Let me reply to the lovely crackles in order to expand on a point I keep trying to hammer into the wiki.
I often see new writers attempting to write humanoid SCP objects or just interesting characters fall into a sad pit of poor technique I'm gonna call rhinestone syndrome. They write what feels like an overempowered character, and attempt to downplay or cancel out the power by giving that character a series of "flaws".
Let me stress to everyone reading this post that that is a terrible way to write.
You see, bad ideas are bad ideas. When you attempt to downplay a bad idea by tacking other ideas onto it, you simply wind up writing a bad concept with extraneous stuff attached. As it is written, "roll dog shit in rhinestones and all you've made is a mess." Worse yet, it's always (no exceptions) painfully obvious to readers that the "downsides" exist solely to cover up the concept flaw, and that obviousness serves to highlight the original flaw. It actually makes things worse.
I mention this in this thread because this is the second superpowered fat woman we've seen spurted onto the wiki in about a month. This is a classic example of the rhinestone syndrome I mentioned. By making the SCP grossly overweight, the author hopes to compensate for the fact that he's given her what amounts to a direct line into other characters sex drives. It really, really, really doesn't work.
EDIT: Apparently the weight thing was a typo, but I'm leaving this up because I think I made a good point and am proud of me.
