I absolutely understand what you mean with the Mary Sue/Stu thing. Way back in my XF days I waded through so many of those awful things that even having prominent female characters in slashy stories started to get up my nose because it felt m-suey. I guess I never picked up on the first person thing but I totally get it.
My very first fics were third person. It was around my 4th or 5th that I thought I'd try something wacky and that's when I started on the first-person-in-present-tense thing and it just ended up being my favoured style. Though it did limit my ability to switch perspectives. Thus the whole Darren/Daniel switching POVs in Wagger and Fairy. No other way around it.
Strangely enough the newest nugget of an idea I have for a fic keeps rolling around in my head in third person. Maybe things are a-changing. We'll see how it comes out.
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My very first fics were third person. It was around my 4th or 5th that I thought I'd try something wacky and that's when I started on the first-person-in-present-tense thing and it just ended up being my favoured style. Though it did limit my ability to switch perspectives. Thus the whole Darren/Daniel switching POVs in Wagger and Fairy. No other way around it.
Strangely enough the newest nugget of an idea I have for a fic keeps rolling around in my head in third person. Maybe things are a-changing. We'll see how it comes out.