Yeah, Final Fantasy VI all the way; to this day the only videogame RPG I ever really played and finished. I could identify with Terra at the times in that, who wouldn't want to be a living magic weapon of tremendous power?
As for being confused for a female, some people did (I once responded to a sex joke as a male but since the person who made the joke thought I was a girl, she took tremendous offense at my reply, which wasn't helped by the fact that she was bipolar and and in a very volatile mood that day). I had to correct people a few times, though one of my past avatar was a South Park-like face with glasses and goatee which kinda announced my gender right away. I guess it all started with this fascination I have with strong-yet-not-badass-cliche female characters that started way back when with Penny from Inspector Gadget. I moved on from there.
It kinda reminds me of an old PVPOnline comic strip where Francis, the teen gamer, asked if it was weird for him to play a female warrior on a board RPG. He was reassured it was perfectly normal to play out fantasies at his age. The last panel is the same group decades later where he's *still* playing the same female character and everyone's looking at him in a 'weirded out' way
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
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