I'd have to go with a mix of realism and the look fitting the character. As mentioned before this is a fantasy setting and often these settings follow a more romantic road when it comes to characters. That being said from looking at this as a game all character creators in any MMO will give you options that fit the setting.
Now I love adding bits of realism in there because these things will happen. People get hurt or killed, dirty, lost, even some may become mentally unstable.
Looking back at characters I've played before I have a trend of playing older and generally roughed up characters. My troll in WoW had a broken tusk, covered in scars, blood stained teeth and so on but in that world it still fit. Even considering trolls had pretty insane natural healing properties along with potions and magic.
For another example of a game that uses a lot of pretty people we have TERA. The character models were very pretty or cool looking but those of us who RPed tended to look at the every day things of the races. Aman for example (and I'm overly simplifying them here) are warrior smiths, most Aman be it male or female spend their lives in a forge or on the battle field and tended to be scarred or burned.
For me U'zhan is a step away from these older roughed up characters and he's a relatively attractive male miqo'te. This isn't saying he's super pretty or anything he has a couple scars and gets dirty but he's still green when it comes to adventuring.
Now I feel like I just ended up rambling about my characters there, sorry about that. ._.
Now I love adding bits of realism in there because these things will happen. People get hurt or killed, dirty, lost, even some may become mentally unstable.
Looking back at characters I've played before I have a trend of playing older and generally roughed up characters. My troll in WoW had a broken tusk, covered in scars, blood stained teeth and so on but in that world it still fit. Even considering trolls had pretty insane natural healing properties along with potions and magic.
For another example of a game that uses a lot of pretty people we have TERA. The character models were very pretty or cool looking but those of us who RPed tended to look at the every day things of the races. Aman for example (and I'm overly simplifying them here) are warrior smiths, most Aman be it male or female spend their lives in a forge or on the battle field and tended to be scarred or burned.
For me U'zhan is a step away from these older roughed up characters and he's a relatively attractive male miqo'te. This isn't saying he's super pretty or anything he has a couple scars and gets dirty but he's still green when it comes to adventuring.
Now I feel like I just ended up rambling about my characters there, sorry about that. ._.
