Characters or Toons

[Invz]

Character or Toon?

Which nomenclature do you use and why?

[Kagato]

I call him my... Persona...

[Gramul]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

[Lyonnc]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

This. Personally, I cringe every time I hear them referred to as "toons"

[Invz]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

I agree with you. I tend to call my character a character. I think it has a lot to do with what games you have played. Most of my MMO time has been spent on FFXI with breaks to play 1.0 and a few Korean MMOs. The word toon wasn't used widely in any of the games I have played.

[KatzeTitania]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

How about "Dudeman"?

[RavenL]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

I use the exact same thing. Toon makes sense for cartoony looking graphics like WoW but for FFXIV? Not so much. I avoid saying Toon no matter much though.

[Wilan]

What the hell "toon" means anyway.
A character, because that's what they are: character. Playable character, to be precise, opposed to non-playable character (or NPC).

[Mychael]

What the hell "toon" means anyway.
A character, because that's what they are: character. Playable character, to be precise, opposed to non-playable character (or NPC).

Error 1017 disagrees.

[Nipaah]

Character, people calling it toons make me cringe.