This is The Elder Scrolls, so any character imaginable can be the Dovahkiin, but if you have a certain race/class combo that you feel embodies the role best for you, what is it?

Mine is a Nord arcane warrior sort of build. Heavy armor, one handed, block, destruction for cloak spells and maybe a few casted fireballs or something, heavy restoration, enchanted weapons, a bit on conjuration, and obviously good archery for taking out dragons.

What about you?

Miraak, more or less (before I even knew he existed)

Conjuration, Illusion, Speechcraft and Shock Destruction. A few Wards and Utility spells, too. Controlls both mortals and Daedra through persuasion or magic. They bow to no one, and want the world for themselves. Their control over the voice is so strong that merely speaking the words of power with a firm voice is enough to release the shout at full power.

I see them as a Khajiit, but that's only because that's the race I picked for this build. (Otherwise, they don't really have a definitive race)
I'm the type that, when a hero is mentioned, a specific character that I've grown attached to comes into mind. Mention the CoC, I imagine a glamorous Breton Redhead aglow with magic; the Nerevarine--a Breton Knight, and so on.

EDIT: Spelling

My main Champion of Cyrodiil was an Altmer mage and my Nerevarine a Dunmer spellsword, my final canon Dragonborn is running between by Nord voice monk (shouts, unarmed, and restoration only) or my Altmer mage (master in all schools except restoration and destruction, master enchanter and alchemist) who desires power and knowledge above all others.

The other mains I am not considering because they get involved in the civil war politics which I feel the LDB will actually have no part in besides Season Unending.

My answer is incredibly uninspired but my archetypal Dragonborn is probably the promotional one Bethesda uses. Except in my head its a female, I'm not sure why. That said, my first DB was a dunmer assassin/thief skilled in dual wielding and archery wearing Nightingale armor.

http://www.gamesas.com/images/smilie/games/elderscrolls/elderscrolls-background3.jpg

http://www.elderstats.com/character/3827/

Same here.

Nord Battlemage

No matter my characters, judging by the games dialogue options for the LDB, this guy:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120921005747/elderscrolls/images/1/12/Ranmir.png

You and I share a similar mind it seems.

http://i.imgur.com/pNO1gcK.jpg, and http://i.imgur.com/Vp77hni.jpg

Savage Nords better recognize. Wake up and smell the carnage. Your hero is not what you want it to be. They never, ever are.

http://i.imgur.com/QI9QZTD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yIdhz13.jpg?1

I've returned twice to the Breton redhead with light armor and a huge sword, who uses mainly Restoration but also other kinds of magic as back-up, so I guess that's the one.

A kind, helpful person who doubts herself and has ended up joining the Companions and marrying Vilkas both times.

The GenericBorn, your average High School jock with animal skins and a Hollywood Viking Plastic Helmet.

Because playing Miraak is any more original right guys

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/439516/Avatar/1326397459091.jpg

It actually requires some thought. And a change of outfit. Much more believable then some bandit too. And offers a nice twist, rather than cliche.

It even has plot dynamics! Rather than, Nord-from-trailer, goody goody Talos, predictable hero, snooze-fest.

Betch please, you didn't change the outfit. You're still Miraak. You're still evil. you're still conquering the world with drkdeth evil stab murder blood darkness.

Also, I didn't post the image to suggest I wore the armor. You know better.

edit: also my character is the literal son of High Hrothgar.

Except, I don't murder everyone in sight. I shout them into sense.

Also, that is the Enantiomorph. LDB is Miraak. Miraak is the LDB. They are one and the same. The Rebel and King. It is Hermaues Mora who can actually differentiate the two. The mask hides the face. Because the face cannot be seen. For mortal-kind will never know. Who the Dragonborn really was.

Is there really any defining stereotype of anything in the freedom of an ES game. For me I do not follow or see the dragonborn as a nord from the trailers or some soul stealing madman of a deadric prince.

My character is Dovahkiin if I choose for them to be otherwise I do not think about it, at all.

Nope.

http://i.imgur.com/lx6b0Ra.jpg?1

If anyone is the role-model, for the arch-typical Dragonborn, it isn't GenericBorn. It's the one who started the whole thing. *Ahem* Miraak sets the tone, he's got first dibs after-all.

I made a character whose class I labeled as just Dragonborn, because I was trying to make him fit the archetype. He's a nord that focuses on melee combat, using an axe and shield, but also backing it up with a two-handed sword. He doesn't use magic, preferring instead to use his shouts, which he aids by wearing an Amulet of Talos, rather than relying on a more powerful, less symbolic necklace. He favors heavy armor, slowly climbing up the ranks of usefulness as he raises his smithing skill in time with his others, eventually settling upon Nordic Carved as he comes to Solstheim after besting Alduin. Unrelenting Force is his favored shout, due to its versatility and the imagery its gained as his first shout.

In matters relating to the Civil War, he remained neutral, preferring instead to focus on the threats that Alduin and Miraak posed. He joined no guilds, not even the Companions, because his loyalties remained with the people of Skyrim, as a whole. He spared Paarthurnax, seeing that, despite the ill deeds of his race, and his own, the dragon had potential to better the world.

Throughout all the trials and difficulties, he remained clearly benevolent and honorable. Only fitting for the great hero of Skyrim, no?

Well, if he did the Main Quest chances are he joined both the College of Winterhold and the Thieves Guild...

I have ways of avoiding such commitments.

Edit: In case it wasn't obvious enough, I am implying Nazi jokes.

Just to be clear.

Green Eyed Fire Haired Daughter of Kyne.

Altmer female warrior, very little magic with none at all for the first thirty levels, heavy armor two handed.

I like breaking stereotypes.

Nord warrior wearing heavy armor.