How would you write a female protagonist. As the GTA main character

[SophieSkyrim1984]

Now on a hypothetical level, if it was a female protagonist as the main GTA character. How would you write her story.

Considering, it would be hard to write a female main character, without some kind of stereo typing or sexist play on words

A strong, tough, and sensitive woman is hard to write with balance.

How do we write a female main GTA protagonist

[Lar Dass]

If you wanna write a female character without stereotypes/sexism the simple solution is..... get a female writer to write the character
Better yet get the VA to adlib some personality traits. I remember before gta v's production they wanted shawn fonteno to say words like "mate" "friend" and he was like nah im changing this to ♥♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ etc so its certaintly possible for that to happen again

[Tapdancing Kerensky]

"How do you write a woman so well?"
"I think of a man and remove all reason and accountability"
-As Good As It Gets (1997)

[Nonoche]

Gta character have never been really sensitive, tbey even rarely have goal beside their family and money, which is a goal for almost everyone in life. Beside Trevor the others main character are just some criminal dudes, even in past GTA. Does it matter if it's a female or a male holding the gun pointed at you ? If anything i was surprised that one wasn't a female after hearing it would be multiple main character in GTA V.

I liked the different main character aspect, i would be surprised if they don't do it again on the next.

If they keep the sarcastic/irreverent tone i'm not too worried about it.

I think they will surf on exactly what we saw on youtube/twitter since the Bloomberg article, people losing their ♥♥♥♥ about something that really doesn't matter in the end, so you are right we are probably gonna see some sexist jokes but they will get the ♥♥♥♥ beat out of them or get shot in the face for it, with or without some buildup. The sex aspect is also unavoidable, except this time from a female perspective you can show the extent of what male will do for sex, and how absurd it is when you take a step back.

I liked Trevor the most he was so unpredictable but a little sensible, he was nuts but loyal. I would be curious to see a female version of him by rockstar.

But where do you start i don't know. Beside Michael i think all main character from all GTA were poor. There's good potential for a refreshing story if they do it right, but so far they've made main character that a lot of people can relate to, with family issue, money issue, but weren't that unique.

EDIT : just read a little about it and it seems that the woman might be a corrupt cop. I like the idea a lot.

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Write it as a normal character? What even difference does it make if actually make a female char.

[SilentHero]

Female Trevor let's goooooooo!

[ShelLuser]

You obviously don't start with a story but with looks.... you need to either give the player an option to customize their character (not something R* is very good in it seems) so maybe...

I wouldn't be surprised if they went for the group route... So you play the roles of several females within the fictive town. Maybe one being a hooker/stripper, one being the classic uptown girl, the other your stereotypical latina and obviously "Ms. Hood". And maybe something in between as well.

This would allow R* to present us with all (stereo)types of female characters.

Then you simply get a story where one of those gets into issues, which can maybe then lead to them turning to others who will then also become part of the story and your group and as you play along you'll eventually be able to go for female power and overthrow the government

errrr..... I think my imagination may have run off there.

But I'd expect something roughly in this line. Though it would probably be better if R* gave up on that dumb threesome mode.

Maybe they'll go for the RPG approach: where you can switch characters and by doing so get into a completely different story.

If they build up their game framework on this they might be able to milk their new game by selling a TON of DLC which all come with a different story.

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Originally posted by Claws2017:

Apparantly GTA 6 will have a female protagonist

That's just a speculation. That article is based on some fake "trust me bro" leaks.

[Tebza Ngwana]

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

If you wanna write a female character without stereotypes/sexism the simple solution is..... get a female writer to write the character
Better yet get the VA to adlib some personality traits. I remember before gta v's production they wanted shawn fonteno to say words like "mate" "friend" and he was like nah im changing this to ♥♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ etc so its certaintly possible for that to happen again

getting a rational female to writer. some female writers in americas are raging feminist that are fueled by degrading men in their story telling and giving their females masculine traits and men feminine traits. This might sound like a GTA thing but it will definitely not work for the rest of the world, only a handful of activists and journalists that praise this kind of stuff.

[Nonoche]

Originally posted by in:

Originally posted by Claws2017:

Apparantly GTA 6 will have a female protagonist

That's just a speculation. That article is based on some fake "trust me bro" leaks.

It's not a 'trust me bro' leaks, it's Jason schreier, who interview 20+ rockstar employees still at Rockstar or who left, one of the most serious journalist on the matter, new york times best selling author of Press reset, and Blood sweat and pixels ... If someone is trustworthy it's him. It's not some random dude on youtube or reddit.

[Schwarzwelt]

i can see it
clear as day
dad issues, gay bf, lesbian, materialistic, karen mom, ♥♥♥♥ tons of cats, living alone, being in debt as deep as hell, sarcastic, freakin depression, sociopath
man, what else could go wrong with char setting like that am i right

[Schwarzwelt]

and again, this is GTA world, not real world
and judging from GTAV world where it's basically america but even more freedom, anything goes

[Electric Nine]

She'd be black, woke and enjoy looting.

[DevilDaRebel]

Like Catarina from San Andreas.

[[-iD-]]

every time she see something pink she WILL comment on it.

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Originally posted by Nonoche:

Originally posted by in:

That's just a speculation. That article is based on some fake "trust me bro" leaks.

It's not a 'trust me bro' leaks, it's Jason schreier, who interview 20+ rockstar employees still at Rockstar or who left, one of the most serious journalist on the matter, new york times best selling author of Press reset, and Blood sweat and pixels ... If someone is trustworthy it's him. It's not some random dude on youtube or reddit.

Sounds even more like trust me bro.