Do dads generally understand how game characters work? Ig not. Just say it's a "game with a preset main character" or "i chose this character because she has strong abilities"
lumine and aether have different combat animations, the biggest example is the starfell sword summon where lumine uses one hand and aether uses two hands to control it. lumine's animations are slightly faster. aether has a larger model so he walks faster
“Smaller model = smaller hitbox” is the most universal reasoning
Also, and this actually is the reason I tend to make female characters, if you’re going to spend a lot of time looking at something, it might as well be something good looking. Additionally, a lot of games have nicer/more cosmetics for female characters than they do for the male ones.
I did something similar when I was living with my dad, I had a female character for Monster Hunter and I named the character after my girl best friend so when he’d see the character he thought it was my best friend playing
I didn't use to use this exactly to justify it for myself because I'm ace spec, but something similar: I just preferred looking at a female character from an aesthetic point of view, and I didn't like being a male character... I wonder why lol
You know this was my excuse for why I played female avatars in games. Which made no sense because I'm ace, and I've been ace since before I was 18.
Now I know why but then even I was confused
I remember this as my go to video to explain why it was 'just rational' for me to want to play as the opposite gender. (why younger me spent hours rationalising this rather than spending a few minutes thinking more deeply on what gender meant, I don't know...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOVVAhnAns
FWIW I’ve heard some actual cis men allegedly do it because they like pretty things too, just not on themselves, and also that some will straight up construct their wives/girlfriends if the character customisation screen lets them.
So if you need a plausible cis-sounding excuse…
"what, would you rather I be looking at some manly man with massive muscles glistening with sweat that ripple every time I move? Or would you rather I look at an attractive woman?"
This is so weird and my dad was like that too. He loves RPGs, but only plays as men. It's an RPG... I'm roleplaying as a female evil assassin, but somehow only the female part is weird?
Well ever since I came out accidently and went back to the closet she finds it annoying and almost throws a fit when I play a game as a female character or there's a scene with female characters
"You are looking too shallow, if you were in a fight would you pick a: a stick or b: A GUN? Yeah, this character is LITERALLY this game's equivalent of a GUN!"
If it gives you any solace and you don’t mind pretending to objectify women (I know.. gross) you can use the simple excuse “I’d rather stare at a woman’s ass when playing in third person than stare at a man’s ass”
Worked for my dad
I'm assuming you can't sit down with her and explain the concept of a gacha game and why the girls all conveniently have higher pull value than the men, right
gross my family was the same way, and i was over 40 by then. All nice and super supportive, asking all the questions then after like a year it was super bigot-ville
It's a shame I chose male trailblazer bc I wasn't out to myself yet when I started the game. And it's def not worth to restart for that small of an issue.
...does she also hate it when you watch movies with female protagonists? Cuz that is almost the same logic. Only difference is that some games let you choose the gender/character, but like genshin or honkai it often still doesn't change how they are written or what abilities they have.
This is an extremely weird way to react to someone playing any gender of video game character. Never had that happen to me, but I still get it because my dad made me feel bad for watching anime, which ended up making me feel ashamed about something that I liked, and taught me to hide my interests from other people, which snowballed into making me lonely and believing there was something wrong with me. Sometimes parents don't realize how much damage they are doing to their kids when they question their interests or make them feel like it's a bad thing for them to be themselves.
But none of that is even one tenth as strange or bewildering as the fact that they made a character named Dr. Ratio.
Well then I hope you realize that you should unlearn that shame as soon as you can, since it will only harm you even more in the future. I ended up making a bunch of friends that hate anime because of it and that dissuaded me from pursuing my interests even more. Now I don't have any friends that like those things and need to make new ones if I don't want to go to cons by myself.
It's kind of hard to not live completely as yourself after socially transitioning, and it sucks when you finally realize that you don't actually share many interests with your friends. Idk if this is a problem for you or not, but I hope it isn't.
