(edited by SharpenedBlade.6803)
Asura ranger?
From playstyle you have no limitations. My oldest character is an Asura Ranger. Sadly there are no official Asura ranger NPCs most of them are either Sylvari or Charr. An Brokka, an Asura in Lion’s Arch owns a drakehound named “Data Dog” but she is not confirmed to be a ranger.
There is an asura in Rata Sum who breeds siamoths as lab companions, and another who is attempting to train a gaggle of pink moas. I’ve heard of players taking biologist or zoologist angles with their asura, or you could just have one who wants something less limited than a golem to guard the lab, or goes outside the lab often for any reason and decided they wanted to be better suited to traversing the wilderness, or maybe your ranger just wanted something exotic to send ahead to get hit while they remain safely back, in a variation of the typical asuran disregard for other forms of life. Plenty of options out there; you just need to get creative.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
How about an Asura that primarily studies fauna and flora and spends alot of time out in the jungles and plains and thus has developed ranger skills?
Biology and animal training seem to be the common themes for asura rangers.
Most pets would be sized right to be used as mounts for Asura… if you wanted to go that angle.
At one point, long ago, I was thinking about an Asura ranger who’s in-character thing was riding a drake as a battle-mount.
There is also the not-typical aspect. Maybe they genuinely like animals better then golems or people? I just read on wiki about an Asura who hides out in a cave full of rabbits and some other creatures because that’s what she loves to do, is feed and care for the rabbits.