OC Question!

[Empress_Omnii]

When making characters, be it for rp, writing, art or other related ventures. What gender identity do they generally have?

If you make a lot of characters, instead consider answering for your favourite and or main characters as opposed to answering based purely on quantity.

Questions are formatted with character identity, followed by your identity in brackets. Apologies for using Other, but the possible responses are already too plentiful.

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[Deleted member 266]

rp, writing, art or other related ventures. What gender identity do they generally have?

What if its different for different things?

Different for rp
Different for writing
Different for art
Different for films
Different for dnd
Different for songs
Different for poems

Just put other?

 

[Empress_Omnii]

What if its different for different things?

Different for rp
Different for writing
Different for art
Different for films
Different for dnd
Different for songs
Different for poems

Just put other?

Other is in reference to gender identity outside the binary.

Maybe you have a favourite medium and can pick that? Or even just explain how it differs across medium.

I'm choosing against setting up strict requirements on how to pick and leaving it more up to the voter to decide what feels most accurate.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Male MCs.

 

[SirContro]

I write both, but I write in the first person and definitely find it easier to get into the headspace of a fellow dude, so I mostly prefer writing male MCs.

 

[MasterY001]

If I sorted all the characters I've ever made by gender, I think it'd be a pretty even split. That being said, most of my main characters are males.

However, I enjoy playing around with gender roles while writing. So, my female characters possess some masculine qualities and vice versa. For example, a straight guy will casually comment on another man's looks or a woman will sexually assault someone for sadistic reasons.

I like to assign traits before considering gender to mix things up and avoid the "leading man" and "damsel in distress" tropes.

 

[Alski]

Mine are different depend on the medium im using so i went with Other(Other) just to be different.

 

[LiteraryWho]

I actually tend to target a balance of the sexes in my novels, though I love making female villains (not necessarily antagonists), because I think they're underrepresented, or worse, stupid (e.g. just misunderstood, fighting back against "the system", tricked into being bad, it's somehow a man's fault, etc). The world needs more honest evil women, imo (okay, not irl, we have more than enough real evil, please and thank you, I'd settle for our evil women just being more honest).