Someone on PC please do this for me, if you don't mind:

1. What do the guards (both male and female) look like without armor? Are they randomized?
2. Before character creation, what does our character look like? The Nord in the rags?

Also, killing NPC's renders them dead forever (except Essential ones). Does killing gourds respawn newer guards, or not?

1. Couldnt you just loot the armor from guards and take a look? If im not wrong, the last i played (about a year ago) the guards had identical faces.
2. Not sure.

Guards do respawn after a while, though they say some funny things like "I don't want to be hurt again!" as if they REALLY respawned from the same character or something. Logically thats not supposed to happen but i suppose its a little joke.

Randomized....