Dorian Red Gloria
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| Name: | Dorian Red Gloria |
| Occupation: | art thief |
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| Fandom: | From Eroica With Love |
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Dorian Red Gloria is one of the main characters from the manga series From Eroica With Love.
Canon
Dorian is an openly gay English earl who believes that his purpose in life is to pursue and acquire beautiful things by any means necessary; his motto could be said to be, "I get what I want." To this end, Dorian has secretly become the internationally famous art thief, Eroica, who 'signs' his crimes by leaving behind a calling card engraved "From Eroica, With Love." Dorian's own father was gay; although he married to produce an heir, Dorian's parents separated when he was a child. Even though Dorian is extremely manipulative, selfish and somewhat narcissistic, he has been known to act heroically on occasion.
Fan Comments
1994
It is so true that Eroica is different from other manga. That's precisely why I like it so much. For one thing, it's one of the very few featuring definitely adult male characters. Your comment that Japanese fans tend to identify heavily with one of the existing characters rather than introducing Mary Sues supports a notion I have long harbored about Eroica. I think that Dorian is the Mary Sue character. He's everything a Japanese teenage girl would like to be; rich, gorgeous, fabulously dressed, blond, and male. His problems attracting Klaus's attention (or at least, attracting it in a positive way) are a comical exaggeration of the kinds of problems that young girls (and older ones too, I blush to admit) are typically obsessed with, namely attracting attention of a positive nature from men. [1]
1995
I'm told that Dorian rates as a total sociopath in Japanese terms, in being so thoroughly individualist, and much of the Eroica dynamic rests on responsible-citizen-Klaus-vs.-weird-crazy-madman-Dorian, at least in the relatively real-world environment of the later stories. The earliest stories were much more fantasy-style, in which the impossibly glamorous Dorian, complete with signature zepplin, was not supposed to be even nominally realistic.[2]
Fandom
Pairings
It is usually with Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach.
Fanon
- The Eroica Connection by Kay Reynolds (1993)
Fanart
- Some of my FEWL fanart by justasillygirlsstuff, 2023
from Guns and Red Roses #1, Cyrissa Adamson (1989)
from Guns and Red Roses #2, Heather Bruton (1991)
Fanfic
Links
- Dorian Red Gloria works on AO3
- #dorian red gloria on Tumblr
References
- ^ from Strange Bedfellows (APA) #7 (1994)
- ^ from Strange Bedfellows (APA) #11 (1995)