Your Character; a projection, a fantasy or something random?

[Velisra]

I usually make characters that I can imagine being. In Warcraft I have MANY alts, but my favorite characters, and the ones I play the most, are female night elves and female blood elves. I have other race/gender combos and I do play them, but they are not, and never will be, considered my main characters.

The same goes here. This character is my main character, and I can imagine being Te'mariel. When I play, I'm her. She's sometimes sweet looking and sometimes a bit more edgy which is just about like me.

I can't really connect with other races well in FF though I've tried. The Lalafell are super adorable, but I'm just not the "adorable" type.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I wanted to try and design Bahamut as an Au Ra because I loved the thought of the dreadwyrm becoming a 'Little Bit Beastly' Dragon girl. Course, I fell so in love with the design and idea of the character that I couldn't imagine going back to my old miqote, even though I'm not a big fan of dragons.

[Canadane]

Based off my appearance 110%.

[Sakuraluna]

Mine doesn't look like me at all, and half the time I gravitate towards white hair on my miqo'te and have even gone with pink or purple hair or light gray skin so, I guess my character design is pretty random. Just whatever appeals to me at the moment.

[cammi]

I draw my character a lot, and also do comics as a hobby.

I'm the exact opposite when it comes to changes with Kallera. I find major changes difficult to do, even hairstyle changes take a while to get used to, and I've always gone back to black hair and red highlights I picked Elezen because I had originally chosen that in xi for Kallera, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. I got hooked on the lore for Duskwights. Even now I still see parts of her original design still present, and I like it, shows the consistency of a long running character.

:O I wanna see, can I see, let me see. I'll link an artwork from me to make fair.

[Nandalowell]

Mine was completely random. I decided long before 1.0 I was gonna be a cat and I even made one in beta; but just for the lulz I decided to try another race and almost six years later here we are, haha.

[AlphaFox]

I like short girls, about it.

[Kaelah]

Also everyone seemed to have crazy whitewashed kitties and it's like? the dark tones are so nice guys, cmon.

Pretty much this. I just spent a few hours making a character I liked, I like green eyes so went with green. I was gonna go for purple hair as it's my favorite colour but I decided I wanted a more natural looking colour so went with red/brown. Added blonde highlights as my own hair in real life is highlighted blonde. My character started out pale skinned. She was like this in Beta (left), then changed to the right at launch when they allowed us to recustomise:



I changed the heterochromia because it was really common, and noticed as the quote above, whitewashed kitties everywhere. So I tanned up due to my special snowflake syndrome.
The red tattoo? I dunno. I thought it was cute, chose red as it went well with the skin tone and it suited the white/red WHM robes. The face I chose was just because I liked the stripe markings. Eyes etc are just what is attractive to me I guess. Character doesn't look like me at all except the fact I have green eyes (though not as nuclear green lol) and blonde highlights.

[Seoulstar]

My character is really based off of weiss from rwby and how I would actually see myself if I was living in a fantasy world.

[Vayanne]

In every game I create an "avatar" of myself named Vayanne, whose looks are an idealized version of mine. I usually choose an elven race if available - that goes back to my first WoW character, hence the Night-elven sound of the name. I spent quite a few minutes pondering whether "Vayanne" was a suitable name for an Elezen or not, in fact I am still unsure about it. I also tend to create at least one more character, preferably a male if I can get a look that I like. I really want to play a male character in FFXIV but I don't have the heart to change my "main" and sadly the game isn't much alt-friendly, so...