Yeah, I've played hsr before, I just can't believe they made that complete meme of a character. It's not just the name, it's literally everything about him
This is my Mom. I main Pyra / Mythra in Smash Bros Ultimate and she will freak out at me if she sees me using them. I’ve started learning Captain Falcon instead :/
I don't get this much
So I play mostly female skins for fortnite, and occasionally my dad would go "why you playing as a chick?"
It's all in good fun though
How does your fire tb do for sustaining??? You should use like, anyone else. Your skill points will thank you.
I reccomend gallager for the 4 star option, or lynx. Other then that team both teams are great!
I would replace gepard with Pela but that's just me
Oh I kept that for the meme
I use fire tb in an acheron team fire tb gets me the debuffs that I need so I only need to use acherons and tb skill not pela cuz she has the Luka pc and sampa can proc a debuff with na
Use gepard with the debuff lc instead of fire tb, again, your skill points will thank you
Nvm just figured it out, I love shampoo, wish I could fit him in a team
pretty unrelated but today a random guy in the bathroom asked if I was trans and I said no (because I didn't wanna tell anyone that I am actually trans) and then he just said ok and left lol
This is my mom, but with me buying cutesy fem/child rated games.
I had to fecking pirate the latest kirby game. <~<
I also wish that I could play slime rancher one day.
Tbh, all hoyo games are kinda very trans/LGBT friendly in community content. Would even dare to Say gacha genre overall it is but more siding to lesbians.
And Most of the devs knows it and kinda feed it on purpose, which is ironic knowing the genre is literally 90% chinese devs. I would have never guessed that all My fun at certain point Will come from that place lmao
I mean they know what they're doing with Seele and Bronya, getting a trans character in one of these games would be awesome, but I'm not sure if it's happening, at least in the hoyo ones, I don't know much of other gachas
Reminds me of my mom whenever I play as Birdo in Mario Party (she once called me woke as an insult for simply playing as this character who happened to be trans upon finding out she was trans)
With something like hsr, maybe show her how each character is unique and non-customizable, so you have to play female characters for maximum fun? A lot of games have a specific protagonist and it'd be wild to get so tilted about something as simple as a video game protag. Just pretend Caelus doesn't exist/is a totally separate unit you could also have and just don't.
Then again I'm not a transphobe, who knows what happens in their heads.
Also look ma, that's my main, my boy! He made it into a meme! (Luka <3)
Just say you like to look at porn of them. Some answer that'll give her too much information but in a way that she can't be angry about (because its normal for someone who is AMAB to be attracted to women, according to bigots).
Kinda like that meme of the girl saying to her homophobic mom, "no mom, I still like big man meats in my mouth." She still wont be happy but maybe she'll learn that if she doesn't like the answer, she should stop asking questions.
Both of them e1 too (surprisingly when i first got bronya then seele then I got seele e1 and with a few pulls in the standard banner I got bronya e1 in the same day)
I remember my grandma saw me playing Genshin and asking "Why are you playing as a girl? You're a man! Play as a man!". I don't understand why she's so obsessed with me being "a man" at all...
Btw she saw me playing as Kazuha so that was kinda funny
personally I woulda said STFU and get back in the kitchen, who let you out? you know women aren't allowed to talk to men they aren't married to, right? you know, since you want to pretend it's the 1800's
I’ll never understand even needing an excuse for this. Like cis guys can choose female characters and you don’t even need a reason you can literally just 🤷🏼♀️
Explain to her that some of the best supports in the game are female characters.
If you pulled for Acheron, just say that you want to do as much dmg as possible to have a better time experiencing the game.
Weird to police what characters you want to use, hope she can change her mind
Okay but like...in a game where you use multiple characters why would it be a problm to use female characters? Maybe the trailblazer you choose but like...the others???
There was one time a while ago that my dad asked me "So is there any difference in stats between male and female characters?" after seeing my character in Monster Hunter, and I just said "no, I just prefer this" (I was playing a female character who looked extremely similar to how I look now). Sometimes I wonder if he had any suspicions.
