as much as I hate the girls in this game, the artwork really works with the weird/male characters, I suddenyl got interested.

Kinda like a modern Darkstalkers, no?

well, I also disliked the hitpauses and combo mechanics, any chance of those changing ?

Scythana, Beowulf and Feng stand out for me. This is the feature that has been proposed for Feng in action btw ->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvvlOHPIw9I

The descriptions for the characters have all been updated; they're more detailed (and Mike's seething hatred for Leduc has been removed).
Alex Ahad Sketches
http://www.labzerogames.com/3rdcharacter/

Ms. Victoria's description said:

Gameplay Inspiration
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Guilty Gear, Psychic Force, Asuka 120% Burning Fest, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, One Must Fall 2097, Immaterial and Missing Power, Capcom vs SNK 2, Fatal Fury, Weaponlord, Killer Instinct, Mace: The Dark Age, Ballz, Martial Masters, and every other fighting game you have never heard of. Plus Dragon Claw.

We’e added more Patron Saints, so naturally people are wondering… where are all of new NPCs going to hang out?

The response has bee so overwhelming, we’re adding a second “Bonus” stage, the ballroom tentatively known as “The Glass Canopy.”

Check out the early concept of the stage here, and let’s fill it up!

Isaac is an archaeologist who has made unsettling discoveries below the Canopy Kingdom, only to have the evidence buried. Now hunted, Isaac has been literally buying time using shards of a unique type of Theonite he discovered in his search. The one other person who knows about the dig has been wrongfully imprisoned, but learning the truth would put her in greater danger.

Playstyle Speculation
Isaac’s time travel mechanics aren’t your standard slow/stop fare. For example, a double of Isaac could instantly appear from the future for a lunging punch, and a countdown begins above Isaac’s head. When the countdown reaches zero, Isaac pauses and prepares to travel back in time to deliver the punch. If he is hit during the preparation, the opponent regains any damage they took from the punch since it never happened. If his double is hit during the punch, Isaac himself takes damage when the countdown reaches zero.

Isaac may also have other time related attacks, such as the ability to convert successful special attacks into supers in the past after noticing they connected. He could possibly manipulate the timer, namely knocking off a few seconds to hasten that time-out.

Gameplay Inspiration
Doc Brown (Back to the Future series), Professor Badass (Kevin Stewart), Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones series), Neinhalt Sieger (Samurai Shodown series), Iron Man (Marvel vs. Capcom series), Dio Brando (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure), Sakuya (Tohou series), Makoto (Street Fighter III: Third Strike), one-frame DHCs (Marvel vs. Capcom 2), Shadow (One Must Fall 2097)

however Eliza's is specifically because of character design instead of how she's supposed to play, which is bad I guess.

Moonlight said:

Spent the afternoon trying to get decent at Peacock. She's way more complex than Filia (who I'd been practicing as for the weekend), but I love her design and her concept way too much not to use her. She's quite brilliant.

On a slightly different note, I've been going through story mode at a decent clip. I'd honestly be all in for a crowd-funding campaign to fluff it out a bit.
Well, you're likely to get three more character side-stories from the campaign.

The whole canon story is another matter, though... we'd probably need to overshoot the third character's story mode by quite a bit to make all of that work, because it's going to be a LOT of new writing and art.

Master Milk said:

I think I remember talk of having to rework how story mode worked, like the actual implementation, on the streams awhile ago.

We actually had a design and (very rough) code implementation of the canon story mode, but it wasn't developed further because we didn't have the time or money to actually make the content for it.