app for maskormenace
CAVEAT: okay, I apped Dorian at the end of s2. Canon has a tendency to retcon in things + reveal new information later. As such, this app is kind of out of date! I'm still keeping the old info here for posterity's sake, but I'm striking out the old information and replacing it with new info. I'm also going by the idea that everything's canon because why the fuck not, I play from Doctor Who, I'm used to canon making no sense.
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kates
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kates
IM / EMAIL: windywink
PLURK: allikateor @ plurk
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dorian Gray
CHARACTER AGE: VERY FUCKING OLD, at least100 150 by now. He looks around twenty or twenty-one, though.
SERIES: The Confessions of Dorian Gray
CHRONOLOGY:2007, before "The Fallen King of Britain" Canon updated to post "All Through the House"
CLASS: Actively trying not to give a shit about anything while having a good time? Neutral, mostly.
HOUSING:Shove him with whatever poor soul, it's not like he'll want to stay there for long. I'm also open for shoving him in a different city if you wish. Maurtia Falls government apartment comples
BACKGROUND: First, a caveat. In both the app itself and the linked background, WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, SUICIDE, MURDER, DUBIOUS CONSENT, TORTURE, DRUG USE, AND DORIAN BEING A MASSIVE SKEEVEBALL
The Confessions of Dorian Gray is an audio drama done by Big Finish Productions that answers a simple question: what would Dorian Gray have done if he didn't die? And then it proceeds to confuse everything by adding in vampires, Sherlock Holmes, possessed cocaine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, golems, and pretty much anything supernatural ever. Most people in CODG world don't know about the supernatural, as shown by the relatively normal Simon FREAKING OUT at the idea of possessed cocaine and immortality. Dorian is apparently an abnormality, as everything supernatural and ridiculous tends to happen to him.
Because there is no concise link to explaining the canon, here is a link to a bigass timeline I wrote out that summarizes Picture of Dorian Gray, Confessions of Dorian Gray, the crossover audio, and that one Bernice Summerfield audio he cameoed in.
PERSONALITY:
In many ways, Dorian has hardly changed from the same selfish, hedonist boy that he was after his picture was painted. He spends his time dancing and drinking, flitting between women and men for casual hookups. All of Dorian's relationships are casual. He's absolutely horrible at intimacy, outright ignoring people and scorning their suggestions whenever someone tries for something permanent, something lasting. Part of this is because his last attempt at a relationship went tits up, but another part of this is Dorian's not good at commitment. He lives in the here and now and the here and now isn't very good for the long-term. Because of this living in the now mentality, Dorian's a massive hypocrite. He complains about how boring and how dull his immortal life can be, but then absolutely jumps ship and thinks that life is grand once he spots a potential screw.
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 happy, instead of blithely dancing through life. Of course, because this is Dorian Gray, it's not going to be happy. Toby's death absolutely wrecks Dorian, driving him into a suicidal depression. Toby continues to color Dorian's decisions post the 1980s, and is never too far from his mind.
Dorian driving away the people he loves is another running theme of the show. Whoops. He's not very good at seeing past himself. In relationships, Dorian always comes first, and often he'll do something that's good for himself but not take into account at ALL the feelings of others in the room...most notably torturing Brodie (who had possessed his body) while James (his former friend and quite possibly a lover) was in the room. Dorian mentions that he has a pit of 'loss and longing' where his soul should be, and oftentimes he is bitterly nostalgic. At this point in his life, he spends a lot of time visiting old friends, staring at his portrait, visiting places he knew. He's very blatant in his nostalgia, practically reveling in it. Dorian himself has stated that he's not subtle, something that shows in his methods. During body-swapping shenanigans, his idea of getting his body back is yelling at it and chasing it down. His idea of 'escaping police officers' is jumping out of windows. Like half the people he teams up with in the audios eventually learn of his immortality.
