Does Ego ability score determine initial attractiveness? Does a high Ego warrant NPCs wanting to flock to this person before they open their mouth, should it be a trait like famous, or a tag due to the overwhelming attention?
For me, it stands to reason that people with high Ego project that unless they take active measures to hide it, whereas people with low Ego can still be attractive, but have to put in the effort; ergo, it should be a tag. like rich.
High Ego is force of personality and does not necessarily specifically equate to physical beauty or ‘attractiveness’. It does give them a decent bonus to any social checks, but how the character presents themselves is up to the player. There are actually several traits already in existence to give edge/trouble on such checks and help flavor how the character interacts with the world: Abrasive, Audience, Beguiling, Dealmaker, Famous, Glibness, Honest, Interrogation, Leverage, Presence, Public Speaking, and Pundit. You can take these Traits with a 0 in Ego if you want.
Sure, but every single thing you listed requires one to use a skill. Beauty and Attractiveness are a state of being. How do you deal with the passive action of it in game? Monstrous is accounted for, so the opposite should apply.
Monster is also a Trait that Affects Intimidation. If you simply want your character to be attractive with no rules benefit, then simply say your character is attractive. But don’t expect people to automatically listen to, give free stuff to, or want to sleep with your character just because you simply say they are attractive. That’s why those traits are there for when you need to make the rolls to make all that happen.
The only free tag I see is Extreme Appearance which is neither attractive nor ugly and only offers you a chance to earn Karma if it ever comes up in play. That can cover anything from Hulk, to Ironman’s Armor, to an unearthly, gold, skin-toned beautiful alien.
Presence or Beguiling can easily be role-played as beautiful. Just take a High Ego and one of those and you should be fine. Speak to your narrator about how you want that to be represented in game.
I am the Narrator, and I was vacillating between it being a trait, if I gave a. game mechanics advantage or a tag, that does nothing on its own, but increases how many people find the character attractive, leading to higher incidence of stalkers, but increasing the effectiveness of beguiling which relies on the person finding you attractive.
Sounds like you should make it a Tag with no game mechanics. It can be used in role-Playing situations to get a Karma. If you want game mechanics, there are plenty of options already.