Quiz - Identify the character

[EternalOptimist]

This dashing man, adriot with a rapier, went missing as a boy and broke a girl's heart in two. Years later, they meet under difficult circumstances, and try to rekindle their relationship. However, the woman is taken by another, and so ensues a battle of wits and blade to save the girl from a fatal bethrothal.

Luke Skywalker

[Board Game Geek]

Not Luke Skywalker.

Wesley from The Princess Bride

[Platypus]

yay

Damn you, son of Zorro !

[threaded]

Reepicheep

So I was right when I said AtW.

[DaveB]

A Welsh man born in Denbigh. His parents were unmarried and his father aledgedly an alchoholic.

At the age of 18 he made passage for the USA, jumping ship in New Orleans.
He took part in the Civil war, becoming a serial deserter on both sides.

Following the war he became a journalist and one of his first assignments was to lead a disasterous expedition to explore the Ottoman Empire.

Following this he was retained as a correspondant covering the work of the Indian Peace Commission, before being retained full time as a correspondant for the New York Herald. It was this job that would lead directly to the African expedition for which he would become most famous.

[oracleslave]

A Welsh man born in Denbigh. His parents were unmarried and his father aledgedly an alchoholic.

At the age of 18 he made passage for the USA, jumping ship in New Orleans.
He took part in the Civil war, becoming a serial deserter on both sides.

Following the war he became a journalist and one of his first assignments was to lead a disasterous expedition to explore the Ottoman Empire.

Following this he was retained as a correspondant covering the work of the Indian Peace Commission, before being retained full time as a correspondant for the New York Herald. It was this job that would lead directly to the African expedition for which he would become most famous.

Dr Livingstone I presume?

[DaveB]

Dr Livingstone I presume?

No, Not Livingstone.

[oracleslave]

No, Not Livingstone.

[EternalOptimist]

No, Not Livingstone.

Is it Stanley then ?

[HairyArsedBloke]

So I was right when I said AtW.

Ahem, linky