The L Word in Xbox Live Avatars – When Xbox Avatars meet The L Word – Article

Bette Porter
Bette is the artistic, business, mother hen dyke about town. When she’s on Xbox Live she plays to win and no one is gonna get in her way.

Bette’s favorite games are Overlord and Civilization Revolution because she loves controlling things. She’s also been seen logging into BioShock, we expect so she can gaze at its beauty, shed a tear and blast some stresses away.

Tina Kennard
Tina is the confused, oh no I’m not confused anymore, now I know what I want type. She owned an Xbox once before, then she traded it for a PS3 (gasp!!), then she got sick of the PS3 and realized all the good games were on the Xbox she originally had.

Her favorite game is presently The Spiderwick Chronicles because she can play it with her kid because that defines who she is now.

Shane McCutcheon
Shane is the good girl in bad girl clothing. She always wants to do the right thing, but somehow usually ends up doing the wrong thing. She’s also got a thing for the ladies. This explains her purchases of Dead or Alive Xtreme and Rumble Roses XX.

Shane’s favorite games of the moment include Saint’s Row and Halo 3. We also think she’ll shortly be playing Fallout 3 after what happened at Jenny’s party.

Jenny Schecter
Jenny is a pixie, we mentioned this before. She likes playing games between self harming and episodic bitchiness. Jenny had big plans for the game of life, but her work in the supermarket meant she could only afford a PS1. Jenny then struck a lucrative deal and she went up market and bought an Xbox 360.

She’s not a good gamer though, she forgot all the friends she’d made in her PS1 days, treated them like shit and played Xbox with the tiny dog that follows her everywhere… that’s the Chihuahua not Adele.

Alice Pieszecki
Alice is the cute / funny one that never seems to choose the right one. This is probably why she had a Dreamcast she watched being played for years, then decided to play it, LOVED it and then the damn thing went and died on her.

Since then Alice has wandered aimlessly through Cooking Mama on the Wii for a brief period, before settling into some Call of Duty on Xbox Live, but we don’t think it will last.

Dana Fairbanks
Dana Fairbanks was a champion tennis player and a dork. Everyone loved Dana, but a deity called Chaiken put her in a skin colored shower cap at a basketball game and things went downhill from there.

Back in the day Dana was a master at Top Spin and SEGA Superstars Tennis. She used to love playing multi-player with Lara Perkins and Alice Pieszecki. There was also some multi-player with a freak called Tonya, but she took her off her friends list. Tonya talked too much whilst gaming saying things like "I can’t beleive I’m about to game with Dana Fairbanks".

Lara Perkins
Lara Perkins was an adorable chef, who became an adorable sex kitten, who became an adorable ex of Dana Fairbanks. Word has it Lara Perkins made the BEST "Finger Food" anyone had ever had. Dana seemed to think so, before she got all bald and weird and screamed at adorable Lara to leave. When she returned briefly Alice found out Lara made a great snack too.

When she lived in Vancouver … LA (it never gets old!) Lara’s favorite game was Cooking Mama on the Wii. Since she moved to San Fransisco she prefers Xbox Live so she can kick Alice’s ass on Call of Duty.

Helena Peabody
Helena got into gaming by way of her children whom she adored. No one knows where they went, but they disappeared, which was okay because Helena seemingly has no memory of them anyway. In their wake they left Helena the Xbox 360 and she’s grown to quite like it.

It’s not as expensive as the PS3, which is why Helena tells people she has one of those too. She’s presently seen logging into Just Cause and Need For Speed Most Wanted, probably something to do with recent company she kept.

Kit Porter
Kit is a coffee store owning musician and a reminder that Bette Porter is a woman of color. She used to like to drink a bit too much so now she serves coffee and turns to Xbox instead of the bottle.

She was recently seen logging into Rock Band, probably trying to get back some of that old magic we all keep hearing about. She had some dude called Mangus on her friends list, but deleted him for bad babysitting practices.

Max Sweeney
Max used to be called Moira and lived in Illinois, that is till she met Jenny on Xbox Live and decided to take a road trip with her. Though Jenny does tend to confuse people, Max wasn’t one of them, Max knew she wanted to be a he and took to transitioning – everything but that voice.

Max is often heard on the Xbox Live headset saying "No dude, I really am a guy… I know my voice is high…..*sigh*" before switching it off and tutting.

Eva ‘Papi’ Torres
Yo yo yo what up y’all! Dis here is Papi and she is da bomb baby! Sorry, I’ll stop that now. Papi is a caricature of a Latino lady, she’s not cool like Carmen though, because she thinks she’s Gangsta, but she’s about as gangsta as Elmo in Scarface.

Papi is constantly emailing Microsoft to ask them to make the friends list infinite, because she can’t possibly fit the women she’s slept with this week into 90 slots. She’s presently playing Saint’s Row, so she can study how the characters act and copy them.

Tasha Williams
Tasha is a soldier and she looks sweet in uniform, or did, till someone "asked and told" and there was this whole big mess. It’s because queers can’t fight and die for their country, as even people that hate them and want rid don’t see that as a good thing (go figure?!).

As far as Xbox goes Tasha used to love playing Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms, Gears of War and all those shooters. Since getting back from Iraq though she prefers a game of Uno, ironic since Alice is probably going to tell her that’s what she prefers soon.

Carmen de la Pica Morales
Carmen is a Latino hottie, rumor has it she’s actually Iranian and her real name is Aahoo Jahansouz, but she changed it because she kept thinking people sneezing were calling her… think about it! Carmen used to date Shane, they met playing Halo on Xbox Live, but Shane realized multi-player co-op just wasn’t the game for her and she deleted Carmen from her friends list. Now Carmen plays single player because all of Shane’s friends deleted her as well.

She was recently seen logging into Viva Pinata (oh come on! You knew it was coming!) and Guitar Hero World Tour. She’s really looking forward to the DJ Hero game Activision is apparently making.

Marina Ferrer
Marina owned hip café The Planet and was hot! She spoke with this sultry thing that changed the word "Jenny" into "Shjenny" and she loved reading obscure books no one had heard of other than "Shjenny".

When Marina isn’t reading obscure books or hitting on straight / bi / confused / gay pixies, she sits at home – in her castle in Italy – playing Xbox Live with friends, none of whom reside in Vancouver.. err.. LA because although she was everyone’s friend when there, they all ignore her now like they do with Carmen. She was last seen logging into Eternal Sonata.

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