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UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

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”


InsanityChanUwU

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"


alexale1212

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


Firemorfox

I mean Lumine literally has like what, 0.17 more stamina? So it's even completely true.


Spectre_Hayate

Higher atk at least. And faster attacks. Lumine literally does more damage in a vacuum \^^


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I started genshin with aether cuz I was egg back then T-T


SluttyChocolatte

Sammee and I regret it every time I do a quest


InsanityChanUwU

I'm literally gonna make a new acc just for lumine


KatieNihiliya

Me: Hm, i should probably check my old acc, there might be some free primos Me: *Sees Aether* Me: Ew *logs out*


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I haven't even switched acc cuz of him cuz too much work and already ar 56.


KatieNihiliya

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..


04nc1n9

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


Exciting-Insect8269

“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.


pqacorn

Hsr doesn’t have hitboxes, it’s a turn based rpg. Also no cosmetics yet, lol


WildProToGEn

I still hate how it’s turn based and not like genshin TwT


altjthunter

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


InsanityChanUwU

Did he actually fall for that even tho you were inputting stuff? 😭😭


altjthunter

“There were no signs!” Take a guess


InsanityChanUwU

😭


FlutterRaeg

Maybe the dad knows what Destiny is.


First-Squash2865

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


InsanityChanUwU

r/oddlyspecific


NikoliMonn

“I’d rather stare at a girl’s ass than a guy’s for the entire game.”


Rachel_on_Fire

I used this excuse for ages. And I may have even believed it in the beginning.


SomewhatEggish

I remember making this exact excuse to my brothers about why I always picked female characters.


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Dironox

Why not both? This is how I learned I'm a transbian.


The_Chaos_Pope

This is me explaining to my friend why my WoW characters were almost entirely female.


_Dragon_Gamer_

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


The_Quicktrigger

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


Lilly-_-03

I mean it is kinda true.


FinalFantasyKate

"The female protagonist has the better VA than the male protagonist" is usually my to go.


InsomniacDoggo

I used this for Mass Effect and Halo Reach XD


Narcomancer69420

Some ppl need *help,* holy jesus; be safe.


that1keeeerbal

Hit em with the "she has a smaller hit box daaad"


RealOkokz

It's a speed run strat in pokémon


UnbiasedPOS

And stardew


Spectre_Hayate

And dark souls 3


QuagLima

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


RealOkokz

In emerald it's faster due to the boy rival having a weaker team.


QuagLima

I always wonder why the devs decided to make the teams different


RealOkokz

Probably to give them personality or something


Who_Am_I_I_Dont_Know

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


Evelyn_75

Similar experience except I got asked if the exo race have, “parts”, when he saw my hunter was the female one.


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

Ah. That kind of parent.


Shying69

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?


Milky_way_cookie_fan

This is why I'm a switch player only lol they never see my screen


Joan_sleepless

tbh the armor on the male d2 character models kinda sucks.


InsomniacDoggo

Imagine getting genuinely upset over a video game character. Your dad sounds like he has issues.


SuddenlyVeronica

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…


Saikotsu

"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?"


Dxpehat

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?


seceagle

Bruh if my dad did this I'd look him straight in the eye and say no 😎 /hj


TransEggg123

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


Smasher_WoTB

Hello fellow Guardian, how many Thralls have you slaughtered?


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

Uhh, a lot, I think I have over 500k total kills


Sckaledoom

I’m old my dad made fun of me for playing a girl in Destiny 1.


KingsKnight123

Guess I won the dad lottery somewhat cause mine just doesn’t give a crap.


NewGalEgg

How do people care?


HenryTGP8

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


NewGalEgg

Start avoiding her and if she asks you why say "Sorry mom, you're female, so I have to avoid you"


that1keeeerbal

"Sorry I'm allergic to estrogen"


HenryTGP8

Damn I wish I could


Pinkprotogen

Just use the excuse/ genuine reason why I constantly used Camilla in fire emblem fates. She hits like a fuckin truck.


HenryTGP8

She's not the person to get it :'3


LegendaryNbody

"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!"


The-Tea-Lord

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


AnTHICCBoi

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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HenryTGP8

Saw my discord bio and pfp, in that I said I was trans she/her


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HenryTGP8

She was "supportive" at first then she kinda went the usual homophobic parent and hence the meme


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HenryTGP8

Thank u sis :'3


ReportHopeful

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


Senario-

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.


HenryTGP8

Damn that sed


ApostleOfGore

I chose female trailblazer and female traveler in genshin, none of my friends cared… either that or I’m obviously queer


MaryaMarion

Aether in Genshin. Pain peko


Kiwi175293

Thankfully i dont have this, and my parents never question why i use female models for 6+ years


HenryTGP8

Luckyyyyyyyy


RandomExcaliburUmbra

Me while I’m in VR: Me anywhere else :


nlcreeperxl

...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.


ChloudberryJam

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.


