Cyrano

Throughout the course of the Charmed series, Cyrano has come up two times; first when Jason Dean uses the nickname Cyrano73 while messaging Phoebe Halliwell in the season 5 episode Lucky Charmed. The second time it comes up is when Drake dè Mon becomes Cyrano in the season 7 episode Carpe Demon.

Cyrano was a noble, swashbuckling who, despite his many gifts, felt that no woman ccould ever love him because he had an enormous nose. Secretly in love with the lovely Roxanne, Cyrano agreed to help his inarticulate rival, Christian, win her heart by allowing him to present Cyrano's love poems, speeches, and letters as his own work. Eventually Christian recognized that Roxanne loved him for Cyrano's qualities, not his own, and he askd Cyrano to confess his identity to Roxanne; Christian then went off to a battle that proved fatal. Cyrano remained silent about his own part in Roxanne's courtship. As he was dying years later, he visited Roxanne and recited one of the love letters. Roxanne realized that it was Cyrano she loved, and he died content.