After a hundred or so years on Earth, Dorian is a massive cynic. He believes that people don't change: if they're bad and troublesome when they're young, then they'll still be the same when they're older. He's very pessimistic about the human condition--finding someone who isn't completely horrible and would essentially stand by him comes as a massive shock to Dorian. Despite his cynical nature, Dorian has a strange relationship with redemption. Every now and then, when the world bears down on him, when he is reminded of just how horrible a person he is and just how much of a massive shithead he is. Then, he'll make a stab at redemption, he'll make a stab at being a good person. One of the more notable examples is Dorian literally making a stab at redemption, as he attacks his own portrait in order to save the soul of Constance Harker. These attempts at redemption never stick and they only come when Dorian has realized that he's truly fucked up. Most of the time, when confronted with his past or confronted with how horrible he is, Dorian reacts with anger and denial. He only tells people about his past or about his true nature when he's fucked up so badly that it's the only option.
He also has a strange relationship with immortality. While he thought it was a great idea at first, later in life Dorian has a mixed relationship with his power. He certainly enjoys his power and the benefits it has, trying multiple types of drug, alcohol, etc. as well as taking advantage of his immortality to travel and see the world. However, he's reckless with it, willing to put himself in danger when he thinks that he can get out of it in one piece. Twice in the series he puts himself in danger against something that attacks via the soul, knowing full well that he doesn't have one--and multiple times he takes advantage of the fact that he can't die in order to get what he wants, putting himself through unbearable pain in the process.
POWER:
Painting 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.
EDIT: 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 factor: 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).It's doubtful that Dorian can regrow limbs, but he can certainly heal from burns, scratches, etc. It 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).
EDIT: We not know how Dorian can take drowning! He can drown, but once he gets out of the water or the water recedes, his body just sort of heals back to normal. Dorian can regrow organs (heart, appendix) and probably can regrow limbs as well. In canon, any organs that are removed from his body keep growing, that's a power aspect that's been nullified in-game.
He can be affected by drugs and alcohol (ranging from cocaine to poison). He can get hungover but not a withdrawal.
Enhanced reflexes: A noncanon power. Dorian jumps out of windows a lot. Like, his default response to "oh shit, there's trouble coming here" is to jump out a window. As such, he's getting super reflexes which basically means that he always lands on his feet when he falls. Obviously, this won't work if he was dropped out of a plane, but he'll always land on his feet if he falls five stories (sixty feet) or less. He's also marginally better at dodging things thrown at him--he's no Spider-Man or Daredevil, but he can at least dodge footballs to the face.
this has since been replaced by Object Dating, the ability to tell how old an object is by touch.
nope, just has immortality now
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kates
AGE: 23
JOURNAL:
katesIM / EMAIL: windywink
PLURK: allikateor @ plurk
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dorian Gray
CHARACTER AGE: VERY FUCKING OLD, at least
SERIES: The Confessions of Dorian Gray
CHRONOLOGY:
CLASS: Actively trying not to give a shit about anything while having a good time? Neutral, mostly.
HOUSING:
BACKGROUND: First, a caveat. In both the app itself and the linked background, WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, SUICIDE, MURDER, DUBIOUS CONSENT, TORTURE, DRUG USE, AND DORIAN BEING A MASSIVE SKEEVEBALL
The Confessions of Dorian Gray is an audio drama done by Big Finish Productions that answers a simple question: what would Dorian Gray have done if he didn't die? And then it proceeds to confuse everything by adding in vampires, Sherlock Holmes, possessed cocaine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, golems, and pretty much anything supernatural ever. Most people in CODG world don't know about the supernatural, as shown by the relatively normal Simon FREAKING OUT at the idea of possessed cocaine and immortality. Dorian is apparently an abnormality, as everything supernatural and ridiculous tends to happen to him.
Because there is no concise link to explaining the canon, here is a link to a bigass timeline I wrote out that summarizes Picture of Dorian Gray, Confessions of Dorian Gray, the crossover audio, and that one Bernice Summerfield audio he cameoed in.
