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Gamer girls, about your customised character. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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When given the option to create and customise your own character in video games what’s your creative process?

Dare i also ask how it has or hasn’t changed since becoming your real self?

If you have pictures I’d love to see!

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think I always created a mix of the most attractive character to me and my ideal self. But I noticed since coming out that I've gamed less and less and feel less of an urge to dive into worlds in games probably because I don't need much of an escape any more since starting HRT and planning to do bottom surgery next year.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have been talking a lot about this in therapy recently. How all my previous hobbies were extremely dissociative. Video games being a major one, but really anything that let me forget I was an embodied human being.

    Since cracking I'm really not feeling the urge to dissociate at all. I'm still waiting on hormones to start but I hope it continues honestly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    That is probably it, I also noticed that I don't have this urge and need to play pen & paper RPGs where I could try myself out in a female role, now I just play female characters and have fun playing. I don't quite know how to put it in words, I guess the best way to describe it is that playing pen & paper RPGs seems optional now and not mandatory anymore to be able to survive (as in "get through the day" and I could barely think of anything else in the week before meeting up with friends to play).

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