Garrett (Quest for Camelot)

Garrett is the deuteragonist of Warner Brothers' 1998 animated feature film . He spends most of his appearances blind.
He was voiced by Cary Elwes (who also portrayed Westley) with Bryan White doing his singing voice.
==Biography==
Garrett worked in King Arthur's stable when he was younger, learning fighting skills from the knights and dreaming of becoming one himself. But when an accident involving a hay fire blinded him, he thought that he would not be able to become a knight. However, one knight named Sir Lionel still had faith in Garret and would teach him how to fight. After Sir Lionel died protecting King Arthur from an evil knight named Sir Ruber, Garret became solitary, jaded, and painfully independent and moved to the Forbidden Forest. He keeps to the Forbidden Forest with his pet silver-winged falcon Ayden. His blindness was an obstacle, naturally, but he learned to use his instincts and fight what he couldn't see, rather than fear it, using Ayden as his eyes. The forest became part of him, and he is part of it.
Ten years after his accident, Garret's solitary existence is interrupted by Sir Lionel's idealistic and feisty daughter Kayley, who completely throws Garret for a loop. When Garret can't shake her, he agrees to help her, even if it means going back to Camelot, the place he hoped he would never return to, with all its painful memories. He has to learn to trust and rely on others, something he had conditioned himself against since his embittering experience in Camelot. When he begins to fall for Kayley, it complicates things as he is sure his blindness and the opinions of the knights in Camelot will be an obstacle to their relationship. However, he and Kayley return to Camelot and help return Excalibur to King Arthur and defeat Ruber.
On their wedding day, King Arthur makes Garret and Kayley both Knights of the Round Table.
==Personality==
Garrett is a very skilled young man in the Forbidden Forest with the assistance from Ayden, but initially comes across as being short-tempered and something of a loner, with little patience for people he views as being clumsy or weak. He is also somewhat cynical and pessimistic. However, Garrett becomes more open and positive as the film progresses, mostly due to Kayley's influence. Garrett apparently has low self-esteem, viewing himself as being "lesser" than most men due to his blindness. Despite his gruff manner, Garrett is brave and noble, risking his own life on a number of occasions to help others or fight for a cause he believes in. He was willing to retrieve Excalibur, despite his dislike of Camelot, and embodied many of the ideals and values that Camelot was built around. Like Kayley, he dreamed of becoming a knight and was thrilled when this dream finally came true. Garrett tends to be cautious and thinks before he acts, a trait that has no doubt saved his life many times in the Forbidden Forest. He is also quick-witted and possesses a somewhat dry sense of humor.
==Trivia==
*Garrett appears to be a cross between Gareth (would-be knight, the name) and Lucius (blind loner) from the 1976 novel The King's Damosel (which Quest for Camelot is loosely based on).
*He and Kayley's duet, "Looking Through Your Eyes" is very similar to Aladdin and Jasmine's duet, "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin.
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