DOS Naming

[Dignified Pauper]

What about China from le WWE!? She's had just as much training as other wrestlers, and has beaten the crap outta some... Me thinks it's all on personal stature.

[Martyr]

China is a rare exception to the rule. She doesn't debunk my argument.
Besides, wrestling is all about building up muscle and putting on a show. China is definately tougher than the average man and extremely tough for a woman, but she is an individual and can't really stand to represent the population of women.

Personal stature, sure. But how many China's are there? Going high, maybe 60? I don't know. But there are probably 3 billion women.

Also, you read my first post and had insight to my brain on how I name characters for a video game?How I justify the gender roles of character-less heroes in an 8-bit nintendo game. This is extremely trivial crap here, at the bottom line.

And if ya'll feel the need to prove to me that women are as tough as men, well, you go on feelin' that need. I'm not going to sit and argue much longer. All you got on your side is hearsay and, maybe China. (A woman who is super highly trained. But even still, I bet that if she was in a nonstaged fight with any of the wrestlers, the odds would be strongly against her.)

[abrojtm]

I forgot who said it, but someone once said that WM/WW is probably based in a Christ-like figure.
Jesus is often depicted wearing a white robe with long hair. He uses His powers for good (healing, curing blindness, curing poison, reviving the dead, etc.), and is a pacifist (hence why WM is so weak). There was a longer explanation somewhere, but I'm to lazy to search for it.

[Snap Jumper]

But I'm far too chauvenistic to let a chick take the forefront in battle. Especially if she insists on wearing robes and not being a fighting character.

In game 6, (SPOILER)when you enter the World of Ruin, you have to let Celes fight everything on her own until you get a Figaro brother. Guess you can't do that part.

Anyways, they also have Elayne as an auto for the red mage and Nina and Delila for the black mage, but they also have Mid for a red mage, so Square must be leaving it up to us.

As far as the manual saying they're all males, Nintendo referred to Samus Aran of Metroid as "he" to mislead people. I doubt Square did the same, but with the translation skills they had then (Power of Cheese thread!!), it could be anything. I guess we'll never know for sure.

[abrojtm]

I'm pretty sure that they intended them to be androgynous, hence the Role Playing in RPG.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

All Red Mage ever wanted was a daddy who loved him, and all his daddy ever wanted was a girl, it's so sad

Or at least that's what Theif tells us.

[Flashback007]

All Red Mage ever wanted was a daddy who loved him, and all his daddy ever wanted was a girl, it's so sad

Or at least that's what Theif tells us.

I think you should read less things of a certain site (which ofcourse I shall not metion here). But then again on that site it's made obvious that White Mage is a female cause Black Mage is always hitting on her. And White Mage is always hitting on Black Mage.........with her hammer.

[Mage_of_Fire]

i think fighter, thief, and black belt are obviously male. Red mage is also male i think.

However, I think of white mage as female. Perhaps 8-bit theater biases me though, because the white wizard is male or ambiguous at best. Black mage could be either I think, but again, black wizard is either male or a mix. I name my Bm and Wm girls though.