If I’m going to spend the next 300 hours staring at a character’s ass, I’m picking one I actually want to look at.

women are prettier damn it! and i want my character to be pretty!! >:(

Always have, always will. Smaller Character models take up less space in 3rd person games and are harder to see in pvp.

Also cake.

somehow, despite being openly nonbinary for a while now, it’s only now i realize that i always felt slightly uncomfortable/annoyed having to pick either male or female.
Just let me play as some cool nongendered thing, a penguin or a robot or something.

hell let me play as an ominous levitating crystal that emits a constant low droning noise. In Animal crossing.

Every time and I feel no shame.

My boyfriend masquarades as smokin hot women in some games he plays. Not sure what his reasoning is, probably multiple things: 1) women warriors in their shredded tunics with weapon & artillery holsters & their cleavage bursting out is a lot more entertaining to look at than some guy warrior. 2) probably interesting to note how differently other players treat you when you’re a sexy lady, vs how they treat you when you’re just some guy.

You just reminded me of a memory that may have sparked my desire to transition.

I developed this one character for Dungeons and Dragons. Oh my God, I’m having a revelation as I type this!

Ok, so Calian is a Half Elf who’s mother was a High Elf and father was a Half Orc. Years ago, her grandfather on her dad’s side had to fight to be allowed to enter the stronghold of a female Orc. He won, and she chose him as her next of many husbands. They legit fell in love and had their son, Calian’s father.

So Calian is 1/2 Elf, 1/4 Orc, and 1/4 Human. She has slightly more pronounced canines and Half Orc eyes - mostly just the golden color irises.

Her parents perished in a racist’s terrorist attack who hated all half breeds. She was taken in by a group of nuns who maintained a church to the goddess Sune (remember, D&D). She grew up loved and to love unconditionally. Her more Orcish instinct to be a warlord clashed with her desire to love. And who deserved the most love and devotion?

Princesses.

Calian was so enthralled with the idea of saving a princess from danger that she would make up wild fantasies in her mind where she was the heroine who sought out and rescued princesses. This was her vow to her goddess before going her holy quest.

Calian took her job way too seriously and “searched” for princesses in very unlikely places. She frequented taverns to “save” the barmaids, or snuck into brothels to find her real princess she was destined to save. And she was a bit of a horndog but that never actually came up in the game.

And I realize now that she was who I wanted to be. I already had my princess, and after me married, my queen. Now I have two princesses to look after, and I adore them both.

This character has morphed over the years into another persona that I actually am interested in playing as in roleplay with my wife. Am I ever going to transition? Very unlikely. But I text her as this other persona, and it’s so nice to be me without having to change me. I still really dislike how I look and feel, but I am a coward who doesn’t want all of the hardships of becoming a woman. I’d rather press a button and POOF become one instantly. Oh well. A girl can dream.

Plus women are pretty.

Uhh yeah I guess I am. It all started when I picked Jill for resident evil 1 because I liked her story and load out better. Ever since I just kinda picked female by default.

I am non-binary, but I’m definetely more androgynous/fem voice and (trying) style-wise, usually, so that tends to make the female character option more relatable to me. I also appreciate games that have more femboy/androgynous male options, not just HunkBro 9000.

I’ve played most of the Tails of games, and switch to one of the women or girls as soon as they are available. That is until Tales of Xillia. It was the first one to give you the choice at the start of the game, and I played the whole thing as Jude.

Yes of course, and I find it funny how we seem to need to find an excuse for that.

Yet, in the need to choose, I identify more as a woman, when it is up to me…

Yeah, I blame NV and Fallout 3. The female player model starts out just looking dead eyed meanwhile the male one starts looking uncanny as a whole. Also Fallout 1 and 2 did not help in that regard, my Fallout 2 characters should all have severe STDs but at least ai get free shit and can give someone death by Snu Snu.

duh

Yeah, I mean, Im a man but would i have chose this for me. I dont know but let’s find out.

Is that a weird thing for a woman to do?