User blog comment:Megadracosaurus/Are Night Furries overrated?/@comment-4211718-20140712191238

Honestly everything you listed sounds to me more like you're running into problems with Mary-Sues rather than necessarily a problem with the Night Fury species itself....Mary-Sues, or Gary-Stus, almost always get given things that would ordinarily be outrageous or something that's supposed to be super rare. Night Furies are certainly one of those, unfortunately Mary-Sues tend to ignore whether something is supposed to be rare in favor of making that OC more awesome or oh so much more super special.

I am very much with you though, I hate how often Night Furies are used for OCs over other dragons and how much their powers tend to get highly exagerated to the point of ridiculousness. The tendancy for making up something like Snow Furies or whatever other ridiculous new species people come up with is more so what I find really annoying. If someone want to make up an all new species of dragon or something or come up with one of their own, all well and good in fact more power to 'em I say, but things like Day/Snow/Ice/Water/Whatever Furies are just stupid. Not really anything that can be done though, unfortunately....Mary-Sues will always abound in fanfiction, only thing to do is call 'em out as you see them and hope other people can avoid them as well.