I always make a male and female character and give them the same name from my other games if possible (I gave them personality/backstories in my head, dont ask). And sometimes I make multiple characters from different classes, species, races, skin colors etc. and if I feel creative, their back story/bio. Helps if one is a creative person that likes to write stories.
My favorite variant of this is that if you pick a dwarf in the Lord of the Rings MMO, there's no gender option, since they all have beards and look the same
"Are you a guy or a girl?"
"Dwarf."
"No, no, I mean, what do you prefer?"
"Mining."
"No, I mean, what's in your pants?"
"A pickaxe."
The regular dwarfs actually do have the option, but clicking it doesnt change anything. Which is even funnier.
Based.
It's this way in discworld too, at first