I'd like to see a really nerdy human female wizard. Not an 'I'll kill you all with fire!', not 'I will unlock the Dark Secrets bwahahah!!', and not some brazen 'Let's make sexy illusions and roll about on Tenser's Floating waterbed'.
I want see a scholar, a mousy wizard who wears glasses and has ink stains on her sleeves. A companion who can be romanced but who you struggle to take beyond kissing and cuddling.
Now that would be a first in any RPG so far as I can see.
There was Merrill in Dragon Age 2: she was pretty much like that. Neither "I am teh pwn and will turn your intestines into a plague of frogs!" like Morrigan nor the stereotypical "I cast a spell and all my clothes fell off", just someone who was socially awkward, bookish and tended to obsess over inappropriate stuff.
Oh gods. You just reminded me of someone in the first few 3.5 campaigns I was in with the 'clothes fell off' comment.
One of my co-workers got me into D&D, and one of his regulars was a guy who, by all accounts, looked like a jock. He looked more at home in football gear than in D&D, but eh!
Turned out, he loved to play female characters. His characters were always large-chested, wasp-waisted, huge-thighed elf girls in skimpy clothing. And those characters had an annoying habit of losing clothing for any reason he could think of. He also tried to hit on male party members, allot, while ignoring how uncomfortable we were.
I'm kind of ashamed to say that I chased him away from the group (though no one in the group liked him. They just did not have the heart to push him out). Once I learned he did not like beast races, I started rolling beast races to hit on him after the campaigns moved to my apartment. He got sick of it and told me to stop (though he saw nothing wrong with his harassment of our characters), and I told him he did not have to show up; it was my apartment, after all.
He stopped showing up, with the message that as long as the games were hosted at my place, he would not be there.
...We never stopped hosting the games at my place, for the 4 years I lived there.
