Would you like more "feminine" personalities for your characters?

InvictusApollo

Lets be honest. The acronym MMORPG stands for Multiple Men Online RolePlaying Girls.
My main is a man. I've played with it through all of ESO's content. I consumed all of it's content - at least the one I cared for. I even totally stopped playing ESO with my main. Then I returned, played with it for a while, realised that magblades were much better at dps back then. And so I have created my second character. But then an idea came to my mind: "why won't I make a female character - why stare at some men when I can stare at a beautifull woman". And now I have eight of them and just one male character.
I buy them dresses, motifs, costumes and other cosmetics to make them look appealing. I make them little pieces of art.
You can hate me for loving when a woman is feminine. But the fact remains that we have only one, maybe two trully feminine personalities - as in personalities that I would set for a female character.
The first one is "The Dutches"... and I hate it. Sorry but I was taught to be humble. It seems against USA's culture but being humble is what we expect of anyone in my country and maybe the rest of Europe. And there is nothing "humble" about "The Dutchess". I feel like this personality makes the character look pompous and full of themself. A total turn off for me.
The second one that could be considered feminine is the happy personality. Making your woman happy is a heart warming experience. But something is missing.

Thus I would love if we could buy additional feminine personalities. There are definitely enough female playable characters in game to warrant that. And even male characters could use it, as I have seen many instances of people roleplaying gays.

Maybe a "Flirty" personality? Or a "Lovestruck"/"Charmed" personality. Hey, even an "I'm on my period so stop annoying me with your breathing" personality would be awesome and great for roleplay.

Amphithoe

Yes, please.

I would like more personalities end of story!

Danikat

Apart from The Dutchess I've never really thought of any of the personalities as being masculine or feminine. I'm as likely to use them on my female characters as my male ones and I don't think they're out of place when I do.

The main thing which puts me off using any personalities is that I think a lot of them are massively over-acted. It's like they wanted to make absolutely sure there could be no doubt you're using a personality and it comes off more like bad amature dramatics than a realistic portrayal of that kind of person. If they could be toned down a bit, or if there were new ones which weren't so over the top all the time, I'd be more likely to use them.

x48rph

My hamster has a tattoo. ("Other" option)

There's also Brassy Assassin. While it can work for a guy, I'd definitely consider it a female personality.

Elsonso

Yes, please.

Danikat wrote: »

The main thing which puts me off using any personalities is that I think a lot of them are massively over-acted. It's like they wanted to make absolutely sure there could be no doubt you're using a personality and it comes off more like bad amature dramatics than a realistic portrayal of that kind of person. If they could be toned down a bit, or if there were new ones which weren't so over the top all the time, I'd be more likely to use them.

Yes. Seems like they deliberately made them that way. Way too over the top, even for "USA's culture" .

I don't use Duchess and don't see it around widely. I think people tend to use it for crafting characters.

I'd certainly like to see some more personalities along the line of Duchess, though. Maybe a little less over the top. The problem is that there is a decent chance that I wouldn't be able to afford it if they did. It would probably be Crown Crate or Gems. This is why I hesitate to suggest things, anymore.

fierackas

Some of your post could be taken as offensive in the way you refer to women or homosexuals.

Other than that, there is no T in Duchess, it is supposed to be someone from the nobility, not the Netherlands!

KillsAllElves

F uk yea

TheImperfect

Yes, please.

I'm female and I don't consider this sexist as some of my characters are more feminine than others and even male characters could have a feminine personality. Some of my female characters are quite masculine. I can see the problem though that some players might find male (or even female) characters using a feminine personality as offensive but I personally wouldn't.

InvictusApollo

Yes, please.

fierackas wrote: »

Some of your post could be taken as offensive in the way you refer to women or homosexuals.

Other than that, there is no T in Duchess, it is supposed to be someone from the nobility, not the Netherlands!

The sad truth of modern world is that anything and everything "could be taken as offensive".

tomofhyrule

My hamster has a tattoo. ("Other" option)

I'd love more personalities in general, tbh.

My main's (M Orc) walking around Heroic, which is really fun, but I've got three other characters in planning. I love the personalities that change the walk style, and I think it gives them more of a life when I'm taking screens of everything. And I take screenshots of everything.

One of the chars I'm planning is a female Altmer mage who's always very proper and wearing gowns, so the Duchess actually fits her quite well. For the others...I'm hoping some of the others return (I'd love my M Nord WW to be Drunk, since I doubt I'll be able to get the Beast anytime soon).

