Main Character
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
Species: Immortal
Voiced By: Alexander Vlahos, Rhys Jennings ("The Prime of Deacon Brody") and Bernard Holley ("The Mayfair Monster")
Portrayed By: Alexander Vlahos
Our protagonist if not our hero. Dorian sold his soul to stay young forever and instead the portrait of himself painted by his friend Basil (and that he keeps in his attic in most series) ages and decays as he does.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Dorian's traditional origin of having been the product of an inter-class marriage and being raised by a grandfather who disliked him is replaced with him having parents who were apparently of the same class and being raised by his aunt and uncle.
- Adaptational Badass: As is common with adaptations Dorian is completely immortal unlike in the book, which never actually said that Dorian would live forever or that he could never be killed.
- Adaptational Context Change: Unlike in the novel where he simply wishes he will remain young like his portrait, here it's made clear that he made an actual deal with some sort of entity. In "Shades of Gray" this being is called the Collector, while here it's left more ambiguous though it's implied that Lucifer might have been the one. This makes him much less sympathetic, as in the book he made a wish he had no idea would actually come true while here he knowingly made the choice to sell his soul for immortality.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Unlike in the book where he was blond, here he has dark hair which is eventually lampshaded in "The Fallen King of Britain'".
- Adaptational Sexuality: Dorian is unambiguously bisexual here unlike in the book, and his main love interest is a male vampire.
- Age Lift:
- The book came out in 1891 and while no specific dates were given, the book has an In-Universe Time Skip of 18 years, which presumably sets everything before it in 1873. This would mean Dorian, who is still a young man when his portrait was painted, was born sometime in the 1850s. The audios instead has Dorian be born on the 10th of November 1862 and gets his portrait painted when he was 18 in 1880, making him a couple of years younger than his literary counterpart.
- In Before Your Eyes it's hinted that he's older than he was in the audios, with the short film presumably being set in 2022. Since he states that his portrait was made over 150 years ago, that would suggest it happened on the late 1860s or possibly earlier, but the audios established he was born in 1862 and his portrait was made in 1880. Since Vlahos himself looks older than he did in the cover art of the audios it can also be assumed that Dorian was in his thirties when he became immortal in the short, so he is at a minimum two decades older than he was in the audios.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear whether the Dorian in the Confessions series is the same character that appeared in Bernice Summerfield. The creators have always treated Confessions as being standalone and Series 5 ended with Dorian seemingly dying for good. With "The Worlds of Big Finish" crossover, it's unclear which Dorian it's following, since the story would suggest it's about the Whoniverse Dorian but a writer for the series said that Irs Wildthyme was travelling between the Whoniverse and the Confessions universe. On the other hand, there are some references in the series to "Shades of Gray" and his death in Series 5 was seemingly undone with "Isolation", suggesting he could become the Whoniverse Dorian.
- The Antichrist:
- Not literally, but "All Through The House" reveals that the Lowell Foundation knew that Lucifer was trapped in the Brigadoon Hotel and were aware that Dorian was the perfect vessel that Lucifer could use to escape, which is why they wanted to find a way to kill him. This ends up happening, but not in the way they expected as Lucifer instead escapes by taking over Toby's body, as his resurrection in Series 3 made him the perfect vessel.
- "The Last Confession" reveals that Lucifer made Dorian immortal as part of a long term plan to pit immortals against each other until only the most ruthless and dangerous remained. While it's not established why he did this, Dorian presumes it's part of his plan to cause the apocalypse.
- Anti Anti Christ: Becomes this in "The Last Confession" when he rejects Lucifer's offer to let him die for real and refuses to go along with whatever he has planned. Instead he resolves to spend an eternity fighting Lucifer and any other immortals he creates.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: His last words with his sister were one of comfort as he reluctantly killed her to stop the dragons, with him explaining that he had hoped she would live a happy if normal life despite usually mocking some things.
- Badass Longcoat: As seen on the covers of the audios.
- Back from the Dead: He destroys his portrait in Series 2, which kills him. However he comes back to life in Series 3.
- Bed Trick: He did this to Scarlet Moore while pretending to be her husband and Lucifer pulls this on him, having taken over Toby's body and sleeping with.
- Brought Down to Normal: In "The Mayfair Monster" his portrait is stolen and he ages as people experiment on it.
