Are you a boy or a girl?

[Thepowaofhax]

I'm probably going to play the female protagonist for once. I've never played the game with the female characters and most of the recent male characters are samey.

 

[Zet]

I'll be playing as both. Boy in Sun and Girl in Moon.

 

[PageEmp]

I'll be most likely picking male cause I'm a male myself. But I'm on high hopes that the female one looks good.

 

[Brendino]

Unless the male character looks like a zombie or something, I'll probably be picking him for whatever version I get. I've only played as the female character once actually, and that was only after I'd beaten Sapphire a few times, and wanted the novelty of my rival being named Brendan.

 

[Kikaito plush]

Even though I am a girl I'll choose who ever design I prefer.

 

[CrowSvenson]

Both, for different versions.

Sonny for the guy in Sun, and Luna for the lady in Moon.

Because, you know, creativity.

 

[JJ Styles]

I'll keep with my tradition of playing the female avatar but if the designs do finally come out and the female avatar doesn't look the part, I'll be a male this time.

 

[Lycanthropy]

Unless the male character looks like a zombie or something, I'll probably be picking him for whatever version I get. I've only played as the female character once actually, and that was only after I'd beaten Sapphire a few times, and wanted the novelty of my rival being named Brendan.

I would totally pick the male character if that were the case. I mean how cool would it be to play as a zombie? :D

But for serious, like several people here, I normally pick the character of my own gender on my first playthrough. On later saves I just pick whichever I feel like.

 

[εcho.]

I almost always play as the female character, mostly because I feel more connected to the game when I play through as my own gender.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

It would depend if my brother plans to buy one of the versions or how good the design of the female protagonist is going to be.

 

[Tojin]

I'm probably gonna stick with the female design unless she looks really bad and/or the male design looks really good. Gotta stick with real life, of course. =P

 

[Rivvon]

I always pick the female protagonist because it helps me with immersion, regardless of whose design I prefer. Since lately they've been including the unused protagonist as an NPC in-game, it works out either way because I'll get to see them somehow.

As with all NPCs, I'm looking forward to seeing the new protagonists. I hope we get some official art soon!

 

[MarinoKadame]

I got some idea for the names of the female trainers that may be picked.

For Japan they could go with Mizuki as placeholder.
From Japanese 美 (mi) "beautiful" and 月 (zuki) "moon". It can also come from 瑞 (mizu) "congratulations" and 希 (ki) "hope".

The official name may end up being Tsukiko.
From Japanese 月 (tsuki) "moon" and 子 (ko) "child".

In English they got Luna who is too obvious, Lucine and Selena ( Kind of too close to Serena ).

There's maybe other names that could fit.

 

[LilBueno]

I always play as a male, regardless of playthrough it is since I identify as such and its easier to immerse myself into the game that way with a silent protagonist. If by chance, we get a non-silent protagonist, I may try out the female POV for once.
Or if the design is that much better~

 

[MarinoKadame]

It would be great if by default the female would be dark skinned or tan to break with the usual fair-skinned trainers. Also getting white hairs or silver hairs would go well with it as default.

 

[Lunalie]

Depends solely on which one looks better.
If history repeats itself, probably male. Although I did prefer the female character in X/Y so who knows.

Actually, now that I think about it, probably female and name her Luna.

 

[Hermione Granger]

Sun I'll play as the male, Moon as a girl.

 

[PageEmp]

Yeah, I'm still standing my case that I'm most likely picking male because in real life, I am a male. But I am on high hopes that the female will have a good design.

 

[I'm so HM02]

I've always played as the male character (even with the meh designs as of late) I really am super excited to see the character models and starters!

 

[LilyGardy]

As I always play as the Female Character in the Pokémon Games I will pick them. I hope character customisation remains even if it is just an option to change say hair colour.

The male characters have looked similar to other for a while now hopefully he has some variation similar to how the female characters all have different designs.