As for the over-the-top acting...it depends on personality. The Heroic greet every so often is weird, but I like some of his other idles (I'd actually like an emote where he punches his hand so I can trigger it since it's a great anim). The Assassin annoys me though, since the dagger flip is the only extra idle, so they pull it out nonstop.

Michae

My hamster has a tattoo. ("Other" option)

InvictusApollo wrote: »

Hey, even an "I'm on my period so stop annoying me with your breathing" personality would be awesome and great for roleplay.

Isn't this basically Brassy Assassin?

I wouldn't say no to what you're describing but at the same time I didn't really think about most personalities as male or female, with the exception of the Dutchess of course. And it was said before, but I find most personalities a bit overacted. Brassy Assassins is my favourite, and I use it on a female character, but it does look good also on males.

Kalik_Gold

Yes, please.

I voted yes, but for more personalities in general like someone said above. One of my guy does use the Brassy Assassin (which was female), but it works on his Imperial demeanor of being better than everyone.

Currently using on my characters:
=== PvP ===
Furious - Kalik
Heroic - Cacique
Assassin / Thief - Jux
Commander - Goliath
Scholar - Kaotik
=== PvE ===
Telvanni / Melancholy - Auhrik
Jester - Herzog
Brassy / Drunk - Tyrus
Cheerful / Treasure - Cinan

Tai-Chi

My hamster has a tattoo. ("Other" option)

I would like to see more personality options made available for characters full stop. They can either make or break a character.

Personally, I adore the Duchess personality and several of my characters sport it - both male and female. There again, we are on PC EU - England & my characters are all either H.R.Hs, Dragon Kings & Queens, or they are of noble birth.

That reminds me, my male High Elf Templar - with the Duchess personality - loved it so much, that I promised him a gender change months ago. We tried it out on the PTS, to see whether the Appearance Change token would do the trick; I am delighted to say the operation was a complete success.

Quoting @InvictusApollo
"The first one is "The Dutches"... and I hate it. Sorry but I was taught to be humble. It seems against USA's culture but being humble is what we expect of anyone in my country and maybe the rest of Europe. And there is nothing "humble" about "The Dutchess". I feel like this personality makes the character look pompous and full of themself."

I hope you do not mind me saying - in the nicest possible way - that you seem to have rather strayed from those early year lessons about "humbleness". Perhaps it is just me but your @ name is far from being "Humble". It absolutely radiates with majesty and Solar Godhood.

Danikat

Incidentally Duchess is the female equivalent of Duke, one of the highest ranks of nobility. So even if they're taught that they should be humble they're probably not expected to act like it.

sudaki_eso

Yes, please.

x48rph wrote: »

There's also Brassy Assassin. While it can work for a guy, I'd definitely consider it a female personality.

Yup, its my favorite so far for my female chars.

InvictusApollo

Yes, please.

Tai-Chi wrote: »

I would like to see more personality options made available for characters full stop. They can either make or break a character.

Personally, I adore the Duchess personality and several of my characters sport it - both male and female. There again, we are on PC EU - England & my characters are all either H.R.Hs, Dragon Kings & Queens, or they are of noble birth.

That reminds me, my male High Elf Templar - with the Duchess personality - loved it so much, that I promised him a gender change months ago. We tried it out on the PTS, to see whether the Appearance Change token would do the trick; I am delighted to say the operation was a complete success.

Quoting @InvictusApollo
"The first one is "The Dutches"... and I hate it. Sorry but I was taught to be humble. It seems against USA's culture but being humble is what we expect of anyone in my country and maybe the rest of Europe. And there is nothing "humble" about "The Dutchess". I feel like this personality makes the character look pompous and full of themself."

I hope you do not mind me saying - in the nicest possible way - that you seem to have rather strayed from those early year lessons about "humbleness". Perhaps it is just me but your @ name is far from being "Humble". It absolutely radiates with majesty and Solar Godhood.

I chose InvictusApollo as my nickname because Apollo is very often already taken. And I got used to being called Apollo ever since my sister found me in a club entertaining multiple girls with a conversation. She said sth like: "Come Apollo, leave your beautifull muses, we have to go home". And it sticked ever since.
As for "Invictus" it's from "Sol Invictus" who was the god of sun in Roman Empire. Apollo was also the god of sun. I glued these two together to make a nickname that is strangely almost allways free.

ZOS_JesC

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