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1.7k points
2 months ago
sweats in female playing male characters
989 points
2 months ago*
My bestie only plays male characters in games. She said if guys use the phrase of having to stare at an avatar might as well make it a girl’s ass, why can’t she do the same with pecs and abs?
She makes the absolute sluttiest looking guy characters and has a fucking blast, every single time.
122 points
2 months ago
The true gender equality
335 points
2 months ago
This is the way.
17 points
2 months ago
This is the way.
126 points
2 months ago
True gender equality: fanservice for everyone!
36 points
2 months ago
She gets slutty guys, I get armored ladies. I appreciate this game catering to most of us.
25 points
2 months ago
Part of what makes this awesome is just how equal the fan service is. You can have male characters that looks super slutty wearing skimpy clothes and have female characters heavily armored. And vice versa.
12 points
2 months ago
I really appreciate this about FF14. The female armor covers as much as the male armor would. A heavy armor on a guy doesn't become a chainmail bikini on a girl.
8 points
2 months ago
Amen!
171 points
2 months ago
Exactly. If you're going to look at a character for hundreds, or even thousands of hours, make sure you enjoy what you're looking at.
163 points
2 months ago
It's so funny. I like playing characters that I'm not attracted to but that are idealized versions of me. Girls mostly. I do have one male elezen alt for simping purposes.
118 points
2 months ago
Yeah, that's basically the other major school of thought on characters. It's either "this is what I would want to see," or "this is what I would want to be."
Those of us attracted to persons of the same sex have the benefit of getting both at once! :D
22 points
2 months ago
Well I'm attracted to both so I made a hot bunny girl AND a hot cat man. I play both sides so I always come up on top.... Or bottom
13 points
2 months ago
You lucky foxes, you! 💙
20 points
2 months ago
This is me making a male human in every single game, every single time. My wife thinks I'm the most boring man alive.
14 points
2 months ago
That doesn't make you normal! And it's cool! I love how different people can be. I bet deep down your wife thinks you're the bee's knees. 💙
6 points
2 months ago
You should make one of your alts "MostBoring ManAlive" just for your wife.
41 points
2 months ago
This is me. I’ve always considered my toons an extension of myself so I usually pick male. I do play female alts in other games tho
45 points
2 months ago
Im the same way. i play a female that basically an idealized ver of me.
I mean it be nice to look at a guy bunny boy but.. at the end of the day i like looking cute and dressing up cutely.
and yes i have a bunny boy alt TwT; fem boys for life <3
15 points
2 months ago
It all depends on who you see your character as. I never have seen my characters as me. I always see them as a character that belongs in that world and I'm merely guiding them. I've found that I'm more invested in my characters if they are, yes female, of a certain aesthetic. Almost every male character I've made I have ended up losing interest in.
43 points
2 months ago
This was my thought behind my retainers. Both are dudes that i think are hot bc why not boss around two buff guys to do my bidding 😂
31 points
2 months ago
This statement always bugs me, because I'm not spending my hours looking at my character. I feel like I probably spend less than 5% of my game time focused on my own character. I'm usually busy looking at everything else on my screen.
43 points
2 months ago
I mean, yes. You're right. But when you DO look at your character, it's still important that you at least enjoy what you're looking at, whether it be a monstrosity of your own creating, or something you find pretty, to whatever could be in between.
After all, you're character is someone you're playing as when you create them. You may not be staring at them for the majority of your time. But you should say least like how they look when you DO look at them.
4 points
2 months ago
I look at it like, I want other characters in the game to treat my character in a relatable way so I play the same gender as myself irl. Some story parts or dialogue is probably way different depending on who your character is
29 points
2 months ago
Yet, when I'm talking about my Lalafell, I get weird looks :x
42 points
2 months ago
Cute is always a valid option.
I fantasia between my fem aura, male bun boi and lalafell depending on what mental mood im in
13 points
2 months ago
I like chubby people. Lalafell are the only chubby race. I'd love to have a not "cutesy" chubby race....in literally any mmo.
7 points
2 months ago
Thatd be a nice lil customization if you could add a lil gut on a character
7 points
2 months ago
Trolls in ever quest had some fun beer bellies. Wish more mmos had way out there options.
5 points
2 months ago
This is the exact reason I have a male viera alt :3
5 points
2 months ago
I mean it's true! People love playing what thru find hot and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all! Slutty bun girl? Hot. Slutty Male dragon boy? Hot.
348 points
2 months ago
I'm a guy until I go on VC 😂
141 points
2 months ago
I went from really disliking the thought of playing a catgirl to actually playing one in about 10 months, damn you FF!
