What amuses me is that the most played races, Miqo'te and Au-ra, are supposed to be rare according to lore. >,>

I have a character for each Job. What determined it for me was mostly the enjoyment of the Job and FC I got into, and the running animations.

My very first character was a Femroe Hellsguard because I liked their characteristics (esp the nose) but some of the running animations for the bigger races are a bit... unfortunate.

I had a small handful of alts for every female race except Lala and Duskwight, plus a male Sunseeker. All but the Miqo'te and Midlander slowly got deleted.

I played my Sunseeker girl for a bit before rolling one on another server, then another until I got dropped the game for about a year.

When I came back in HW I decided to try Au-ra on another server since my servers were locked. My Au-ra NIN began to grow on me as I progressed through MSQ and I got into an enjoyable casual FC so she ended up being my main by default.