What Makes An Attractive Character Attractive?

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I don't know if it was trolling or what, but I got hit on twice yesterday while playing my alt here... At first I thought it was someone on my friend list from a long time ago, but both were total strangers. My alt has existed since launch and it was a first... All I know is if they were seriously flirting, they would have been seriously disappointed had I decided not to ignore them ;p

I guess she fit their definition of beauty...

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Originally Posted by Seig345

I don't know if it was trolling or what, but I got hit on twice yesterday while playing my alt here... At first I thought it was someone on my friend list from a long time ago, but both were total strangers. My alt has existed since launch and it was a first... All I know is if they were seriously flirting, they would have been seriously disappointed had I decided not to ignore them ;p

I guess she fit their definition of beauty...

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She's a cat girl. Of course the nerd creepers are going to be over her. Sorry to hear that, though. It always feels really uncomfortable/awkward to get hit on playing a female char.

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Originally Posted by Windi

She's a cat girl. Of course the nerd creepers are going to be over her. Sorry to hear that, though. It always feels really uncomfortable/awkward to get hit on playing a female char.

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Well society mentality is, "a girl" - start to flirt or say something that you think sounds nice, but the girl(s) might not share the same opinion-. I can understand straight guys will find it awkward, but: hey, you are playing as a girl in front of everybody. Mistakes can happen so just clarify it and tell them, "Hey bro. I am a dude." Some people might say. I don't care your character is hot. I want to "whatever they come out with" or other people will say "Oh, sorry, man" (internally: eww).

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Originally Posted by JumperX

Well society mentality is, "a girl" - start to flirt or say something that you think sounds nice, but the girl(s) might not share the same opinion-. I can understand straight guys will find it awkward, but: hey, you are playing as a girl in front of everybody. Mistakes can happen so just clarify it and tell them, "Hey bro. I am a dude." Some people might say. I don't care your character is hot. I want to "whatever they come out with" or other people will say "Oh, sorry, man" (internally: eww).

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Why "ew" though? A good-looking game character is just a good-looking game character lol. If a girl makes a hot male character she's just.. hot xD. Maybe guys just think they're gay now? I dunno lol.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

Why "ew" though? A good-looking game character is just a good-looking game character lol. If a girl makes a hot male character she's just.. hot xD. Maybe guys just think they're gay now? I dunno lol.

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If a girl makes a male character, he* is hot
since yanno you can't tell who is behind the character
*the character

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

Why "ew" though? A good-looking game character is just a good-looking game character lol. If a girl makes a hot male character she's just.. hot xD. Maybe guys just think they're gay now? I dunno lol.

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The reason to why the "eww" is because the straight male players want to eventually flirt with the person playing behind the screen because they want to cyber, get goodies, get a gf, etc (pick your options). If a girl makes a hot character, the male player won't bother because his goal is to get to know the girl behind the screen...now if you meet a gay guy now he can be the one doing "oh gosh a girl" =p OR they become BFF.

How many cases have we seen of women and men (girls or boys) falling in love with people's personality. A lot of people got depressed when they learn the person's true gender, but they should have asked before they start to get attached to that -character and the person behind the screen-. AskaRay, I think your character is hot.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

If a girl makes a male character, he* is hot
since yanno you can't tell who is behind the character
*the character

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True! But you know what I mean xD.

Can't edit on phone ;-;

FUCK the post limit. SERIOUSLY SE fix your SITE >:O!!!!!

I'm a simply man, and perfer a young looking character instead of an older one. For alot of reasons, the biggest reason is I like the idea of a young adult saving the world. You don't get that enough, I also like the fact I choose a female character to do that. Often time it's always a -male- saving the world and that gets boring to me after the million time I seen it. And I don't mean some silly girl either, woman can be badass as well... sadly american tv and such doesn't think so. So with that in mind I made my character to reflect those views.

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I created my miqote female alt solely because in the dvd that originally came with ffxiv in 2010, there's an interview with Nobuo Uematsu (whose hand I've had the enormous honor to shake and my life is complete) and one of the questions he was asked was what race he would make his character if he played, and he said Miqote because he would want to play a character as least like himself as possible. Throw in that Miqote were female-only at launch and boom. She is cute though, I'll just deal with it. ;p

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

If a girl makes a male character, he* is hot
since yanno you can't tell who is behind the character
*the character

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This is a good case to ditch the pronouns and use "they","their", or the character's name unless they actually tell you otherwise.