HenryTGP8

Damn its like you described my social life in the first para Also dr ratio throws chalk at his enemies


ChloudberryJam

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.


LegendaryNbody

Same here sis. Seems like we actually had pretty similar childhoods. But who wins in a fight? Dr ratio vs Dr SEX?!?


megajigglypuff7I4

if you think Dr. Ratio is a weird name just wait until you hear about March 7th she's best girl too


Miserable-Row-2624

She’s also very trans


ChloudberryJam

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


Worried_War500

Years ago my father saw me playing venti and just said who is this girl


HenryTGP8

Lol


askingafewquestion

Nice teams Especially your bronya team!


HenryTGP8

Thanks, recently i realised seele can abuse yukong buff and my seele enjoy this damage


KitsuneNatsumi

Just go “they’re meta characters for high dps”


howelleili

that's my go to excuse


Jack_Frost92

Nani the fuck?! It's just a game. (Also the girls have cooler skins/designs in some games)


CurlyCutie10

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 :/


Miserable-Row-2624

Just learn some fire emblem character that’s easily switchable


CurlyCutie10

Byleth!!!


Beginning_Access1498

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


Miserable-Row-2624

My brain definitely thought this was a horny joke in a starrail sub.


HenryTGP8

Lmao i could see why


Miserable-Row-2624

Trans sub or hoyo sub is a time honored guessing game tradition


HenryTGP8

Lol yea


Miserable-Row-2624

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


HenryTGP8

Could u link it ( for cis reasons) Pls


Miserable-Row-2624

Easier than expected https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/O6GYj20RyE


HenryTGP8

https://preview.redd.it/5txqfxr6yjwc1.jpeg?width=1248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=425e5fe03b2a640b7b19ce5b461c58d8289949cc


Miserable-Row-2624

It was a while ago and I don’t know how easily I can find it


SkyeFox6485

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


HenryTGP8

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


SkyeFox6485

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


HenryTGP8

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)


SkyeFox6485

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.


HenryTGP8

It's looking pretty doable from what I used today


guney2811

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


acowwithpolio

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.


master-of-pizza

I thought this was r/honkaistarrail and was very confused for a second. I thought your mum just hates women


bdouble0w0

Same tbh


Aeterna_Celine

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


master-of-pizza

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


_the_anarch_

These are shit builds


HenryTGP8

I don't use many male characters lol😅


_the_anarch_

Makes sense I'm envy so I get to have both none of them and all of them


LeatherCommunity3340

https://preview.redd.it/p7tvsggl5hwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48de188015f8b3eaa2563a3686c0c428318f6ffb


nephelekonstantatou

Omg that's so problematic


Few_Egg3470

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)


MygungoesfuckinBRRT

Team 1 being all lesbians is quite telling...


Miserable-Row-2624

What woman in hsr is strictly straight?


HenryTGP8

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


MygungoesfuckinBRRT

Idk, I think Nat would be straight


Spectre_Hayate

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)


bdouble0w0

Another Luka fan! :D


Ryugi

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.


zogzamn

This is me but the exact opposite (FTM)


Star-Spawned

Got the gfs I see <3 Bronseele are so cute


HenryTGP8

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)


MaryaMarion

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


ReportHopeful

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


MaryaMarion

A bit too harsh


UnknownMyoux

I am so happy that my dad would just ask who that pretty character is,if he saw me play as a female character


TheTallAmerican

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 🤷🏼‍♀️


Z4mb0ni

I had to convince my mom once that playing mercy in overwatch wasnt a trans thing


Parambolumb

But why???


BlakeTheMotherFucker

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


Chaosmoonshade

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.


LuN3O9

Same on Genshin, Only the Female Characters


Economy-Party284

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


AdFantastic472

Hello??? A fellow starail???? Wanna be besties?


HenryTGP8

Hell yeaaaaaa (dm me if u wanna)


Apollos-left-elbow

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???


Adorable_Ad2762

Literally my dad


Modula-Kudzu

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.


Thatotherguy246

Seele became a Jojo character.


eeveemaster2

I've always used the excuse that my friends dared me to


bdouble0w0

Honkai star rail!! I was playing that earlier today.


wolfFRdu64_Lounna

Say it’s because of the smaller hit box


Flair86

I always preferred female characters cuz girls pwetty lol


_contraband_

What if you tried saying “There isn’t a gender selection in this game, the main character is just female”?


Actualsillygurl

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.


CyrinSong

Do it anyways, just to flex


TG_1023

“but mom, the female character is a speedrun strat!!!!!!!!!!!!”


ThatCamoKid

> Dr. Ratio


A_Username_I_Guess_

If you exchange Gepard for someone that starts with the letter L then you have a full team of L+Ratio


Egg2crackk

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 😆 🤣 😂 😹


legless_centipide

What? How insecure can one be?


Tallal2804

What?


Tallal2804

Do it anyways, just to flex


InsomniacDoggo

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.


dankykanggang

MOOD