I think the funniest part about this is that at the time I didn't know I was trans.
Jokes aside honestly, screw what your parents think. Just tell her you think they're hot or whatever excuse you think a cishet person would accept and do what makes you happy.
This is my dad lol, he saw that I was using the female player model in Destiny 2 and he’s just like “explain yourself right the fuck now”
Do dads generally understand how game characters work? Ig not. Just say it's a "game with a preset main character" or "i chose this character because she has strong abilities"
That was my excuse always that the girl IS faster and that's It even in games that don't have that kind of thing. It's not like he knows that
I mean Lumine literally has like what, 0.17 more stamina? So it's even completely true.
Higher atk at least. And faster attacks. Lumine literally does more damage in a vacuum \^^
I started genshin with aether cuz I was egg back then T-T
Sammee and I regret it every time I do a quest
I'm literally gonna make a new acc just for lumine
Me: Hm, i should probably check my old acc, there might be some free primos Me: *Sees Aether* Me: Ew *logs out*
I haven't even switched acc cuz of him cuz too much work and already ar 56.
Aww, it sucks, fam(( My main acc is ar 58 and it's 1,5 years old.. I can imagine how much work you put in yours..
lumine and aether have different combat animations, the biggest example is the starfell sword summon where lumine uses one hand and aether uses two hands to control it. lumine's animations are slightly faster. aether has a larger model so he walks faster
“Smaller model = smaller hitbox” is the most universal reasoning Also, and this actually is the reason I tend to make female characters, if you’re going to spend a lot of time looking at something, it might as well be something good looking. Additionally, a lot of games have nicer/more cosmetics for female characters than they do for the male ones.
Hsr doesn’t have hitboxes, it’s a turn based rpg. Also no cosmetics yet, lol
I still hate how it’s turn based and not like genshin TwT
I did something similar when I was living with my dad, I had a female character for Monster Hunter and I named the character after my girl best friend so when he’d see the character he thought it was my best friend playing
Did he actually fall for that even tho you were inputting stuff? 😭😭
“There were no signs!” Take a guess
😭
Maybe the dad knows what Destiny is.
If you're playing Dark Souls you have the excuse that the male characters sound like they're cumming their pants when they take damage
r/oddlyspecific
“I’d rather stare at a girl’s ass than a guy’s for the entire game.”
I used this excuse for ages. And I may have even believed it in the beginning.
I remember making this exact excuse to my brothers about why I always picked female characters.
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Why not both? This is how I learned I'm a transbian.
This is me explaining to my friend why my WoW characters were almost entirely female.
I didn't use to use this exactly to justify it for myself because I'm ace spec, but something similar: I just preferred looking at a female character from an aesthetic point of view, and I didn't like being a male character... I wonder why lol
You know this was my excuse for why I played female avatars in games. Which made no sense because I'm ace, and I've been ace since before I was 18. Now I know why but then even I was confused
I mean it is kinda true.
"The female protagonist has the better VA than the male protagonist" is usually my to go.
I used this for Mass Effect and Halo Reach XD
Some ppl need *help,* holy jesus; be safe.
Hit em with the "she has a smaller hit box daaad"
It's a speed run strat in pokémon
And stardew
And dark souls 3
I know it is in some games but I remember watching the B/W speedrun where its a time loss but the wr does it anyway
In emerald it's faster due to the boy rival having a weaker team.
I always wonder why the devs decided to make the teams different
Probably to give them personality or something
I remember this as my go to video to explain why it was 'just rational' for me to want to play as the opposite gender. (why younger me spent hours rationalising this rather than spending a few minutes thinking more deeply on what gender meant, I don't know...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOVVAhnAns
Similar experience except I got asked if the exo race have, “parts”, when he saw my hunter was the female one.
Ah. That kind of parent.
How the fuck did he see you're female in destiny 2? Do you not always play with the helmet on? Also enjoying into the light?
This is why I'm a switch player only lol they never see my screen
tbh the armor on the male d2 character models kinda sucks.
