Zippyy,Sep 26 2005, 11:48 AM Wrote:You are an exception.
The only exception.
I propose that cross-gender play be banned. Only when verified female by DNA testing will you be allowed to create a female avatar. This might be a bad idea.
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I tend to roleplay quite a bit with my "girls" Sharanna and Shalandrax and have written a good portion of their back history for my own amusement. The development of the characters is (at least to me) interesting because if it hadn't have been for my daughter Sharon neither would exist...
Back in Beta I started out playing a paladin named Eron. Then came a character lock with the addition of Horde for testing purposes. I dutifully started a couple of Horde Characters but my daughter disliked when I played horde. She found them "too ugly" especially my undead Mage Jack the Skell. She wanted me to go back to playing pretty people and wanted a girl character like Eron. So I rolled up a female paladin and named her Sharanna for Sharon. Sharon took an immediate liking to the feisty red head and soon I was playing her more than any other character. When folks returned to alliance after the character lock Sharanna was my highest character and I had even caught up with other guild notables. So to play with the "big kids" I kept on playing on Sharanna.
About that time I started working on a new fantasy novel with one of the main protagonists being a female swordswoman. I decided to create her in WoW to help keep the juices going. Once again Sharon helped with her look and with the name. She also suggested (being a only child she's keen on siblings for some reason) that they be sisters. This evolved into Sharanna being the older of the two and having raised Shalandrax since their family and home was destroyed by the undead plague. When Sharanna became of age she joined the Church and took up hammer and shield against the undead. (This is also why Shar is protection specc'd). Shalandrax, however, is a bit more of a mercenary preferring to take her anger out on any who stand against the Alliance. She initially took up their father's sword and has been dutifully working to master all manner of swords.
So this is why Sharanna and Shalandrax have come to be. Krystian came about because my wife wanted to try out WoW but has since become the third character I concentrate upon. She would have proabably ended up a he if I had been doing the choosing and would have been a dwarven priest. My other characters I play most often are Tal and Braiginn both of whom are males. :)
So in a roundabout way there are sometimes reasons beyond "zomg look at teh cute" for folks to choose a female character. :) (Probably more information than folks were looking for but I thought some might be interested)