Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
I recently saw a post by someone over on a wow group on a social networking site, who said that people tend to model their characters either to be an imitation of themselves, or the polar opposite of themselves. Her examples were, she plays a human mage that looks like her, as she values intelligence. She has a male friend who is a really big guy and painfully shy, and he plays a female gnome rogue.
I think that argument has some merit. My priest is a female goblin, short and cute with pigtails (shocker I know lol). IRL, I am also short, and I get told on a pretty frequent basis that I'm cute. Not sexy, not pretty, but cute. My mage is a blood elf: tall, thin, and gorgeous. I am really not any of those lol.
I think some people would model their actual characters to kind of look like themselves, mainly the human and dwarf races. Obviously unless there's a circus freak playing, probably not too many worgen or troll looking people in real life.
My post was more about the class; or what we would picture the people - as looking like - for their class.
I picture rogues as dark haired, mysterious, sneaky; on verge of emo. Tattoo's and facial hair. The guy that plays a rogue in Lore's guild fit that.
Lore himself kind of has a paladin look to him; the mop top and knightly yet baby face kind of facial traits. I had no clue he played a paladin until watching the documentary.
The two priests; they both had the soft, priestly look to em, not real threatening. Though I'd picture a shadow priest much like a rogue or warlock. I'm sure one of them is probably a shadow priest so one may not fit the look.
The mage dude seemed short, kind of had the priest look, but slightly different; calm and calculated looking. Magely looking. LoL
Etc, etc.
I have this weird thing with peoples facial and body language in RL, I study everyone. I put faces to names instead of names to faces to remember them. So maybe it's just me with the whole looking like their class thing.
Edit: Obviously not everyone would fit the description, sure there's plenty of rogues that don't have tats, etc., etc. Sure there some beastly looking priests and paladins. Just thought it was interesting seeing the movie and the RL looks of some of the players.
Edited, Aug 11th 2011 6:37pm by Seculartwo