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pamelf · Aug 18, 2008, 03:13 PM // 15:13

I'm female and play mostly female characters. The only male characters i've ever played are the ones that happened to look exactly like two boyfriends i've had. Yes that's girly. lol. And my primary is a female ranger that looks exactly like me.

FrAnt1c² · Aug 18, 2008, 03:14 PM // 15:14

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Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

It is wierd for a guy to actually lie about his gender/rp as a female.

True, that is just sad...

Someone in the above posts stated that he/she knew women that have male characters. Well I find that hard to believe as all of the women I played with all had female toons ( even the mules... ), but hey, I'll be the first too admit I was wrong when someone could prove me otherwise

Edit: ok, disregard this as Pamelf said she has male toons xD

Stolen Souls · Aug 18, 2008, 03:27 PM // 15:27

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Originally Posted by FrAnt1c²

True, that is just sad...

Someone in the above posts stated that he/she knew women that have male characters. Well I find that hard to believe as all of the women I played with all had female toons ( even the mules... ), but hey, I'll be the first too admit I was wrong when someone could prove me otherwise

Edit: ok, disregard this as Pamelf said she has male toons xD

I have known girls that played male characters and were able to prove it. So it does happen. Rarely....but it does. xD

As for me, I have three characters...two male and a female. My monk is female only because I hate the way male monks look. I make it a point to remind people "I'm a guy" if they start to get wierd towards her. >_>

ScaryDrifter · Aug 18, 2008, 03:31 PM // 15:31

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Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

I make it a point to remind people "I'm a guy" if they start to get wierd towards her. >_>

i know what you mean - it's sad that this is necessary.

Kusandaa · Aug 18, 2008, 03:32 PM // 15:32

I was discussing this with a guildie yesterday; noticed how I'm not different than most guys who make female characters, which is in the line of "if I'm gonna stare at something for hours, it better be good-looking to me". The difference is that I'm gay and what looks good to me are male bodies, therefore I have a lot of male characters with a few female chars.

Result? 15 chars on main account: 13 males, 2 females (mule monk and main warrior). Still having a hard time with male warriors; I've got one but it's lv10.

BTW I know a couple of girls who play with male characters, it's getting fairly common.

However, I tend to assume everyone is male right off the bat, probably because I'm male myself... I've embarrassed myself a few times over this. Notably one person who I teamed up with a few times, put 'em in my f-list and PMed them: "hey dude, you busy?! =D need more people for <place I was gonna head in, can't remember>" only to be replied "I'm female btw". /doh

Much like I've had a couple people, probably guys, referring to me as a girl, probably because I was teaming up with guildies and was talking about my husband, or idle chat. They're impressed that they think I'm a girl who plays male chars; they're even more impressed when they learn I'm male... I love their reactions.

GoodApollo1234 · Aug 18, 2008, 03:38 PM // 15:38

People always throw out the "I don't like staring at a guy's ass" card right off the bat (if you're staring at the guy's ass, you're playing the game wrong, and SHOULD be questioning your orientation), as a knee-jerk reaction to make the person they're arguing with somehow look MORE gay than the person who's bending the gender-roles. We don't care if you like pretending your a girl online, you don't have to lie about it :P

JK, but seriously, I'm sick of hearing that argument. Tons of my friends play as female characters, and they're not any more sexually deviant than your typical e-thug.

As long as you don't run around trying to convince people you're a girl in real life, it doesn't really matter.

Edit: Fixed my poor choice of words XD

Stolen Souls · Aug 18, 2008, 03:40 PM // 15:40

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Originally Posted by ScaryDrifter

i know what you mean - it's sad that this is necessary.

Yeah, it is sad but...'tis the interwebz.

Them: "Hey cutie ;D"
Me: "Hey, bro"
Them: "wanna b my gf"
Them: "???"
Me: "No...I'm a guy..."
Them: "omg u gay"
Me: "You're the one that was just hitting on a guy..."
*they map away never to be seen again*

Dr Strangelove · Aug 18, 2008, 03:47 PM // 15:47

I'm not into roleplaying at all, so there isn't much connection between myself and my character. Women are more fun to look at (read: ogle) than men. Thus, I tend to make female characters.

Fitz Rinley · Aug 18, 2008, 03:49 PM // 15:49

I have a family established:

Fitz Rinley, Father/Wa + Mrs Arannel Rinley, Mother/Me =
Ash Rinley, Eldest Daughter/Ra, (Kavan Dassar, Fiancee/D)
Fitz Rinley Jr, Only Surviving Son/P (hence a Survivor), (Yu Geshou, Fiancee/Rt)
Ravenia Rinley Youngest/N, (Liao Xiwu, Paramour/A)

Dame Feuerschlacht, Fitz's First Cousin/E, (Pappi Usvarenki, Close Friend/Mo)

I have in my head a story line and character development for each of them. Where they are from, how they perceive things, what drives them, how they should be expressed. My choice of gender was to provide compliment in the choices of classes that I combined in each. Fitz and Arannel are the unchangeable and the manipulative. Ash and Kavan are the earthy and the sacred. Jr and Geshou are Superego and Id. Raven and Xiwu are death and death's door. Dame and Pappi are destruction and preservation.

Most of the names have specific meanings or references:

Fitz (L. Filius – used by monks to designate illegitimate children), Rin – from Rin valley, Ley – meaning valley: Fitz Rinley = Bastard of Rin Valley.

