TaliColdwater wrote: »

I was recently talking with a friend about this. I always try to make my character look like me. I don't know why...maybe to make it feel like I'm totally immersed and the one in the game fighting baddies and being a hero. But they always create characters completely different from how they look. It's a role playing game, so why not be someone else, you know, play a different role, they say. So it made me curious as to what other people did because I'd never really given it much thought before. Do you make your character to resemble you? Or do you create someone totally different?

I do this with personas; characters made to represent me in a story. Not in ESO, though!


edit: I should mention, though, that all my characters are always female.

My characters are Khajiit, so cute cats?

They are sexy creatures

I had a friend question whether I was into goth girls. He was taken back when I mentioned I wasn't into that but just liked the look of moody dark elves.

I made my main look as much like me as possible. It's an immersion thing.

All uber awesome, allegedly...

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/5599314#Comment_5599314

My characters are mostly all Argonian, so not like me. Just try to give them all unique looks, usually their role and class influence the design - color schemes picking elements from the class and overall look tied to their role (Tank, Stam, or Mag), whether they are more bulky or athletic or scrawny.

I'm the opposite - I never make my characters look like me. About the closest I get is giving one of my main characters long hair (waist length if possible, but in most games I have to settle for just below their shoulders), but hers is straight and black and mine is brown and frizzy.

I never thought about it until I found out other people did try to make characters that looked like them, but I think it might be partially because for a long time I didn't have that choice. When I first started playing RPGs character customisation meant picking a skin and hair colour for the fuzzy pixels and a pre-made portrait for the menu and none of them looked like a little girl. And then in TES games I tend to play khajiit and argonians, so any similarity is out of the question.

Instead I start by thinking about what kind of person I want them to be - I start from why I'm making a character and 'match' everything else to that - their class, skills, appearance, story choices etc. Of course sometimes there's nothing to say they have to look a certain way - when I was coming up with my main ESO character all I got was she should be a khajiit - and then I pick whatever I like or what makes sense to me. I always liked the way the Cathy-Raht are called 'jaguar men' so I made her look like a jaguar (which took a lot of googling jaguars and leopards to make sure I got the right skin pattern).

Aliyavana wrote: »

I tried to make my character look unique but ive been told I look like many things

I try to make characters that reflect aspects of my personality more than my actual appearance. Some are serious. Some are outrageous. All of them have small flaws.

It's funny, but whenever I try to make a character that looks like me, i don't really identify with it. I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Funnily enough I usually create a very basic character who looks nice to me. I never make them look like me, since for one I usually play male characters but I'm female irl. xD

Take my Sorc for instance, he's just a basic ruggedly handsome Altmer with a nicely tended beard and well combed hair.
As I played him through his main Daggerfall storyline I added a blindfold and a facial marking to have blood coming from under the blindfold to him. Decided in head cannon that he was blinded during adventuring and now uses his Scamp familiar to help him see through a borrowed eyes ideal.
By the time he'd finished the Daggerfall and Ebonheart areas he had some nice quality armor showing off his prowess and a hood to hide his now mussed up hair since hard to comb ones hair when you are blind and have to borrow the eyes of a scamp to see. I mean heck the beard care-taking is hard enough, the scamp never wants to sit still for long. xD
He's now working his way through the Aldmeri Dominion and he's still evolving. Scars here, markings there, an armor update on occasion.

I just like the idea of making a character and evolving them so they don't really look like anything or resemble anyone.

The Sorc I mentioned: