User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-24754018-20140628200128

I just realised how lucky I am to have not started college yet (4 or so months of freedom left, yay!)

Anyway, I'm somewhat taken with the idea of Dorian Grey, so I figure I'll write it despite the implausibility and my other qualms on the issue. I need to practice writing anyway, if I ever want to write a good sheet in the future.

It probably isn't as good as what Anon has planned, but this was a sort of spur-of-the-moment, when-inspiration-knocks-open-the-damn-door type of sheet.

So, without further ado, I present to you the immaculate Dorian Gray~

Name: Dorian Gray

Class: Assassin (false) (*1)

Alignment: N/A (see NP)

Stats: (*2)

Str: E

End: E

Agi: E

Mg: E

Lk: D

NP: E

Class Skills:

Presence Concealment, Rank E- : As a person unsuited for stealth, he was granted a minimal rank in this skill. Furthermore, as a person of such notability and infamous presence in life, it is further reduced. At this rank, he can hide himself from supernatural methods of detection that are not specifically targeted at him, though no human senses can be fooled as to his nature.

Personal Skills:

Collector, Rank C: The talent to attain valuable goods. In his many years, Dorian collected many valuable treasure from throughout the world, from embroidered cloth to perfumes. At this rank, valuable items can easily be acquired, though magical tools are uncommon.

Golden Rule, Rank C: One's fortune to acquire wealth. At this rank, it is easy to live a life of comfort without the need to seek work.

Natural Charm (*3), Rank B: A quality that enhances ones popularity based on an inherent quality of their being. At this rank, an outward appearance of innocence makes socialisation and the gaining of confidence easy, though prior knowledge of his nature and negative impressions (such as recognition as an enemy) will supersede the effect.

Noble Phantasm:

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Debauchery's True Face (*4)

A portrait of the splendid youth known as Dorian Gray. In a brash moment in which he lamented the transience of his beauty, he exchanged his fate with his duplicate on canvas. The consequences of his hedonistic lifestyle, the pox's and plagues of his amoral splendour, would instead be reflected on the picture. The Picture, having taken on his sins and cruelty, left him bereft of even a single mark.

A Noble Phantasm that serves to hide his cruel nature, it obfuscates his alignment, making it unreadable to even those he is in contract with. Combined with his innocent face, it would be hard to see him as anything but a spectacularly charming gentleman. Low level curses of the modern age shall be redirected towards the picture, but spells with a quality of physical interference shall affect him normally.

Should the painting be damaged in anyway, the delicate curse that protects Dorian will reverse, assaulting him with both the wound inflicted and the accumulated ills he should have suffered throughout his life. He will lose access to the skill Natural Charm, and the wound inflicted upon his now aged body will likely be fatal.

Now for the notes:

1*: As no class is even remotely suitable Dorian has been summoned into the assassin class.

2*: Is it wrong I wish I could make him weaker still?

3*: I was originally going to give him Charisma, but the description for that specifies the ability to rule or lead armies, which Dorian certainly wouldn't have. I was aiming more for a sort of inherent ability to make people who don't know he is an enemy servant (i.e. non-masters) trust him.

4*: Not a very good name, but that sort of thing (along with stat-ing) is sort of my weak point. I was sort of trying to sound a little bit poetic in the description, but I worry I was a bit too flowery.

I considered having the portrait grant him a level of Independant Action or provide enough prana to support a low level servant like him even without a master, so he could run off to enjoy himself in crack dens and the like, until the Grail (which would still be taking most of the burden of maintaining him) dissipated in a week. But then I though maybe that was a step too far.

Overall, I feel it is still a bit wonky, but I'm satisfied with it to the point I can leave it alone. I look forward to seeing anon's rendition, varying ideas based on the same inspiration can be interesting.