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I seem to have started a KOTOR fic. This should be a lesson to me that ideas rattling around in my brain are Muse bait of the first order. In the books, I know that Revan is male, though the KOTOR games allow for different customizations of the character and his/her ultimate fate. If we assume that the games are part of the series canon, they’re already allowing players a sort of shape your own canon play.
Anyway, I digress.
Although I write slash (though not exclusively) fic and am quite content to RP male characters in that sort of fannish environment, when I’m playing scripted games that allow a player the ability to customize the gender of an avatar, I always choose a female avatar. Well, almost always. I might play a male character if there are story arcs the female character doesn’t have access to. Otherwise, I’m going to slip inside a girl-skin.
I’ve been thinking a little about why that might be so. Is it because if I’m RPing with other fen, we’re playing in a different way than I am when I’m video gaming? Does it have something to do with the medium: RPing in chat or all text versus in an environment that is more visual? Does the community and shared beliefs/practices in fandom mean RP personae manifest differently than in a single-player game?
I don’t have any answers to those questions right now. Just collecting them all for later ponderings and to see if y’all have any thoughts about them.
Anyway, I digress.
Although I write slash (though not exclusively) fic and am quite content to RP male characters in that sort of fannish environment, when I’m playing scripted games that allow a player the ability to customize the gender of an avatar, I always choose a female avatar. Well, almost always. I might play a male character if there are story arcs the female character doesn’t have access to. Otherwise, I’m going to slip inside a girl-skin.
I’ve been thinking a little about why that might be so. Is it because if I’m RPing with other fen, we’re playing in a different way than I am when I’m video gaming? Does it have something to do with the medium: RPing in chat or all text versus in an environment that is more visual? Does the community and shared beliefs/practices in fandom mean RP personae manifest differently than in a single-player game?
I don’t have any answers to those questions right now. Just collecting them all for later ponderings and to see if y’all have any thoughts about them.