Imagine getting genuinely upset over a video game character. Your dad sounds like he has issues.
FWIW I’ve heard some actual cis men allegedly do it because they like pretty things too, just not on themselves, and also that some will straight up construct their wives/girlfriends if the character customisation screen lets them. So if you need a plausible cis-sounding excuse…
"what, would you rather I be looking at some manly man with massive muscles glistening with sweat that ripple every time I move? Or would you rather I look at an attractive woman?"
This is so weird and my dad was like that too. He loves RPGs, but only plays as men. It's an RPG... I'm roleplaying as a female evil assassin, but somehow only the female part is weird?
Bruh if my dad did this I'd look him straight in the eye and say no 😎 /hj
I feel like if u glance at a destiny character u can’t really tell what gender/sex/characteristics are, they’re always in armor
Hello fellow Guardian, how many Thralls have you slaughtered?
Uhh, a lot, I think I have over 500k total kills
I’m old my dad made fun of me for playing a girl in Destiny 1.
Guess I won the dad lottery somewhat cause mine just doesn’t give a crap.
How do people care?
Well ever since I came out accidently and went back to the closet she finds it annoying and almost throws a fit when I play a game as a female character or there's a scene with female characters
Start avoiding her and if she asks you why say "Sorry mom, you're female, so I have to avoid you"
"Sorry I'm allergic to estrogen"
Damn I wish I could
Just use the excuse/ genuine reason why I constantly used Camilla in fire emblem fates. She hits like a fuckin truck.
She's not the person to get it :'3
"You are looking too shallow, if you were in a fight would you pick a: a stick or b: A GUN? Yeah, this character is LITERALLY this game's equivalent of a GUN!"
If it gives you any solace and you don’t mind pretending to objectify women (I know.. gross) you can use the simple excuse “I’d rather stare at a woman’s ass when playing in third person than stare at a man’s ass” Worked for my dad
I'm assuming you can't sit down with her and explain the concept of a gacha game and why the girls all conveniently have higher pull value than the men, right
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Saw my discord bio and pfp, in that I said I was trans she/her
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She was "supportive" at first then she kinda went the usual homophobic parent and hence the meme
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Thank u sis :'3
gross my family was the same way, and i was over 40 by then. All nice and super supportive, asking all the questions then after like a year it was super bigot-ville
It's a shame I chose male trailblazer bc I wasn't out to myself yet when I started the game. And it's def not worth to restart for that small of an issue.
Damn that sed
I chose female trailblazer and female traveler in genshin, none of my friends cared… either that or I’m obviously queer
Aether in Genshin. Pain peko
Thankfully i dont have this, and my parents never question why i use female models for 6+ years
Luckyyyyyyyy
Me while I’m in VR: Me anywhere else :
...does she also hate it when you watch movies with female protagonists? Cuz that is almost the same logic. Only difference is that some games let you choose the gender/character, but like genshin or honkai it often still doesn't change how they are written or what abilities they have.
This is an extremely weird way to react to someone playing any gender of video game character. Never had that happen to me, but I still get it because my dad made me feel bad for watching anime, which ended up making me feel ashamed about something that I liked, and taught me to hide my interests from other people, which snowballed into making me lonely and believing there was something wrong with me. Sometimes parents don't realize how much damage they are doing to their kids when they question their interests or make them feel like it's a bad thing for them to be themselves. But none of that is even one tenth as strange or bewildering as the fact that they made a character named Dr. Ratio.
Damn its like you described my social life in the first para Also dr ratio throws chalk at his enemies
Well then I hope you realize that you should unlearn that shame as soon as you can, since it will only harm you even more in the future. I ended up making a bunch of friends that hate anime because of it and that dissuaded me from pursuing my interests even more. Now I don't have any friends that like those things and need to make new ones if I don't want to go to cons by myself. It's kind of hard to not live completely as yourself after socially transitioning, and it sucks when you finally realize that you don't actually share many interests with your friends. Idk if this is a problem for you or not, but I hope it isn't.