Arannel Rinley, chosen for flow of sounds.

Ash is a traditional bow wood and the source of man in some myths, Ash Rinley.

Old Persian – Kavan = Singer/Cantor, Das = Sickle, Sar = King, Kavan Dassar = Chanting Sickle King.

Chinese – 歌手(Gēshǒu) = singer, 玉 (Yù) = Jade, Yù Gēshǒu = Jade Singer

Ravenia, named for all the raven staves dropped on me.

Chinese -穸霧(Xīwù)= gravegloom/death mist, 獠 (Liáo) = hunter, Liáo Xīwù – Gravegloom Hunter.

German – Dame = Lady, Feuer = Fire, Schlacht = battle field, Dame Feuerschlacht = Lady of the Fields of Fire

Finnish – Pappi = Father/Priest, Usva = Mists, Renki = hireling/servant, Pappi Usvarenki = Priest Servant of the Mists.

Each is gender appropriate.

Xx_Sorin_xX · Aug 18, 2008, 03:54 PM // 15:54

I design my characters purely on what armor I'm going to get them. Like my monk..i liked the female design of the armor more..so I chose a female monk. My warrior - i liked the male designs more.

As for "should you not..as you put it, "gender bender". I can't imagine why it should matter. It's just a character. It's not like you chose a female char so you could put make up on her and dress her up in all the latest fashion. THAT might be weird.

Daisuko · Aug 18, 2008, 03:55 PM // 15:55

I merely go through armor choices and how each character looks before I make it, decide wich I like best (be it male or female) and then create my character. I happen to have 8 male characters, and 4 female characters. Plus a PvP slot, whose gender varies from day to day.

EDIT: Heeeyyy.... Darn you Sorin, you stole my answer

ScaryDrifter · Aug 18, 2008, 03:56 PM // 15:56

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Originally Posted by GoodApollo1234

People always throw out the "I don't like staring at a guy's ass" card right off the bat (if you're staring at the guy's ass, you're playing the game wrong, and SHOULD be questioning your orientation), as a knee-jerk reaction to make the person they're arguing with somehow look MORE gay than the person who's bending the gender-roles. We don't care if you like pretending your a girl online, you don't have to lie about it :P
XD

Well, i said 'backside', not 'ass', and that's exactly what i mean. If I wanted a polite term for 'ass', I would have said 'bottom'.

I don't care to watch a rectangular chunk of armor running around, when I have something more pleasing to the eye.

(I also tend to name my characters after guitars, which sound more feminine, like 'Gibson Dove', 'Ibanez', and 'Omen'.)

Zahr Dalsk · Aug 18, 2008, 04:15 PM // 16:15

If you're watching your character in gameplay and not the environment, enemies, allies, compass, party, etc, chances are you're not quite ready to step out into an explorable area yet

That's what I have to say to the "I don't wanna look at a guy's ass for hours" players.

That said character gender is for me simply another detail of character generation, and I choose what I think looks best.

EroChrono · Aug 18, 2008, 04:23 PM // 16:23

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Originally Posted by FrAnt1c²

Well, looking at the title "gender bender" I was thinking about something else, but thats just propably me...

*nods* and it wasn't about futurama

I have 4 male toons, 4 female toons. I just picked whatever I like best at the moment for that class.

tmakinen · Aug 18, 2008, 04:28 PM // 16:28

The thing that I don't understand is: provided that the proper me is a genderless consciousness residing in a body that came with a random choice of plumbing, why would somebody be upset over that consciousness having a preference, just for aesthetic reasons, for a particular choice if the choice doesn't happen to coincide with that of the given body? Yes, I have a male body in real life and I'm completely content with that but had I been given a choice I would probably have chosen differently, and when I have a choice in a game I naturally opt for female. And to point out another fallacy, no, I'm not gay. Gender identity doesn't have anything to do with sexual orientation.

Feel free to freak out now

Tatile · Aug 18, 2008, 04:38 PM // 16:38

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Originally Posted by tmakinen

Feel free to freak out now

Freak out? Pfft, seems totally reasonable, though I think you'd get second thoughts when your first period sends you running to the toilet every hour and bed ridden for the day with immense stomach cramps.

I play female characters in Guild Wars mainly because I preferred the physical appearances I was given as design options and their armours (that and I like pretty girls). I've tried my hand at male characters, but they've never lasted long (except Vitez, a male Necro in Proph that I made for, uh, model depictions for a picture I drew for Kusandaa).

I acutally have a preference to role play male characters in D&D, when I get the chance *shakes fist at local Uni's*, but I have to admit my 4th Ed Dwarf is female.

Gender playing is mostly about looks in games such as Guild Wars where there is little RP and no affects of gender on ability. In RP games, such as 7th Sea, gender's based on the character you want to play, or the type of person you are. I know one guy who always rolls a female character because he prefers role playing over hack'n'slash. It's all preference, and that's what makes all the worlds interesting, the allowance of differences ^.^

NoXiFy · Aug 18, 2008, 04:42 PM // 16:42

I got called gay because most of my peeps are male. The only female I have is a Sin, cause I wanted to make her a sexy asian chick. And it worked!

Commander Ryker · Aug 18, 2008, 05:05 PM // 17:05

We don't need 2 threads about this. Go post in this thread. It even has a poll!

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