-"Warhammer"-esque slayer type. ie "Slayer of all Trolls" or something to that effect.
-Musketeer style duelist. Very jovial and atypical of the stereotype "gruff dwarf".
-Bow Ranger. Maybe skilled with traps. View everyone as "prey". Maybe go extreme and say he was raised by wolves or dark elves or something silly.
-Play an incompetent fighter. You come from a long line of great warriors and you suck at it, but your family forces you to be one anyway. You are part of a big extended family and cousins and other relatives constantly run into you and are always more successful than you.
-Crazed potion maker that looks like he's samples a littttlllle too much of his work.
You're the despair of your grocer parents, running around adventuring at all hours, hanging with rough types, wearing 'clang' (extraneous helmet-horns, chainmail and axes, occasional sauce-pan lids for emphasis).
Brewmaster/alchemist: You are traveling the world to find ingredients to make new ales and spirits. Maybe on a quest to find the divine equation to create the perfect beer or perhaps an alcoholic philosopher's stone.