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DORIAN GRAY because his app is two years and three seasons out of date

PERSONALITY In many ways, Dorian has hardly changed from the same selfish, hedonist boy that he was after his picture was painted. He's an asshole. He puts himself first 100% of the time. He doesn't really care about dumping people like yesterday's news if they don't interest him. He's an alcoholic drug-addict who used to go from casual fling to casual fling, caring nothing about those he left behind (he's trying monogamy now. It's a tough one). He doesn't shy away from manipulation in order to get what he wants. He's also totally murdered a few people. So yeah! He's a dick! Aside from that, he's an aesthetic and a massive hedonist. He shows an appreciation for class, for wordplay, for people who know how to speak, dress and act. It's telling that a lot of Dorian's friends he meets at parties or at artistic events: he likes people who likes things he likes. Most of the people he finds himself drawn to, he finds 'interesting' in some intellectual or artistic regard, whether it's playing a weeks-long chess game, being a singer at a club, or Oscar Wilde himself. As for others, he tends to be absolutely horrible to 'uninteresting' people. Dorian's a complete ass to a security guard attempting to befriend him and is routinely condescending to police officers. The only time he's relatively decent to the 'uninteresting' is when they have something he wants, like information or status. Dorian only tolerates his banker friends because they're the top of society and they're high class--he personally finds some of them absolutely repulsive and dull. He's not used to having to fight for things. Dorian's used to having life hand things to him on a silver platter. Multiple people comment on how Dorian just expects good things to fall in his lap and how he's annoyed when they don't. However, that doesn't mean he's lazy. He's had multiple jobs at multiple points in the series and is implied to be good at some of them. Dorian's even taken up relatively unglamorous (in his eyes) jobs in order to help support his lifestyle--most notably, he was an investment banker. When he sees something he wants and he doesn't get it, Dorian will go full tilt stubbornness until he gets what he wants. He'll try and sugarcoat it with the guise of 'friendship' or anything else, just to get what he wants. This is most notably in the case of Tobias Matthews, possibly the first person in ages who Dorian truly loves. Dorian pursues Toby, bothering him at a party, bothering him after they first meet, continuing to bother Toby mostly because he finds Toby interesting but Toby won't give him the time of day. Toby deserves his own paragraph because partly because of this tete a tete, Toby and Dorian form a relationship, based on the fact that they are both immortal and both starved for company. It's one of the few times in canon that we see Dorian truly happy, instead of blithely dancing through life. His happy relationship with Toby is literally his heart's desire, which comes to BITE HIM RIGHT BACK IN THE ASS LATER when surprise, Dorian accidentally gets Toby dead, due to complicated matters involving tarot cards, his soul, Toby's lack of a soul, and Satan. - self-loathing issues out the whoa

ABOUT /*-------TEXT HERE-------*/ APPEARANCE /*-------TEXT HERE-------*/ ABILITIES PANTING BASED IMMORTALITY: Dorian is essentially immortal. He can certainly feel pain, he just can't die. His immortality is conditional only as long as his painting remains in one piece. If the painting is torn/stabbed/destroyed/has massive damage inflicted on it, then Dorian essentially dies. The painting must be utterly destroyed in order to kill Dorian, just a branding or a scorch mark won't be enough to do it. Brands or scorch marks on the paintings transfer themselves to Dorian--though it's implied that if he restores the painting, it restores his skin (as nobody mentions the brand in later stories). An interesting thing about his immortality is that Dorian essentially has no soul now--have fun with that, angels. This also means that he'll get ported in with his uglyass portrait. Have fun looking at it, housemates. The portrait gains some form of sentience in canon, when Victoria Lowell uses a bloodstone to bring it back to life. Ingame, the sentience is removed. HEALING: There's a healing factor in the immortality as well: Dorian survives when a German bomb falls on him. The healing factor happens instantly--when a prostitute scratches his face, it heals up instantly (and unfortunately in plain view of others). Likewise, when he got his heart ripped out, he healed instantly. Dorian can regrow limbs and organs, as well as heal from burns, scratches, etc. (In canon, any organs that are removed from his body keep growing, that's a power aspect that's been nullified in-game.) Dorian's healing also extends to gas-based attacks. While Dorian can heal from mustard gas, it certainly hurts, and he blacks out for hours after he "dies." It's not known how Dorian's healing factor would take drowning or a lack of air (but it certainly won't be pleasant). He can drown, but once he gets out of the water or the water recedes, his body just sort of heals back to normal. He can be affected by drugs and alcohol (ranging from cocaine to poison). He can get hungover but it seems like he doesn't suffer the effects of withdrawal from drugs.

BASICS NAME: Name CANON: Canon CANON POINT: Canon Point AGE: Age STATUS: Relationship Status OCCUPATION: Occupation RESIDENCE: Residence OOC NAME: Name JOURNAL: journal PLURK: plurk

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