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blue October 9th, 2013 4:53 AM

Male or Female?
 
In just three days many of us will be starting our journey in the Kalos Region! As always we will be prompted to choose our gender. Now I've seen many people "Gender Bend" in these Pokémon games recently, in which they choose the opposite gender protagonist. ;)

So which protagonist will you be playing as? Will it be Serena or Calem?

Zorogami October 9th, 2013 4:55 AM

I usually pick the male protagonist on my first playthrough. Now with X/Y, i was going to pick the female because Calem looked way too generic, but after seeing the many and diverse customization options, i´m going to pick him after all (:

metalhand October 9th, 2013 4:55 AM

I'm going for Xavier, even though I like Yvonne much more, I'm always choosing the male protagonist.

Tsutarja October 9th, 2013 4:56 AM

I will be going as Calem simply because I've gone with the male character since HeartGold and because I can customize Calem to look so much like me.. if it wasn't for the customization of the characters, then I could have gone for Serena as I have indeed gender-bent in past games.

MaoMint October 9th, 2013 5:05 AM

I will go with Serena!
I usually take the female character because I feel awkward playing a guy (that is as long as there's an option)
Although - I do usually take the male character in FR/LG because I simply can't get used to the female characters hat. 3:
Anyway - for X/Y it's most certainly Serena for me!

Suicune October 9th, 2013 5:07 AM

Serena! I've always picked my gender, although I was a little tempted this generation to go male with the customization. Either would be fun to play and decorate with, but I'm going to have my trainer represent me.

Hikamaru October 9th, 2013 5:07 AM

I'll be choosing Serena because I always have a tradition of playing as a female character.

Adryel October 9th, 2013 5:11 AM

I want a female but the male, I think it's much cooler with the customization .

Pendraflare October 9th, 2013 5:13 AM

Well i've gender bended quite a few times, namely in my side games. Although I played as myself in my main White 2 game, so I kinda feel I should do that in whichever one I make my main game here. But I do like that female character...so i'm not completely settled on either yet for my main game.

Maybe i'll play as myself in my main game and play as the girl in the other if I do a Nuzlocke or something; we'll see.

Zethremar October 9th, 2013 5:23 AM

I will picking and playing as Calem because of the customization options that are offered in the game. If it wasn't for that and they both were generic I would probably pick Serena.

curiousnathan October 9th, 2013 5:24 AM

I'll be starting my first Pokemon journey in the Kalos region as a male Pokemon Trainer called Nathan. :p

Kikaito plush October 9th, 2013 5:26 AM

I will going as the female called Amy as I always do in pokemon games

Starry Windy October 9th, 2013 5:44 AM

I'll going with Calem because I'm usually using the ones which represents my real gender.

jazneo October 9th, 2013 5:53 AM

i going with male. because the customize they add into the game

Pinkie-Dawn October 9th, 2013 6:02 AM

I'm going to pick Serena for being better designed than Calem. I can't wait to try out someof the outfits she could wear.

HaphazardAsylum October 9th, 2013 6:05 AM

sticking with male i don't see any real reason besides preference so far doesn't seem like there is any differences so just sticking with the dude

dscottobrien1 October 9th, 2013 6:28 AM

I will be doing what I always do, play a male character in one game, and a female in the other

pedrito3_poke October 9th, 2013 6:29 AM

Well, I think it's always better for the gaming experience to choose character that best ressembles you, so I'm going with Xavier (planning on costumizing it a lot, though, too bad I don't think we'll be able to choose hoodies).

Btw I'm surprised that so many people still don't know about Xavier and Yvonne after all this time...

blue October 9th, 2013 6:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pedrito3_poke (Post 7873296)
Btw I'm surprised that so many people still don't know about Xavier and Yvonne after all this time...

Xavier is what Calems name was better known as pre-release media, same goes for Serena/Yvonne.

pedrito3_poke October 9th, 2013 6:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suicune™ (Post 7873302)
Xavier is what Calems name was better known as pre-release media, same goes for Serena/Yvonne.

I know that but I never got to understand why, since it's been pretty clear for a long time in the official website that Serena/Calem is the name of the rival.

jazneo October 9th, 2013 7:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pedrito3_poke (Post 7873328)
I know that but I never got to understand why, since it's been pretty clear for a long time in the official website that Serena/Calem is the name of the rival.

yea there just rival names. when you choice female or male character. but your trainer you can name who you want it to be. it your pokemon trainer story

MarinoKadame October 9th, 2013 9:47 AM

I take Yvonne and I will look if you have any black robe lass cloth in the shop.

Sirfetch’d October 9th, 2013 9:54 AM

Unlike with the last 2 Pokemon games I really love both of these protagonists and picking which to use is harder than I thought. I am going to play as the male though on my first playthrough as I traditionally do and his name is going to be Chase. If I do end up getting the Y version later this month, I will play it using the female protagonist and probably let her retain the name of Serena!

Sun October 9th, 2013 11:21 AM

If Serena can have her hair chopped into pixie hair, then I might go for her.

Kiara October 9th, 2013 11:30 AM

The first game of every generation I go with female and name it Kiara for the sake of consistency. Any other games/playthroughs in that gen though, I choose depending on how I feel at the time, usually naming the trainer after one of my original characters.


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