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

TelvanniWizard

My main represents me, so I have a big deal of love for him (myself)

Dragonnord

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Bro.. l got a good therapist l can recommend you. Ha ha

@GreenhaloX Bro, why several of you believe I'm referring to, for example, you being a male irl being in real love with a female digital character, or you, being a woman irl being in real love with a male digital character?

There are PLENTY of ways to care and be attached to something, other than literally being in love.

It's some of you guys that may need a therapist if you can't think out of one only idea, if you think that loving someone/something necessarily means that you want to marry him/her. LOL!

In reading the 60+ comments, I see most of the players care about their characters. Even the ones that say they don't, they show enough knowledge about them, they express enough details about them, meaning they DO care.
 

srfrogg23

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

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"?

Heh... you don’t wanna know

Voxicity

No...

Violynne

Rain_Greyraven wrote: »

I have been told I have a unusual attachment to my horse Buttercup.....

It's just unusual to see legs dangling from the back end of the horse.

How'd you get up there, anyway?

Dark_Claw

I remember having trouble starting ESO because I had grown so attached to my Skyrim character, Geinhaal, that I wasn’t sure if I could become as emotionally invested in a new one (incidentally I had the same trouble starting Skyrim because of my Oblivion character). My solution was to make all my Elder Scrolls characters reincarnations of a single person albeit with different appearances, backstories and quirks, and I’m now just as attached to my ESO toon as I was to Geinhaal.

zaria

Esha76 wrote: »

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.

Same here, and they kind of have, sorcerer main who is main crafter and do all quests on, templar healer who i do harder content on, stamblade who is main thief. Its my active characters, has an DK, another sorcerer and an warden who don't have strong personalities and kind of tire 2, tire 3 is an spare NB and templar to replace the last two bank alts.

Enslaved

I like my chars. Why would I make them if I didnt like them?

Ilithyania

Im a cold emotionless fish. But i do have a softspot for my furry Khajiit.

Kuramas9tails

I am totally in love with my Altmer main, my Argonian tank and my less than average stamblade because he's a khjaiit and I love khajiits.

GreenhaloX

Dragonnord wrote: »

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Bro.. l got a good therapist l can recommend you. Ha ha

@GreenhaloX Bro, why several of you believe I'm referring to, for example, you being a male irl being in real love with a female digital character, or you, being a woman irl being in real love with a male digital character?

There are PLENTY of ways to care and be attached to something, other than literally being in love.

It's some of you guys that may need a therapist if you can't think out of one only idea, if you think that loving someone/something necessarily means that you want to marry him/her. LOL!

In reading the 60+ comments, I see most of the players care about their characters. Even the ones that say they don't, they show enough knowledge about them, they express enough details about them, meaning they DO care.
 

Yeah.. it's true. Everyone can use a therapist for something, and my therapist friend will see you and all the 60+ others. It's all good.. Everybody needs some loving, whatever it may be. You guys go on with your loving selves..

Dragonnord

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Dragonnord wrote: »

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Bro.. l got a good therapist l can recommend you. Ha ha

@GreenhaloX Bro, why several of you believe I'm referring to, for example, you being a male irl being in real love with a female digital character, or you, being a woman irl being in real love with a male digital character?

There are PLENTY of ways to care and be attached to something, other than literally being in love.

It's some of you guys that may need a therapist if you can't think out of one only idea, if you think that loving someone/something necessarily means that you want to marry him/her. LOL!

In reading the 60+ comments, I see most of the players care about their characters. Even the ones that say they don't, they show enough knowledge about them, they express enough details about them, meaning they DO care.
 

Yeah.. it's true. Everyone can use a therapist for something, and my therapist friend will see you and all the 60+ others. It's all good.. Everybody needs some loving, whatever it may be. You guys go on with your loving selves..

Why you keep talking about the Love aspect and avoid the Care option? Probably all your toons wear no costume, no skin, no dye different from the others, no tattoos, nothing, right? Because you just don't care about any aspect of them, not even how they look, right?
 

Still_Mind

Yes and no.

I feel attached to the combination of design, mechanics, the mood that the character sets for me.

Eventually, details of their personality come to life on their own, and "flesh out" the "persona" behind the pixels.

Some are more stable, migrating from game to game relatively unchanged, others change dramatically, a few fade away.

Could say that they are "personified outlets" for certain moods, and a way to explore the virtual world from varying points of view.

AnviOfVai

I always like to make my characters have their own look/design and to a certain extent and I love the design side of that to make small backstories for my characters (even though they are all pvp characters) they kinda end up getting their own backstories by the way the fight and use skills, for example my pet sorc and fire DK who have their own unique styles. Non of my characters really represent anything from "me" they are more of just characters I enjoy to fight and design with, so I guess in that way you could call it a design attachment?

Troneon

ZOS hates my character.

ktdotexe

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