Androgynous/Gender bending characters/outfits

DamenAJ

So, I was a bit hesitant making this thread, because I know they sometimes get heated and ugly, but, I'm not doing this out of any controversial urges.

I LOVE androgynous looks. I love experimenting with how feminine I can make men, how masculine I can make women. I wish ESO had a middle gender to help with the androgynous look, but for now, we have armour/outfits to help us out.

Here are my two characters I've been playing around with:

Bonus: In combat, with a redoran medium chest

I'm testing this outfit on other races too, but I think it looks cute on an orc.

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Show me your androgynous and gender-bending or gender-defying characters/outfits.

Please don't bait or flame, I'm literally looking for cool/cute outfits, not making any statements. Whether you agree or not: it's a game, let people like things.

DenMoria

Interesting. Interesting.

Ragged_Claw

Love the dyes on those outfits. I've seen plenty of gender-bent characters and costumes, some for comic effect and some, like yours, done seriously. I don't know that we need a middle gender, you've done a really good job with these characters. I guess the character creator could be tweaked to allow for more variation in the sexes. More options are always good, but if they added another gender, I'd have to start a new character which would mean buying another slot

forwardbias83

Long haired, goth/vampire male orc.
Outfit: Head: Hidden, Shoulders: Glass Epaulets, Chest: Imperial Jerkin 1, Hands: Imperial Gloves 1, Waist: Imperial Sash 1, Legs: Daedric Skirt, Feet: Skinchanger Shoes, Weapon: Xivkyn Staff, Dye: Coldharbour Ash Black




Dressed up in The Withered Tree

TheShadowScout

Leskandera my bounty huntress often dresses as a boy:


And Kelasendar the librarian boy might on occasion wear pretty dresses in secret:


And Kes dre-Lana is so burly and amazonian, she often gets mistaken for a male:


...what can I say?
I do like making characters that are a bit on the androgynous-ish (one side or the other) for my mains...

LadyNalcarya

I like your chars.
And I think it's pretty awesome that outfits and costumes are not gender locked.

Merlin13KAGL

You realize Orcs don't count, right? Gender strictly determined by whoever wins the arm wrestling contest.

NBrookus

Lots of players put their male toons in dresses as a joke, but your toon looks are truly thought out and fantastic, OP.

Jaimeh

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Leskandera my bounty huntress often dresses as a boy:

I love your bounty huntress--she has a really savvy, bad-ass look going on!

Ostacia

runagate

DamenAJ wrote: »

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Strangely enough your character looks quite a bit like David Duchovny as an FBI agent on Twin Peaks

https://youtu.be/nkPALneB_k4?t=13

zaria

DamenAJ wrote: »

So, I was a bit hesitant making this thread, because I know they sometimes get heated and ugly, but, I'm not doing this out of any controversial urges.

I LOVE androgynous looks. I love experimenting with how feminine I can make men, how masculine I can make women. I wish ESO had a middle gender to help with the androgynous look, but for now, we have armour/outfits to help us out.

Here are my two characters I've been playing around with:

Bonus: In combat, with a redoran medium chest

I'm testing this outfit on other races too, but I think it looks cute on an orc.

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Show me your androgynous and gender-bending or gender-defying characters/outfits.

Please don't bait or flame, I'm literally looking for cool/cute outfits, not making any statements. Whether you agree or not: it's a game, let people like things.

The orc looks female, armor realistically take away lots of the female lines unless shaped otherwise but she still look like a lady.
Second also look like an lady. The lips, hair and the feminine dress, you would fool anybody, except the ones experienced with that dress and how it looks on ladies with smaller breasts.

zaria

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

You realize Orcs don't count, right? Gender strictly determined by whoever wins the arm wrestling contest.

This works well enough for causal sex but not so well for marriage and babies, wonder then they get that.
Female blacksmith complaining.

theyancey

Nice work. I enjoyed seeing your collection.

Recremen

Those are great looks!

I have a character that doesn't "gender bend" so much as outright reject all notions that his behavior or appearance should be dictated by his sex. He wears what he thinks he looks good in, which is basically everything!!

WilhelmTheSlayer

Looks outlandish.

Ragged_Claw

Recremen wrote: »

Those are great looks!

