This is not another "your character" thread, it's something slightly different.

What part of your being is also part of your characters? Do they reflect what you are, make the same choices, feel the same way you do? Or, by contrast, they are completely different?

Me: in RL I've been a lumberjack, a hunter, a soldier in the army and I'm quite trained in krav maga and personal defense techniques. I used to own a revolver gun and a remington 700 for some fun at the shooting range, but those days are long gone. I'm stubborn as hell, curious as a monkey, kinda self-centric, I don't believe in any gods and I basically trust no one other than myself. Other than that, I live with three cats and a dog and I plan to marry my gf someday. All in all I'm a nice and calm guy I guess, even though I'm full of remorses and regrets due to a few very bad choices I made in life. All these traits made their way into just about every character I made, I find creating a character the complete opposite than me a very difficult task. What about you?

I always like to f*** around with a sense of humor, so I play an Illusion conjuration thief mage and go around giving people wedgies before slitting their throats.

Character - Elf
Me - Human

I've stolen from people so I suppose we are similar, and I'm always looking for good paying jobs so that's another thing we have in common. Other than that nothing really I don't know how to shoot a bow with arrows the way I can in game nor have I killed someone.

I can relate to my character in some ways.
Hidden meanings behind her background reflect things my my life so yeah. Ra'Khacharr does reflect me in some ways.

My character and I are totally different. She's a sword and board melee fighter who likes to decimate the enemy with her awesome stealth and archery skillz first.

In RL I prefer a ginormous two-handed axe and to hell with ranged attacks, I just charge right in and start hacking the crap out of everything.

None of my characters are molded after me, though I always seem to unknowingly put a little part of me (usually a different one) into them. It's quite weird, really. Sometimes they're traits turned into minor traits, but sometimes it's a very minor trait blown out of proportions. But intentionally, I try to make characters much different than myself. What's the fun in playing me? (If not in a humorous DiD playthrough)

But one thing I'm sure about: RL me would probably knock her own head off if she even tried to hold a weapon... I'll stick to pencils and paintbrushes. (Hey, they're weapons, really good for eye poking!)

I'm a wizard in the game, I don't have magic powers in real life, so no.

One of my characters is very much like me, in that he is very bookish, loves the outdoors, gets very nervous around people (multiplied ten-fold with crowds) and struggles to make conversation with people he doesn't know. However, once you get past that he's a pretty nice guy (albeit with some dark history).

The other, well he incorporates some aspects of my personality too. Those would be his capacity for lying (something I intensely dislike about myself, so I don't, though it's still there) and "I come first" attitude. The rest is my polar opposite though. Waaaaay over-confident and far prefers to be in a city or town than the wilderness.

I don't really care about honor, or being fair in a fight. Probably why I always make stealthy archers.

I usually play a very good character and I'm having a very difficult time playing a Bosmer who's joined the Thieves Guild. I feel guilty and all I keep thinking is Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. It follows that my own character IRL is nothing like that. I'm trying to role-play it like an actress would immerse herself in a part but I'm not feeling the fun yet. Working for a certain woman I don't like isn't helping either...maybe I'll get past it by playing Robin Hood on the side...that sounds like fun to me. I absolutely love Stealth but not thieving or assassinations.

I bolded that part because I actually found really fun to play me at first, then it got old quickly due to the lack of choices in the dialogue options. Still, I can't help myself, I keep playing with characters that have many parts of me in their beings, the very moment I try to get into a completely different character I suddenly realize that I'm playing a game and poof, the magic is gone. I guess I don't have a future in acting after all

Oh, you really don't want to know what you can do with a pencil.

For some unknown reason thieving and stealth killing suits me just fine [hell no, I've never killed anyone nor stolen anything in RL], these are probably the only traits I can put in my characters which are not part of my life. I must have been Ezio Auditore in a previous life or something.

I am a human, and my character is an argonian, i don't steal stuff(mostly) and don't kill people, i also can't become invisible and breathe underwater.
So...no

I have more problems playing characters similar to myself, because after a while I start thinking "What would I do?" instead of "What would he/she do?" and that confuses me and slowly breaks my roleplaying ideas for the character.

We've both got a buzz cut.

I never killed anyone(markus brutas my character has killed legions) I can shoot a bow, though not well I prefer my Remington 870 or my .270 Winchester, and sometimes my AR with a .50 Beowulf upper receiver. I do collect swords though, I have three claymores, a set of three katanas, and a gladius.

Also I'm working on a series of novels dark omega

I'm a rather peaceful person irl - ok, I've got a temper, but I tend to avoid conflicts and would never ever consider any kind of carrier or hobby that involved weapons or violence. Since my characters are happy with hacking and slashing everything violent that comes their way, I think you might note the difference. Apart from the killing, my personal morals and ethics tend to spill over to my characters, and they also tend to like and dislike the same things as me. Not entirely, though. That wouldn't be fun.

I never do what i think is morally wrong, but some times i mess up and it turns out really bad, which my character has done (i didn't even know that the forsworn quest in Markharth would turn out like that ). But on the good side I've defied deadra to save a friend, and in real life i wouldn't betray a friend. As for combat wise, i'm usually smart in real life so i'd say that works well with the magic i use. I also can shoot a bow well and so can my character. The only difference is the Heavy armor and swords. i can't stand to kill someone when i'm beating them to death (Disclaimer: i have never actually killed someone.) and i could never stand the armor's weight.

Nothing is prohibited, everything is allowed. This is our Creed.

Through hardships lately, I have been more prone to mildly grimdark stuff for a while. I guess this factored into me making a crazed assassin and him being a nutty Daedra worshiper.

My Orc and I both drink a lot. But he's green and I am is ain't.

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I punch people around in their faces like a [censored] badass, lol

Well, my character is a white tiger-esque Khajiit with long blonde hair. Closest thing to a pale blonde person like me.

And he does pretty much what I'd do in that situation, so it's not really a roleplay, more so it's the fantasy-ical projection of me.

My husband teases me because I always start with a neutral alignment backstabbing thief character in any game. But the closest character to my RL self is maybe... Tolfdir?

In the last few weeks I've seen a poster with a .sig about how he just plays any game like he just warped into the universe as himself, and plays it straight. That's pretty intriguing, reminding me of the opening premise of Phil Farmer's World of Tiers. If I played it like that, there would be no stealing but a whole lot of spelltome-reading for my character!

I have no problem making characters who are the opposite of me. IRL, I am too much of an intellectual and often over think things. When I am working on builds, I am the same way, spending hours trying to decide what perks to take before taking them. But when I am playing the game, I let my characters act on raw emotion, without much thought to the consequences. An example, on my first characters trip to Solitude, the scripted scene you see was a trigger for the same feelings of anger my character experienced at the Imperial's conduct in the opening scene. All the anger came back and without thinking of the consequences either in terms of getting caught or from a gameplay perspective from eliminating a useful NPC, I followed the headsman to his house, waited for him to fall asleep, snuck in and dispatched him with a sneak attack. I don't usually play "evil" characters (although sometimes my characters do evil things) and I don't kill named NPCs unless they piss me off. Many of my characters are not all that intellectual themselves, like my Nord Stormcloak that wears heavy armor and wields a two-handed weapon. Smashing things is his way of solving problems. But he is real fun to play because I don't have to think much when playing him, as opposed to my necrovamp who takes a lot of thinking to play because the way I have gimped him so he is very powerful in some ways and very weak in others.