A Different Sort of Question. (Touchy subject matter ahoy!)

So you have a wang, and boobs.

Guess what?

We don't care.

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I got it!

Just occasionally suggest that your character's using the men's room rather than the ladies'. Problem solved without meta tags.

I think the real problem is people asuming that ERP means no other kind of RP...

I think "Trangendered" would be a good tag for the VV page... and simply put a link to it.

I don't think any LGBT would be offended by it, I'm certainly not, considering the amount of though and story you put on the character, I think the real problem will be the intolerant crowd who, regardless of what you do, will try to ruin things for you, either by trying to report you or by spamming the place with endless OOC comments over and over...

Now, regarding this topic.. I have 2 characters that fit the TG category, and one is moving towards a total change... and the journey is proving very interesting, and the only mention of it is a reference on her VV page.

The other char has it tagged openly on the profile, for one reason only... someone made very transphobic comments oocly one night and I was so pissed that I retconned the char and put the Transexual tag openly to make a point.

Regarding your original post asking how you would be perceived, or accepted, or whatever, I think that is more down to your actions and attitudes than the described physical attributes of your characters.

I'd never heard of the term futunari before I started playing this game, and I've never played such a character, but I have no problem with them on the whole. I am a guy who plays, and roleplays, multiple female characters; I have one character who is male but regularly "possesses" female bodies, and I have a concept for another character who is an amalgam of either a husband and wife, or fraternal twin brother and sister, so I consider myself pretty open minded when it comes to character concept.

Not everyone is open-minded though and when you encounter someone who isn't it's best to move on. Provoking them, or letting them provoke you is probably the worst thing you could do.

Hmm. Tricky.

A few thoughts:

1. Unless I'm planning to ERP with you, I don't care. Since I'm pretty sure I know what my spouse is into, you're probably not my spouse, which means the question is unlikely to come up. Unless there's some reason for which, looking at you in WW, I'd immediately notice this, it may not need to be in the bio.
2. But wait! Some people get really freaked out by stuff like this, but might want to flirt with you. But if they flirted with you and then found out, it'd be upsetting. So maybe they'd want to know.
3. Anything pertaining to genitalia or other characteristics that most people don't deal with in most of the people they meet is probably going to be interpreted as an indication that you're interested in showing off or cybersexing. I mean, why else would you mention it? (Note: I can think of many other reasons to mention it. But that's how people will likely interpret it.)

I don't think any of my CoH characters have a defined sexuality at all. I mean, some are male, some are female, but if you asked me whether they were gay or not, or even had sex, I wouldn't know. The only exception is LOVELACE-1, whom I can tell you for sure about. She's a non-sapient robot who is built mostly on the chassis of a half-finished sexbot, and she would LOVE to have sex. Unfortunately (or fortunately), not only is she not anatomically correct, she's not actually programmed, so if you tried to have sex with her, she'd just act like a chatbot programmed to try to flirt with people.

Everyone else? I have no clue. I don't know whether they're sexually active, or would like to be. I'm pretty sure Burdock McCoy, the hicksie, would be all up for some snuggling with a hot girl, but I suspect that his interests would run to drinking heavily, looking at boobs, and then going out and doing stupid stuff until he woke up in the drunk tank thinking he must have had a great night of it.

So... When I see people whose character bios include information I'd only need if I were going to have sex with them, I tend to assume that they are viewing that as a primary likely mode of interaction, and that tends to make me think I don't want to interact much with them, 'cuz that's really not part of my sense of what superheroes do.

One of the issues you run into here is a narrative logic problem. Anything which is statistically abnormal is presumed to be significant in narrative. In the real world, some people are gay and some aren't, whatever. In a fictional setting, though, if someone is gay (which is statistically unusual) rather than not-gay (which is statistically common), it is presumed that this is a significant and key component of their character. Exceptions exist, but for the most part, that will be the assumption people make.

Past that... I don't think I care much either way. If I ran into you in game and at some point this information about an apparently-female character came out, I'd probably ask which pronoun you prefer and leave it at that. I don't think any of my characters would have an opinion on the issue; while bigotry is certainly a thing in the real world, it's not a thing which strikes me as fun to play. I dunno; it might be hilarious for a drunken pixie with a backwards baseball cap to follow you around asking inappropriate questions, but that's the kind of thing that's only funny if everyone involved agrees it's funny. ("So, hey, pretty lady, uhm, which bathroom do you go to? Can you pee sitting down? You get a lot of dates? You get a lot of second dates? Er, what I mean is...")

seebs.

What have you done.

Will you be the first person to make a non-objectified futa character?

Hmm.. catgirl with huge mammaries, penor and skimpy clothing.

I remain skeptical.

You forgot the Cherub Wings, Mags.

(I just roll with then insanity these days, but I can totally see where Mags is coming from, just for the record.)

First I need to note that I had a great deal of difficulty working through this thread, because of the connotations behind the whole 'futa' thing. Still, the fact that this was approached with a genuine concern for what was most appropriate for everyone involved let me press ahead.

I think one of the more important things got mentioned sort of in passing in one of Seebs' adorably opaque collection of thoughts:

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Originally Posted by seebs One of the issues you run into here is a narrative logic problem. Anything which is statistically abnormal is presumed to be significant in narrative. In the real world, some people are gay and some aren't, whatever. In a fictional setting, though, if someone is gay (which is statistically unusual) rather than not-gay (which is statistically common), it is presumed that this is a significant and key component of their character. Exceptions exist, but for the most part, that will be the assumption people make.

This is significant. If you bring attention to something that is sufficiently 'abnormal', then it becomes A Central Facet. You risk a lot of RP twisting away from your character and her relationships with other characters, into 'Well, obviously it's about the wang.'

Even for the open minded, if you put something in the bio, that's going to draw attention to it, and that will get people thinking about it as a core focus for the character concept.

I've actually counseled a lot of newer RPers against playing things like transgendered or even intersexed (using the RL definition) characters simply because when you get caught up in details like this, they can overshadow the more important emotional elements of the character. You get stuck on the physical bits, and start missing the person that really matters. Once they're more used to tending to the simpler (but often more important) things, then playing characters with more complicated issues is more reasonable.

But even experienced RPers have trouble with sorting these things out when they're encountering someone else's character. It's the first impression problem, in another form: The initial framework someone is going to build of your character is going to come from your costume, your bio, and whatever you say/emote while they're reading your bio.

Be really sure anything they see in there is really something you want them using as a framework for deciding who your character is, because even if you get the chance to demonstrate your character's depth, that initial framework is going to be there, and influence how they interpret things.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Softcapping an Invuln is fantastic. Softcapping a Willpower is amazing. Softcapping SR is kissing your sister.