Some Character Advice, New game, pondering what to play Options

[Xystophoroi]

Hi!

I've got a new game coming up soon and wanted some advice on characters in SR5.

No house rules in effect as far as I know (unless the following is one). We can initiate during char gen and if you get Exceptional Attribute to buff a stat and have spare bonus points you can buy it up with the bonus points. E.g.: ExAtt Magic raises magic to 7, spend 3 human BP to raise magic from 4 to 7.

Tone will probably lean toward Pink Mohawk most of the time with some (probably random) spikes on the Mirrorshades side of the fence.

I was considering the following and wanted some advice on how to realise them.

Note: I don't voluntarily use cyberware, like some people are afraid of spiders the thought of removing a limb voluntarily and replacing it with robot parts squicks me out. Bioware is fine.

1. A cat burglar, stealth, agility, lockpicking and probably needs decking skills too as many locks will not be mechanical

Problem here being that Bioware is costly and a Deck is costly and you need a lot of skills and they have to be decently high to be plausible.

2. "I'm a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride!". Cowboy aesthetic, basically a gunbunny adept/paracritter hunter. Gonna have pistols (pair of quick draw holstered Ruger Super Warhawks as those are revolvers) and longarms (a rifle described as a lever action and a shotgun). Could be Bioware or Adept.

3. A body mod subculture rocker type fellow. Mostly I want to use badass Qi Foci tattoos and mix that with cats eyes and funky ears etc. So Adept/Bioware, mainly a physical fellow, probably made his living pre-Running as a musician with a failed rock-group.

Any suggestions on how to mould the SR5 priorities system into shape?

How do you go about mixing 'ware and magic on an Adept?

How do you go about being capable of small hacking jobs (i.e.: opening a locked door, disabling a camera, etc. with a DNI cable) without being a full blown Decker? Or how can you make a Decker really awesome at the physical stuff?

We'll be running from some Missions style stuff and I hear rumours that the cash payout on those is crap? How would that affect building a character assuming you would not really be able to buy any 'ware or costly gear post creation?