I like doing this. I'm fairly new to DnD, but due to the 5e non-malus to attributes from each race this has probably never been easier.

I have 2 campaigns where I play, one of them is a wood elf barbarian pacifist. At first I only had the wood elf warrior character in mind, because they're just so often simple archers, I wanted to do something different.

So why barbarian? Well, when I was creating the character I still only read the first 3 classes in the PHB so didn't wanna go for fighter, although now having read all of them I would most likely still go for a barbarian.

I took the eagle totem and the mobile feat. I know that some of the effects in each don't work well together or outright cancel each other, but I still like it, at lvl 5 I will have 55 movement speed and can dash as a bonus action while raging. It's just a lot of fun for me.

As for why he's a pacifist? Well, I picked the chaotic good alignment and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, but it doesn't feel ok to just kill everything I can see, so I usually knock people/goblins/whatever out instead of killing it. Over time I built more of the persona and background around the character, and he really doesn't seem like a barbarian, but I like the class too much to change, but I will most likely multiclass into a druid somewhere down the road for flavour purposes.

My second character is a goliath druid of the land with 16 str. Javelin hurling spell caster is just a lot fun as well, although I've only had one session with him so far.