NAME/ORIGIN
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Writer
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Release Date
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1990
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ABILITIES
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Powers
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-Impervious skin
"You know I... never bleed."
-Can blend in with darkness
"A shadow in the night"
-Can read dreams and take the form of the characters in them
"I'm a fantasy man"
"You'll never see through my disguise"
-Also uses dream-reading to know subject's fantasies
"I know how to please you"
-Can create hallucinations
"I'm a master of illusion"
-Can transform/vanish objects, even large ones
"Magic touch in my hands"
"All the stages are empty when I steal the scenes"
-Can summon thunder and cloud-to-cloud lightning
"I can crack the sky, make you feel my thunder"
-Can heal mental illness
"Your mind is on the mend"
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Skills
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-singing
"As long as you can hear me sing"
-knife fighting
"You know I cut"
-resourcefulness, has "connections"
"I can satisfy your every need"
-dancing
"I'm a real smooth dancer"
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Attributes
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Vulnerabilities
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-Must touch object to "magic" them
"Magic touch in my hands"
-His eyes never change, despite other changes to his appearance
"Can't you see it in my eyes?"
-Powers begin at midnight
"Beyond the witching hour, we're travelling on and on"
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Formidability
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Very charismatic
"pure delight"
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Attractiveness
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High
"All around me there is mystery and wonder"
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Source
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Goals
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-Desire to be liked, despite his protestations to the contrary
"Baby, I'm gonna change your attitude"
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POSSESSIONS
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Weapons
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Amulets
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Objects
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Clothing
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Vehicles
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Dwelling
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Milieu
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N/A-- subjects' bedrooms (speculative)
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BIOGRAPHY
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Gender
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Male
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Age
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Physique
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Ethnicity
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Origin
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Ancestry
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Profession
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Freudian psychologist (speculative)
"Emotional squeeze through, again and again"
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Education
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High-- PhD in psychology at least
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SES
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High
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Relationships
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Many, but they are brief, superficial, and painful
"I'm the thorn in every girl's rose" |
Pets
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PERSONALITY
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Morality
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Amoral
"It doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong"
"Doesn't matter what you got"
"It doesn't matter what you lose"
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Intro/extrovert
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Introvert during the day
Extrovert when entering dreams or taking on dream-based personas
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Intelligence
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Emotions
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-Indifference
"I doesn't matter if you like my song"
"It doesn't matter if you like it or not"
-Need for control in relationships
"Can't you feel my power/ surrender in my arms"
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Sanity
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Enemies
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Narrative Function
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Anti-hero
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Other Notes
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The King of Dreams is, by profession, a Freudian analyst. He believes, as Freudians do, that dreams are the key to understanding minds and mental illness. But he also thinks-- beyond this-- that by controlling these dreams, he can cure such illness, so he learns how to do so.
Say a patient is upset because she never got to tell her father she loved him before he died. As a therapist, he learns this. Then, that night while she sleeps, he enters her room (he can blend in with the darkness) and becomes her father (he can change shape since his skin is impervious). She wakes, sees him and tells him. He puts her back to sleep and leaves. She wakes cured, unsure if she was dreaming or not since "it was so real."
But, in becoming whatever it is that patients need, he eventually loses his entire sense of self. And by always being what others expect, he never knows if they like him for himself, or for his personas, which he bases after all on their own dreams.
And he starts doing this to people who are not his patients, but who he simply feels could use his... services. Mostly women. Ironically, the women all eventually feel he is "too perfect" and has no personality of his own (more true than they know) and dump him. Even more ironically, this experience cures them of their hang-up of finding the "perfect" guy and they become more open in their choices, and find lasting relationships.
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