Male or female player?

I always choose the female player and, despite the limits, I try to make it physically remember myself. Only the hair, basically lol

I play as the female character because of better outfits.

I never got the chance to see the outfits of the opposite gender. I never knew the selection was that much different in terms of style though.

In my main save files, I always pick the female characters and just name them after myself. Boring, I know, but I like imagining myself in the Pokémon world. :')

In any repeat playthroughs, I mix things up. Think of a fun name, maybe go for the male once in a while. In my Sword Wonderlocke I'm doing, I decided to cosplay as Shadow the Hedgehog because I thought it would be funny.

We just pick out which appearance we prefer and name our character after ourselves.