Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3025831-20140330171822/@comment-14800267-20140331062227

We bitch and moan about it because we only have 16 BASE personality types. All the other parts and combinations of traits are what makes the character. If it were as you say, one in sixteen people would be exactly the same as yourself. This test is interesting and all, but doesn't count in personality mutability and how people WILL change over time and the thousand other little things that make us individuals. If I did this test ten years ago, may answers would have been completely different, and yet I am exactly the same being as the one ten years ago, all based ont he little things that make me who I am.

Also, a lot of this is based on personal opinion of yourself. Answering for myself, there were some things that I was either uncertain of (especially the "People often see you as/say you are" as most of my friends aren't that rude or are completely eccentric artists as well) or knew was entirely my own opinion (You have good fashion sense, for example)

Non original OC and Mary Sues (the actual Mary Sue definition, not the insult that gets slung at any female character) are critisized because they use a cookie cutter base and have MINIMAL effort and imagination put into them, if any at all. Often this is coupled by a vicious defense when anyone suggests even politely, how to improve and add depth, which of course does not exactly create much sympathy.

Actually the point about a million small things making all the difference rather than this apparent underlying personality is shown really well here:

Jane is: IntrovertedObservantFeelingProspectingTurbulent

And Esmee is: IntrovertedObservantFeelingProspectingTurbulent Exactly the same result for both of them. Yet I don't think you could accuse them of being even remotely similar.