Is Emma a Mary Sue?

Sitting around at home all day, there's plenty of time for shower thoughts even when you aren't showering that much.

One day out of the blue I wondered:  would people consider Emma Earl of the Tales of the Scarlet Knight series a Mary Sue?

Does this look like a Mary Sue to you?

She meets the first qualification in that she's a girl.  And she's super-smart, like an actual genius, which is why she has a PhD at 19 and is working as a geologist at a museum.  And then she gets a suit of magical armor that gives her superpowers!

That probably is enough to make some people consider her a Mary Sue.  I'm not sure I'd really agree.  Sure she's super-smart but in a lot of ways it's a detriment for her as it's kept her from having a normal life.  At the start of the story she only has one friend, her chubby childhood friend Becky.  Her parents died in a car wreck when she was little so she didn't exactly have a perfect childhood either.  And her aunt has early-onset Alzheimer's so that she had to be put into an assisted living center.  I also made it a point to describe her as not being really pretty; she has really big feet, a big-ish nose, and average sized breasts, so she's not a supermodel.

She does get magic armor, but she doesn't instantly master it.  Her first night of crime-fighting she does perhaps more harm than good.  Her first two battles with the evil Black Dragoon she barely survives.  So you can't really argue that she was great at using the armor right off the bat; it really takes the whole book for her to get even moderately decent at the superhero thing.

Anyway, I guess I'll have to leave it to Phantom Readers to decide whether she is a Mary Sue or not.

I was bored one day so I decided to fire up The Sims 4 and do a fresh version of Emma and her friend Becky.  I don't have real armor so I just used the Red Power Ranger suit for Emma's armor.  And here they are in the wild:

Emma has a nice ass, don't you think?