Dorian Gray

Real Name: Dorian Gray

Identity/Class: Human altered by magic

Occupation: Dilettante

Affiliations: None known

Enemies: None known

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: None known

Base of Operations: England

First Appearance: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde

Powers/Abilities: So long as the picture is intact Dorian does not age nor can any injury affect him - instead all infirmities are passed on to it.

History: Dorian Gray is an orphaned boy who is the heir to a great fortune. Basil Hallward paints his portrait, and Dorian decleares that he would give his soul if he were always to be young and the painting instead would grow old. Dorian leaves his fiancée - the actress Sibyl Vane - because through a single bad performance he claims that she has ‘killed’ his love. She kills herself with poison and Dorian is unaffected. So begins the tale of the boy’s descent into low society in London while still giving dinners and musicals for high society. He is inspired by two things: the book Lord Henry sends him that seems to predict his own life in dissecting every virtue and every sin from the past; and secondly the picture of himself which grows steadily older and more vicious looking compared to his own mirror image which remains young. Fanatical about the portrait, he is driven to murder and deception. As others are drawn into this web of evil Dorian himself longs to return to innocence but his method is horrific and tragic.

Comments: Created by Oscar Wilde.

Dorian Gray is a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the movie version of that Alan Moore comic.

CLARIFICATIONS: None

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