He's a shy albino master criminal who dotes on his loving old ma. She's a manipulative winged traffic cop who believes she is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian queen. They fight crime!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
How about recent characters?
An arrogant aeromancer with the people skills of a used-car salesman, torn between his quest to cure his ex-girlfriend of lycanthropy, and his frustrated desire to take revenge on all the villains who keep getting in his way.
An orphaned Dwarf, raised in the warrior ways of the gnolls, who, after his gnollish family was slain, taught himself the art of smithing so he could forge his own axe and armor, and fight to bring the Dwarves and gnolls together.