Gentlemen of old, those chivalrous knights, would quite happily slaughter the women and children in a town, rape their way through the captured and sell off those remaining into slavery.
But he is mysterious, has an exotic accent, is chivalrous in an old-fashioned way while also being clearly a huge flirt, has a dark past he wrestles with and is in a Twilight-Before-Twilight sexless relationship with Rogue.