Roman

Roman was raised by a church orphanage. Never a popular child, being tiny, barely able to survive, and Gifted, Roman was only saved from potentially murderous bullying by the kindness of the priests, even though they never were fond of the child either. The priests can only have assumed he was cursed by God. Roman started life miserable... but as he grew older, perhaps as a survival mechanism, he stopped caring. Everything would turn out well; it HAD to, else God was not fair, and God had to be fair. One day, the cheerful young child, while hiding from the bigger boys, found a little stoat in the cellars, and he made friends, feeding it every day, until one day a bully found where Roman was hiding, and forbidden from harming the child by the priests, he sadistically killed the stoat. Roman kept the skin as a reminder of his first friend, and found his ability to transform into the animal useful to hide from the bullies in his orphanage.

A quick one, some of the virtues and flaws are more for the feel of the character instead of developing his story. Still, I always wanted to make a dwarf character who was more than just a dwarf-blooded. Instead, we have a were-stoat who wants to explore the world is quite certain everything will turn out fine!