[Fun] Why do you use a female character?

[Savage12]

Up until gw2 i always played male toons (dont flame me) and when i started losing interest in the game decided to make a female and been making them ever since.Not only do i think in most games they have the better gear selection but i actually care about them if that makes any sense.

[MashiraSahara]

I use a female character cuz they're cute and also cuz I'm female in real life.

[PCAJZA80]

I have a few reasons why I play a female character in this game.
1.) They look better in some armors.
2.) I like female leads, so why not try to make one myself?
3.) I don't like most of the Male character creation options. The only ones I don't mind are the highlanders and roegadyn, because they don't look like pretty boys.

It all depends on the game though. My general rule is: Western-style games = Male ; Japanese-style games = Female

[Naraku_Diabolos]

As mentioned in several threads on here, I made and now main a female character that's based on my favorite singer named Hayley Westenra (and my character looks like the real singer, too!). Plus it's good advertisement for the singer. I also have a female Elezen, a male Miqo'te named Inuyasha Diabolos, and my original main character Naraku who is an Elezen. The female one, Rowena Taheny, is going to be the female version of Naraku (she's not named after Rowena in the game, but another Celtic singer). I won't touch Rowena again until I get stuff done on Hayley and Musketeer is released.

Here's what I mean with my Hayley character and the singer.

[Noshpan]

5 of my 8 characters are female. I tend to play female as, in most games, female models in games tend to look better than the male models. In this game, both genders are pretty good.

[HoneyBiscuit]

Depends on the game. In WoW I was a rogue main. Literally all the male models were big bulky men. I just could not see my character sneaking around and stabbing people with what looks like a butter knife next to his forearm that's the size of a 2 liter bottle. Alternatively when I made warriors and paladins, they were fricken jacked and looked pretty sweet in plate armor. That kind of tradition has stuck with me on every mmo I've played. So when I picked up XIV, and saw that I could make a fricken cat girl that fought with sweet ass karate with some claw styled weapons. I felt I had zero choice on the matter. As if the universe already decided my character for me. Now for some reason I'm a white mage. . .

[Foo01]

In what other game can you have a neko girl with a tail? Got to take advantage of that opportunity.

[TrystWildkey]

I play female because I am female And FFXI and XIV seem to have struck a nice balance with regard to female gear. It's not as over-sexualized as some, but still looks feminine and sexy. (Except lalafells, but that's why you make alts)

However, I feel compelled to mention that female highlanders wearing the hempen undergarments make me feel a bit less than heterosexual.

[Assirra]

I tend to float towards to females cause i enjoy being a caster more and they tend to look better in robes.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Because I am a female irl... Enough said