I'm going to be frank... I'm engaged and my fiance and I will both be playing boy characters this time around. My fiance has wanted to play a male miqote since we started and of course a male mithra since he was playing XI... When we heard the news that there would be no SSM my fiance looked distraught then looked at me and said "I can make a girl character" That moment literally broke me. I literally don't care if they call it marriage or w/e but I will be damned if he will be forced to make a girl character.