
- The Designated Sycophant is a very common character type found in badfic, and the victim of severe OOC. While their behavior may take many forms, and their actions may vary wildly, they all exist to blindly support or enable the Sue/Stu's/Possessed canon's actions, the Suethor's viewpoints, or anything the Suethor wishes to glorify. They are called 'Sycophants' because their behavior is often the only reason why the Sue/Stu keeps them around in the story: they act as unwitting henchmen that parrot his/her ideas and spread his/her influence around the story.
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| - The Designated Sycophant is a very common character type found in poor quality fanfiction and the victim of severe OOC. While their behavior may take many forms, and their actions may vary wildly, they all exist to blindly support or enable the Sue/Stu's/Possessed canon's actions, the Suethor's viewpoints, or anything the Suethor wishes to glorify. They are called 'Sycophants' because their behavior is often the only reason why the Sue/Stu keeps them around in the story: they act as unwitting henchmen that parrot his/her ideas and spread his/her influence around the story. Designated Sycophants are bad because they are characters that are not allowed to judge the Sue/Stu as individuals, and instead accept or enable a Sue/Stu because they're 'supposed to,' or because 'they're the good guys,' or 'because the Sue/Stu likes them, so therefore they must like him/her back.' They often function as extra mouthpieces for the Suethor's ideas, instead of letting the reader interpret the story for themselves. Characters with more dramatic Sycophant traits can be some of the most corrosively OOC characters in all of fanfiction: trivializing heavy issues simply as an excuse for the Sue to be right... at the cost of the canon's integrity. Canon Characters as well as Original Characters can be Designated Sycophants. Original Character Sycophants are made as mindless cheerleaders for the Sue/Stu or warped canon characters: they may take the guise of the Sue/Stu's best friends that happen to be cardboard cutouts, or as previously-unknown-yet-very-important characters that support the Sue/Stu and may even qualify the Sue/Stu to hang out with the canon characters. A Canon Character warped into a Sycophant loses most or all of his/her characterization in favor of supporting the Sue. The Designated Sycophant's opposite number is the Designated Bastard.
- The Designated Sycophant is a very common character type found in badfic, and the victim of severe OOC. While their behavior may take many forms, and their actions may vary wildly, they all exist to blindly support or enable the Sue/Stu's/Possessed canon's actions, the Suethor's viewpoints, or anything the Suethor wishes to glorify. They are called 'Sycophants' because their behavior is often the only reason why the Sue/Stu keeps them around in the story: they act as unwitting henchmen that parrot his/her ideas and spread his/her influence around the story. Designated Sycophants are bad because they are characters that are not allowed to judge the Sue/Stu as individuals, and instead accept or enable a Sue/Stu because they're 'supposed to,' or because 'they're the good guys,' or because 'the Sue/Stu likes them, so therefore they must like him/her back.' They often function as extra mouthpieces for the Suethor's ideas, instead of letting the reader interpret the story for themselves. Characters with more dramatic Sycophant traits can be some of the most corrosively OOC characters in all of fanfiction: trivializing heavy issues simply as an excuse for the Sue to be right... at the cost of the canon's integrity. Canon characters as well as original characters can be Designated Sycophants. Original Character Sycophants are made as mindless cheerleaders for the Sue/Stu or warped canon characters: they may take the guise of the Sue/Stu's best friends that happen to be cardboard cutouts, or as previously-unknown-yet-very-important characters that support the Sue/Stu and may even qualify the Sue/Stu to hang out with the canon characters. A Canon Character warped into a Sycophant loses most or all of his/her characterization in favor of supporting the Sue. Ironically, canon characters that become Sycophants are often the character that the Suethor likes the most: and so the things the Suethor values the most also becomes the things he/she destroys the most thoroughly. Designated Sycophants appearing in a fic constitutes a charge, as it is a major warping of characterization, and more severe than a charge for simple OOC-ness. Designated Sycophants usually are Character Replacements or Possessed. Characters with OOC Resistance almost never become Designated Sycophants, as many of them are too disliked, or too oft-ignored (See: Dwarves, Ron Weasley, anybody not considered 'hott') for a Sue to want their support. Characters with OOC Immunity that are portrayed as Designated Sycophants are always Character Replacements and must be killed. The Designated Sycophant's opposite number is the Designated Bastard.
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