Gold: Crystal, you encountered Suicune, Celebi AND Arceus, stole Suicune away from the most professional tracker of the pokemon, AND survived a fall off both Mt Mortar AND Ecruteak Tower. Are you a Mary Sue or what?
Crystal: Of course not, Gold, don’t go making blatant assumptions… I’m a Mommy Sue
past me: canon is sacred I must carefully fact-check everything to make sure it is canon-compliant
present me: canon is a box of scraps in a cave I’m gonna tear that shit apart throw away 90% of it and out of the good bits build something absolutely beautiful and amazing