Dorian Crawford

Appearance Description


Dorian is a white, British, strikingly handsome young man. The first thing people tend to notice about him is his eyes. He has central heterochromia – dark, blue green irises with specks of gold at the center. They’re framed with thick eyelashes, giving him an almost feminine look. The rest of his face happens to be very appealing as well. He has short, lightly styled dirty blonde hair, thick, expressive eyebrows, a good jawline, and an aquiline nose. He has medium set pink lips, almost always set in an amused smile. He can grow a beard, and when he does, he looks much older and more mature.

Dorian is tall, standing at 6’2”ft, with a perfect, muscular body. He’s a model, so he’s very particular about diet and exercise. He works out thrice a week to look and feel good. Despite being a gym rat and a workaholic, Dorian doesn’t really put any real strain on his body, so his skin is a soft, pinkish white.

He has a smooth, medium-range voice – high enough to be full of life, low enough to be firm and seductive. He articulates his words clearly, never much for mumbling or whispering. He can control a room with his voice, if he wants to.

As far as fashion goes, he’s very fashionable. He wears the latest trends as long as they’re not mind-bogglingly stupid. In general, however, he has a very rich pretty boy aesthetic he doesn’t want to compromise, which means blazers and slacks even casually. Sometimes, he wears letterman jackets or leather jackets. He doesn’t put on anything for cosmetics other than a few dabs of expensive cologne on his neck and shoulders.




Personality Description


If Dorian were to describe himself in one word, it would be “perfect.” But what that means depends entirely on how he views perfection in the first place. Dorian was raised to be the perfect heir of Crawford Enterprise, a massive multi-million company. Perfect meant handsome, charming, daring, intelligent, innovative, and, most of all, powerful. He’s larger than life. Being in his presence is like staring at the sun. For Dorian, it’s success and nothing less.

Dorian makes no secret of the fact that he believes he’s perfect. He has a severe god complex, a stubborn streak, and unshakeable confidence in himself. Some would even categorize him as obnoxious or narcissistic. To them, he’d ask, is it narcissism if he could back his actions up? When he sinks his teeth into an endeavor, he won’t let go until he accomplished what he set out to do. He doesn’t half ass anything. He’s incredibly accomplished at his age, and for good reason.

Dorian is a natural born leader. He has the charisma to attract people, the intelligence to get a project going, and the drive to take them very, very far. He’s comfortable under the spotlight, a real people person and natural extrovert.

For all his attractive virtues, Dorian is not free from fault. Dorian’s intelligence and god complex makes it hard to empathize with people. Dorian sees gains, benefits, results. He’s not afraid to run anyone over, and has to put active effort into even considering them. He’s blunt, irritable, and ruthless. He’s known to bulldoze people down to achieve his goals. He knows he’s like this! He can hurt people without flinching, and even if he doesn’t set out to do so, he’s terrified of his own apathy.

When Dorian was young, he was diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder. The diagnosis seemed like a wake-up call for him. He’d look at everything he’s done, and while he couldn’t even pretend to regret them, he decided to become a better person from then on. He’s very active politically in the school and outside of it, he’s a philanthropist, and he donates all of his extra earnings to charity. Dorian doesn’t understand mercy or sympathy, but he understands justice. Dorian is not nice, but if he can see himself as good, then he’d be satisfied.

Dorian is not Antisocial, but he exhibits many of the symptoms. Aside from the ones already mentioned, Dorian is very attracted to pleasant stimuli. He’s very indulgent in this area. He’s a fan of juicy steaks, strong alcohol, and sex. Most of his “relationships” revolve on sex. He doesn’t do serious things unless it’s someone he’s fallen for at first glance.

Interestingly, Dorian is a fantastic judge of character. He does a lot of market research, and being able to detach himself from situations. All it takes is five minutes for him to know a person’s character, and if he would like them. He pursues romantic interests with scary determination, and if his relationships ever go south, there would always be a part of him that would soft at them.

Dorian’s very weak in the emotion department, but on the off-chance that he finds something that makes him feel, he’d latch onto it. He doesn’t know if it’s because he enjoys the novelty of feeling or if it’s because he’s actually a very lonely man on top of his self-made pedestal, but whatever it is, he can be very passionate when he wants to be. Sometimes, his passion flickers out, and it leaves him very antsy to find something else to dedicate his time to. During down moments, Dorian gets “hobbies” and obsesses over them for a few months, and they can vary from skydiving to cyberkinetics, but he’s bound to get bored of them eventually, and then he’ll set them aside and forget they ever existed in the first place.

