The developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic recently added the mood “creepy” to the game. Moods are sort of fixed emotes that are meant to convey the current emotional state of your character. I’m not sure what “creepy” is meant to suggest.
Let’s look at my Jedi consular Nedolin (yes, I am very clever coming up with names):
The black soulless eyes and weirdly stretched proto-grin do indeed convey a level of creepiness, but it also suggest he is under a great deal of strain maintaining the look, as if he were putting on a mask. Perhaps he’s just learned his family has been trampled to death by a herd of Banthas and he is struggling to maintain his composure while at one of those interminable Jedi council meetings.
This is weird. I took another shot of Nedolin feelin’ creepy just tonight and it turned out like this:
Here he looks like the jerk in school who always shook you down for the candy bar your mom packed in your lunch. “You don’t need that snack, padawan. Don’t make me take it from you by force. Get it? Hahaha.”
Now I can’t decide what is more disturbing, that they added “creepy” to the game, that it apparently has different looks or that I’ve spent an entire post wondering about it.
