I asked one of my friends a while back because I noticed he would make a female character for everything. Soul Calibur, any MMO, Dark Souls, Skyrim... You name it, he's a girl ahaha. And like the most ridiculous depiction of a girl too... Kind of went for a Harley Quinn appearance whenever he could. Idk his answer was honest or not but he said "If I'm going to be looking at somebodies back for hours I'd rather it be a girl." He then asked me why I play as a guy... I told him "I don't really look at it as me playing as somebody else, it's me playing as the nearest depiction of myself that I could create."