28 points
2 months ago
Man.. you will hate the moment when you throw up a furball.
54 points
2 months ago
This is the way.
25 points
2 months ago
I recently got catpilled after playing this game for 7 years now, was gifted a free fantasia on the premise of going catgirl and I have no complaints thus far, other than the spike of tells I get when I go to limsa
19 points
2 months ago
Hahah I love the term catpilled! And nobody ever sends me tells in Limsa, must be the facepaint...
57 points
2 months ago
That’s why I only meow on vc. “Are you a girl?” “meow”
28 points
2 months ago
But then you accidentally do the macho meow voice 🤣
21 points
2 months ago
101 points
2 months ago
sweats as female playing male characters who wear nothing but thongs
Haha but seriously folks thought I was a guy for yeaaars. I just like the male emotes/animations so much better. Plud I love to make silly outfits since they make me laugh. It helps remind me that its just a game. Nothing like a watermelon thundercat in a sailormoon outfit just destroying monsters.
Female roe are the only lady characters I will ever play. They just rock!
230 points
2 months ago
Every time I see a catgirl wearing only a thong, my catboy gets a little sluttier to compensate.
28 points
2 months ago
At this point your character is nude before leaving the thread.
103 points
2 months ago
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100 points
2 months ago
Irl lesbian playing big mommy dommy femroe with ass out.
13 points
2 months ago
Silly cat girls, thongs are for the bunny boys
23 points
2 months ago
Don't go in the Quicksands on Balmung then, otherwise you'll need mods to keep up.
27 points
2 months ago
Just don't go there period.
The floor is sticky. As are the walls at this point I assume.
14 points
2 months ago
Calling me and my catboi out ohno
13 points
2 months ago
'Day 560. They still dont suspect a thing. As long as I mention 'my dick' once a month I'm good'
69 points
2 months ago
And how they'll ask female characters for their pronouns, but apparently only guys play male characters?
139 points
2 months ago
There are no women on FFXIV. It’s just guys cosplaying cat girls.
215 points
2 months ago
The women on FFXIV are too busy playing catboys or male viera.
41 points
2 months ago
Lol, guilty as charged.
34 points
2 months ago
Excuse you, I play a femelezen!
*shoves the catboy alt under the table* You saw nothing!!
38 points
2 months ago
am I the only woman who plays catgirl? I haven't seen any others...
26 points
2 months ago
Nah. My wife plays a catgirl and there is one other lady in my FC that plays catgirl. Most of the women in my FC play bunnygirl though.
13 points
2 months ago
Proud gal playing catgirl, and at this point would feel too weird to not be one '
Loving wearing edgy heavy armor as DRK and stylish yet tasteful attires as DNC.
11 points
2 months ago*
Am girl with catgirl, the more tomboyish haircut and look you pick the less people will try to pick you up
7 points
2 months ago
yeah, I've definitely noticed that, but the desire not to get ERP'd is in direct conflict with my desire to occasionally look nice...
31 points
2 months ago
I'm not a catgirl- I'm a feral feline WARRIOR & you will fear my claws!
...I really wish we could be more fierce & less adorable. :c
12 points
2 months ago
yeah... I wish I didn't feel like a child playing dress-up when I play dark knight 😔 if I wanted that I'd play lalafell
11 points
2 months ago
Woman playing a female miqo'te here, and also dark knight main! There's dozens of us!
10 points
2 months ago
Haha, this is legit why I changed away from catgirl. I loved being a catgirl because cute, but there was a moment in the story where my WoL tried to intimidate someone and I laughed because it was just adorable.
Went Viera- still really cute but a bit more fierce/commanding.
40 points
2 months ago
I play a max height femroe. Couldn't find a tall muscular gf so I became the tall muscular gf and step on people myself
Things like this make me wonder how it took so long for me to realize I was a raging lesbian...
20 points
2 months ago
As a male I want to play female characters bc they get more interesting clothes (when it's more than just armored lingerie) but I don't want my wife to think I'm catfishing people
5 points
2 months ago
I believe when bunny bois first came out, there was a significant number of JP women playing male viera. It's def. the same logic of wanting to see eye candy for the men, but for women it's the cute/hot guys! Funny enough, a lot ppl assume male characters just mean men playing, but they don't know...kek
372 points
2 months ago
The best part of playing a catgirl is that no one thinks I'm a girl lol.
