What? I think she's adorable with that lisp. I can't tell if it is because of a speech impediment or though.
Also she's just like my character, just a little older.

I had my friend (who is very good at drawing faces) draw a picture of my face and I modeled my newest character after it. The only differences is that I gave my Breton a wicked cool beard, long hair, and since the charcreator doesn't allow a forward-chin without major underbite, the chin is a little less pronounced than mine. Also the eyes are yellow, but that is to RP a bestial side because he is destined to become a werebeast.

some characters are me personified... with perhaps varying skillsets...

other characters are nothing like me (eg; my assassin lmao)

Also, I can personify myself as male or female and not much changes.... (ofc they always favor women either way )

Mine's a vain, egotistical coward that loves the ladies. Only the last part relates to me.

I am currently playing an Argonian thief / assassin. I would like to think I am nothing like the character, and I try to play the game going against my own moral codes. My character is generally not a very nice fellow! He has no respect for the law, and will happily stab someone in the back for a tidy profit.

It has been a lot of fun so far.

Well my dragonborn character is a Nord patriot and a Stormcloak. I'm a Welsh nationalist and badly want my country to be independent. I'm not sure how willing I'd be to join an armed uprising though, maybe if there were elves involved.

From the start it's pretty easy to identify with your character, but once your forced to do things that you normally woodnt, THAT is where the relation ends, and when your just playing a game...

Don't get me wrong tho, it's a game that i enjoy playing.

Like many others, my first character was a "what if" character.

My favorite class in most RPG/MMO is the stealthy rogue types and the type I can project my inner desires into. To me they just seem to hold the most in depth role play possible for games like Morrowind, Oblivion and now Skyrim.

I am a normal person in the daylight hours, helping the downtrodden or tossing a few septims to the beggars to get on their good side, but in the shadow of night I am able to pick my targets, steal what I want or need or even assassinate at will. I can have a hidden home in the mountains and live there for months just living off the land or stay in the big city and feed on it's bustling community. I can have dinner with law makers only to later take their lives because I disagree with their ways.

I can be anyone or anything I want,
I'm your best friend and your worst nightmare.
I am a rogue.

My character relates to my OC character for My Little Pony, Midnight Veil. Whom in turn is a personification of my belief of changing government types (when developing, a firm, powerful person is needed but when settled and steady, a free society is important).

My Skyrim character, Riden, is a personification of that. He's a rogue and before he was caught, was very serious and believed in firm order. But after his narrow escape from execution, he slowly changes to Stormcloak while also being a very free willed, thief and rogue.

I think I relate to my charater in the way that we both are strong willed and crazy, pretty, and ride/love horses.

There's one thing I relate to my character. I kind of have the urge to join a side in the Civil War (this time, the Stormcloaks), but I've fallen into the ranks of the Companions, and I'm trying to follow Kodlak's and Skjor's mentality on it. It's probably best for this character to remain neutral. It's something I would do though, as far as listening to the old man goes.

I don't relate to my characters. They're very much not me. They are my puppets. AND THEY WILL DANCE.

Something like this. I cannot ever conceive any video game characters I play as my avatar of some sort... at most, I view them as precious property, but that's about it.

I usually see myself as something like a guiding spirit for my characters. I see them as persons in their own right. I don't think of any of them as "me," but sometimes I feel like I'm them. What I mean is, sometimes I feel like I'm "in their heads." I react to things as they would and can "hear" their thoughts. What I'm actually doing is writing a fantasy novel in my head as I play, so they need to have their own motivations and stuff. Sometimes they can surprise me. I feel like I understand now what authors are talking about when they say their characters have lives of their own.

I do find that I am more separated from my female characters than my male ones (I'm male). When talking about them, I usually say "she did something," but if it's a male character I'll more often say I did it. Possibly because I play the females more in 3rd person. Yes it's so I can look at my pretty girls and watch their butts. Although I am playing my new Altmer guy in 3rd. I gave him the heaviest body type, and he's so gigantic that I enjoy watching him clomp around.

My Skyrim characters are completely different people from myself but I have ASSUMED CONTROL of them.
Only video game character I've ever considered a virtual representation of myself was my main Fallout 3 character, seen in my avatar. For him I always made decisions only in would-I-do-that basis.

I don't feel that much towards my character, mostly because of how little we get to truly define them through dialogue.

My "Nord" barbarian character in Skyrim is the "alternate" version of myself!

He is my "inner" warrior basicly!

I don't believe "playing as oneself" is roleplaying. Roleplaying should be about the character, not the player. I am not myself when I play, I roleplay as someone other than myself. I am a sidekick, a guide, a companion, traveling with my character. We are a party of two. I offer suggestions, my characters categorically refuse all of my suggestions and then proceed to go their own ways.

I don't want to see the world through my character's eyes. My goal in roleplaying is to see the world through my character's eyes so I play exclusively in 3rd-person.

In a game like Mass Effect I play as the soldier myself, a serious military guy who always tries to do the right thing and protects others risking his life. That's what gives me the kicks.

In a game like TES my main character is morally just like me, but otherwise he is a funny/goofy Argonian version of myself. I guess when there's the option I want my character to be funny as I'm so serious in real life. I don't feel like I've to play so seriously when my character is a funny Argonian.

I only relate in my dreams, otherwise I like to become the character and do what he/she would do given their set of abilities and principles.

I let my alter ego come out in my rp which is why I'm glad games like this and d&d exist or my butt would be in folsom

I like cookies

Well i can't relate to my character at all....seriously...
If i were to relate in anyways then..well lets put it this way, i'd make Pedro Alonso Lopez look like a freaking angel.

As others have already said, an extension of myself. I also designed my characters face to closely resemble my own... with a bit more hair (That's not wishfull thinking, simply not enough hair style choice in the character editor.)