Elloa wrote: »

I'm a female, I mostly play females character that I customize to make them pretty - cute -innocent and pure. My ideal version of feminity. And if I was a guy, I'd fall in love with them!

I also have a male character. He is not looking like the man I'd fantasy upon. But represent sort of what I'd like to be if I was a man. So he is very manly, and fierce, and strong. When I play him, I feel super badass and its a nice feeling.

lol I read this in my girlfriends voice cause this is something she'd say but anyways I have a alt toon but I like to make my characters look as close to me as I can so I rarely play a

I am male, I play male characters.

I have tried playing female characters but I just can't connect with them for some reason. No idea why at all. But I know a lot of women who play this game who play male characters.

I'm female in real life and I play both male and female characters.

To me making a character in a game is like a writer making a character in a book. They may share some aspects of my personality, or my appearance, but they're not me in the same sense that every character in a book isn't the author, or even some representation of the author. So it doesn't matter if they're different from me in some ways, including my gender.

IMO the only thing these threads ever prove is that there are many different ways to approach creating a character in a game, and you'll encounter all of them in an MMO. So unless you've actually asked them about it you can't draw any conclusions about why someone else has made a particular character.

I usually start with a few key features, for example if I have a build in mind that needs a Breton Templar, or a crafter who should be an Imperial (so I don't need to buy that motif) and then I start imagining what kind of a person that character might be and build up an idea of what they look like and act like based on that. By the time I actually get to the character creator I usually have a pretty clear idea of what I'm doing. Sometimes their gender is one of those key features (like when I was re-creating my main from previous TES games, who has always been female) but if not it just depends on what seems right - whether I end up imagining them as male or female or which I think suits them best.

I tend to play males in all games, because that's what I am. I have couple of female chars too, but I don't play them so much. I don't find anything attractive about pixels. Some ppl do, I don't judge them for that.