Intro to Blackthorn- Coleshōgun blog post 2.

Mary Sue- A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue),is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly. The author may seem to push how exceptional and wonderful the "Mary Sue" character is on his or her audience, sometimes leading the audience to dislike or even resent the character fairly quickly; such a character could be described as an "author's pet."

Meet Blackthorn. He pilots a ship that was recently crashed onto the shores of Japan, along with ten of his crew. When he arrived, he was treated well enough by the villagers (especially the villagers who are ladies). after a while, though, the man in charge of the province, named Yabu learned of Blackthorn’s arrival and decided that they decided he was foreign and smelly. Mostly because of his refusal to bathe, but also because he wasn’t Japanese. Yabu decided to break Blackthorn's spirit by throwing him and his men in a pit. For this, as well as a few scenes I would rather not mention, because they are gross, Blackthorn swore revenge on him. He was removed from the pit, spirit intact of course, then taken from Yabu’s care by an even higher up, lord Toranaga. Toranaga used him as a means to gather information on the world outside Japan. I was surprised and delighted when Blackthorn did time in prison, thinking it would develop his character and show him facing hardships, as Toranaga attempted to break his will on death row. Very quickly, however, Blackthorn proves his might outfighting some dude who tries to shank him, and then finds out that everyone in the prison was converted to Christianity by a Spanish monk inmate, so they all begin to worship him like the devilishly handsome English man-god he is. Also, he gets let out of prison after he absorbs a sufficiently plot developing Japanese vocabulary. The Japanese, however, are on the brink of war between Lord Toranaga and another man, lord Ishido. Due to skillful political maneuvering by Yabu, the war to be may depend on who he sides with, though I think it won't matter because Blackthorn will fly into space, and spend some time with the hydralisks learning to spit acid before returning to Earth and melting off Yabu's face. Maybe not that, but Blackthorn's going to kill Yabu in some inane way. I say inane because Yabu is a strong and disiplined man who is also a samuri with a samuri sword, and Blackthorn is basically this half starved prisoner who gets tossed around from oppressor to oppressor whenever he blinks. in fact, after getting out of jail, he is being taken to lord Ishido when Ishido's men get killed by bandits who get killed by Yabu's men who take him back to Toranaga. So, my prediction for the story is Yabu will get minus one face.