I'm more than likely to play a female and I do have character ideas about who I want her to be and things like that. So maybe we could all just give a very simple version of our characters and decided based on that how they all fit together when everyone has a more solid idea for their...
It's really up to what you are comfortable with, it doesn't really matter to me since I have school so the first option works out in a way for me but yeah, I'm fine with either one.