weird insecurity??

[DJStarstryker]

I'm constantly changing my character's hair color and style. In real life I don't dress like that. I sometimes make my character in video games be male, sometimes they're female. If you can romance people in them, sometimes I make them gay, sometimes I make them straight, etc. It just depends on what I feel like. In general though, I make characters that aren't me. I live my own life daily. I feel like it's more fun to be someone else in a video game.

You can make your character look like whatever you want to in AC. If you want your character to be different from the real you, that's completely fine.

 

[stiney]

okay, so i know this isnt really about acnh, but...

i have shoulder length hair irl, but since im non-binary, i really wanna get it cut, so i gave my character short hair n i feel like its not very common to look different than your character-

In game I change my hair every few days. I wear mine short irl (cis woman) but my character, who is essentially me, usually has the pigtails style if not longer. I don’t think most of the short haircuts are that cute for a girl, plus I don’t like how my character looks in a hat when she doesn’t have a long hair style that isn’t in a bun or pony tail. I change the color in game constantly, too. Even pre-pandemic, I tend towards laziness in getting haircuts or keeping up with dyed hair, so definitely different than real life! (My last haircut was early February, things are getting dire.) None of the “natural” colors looks anything like my actual color, which is light brown. They’re too blond or too dark or too red, so that never can match anyway. I think you should make your character look however you want them to look, whether they’re a you stand-in or not and try not to worry what the rest of us are doing. You do you in AC and in life.
Short hair can be super awesome and freeing but there’s some downsides. You can’t get away without a haircut as long without it looking bad, especially because most styles that means you are going to have a party in the back long before the front. (I had very short back and sides and long in the front last cut, so I’m only just hitting the mullet stage.) You don’t have as many options for keeping hair out of your face if you keep length and can’t put it up ever, but it’s much faster for me to style and deal with. When it’s safe to go for a haircut, I recommend just going for it. Holding your hair up on top of your head is not an accurate gauge of how you’ll look with short hair (believe me, I definitely tried!), and the nice thing about hair is it grows. It may take a long time to grow back to the same length depending on how curly your hair is or how quickly it grows, but you *can* change your mind.

 

[Toot]

I want my character to seem fun and happier than I actually am. It's part of the game to live a way you wish you did.

 

[stiney]

I guess pretty much, you can be whoever you wanna be and look like. My eyes in the game are a different color from my RL brown. And in NL, my character had more auburn hair than RL black. I just want my girl to be pretty ❤

Oh yeah I forgot my in-game eyes are blue/green and they’re dark brown irl. I couldn’t figure out how to change my face at the beginning and accepted whatever. By the time I unlocked the mirror I was too attached to the face to change it.

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My character doesn't look like me at all! If anything, she's what I want to look like haha. I've always wanted to dye my hair pink but have never had the courage to. So my character has pink hair and also wears all these cute clothes I wouldn't have the confidence to wear in real life!

Do it! You can always cut it off or over-dye it if you hate it.

 

[Pyoopi]

I don't think my animal crossing character in any series has ever looked like me. I might pick a similar skin tone but other than that, I never had pink, black, light brown or blue-grey short/bob hair in my life.

 

[Fye]

I gave my character a skin tone similar to mine since it felt right, and she wears my kind of clothing since I'm the one dressing her haha. But she's still just a character, and I don't see her as an extension of myself