PERSONALITY:
ISADORA: Seeing you tonight, you're just the same, smug, selfish boy you always were. You don't deny it?
DORIAN: I wouldn't dream of it.
DORIAN: I wouldn't dream of it.
In many ways, Dorian has hardly changed from the same selfish, hedonist boy that he was after his picture was painted. He spends his time dancing and drinking, flitting between women and men for casual hookups. All of Dorian's relationships are casual. He's absolutely horrible at intimacy, outright ignoring people and scorning their suggestions whenever someone tries for something permanent, something lasting. Part of this is because his last attempt at a relationship went tits up, but another part of this is Dorian's not good at commitment. He lives in the here and now and the here and now isn't very good for the long-term. Because of this living in the now mentality, Dorian's a massive hypocrite. He complains about how boring and how dull his immortal life can be, but then absolutely jumps ship and thinks that life is grand once he spots a potential screw.
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 happy, instead of blithely dancing through life. Of course, because this is Dorian Gray, it's not going to be happy. Toby's death absolutely wrecks Dorian, driving him into a suicidal depression. Toby continues to color Dorian's decisions post the 1980s, and is never too far from his mind.
Dorian driving away the people he loves is another running theme of the show. Whoops. He's not very good at seeing past himself. In relationships, Dorian always comes first, and often he'll do something that's good for himself but not take into account at ALL the feelings of others in the room...most notably torturing Brodie (who had possessed his body) while James (his former friend and quite possibly a lover) was in the room. Dorian mentions that he has a pit of 'loss and longing' where his soul should be, and oftentimes he is bitterly nostalgic. At this point in his life, he spends a lot of time visiting old friends, staring at his portrait, visiting places he knew. He's very blatant in his nostalgia, practically reveling in it. Dorian himself has stated that he's not subtle, something that shows in his methods. During body-swapping shenanigans, his idea of getting his body back is yelling at it and chasing it down. His idea of 'escaping police officers' is jumping out of windows. Like half the people he teams up with in the audios eventually learn of his immortality.
After a hundred or so years on Earth, Dorian is a massive cynic. He believes that people don't change: if they're bad and troublesome when they're young, then they'll still be the same when they're older. He's very pessimistic about the human condition--finding someone who isn't completely horrible and would essentially stand by him comes as a massive shock to Dorian. Despite his cynical nature, Dorian has a strange relationship with redemption. Every now and then, when the world bears down on him, when he is reminded of just how horrible a person he is and just how much of a massive shithead he is. Then, he'll make a stab at redemption, he'll make a stab at being a good person. One of the more notable examples is Dorian literally making a stab at redemption, as he attacks his own portrait in order to save the soul of Constance Harker. These attempts at redemption never stick and they only come when Dorian has realized that he's truly fucked up. Most of the time, when confronted with his past or confronted with how horrible he is, Dorian reacts with anger and denial. He only tells people about his past or about his true nature when he's fucked up so badly that it's the only option.
He also has a strange relationship with immortality. While he thought it was a great idea at first, later in life Dorian has a mixed relationship with his power. He certainly enjoys his power and the benefits it has, trying multiple types of drug, alcohol, etc. as well as taking advantage of his immortality to travel and see the world. However, he's reckless with it, willing to put himself in danger when he thinks that he can get out of it in one piece. Twice in the series he puts himself in danger against something that attacks via the soul, knowing full well that he doesn't have one--and multiple times he takes advantage of the fact that he can't die in order to get what he wants, putting himself through unbearable pain in the process.
POWER:
Painting 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.
EDIT: 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 factor: 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).
EDIT: We not know how Dorian can take drowning! He can drown, but once he gets out of the water or the water recedes, his body just sort of heals back to normal. Dorian can regrow organs (heart, appendix) and probably can regrow limbs as well. In canon, any organs that are removed from his body keep growing, that's a power aspect that's been nullified in-game.
He can be affected by drugs and alcohol (ranging from cocaine to poison). He can get hungover but not a withdrawal.
nope, just has immortality now