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its-teeem · 2 years ago

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I find it interesting that one of the few things we know about Basil’s physical appearance is his “coal-black hair.”

Ignoring the possibility of Basil being in an insert for Wilde(which is very likely), the fact that Basil never describes himself is pretty interesting especially since he’s an artist, it’s practically his job to be able to recreate visions of others. It’s only thanks to Henry not understanding what Basil means about Dorian’s portrait, that he “put too much of myself into it” that we get to have even the tiniest sliver of information regarding Basil’s appearance.

It’s kinda like that trope in which an artist can see beauty in anything but themselves, therefore purposefully omitting themselves from everything since they are merely there as an underserving spectator.

Basil practically has background character syndrome.

#my poor son #it's pretty great though that since there is so little known about Basil we can just make him be anything #Basil is that NPC villager that helps you out a lot at the beginning of the game #but then speedrunners find out that by killing him you'll get this insanely op hack that makes the boss of the game unable to hit you #the picture of dorian gray #the portrait of dorian gray #tpodg #dorian gray #basil hallward #gothic literature #gothic lit #gothic lit art #classical literature #classic lit #classic lit art

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