Well, I do encourage you to go ahead and explore the options the other people have presented here as good ones. It seems you are on the right track, anyway.
I would also add that just because your character can do something in-game does not mean they necessarily need to be able to do it in-character. I do like being able to tie in other aspects of my character to mine, but I also recognize that there is only so much I want my character to be ABLE to do... even if I myself play all the things.
As an example, my character is a Brawler. This means that she draws mainly from the Pugilist gear -- and that's all. I don't want her to be a Monk. It's a separate part of lore and story that doesn't fit with her story as a wandering vagabond. I actually makes me slightly alarmed when somebody starts to RP off of her while I'm in my AF2. I have to sputter and go "no, wait wait!" and swap out to my RP civies and feel awkward and ashamed afterward. /)._.(\
So throwing that out there too: just because your character can do things doesn't mean you have to do it in character too if you don't want to.
I would also add that just because your character can do something in-game does not mean they necessarily need to be able to do it in-character. I do like being able to tie in other aspects of my character to mine, but I also recognize that there is only so much I want my character to be ABLE to do... even if I myself play all the things.
As an example, my character is a Brawler. This means that she draws mainly from the Pugilist gear -- and that's all. I don't want her to be a Monk. It's a separate part of lore and story that doesn't fit with her story as a wandering vagabond. I actually makes me slightly alarmed when somebody starts to RP off of her while I'm in my AF2. I have to sputter and go "no, wait wait!" and swap out to my RP civies and feel awkward and ashamed afterward. /)._.(\
So throwing that out there too: just because your character can do things doesn't mean you have to do it in character too if you don't want to.
Thy life is a Riddle to bear Rapture and Sorrow
To Listen, to Wonder, to Entrust unto tomorrow
In One fleeting Moment from the land doth Life flow
In One fleeting Moment from the land doth Life flow
Yet in that Same Fleeting moment Thou must Live, Die, and Know