- Byronic Hero: Dorian develops into this once he reaches the 21st century. He's a very attractive and handsome eternally young man with great charisma, which makes it easier for him to befriend and seduce others. As The Hedonist he has strong feelings and beliefs about the world and the "boring" lives led by ordinary people, having dedicated over a century of his life to exploring everything the world had to offer, regardless of the personal cost to his soul or the harm he causes to others. Meanwhile his upbringing makes him come across as sophisticated, and while not necessarily more intelligent than the average person his long life has given him a chance to earn a few different degrees and pick up new skills. However after a century of tragedies and fighting horrors, he's become deeply introspective and jaded about immortality and life itself, while his hedonistic lifestyle not only becomes dull and repetitive but socially acceptable, and the knowledge that his lifestyle is even becoming outdated leaves him moody.
- Character Development:
- Following the audios in chronological order shows Dorian transform from an amoral and often selfish young man who is able to move on with his life after his adventures without much difficulty to a more brooding and depressed character who is worn down by his losses. He's more of a Anti-Hero in stories set closer to the present than ones set earlier, where he's more of a Villain Protagonist.
- If you consider "The Lost Confessions" as canon, then the series shows Dorian as an amoral young immortal at the start of the 20th century who is rarely bothered by his failures and regrets. The series then shows him slowly being weighed down the horrors he sees, the losses he suffers and the painful knowledge of how lonely immortality is until he's a more depressed yet kind character until he becomes willing to sacrifice his own life to save another. After his resurrection he's realised he's not a good person but regains the love of his life, finding some sort of happiness until accidentally releasing the Devil himself from his prison, who returns Dorian's soul and takes over Toby's body. Now more lost than ever and feeling the emotional pain of more than a century of life, instead of giving up Dorian comes to accept his failures and instead resolves to live despite Lucifer's attempts to convince him to finally die. He becomes the Anti Anti Christ, dedicating his immortality to stop whatever Lucifer has planned and be a better person.
- Character Overlap: He appeared in the Dark Shadows audio "The Darkest Shadow".
- Closet Key: It's implied he was this for Oscar Wilde.
- The Corrupter: It turns out that anyone Dorian meets who ends up morally corrupted or ruined from knowing him don't move on to the afterlife when they die. Instead they become a gestalt entity which desires for Dorian's immortality to end, and occasionally haunt him. Even unborn fetuses are cursed to end up this way much to Dorian's horror.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His father died not long after his sister's birth, and the grief caused his mother to suffer a mental breakdown. Him and his sister were sent to live with their aunt and uncle, and one time while they were all gone, he was seduced by his governess Constance Harker and lost his virginity. This experience taught him how important having youth was, and not long after Constance died under mysterious circumstances with many suspecting he had something to do with it though they never outright accused him. As it turns out Dorian was somewhat to blame, as it was his imaginary friend Brennan who killed Constance.
- Evil Twin: Zig-Zagged in regards to his Identical Stranger Jonathan Moore. On the one hand, Dorian is an Immortal Byronic Anti-Hero who has dedicated decades of his life to being The Hedonist regardless of the harm he causes. But on the other hand, Dorian comes to treat Moore's wife Scarlet with far more respect, learns to appreciate Moore's ordinary life with a loving wife and son, and becomes deeply worried about her safety after realising how far Moore had fallen while living Dorian's life.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: He's this to a lesser degree than most examples when he's resurrected in Series 3, having missed two years and now has to adapt to the post-Recession/Recovery era.
- The Fog of Ages: Averted, Dorian can remember everything that ever happened to him clearly, seemingly as a consequence of his immortality. In "Echoes" a unknown supernatural creature tries to make him think this happened, but quickly he figures out that it's just implanting fake memories to make him think he's forgotten adventures. However in "The Abysmal Sea" his girlfriend Alyssa argues this could happen to him and uses the fact that he doesn't remember their original meeting in 1964, though he responds by saying that it was a busy time for him and he met lots of people.
- Forgotten First Meeting: As it turns out, Dorian had briefly met Toby who had been stalking him back in 1976. However, in order to save him from the Greek goddess of memory Dorian sacrificed the ten years of memory from after his break up with Alyssa in 1974, meaning he doesn't remember that meeting or the monster that had killed him during that time.
- Friendless Background: He was a lonely child growing up, to the point he created an imaginary friend named Brennan.
- Guile Hero: While immortal, Dorian doesn't have any actual powers or enhanced abilities, and while he does gain a few skills overtime he's not an especially skilled warrior or tech savvy genius. As a result, Dorian mainly defeats the Monster of the Week through quick thinking, charm and trickery. And if he can't beat them that way, he does whatever he can to escape.
