User blog:Ralok/The Exo, Awoke, and Human predicament.

So as you all know by now Destiny has three character slots, three classes, and three playable races to chose from. So naturally most players will want to make a character of each race, and one of each class. So the predicament is, which class do you pair with each race... I want to break down my Pre-Destiny thought process before the game first came out.

So first and foremost, you must realize... that I prefer to make characters the least likely class for them to be, because in my opinion it provides the best storytelling.

Awoken
The awoken are the sort of... mystical, magical, ethereal race. In a way they are kind of like space elves, they are descended from humans and seem to have stronger innate power. So my thought process was that they would most likely be warlocks most of the time.

So I didnt make my Awoken a Warlock because it would be to obvious... So then I was torn between Titan and Hunter, Hunter seemed slightly more likely than titan... because Titans are those most associated with defending the city, and the city is a bastion of humanity, and Awoken may face prejudices from their ancestral people.

Soooooooooooooooooooo.... I picked Titan, and wouldnt you know... The games most iconic and foremost Titan character Zavala is a friggin awoken. So I had to delete and make a new one!!! YAY!!! Next time I picked Hunter, and the character stuck.

Human
Humans are the native people of earth, so naturally I assumed Titan and Hunter would be the two most likely classes for humans to be. Titans as defenders of the city, and Hunter as explorers and people that exist on the edges of civilization trying to reclaim it.

Warlock seems like the natural choice... BUT WRONG AGAIN!!! Because Ikora Rey is the iconic Warlock, and she is human.

So I made my human a titan, while seemingly more likely than a Hunter... Titans I think are less likely because humans are the physically weakest of all the races.

Exo
Physically strong robot people? The obvious choice would be Titan, followed by Warlock because of their mysterious origins and lack of understanding of how they can be and where they came from, it would push many into intellectual paths.

So... hunter? Nope Cayde-6 is the iconic hunter of the Destinyverse.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Went with Warlock since it seemed slightly less likely than an Exo using their physical strength to their advantage.

Conclusion
The developers of Destiny made each of the iconic vanguard representations of each class the race least likely to have members of their kind be that class. To specifically screw with players like me, and to give them maximized interestingness of backstory.