Some time after Dead Mines this weekend I'm going to start leveling a mage and go to a three toon rotation for Rest State until I decide who to take the distance first. I'm actually really liking both of my other classes, druid and hunter, but I'm noticing that I more or less play my druid like I would play my mage. I've rolled two mages and I'm only going to keep one. I just can't decide which name I'm going to go with, so I was hoping for guild input.

As some of you know, my hunter exists solely because my ex-girlfriend wanted to create a character. Not play one, just create one. She also insisted on naming one of my incarnations of my mage. He is a human mage and she named him after a character for the Kushiel (sp?) series, Jocelin.

The human mage I rolled, I tried to name from my favorite book series, The Song of Ice and Fire, and after much trial and error, ended up with Rickon, the youngest Stark.

On the one hand, I never really got into the Kushiel series, it just starts out with too much "telling". On the other hand I sort of like having a girl's name for my dress wearing mage. Also, I like that Rickon is easy to spell, for the whole mailing things to myself, but because he isn't very old in the series, he isn't a particularly well developed character and I'm not emotionally tied to the name.

So give me some feedback on which name you like better and it'll determine which name I keep.

Jocelin, even if it does sound kinda girlie.

....Jocelin was an open name? Obviously there aren't as many women playing WoW as they thought.

Goslin! Like a baby goose but...girlier.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was very disconsolate the other day - I tried to start a blonde, female human mage named Daenerys but the name was taken. :( Yes I love the series, but I'm only up through book 2, about to start book 3. If you see Viraj on, feel free to geek out, she's the one that got me reading the books and knows them inside and out.

Anyway, with that said, I'd kinda go with Jocelin. First off, cute name. Second, female mages look way cooler in mage clothes :D and third, those of us who DO know the series are going to be all with the "that level 60 mage is FOUR YEARS OLD! WHOA!"

Just to be clear, both characters are Male Humans. I generally don't go for the cross-play. Well, at least not as far as MMO's go. The fact that it's a male char with a chick name is what appeals to me. The only character I've ever really played (to level 48 or 50) was a human male mage, so I'm pretty we resigned to looking like a tool for the rest of my days.

Preemptive measures: Shut-up Raeb.

Oh for goodness' sake, Jam.

Everyone knows Daenarys would not be caught dead being a mage.

Also, Jocelin the mage. It makes my heart smile.

It's because it's French, Gilad. Every single French name sounds girly, it's a trick of the language. XD

Pierre.

That just sounds like the capital of South Dakota.

The answer is: "Watched Too Much Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego"

DING DING, "Who is Ingomar, Alex?"

You had a crush on Rockapella, didn't you?

.... Duh?

Yeah. I frickin' loved the theme song.

Upon reading this thread, it occurs to me that Gilad, the Fist of the Geomancer, Vengeance of the Earth, isn't a particularly masculine name.

Franz.

Francois Pierre Lamont Dumond

You had a crush on Rockapella, didn't you?


This would be right, except for the part where you are using the past tense.

Well, Jocelin seems to have a commanding lead. I'm not going to be on tonight, and I suspect that many of members of VS will be floating in tequila, face down in a pool of their own vomit celebrating Cinco De Mayo, but I'll start transferring things to the character Saturday morningish. If you want to sway me toward picking Rickon, speak up now.

Also:

....Jocelin was an open name? Obviously there aren't as many women playing WoW as they thought.


I think the real issue here is that there aren't very many girls playing Male character in the game. And I for one and saddened and appalled by this tread. Though I have a sneaking premonition that there are a few female players in VS who do and are about to put me in my place.

I actually do play male characters very often. It just so happens that I didn't like any of the male hair in WoW, with the exception of the undead. XD

I don't like the guy face and body types. They all seem geared toward appearing the illicit love child of Rambo, The Incredible Hulk, and Some Dude Who Got Too Much Novocain At The Dentist. They don't look so bad in-game, but on the character select screen they all look pissed off and steroid-ey, whereas the girl-types have a much wider expression range - girls have "bitchface" and "up to no good face" and "happy face" and "stoned face" and "um, while you were gone I dropped the baby in the snow" face (made popular by the Penguin Movie).

The guys pretty much just have PISSYFACE, with or without facial hair.

... and yes, silly hairdos.

There isn't a single WoW character I've ever created, and I've been through thousands of builds, that I've like in the character select screen.

I actually do play male characters very often. It just so happens that I didn't like any of the male hair in WoW, with the exception of the undead. XD


I don't like the swishy way the male humans stand. Very prissy.

I picked a male gnome because on the creation-screen, he looked kind of like a Cabbage Patch and I thought it was cute.

The human men all look like that guy on the Discovery channel who is surgically trying to make himself into a cat. I am upset by this. It was easy to be attracted to male toons in AC2 and SWG and omg, CoH...hello spandex and muscles!!! Anyway. Aro is right about the undead guys' hair. Hawt. Face sans jaw? Not so much. Agnes has bitchface. She is pissed off that she's a mage, pure and simple. Her eyes are red from CRYING.
I played a male character a little in AC2. His name was Matt Demon and he stalked Ben Afflack from town to town shouting, "Is Ben here??? Tell him Matty's sorry and to come home!!!" He was a sensitve soul.

Preemptive measures: Shut-up Raeb.


Me? I wasn't going to say nuthin'... as for looking like a tool, you've seen the pictures of me since I shaved my head right? Now I'm a light post!