Personally, I generally want to press the lever and get my food pellet. Luther is one of the few characters I've had where I think he's bad-ass enough that I'm pretty satisfied with him. (Which is not to say I didn't buy up his dodge after last session.)

I'm actually pretty happy with the way I handled this in LARPS, where you could take the age disadvantage and balance your rate of exp gain to starting power. That way everyone could make the decision for themselves. The only trick is balancing it for the length of the chronicle.