Do you have feelings for your characters? Do you care for/respect/love them?

Dragonnord

Do you guys/gals have feelings for your character(s)? Do you care for them? Do you like or really love them maybe?

How would you feel if one day you'd have to say good bye to them forever and so they would never see the online world again?

Or maybe you just don't feel/care at all for your toons?

EDIT: With "love them" I don't mean that you want to marry any of them. I see some people have twisted thoughts here.
 

Tasear

They are different shades of me,

Tasear - subject to change at any time.
Dk tank - my commanding side
My dk healer - exploring, and Noble side
Templar healer - my wild and aggronant side
My nightblade healer - my darker and inventing side
My warden healer, the outcast and scholar
My orc sorc tank - playful and adorable, and manly side.

Edit

I have a night blade with an identity crisis too that I often forget about. May one day just vanish.

DeadlyPhoenix

No I don't care for my toon... My main anyway.

The reason why is because he has done some horrible things and is a traitor.

There is a lot of content that require making very tough decisions and often times it can be downright evil.

Maybe if I intended for him to be evil 5ish years ago I'd like him more.

Edit:
Just to clarify, definitely no romantic feelings as my main was more an extension of me in another reality. Though I know I would make a good "partner" for myself haha

Nestor

Just like my relatives, some are neat and I like to spend time with them, some I am different about and just serve a purpose and some are just downright distasteful, but they get the job done.

josiahva

What? No, why would I? Its just pixels... That's why I am a tank that tanks pugs. You think I would spend 3 hours pugging against Zaan if I actually cared about my toons?

Ilsabet

I mean I'm not really into women so...

Oh do you mean platonic attachment in the sense of feeling invested in game characters who will one day cease to exist? Well yeah, I like my characters and I'll be sad when they poof, although hopefully that'll happen long after I've moved on from this game and don't really need to care anymore.

Violynne

Dragonnord wrote: »

Do you guys/gals have feelings for your character(s)?

Nope. Each of my alts plays a different role, and none are those who I look for as a mate.

Do you care for them?

Not really.

Do you like or really love them maybe?

Oh, hell no. Two of my alts wouldn't give me the time of day, let alone any sugar.

How would you feel if one day you'd have to say good bye to them forever and so they would never see the online world again?

Hello, new MMO for the XBox One. Let me spend the next 10 years comparing you to ESO.

Or maybe you just don't feel/care at all for your toons? 

I wouldn't go this far, either.

Part of building the alts is giving them personalities which are not mine, and having to remind myself they are their own.

For example:
My Altmer is a by-the-numbers Eye of the Queen. Some elf gives plans to the Covenant? Daddy, kill your son or I'll do it.

My Bosmer is a "take all sides, then make a decision" kind of gal. Her mood actually changes if it's raining, which is usually in favor of the "defendant" because she loves the rain, especially storms. "Aw dad, forgive your son. At least he helped get the plans back, so no harm done."

My Khajiit is a coin flipper, and yes, I keep a quarter next to me when I play her character. In decisions she has to choose, her response is always "This one does not dictate the fate of others. We will allow the moons to determine the fate. Light moons mean [they get to live] and dark moons [they die]."

I like this character. Kind of fun flipping for the outcome.

srfrogg23

Erm... no? Yes? Maybe?

My characters are a digital extension of myself into the game world and how I interact with it. I care about myself, I respect myself, and I periodically love myself, but my only feelings about losing a character in any MMO is the loss of things that they have accumulated during my play time.

Malacthulhu

No, I gave you an awesome though.

Lynx7386

Each one has a unique style and personality, I enjoy making back stories and such for each of my characters. Definitely wouldn't mind hooking up with my templar either =p

JinMori

no.

Well, i would like to be a magic user, but that won't happen, and i don't think it qualifies as me caring all that much about my character, i just treat them as they are, a way to entertain myself.

VaranisArano

Mine will live on in my imagination and in fanfiction that may or may not ever get out of editing hell.

EvilAutoTech

All of my characters are in love with me. They will do anything I ask them to. They have died for me. However, in the end, I'm just using them for their bodies.

The_Smilemeister

No. I'm not that sad.

Jayman1000

I hate them, so I make them perform mundane repetitive tasks that slowly drain their soul dry muahahahah

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Aebaradath

Wut?

Hallothiel

I care about them in the sense they are my creations & I've made up their history & personality etc (not that much but some. Not to the extent of writing fan fiction about them. Just a vague idea of motivation / philosophy.)

And yes would miss them - especially my main Khajiit. Have learnt so much playing him (1st MMO) so have an affection for him.

But not 'trwew luuurve' or anything like that. They're made up!

The_Smilemeister

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

Wut?

Join the club.

