ATs and Genders

Considering I'm finally on winter break and my mind doesn't have to think about school right now . Do you have any gender preconceptions or stereotypes for ATs? I for one see a lot of male Scrappers and a lot of female Defenders. What about you?

I haven't noticed any particular breakdown like that. I generally make mine according to concept -- if a female tank fits the concept, so be it.

Nope. I think I have a pretty good mix of all of them.

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I only play male characters... so no, I do not. And I have played every AT at least once.

When I think of Tanks and Brutes, I always think they're male

i thought i had more males as melees and more females as ranged or buffer characters, but a quick look at the numbers really doesn't bear it out. its more really that i like playing certian at's so there are too few tanks, stalkers, trollers and blasters to draw anything out of and so many scrapps, defenders, brutes and doms that it becomes a data overload. i made only female veats, and only a male kheld, but again, small numbers dont give much data. the one tendency i have is to avoid making "finesse" based female melee characters, that is a trope that is pretty well worn with stuff like alias, buffy and serenity, so if i have a female who mixes it up in close combat, i tend to dodge the trope and make them heavy smashers. i do have only female defenders, i guess there is that, though my corrs are mostly male.

i add the usual caveat that most of my females look human, whereas my males are usually monsters, so you could see some flexibility with gender roles there, men may be from mars, but where are trolls, angels, dragons and robots from? (yes, i know giving genders to robots is cheating, but most have some biological component that makes them one or the other) they tend to come from concepts themselves so they have their own themes that are independent of specific gender roles.

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I play almost exclusively female characters, and I've played every AT. I don't play a lot of Blasters, though.

While I do tend to think of Brutes/Tankers as male, looking over my characters on Virtue shows a fairly even distribution of male and female characters over the AT's. Well, except for my three male Inv tanks who skew the numbers a bit, although there's a good chance one or two of them will be shipped out the next time we get free server transfers (if there's a next time).

So while I might think of certain AT's as male or female, my characters don't really follow that sort of pattern in practice.

Well, I tend to see a lot of female toons.
and i mean A LOT. but funny enough, a friend of my has one toon who seems to personify the concept of the scrapper AT pretty well, so I tend to imagine scrappers as females by default.

I myself, due to the high female population of my RP community, I tend to roll almost only men in a somewhat empty act to attempt to balance it out.

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Most of my characters are female, and I've also played every AT at least once. My male characters are 2 brutes and a controller. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think I've made a female brute. Female and Brute don't really go together in my head.

Well, I'm pretty sure most people think of Arachnos Widow characters as mostly female.

My squishies tend to be either female or non-human (mainly insects) while my Brutes/Tankers tend to be maxed out huge builds. I do have a female Tanker though, who looks like an amazon from that Snu-Snu planet on Futurama

Out of my current line-up:
Brute = Male (Huge)
Mastermind = Female
Corruptor = Male (Android)
Dominator = Female
Stalker #1 = Male (mutated thorny plant)
Stalker #2 = Female

My own lineup is almost exclusively;
Toons I made the first year of playing: Male
Everyone else: female

Except my crabs are males and my namesake is male.

I think there are gender preconceptions, but enough people play against them that there's a good mix. My first main character concept was for a tiny girl with a big axe, which plays a bit against type but isn't unheard of. I tried to compensate by making a Huge ill/emp troller of max size, who is also entertaining, but most of my characters have been female regardless of AT.

I never bothered to notice a pattern with gender and AT. I tend to mix things up.

I normally start with a concept, like a look or a name, and then pick the AT based on the powers I think they would have.

I think I have more female scrappers than male.

I see a lot of female Scrappers.

... but that's because I'm always looking at my characters.
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Most of my characters are male. Generally, when I make a female toon it's because something about the background or name suggests/requires it. As an example, I had planned to make a WP/Ice tank named Taiga Tiger. That name was taken, but Taiga Tigress was free.