I have a character that doesn't "gender bend" so much as outright reject all notions that his behavior or appearance should be dictated by his sex. He wears what he thinks he looks good in, which is basically everything!!

He looks glamorous and classy, but you can tell he'd still rip your head off and feed it to his doom wolf. Love it.

VilniusNastavnik

zaria wrote: »

DamenAJ wrote: »

So, I was a bit hesitant making this thread, because I know they sometimes get heated and ugly, but, I'm not doing this out of any controversial urges.

I LOVE androgynous looks. I love experimenting with how feminine I can make men, how masculine I can make women. I wish ESO had a middle gender to help with the androgynous look, but for now, we have armour/outfits to help us out.

Here are my two characters I've been playing around with:

Bonus: In combat, with a redoran medium chest

I'm testing this outfit on other races too, but I think it looks cute on an orc.

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Show me your androgynous and gender-bending or gender-defying characters/outfits.

Please don't bait or flame, I'm literally looking for cool/cute outfits, not making any statements. Whether you agree or not: it's a game, let people like things.

The orc looks female, armor realistically take away lots of the female lines unless shaped otherwise but she still look like a lady.
Second also look like an lady. The lips, hair and the feminine dress, you would fool anybody, except the ones experienced with that dress and how it looks on ladies with smaller breasts.

The orc looks very tomboyish. Usual butch lesbian look.
The other one looks like your run of the mill trap. Nothing about that toon said lady to me. The jawline, the physique, basically the entire face screamed I was born man. A cross dresser or a well built man in the early stages of HRT. If she identifies as a woman, I will respect her right to do so, but on first appearance it appears more a man.

Both well done though.

Ragged_Claw

Here's Mr Poosticks, he's all attitude. He does what he wants.
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Skua

You are not alone, I also like my characters more towards the androgynous side. Above are two of my female characters.



My men I don't usually cross-dress directly, it never seems to work well and they look too thin when I try to make them more feminine. So I settle for definitely male with feminine characteristics like make-up and the duchess personality.

edit: Also, I LOVE your orc lady she is totally my style. Love the colors of her outfit and how well it works with her skin tone too.

Itacira

Skua wrote: »

Your khajit is absolutely gorgeous ! Great job !

DamenAJ wrote: »

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Both your character look great but I gotta say, I love the orc !

Unit117

This is such a odd thread. I love it! XD

Ragged_Claw

[Quoted post has been removed.]

I love playing games like ESO because they give players the freedom to choose how they'd like their characters to be, thus escaping from the judgements and assumptions of people irl. This does not affect your or my gameplay in any way, this is a fun thread showing off our characters, if you don't like it you don't have to look at it. And don't call Mr Poosticks ridiculous, he will cut you (metaphorically speaking).

ZOS_GregoryV

Greetings all,

After removing a small handful of posts, this is just a friendly reminder to keep everything civil and constructive.

Thank you for your understanding,
-Greg-

Xarico

It sure is nice to have a game where clothes and armor don't magically change their entire shape and style depending on the wearer's gender.

Mystrius_Archaion

Xarico wrote: »

It sure is nice to have a game where clothes and armor don't magically change their entire shape and style depending on the wearer's gender.

Some do. Just look at the male/female versions of the Dark Seducer costume.

logarifmik

That is not weird even a bit. Tolerance!.. Hooray? Meh. He monitors, must keep it "civil".

DamenAJ

zaria wrote: »

DamenAJ wrote: »

So, I was a bit hesitant making this thread, because I know they sometimes get heated and ugly, but, I'm not doing this out of any controversial urges.

I LOVE androgynous looks. I love experimenting with how feminine I can make men, how masculine I can make women. I wish ESO had a middle gender to help with the androgynous look, but for now, we have armour/outfits to help us out.

Here are my two characters I've been playing around with:

Bonus: In combat, with a redoran medium chest

I'm testing this outfit on other races too, but I think it looks cute on an orc.

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Show me your androgynous and gender-bending or gender-defying characters/outfits.

Please don't bait or flame, I'm literally looking for cool/cute outfits, not making any statements. Whether you agree or not: it's a game, let people like things.

