How do you view your character?

[katsujin]

Unfortunately my character is me, equally as socially inept in game as I am in real life. Sometimes I will think to myself out loud while in game.

The other day I found myself thinking, why does a person play this game? But I believe the answer is as simple as saying "why does a person live their life?" Even if the world appears artificial, the people we interact with are real, the time we spend in this world can never be reclaimed. Those things are very real...

Also when we stop playing, we have nothing left of the world besides perhaps memories. When you wake up from a dream, you have nothing left of that dream. When you die you have nothing left of what we call life. Is one reality really more real than another? Knowing that at the end of life, you will have nothing, yet people keep living. Knowing that at the end of the game you'll have nothing, but people will keep playing. It's rather interesting, when we rush to devour new content will we cry out to god that it wasn't enough. I don't know many people that rush towards the end of their lives. /endrant

[DubstepNinja]

I dunno maybe a combination of everything?

My attitude to my character has changed alot between FF11 and FF14. On FF11 I was our linkshells main tank, party leader, linkshell officer I tanked everything it was my number one responsibilty and I relished it. Everyday I aimed to get better through perfecting my skills, merits, and gear upgrades. I pursued these things ruthlessly.

Fast forward to now, with the full weight of responsibilty on my shoulders IRL I have changed how I view my character.

Now I view my character as just a simple soldier, happy to play his small part in the larger machine. He is the geeky, goofy, non serious part of me, a slacker, with no real ambitions, happy to go with the flow. Whatever happens ,happens.

I have become a jack or all trades and a master of none, I will play every job, do every role. Alot of my time is spent away from harder content, I really am quite happy crafting while listening to some music. But every now and then they let me tank, and that other part of me comes out..

[Duelle]

A all the way. Several traits being repeats of how I portrayed my taru in FFXI, but I do see it as just a character I made for the story.

[Nix]

I dunno maybe a combination of everything?

My attitude to my character has changed alot between FF11 and FF14. On FF11 I was our linkshells main tank, party leader, linkshell officer I tanked everything it was my number one responsibilty and I relished it. Everyday I aimed to get better through perfecting my skills, merits, and gear upgrades. I pursued these things ruthlessly.

Fast forward to now, with the full weight of responsibilty on my shoulders IRL I have changed how I view my character.

Now I view my character as just a simple soldier, happy to play his small part in the larger machine. He is the geeky, goofy, non serious part of me, a slacker, with no real ambitions, happy to go with the flow. Whatever happens ,happens.

I have become a jack or all trades and a master of none, I will play every job, do every role. Alot of my time is spent away from harder content, I really am quite happy crafting while listening to some music. But every now and then they let me tank, and that other part of me comes out..

I imagine you sitting at the pc, tanking while eating Moro bars, drinking mello Yello and listening to M83-Echoes at full volume; banging your head when the song gets pretty heavy and then enjoying Shield Bash all too much and trying to time it with those heavy parts... XD

[HamHam]

It's not good to be C when you are married. It can be dangerous... but for me, I think B is where I see myself. But is more like a desire to be your character rather than you are the character. Imagine if we could do what our character are able to do? now that would be something out of this world

[ZephyrFox]

I generally view my characters from behind and enjoy the wonderful view of their-

*Gets hit with a shoe*

Ow...Okay, okay!

Mostly B, I RP a little but I generally keep my personality in tact but judgment is significantly altered due to having an immortal super humanoid...thingy to run around as.

[DubstepNinja]

I imagine you sitting at the pc, tanking while eating Moro bars, drinking mello Yello and listening to M83-Echoes at full volume; banging your head when the song gets pretty heavy and then enjoying Shield Bash all too much and trying to time it with those heavy parts... XD

Nah this is my tanking theme song

Push it to the limit!

Actually it's my everything theme song

Walking the dog themesong

Sweeping the leaves off the driveway theme song

Asking the boss for a raise theme song

Going down the dairy to get more milk theme song

It works on so many levels

[Nix]

Nah this is my tanking theme song

Push it to the limit!

Actually it's my everything theme song

Walking the dog themesong

Sweeping the leaves off the driveway theme song

Asking the boss for a raise theme song

Going down the dairy to get more milk theme song

It works on so many levels

Hahahaha oh god, +10 cool points to you XD

[Rhomagus]

Character is totally fictional and is in no way representative of me. As a long time creator of stories and roleplays, this is what I enjoy most (though I don't actually do any active roleplaying ingame)

This sums up my position quite nicely.

It's a little more than A as there's still an attachment of some kind but it's not a reflection of myself. If anything it's only a reflection of my creative ability (which isn't much considering the lack of options). I tend to hold a backstory for my character and I'm always editing it in the back of my mind. I've thought about putting it down on paper or perhaps roleplaying it but I just don't have the time for it, or I just won't make the time, not sure which.

One of XIV's primary functions is as a communication tool. In the chat log it reads

Rhomagus Asclepiot: "A reaction to someone or something that actually is my personal opinion in real life."

So while my name isn't Rhomagus Asclepiot and I don't roleplay as him or have him roleplay as me, there is a bit of a disconnect depending on the context of the conversation or situation.

I think it's safe to say I'm free to weave in and out of all of those options including D depending on context. The above example would be as close to C as I could see myself getting.

[Ksenia]

I'm directing a Movie, Ksenia, Ioci and Ocih are the stars. There can be more. Heroine and Hero alike but in this particular story it's 3 Heroines.