I play only female characters, except for the one man I leveled up to 10 and deleted yesterday. It helps me with the character concept most of the time. If I'm playing a sexy, 400 year old sarcastic, pale white woman being protected by a clan of vampires, it helps to like the looks of the character for not loosing the snotty way she speaks. For rambling about dress codes it helps to have the look of a character wearing Armani.
Or, when I'm playing the first openly lesbian superheroine couple on Virtue, both short, both madly in love, rambling about the advantages of the other. I like that.
So I am bending alot. If I'm asked about my own gender, I mostly refuse to answer because it doesn't matter. But strangely, this question never came up. Maybe because I try to stick to roleplayers for grouping.
It never occured to me that all those presents I get offered could be connected to the looks of my character. But as I never accept any influence and automatically decline non-team gifts, that poses no problem.
