How do you view your character?

[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.

[Lucke]

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

That song is sooooo 80s!

80s > any other decade. That is all.

[DubstepNinja]

That song is sooooo 80s!

80s > any other decade. That is all.

there must an eighties music fiend at SE too, as alot of the quests in 1.0 were named after eighties songs.

I wonder who it is?

[Yrusama]

I'm more of a B, but sometimes C. I've been Yru since 2004, so much so that it might as well be my real name. I have a lot of trouble changing to different characters, and sometimes it seems like other people equate their avatars to inanimate dolls that they can dress up and put through battles.

[Beowolf]

C. plug me in morpheus.

[plery]

C-ish. I like to roleplay weird stories in my head as I play my character. Like when I'm in a PT, I always tell myself how important I am because without me, you would be dead. I'M A WHITE MAGE, I'M IMPORTANT.

So I cure and regen and Sacred Prism+SS with a condescending smirk.

[Dhalmel]

D: Other

My character is the carefree happy go lucky joker type I never get to be in my actual life. I'm quite a austere person in the real world,(grew up with the military..yeah). So this character alter-ego I've made online is sorta my escape from my usual self. I don't for a second pretend the game and it's world is real though.


As for the Dhalmel thing, giraffes are my favorite animal, and it honestly is a joke that caught on in Siren server.

[Sanadaiyeve]

Sanadaiyeve was a random woman in a painting I never finished and her name was thought up randomly from syllables I like.

As I began exploring with her she developed into her own person.

Little kitten Sana off on an adventure with her father's axe slaying dragons. It seemed too big for her and whenever I'd face her she was always frowning at me. I wondered what I did to make her so moody. And then I watch her adventure and people rely on her and others thank her and respect her. And through numerous cut-scenes she has lost her frown and begun to smile bright as her moon.

I love her now and I want Sana to smile and laugh and be the blood thirsty axe murdering kitten I've grown to love. And miss... oh I miss her. Rock on Sana!

So as far as her being her own person, I'm just a spirit or something watching her life and ..maybe using the echo to see into hers and talk to everyone to manipulate events around her ( so i can see her personality develop in cut-scenes and stuff). But she's on her own mission.

Thanks for letting me be a freaky stalker god in your life Sana <3. (I'm her freaky godesshyur-stalker-guardian-person) Seeing what she see through pixel eyes.

[Alteiriaa]

Started as B, started leaning to C as time went on.

I mostly use Riaa as an excape of sorts, running around and doing my own thing, but then me and my boyfriend sat down and started figuring out back stories of sorts. So Riaa kinda got a personality of her own then, at least in my mind. I get attatched to characters I make really easy, so it wasn't too far of a jump for me!

Don't really RP or anything though, so when people talk to me in game, I answer as the idiot behind the keyboard who doesn't know what she's doing, not as the axe weilding cat who doesn't know what she's doing.

[Maxwell]

I've had that discussion with a friend of mine. My argument was that playing MMOs as such was no different than playing with dolls. Kinda like dolls/action figures for grownups I base my argument on the simple comparaison:

Dolls: you dress em up, make up stories/personalities about them, feed them, walk em around, etc.
MMO: you dress em up, make up stories/personalities about them, feed them, walk em around, etc.

I see characters as dolls or pets (since i'm playing a mithra). I disconnect myself from them to allow me to play a female character.