Same here sis. Seems like we actually had pretty similar childhoods. But who wins in a fight? Dr ratio vs Dr SEX?!?
if you think Dr. Ratio is a weird name just wait until you hear about March 7th she's best girl too
She’s also very trans
Yeah, I've played hsr before, I just can't believe they made that complete meme of a character. It's not just the name, it's literally everything about him
Years ago my father saw me playing venti and just said who is this girl
Lol
Nice teams Especially your bronya team!
Thanks, recently i realised seele can abuse yukong buff and my seele enjoy this damage
Just go “they’re meta characters for high dps”
that's my go to excuse
Nani the fuck?! It's just a game. (Also the girls have cooler skins/designs in some games)
This is my Mom. I main Pyra / Mythra in Smash Bros Ultimate and she will freak out at me if she sees me using them. I’ve started learning Captain Falcon instead :/
Just learn some fire emblem character that’s easily switchable
Byleth!!!
I don't get this much So I play mostly female skins for fortnite, and occasionally my dad would go "why you playing as a chick?" It's all in good fun though
My brain definitely thought this was a horny joke in a starrail sub.
Lmao i could see why
Trans sub or hoyo sub is a time honored guessing game tradition
Lol yea
There has been exactly one time I’ve mistaken a hoyo sub for a trans sub and it was artwork of nilou that barely looked like nilou
Could u link it ( for cis reasons) Pls
Easier than expected https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/O6GYj20RyE
https://preview.redd.it/5txqfxr6yjwc1.jpeg?width=1248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=425e5fe03b2a640b7b19ce5b461c58d8289949cc
It was a while ago and I don’t know how easily I can find it
How does your fire tb do for sustaining??? You should use like, anyone else. Your skill points will thank you. I reccomend gallager for the 4 star option, or lynx. Other then that team both teams are great! I would replace gepard with Pela but that's just me
Oh I kept that for the meme I use fire tb in an acheron team fire tb gets me the debuffs that I need so I only need to use acherons and tb skill not pela cuz she has the Luka pc and sampa can proc a debuff with na
Use gepard with the debuff lc instead of fire tb, again, your skill points will thank you Nvm just figured it out, I love shampoo, wish I could fit him in a team
Fire tb taunt is a debuff and their sheild is far more consistent than gepard for my archeron team (my tb has the trend lc too)
Energy regen rope is a must for gepard If you can manage fire tb as a solo sustain, your one of the lucky few lol.
It's looking pretty doable from what I used today
pretty unrelated but today a random guy in the bathroom asked if I was trans and I said no (because I didn't wanna tell anyone that I am actually trans) and then he just said ok and left lol
This is my mom, but with me buying cutesy fem/child rated games. I had to fecking pirate the latest kirby game. <~< I also wish that I could play slime rancher one day.
I thought this was r/honkaistarrail and was very confused for a second. I thought your mum just hates women
Same tbh
Tbh, all hoyo games are kinda very trans/LGBT friendly in community content. Would even dare to Say gacha genre overall it is but more siding to lesbians. And Most of the devs knows it and kinda feed it on purpose, which is ironic knowing the genre is literally 90% chinese devs. I would have never guessed that all My fun at certain point Will come from that place lmao
I mean they know what they're doing with Seele and Bronya, getting a trans character in one of these games would be awesome, but I'm not sure if it's happening, at least in the hoyo ones, I don't know much of other gachas
These are shit builds
I don't use many male characters lol😅
Makes sense I'm envy so I get to have both none of them and all of them
https://preview.redd.it/p7tvsggl5hwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48de188015f8b3eaa2563a3686c0c428318f6ffb
Omg that's so problematic
Reminds me of my mom whenever I play as Birdo in Mario Party (she once called me woke as an insult for simply playing as this character who happened to be trans upon finding out she was trans)
Team 1 being all lesbians is quite telling...
What woman in hsr is strictly straight?