Respect4Elders

Marginis

Well, most of my characters are all different... characters, I guess. Just like NPCs that I control. In that way, as a roleplayer, I tend to inhabit their minds, and not really exist outside of that. My main character is more or less me, or at least is a character of his own that inherited a lot from me. He exists in a weird way, separately from me, but also kind of is me - kind of like what I imagine it would feel like to have a twin. Like, I'd do him, but I'd feel really weird about it (ignoring the fact that he's also a Khajiit, for a moment), if that makes sense. However, in that he "is" me, and has relationships with my other characters, I feel a certain way toward all of my characters I guess. One of my characters, for example, is a really old friend of my Khajiit's, so, that friend character might give off an air of trustworthiness to me, though I usually just roll that into his personality when playing him rather than have feelings themselves toward the character.

Anyway, insofar as "love" goes... I wouldn't want to lose any of my characters, but that's not out of love. However I would sleep with several of my toons, so if that counts as "love"...

Reverb

Two of my characters are jerks. I didn’t decide that for them, their “personalities” grew organically as I played. So I can’t say that I like them, but it is fun to play an *** sometimes.

Danikat

They're like characters in a book or a movie to me. I give them all back stories and personalities and I feel attached to them in the sense that I've followed/lead them through their adventures and watched them grow as people (all of mine tend to start out very naïve). There's definitely some affection/amusement/frustration/disgust there (depending on the character and the situation) but it's nothing like how I feel about real people.

lygerseye

Cared enough to give a couple of them back-stories, and their stories do continue based on gameplay and other events... I will probably miss them when their stories are done, much like I miss some TV shows when they got cancelled.

Ardan147

My Argonian "No-Table-Manners" has, well, no table manners and so can't be allowed out in public. (I created him just to have yet another toon to do daily crafting writs on during the anniversary event, and at the moment he's just serving as a pack mule so I can't delete him until I find some other place for all the junk in his inventory.)

My other toons I have a lot more love for.

TheShadowScout

Dragonnord wrote: »

Do you guys/gals have feelings for your character(s)? Do you care for them? Do you like or really love them maybe? 

Depends on the character...
My main characters, yes, they feel like... pets, like a dog or cat I raised from a little puppy/kitten to an adorable adult companion.

Most of my alts... are just characters I made to test this or that buold

Dragonnord wrote: »

How would you feel if one day you'd have to say good bye to them forever and so they would never see the online world again? 

I would be very sad.

Tasear wrote: »

They are different shades of me...

^This!^

Well, my mains, anyhow. I suppose the others... well, I guess most of them are more like... molded after people I know. (the drunk nord mountain man is definitely channelling my dads spirit!)

purple-magicb16_ESO

srfrogg23 wrote: »

Erm... no? Yes? Maybe?

My characters are a digital extension of myself into the game world and how I interact with it. I care about myself, I respect myself, and I periodically love myself, but my only feelings about losing a character in any MMO is the loss of things that they have accumulated during my play time.

Wait... "periodically"?

Slurg

I view them as virtual pets so yes I am fond of them in that sense. I take care of them by dressing them up, giving them their own little pets, and taking them on adventures.

Nyladreas

This topic sparked some horrors since at the time of reading I was just doing quests in Pa'Alat in Reaper's March. You know what I mean if you been there.

And no I have to say I have no special or romantic feelings towards my characters. Other than that they portray certain sides of me, like the first comment says.

bellatrixed

I mean, I had this happen already since I played Star Wars Galaxies for years and then it was shut down. I still have some nostalgia for that game and the memories/friends I made there, but I don't miss my actual characters.

I just transplanted those characters to other universes. I have four characters in particular that I recreate in every MMO I've ever played.

I never really lose the characters, cause those are my creations--their personalities and appearances and etc. My main is a Breton vampire and was once a Sith pureblood in SWTOR, and before that she was a blood elf in WoW, and before that she was a Vanir in Age of Conan, and before that was a human dark jedi in SWG. The setting and aesthetics change but the core stays the same and that makes me happy.

Ley

To me they are tools. Tools with some sentimental value. As tools, I have my preferred tool for each job.

Esha76

I like to think each of my characters would have their own unique personalities. I view them as separate entities, and rather like the notion of them possibly existing in some alternate reality or something. I always refer to them in the 3rd person. Such as "She got a Spell Power Cure drop." Never "I got the drop," etc.

I have some ideas of what I'd like them to be like, if they existed. For example, I'd like to think my healer would be benevolent and altruistic. But I'm also pretty sure my Khajiit is certifiable. I do, sometimes, try to style them according to what kind of personality I think they would have. Such as, said Khajiit wears the chamber pot on his head.

I certainly don't consider any of them to be any part, or reflection, of me. Pretty sure ZOS would delete them if they were anything like me...

Though I still get attached to them. I do feel a sense of wanting to protect them and would be upset if they went away.