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.

[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).

[Nipaah]

Character, people calling it toons make me cringe.

[Lyonnc]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

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

[ZiggyXT]

I use Character also but probably because the first mmo i played (FFXI) that was the commonly used word.

[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.

[Keres]

I don't call them "toons," but all of the hand-wringing about the term makes me want to start.

[Erinael]

I call em by name.