- The Hedonist: Naturally he's this, but it's also what causes him more pain once he reaches the 21st century. As the Monster of the Week points out, now everybody is like him and the things that made him shocking during the 19th century are more socially acceptable. It gets worse in Series 3 when Simon Darlow points out that by the 2010s most people had outgrown his attitude and how he acted in the 2000s. And while it's subtle, Dorian becomes less obsessed with chasing after new experiences since by then he's already experienced them and him becoming less of a hedonist is what leads him to show more regret about his past actions.
- Identical Stranger: He has one with Jonathan Moore.
- Immortal Hero: He's literally immortal and the protagonist.
- Immortality Hurts: While his portrait very quickly heals any damage he experiences, Dorian still feels the pain and he compares it to when you've broken a bone that's healed. While it might now be healed, he still remembers the pain and it's not completely the same as it was.
- Ironic Name: People think his name is this, with one character saying that his parents must have been prophetic to name him after a fictional character he shares so many personality traits with.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts out as more of a jerk, and while he never stops being one he becomes a nicer person by the end of the series.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Has this reaction in "The Valley of Nightmares" when seeing all the celebrities in 1948, especially when he sees John Wayne.
- Lack of Empathy: Subverted, Dorian can be cruel but he can also connect with people deeply and form genuine friendships. However his life as The Hedonist means that only people similar to him can become his friends and those seeking a deeper connection are often left heartbroken. During his worst moments he can also be incredibly arrogant and dismissive of people, telling one person who was simply being friendly that he was pathetic as at the time he had been really stressed. This fades by the time he reaches the 21st century, and while he remains ruthless he's much nicer.
- Love Cannot Overcome: Dorian's immortality and status as a Weirdness Magnet leads Alyssa to break up with him, even though she does genuinely love Dorian. The fact that she now has to really settle down after her houseboat is destroyed and knowing that, despite him offering, Dorian won't be able to live a normal life with her also contributes to this decision.
- My Greatest Failure: Killing Dora became this for Dorian, which is why he became desperate to save in "All Through The House".
- No-Sell: Because he sold his soul for his immortality, often he proves to immune to creatures that would try to claim it for themselves. He is also immune to supernatural things that would hurt or kill regularly people because of his immortality.
- Older Than They Look: Often claims this when people notice him referencing something he would have been too young to know about.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: While it does seem to fade overtime as Character Development kicks in, Dorian has a noticeable misogynistic streak with a massive example being how he treated Rosina Sawyer who was one of his flings in 1911. Another example is with "One Must Not Look At Mirrors", which showed that he was also pretty classist and dismissive towards prostitutes, and considered the Jack the Ripper murders to be entertaining. However he’s also been shown to be friends with Dorothy Parker while also having more genuinely romantic relationships with other women not long after what happened with Rosina. Downplayed with "Human Remains", where he doesn't care about making racist jokes towards Dr. Madras (voiced by an actor of Indian descent) but at the same time treats Flo (who is voiced by a black actress) with lots of respect and he's never shown to treat anyone else like this.
- Prince and Pauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Dorian is the Prince to Jonathan's Pauper, but he isn't royalty and in fact spends his entire life doing what scandalous and shocking things, as opposed to being trapped in a Gilded Cage. However his lives a life of complete freedom and with no responsibilities, a common perception of the Prince character, and he's definitely more charming than the somewhat dull Jonathan Moore.
- Really 700 Years Old: He was born in 1862 and had his portrait painted when he was 18, so by the time of Series 5 he's around 153 years old. Assuming "Shades of Gray" is canon to Confessions, he ends up living to the 2610s, making him around 750 years old.
- Really Gets Around: Oh boy does he...
- Sibling Rivalry: He used to have this type of relationship with his sister Dora, but by the time they meet again she feels no emotional connection to him after not seeing him for decades. However her death weighs heavily on Dorian for sixty years and when he believes he's encountered her soul in the Brigadoon Hotel he become determined to save her, showing that despite everything he truly loved his sister. Before her death he also explains that he had hoped she would live a happy if normal life and die content, despite previously mocking her for her age.
- The Sociopath: Averted in "We Are Everywhere", where Dorian is repeatedly killed by a serial killer named Luke Glass who knows of his immortality. Dorian ends up tracking down Luke's former therapist who explains that Luke is a psychopath and describes the key traits such as being confident, ruthless, charming and uncaring of the feelings of others, before pointing out that Dorian isn't unfamiliar to those traits himself. Dorian admits to being worried for a moment, but points out that despite these flaws he's perfectly capable of caring for others and feeling genuine love, meaning he isn't a psychopath.
- Soul Jar: His portrait is this. It's later revealed that after both him and Toby were resurrect in Series 3 his soul was placed inside Toby.
