Merits: Ambidextrous -1pt
Adaptable Nature -2pts
Common Sense -1pt
Concentration - 1pt
Danger Sense - 2pts
Good Night Vision -2pts
Medium -2pts
No Aura -3pts
Pain Tolerance -2pts
Flaws: Bard's Tongue - 1pt
Curiosity -2pts
Eccentric Dresser -2pts
Insensitive -1pt
Stubborn -2pts
Unlucky -4pts
Derangement: Chronic Depression -3pts
Insomniac -2pts
Medicated -2pts
Bound -1pt
Unsettling Effect -1pt
Distinguishing Characteristic -2pts
Errant Mind -1pt
Demon Hounded -4pt
Enemy (Via his Mother)-2pts
Infamous Family (in Occult Circles in New
England) -1pt
Persistent Parent -1 pt
Specialties: Stealth: Into
the Crowd
Brawl: Dirty Fighting
Crafts: Drawing/Painting Wits: Under Pressure
Inventory: Sketchbook (leatherbound),
zip-up pencil case (contains 12 graphite
pencils, 1 kneaded eraser, 1 steel
sharpener), cellphone (Samsung J7), large
leather messenger bag, very not-good
spellbook (skinbound), pocket knife, a
journal, a to-go magic kit (contains:
salt, rosemary, several miniature
emergency candles and parchment scraps
with sigils on them), a pack of clove
cigarettes, several pony tail holders,
black zippo lighter
Vehicles: 1997 Mazda MX-5
Real Estate: Currently renting the attic room
of a house owned by Rowan & Sian.
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Age: 23
Apparent Age: N/A
Date of Birth: December 12th
1997
RIP: N/A
Hair: black
Eyes: hazel green
Race: white
Nationality: English
Height: 6'4
Weight: IDK he's skinny.
Gender: Cis Man Distinguishing Characteristics: He
has a bunch of occult tattoos on his arms
and in various other places on his body.
Plus a bunch of facial tattoos. Personality: Dorian is
sarcastic, somewhat rude and very
introverted. He doesn't do well
interacting with living humans (or
anyone, really) and has a tendency to be
incredibly insensitive -- almost entirely
without meaning to be. His depression
makes it difficult for him to
Goals: Figure out WTF is
going on with the supernatural in Arkham,
get free from his mother's influence,
break the rest of the contracts that he's
under because of her.
Backstory:
Dorian
Keye was born in mid-December of 1997 in Morden,
England to Marilyn and Edmund Keye -- Marilyn
being a parapsychologist and occultist of some
note while Edmund was working as an archival
assistant with the British History Museum. Much
of Marilyn’s work had her traveling around
England, sometimes even leaving the country --
usually with Dorian in tow, despite the dangers
of her work -- with Ed staying behind in London
where he continued his own work.
The
First Encounter
It’s entirely likely that Dorian had
encounters with the paranormal before the
incident that occured in October of 2003, but
that was the first he can remember…. Dorian
and his mother were staying at a supposedly
haunted inn in a small village located in the
Liguria region of Italy. Whilst Dorian was asleep
in their fourth floor room, Marlilyn set to work
gathering information about the spirit and trying
to force it into manifesting. Unfortunately for
both of them, the spirit did not manifest where
Marilyn was but instead, in the room with Dorian.
He can still clearly recall being woken suddenly
by the feeling of cold hands wrapping around his
ankles and tearing him from his bed -- throwing
him against the plaster wall in a single gesture,
breaking his left arm. It took his mother several
minutes to get to her son in the room three
floors above her, finding the six year old held
to the wall by his throat by the enraged spectre.
He can’t recall how she saved him, only that
she somehow did and he managed to survive this
encounter.
Naturally, this encounter was
pretty traumatizing for Dorian, but it also
awakened an obsession with the occult that still
remains to this day. Through the rest of his
childhood, he would end up helping his mother
with her research, going with her on trips,
helping her look through old manuscripts and
etc.,
By the age of thirteen, Dorian
was fully wrapped up in the world of the
Supernatural -- though he was admittedly more
experienced in the "spiritual" side of
things, being somewhat un-educated when it came
to vampires, werewolves and etc., (though he knew
vaguely of their existence, they simply didn't
really concern him). It was at this age that he
started to develop supernatural abilities of his
own -- namely, mediumship and psychommetry. They
weren't things that he sought out but things that
developed naturally for him. They did, however,
really come in handy for his mother's research.
Unbeknownst to Dorian (sort
of), his mother was planning on using him to
bolster her own supernatural power and used him
as collateral in several deals made with various
demons and powerful supernatural entities. While
some of these required Dorian's
"consent", she was able to obtain it
via tricking him into signing contracts without
telling him what it was since he was, at that
point, unfailingly trusting of his mother (the
poor idiot).
Most of his teen years were
largely uneventful, save for the move to New
England when Dorian was thirteen, following the
disappearance (death?) of his father. Dorian
hadn't been particularly close to the man but it
still had a profound impact on his psyche and
along with everything else, thirteen was when
Dorian's chronic depression would start to
manifest.
In addition to his love
of/obsession with the occult, Dorian was deeply
invested in the arts -- spending any free time he
had sketching and painting anything that came to
mind -- which meant he drew a lot of particularly
disturbing/upsetting pieces since he was so
heavily involved with the supernatural. He also
had a tendency to draw the spirits that he
encountered/saw on a regular basis.
