Player-avatar similarities

I generally make characters based on whatever appeals to me more in a game, but I tend to avoid very tall or bulky races. Unless I think they are cool like Charr in GW2, and with that said I only find myself able to play Miqo'te male or female, or as a male Lalafell in this game. But my characters really don't look like me, but sometimes a few are based off characters from my own stories I have wonderering around in my head. If not that, I try to make a character with some thought about in their backround history. But I am a 5'9" white male, mid-build with brown hair/eyes...average looking. ;p

My character has the same gender, build, skin colour, eye colour (excluding the limbal rings) haircolour (the white highlights are there because I have started going grey irl, I am only 22 T^T) and hair style (if do the plait at the back) as I do. :P I don't have nearly as many scales though irl.
When I was a Miqo'te, I had the same height, but Au Ra are too short :<
I have glasses, but I hardly ever glamour them on.

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Originally Posted by Averax

Yeah, no, i'd hate to be staring at the back of my own head all day. If anything, my characters sometimes resemble what i would like to look like.

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I'm the same. There are usually some details I can relate to in my characters, for example the broad shoulders, low gentle voice, female gender and strong jaw of my Roe. I pick the rest of the features based on what I find good looking in a fantasy setting. They can be the complete opposite of my real life appearance like the fact that all my toons have cold/ligth colouring despite me rocking yellow/brown shades irl. :D

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I'm a pink haired catgirl in real life, and I'm pretty boring/uncreative, so I just made a character that looks like me.

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Was gonna say, grey skinned, blue haired catgirl here.

As a side note, I *never* play humans. Ever.

My main in EQ2 was Tier'dal(dark elf) and my other main was Arasai(evil fairy), while my main in wow is Draenei(kind of looks like a devil, goat hoof feet, horns on head... Males kinda got Klingon foreheads instead of horns) and I normally play Khajiit in Elder Scrolls(outside ESO, found a game I can make hot guys in, woo!).

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Originally Posted by Atoli

I like you :D We are the same, just different in that you are tall and I am short xD
No, but seriously, height is a huge part of how we experience everyday life. So it totally makes sense to be uncomfortable with having to look up to everyone or have trouble reaching something when you are used to be taller than everyone else in RL.

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Weird. I'm well above average height IRL, (6'6") And I like playing lalafells and short races just to be short. Being short is rad. You don't stand out in a crowd and people don't assume you're important or cool.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

As a side note, I *never* play humans. Ever.

My main in EQ2 was Tier'dal(dark elf) and my other main was Arasai(evil fairy), while my main in wow is Draenei(kind of looks like a devil, goat hoof feet, horns on head... Males kinda got Klingon foreheads instead of horns) and I normally play Khajiit in Elder Scrolls(outside ESO, found a game I can make hot guys in, woo!).

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I am quite the opposite
I do RP and too lazy to create a mirror of myself in other race, and seemingly most MMO design their outfit base on Human model
FFXIV Is a exception, I choose Miqo'te over Hyre highly becoz the lore behind keeper of the moon

Same Gender, exact same height, Same skin and eyes colour, No one has natural bright yellow hair but it is still similar in colour XD

Unfortunately I am not a cat girl, though I love Salmon and Tuna. I also can not run for hours and hours like my Character can XD!!!

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Originally Posted by CosmicKirby

Being short is rad. You don't stand out in a crowd and people don't assume you're important or cool.

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Well as someone who is small in rl, I agree with the above statement xD
But really, I can only speak from experience. I tried to play as a really pretty Elezen lady before. NOT looking up to others felt SO unnatural and weird and I dropped the race within two days.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

I'm a pink haired catgirl in real life, and I'm pretty boring/uncreative, so I just made a character that looks like me.

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yup. pretty much exactly this. except red-haired.

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Originally Posted by Misutoraru

I am quite the opposite
I do RP and too lazy to create a mirror of myself in other race, and seemingly most MMO design their outfit base on Human model
FFXIV Is a exception, I choose Miqo'te over Hyre highly becoz the lore behind keeper of the moon

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My EQ2 characters were RP.

I don't like to RP myself, mostly because the game gives you a chance to *not* be yourself. And both dark elves and Arasai are evil... Arasai were created by the dark elf Queen by torturing the spirit buds of developing/reincarnating Fae. They think of Queen The as their Goddess Creator.

More "RP as myself", damn phone can't edit.

I tend to have similarities to myself, but being a pre-transition Trans Male, kinda hard to completely remake my character in game. Even if I wanted to. :)

I do, however, tend to always have a tall character (I'm 6'2"), long hair (mine's about 3ft in length currently iRL), blue eyes, and wide (-ish)jaw and shoulders (things I was at least blessed enough to be born with.)

Majority of the time, however, I'll go with something that has good animations. As most of the time in game, during combat and whatnot, I'm looking more at the motion of my character than any real details XD

I have multiple characters for RP, but my main is made to have features resembling me. Female, Long brown hair and heterochromatic eyes are all personal features I share with my avatar. Sure my eyes are Brown and Blue, not Pink and Blue, but Pink is cuter than brown, you can't fault me for wanting to optimize certain features. I'm not small like a Lalafell, but I like how they're rotund.