I chose a Lala because the second I started up the game and saw the race, I screamed with joy xD

But seriously, I had followed the game for a year or so prior to purchasing it (I bought it when HW came out) so I was aware of the different classes and races. My exposure to the game came from Twitch streams, YouTube videos and Twitter posts, so I had seen quite a few different characters. I tend to go with the smaller races in MMOs probably because IRL I'm a petite lil thing. As for my main class, I decided to challenge myself. I usually go with an offensive mage class in both MMOs and single-player RPGs but I gravitated toward the White Mage class, partly because I enjoyed it so much in the original FF games and partly because healing was something I hadn't previously experienced in an MMO.