Talk:Bearer of the Curse/@comment-199.200.27.20-20140616213457/@comment-147.194.135.69-20140726121014

Eh...Guys, it's pretty obvious that the figure holding out their hand towards the woman and child is supposed to be the player character. What the woman and child represent is open to interpretation, but the likeliest scenario is that it's a wife and child, although considering that the oldest memories disappear first during Hollowing, it's also plausible that it's your mother and you're the child, although if that's the case, it's odd that the player character would be represented by someone (male, by the physique) reaching out in fear of losing the memory, and seeing it melt away before their very eyes.

I mean, on top of that, the player character is even represented as male before you get to the Fire Keepers. Ever taken off the Imported set before walking into their hut? I'm not saying it's appropriate, but there's a fair bit of evidence suggesting the player character is supposed to be male by canon. That's not to say I like it - I'm playing as a female character, and all my characters in DS1 were female, too - but it's not a big enough detail for it to bother me. It's in one skippable cutscene at the beginning of the game for all of five seconds. Getting so worked up about it kind of makes you look like you have some sort of chip on your shoulder.