Well, that was awkward.
I was using my female character on Triumph server (a level 9 scrapper with claws and dark armour. Named SideSwiped Girl. I liked the name so much i decided to copy it). And there was this male character. As part of a 7 and 8 person team we had rampaged through Perez Park, but when we met up again after I went offline for an hour, it was wierd. When I was complaining about how bad dark armour looked, he said 'Yeah, but you look so hot underneath it'. Kinda disconcerting. If he had said 'Your character looks...' then yeah, fair enough. I've said the same myself. But by cutting out the character bit, it made for a rather strange reading on my end. (Though on one level, it was pleasing. The character is a work of art and someone has complimented my skill at assembling a good looking visage).
Then, after we took the train, and I was waiting for him while he lagged badly through the loading sequence on the roof of the station (no superhero would be caught dead on the ground, of course), this other guy turned up. And he just walked around my character and copied my emotes (sitting down, reading paper etc). I feel compelled to note that he spent a while hovering at an angle that meant his character was staring right up the skirt of my sitting character. He only responded after I, exasperated, did so. Funny thing was, when the first guy eventually loaded they looked like they were about to have a deathmatch right there. Stared at each other, activated defensive powers, made their weapons appear etc... very amusing. Should have taken a screenshot.
But this second guy... he took care to ask what timezone I was in, and how old I was (even repeating the question when I carefully ignored it the first time). He was a 17 year old guy in america (i assume that from the fact he was 5 hours behind me). And he talked like a chimpanzee on drugs. 'How age are you?' As I was quitting he also asked eagerly whether he would see me tomorrow. Erg... I may need to check up on the options for ignoring people in CoH.
All in all, massively disconcerting. This never happened with my other female characters on the Pinnacle server. Admittedly one of them was a woman in a business suit but still. (It amuses me greatly that all of my characters except Entanaught wear 'normal' clothes, as opposed to the goofy spandex of everyone else. The business suit was the ultimate expression of this. Although in deference to the genre i gave her a mysterious cloth over her mouth blue spots on her brows).
And i'd just like to close with the following thought : The odds of you, a geek playing a pc game, finding a women online who not only was in your geographical area but who was single and interested in you is somewhat less remote than the possibility of intelligent life on mars. That is to say, non-existant. I simply don't understand the people who worship women in IRC chatrooms and ingames. I mean, it's not like you have a chance of going out with them, so why act all giggly and moronic around them? Yet a large number of people online do just that. Nerds. Even if I regard a character as hot, i'm not gonna act like a lovesick puppy around her. Not only is she controlled by a guy most likely, but she is a damn computer game character. Have sense people.
