When I was a bit younger I used to like playing as male characters (Btw, I am a white girl). I used to always name them "Ian" as well. Because, that was the name I would have been given if I was born a boy from what my parents told me. I don't exactly know why, but it was kind of fun to me to roleplay and pretend that I was a guy. I also liked to try and make my guy look very attractive and would think, "I hope I would look this cool if I were a guy." To be honest I never put much thought into it at the time, but I guess at the time I did sort of think that being a guy seemed so much cooler than being a girl.
Nowadays I don't tend to make guy characters though. I don't exactly know what changed, but I feel like I just became bored of playing as a guy. I started to play a lot of different types of games that the default was always a male hero so maybe that is the reason? But now, even when I play I don't play as a white girl usually. I tend to like playing as a person of color or just a girl that just seems very far removed to how I see myself in real life. I don't care to play a character that I make to look like me or to play a character that I can relate to straight away.
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