It is complicated.

No, not my relationship status.

I am talking about two new characters. Actually I created one of them, the other I found in the wilderness and gave her a new live within the Caroline Resident family of ALTs (alternative accounts).

The first one is called Michelle. I created her for a specific reason or purpose (as always). Discussions on the Second Life forums about racism in Second Life inspired me to create her.

Such as this here: Discussion about racism in Second. Life

This triggered my curiosity (once again).

I decided to create a black woman. I wanted to experience first hand, how people would react to me as a black woman.

Will people treat me any different compared to me as a white woman? Will I experience racism in Second Life and how would I feel about it?

Yet another journey is about to start. Once again I start my new life without any Linden Dollar (as always). It is more fun that way and I know exactly how to make some L$ quickly ;-).

Typically I simply offer sex services to make some money. Lets see if that works as a black women just as well as it always did being a good looking white woman.

Here the first challenge::

There is only one black woman avatar at the starting point. That is unbelievably ugly. She looks like the typical 70ties stereotype black woman.

There is no way, anybody would pay me for sex using this avatar. No fucking way. Not even the slightest chance to get laid for free.

Time for freebee hunting (yet again). I have quite a bit of experience with that, as I started all of my accounts broke and relying on freebies, including Caroline herself years ago.

Btw: For those new and broke to Second Life, I strongly recommend to read the Fabfree blog. You get alot of tips and hints to get stuff for free in Second Life: Freebies in Second Life

This time I even found a free mesh body and mesh head. Totally free, no restrictions, including the alpha hud and the best: full permissions!

You want one? Contact me in-world and you can have a copy. Find me in search as “MichelleSLA”.

After a bit of tweaking the shape, applying the black colour of the mesh body, this is how I looked like to start with. Not the very best. Not the worst either. For free.

This is Michelle:

The first surprise I experienced, was a new social island. If you use the firestorm viewer with a new account, you actually land on orientation island and subsequently social island created by the folks of firestorm.

It is so much better that the Linden Lab starting regions. The firestorm social island consist of 6 regions. It is not only very informative, you find a lot to do there in fact. There is a nice clubhouse, a small freebie store, a beach and even a golf course. Definitely worth a visit.

This is where I met Trevx. Trevx is an ALT too, and he was very open about it. We got along very well from the start. Our topic: Alternative accounts.

I thought that possibility to be funny: Maybe his main character already knew my main character Caroline Resident? No. He didn’t . He actually showed me his main called “Machist”. Never seen him before.

After a while he came up with this: “You know, many women in Second Life are actually men in real life”.

“Of course I know. I think there is nothing wrong with it, as long as he makes an effort to actually look and behave realistically as a female.”

“I show you one”, he said. He introduced Leila to me. His female alt. A stunningly beautiful woman. He must have invested a lot of time and Lindens into creating this avatar.

There was just this one problem he had. He didn’t feel comfortable as a women in Second Life. Despite of all the efforts he made and outfits he bought, Leila didn’t have a Second Life. Didn’t have a purpose.

That’s why he decided to let her go. He gave me the password and said: “Take good care of my baby. If you get bored of her, please don’t kill (delete) her. Just send my baby right back to me.

This is how I first saw Leila (username: msleila), when logging in at her home location.

This is Leila:

Btw: Caroline met Machist also in between, but that is stuff for another blog post.