Creating your Avatar: A New Life

Dive into Fantasy Life by crafting your unique avatar! Learn about all the customization options for gender, body, hair, face, voice, name, and initial Life.

Hey there! So, you're jumping into Fantasy Life, huh? Awesome! The very first thing you'll do is create your avatar, which is pretty cool because you can't change most of it later on. Think of it as setting up your character for the long haul. You can spend a good chunk of time here, so don't rush it if you want to get it just right!

Just a heads-up, you can't change your avatar's appearance after you've made them, but you *can* switch their Life (that's like their job or vocation) and their hairstyle whenever you want. If you grab the 'Origin Island' DLC later on, you'll actually be able to completely remake your avatar, except for their gender, once you've finished all the story stuff. So, if you're not totally happy with your initial creation, there's a fix down the road!

Here’s a breakdown of what you can decide when you're creating your character:

• Gender: You'll pick whether you want to be a Boy or a Girl. This mostly affects which clothes you can wear later on.
• Body: This is where you'll tweak your body proportions and choose your skin color.
• Head: You get to decide the shape of your avatar's head.
• Hairstyle: Pick out your hair and its color.
• Face: This covers a lot – your eyes, mouth, eyebrows, nose, ears, and even a category called 'other' for those little details.
• Voice: You'll choose the voice your character uses when they're in battle.
• Name: What everyone in the game will call you! Make it a good one.
• Life: This is super important! It's your starting Life, or vocation, and it determines your initial skills and what you can do early in the game.

Oh, and one more thing about the DLC: if you get 'Origin Island', you'll unlock a bunch more hairstyles and appearance options. If you've already created your avatar before getting the DLC, you can still use these new options, but you'll have to wait until you unlock that avatar recustomization feature I mentioned earlier.

Remember, you can always change your Life later, but you'll have to play through the introductory quest for your *first* Life. You can skip it for any subsequent Lives you pick up, but not the very first one. So choose wisely!