# Is gender of MC important?

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**Category:** Game Development\
**Created:** [August 21, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-gender-of-mc-important/19918 "2016-08-21T12:42:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![FairyGodfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fairygodfeather/32/16709_2.png) [@FairyGodfeather](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FairyGodfeather)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-gender-of-mc-important/19918/58 "2016-11-17T22:44:04Z")

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The gender blurring is one of the aspects I did like about Choice of Romance.

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> Again, why my only option when I find the queen with a young attractive woman in bed is RO run away crying or get angry? Why can I ask to join them?

Running away and crying is not exclusively a female thing. And in this society I can believe it. I will admit I did have an issue with the choice as presented because I’d have liked a third option of being completely okay with it. But that was more finding it inexplicable why the protagonist would expect, or even want monogamy. And that whole idea never got explored.

I’d an issue with a similar act overly emotional scene in Waywalkers where I was like “hell no would I do that” and was surprised that so many of the younger players absolutely loved the scene and found it sooo romantic.

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> Or how the hell could I have swapped the queen’s second child with another without anyone noticing? It is clear that this was written for a women who cheated on the king and had a illegitimate child, the prospect a guy could have a child with another women and swapped them is ludicrous.

Originally this text wasn’t even there. It’s slightly better than the previous version where your son was just accused of not being the Monarch’s, even if she was the birthmother. I did question the whole ridiculousness of it.

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> Because my character doesn’t feel like a man.

The protagonist doesn’t feel like the sort of man you’re used to playing? Is that it? Because you’ve got men here saying, “yep looks like a man, feels like a man to me.”

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