My Fat Nord Gets Abused

JollyGhost

My main character is a Nord. A fat Nord that goes by the name of Alphonse Gabriel Capone. This is him:



Nearly everyday someone will make a comment along the lines of "omg you so funny you so fat" or "You'd look badass if you weren't such a ***" and " You're disgusting". I don't mind. I think it's hilarious. I was wondering if anyone else has received comments about their fat characters.

Wollust

Alphonse fits perfectly with the looks of your character. Don't know why.

Zerok

My sorcerer Gontrand is also fat and bald (and a stage 4 vampire), but I only got 2-3 comments on his ugliness since I started playing with him.

Lysette

I cannot see why people think this would look disgusting. He has a mead belly, so what, not everyone has to be athletic.

rotaugen454

I have an overweight female Orc templar that gets a lot of abuse. It's an interesting social experiment to see how people treat her. They say the things out loud that they probably whisper and snicker about in real life.

Lysette

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I have an overweight female Orc templar that gets a lot of abuse. It's an interesting social experiment to see how people treat her. They say the things out loud that they probably whisper and snicker about in real life.

In second life I found that people feel insulted by fat or disabled avatars. Their reasoning is, that it is disgusting to be that in a game as well, where it could be easily avoided. Some region owners even ban such avatars from their region, because they see that as a grief attempt to disturb other guests and make them feel uncomfortable. Tolerance is in low supply nowadays.

FortheloveofKrist

Social experiment indeed. Try creating a fat trans character (some make-up helps) on console, where all the kiddies hang out. Parade him around in a female costume of some kind and wait for the teen/20-something boys whose egos and sexual orientation is so fragile, even seeing someone different in a virtual environment makes them nervous enough to immediately defend themselves with vicious comments before they return to their homoerotic "straight" conversations about teabagging.

DeadlyRecluse

Buy the grahtwood tree climbers outfit (or any other outfit that shows some skin) and cast defense posture. Now you are a Fat Wet Nord.

I get whispers aplenty for running around like that. It is the ultimate PvP taunt--everyone want to cleanse the world of the FWN.

Elsterchen

Now Alphonse least assured I tell you what i always tell my husband: You worked hard on that belly. Wear it with pride!

Everyone else is just jelly

edit: reminds me that i wanted to start a very old granny character... a follower of Namira spreading pestilence.

rotaugen454

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

Buy the grahtwood tree climbers outfit (or any other outfit that shows some skin) and cast defense posture. Now you are a Fat Wet Nord.

I get whispers aplenty for running around like that. It is the ultimate PvP taunt--everyone want to cleanse the world of the FWN.

I ran around with my male Altmer sorc in that outfit, and got lots of snide comments. Closest thing to a kilt I could find.

Fallen_Ray

Please modify the title of this thread... It looks and sounds so wrong. I was bracing myself to encounter the worse when i clicked to enter here lol

Lysette

Elsterchen wrote: »

Now Alphonse least assured I tell you what i always tell my husband: You worked hard on that belly. Wear it with pride!

Everyone else is just jelly

Goes with a bavarian saying, which translates to "a man without a beer belly is a cripple".

menedhyn

I haven't created a 'rotund' character yet, but i'm very much in favour of alternative appearances and (let's face it) less popular builds. Credit to you.

Taisynn

Lysette wrote: »

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I have an overweight female Orc templar that gets a lot of abuse. It's an interesting social experiment to see how people treat her. They say the things out loud that they probably whisper and snicker about in real life.

In second life I found that people feel insulted by fat or disabled avatars. Their reasoning is, that it is disgusting to be that in a game as well, where it could be easily avoided. Some region owners even ban such avatars from their region, because they see that as a grief attempt to disturb other guests and make them feel uncomfortable. Tolerance is in low supply nowadays.

This! I ended up leaving a while back. I still talk to them on Plurk. Things are starting to get better, but the toxic people are still out there.

Elsterchen

Lysette wrote: »

Elsterchen wrote: »

Now Alphonse least assured I tell you what i always tell my husband: You worked hard on that belly. Wear it with pride!

Everyone else is just jelly

Goes with a bavarian saying, which translates to "a man without a beer belly is a cripple".

... and can be rounded up with the comment: Why would I want a six-pack, if i can get a keg?

Osteos

Its interesting that most of the heavy set characters are made to look ugly as well. I have seen quite a few large orc females but, I cant recall ever seeing a large female high elf.

lardvader

I love this kind of experiments! But it sadens me that so many is "disgusted" by an avatars look and shape. Some make avatars that resemble them in RL and let's say we come in all colours and shapes.

