Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191208140701/@comment-1327106-20191211024620

I wish the definition of what a Mary Sue is wouldn't have to keep coming up in these threads. Remember, the term Mary Sue came up from self-insert fanfiction, where writers would drop in their perfect OCs to meet up with canon characters. Gabi is not an idealized stand-in for Isayama himself.

Any quick dictionary check on Google would provide the proper meaning. Gabi can be unlikable for a host of reasons people have already mentioned, but she is clearly not a Mary Sue.

In fact a lot of the reasons people dislike her is because of the flaws that prevent her from being a Mary Sue at all.

You could, however, argue she's the author's pet, and get no pushback from me.