- The Soulless: Subverted and discussed deeply. Dorian often states that he doesn't have a soul, or that his soul doesn't belong to him, and he does have some similarities with the trope. However, Dorian is capable of caring for others and showing compassion, and a big distinction is made between his sins, which his portrait suffers, and his regrets, which Dorian constantly gains as time goes on. "All Through The House" has his soul returned to him and "Ever After" has him deal with the consequences of it, as it's revealed that the return of his soul means he can't handle the emotional pain of the life he's had.
- Took a Level in Kindness: As time goes on he becomes very different from the man he was when he made the deal for his immortality. After his resurrection in Series 3 he's a bit more nicer to people due to having realised that he wasn't a good person and regaining his soul makes him feel the guilt for every bad thing he's done ever more.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Constance Wilde's wife feared Dorian was this for Oscar, and it's implied that as he got older Oscar himself began to consider Dorian this, even though he does still care for Dorian.
- Villain Protagonist: At his worst he is this.
- Weirdness Magnet: Dorian somehow always finds himself involved in some sort of supernatural event and having to fight a dangerous threat, with his girlfriend Alyssa pointing out that things tend to "escalate" when he's around. She isn't actually wrong, he can't even go on a holiday without being attacked by the actual Kraken.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Despite at first genuinely believing that Living Forever Is Awesome, as time goes on he falls into this attitude though he rarely admits it. Constantly facing horrific monsters and seeing people die, many of whom were close friends of his, results in Dorian becoming more weary and lonely, while societal changes as time passes means he slowly feels out of place after defining himself for so long as The Hedonist, as things that once made him shocking are now commonplace by the present day.
Reoccuring Characters
Toby Matthews
Tobias "Toby" Langston Matthews
Species: Vampire
Voiced By: Hugh Skinner
A vampire who becomes Dorian's boyfriend and One True Love.
- Death of Personality: Lucifer taking over his body seemingly destroyed his soul.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: He died in the late 80s, so when he's resurrected in 2014 he's absolutely fascinated by mobile phones when he first sees Victoria using one.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Subverted, as he remembers briefly meeting Dorian in 1976. But in order to save Toby from a Greek goddess of memory, Dorian sacrificed his memory of the ten years after 1974 meaning he doesn't remember that brief encounter.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Has a few issues with his sire, Ivor.
- Marriage of Convenience: In "The Anniversary", he reveals that he once married a human woman he had befriended in the 1920s, and he described their relationship in this way. He explained that there was never a romantic attraction between them, but they provided each a sense of companionship and that sadly she chose to die instead of becoming a vampire like him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He erases Simon’s memory of Dorian after he warns him about the Brigadoon Hotel, leaving him with only vague memories of Dorian in his Charlie White identity. This means that when Dorian is being kept in an asylum, Simon believes that his ex-boyfriend is genuinely insane and doesn’t help him escape.
- One True Love: Toby is the love of Dorian's life, and he's left broken when Toby decides that he wants to die.
- Really 700 Years Old: Tobias is older than even Dorian, having become a vampire in 1724 and while his exact age isn't given he's presumably in his early to mid twenties. This would make him around 160 years older than Dorian and by Series 5 he would be around 300 years old.
- Soul Jar: Lucifer reveals that he resurrected Toby and placed Dorian's soul in him instead of his portrait, and by returning it to Dorian he is then able to take control of Toby's body.
- Stalker with a Crush: "The Anniversary" reveals that he had been aware of Dorian for a long time before they met in 1986, to the point he had actually been searching for him and briefly met him in 1976. This allowed Toby to kill the monster of the week Dorian had encountered, but thinking him dead Toby had left and wouldn't see him again until 1986. As it turned out, Dorian lost all memory of this as in order to save Toby's life from the Greek goddess Mnemosyne, so he had no recollection of their brief meeting or the monster that killed him.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Species: Human
Voiced By: Steffan Rhodri
Dorian's old friend who wrote a famous book about the immortal.
- Ambiguously Bi: Much like with real life, it's unclear whether Oscar is gay or bisexual.
- The Bus Came Back: Sort of. He died in the very first audio but the first story of Series 5, "One Must Not Look At Mirrors", is set shortly before his death, and shows him recalling his relationship with Dorian.
- Fate Worse than Death: It's implied he became part of the Lost after he died.
- Historical Domain Character: Oscar Wilde naturally wrote the book the audios are based on.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: The audios portray Oscar as a flawed individual, genuinely loving his wife Constance and children but struggling with his his sexuality and attraction to Dorian. The audios don't mention that Wilde had several male lovers, as Values Dissonance would come from the fact that his lovers were all teenagers.