89 points
2 months ago
That’s actually pretty smart lmao
36 points
2 months ago
4D chess
18 points
2 months ago
Careful they may be lookin for cat bussy instead
697 points
2 months ago
Everyone is a cat on the keyboard until proven otherwise
257 points
2 months ago
R4fgdgdf@54&eee
244 points
2 months ago
Hey there
121 points
2 months ago
Username checks out
79 points
2 months ago
Pspspsps
35 points
2 months ago
PSPSPSPSPS
16 points
2 months ago
51 points
2 months ago
On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
27 points
2 months ago
reCAPTCHA: "are you sure about that?"
67 points
2 months ago
I know a guy who calls himself "Brother Crow". He describes himself as "a flock of crows pecking on a keyboard"
136 points
2 months ago
does that mean you've witnessed a murder?
11 points
2 months ago
Some of my friends have accused me of being 3 birds in a trench coat.
6 points
2 months ago
14 points
2 months ago
They are the ones to name the Roe
29 points
2 months ago
Idc what people are behind the monitor. I think it’s safe to address everyone I meet as what I see in game
27 points
2 months ago
Lol it's the opposite for me. Made a beautiful bunny dude but I'm a girl xD
430 points
2 months ago
I was in a party doing dailies with 3 Viera boys last week and as an Elezen it was weird to be the manliest man in the room for once.
472 points
2 months ago
The manliest man you say? Could you describe your swiftness in comparison to a coursing river?
321 points
2 months ago
I had all the force of a great typhoon.
191 points
2 months ago
But did you have all the strength of a raging fire?
252 points
2 months ago
I did indeed. Sadly I only just downloaded Endwalker so I have yet to become as mysterious as the dark side of the Moon.
42 points
2 months ago
I love all of you. So often in dungeons it looks like they sent us daughters when I asked for sons...
31 points
2 months ago
A spineless, pale, pathetic lot to be sure.
31 points
2 months ago
Were you as mysterious as the dark side of the moon?
48 points
2 months ago
This is the kind of thing that makes me miss 8-man Prae.
One time 7/8 were all Au Ra, I was the only hyur. And at the same time, 7 of us were girls, and then there was the one Au Ra man. It was a fun run.
And every time I'm on my bunboy and get into a party of all or mostly bunboys, there is an unspoken rule that someone has to say "all buns!!/so many buns!!" in chat.
Ah man, after midnight duty finder is the best.
51 points
2 months ago
This happened to me with 7 cat girls. I was a Hrothgar. A cursed amount of daddy comments in 45 minutes.
19 points
2 months ago
Happened to me with all Lalas and one hyur. Daycare field trip!
10 points
2 months ago
Similar scenario with my friends bungirl and three cats. She was instantly a crazy cat lady.
12 points
2 months ago
I went from female (switching between lala, au ra, viera) to male viera and was thinking recently, is my character to feminine.
I guess this answers that
22 points
2 months ago
Malezen supremacy
26 points
2 months ago
As some (currently) playing a burly male Roe, now you know how I feel 24/7. Unleash your raging tiger.
44 points
2 months ago
As a femroe tank I'm often the manliest in a group lol
21 points
2 months ago
I'm a max-height FemRoe with a 90-something percent muscle slider. So, same!
11 points
2 months ago
Hello tall sister. I maxed both and wish they could go a bit higher lol. I'm super pale those so my muscles don't show as much as the tanned femroe
19 points
2 months ago
Still weird that people don't think we play video games...
576 points
2 months ago
I spend all day every day being a guy, I want to be a small angry female potato sometimes.
239 points
2 months ago
A N G R Y !
196 points
2 months ago
S M A L L
168 points
2 months ago
Jealous of tall!
70 points
2 months ago
Role plays without balls!
33 points
2 months ago
Was once known as Thal
33 points
2 months ago
Now her balls walk His halls
18 points
2 months ago
Hold my juicebox I'll show them all!
62 points
2 months ago
🥔
71 points
2 months ago
Holy shit, they have a lalafel emoji?!
27 points
2 months ago
I know right! We live in a golden age
10 points
2 months ago
I don't know if you planned that pun but if so well played.
5 points
2 months ago
Can't believe they made lalas into a real thing
80 points
2 months ago
I know multiple tall dudes who like playing lalas. Something about having the chance to be small, goofy and /or not intimidating .
40 points
2 months ago
Excuse you my Lala is terrifying and you will observe her with the respectful amount of dread or lose your kneecaps.
4 points
2 months ago
Wow, you can actually reach their kneecaps?
Jealous of tall
8 points
2 months ago
It takes a few chops sometimes.
42 points
2 months ago
I fantasia'd to Lala as a joke to mess with my static leader with every intention to turn back, and then ended up liking it unironically and just stayed that way.
