I've based one character off of my friend who is obsessed with fire and sharp things. how about you?

I usually role-play myself. Unless i role-play a girl, in which case she'll act like me but look hot instead ...

No, I think of what race my character will be and then figure out a backstory and motives for them then I give them an original lore-friendly name that sounds fantasyish enough. I just don't approve of using the admittedly boring names of real life people, like "Jack" or "John" or "Kevin" in a fantasy game.

My friend's name is normal but i named his character Blade. he's a Ninja Assassin that uses hand to hand and dual daggers. he quests to control the element that destroyed his life. fire. [i based that off of his house catching on fire in real life] He eventually comes to find the evilness of the DarkBrotherhood and destroy's them. he then goes to Morrowind to join the Morag Tong to atone for his sins.

Myself, a Redguard with an Achillies style of fighting(without the spear), and lately a Nord with the last name Baratheon that favors a war hammer if anyone else follows, lol.

Yes! I almost made achilles like character the other day, but maybe I should make a hector

Never.

Nope. But I tried to shape my gf after my Bretoness character. But she refused to make a forsworn
armor and wear it.

I don't know any anthropomorphized cat people, so no.

I don't know any mages o_O

Guy's they could just have the same personality. my friend isn't really an Assassin. though he has drawers filled with weapons and he does Parkour XD

I just started a new game playing as myself. I mean really myself, not a powerful warrior version. I made a Nord (since I'm Swedish), looking as much as myself as possible. I will only take quests I actually think I could handle, I can't fight (but I think I can learn how to handle a bow) so I will depend on followers as bodyguards, I'll eat and sleep and change clothes regularly. I will look into alchemy since herbs and alternative medicin interests me (and since you can't work at an inn or in a store in the game making potions seems to be a good way to get an income). I will probably look inside at least one of the ruins since I'm an archaeologist, but get out of there quickly when I realize those places are crawling with things that want to kill me. And so on.

It'll be kind of a layed back game, a break from the greatsword-swinging, thu'um-using kick-ass warrior/thief I've been playing so far.

I roleplayed a character from my novel that I'm writing. It's pretty cool although I can't change into a cat at will!

Closest I've ever come is to playing someone IRL is when I got bored and made a Nord modeled after Rob Gronkowski. By which I mean I ran around punching things off of tables due to lack of being able to spike things, drinking a lot, fell on my head a few times, and just started swinging at anything that moved. Best two hours ever.

No and never will.

Yeah, my character's based on someone...me. But only physically!

I made a character I based off my girlfriend. She is [censored]y, bad with money, and burns peoples faces off.