How would you go about writing a jab at Gary Stu archetype? Making

>Clinically insane

>>8748645
Use a Gary Stu but make his environment reward losing or being weak rather than being successful.

He is perfect, but despite this cannot rise to primacy within society or even his chosen occupation and/or pastimes. He has competitors who are also perfect, and happen to be luckier or better positioned than him as well. In the end, despite his innumerable positive qualities, he despairs at his unspecialness in a society of hundreds of millions.

Kumagawa from Medaka Box

>>8748756
Also, place him in a mundane setting that doesn't need saving often, if at all.

>>8748769
Also, write about him growing older, weaker, uglier - less perfect, in other words. Write about him getting arthiritis and other inevitable aging-related diseases. Write about him in his dying days, using as a model perhaps a dissipated Kant and/or sports legend of your choice. Write about his death.

>>8748863
Final piece of advice. Have him respond to all this in an ultimately healthy and adaptive way, overcome despair, and die at peace with his not entirely flawless life. The jab shouldn't be at *his* inability to handle reality...

>>8748863
>>8748966
That's boring. I'm writing a harem story right now and my MC isn't a Gary Stu type so much as inscrutable, he only cares about sex and tells the brutal truth because he doesn't know any better. The girls around him and the world warps to make it easier on him to ascend to greatness, it's like this strange reverse tragedy where you just watch some idiot bumble around and become a hero because he met the right people who guided him the right way.
It was my favorite idea, because it mocks the idea of harem while supporting it. True wish fulfillment, where you can barely believe it's real but it happens anyways, like winning the lottery and using that money to open a successful business.
Most people just lose their cash after winning it.

In exchange, I made him immature and did my best to clue the readers in that this guy is flailing about like an idiot and winning every time.
For a 'true' jab at gary stu, I can't think of anything better without compromising his stu status.
Once you take away his youthful immortality and power, he loses all relevance as a stu character. I'm planning on my character basically fucking everything up for everyone except himself, barely hanging on the wreckage of a nation and his close lovers congratulating him because he made them happen, no matter how many lives he destroyed, they all decide to accept it.

>>8748645
I tend to write myself into one of my works as a Gary Stu who always suffers a sudden tragic death. One time I even wrote a character who had a ballpark resemblance to him but had completely different morals which distressed the other characters

>>8748645
Do what I am Doing. Make it Philosophical debate between a man who is born Gifted VS a man who isn't born gifted.

>>8749441
>this strange reverse tragedy where you just watch some idiot bumble around and become a hero because he met the right people who guided him the right way
So every harem anime ever?

>>8749837
shit. Good point. It seems I've confused myself so much writing harem nonsense that I thought I was doing something cool. I'll make sure to feel worse about it when I write it, thanks.