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I'm going to be a lich.
I get the keep my mind and memories, so I'm not some dumb zombie going babbling "brrrrlll" here and there, seeking brains. I'm fairly powerful so I can pull out my own weight, enough to become the necromancer's right arm. And if it comes to the worst I can always backstab the necromancer and become the boss, as typically lichs have their own necromancy.
Objectively the best answer. Plus, as long as you hide your phylactery well, there's not much the necromancer can do to keep you in line.
I'd expect my phylactery to be with the necromancer at the start, for exactly this reason. So I think that a lot of my job in my first days [years?] as an undead is to get their trust so I can: replace my phylactery with a copy, hide the original, and proclaim my independence.
You know you have to feed a soul to your phylactery like every few days. Who’s gonna get got?
Do souls have sizes, like "you need at least the soul of a medium sized dog or pig"?
Because if every soul is worth equally much, just set an anthill on fire and be done for the foreseeable future.
Of course, as your next course of action, you should make up for the damage done to your local eco system, but that should be doable within the powers and lifespan of a lich.
A vampire. Since it’s a necromancer raising me, instead of another vampire, I won’t be enthralled and will have free will.
Then there’s all the wonderful abilities and the fact that I’ll still look good for an undead (it’s a pretty movie vampire, not one of those creepy ones)
SPOOKY SKELLY BOI
That appears to send shivers down my spine.
That has made me shake and shudder in surprise.
Wasn't that how Mitch McConnell was born?
He's more of a turtle golem.
He's a master of disguise
Whatever type Jesus was. Folks seem to like that kind of undead.
Undead Deity is in fact a great answer to the question.
So any animal is fair game? In which case, dodo. You MFs ate us into oblivion, I'm gonna come back with species worth of pent up rage and an undead thirst for blood.
Edit: in retrospect I now realise a dodo would be super easy to send back to the underworld :-(. I'm gonna be... checks deadliest thing notes, a car.
Blue whale.
"oh no, not again"
I know it's probably too on brand, but maybe some kind of monstrous wolf hell beast thing. Maybe with a skull as a head and dripping flesh.
If I'm going to be a mindless killing machine, may as well have some fun with it. Better than being a slow shambling skeleton or zombie at any rate.
Lich would be fun
Lich. The power that other famous examples like Darth Cheney and Henry Kissinger had is just too tempting.
I'll be that guy, and say abomination. The more twisted the better. Like a mouth in my belly, extra arm on my back kind of twisted. I'll learn to enjoy striking terror in my victims' hearts. Afterlife will be dope.
Something non-sentient please, I was enjoying nonexistence
A capybara in a remote location that won't see human development within my new lifetime. Just chillin' with my interspecies homies.
I'm pretty lazy, so... spectre. Having no body to haul around will make things easier.
If you disregard supernatural powers of undead, it's different depending on who you ask anyway, I'd go with a skeleton.
Dracolich
Ghost. Flying, intangibility, spooky telekinesis ... Sounds great.
The painkiller thing where you can tear off your head and throw it at someone and then still control it well enough to bite them
I'd come back as a wraith, preferably shadow of mordor / war style with domination powers.
Otherwise, a lich assuming I could have lich magic and evolve
Wraith, so that I can go through walls, carry a big-ass scythe, and upgrade from generating Fear to generating Terror, so I can exploit that juicy morale penalty even if the enemy unit is immune to Fear.
Arch lich?
Probably like a skunk or something idk.
Darksign'd undead. Sure I'll hollow out eventually, but for now lets do some jolly co-operation.
Hmmm,an undead deity, undead tarrasque, or, the pact to summon me would be the life of the summoner and he summons me as his undead self.
I like all of these options
I'd go as more-or-less human ala the movie Warm Bodies. Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I can't have a nice romantic fling!