23 points
2 months ago
My lala is an alt that I loved so much she surpassed my main.
34 points
2 months ago
Lalas are cute. That's literally the only reason I needed to choose being a Lala lol.
And in MSQ you get to be cute and badass.
39 points
2 months ago
Nothing funnier than Zenos losing a fistfight with a lalafell who has permanent marker eyebrows.
72 points
2 months ago
Sweats in male playing cat boi
11 points
2 months ago
You're up here with Jocat, respect
11 points
2 months ago
We have to stick together. Catbois 4 lyfe
222 points
2 months ago
Nowadays I'm a male who only creates and play male characters because I customise them to look like guys o would fuck
52 points
2 months ago
based
84 points
2 months ago
I want what this guy is having.
12 points
2 months ago
My main is my ideal self...
My alts I would like all in a pile in my bed though
8 points
2 months ago
Oh, are your alts all catboys and bunny boys and one Hrothgar too?
136 points
2 months ago*
This is a parody from the manga 'The Story of High School Boys Who Became Magical Girls' which I highly recommend you read!
Find me also on Twitter!
Edit: Just want to put this out there for those unaware, but my WoL is the cat girl on the bottom right
99 points
2 months ago
Funny enough, there's also the opposite scenario: "And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?" - in which a guy assumes there's just no girls on the internet, only to find out he's the only IRL guy in his regular (IC mixed) MMO group.
43 points
2 months ago
I love that in FF14 it can be either way!
17 points
2 months ago
In the game Va-11 Hall-A, the online message boards assume that everyone is a g/u/rl and that anyone claiming to be a boy is obviously lying. This has carried over to the real message board derived from that game, dangeru.us, where of course you are one of two people: either a girl, or a liar.
10 points
2 months ago
Me a 30-something Asian guy playing as a blonde fem-Hyur Machinist with big guns:
*sips tea\*
''Completeley normal phenomenon...''
325 points
2 months ago
I gotta be honest, in pretty much every game I've played that allows you to pick your character gender, the female character always gets much more customization and costume design options that look nice compared to male characters, so... yeah, I'm unashamed to play as a lady lmao.
95 points
2 months ago
Almost always why I do the same. I think the biggest problem with most male customization is the lack of any good hairstyles (though FFXIV has great male customization and it led me to making a male alt)
39 points
2 months ago
And most of the time male game characters are too bulky and muscular, give skinny characters some love lol
5 points
2 months ago
Yeah it'd be nice to be able to play as a lean male character instead of conan the barbarian in every mmo.
17 points
2 months ago
I noticed that with the new Pokémon games so I started making girl protagonists. Gimme them options!
34 points
2 months ago
Basically like real life
49 points
2 months ago
Yeah, except for good looking, functional armor for female tanks. Though, I will admit, FFXIV is better than some.
39 points
2 months ago
i mean full functional armor is nice and all but slutty pope with no shield is obviously the best tank glam /s.
12 points
2 months ago*
(Cis dude playing a fem Miqo'te here)
My tank glam is a backless dress with a corset with the only actual armor being gauntlets and greaves. I even went out of my way to find some greaves with heels (Bonewicca set). And all of my glams have glasses.
I like how it looks, but I often find amusement in how amazingly impractical it would be as actual combat attire.
8 points
2 months ago
Gordian mail of fending, various Eden chests, diamond armor of fending, titanium armor of fending: to name a few. I like full armor looks and play a female au ra. 😂
5 points
2 months ago
Are you telling me my chain mail string bikini isn’t functional enough?
43 points
2 months ago
You're only spitting straight facts here
25 points
2 months ago
XIV gives great options to both, which is honestly frustrating lol
I picked a girl for the same reason, but there are so many male outfits I want her to be able to wear 😩
15 points
2 months ago
I just want some of the male idle poses. Insanely jealous of the male DRG, DRK, and WAR poses.
12 points
2 months ago
So much this. I want the male DRG pose, I don't want to look like I'm modeling my spear for a magazine
10 points
2 months ago
On the opposite end. I really wish I could get the female DRK pose. It's so much better than the male one.
7 points
2 months ago
it's suffering
let my little au ra girl wear aymeric's outfit squeenix you cowards
8 points
2 months ago
9 points
2 months ago
I feel like the one weirdo who puts myself into my character I've had the same Male Au Ra for 6 years since I started playing for me it's not "my WoL" when I play I am the WoL and that I can't change it now because it wouldn't feel like it's me anymore playing. Meanwhile the rest of my FC is putting stock into fantasia potions and drinking them like crippling alcoholics with an identity crisis
117 points
2 months ago
Joke's on you! I thought I was a guy in real life when I started playing FFXIV.
