How do you view your character?

[Spy]

Mini's kind of like my virtual son >.>....I feel motherly towards him. "He's the cutest lalafell on Eorzea!" and all that lol. Guess I'm weird.

Though in the fanfiction I had started with him in it, he was a bit of a ladies man, that had a serious demeanor about him. He studied very hard to fight Dalamud while feeling hopelessly powerless to stop it. Yet he was comforted and cheered on by my alts who represent a more positive side of myself, Stud, the major ladies man and Emelyn, the sly miqo'te that never takes much seriously.

[DigiTail]

Mini's kind of like my virtual son >.>....I feel motherly towards him. "He's the cutest lalafell on Eorzea!" and all that lol. Guess I'm weird.

Though in the fanfiction I had started with him in it, he was a bit of a ladies man, that had a serious demeanor about him. He studied very hard to fight Dalamud while feeling hopelessly powerless to stop it. Yet he was comforted and cheered on by my alts who represent a more positive side of myself, Stud, the major ladies man and Emelyn, the sly miqo'te that never takes much seriously.

This is awesome, a side to someone I might have adventured with a million times and never thought of^^

[Mikita]

Interesting thread!

"A" at the start since this was basically my first RPG ever (online or offline) and didn't know what to expect.

"B" is what it became. I am basically just being myself in Eorzea. And I have spent so much time in FFXIV v1.0 that I grew very attached to my character and see her as a part of myself now.

"C" for my in-game friends. There could be a cultural difference here. I play during Japan peak time and spend nearly all of my time with Japanese players. Most are very private and only speak about real life in vague terms.
At first I thought it might be nice to connect through social sites, but now I really don't want to know their real names, their jobs, or what they look like in the real world. I am quite satisfied to only know their online incarnations, sharing laughs and tears together in a wonderful digital fantasy world.