Just looking for some clarity. If I do NOT have the “Click to use the heroes skins from the Digital Deluxe Edition” option selected to use the original red hero ship skin as opposed to the Pathfinder red and white skin, will the Digital Deluxe heroes “Brunem Berto-Lancellum” and “Kinete Muldaur” still appear in the game if I own the Digital Deluxe version?

The Heroes Kinete Muldaur and Brunem Berto-Lancellum should be automatically included into the game regardless as to whether or not the pathfinder's hero ship skin is activated. 

The ship skin option is purely for the shiny white/red/gold pathfinder skins (to replace the generic red ones) and its activation or deactivation won't affect other parts of the game.  

Awesome. Cheers for the response :)

Aye yea