- It Will Never Catch On: He thought this about himself and that Dorian will still be alive long after the world had forgotten about him. It's sadly justified however since at the time he was dying, his reputation had been ruined and none of his plays were being performed so he had no reason to believe he would be remembered.
- Literary Agent Hypothesis: All the characters from his book were part of Dorian's life, but Dorian's literary counterpart killed himself in the end by destroying his painting. Oscar wrote this not because he wants Dorian to die, but because he worries about the state of his soul and in his version Dorian at least found some form of redemption. In Series 2 this is what Dorian ends up doing in the end in order to free the soul of a woman who had been his first lover.
Simon Darlow
Simon Darlow
Species: Human
Voiced By: David Blackwell
One of Dorian's lovers in the 21st century.
- The Beard: In his second appearance he mentions that he's gotten married to a woman, with both of them acting as this for each other.
- Back for the Finale: He returns in "Ever After", the Grand Finale of the series.
- The Bus Came Back: First appearing in "The Fallen King of England" in Series 1, he returns in Series 3 and then has small appearance in Series 4 and 5.
- Foil: Dorian realises that Simon reminds him of himself when he first met Henry Wotton, and it's this that causes him to become obsessed with corrupting Simon. He doesn't succeed since Simon breaks up with him, wanting to make sure he doesn't end up like Dorian.
- Guy of the Week: This is what he is to Dorian, who is still trying to deal with the death of Toby, while Simon actually fell in love with Dorian.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Toby does this to him in "Desperately Seeking Santa", erasing all memories of Dorian and the supernatural. "Ever After" reveals that he only remembers Dorian as Charlie White.
- Nice Guy: He's this in his first appearance, being a completely normal person who falls in love with Dorian. A combination of cocaine addiction and paranoia means Dorian doubts this greatly and becomes convinced that Simon is a monster, but seeing Simon be prepared to die to stop him from committing suicide makes him realise the truth.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: He's lost some of his naivety when he reappears in Series 3, having lost faith in the idea of real love and choosing to be The Beard for long term security, and is more rude to Dorian.
- Uncertain Doom: "Ever After" has him visit Dorian in the mental institution and Dorian notices vampire bite marks on his neck, which Simon claims is from a lover. Dorian comes to the conclusion that Simon is actually seeing Lucifer in Toby's body, who is trying to manipulate him to make sure Simon can't help Dorian, though given the implication that Dorian might just be an delusional man this is questionable,
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy "Dottie" Parker (née Rothschild)
Species: Human
Voiced By: Sarah Douglas
The famous writer herself, Dorothy “Dottie” Parker is a good friend of Dorian’s.
- The Bus Came Back: She first appeared in Series 2, but returned in Series 5 in "The Valley of Nightmares", which has her recall another adventure she had with Dorian.
- Historical Domain Character: Dorothy Parker is a real life writer, critic and poet known for her sharp wit. Of course the audios greatly downplay how tragic her life was and Dorian mostly meets with her during no more happy occasions.
- Platonic Life-Partners: While Dorothy and Dorian seem to imply their is an attraction between them, there’s no evidence to suggest they were anything more than friends.
James Anderson
James Anderson
Species: Human
Voiced By: Daniel Brocklebank
A World War I soldier who has been in a romantic relationship with Dorian.
- Broken Pedestal: Dorian became this for him when he revealed he was alive and actually immortal. From his perspective, Dorian had been a normal if overall selfish man who gave his life to save James and encouraged him to develop into someone he wouldn't have been without Dorian's influence. Dorian's return and learning what he was really like, along with his immortality, made James realise that his sacrifice meant nothing if he knew he would survive and that he isn't sure that Dorian is a good person. However "Angel of War" would reveal that he lied about his feelings about that, and in truth he spends many years wondering whether pushing Dorian away was the right choice.
- The Bus Came Back: Sort of. He first appeared in "The Prime of Deacon Brody", but returned in Series 5 in "Angel of War", which is set in 1940 and has him recall how he first met Dorian.
Victoria Lowell
Victoria Lowell
Species: Human
Voiced By: Tracey Childs
The head of the Lowell Foundation, which has been following Dorian Gray for some time.
- Back for the Finale: Sort of in "Ever After". She died in Series 3, but Dorian meets a woman namd Marion White who looks just like her and claiming to be his mother. It's unclear whether she was a creation of Lucifer, or if Dorian is genuinely crazy and that woman was the real mother of Charlie White.