To sum it all up, Dorian believes success is a lifestyle, and he’s living it.


Powers



Dorian has one “power”, and it’s super intelligence. Dorian picks up concepts and skills after being exposed to them just once, and he’s brilliant enough to grasp, utilize, and play with knowledge, ideas, and other such abstract concepts. For example, he can be taught the basics of the violin in one night and a few songs on it, and by morning, he would be able to compose concerts. He learns through book learning and instructions the best, but he can stare at something being done/made for a couple of hours and know exactly how it works and how to do it. Of course, he could best utilize his skills if he studies them extensively, which depends entirely on interest, but he can already do a lot with just the basics.

Despite his genius, Dorian’s memory is only twice as better as a normal human’s, meaning that he can forget about skills he picked up and events that happened. It would be easy to pick the skill up again, however.


Biography


Dorian was the firstborn and heir to the Crawford family. His grandfather and father, Reginald Crawford, built their company from the ground up. At first, it started as a European logging company and diversified into other forest-related areas, but with Reginald’s competent reign, they’ve made their name in distributing cotton to big companies and became a well-known clothing brand. Reginald kept his company in mind while raising Dorian. In two generations, their family flourished. He had high hopes that Dorian could make it even better.

With that in mind, Reginald drilled it into Dorian’s head that he should be better than his grandfather and father. He needed to be a winner. He was enrolled in Europe’s best All Boy’s Private School during the school year, and in the summer, his dad got him private lessons about business, etiquette, languages, and music. Dorian picked it all up at an outstanding pace, and internalized the necessary lessons into himself, building his personality on his father’s definition of perfection.

And he was perfect. Dorian grew from an impressive kid to a brilliant adult. He had perfect grades, always standing at the top of his class, even jumping up three grades. He joined contests. He won them. He joined clubs and became their leaders. He became student council president several times, triumphing over older schoolmates.

Dorian was a star, and the world was starting to take notice. Opportunities came pouring in. At sixteen, he was already being offered offers from colleges. His father’s colleagues were offering him partnerships and their lovely daughters for marriage. His father gave him a small branch of his company to work with in Berlin, supervised by his mother, and Dorian succeeded managing it, letting it become a European franchise. Dorian also started modeling, and he saved almost all of the modeling money he made to startup something later on. Dorian thought his father would be proud of him.

He wasn’t. His father became more and more jealous of his brightness. He became paranoid. He was convinced that as soon Dorian became of age, he’d usurp him, and make his legacy look so much more pathetic than his. His father did not want his achievements to be erased, and for him to simply be known as “Dorian’s father.”

He hired a mercenary to take Dorian out. The mercenary made an attempt at his life during his high school graduation. Dorian responded to the situation with nothing but sharpness. He used a person as a meat shield, killed the mercenary, and did some investigating. He found out it was his father’s.

Furious, Dorian left Madrid and went home. He confronted his father, and they screamed at each other for days. In the end, Dorian decided he’s had enough of his bitter nonsense. He packed his bags, said goodbye to his mother and sister, and left England for good. His father withdrew his heir status and formally disowned him.

Dorian started up his own company in Canada as soon as he became eighteen. His father’s investors came to him immediately, some wanting to benefit from both Crawfords, the others seeing his potential and knowing he’ll flourish better than his father. He took them all in, and with his modeling money, the beginnings of it was starting to look good. He made a modeling agency, put a leg into the fashion industry, and also invested a ton of money on stocks. He was a millionaire in the span of a year.

At nineteen, he got a letter from Starlight Academy. That was also around the time rumors of sabotage and assassination attempts started popping up. He decided he was going to lay low for a while, so he accepted the invitation. He assigned a friend’s brother from High School to take care of the business for a while, and relocated the main branch of operations to Manta Carlos, saying he’s in Singapore on paper.

Dorian decided to enroll in Starlight Academy to learn how to manage his business better. So far, he’s gained a decent popularity among the student body. He’s joined a few influential political clubs and the school fraternity. All in all, he’s very comfortable with his life. He’s taking school things slow and indulgently because there wasn’t much time to enjoy his teenage years back then.


Additional Information

Dorian owns LuxTV, Crown Modeling Agency, and MUSE clothing store, all located in the City.

He was picked up by Finnegan Leighton when he was 19. He’s been in Manta Carlos two years.

Dorian is pansexual polyamorous, but he’s very low key about his relationships with men. He’s not in the closet per se, but he limits PDA on that area, almost never being seen affectionate in public with his male romantic partners. He’s also rather weird about his own gender.