Player-avatar similarities

[Atoli]

I've only encounter a small handful of players that play the gender they are irl. I've always asked and the most popular response is "why would I wanna stare at a guys butt all day?"

That may be true for guys, but pretty much every female player except for very rare exceptions does play as a female ingame, too. I've been playing MMOs for 10+ years and I never once thought of my character's butt o-O
I think the latent homophobia present in many males make them overly concious about the lovely behinds of their male characters..
Like "I'm not gay! I don't like to stare at a catboy's butt!" xD

when I play a male, I create them as tall as I am, so 7ft... So I play only roes, Au Ra and Elezens =(
It's not something I do for them to look like me, it's Just... I'm more used to being taller. It feels weird when I play a male, to whom I identify more, but who is as small as everybody else... It's for my comfort rather than appearance x)

I like you We are the same, just different in that you are tall and I am short xD
No, but seriously, height is a huge part of how we experience everyday life. So it totally makes sense to be uncomfortable with having to look up to everyone or have trouble reaching something when you are used to be taller than everyone else in RL.

[Dramatic]

The only similarity is skin colour and gender. Irl I'm not a purple haired cat, and I have blue eyes instead of green.

[ItaruKarin]

The ony thing I've got in common with my character is the height, 2m00. Apart from that, I'm a guy, she's a FemRoe, I'm white, she's black, I've got brown hair/brown eyes, she's got golden hair/golden eyes.

So not really

And I play as a muscular busty femroe because I can barely stand being a guy in real life, so might as well.

[Twilite]

No visual/physical similarities at all. I'm not female for one. My character is only a representation of my tastes. Classy mature woman.

[BunnyChain]

She's based on me: body (hight and bust), face (Miqos have the most round faces 2nd only to Lalas), hair / skin / eye colour (including shape), ofc as close as possible.
Was tweaking the hair colour around for hours before finding something that looks most similar.
The cat features are nice too because I ♥ cats.

The way I see it, my character is an extension of myself into the game, if I can make her look similar, I'll feel more involved.
At first I also did experiment, to the point of going Lala but even then I tried to make her similar to myself. Sometimes I miss my Lala days. :c

[AlphaFox]

No visual/physical similarities at all. I'm not female for one. My character is only a representation of my tastes. Classy mature woman.

While I would agree that is how I made mine, knowing how people feel they would think it wrong when I just prefer petite, shorter girls.

[Andevom]

Andevom and I have the same eye color, but that's about it.

I also probably dance about as poorly as he does.

[Twilite]

While I would agree that is how I made mine, knowing how people feel they would think it wrong when I just prefer petite, shorter girls.

I don't believe anyone will think something like that is wrong(one of my ex's was thin/petite and I've been with big women too). We all have preferences and it doesn't necessarily mean the person has to fit that preference either in order to be attractive.

Btw nobody better not dare derail this thread from my post >_> just keep on trucking.

[Greven]

My character is an extension of myself as well. I took a LOT of time tweaking it. From the best skin color, height to the voice and expression of the eyes/eyebrows, even the roundish nose. Was so happy when they added the freckles too XD. I cut/change his hair when I change mine IRL as well. LOL

I don't do this in every game but I feel very happy about thinking to my character as something like the recipient of my self in this virtual world and this is one of the reason I think I really "connected" to him and get a deep kind of immersion, especially during the main scenario.

The features that aren't possible in the real world, like being a catboy, the jobs and roles I use and prefers are by the way expression of myself as well like I love cats and I'm a very feline person.. so yeah, I feel completely one thing with my character, in and out, and I love it.

[Iagainsti]

While Im not quite as toned as my Avatar, I am 6'1' and work out all week, facial features are as close as I could get them, I do wish I could rock the Blood red Warrior's Quirk, but my hair is pretty tame in RL XD