Ageplay. What the heck is it? In the strictest sense of the term, it is pretending to be younger or older than you are. In the normal sense of the term, it is pretending to be younger than you are -- plenty of our SL population are over 40 and (like myself) have an avatar that appears to be a good 20 or more years younger. Technically that makes most of us ageplayers, even though it's often only because of the difficulty of reproducing our own natural age as an avatar.
Some people go farther. It's common for Second Lifers to have a child version of their avatar. Starax Statosky -- the famous Second Life builder -- was an ageplayer by the definition that he frequently wore a child avatar. I remember sitting with him many times watching him work. The most common avatar I saw him in was a leather-jacketed, cigar smoking, pugnacious boy with a teddy bear. It very much suited his amiable grumpiness.
Some people go farther. It's common for Second Lifers to have a child version of their avatar. Starax Statosky -- the famous Second Life builder -- was an ageplayer by the definition that he frequently wore a child avatar. I remember sitting with him many times watching him work. The most common avatar I saw him in was a leather-jacketed, cigar smoking, pugnacious boy with a teddy bear. It very much suited his amiable grumpiness.