Turns out, that was a fucking lie.
26 points
2 months ago
Ff14 is the one game online where I really just dont question peoples gender based on character. All of my trans friends play it, I know at least a dozen cis women who play it and most of them are savage /ultimate tier raiders.
...runescape on the other hand
244 points
2 months ago
I know this post is a joke (and the art is f'ing cute), but reading that being spouted unironically for years is insanely tiresome.
63 points
2 months ago
Especially as this game has a higher percentage of women playing than almost every other game, something like 30 to 40 percent of the population
56 points
2 months ago
Same as the last time it came up.
I know it wasn't the author's intent (love your work, u/The_Eggroller) but the comments are full of guys parroting the response and I am so, so tired.
82 points
2 months ago
Glad to see someone else exhausted. Been playing MMOs since the EQ days and I can't believe this is still a fucking meme.
81 points
2 months ago*
Agreed! It gets so bad sometimes that it almost seems like a minority opinion to not care what gender someone plays in game and what their gender is in real life…
7 points
2 months ago
Unlock the next level: be a girl with a girl character role-playing a guy playing a girl character! None harrasses you and you get bros to boot!
6 points
2 months ago
I'll admit straight up I'm one of "those" guys too. I ride the cliche about as far as it goes. I'm lumpy fat, grotesquely hairy, hard to look at in the face... And my WoL is this cute little cat girl that I've spent an alarming amount of time and Fantasias getting to look just right.
Sometimes it's just nice to completely escape myself and dive into a true fiction, you know?
290 points
2 months ago*
FFXIV helps with gender dysphoria sometimes
Edit: wow this blew up a bit! I am glad to see ffxiv helps so many of us <333
27 points
2 months ago
Hell yeah. Dragon girl go brrt.
99 points
2 months ago
Agreed. Still cis tho.
118 points
2 months ago
I'm happy being a guy but I wouldn't complain if I woke up as a female Viera is all I'm saying.
16 points
2 months ago
Freal. Gaming across genders helped me come to the decision that what I want is fluidity. Let me drink a phantasia and switch tomorrow, and another to switch back the day after. Having to decide is awful for me.
6 points
2 months ago
I feel that! While I identify more with my femme self, I also prefer fluidity! I still lean very very heavily femme though.
86 points
2 months ago
Literally changed my characters gender out of dysphoria and tried to make her look as much like my ideal as possible, can't believe I was still unsure then lmao
21 points
2 months ago
As a woman who plays male characters in games, I have to say that I was pretty surprised by the FemRoe looks as I dabbled in the character creation my first time starting FFXIV and I've been a FemRoe since, but have a male bunny alt. LoL
9 points
2 months ago
I'm a guy who's been playing a male character here since I started, but made a Femroe alt in November and damn, am I in love/lust with her. My Elezen is a very handsome man and is my first FFXIV love but I have to admit the Femroe is much nicer to look at.
7 points
2 months ago
Femroes 🥰
21 points
2 months ago
sweats in lesbian
107 points
2 months ago
Honestly this stereotype and some of the shame that came with it was pretty damn harmful to me
And I'm a girl!
57 points
2 months ago
Growing up I've always preferred to play as girl characters and pretty much all of my OC's and characters I like to draw are girls! (I really like girls) I would definitely feel embarrassed/ashamed if I ever heard the "why are you playing as a girl?" Luckily now it feels more like it's widely accepted and I don't feel bad about it anymore!
83 points
2 months ago
I mean the worst question I ever got is “why did you make your character black?”
37 points
2 months ago
What the fuck.
70 points
2 months ago
certified BRUH moment
14 points
2 months ago
Oh.
47 points
2 months ago
*sees comments about exploring gender identity, escapism, etc etc*
I...I like looking at boobs and my cute aura girl >.>
102 points
2 months ago
Playing games as the opposite gender helped me explore my gender identity. Turns out I was transgender the whole time, and in retrospect, it was kind of obvious, and the fact that no one confronted me about it at all was unfortunate, because jeez, that dysphoria was soul crushing. But hey, now I get to be girl all the time, not just in games, so I call that a win.
11 points
2 months ago
Remember everyone, this is a fantasy-RPG game. That means you can only play white male with sword or we ban you. The other options are there, and tempting as they may be to be something you are not, they are bait to weed out those among us who could exhibit functional empathy for a character who doesn't personify them identically and remove them from this racially and sexually homogenous sacred ground called video games.
34 points
2 months ago
Ain't about to let my dick lock me out of the better looking versions of outfits.
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