Noble or commoner human

I'd love for a mixture of choices, though chances are we'll be another noble

unless of course the only way for the human to be considered a noble is by playing a mage and the other two classes are commoners

I don't mind it, but I would've preferred if Hawke's entire story hadn't hinged on them regaining their 'glory' just 'cause mommy missed it
(currently playing a rogue Hawke, and imo. Bethany is very much her mother's daughter 'cause she too is all 'wonderful' when Gamlen says they have to work to get into Kirkwall, while Carver is more 'welp, that's how it is, let's do this thing')

So yeah...I'd love to play a commoner, or even lower

I would prefer a commoner, or, even better, if I could start out as a member of the criminal element or a slave. I don't find stories about nobility particularly relatable or interesting anymore, and I'm less interested in epic quests and dark lords and claiming birth right and fulfilling prophecies and blah blah, and I'd much prefer to see stories about characters who either strive proactively for a personal goal, or to correct an injustice they perceive in their society.

This is a big part of why I prefer DA2 over the other DA games. Even though it still has some of the stuff I don't like (ie reclaiming birthright plotline), it engaged with stuff like being an immigrant, being poor and the different ways the poor survive, being disenfranchised in general (nearly all the party members in DA2 are/were disenfranchised/outcast in some way), bigotry and oppression, how the law treats you when you lack privilege, hypocrisy and double standards between the different classes/groups, what pushes the oppressed to the breaking point, what causes violence to erupt, what even is 'justice' anyway. And yes, I'm a big social justice crybaby and wah wah I want my civil rights, and all media needs to agree with my viewpoint, etc, but also, this kind of stuff is what really gives a fictional world depth, and flesh, and life, and it's also why I connected emotionally with the characters (Anders in particular).

I only wish these questions and themes had been engaged with deeper, DA2 still doesn't go far enough to satisfy me in this regard, for several reasons that I could discuss at length. But when DAI turned out to be about a gang of mostly over-privileged people fighting to defend/restore a shitty status quo where they are already at the top, from an ancient wizard so cartoonishly, childishly, unquestionably, irredeemably evil that they might as well have just copy/pasted Gargamel, I was deeply disappointed. It could have been the most technically brilliantly-written game in the world, and I still wouldn't have liked it, because I have simply outgrown that plot and those tropes. The only thing at this stage that grabs my interest about the next DA game, considering how little we've been told, is the implication that the new protag is an "unknown", which doesn't actually mean anything, but at least holds potential for them to be the kind of character I would relate to and connect with emotionally.

I want to be a slave and lead a rebellion. I want to see everything, the horror, the dirt, that only the under privileged see. And I want to fight, kill, maim, assassinate until my side gets heard and seen by the sparkly privileged people.

Like if we were a Jenny doing Jenny things, but large scale and for the freedom of slaves.

See my above post. You only get bumped up to Laetans as a commoner if you are a citizen. Otherwise, if you are a Librati, you have no status as a citizen and stay exactly where you are on the social scale even as a mage. Remember the "Behind the Scenes" video suggested we would be exploring what it is like to have no power, at least to begin with, so that really rules out coming from a noble background or being anyone who has status as a citizen of the Imperium.

The Liberati really have no power, since they are no longer part of a ruling house, where if you play your cards right as a slave you can acquire a certain degree of status, although with the drawback you can always be sold on, as happened with Marius, or threatened with the idea of being given to the Circle to be experimented upon, as was the case with Calpernia. Still, I seem to recall that when that mage in Tevinter Nights, whose name I can't remember, came into his magic, his Soporati master immediately adopted him into his family, automatically giving him citizen status, so they could all be elevated to Laetans.

I voted slave, but I’d also be happy with a non-Tevinter smuggler or something. I say non-Tevinter because as a foreigner they’d really be out of their depth navigating Tevinter’s complex social systems. However a slave origin would be my preferred pick. Since our character is supposed to be an ‘unknown’ I don’t see us being noble.

But I actually see our PC being some sort of person for hire, brought in by Varric or Dorian for one job but ends up tangled up in the larger plot somehow.

I easily see us being from the south. Protagonists were never from the countries the game take place in (or are isolated from them in the case of a couple origins) to have it make sense why they don’t know a lot about the countries just like the new players.

I don't particularly care what our background is, so went slave because I agree with the above. It would fit any race/gender and be able to be largely the same for each (i.e. they wouldn't have to build/script multiple origins based on CC choices).

Whatever our background, though, we'll end up being someone 'of note'. That's just how it works in games. You're the protagonist. You change the game world in some way, shape or form. What I'd really like is an in-game reason for us to go and do the minor things. There is a lot of elfroot to pick. Cool. Why do I want to do that? NPC wants me to kill some wolves/bandits/demons. I usually RP characters who're happy to help where they can, but why would random NPC approach me?

None, have no human option for a change, human's are boring

A commoner with a criminal background who's on the run that happens to help deal with the solas elf to avoid being caught by the authorities.

Oh, come on - everybody loves a good mustache twirling monologuer, right?

Both is good.

Four origins?

Dalish slave
Tal Vashoth spy
Noble Human slave owner
Dwarven merchant