Johnny Cage
He makes this [being white] look easy.
Trevor from GTAV. He is a great example of 'product of my environment'. He grew up in the hicks area of California or whatever the GTA equivalent is called. If GTAV is an analog to reality then Trevor is an analog to the kind of life style many people in those secluded parts of California tend to live to varying degree. Meth is absolutely huge out in those parts of California areas. He lived in an echo chamber in which everyone lived a life like his thus he had very little to convince him there was a better life. In fact you can make analogs to children living in the inner city, but I doubt many have ever thought about such.
No he didn't. He grew up on the Canadian border. He has a long conversation about it with one of his friends and even retains a slight accent.
I always kind of laugh at this new-found notion of white characters being 'generic'. Like, moving a character's skin slider would automatically make them interesting.
For example, Ezio, white but charismatic and interesting. Connor, Native American but bland as fuck. Characters are interesting based on how well they are written, not their skin colour lol.
Connor was understated, not bland. His writing could have been better, but they cut a lot out of Assassin's Creed III. I do agree, however, that Ezio got a lot more development than Connor, although it kind of stalled in Brotherhood.