It was Halloween 2008, my favorite holiday, when I became king of kings. The crowd confused me with Inigo Montoya (Princes Bride) who quotes " Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." I'm not really sure why that movie had such a great impact in American culture. For me it was just another comical film.
I really like to say that my character was based of an imaginary person I though of. It would have been the semi-bastard child of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his muse, the composer Richard Wagner. I would have been conceived in King Ludwig's castle, Chateu de Neuschwanstein, also know as the inspiration of Disneyland's castle of magic and happiness. I'm sure you recognize the picture from your old history textbooks: 

Ludwig is best known as an eccentric whose legacy is intertwined with the history of art and architecture, as he commissioned the construction of several extravagant fantasy castles.
I really wish I had lived in the times of the king of Bavaria...somewhere around the 1880's.
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