The orc looks female, armor realistically take away lots of the female lines unless shaped otherwise but she still look like a lady.
Second also look like an lady. The lips, hair and the feminine dress, you would fool anybody, except the ones experienced with that dress and how it looks on ladies with smaller breasts.

The male orc faces are sooooo ugly. Soo... so ugly. But I love the female orcs. I think the only female character I can actually make look male (without covering the face) is Imperial(Sounds weird, I know, but go try male imperial softest face, female imperial most heroic face). But honestly, I prefer a soft-androgynous look anyway. The way either a male or female looks like a tomboy.

As for the breton, I was actually surprised how feminine I could make him, it did take quite a bit of effort, but I think he looks pretty. Chest hair and five o'clock shadow get in the way of some outfits/styles.

DamenAJ

So, there were a bunch of posts, not going to reply to all of them, but I awesomed a bunch of your outfits! That cat especially, looks sick. Very masculine, but still gorgeous in that dress. (The other cat is pretty neat too!)

Several outfits DO change depending on your gender, mostly chest armour... But there's a lot that do not, lots of diversity.

Ragged_Claw wrote: »

Love the dyes on those outfits. I've seen plenty of gender-bent characters and costumes, some for comic effect and some, like yours, done seriously. I don't know that we need a middle gender, you've done a really good job with these characters. I guess the character creator could be tweaked to allow for more variation in the sexes. More options are always good, but if they added another gender, I'd have to start a new character which would mean buying another slot

The main reason I'd like a neutral gender, besides the fact it weirds me out when someone calls me miss/she/her/sister, and I remember I'm playing a chick character... The men always have chest hair, and the females always "have boobs"....

No boobs?:



Why boobs?:

Not that I ever really expect it to happen, it'd be a lot of extra work. But I do enjoy working with an androgynous base. I spend a lot of time/gold on outfits...

Recremen

DamenAJ wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

DamenAJ wrote: »

So, I was a bit hesitant making this thread, because I know they sometimes get heated and ugly, but, I'm not doing this out of any controversial urges.

I LOVE androgynous looks. I love experimenting with how feminine I can make men, how masculine I can make women. I wish ESO had a middle gender to help with the androgynous look, but for now, we have armour/outfits to help us out.

Here are my two characters I've been playing around with:

Bonus: In combat, with a redoran medium chest

I'm testing this outfit on other races too, but I think it looks cute on an orc.

Bonus: You can see his eyes in this one.

Show me your androgynous and gender-bending or gender-defying characters/outfits.

Please don't bait or flame, I'm literally looking for cool/cute outfits, not making any statements. Whether you agree or not: it's a game, let people like things.

The orc looks female, armor realistically take away lots of the female lines unless shaped otherwise but she still look like a lady.
Second also look like an lady. The lips, hair and the feminine dress, you would fool anybody, except the ones experienced with that dress and how it looks on ladies with smaller breasts.

The male orc faces are sooooo ugly. Soo... so ugly. But I love the female orcs. I think the only female character I can actually make look male (without covering the face) is Imperial(Sounds weird, I know, but go try male imperial softest face, female imperial most heroic face). But honestly, I prefer a soft-androgynous look anyway. The way either a male or female looks like a tomboy.

As for the breton, I was actually surprised how feminine I could make him, it did take quite a bit of effort, but I think he looks pretty. Chest hair and five o'clock shadow get in the way of some outfits/styles.

I think it's very easy to get a male orc face to look ugly because they have such an enormous range of settings and it's a simple matter to get combos that mismatch aesthetically, but good gods have I seen some handsome orcs.

Vicarra

I personally love the fact that, unlike in most other games, male characters can wear female costumes, and vice versa. That's part of the player freedom that made me fall in love with the franchise in the first place.

However...the fact that certain accessories and hairstyles are gender-locked is something I have been complaining about for a long time. There seems to be no logic at all behind the fact that some lipstick can be used on male or female models, and that certain hairstyles should be deemed "just for girls" when the tousled bard hairstyle can be used on both and looks incredibly feminine. I fail, utterly, to see the logic behind why some things are gender-locked and others are not. If any item was available to use on either gender model, people could more easily create their own middle ground, if that's what they want.

Please, ZOS, for the love of the Eight, unlock all costumables so they can be used on either gender. The architecture clearly exists already.