One of my current favorite games, Awesomenauts, is having a character creating contest! At this stage it's actually just character concept, role, and skills with no image submissions at all but I was having so much fun developing my character I made a bit of concept art for her anyway.

My thread about her on the awesomenauts forum is right here: http://www.awesomenauts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12029&p=120443#p120443
which has a description of her skills and stuff for anyone that actually plays the game.

I'll share the backstory here but I won't bother posting about skills for people who don't XD

"Kit Von Tail is a proud (if not somewhat snooty) lady space-fox from the race known as the fennix. She was born into a noble family on the prestigious and civilized planet Pompoise where she spent most of her childhood being carefully raised to be a dignified young lady capable of many fancy pants skills like throwing tea parties and playing the harpsichord. Quickly becoming bored with the aristocratic way of life, she left on a whim to join the order of the iron shield, a group of dignified warriors who developed a fighting style that revolved around defense and predicting your opponent's attacks. To everyone's surprise, she was able to apply the skills from her past tea party and harpsichord lessons to the art of battle and quickly surpassed even the mightiest guard. Having mastered the art of battle she was once again bored so she took funds from her family fortune and chartered the first 5 star space flight out of town. She joined the awesomenauts in an earnest attempt to entertain herself as well as show off her skills. "

She's basically a very defensive pushing character who has a counterattack. I'm not holding my breath on being a finalist but it sure would be cool XD