- Character Overlap: Subverted, the character herself is from the Confessions series. However Big Finish also made the Dark Shadows audio series, which is seemingly part of a Shared Universe with Confessions, and featured a character named Jackson Lowell who led the Skin Walker Association, a group dedicated to eliminating the supernatural. "Desperately Seeking Santa" would have Simon confirm that the Lowell Foundation and Skin Walkers are the same group.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The final audio of series 3 reveals that she was behind Natalie Isaacs' plan in "The Mayfair Monster" and secretly been manipulating Dorian during series 3.
The Man Upstairs (SPOILERS!)
Lucifer
Species: Devil
Voiced By: Gabriel Woolf, Hugh Skinner (as Toby) and Alexander Vlahos ("The Lost Confessions")
The Devil himself who has been trapped in the Brigadoom Hotel and seeks to escape using Dorian.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's implied he's the one Dorian made the deal with for immortality, though the specifics aren't clarified and it's left vague. Also there are several characters that can be interpreted to be Lucifer trying to manipulate others into making deals with him.
- Arch-Enemy: Despite only meeting two times in the audios, he causes Dorian the most harm and it's clear that Dorian has never hated anyone as much as he hates Lucifer.
- Eldritch Abomination: He mentions that his true form is known to drive people mad.
- Greater-Scope Villain: "The Last Confession" reveals that he has been pitting immortals against each other and is responsible for their existence, meaning he's likely to blame for all the supernatural monsters in the world. Given that he might have been the one who made Dorian immortal that means he is responsible for the Lost existing and all those souls being unable to move on.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He was summoned by a group of occultist in 1915 who hoped to end WWI, but after realising they couldn't control him they instead trapped him in the Brigadoon Hotel.
- The Villain Wins: Assuming he wasn't something dreamt up by an insane man believing himself to be Dorian Gray, he escapes the Brigadoon Hotel while Dorian is eventually killed in a labotomy in Ever After.
Other Characters
Humans
Dr. Henry Jekyll and Dr. Edward Montague
Henry Jekkyll and Edward Hyde
Species: Mutated Human
Voiced By: Hugh Ross
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde themselves, the latter having adopted a new alias. The two "brothers" only interact through playing chess with each other, which Dorian comes across and fascinated by the situation tries to understand them.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Jekyll is far more rude and cruel than his book counterpart, being prepared to kill innocents to try and learn the address of brother's home.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Hyde is far more polite and caring than his book counterpart, though it's clear that he is still cruel.
- Canon Foreigner: Hyde has a wife and child in this version, the latter having apparently inherited the same condition that Jekyll and Hyde have.
- Riches to Rags: Jekyll was once a respected and wealthy doctor, but now he works at a church warning people of sin and evil.
- Spared by the Adaptation: They didn't die, unlike in the book.
Dora Rigby
Isadora "Dora" Rigby (née Gray)
Species: Human
Voiced By: Katy Manning
Dorian's sister who like him has also found a way to prolong her life, living to be 86 by the time she reunites with her brother seven decades after they last saw each other.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Before dying she admits that she has missed her brother and that despite everything she cares for him. Sadly he chooses to kill her before she can ask whether he missed her.
- The Bus Came Back: Possibly. Her soul might have appeared at the Brigadoon Hotel, in the form of several different women, but she also might have been a manipulation by Lucifer.
- Canon Foreigner: Dorian never had a sister in the novel.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her father died shortly after she was born which drove her mother mad with grief, leaving her and Dorian to be raised by their aunt and uncle. Her childhood is unknown but she had a difficult relationship with Dorian and eventually they went their separate ways, resulting in them never seeing each other again for seventy years. She then got married to Charles Rigby and lived happily with hum until his death due to the dragons, which had possessed Dora with the goal of using her to acquire Dorian's body.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She admits that she had wanted to be Dorian, with the immortality and opportunities that were available to him.
- Sibling Rivalry: She used to have this type of relationship with her brother, but by the time they meet again she feels no deep emotional connection to him beyond annoyance after not seeing him for decades. However before her death she seems to admit that she does care about Dorian and had wanted to keep him safe from the dragons.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Species: Human
Voiced By: Nicholas Briggs
The Great Detective himself who appears in "Ghosts of Christmas Past", who once investigated the possible murder of Basil Hallward and in 1912 was reunited with Dorian who was being blackmailed to kill him.
- The Anti-Nihilist: Despite his fears of dying and the knowledge his mental abilities are fading, Holmes sticks to his belief that all things must eventually die and refuses to allow despair to make him accept a Deal with the Devil.
- Character Overlap: He's essentially the same version of Holmes from Big Finish audios of the same name.
- Foil: By this point in time he has started to fear death and how old he has become, but unlike Dorian this isn't out of vanity but because his deductive abilities have started to fade. However even when offered the same deal as Dorian, Holmes rejects it and sticks to his role of The Anti-Nihilist.
