Character Name

Gregory Dietrich

Also Known As

His Guilty Pleasures stage name is Marlowe

First Seen in

He is first brought in in The Killing Dance, but without a name.
His first real appearance is in Burnt Offerings.

Character Description

Gregory looks exactly like his brother Stephen; they are identical twins. He has long curly blonde hair, cornflower blue eyes, a slim but muscular build, stands about 5'4" tall, and weighs about 20 pounds more than Anita. He wears his hair slightly shorter than his brother; it is below his shoulders in NiC, but not to his waist.

Character Casting Picture

Unknown models as Stephen and Gregory

Character Occupation

Gregory is a stripper at Guilty Pleasures, and a former porn star.

Character Race

Lycanthrope: wereleopard. His man-leopard form is yellow and pale gold and white, with beautiful black rosettes, and is more than a foot taller than his human form. His leopard tail swishes over a human backside, and he has trouble eating biscuits with leopard teeth and impossibly long tongue. His kitty-cat eyes are yellow. (ID)

Character Status

living

Character Associations and Ties

• Gregory is a member of the Blooddrinkers Clan.
• He is a dancer at Guilty Pleasures.
• He has a twin brother, Stephen, and an abusive father, Anthony

Also seen in

Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams

Character Factoids

• He participates in a porn film with Raina and Stephen, by slicing up his brother's chest. (tKD)
• He seems to like BDSM; he says that Stephen would enjoy the slicing if he just let himself go.
• Anita refers to him variously as a "perverted piece of shit" or "a waste of skin". (tKD, BO)
• He stops doing torture and sexual assault after Anita indicated that she would guide/lead the pard (this was some time after Gabriel's and Raina'sRaina's death).
• Sylvie wanted to kill all the leopards but most particularly him, partly because there is a film of the leopard raping her.
• Padma and the other Council representatives torture him and break his legs because he refuses to rape and torture Sylvie. Under the terms of the agreement for the leopards release, they had to 'walk' out of the Circus.
• He is so badly injured he has to spend 24 hours in traction.
• He calls Anita to rescue Nathaniel from Marco, Coronus,Coronus, and the snake men at Narcissus in Chains.
• He is tied and tortured: his genitals get sliced up, but heal when he shifts. (NiC)
• Trying to protect her from the snakemen, he stabs Anita with his claws during the fight to release the swanmanes, but Anita is sure he didn't do that on purpose.
• Richard declares him an enemy of the pack for 'killing' their lupa. Believing that his stabbing Anita had probably giving her leopard lycanthropy (from the signs that she was displaying after the attack).
• He is put into the oubliette, tied, drugged, gagged, blindfolded, and with silver pin earplugs.
• Anita locates him, rescues him, and eventually forces him to shift to heal the ear damage.
• His penis is bent at the end. Raina used to enjoy having sex with him because of this.
• Raina bit his penis off once, as a game, then wanted to do it again and film it. Gregory said he'd kill himself before letting her do that again.
• He became hysterical when his father came to town. His father had sexually abused and pimped out Gregory and his brother as children. He has a restraining order against his father.
• He was terribly frightened of the vampires Valentina and Bartolome.
• He enjoyed playing with Anita, Damian, and Nathaniel during Nemhain's sending of fear.

Character Quotes

Popular sayings, quotes and quips attributed to this character :

• book/page, set-up, quote

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