EVE General Discussion

Interestingly if I follow my stereotypes right, I'm a male FBI agent.

Too bad I don't get payed for stereotypes.

Why did multiple Hugo award winning author Lois McMaster Bujold choose a male protagonist for her long running Vorkosigan series? She is not a lesbian and her character isn't visually stimulating. The same could be said about most of the science fiction authors that I read, many of whom write from the first person perspective.

Your character is not you, but rather like an author's protagonist, a character that you have created. They might be a despicable pirate or a humanitarian, but that doesn't necessarily portray the creator. The idea of having a character as a different gender seems no more odd than a different race, or a different age. If anything I feel it is harder to write for characters who are extremely young or old.

I love all my characters and don't think about them as "me." Perhaps the weirdest thing I have ever done is smile and say hello to them as I log on. They are my fictional friends and family that have stories, and personalities that are not mine, and I do not wish to be or pretend to be them.

Good Lord, what is that?

Just wait till over several years we get WiS. Then I am looking at a females behind wiggling when walking.
Somehow that is just more pleasing to the eye than some male butt.

MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls

By the Gods.. I choked on my coffee when I read that particular line.. Thank you Sarah.

I have played both genders but the choice usually leans towards playing the male.

Started out early reading the largest books I could find. The Bigger the better. When I stumbled across my first Fantasy book series I was sold. Always got a sad little tingle when the story eventually ended.

I never confused myself with the characters in the books tho.

I most certainly connect with the main lead. And on occation I have even dreamt of the world in wich I have taken part for a few hours too many. But it's always as a part of the adventure. Not the character itself. The mind finds strange ways to take part. a mechanic, cook or a random soldier amongst a few. It always ends up as an adventure.

Early games like someone else mentioned.. Diablo. Had you locked into genders when you chose certain classes. Games for me simply was a new way for me to experience a new adventure with a new hero in the lead. The person in question being male or female was irrelevant as long as the story that unfolded along the way was good.

Then I stumbled upon mmorpg's. And suddenly I learned of alts and how we inevitably had to make One or more down the road should we play long enough. This at first had me stop playing entirely while pondering for a few days on how to tackle the issue. Long time ago.

Having an alt would ruin my "book". Simple solution was to simply create another story and tie it to the One I already had.

Personally i try my best to avoid making alts since it usually ends up with me deleting everyone involved to end the story before my sleep time that started with 8 hours a night was blown to bits and pieces with me trying to grab at least 3 before they fell to the floor.

What I'm trying to say here is that many people probably dont view their Avatars as a representation of themselfs but more as representative of their "house" " adventure" "book" take your pick.

I imagine that there are quite a few people out there that have formed a series of alts that are connected either as a family or distant relatives. Or related in any number of ways to fit "their" story.

Anyways. This would just be my sample of how One group out of untold masses thinks. It felt like this thread had forgotten about us. =)

Goodnight and sleep well everyone. =^.^=

Could be a wee bit of the consumption.... I have a pic floating around somewhere on my HD of me drunk off my ass with my GF's bra on my head

Giggity.

bunch o pervs, obviously!

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Not immersion is perversion

Didn't bother reading the responses, however, I've wondered the same. Perhaps guys wishing to be females?

If you want female eye candy, watch a porno. I don't buy the "I'd rather see a female all day".

To me, its an ingame personification of yourself.