Okay I talked with the dm, and I am going to be playing a reborn hexblade warlock 2/ bard x with the smuggler background!! (Character is going to be a musician who died and did a battle of the bands against the grim reaper to come back to life and it... sort of worked. He is going to look like a skeleton, his instrument is going to be a guitar, and his eldritch blast will look like a spectral pistol, going full cowboy with this)
Any suggestions for how to build him? Any subclasses that might work better than lore?

Also welcome other Character ideas for future campaigns! I love the ideas y'all are throwing out!! (Now I really want to play an abjurer wizard at some point in the future!)