General Discussion

And noticed that all or most of them are female? It gets annoying, despite the fact i have a few female OCs.

My friend has this issue, all of her OCs are female, but the species she mostly makes are mostly all-males.

My friend isn't a amazing artist, but not terrible either,

The only website i know her on is dA, and her username i will keep a secret.

Half of my OC's are male, half are female i think. So, why do people think female characters look "cooler"?

@Determined

Maybe they're not comfortable playing males.
Maybe they feel that their male characters are flat.
Maybe they're not interested in playing male characters.

More importantly, why does it matter?

@Determined
I'm female, and for a very long time majority of my OC's and etc characters were mostly female because that what I was most comfortable with. It was a matter of familiarity mostly.
I've got a few male OC's, but not as many.

@Determined

It could be that they want to have a 'piece' of themselves, if you will into whatever universe they're rping as. It could also be that they're more familiar with a woman's body than a man's due to having one/being around women/etc.

But really, it's not a big deal. Now if they're not very good because they're good at everything, that's more of an issue with the character rather than the gender of the OC.

I don't think it's so much that they think women are 'cooler' but they're making someone that they relate to/want to explore things with. It's just personal preference is all-and possibly a case of write what you know.

99% of my OCs are male, and I'm female. xD Idk, I just find males are more fun for me to draw, or RP, or create lore for, etc. I've never seen it as a bad thing, to be honest. Just more of a 'trend' than a 'problem'. I have felt 'obligated' at times to make female characters for the sole reason of having female characters, though they never feel as real as the characters I make for better reasons.

When it comes to writing characters, I think some people just like to "write what they know"; since your friend is female, maybe she has a preference for making female characters because she can identify with/relate to them a bit better? A topic about this came up on another forum I was on, funnily enough, where the OP asked everyone if they tend to write/RP with characters of one gender more than another. A majority of the responses were the posters saying that they tend to have characters the same gender/sex as themselves because that's what they were more comfortable with (they were either afraid of flubbing by making an opposite sex character too stereotypical, were just unsure of how to "accurately" write them, or in the case of cis posters, refrained from writing transgender or nonbinary characters because they were afraid of offending anyone).

EDIT: Mostly ninja'd. ;b You can always try and help her experiment with some characters of different genders, but if she's uncomfortable with it, I would say leave it be. When I still identified as cis a lot of my characters were female. Now I have a pretty even mix, although still with a slight imbalance once in a while.

I don't understand why it bothers you? All of my main OCs are female because I find them more interesting and more fun to write backstories for. I have nothing against men or male characters, I just prefer MY OWN to be female.

@Determined

Why is that a problem?

I see nothing wrong with having a collection of OCs mostly in one gender. Most of my characters are male, though I have a few females...
Why? I'm more comfortable drawing male figures, and I have no problem RPing as male characters, in fact I prefer it. Perhaps said friend is more comfortable drawing only female figures, and RPing as female characters.

I've never paused while making an OC to think "Oh, I should make them a female because they are 'cooler'..." I didn't even think people thought female OCs were cooler than males, or other gendered characters. I thought they would figure their characters were "cooler" simply because they were their "children" and not someone else's.

@Determined

It's more or less as Demonically stated.

Yeah, I'm one of 'those girls' who have more or less almost only female oc's.
Not because I think they're cooler.

But I'm just unable to feel 'comfortable'. I'm overall pretty bad at being emphatic towards other, especially when it's about writing rps etc. and then writing a male character.
Yeah, i got a few. But compared to my female oc's it's really not much.
And I don't want them to be too...'female'. Too unrealistic. To flat. I'm always anxious about not portraying a male oc 'properly' (and by that I DON'T mean stereotypes, just the overall portraying).
So I more or less stick to female OC's. Because, as a girl, it's easier for me to write it. Although I'm still pretty non emphatic, I can feel more into female characters.


And I don't find it annoying, as long as it isn't a mary sue who is short but has a great body, a flawless character, is loved by everyone etc or the typical 'damsel in distress'.
I'm working on it to write more male characters too but...it' just...hard for me. Even more as it already is. I can't get the hang of it. Urgh.
And yeah. I got a pretty good friend who is male (although I think it's stupid that it's nessecary to mention something?) and some others who are also male and I'm getting along with. So is has nothing to do with dumb stuff like 'being against males' or whatever because...yeah, this is just dumb.
And I feel dumb that I need to mention it but seriously. I really don't need it that someones gonna flaming me or something like that (my mind is too occupied with school and all as I could mind this too) because they want to interprete stuff into my writing which would be not true.

And again. This has also nothing to do with 'females being cooler' (at least in my case) and more with reasons Demonically stated. Not completely (especially not the last part) but more or less.

But this is just my opinion. And I can only speak for myself, so...how I don't know how others think about it and thus I really just can state my OWN opinion/feeling about it because of the reasons explained above.



Edit: SnickerToodles also just stated what I meant with 'portraying it correctly'.

Uhm... I have like 30 OCs, and about three of them are female.
I just can't play females that well.
Where's the problem?