I've always played a tank in fantasy games. In WoW I played a protection warrior/raid tank (Orc warrior forever! ) for years and had a protection paladin tank as an alt character once Lich King came out and made pallys good tanks finally. I briefly went back to WoW for a bit during Cataclysm and made a bear druid...
So, I seem to keep to that theme in Skyrim as I feel most at home as an Orc in heavy armor with a shield and 1-hander. I recently did discover the joys of smashing things with 2-handers though, so I've been toying around with that, but my heart will always be with shield bash.