- Genre Refugee: He's a detective who has wandered into a gothic horror, and tries to apply his usual methods to find a logical explanation for what is happening
- Retired Badass: By 1912 he has apparently retired and no longer works with Watson, though he agrees to help Dorian once he learns he is actually in danger.
- Sherlock Scan: Does to to Dorian to learn he had been to Henry Wottan's funeral.
- What You Are in the Dark: Despite struggling to find a rational explanation for James Moriarty's return and deep down fearing how he is getting older, he outright refuses to sell his soul on the grounds that he refuses to fear the unknown even if Moriarty is who he says he is.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Ironically he thinks he's in one of his usual detective stories where there is a logical explanation for everything. He's actually in a gothic supernatural horror with an actual immortal. At the end of the adventure when Dorian asks if Holmes finally believes him, he simply replied that there are some things that can't be given a rational explanation which Dorian simply notes is neither a yes or a no.
Alyssa Symes
Alyssa Symes
Species: Human
Voiced By: Yasmin Bannerman
Dorian's girlfriend in 1974.
- Love Cannot Overcome: Dorian's immortality and status as a Weirdness Magnet causes her to acknowledge that they can't stay together, even though she does genuinely love Dorian. The fact that she now has to really settle down after her houseboat is destroyed and knowing that, despite him offering, Dorian won't be able to live a normal life with her also contributes to this decision.
- Mayfly–December Romance: She's a 30 year old woman dating an immortal man who is more than a century old. While at first being fine with it, it's made clear that the knowledge that he will outlive her and can't spend a normal life with her has weighed on her and leads to their breakup.
Luke Glass
Luke Glass
Species: Human
Voiced By: Blake Ritson
A psychopathic serial killer who starts stalking Dorian.
- The Cameo: Implied, as in "Ever After" Dorian is trapped in an asylum where everyone looks like people he knows and he mention talking to someone named Luke.
- Genre Refugee: His behaviour and complicated ways of trying to kill Dorian make him more like a Saw villain.
- Mundanger: He's a completely ordinary human serial killler who, until recently, was completely unaware of Dorian or that the supernatural exist.
- The Sociopath: Is clinically a psychopath and has many of the key traits of one such as a Lack of Empathy and being ruthless, confident and charming.
Jonathan and Scarlet Moore
Jonathan and Scarlet Moore
Species: Human
Voiced By: Alexander Vlahos and Deirdre Mullins
A married couple in 1949 with a young son named William, completely ordinary except for the fact that the husband has a remarkable resemblance to Dorian.
- Ambiguously Related: It's unclear whether Jonathan Moore is related to Dorian. On the one hand, Dorian does Really Get Around and it is established that he could have children. However Dorian simply thinks it's just a random coincidence.
- Bed Trick: Scarlet suffers from this because of Dorian and Jonathan swapping roles, with Dorian sleeping with her while pretending to be her husband.
- Evil Twin: Zig-Zagged in regards to his Identical Stranger Dorian. On the one hand, Jonathan is a respectable family man and lives an ordinary life where he doesn't hurt anyone, and when it comes down to it he dies trying to save his wife. On the other hand, he's very quickly shown to be rather uncaring towards Scarlet, is rather dismissive of how he treated prostitutes while living Dorian's life, and when he figures out that Dorian slept with Scarlet his response is to get violent with his doppleganger and slut-shame Scarlet.
- Identical Stranger: Jonathan is the exact double of Dorian, to the point not even Scarlet could really tell them apart. However things change after Dorian sleeps with Scarlet, with it being implied that Scarlet to some degree now suspected that Dorian wasn't her husband since when she sees him and Jonathan together, she immediately calls him Dorian.
- Prince and Pauper: An interesting variation of the trope. Jonathan is the Pauper to Dorian's Prince, but he isn't necessarily poor as he seems to have a rather well paying job and seem to be in the upper to middle class. However compared to Dorian he is completely ordinary, reflecting how a Pauper's life is often seen as less interesting, and has the traditional life expected of people, such as having a good job with a wife and son.
- You Are What You Hate: Scarlet accuses both Jonathan and Dorian of this, pointing out that they are both selfish people who treated her badly (Jonathan by actually trying to get away from her, Dorian by going along with the lie and pulling a Bed Trick on her).
Supernatural
The Woman in Blue
Mina Harker (née Murray)
Species: Half-Vampire
Voiced By: Laura Doddington and Alexander Vlahos ("The Last Confession")
Mina Harker was apparently turned into a vampire during her famous battle against the evil Count, and intentionally crosses paths with Dorian as a warning.
