Pata Hikari wrote:
It's literally like adding a character named "Mary Sue" into the story. Sure, you can say she's not actually a Mary Sue and just happens to share the name, but that doesn't mean I'm going to bother to look when I can read stories that don't make me wary already.
The point of a summary is to give a reader the basic idea of what happens in a story, if this summary is misleading in that fashion then that's the fault of the summary.
I think you don't understand how people use those tags. At all. Your above statement is outright ridiculous for at least a third of the stories i've read with those kind of tags. Just, does not compute.
Seriously, tags denote that a character's development will go more or less in a specific direction, something that already happens in EVERY SINGLE DAMN FANFIC ALREADY, because if it doesn't, it's not a fanfic anyway. *sheesh*