Describe the above poster's distant ancestor

A famous, well-known author who wrote despite the odds against him in WWII Austria.

A Samurai known for Master Swordsmanship.

A Mad Scientist from the early 20th century.

A traveller who explored the whole world, looking for the most interesting musical instruments on the globe and people to play them.

A reclusive author who lived in 19th-century Britain and was friends with Robert Louis Stevenson.

Every Historical Domain Character ever, even when that would make no sense.

Tropes Forever is a distant descendant of an Italian Renaissance puppeteer, one who was directly responsible for the Church banning puppetry because the morality plays of the time were becoming too comedic.

Pretty much the same, but in less danger.

A caricature artist who got a kick out of drawing figures with grotesque proportions.

A rabbit farmer in Australia.

Commercial fisher from a coastal village.

A Roman who was in charge of explaining the rules, and simply pointed out what they did wrong when someone broke the rules. (No offense)

A presumable Everyman-type of guy who lived in circa 17th-18th century, who compiled a bestiary and may have wanted to be an adventurer to find the described creatures.

edited 30th Jun '17 1:47:38 PM by ActualBeatrice

A Catholic priest of a church based somewhere in the Dutch East Indies.

a satirist from the Philippines circa 1861.

A professional comic writer who died in the 90's

A chocoholic who lived in France in the 19th century.

An Eccentric Millionaire who built a palace in the woods so he could practice his lifestyle in peace.

Edited by Spottedleaf on Jul 13th 2019 at 7:41:55 AM

A yuki-onna.

Composer's distant ancestor would be a man who looked up to Beethoven.

Edited by Routeferret on Aug 1st 2019 at 5:36:24 PM

Your great-great-great (etc.) grandfather violated one national peace agreement. His son violated two, his grandson violated three and so on and now you've violated 14. So you're just carrying on the family tradition.

They contributed a article to the Encyclopédie in 1764.

Edited by KeironCioran on Aug 2nd 2019 at 7:29:47 AM

A distant ancestor in China had a crush on all the beefy guys in the Three Kingdoms period.

Someone from ancient C19th China was a junk-boat sailor who happened to come across some ancient scroll of wisdom and he managed to learn all the ways of the scroll, then he passed down the scroll for many generations until modern times, where Jttwlover found it...

Edited by sabrina_diamond on Aug 5th 2019 at 1:46:20 AM

Someone who mined for diamonds, hence the family name.