Winds howled, singing songs of loneliness into the midnight air. In the cemetery, a young man sat, sent there on a dare from his friends. Little did he know that this dare would be his last. A twig snapped. The boy, oozing bravado and false arrogance, demanded the identity of the fellow trespasser of the night. His eyes widened as a very beautiful woman approached him, kittenish with feigned innocence. Hair and eyes and skin all dark, draped with designer fabric, she was the picture of beautiful death. Eyes like melted chocolate gleamed centuries of refined sin. She spoke to him, voice sweet and high, wit sharp as obsidian. He fell for her act, for the lovely demon posing as an even lovelier angel. Eyes bleeding suddenly into shadows and blackness and EVIL, she pounced on him, piercing his throat with her teeth and claiming his soul. Afterwards, she wiped blood from her mouth and went on her merry way. After all, Katherine Pierce didn't give a damn about anything or anyone other than Katherine Pierce.

Has anyone ever read a fanfic where every other word is misspelled and you don't have any idea what is going on? Or where the characters are so not like themselves it's ridiculous, like they have Darth Vader sobbing into his pillow? Or the spelling is good and the characters are believable, but they take the lead characters and give them obscene powers(I hear Bella Swan as a werecat is a favorite)? And, of course, the infamous Mary Sues. I personally have nothing against them, as I am pretty sure everyone has made up one for themselves at some point or another. But other people do not want to hear about your fantasy! And, though there is quite a bit of controversy about this, I firmly believe that OCs that have a romantic relationship with a character are NOT Mary Sues. As long as the OC is normal and believably human, and does not have every male in sight falling at her feet in worship, I deem the story acceptable.