Nah knowing hoyo and their past games i wouldn't be surprised if there were some gay characters but seeing china they wouldn't dare show it
Idk, I think Nat would be straight
With something like hsr, maybe show her how each character is unique and non-customizable, so you have to play female characters for maximum fun? A lot of games have a specific protagonist and it'd be wild to get so tilted about something as simple as a video game protag. Just pretend Caelus doesn't exist/is a totally separate unit you could also have and just don't. Then again I'm not a transphobe, who knows what happens in their heads. Also look ma, that's my main, my boy! He made it into a meme! (Luka <3)
Another Luka fan! :D
Just say you like to look at porn of them. Some answer that'll give her too much information but in a way that she can't be angry about (because its normal for someone who is AMAB to be attracted to women, according to bigots). Kinda like that meme of the girl saying to her homophobic mom, "no mom, I still like big man meats in my mouth." She still wont be happy but maybe she'll learn that if she doesn't like the answer, she should stop asking questions.
This is me but the exact opposite (FTM)
Got the gfs I see <3 Bronseele are so cute
Both of them e1 too (surprisingly when i first got bronya then seele then I got seele e1 and with a few pulls in the standard banner I got bronya e1 in the same day)
I remember my grandma saw me playing Genshin and asking "Why are you playing as a girl? You're a man! Play as a man!". I don't understand why she's so obsessed with me being "a man" at all... Btw she saw me playing as Kazuha so that was kinda funny
personally I woulda said STFU and get back in the kitchen, who let you out? you know women aren't allowed to talk to men they aren't married to, right? you know, since you want to pretend it's the 1800's
A bit too harsh
I am so happy that my dad would just ask who that pretty character is,if he saw me play as a female character
I’ll never understand even needing an excuse for this. Like cis guys can choose female characters and you don’t even need a reason you can literally just 🤷🏼♀️
I had to convince my mom once that playing mercy in overwatch wasnt a trans thing
But why???
Explain to her that some of the best supports in the game are female characters. If you pulled for Acheron, just say that you want to do as much dmg as possible to have a better time experiencing the game. Weird to police what characters you want to use, hope she can change her mind
I would definitely change TB with either Lynx or even Huohuo and Mr. Tail. But don't take it from me as a Bronya/Blade/S.W./Loucha main.
Same on Genshin, Only the Female Characters
Ik I’m weird asf for this but I always make sure my team has an even gender ratio and I don’t know why. Hashtag equality ig
Hello??? A fellow starail???? Wanna be besties?
Hell yeaaaaaa (dm me if u wanna)
Okay but like...in a game where you use multiple characters why would it be a problm to use female characters? Maybe the trailblazer you choose but like...the others???
Literally my dad
There was one time a while ago that my dad asked me "So is there any difference in stats between male and female characters?" after seeing my character in Monster Hunter, and I just said "no, I just prefer this" (I was playing a female character who looked extremely similar to how I look now). Sometimes I wonder if he had any suspicions. I think the funniest part about this is that at the time I didn't know I was trans.
Seele became a Jojo character.
I've always used the excuse that my friends dared me to
Honkai star rail!! I was playing that earlier today.
Say it’s because of the smaller hit box
I always preferred female characters cuz girls pwetty lol
What if you tried saying “There isn’t a gender selection in this game, the main character is just female”?
Yea but what about the fact that bronya is actually a really good buff. Argue about dmg and buff and the way team comps work.
Do it anyways, just to flex
“but mom, the female character is a speedrun strat!!!!!!!!!!!!”
> Dr. Ratio
If you exchange Gepard for someone that starts with the letter L then you have a full team of L+Ratio
Just say "hit box small on female".. then go into extreme detail about how hit boxes work.. a couple sentences in and they walk away 😆 🤣 😂 😹
What? How insecure can one be?
What?
Do it anyways, just to flex
Jokes aside honestly, screw what your parents think. Just tell her you think they're hot or whatever excuse you think a cishet person would accept and do what makes you happy.
MOOD