Player-avatar similarities

[Belhi]

I don't really see my character as a representation of me in most games I play. I usually prefer to come up with a concept of a character I'd enjoy playing the hero in a story and create the character based off that. For FF14 I wanted an easy going inquisitive character who generally liked people and an adventurer who lives for the experiences and freedom of being unbound to anyone nation. She protects Eorzea and the people in it because she loves that world and likes people even with all their flaws rather than any sense of duty or righteousness. Its a personality that gels really well with the game's set story.

Each time I come up with a character to be my 'protagonist' in a game I generally come up with something new. I've been considering an alt recently to redo the Main Scenario with and I'm thinking of going with a more tragic figure who carries a lot of loss from the calamity and start out kind of aimless and going with the flow. In this case it will be a character who finds purpose protecting people to save them from same loss.

Needless to say neither really are that representative of me as a person.

[Sirius-Khan]

I tried to make a character who looked like me and it just ended up looking like I was in black face so I went with a basic model.

Still waiting on locs for males.

[KonaMochi]

nope- not a all.
african american girl with horrible hair
Cute, adorable and all powerful LalaLord with pink hair and scotish beret

When you cant be cute IRL, be cute on the internet xD

[Atoli]

The gender is the only thing we have in common.
That's such a basic thing, I wouldn't feel comfortable playing "in" a male body u-u'

About looks..I have an Hyur alt that looks like me. She's just for fun though, and I rarely play her. On my main I enjoy that I'm able to look different from how I look in rl though. I can try out many things that I find beautiful but are either not possible or not fitting in RL, like naturally snowwhite hair and darkblue skin and stuff like that

Oh, but now that I think about it, I have one more thing in common with my characters : height.
I'm pretty tiny in rl, and I unconsiously always pick the smallest height for my character too. Additionally, I only play races that aren't very tall in general (Miqo'te, Au Ra, Lalafell). I guess it's the same as with gender - it's such a basic thing that defines my everyday life that I would feel like I'm in the wrong body if I suddenly played a tall race.

[Sirius-Khan]

nope- not a all.
african american girl with horrible hair
Cute, adorable and all powerful LalaLord with pink hair and scotish beret

When you cant be cute IRL, be cute on the internet xD

As long as you don't gave a shag or s-curl it can't be that bad

[AskaRay]

As long as you don't gave a shag or s-curl it can't be that bad

African american hair can have terrible texture..just depends on what you got

source: me my hair texture is ugh but my SISTER gets perfect African hair. unfair.

[Sirius-Khan]

African american hair can have terrible texture..just depends on what you got

source: me my hair texture is ugh but my SISTER gets perfect African hair. unfair.

I have a coarse grade myself but I just loc't it which was a match made in heaven. I use to have braids and cornrowls but combing through it with a tender head was hell. I'm just hoping she literally not running around here with a curl lol.

[AskaRay]

I have a coarse grade myself but I just loc't it which was a match made in heaven. I use to have braids and cornrowls but combing through it with a tender head was hell. I'm just hoping she literally not running around here with a curl lol.

Haa wish I could get myself to do that... I usually straighten mine but...effort...
not to mention I have to get it relaxed to straighten it and that's well, not cheap.

[Sirius-Khan]

Haa wish I could get myself to do that... I usually straighten mine but...effort...
not to mention I have to get it relaxed to straighten it and that's well, not cheap.

lol not trying to turn this into a rl hair thread, but 2 strand twist...retwist with loc cream every couple of weeks and wash with a non-residue shampoo and you pretty much have your lvl 60 roation down. ; )

[WellFooled]

I view my character as an extension of myself, so there tend to be a good amount of similarities. There's no way to get the details like facial structure, but the broad strokes I try to incorporate. The hair color, skin color, eye color, and height of my character are all similar to myself.