Last Friday we ended up grinding a bit in Old Orsinium and we all put on our dresses for the occasion.... I felt beutiful despite I'm a big hairy male

rotaugen454

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

Its interesting that most of the heavy set characters are made to look ugly as well. I have seen quite a few large orc females but, I cant recall ever seeing a large female high elf.

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

Its interesting that most of the heavy set characters are made to look ugly as well. I have seen quite a few large orc females but, I cant recall ever seeing a large female high elf.

I don't think my large orc female is ugly. She has a nice hairstyle, dresses well, and I don't think the tusks look bad at all.

Danikat

My crafter is an older, fat, heavily scarred male Imperial and he gets a comments every so often. My favourite was simply "Dude, you look f***ed".

It doesn't bother me though because that's exactly the idea. I wanted a character who would be a crafter 1st, adventurer 2nd and I like all my characters to have a backstory. For this one my choices seemed to be young trainee crafter with delusions of grandeur or retired adventurer who switched to crafting and the second seemed by far the most interesting. Of course he's not been very successful at the retirement thing, because getting murdered isn't something you can just let go.

I much prefer it when people comment on his name though - Sagittam Ad Genu, or translated from Latin: Arrow To The Knee. (I thought a tired old joke seemed appropriate for a tied old adventurer.) But I don't think there's many Latin speakers playing ESO (myself included, I had to use a dictionary), more than the none I expected however.

Lysette

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

Its interesting that most of the heavy set characters are made to look ugly as well. I have seen quite a few large orc females but, I cant recall ever seeing a large female high elf.

That is more a problem of the character creation tool - I tried to make my female characters so, that they do not look like they would suffer from anorexia, but this is quite hard to do. Using the same slider positions on a male character, that character turns out to be fat and bulky, but on a female altmer the same settings are hardly exceeding "slender".

Osteos

I'm sure your orc is lovely

It doesn't change the fact that I have seen more large orcs then any of the other races.

Glaiceana

Yeah its actually crazy how many people have to comment on it when they see you When we do dungeons or when I'm just walking past you in Riften someone has to say something like "omg why are you so fat" It's pretty funny. I've always said though that it's kind of a good thing, as it proves you have a unique and interesting character that people notice.

Lysette

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

I'm sure your orc is lovely

It doesn't change the fact that I have seen more large orcs then any of the other races.

Maybe that is intentional, that race specific, you cannot set sliders outside a range, which is meant for this race. Altmer are supposed to be taller with a slender look to them - and maybe that is why you cannot really make them fat.

rotaugen454

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

I'm sure your orc is lovely

It doesn't change the fact that I have seen more large orcs then any of the other races.

I have a Redguard male with a big beer belly. My wife told me to put a shirt on him.

magnusthorek

Wollust wrote: »

Alphonse fits perfectly with the looks of your character. Don't know why.

Oh I know why... Big guy in a big armor, by the name of Alphonse... Pretty straightforward for some...

Lysette

Glaiceana wrote: »

Yeah its actually crazy how many people have to comment on it when they see you When we do dungeons or when I'm just walking past you in Riften someone has to say something like "omg why are you so fat" It's pretty funny. I've always said though that it's kind of a good thing, as it proves you have a unique and interesting character that people notice.

I have a dark skinned Redguard female, which has an "african" look to her. I was curious about if people will comment on this. They don't, but something else is very strange with it - it is like I would be invisible to them. No one is talking to her or is approaching her. Totally different experience than with my light and fair skinned other female characters.

A friend of mine saw me at first in my Redguard avatar. He did not mention anything about my appearance. But next time, when he saw me as a fair skinned Breton, his comment was "finally I can see your face" - that was funny, but strange as well.

Edit: had to correct the race, it was a Breton, not a Bosmer.

Taisynn

You'd think with the pushback on fat shaming, people would leave it alone. We're so preoccupied with perfection in games, we somehow get insulted when a character is a realistic body shape.

Also, fat isn't something you are; it's just something you have. You are not defined by something you have when you can also lose it.

dodgehopper_ESO

I make characters of all shapes and sizes for a reason: Heroes don't have a 'look' in reality, and I'm not so sure its good to have heroes have a beautiful look in fantasy. I like my ugly scarred chubby orc Templar for that reason.

Mettaricana

My altmer has been proposed to many times for he oddly hot looks

Nightenhowl

"Remember this always, son of the north - a Nord is judged not by the manner in which he lived, but the manner in which he died." -Ysgramor

quadraxis666

The gauntlet has been thrown down to create the ugliest character possible!