Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
Yes, I play female characters without a fetish, don't take it further than gameplay, but let's not pretend there aren't men who aren't playing them for specific fetish reasons. There are countless weebs playing cat girls for that. It is highly prevalent in this game.
Well, yeah. The mod community can attest to that. But I would dare to venture out and say that the majority of the males playing female characters are likely doing it for simpler reasons: better looking gear, MORE gear, generally better looking characters over all. No one is playing any kind of game to intentionally play an ugly character beyond making it a joke and not carrying it to end game. I would say most people are playing something they visually thoroughly enjoy and that in and of itself doesn't have to be sexual. I'm a female, I play my characters as absolutely pretty and busty as I can make them, sometimes I wear armor that makes sense, sometimes I'm a bikini mage. But I also play male characters and I make them as handsome and masculine as I can (hello Highlander daddy face) and dress them badass. Sometimes I make pretty boy Au Ra to have that pretty boy knight in shining armor affect. None of it is in favor of anything sexual, I'm not getting off to pixels, I'm not turning them into some kind of fetish.

I have like 10 alts. I can easily say: there are absolutely ways to make lovely pretty boys without needing to make them a "submissive", fetish twink.