[@Odin] I just think a pretty faceclaim can be used to say more about the human condition than, "Me like [insert character of the preferred sex], me want to make the fuck. [i]But what if this person doesn't like me back uguu?[/i] Gosh, I'm just so unsure and tortured."

First of all, why are the stories actually worth telling through pretty faceclaims so seldom told? You ain't never seen a character who looks like [url=https://www.dhresource.com/600x600/f2/albu/g7/M01/B3/03/rBVaSVu1p3-AAGA3AAJ0Urbx2AU205.jpg]this[/url] feeling unsure of whether his friends like him for who he truly is versus just latching themselves to him hoping the Halo Effect will doll them up a little. Being used for his status and charm. You ain't never seen him throw a punch when someone says to him, "What are you so sad about? If I looked as good as you I'd be getting laid every day." You ain't never seen him feel alienated and alone, because nobody takes his pain seriously, and conflates easy sex with an abundance of love and affection, and [i]how could someone like him possibly be unhappy?[/i] You ain't never seen him suffer over everyone assuming that he's always going to be okay and never going to need help, because pretty people are always assumed to have their shit together. Hell, how about everyone assuming he's just naturally talented and graceful and a genius, without appreciating the blood, sweat, and tears that the character poured into his craft of choice?

I mean, maybe you have seen these. But I'd wager that's because roleplayers are pretending their gorgeous centerfold characters are normal people, walking around in a world where being Chris Hemsworth is the baseline human experience. They aren't and it isn't. They see the world differently from the people walking around having to actually earn trust before it's given, and whose chances at rejection, both in dating and in the ambiguous "real world," are significantly higher.

I'm not saying pretty people don't have problems too. Of course they do. But it's a different set of problems, some of which ugly fuckers like me will never experience. And you're never going to be exploring them in your RP either if you're presenting these ridiculously pretty people as average and normal and interacting with the world the same way everyone else does. The prettiness should be an active choice made during character creation and it should carry consequences all through the character's life: yes, the world treats pretty people better than ugly people. It just does. Being attractive opens more doors of opportunity. It makes people instinctively find you more trustworthy. You can get away with a lot more awkward or antisocial behaviors without immediately receiving a nasty label: for example, you know, two guys at work like to mutter to themselves at work and don't really socialize with their teams. The ugly one is "creepy" but the cute one is "mysterious." Pretty people receive a lot more benefit of the doubt from those who haven't met them, and they tend to have more optimistic outlooks in life because they've been used to getting their way more often from others.

It's not that RPing as pretty people is inherently unrealistic, lazy, or inferior. It's that the prettiness is almost never used to actually tell, or deepen, the character's story. It doesn't inform their outlook on the world at all. It's just, "he's like me but better."

That's a lot of wasted potential, in my opinion.