- Adaptational Badass: Was turned into a half-vampire in this version.
- Adaptational Nationality: She appears to be American in this version, based on her accent.
- Dhampyr: Claims to be a half-vampire in "The Last Confession", though how this is possible isn't explained.
- Hero of Another Story: "The Last Confession" reveals her to be this, with Mina having fought other immortals like Dorian as part of Lucifer's game, and unlike him being aware of what Lucifer had planned.
- Really 700 Years Old: Assuming the events of Dracula took place around 1897, the year it was published, and she is supposed to be in her twenties, Mina was likely born around a decade after Dorian.
The Lost
The Lost
Species: Supernatural Entity
Voiced By: Rebecca Newman
A gestalt entity made up of all the souls that Dorian had encountered and morally corrupted, leaving them barred from the afterlife as long as Dorian remains immortal.
- Fate Worse than Death: Anyone who became corrupted and ruined by Dorian's influence becomes part of the Lost, including unborn fetuses. Fridge Horror kicks in when you realise that such vague conditions means literally anyone Dorian meets could end up part of the Lost, and he mentions seeing Basil and Oscar occasionally suggesting they were also affected.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Lost neve appear again after their first appearance and it's unclear whether the souls were freed after Dorian destroyed his portrait. If they were then it remains unclear what happened after Dorian came back. Though it's possible that the cocaine demon from "The Fallen King of London", which was in Series 1, was also the Lost. They do reappear in "Ever After", but given the context of the audio it's unclear whether Dorian simply hallucinated them or they were a creation of Lucifer.
James Moriarty
James Moriarty
Species: Supernatural Entity
Voiced By: Rupert Young
The greatest criminal of his time, Professor Moriarty appears in "Ghosts of Christmas Past" where he reveals he made a deal which made him immortal so he could return after his death at the Reichenbach Falls.
- Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not the deal he made was with Lucifer, as the original planned ending of the series called The Last Confession revealed Lucifer was intentionally pitting immortals against each other. There's also a chance James was some sort of manifestation of Lucifer he took to try and manipulate Holmes into making a deal.
- Arch-Enemy: He was this for Sherlock Holmes, and Moriarty admits that Sherlock was the only man who could have beaten him.
- Deal with the Devil: He offers one to Holmes, promising to return him to the prime of his life and make him immortal in return for his soul. Holmes however rejects him and chooses to stick to his rational beliefs.
Brennan Doyle
Brennan Doyle
Species: Supernatural entity
Voiced By: Geoffrey Breton and Alexander Vlahos ("The Last Confession")
Dorian's childhood imaginary friend.
- Back for the Finale: Sort of in "Ever After". Dorian meets someone he becomes convinced is Brennan, but it's revealed that he's actually another patient at the institution he's stuck in. It's unclear whether he was really Brennan, a creation of Lucifer, or just a normal patient going along with Dorian's fantasies.
- Imaginary Enemy: Brennan was created from Dorian's imaginary and ended up killing his governess.
Freya
Freya
Species: Goddess
Voiced By: Katherine Pearce
A Norse Goddess that Dorian meets in 1974 in Scandinavia.
- Genre Refugee: She's from Norse mythology, which is pretty far removed from the gothic horror genre Dorian belongs to.
- Girl of the Week: Averted, Dorian wants Freya to be this but she politely rejects his flirtations. The actress was actually happy about this.
- Uncertain Doom: She was dragged down under a frozen lake by the troll chasing her, but since she's a goddess it's unclear whether she was truly killed.
Mr. Gray
Dorian Gray
Species: Sentient Portrait
Voiced By: Bernard Holley
Dorian's portrait, given life by Victoria Lowell to kill Dorian.
- Back for the Finale: Sort of in "Ever After". Gray appears as Dorian's therapist, but it's unclear whether he's a creation of Lucifer, a manifestation of his portrait, or is a real person trying to treat a very delusional Charlie White.
- Enemy Without: He is the embodiment of all of Dorian's sins, lacking any of the positive experience that Dorian experienced during his immortality. As a result he truly despises Dorian for making Gray suffer for so long.
Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Species: Immortal
Voiced By: David Warner
An immortal serial killer dressed as Father Christmas.
- Bad Santa: He's not really Santa Claus, but he killed a man dressed as him in the 1930s and took the outfit. Since he sleeps until he needs to replace his body parts, which is usually around his birthday at Christmas, he continues to wear the outfit when killing people.
- Really 700 Years Old: It's unclear how old he is, but he mentions that when he was born Santa Claus wasn't even part of Christmas yet.
