Maintaining and Transferring Powers Through Blood Transfusions

Maintaining and Transferring Powers Through Blood Transfusions is the blood-based process through which Dorian preserves his own immortality and equips other people with Gifts. Its decisive importance is that it joins two aims that might otherwise seem separate: keeping Dorian alive and creating a force able to challenge Hero Society. The method also depends on more than simply possessing a power. The account identifies Draco’s blood, mixed with that of people whose DNA carries power genes, as the key to keeping powers active in new hosts.

Two Uses of Blood

Dorian describes blood as the means by which he found immortality. He must infuse gifted blood with his own to remain immortal, making the procedure a recurring requirement rather than a one-time transformation. The process takes several hours, and he is bedridden until it is complete. During one such treatment, an infusion machine mixes his gold-tinged blood with donated blood from a god-powered man. The scene makes the maintenance of immortality procedural and dependent on an ongoing supply: Dorian’s extended life is sustained through a physical process, not presented as self-sufficient or permanent.

The blood used for that maintenance comes from a broader supply of donations. People give blood without considering their powers, while Dorian notes that he once collected donations from people he found on the streets. By the time of the hospital procedure, however, the hospital has so much donated blood that he no longer needs to obtain it himself in that way. The shift from street collection to a ready hospital supply gives the process an institutional setting and a steadier source of material. The evidence does not specify how donors are selected or whether every gifted donor’s blood serves the same purpose; it does establish that donated blood is central to Dorian’s continued immortality.

Transferring powers to new hosts is a related but distinct use. Dorian identifies Draco’s blood as the missing key: mixed with blood from others whose DNA contains power genes, it allows the powers to remain in their new hosts. This explains how Dorian can move beyond relying on a gifted person’s original ability and build a group that possesses powers also found among Hero Society’s members. The text distinguishes this from cloning. The new force consists of people bearing the same kinds of powers, not copies of the original heroes.

Developing a Powered Force

Dorian’s method becomes visible in practice when he asks Ajax, a veteran who had lost everything after returning home, to bend a piece of rebar. Ajax had volunteered to host unlimited strength. At Dorian’s direction, he grips the metal, bends it, and snaps it in two. The test demonstrates a new host exercising a transferred ability, while Ajax’s volunteered role makes clear that the process involves people who agree to receive powers. The account does not explain the transfusion steps used for Ajax or state what happens to the former possessor of the ability.

Dorian describes the resulting group as his own version of Hero Society. It includes people with strength, empathy, and shapeshifting abilities, as well as a computer expert and a killer. He regards them as improved counterparts to the existing organization and intends to unleash them against it. His comparison presents blood-based transfer as a way to assemble a force with a range of capabilities, rather than as a treatment for a single recipient. Magic is the ability missing from this group, but Dorian says he has little use for it and considers the power of the gods superior. These remarks establish the intended scope of his force while also showing that its composition is selective, not an attempt to reproduce every Hero Society ability.

Dorian’s own power is presented as part of the same inheritance of abilities, though not as a simple duplicate of another person’s capacity. He says Phillip’s powers come from his father, Apollo, and that he shares the same power along with other abilities. Unlike Phillip’s continuously active future sight, Dorian can switch his own on when he chooses, checking possible futures and following the path he prefers. This distinction matters to the larger project: Dorian does not describe power solely as something passed mechanically from one body to another. The abilities in his faction exist alongside his own particular combination of inherited and acquired powers.

Conflict and Consequences

The transferred abilities later become visible as a direct challenge to Hero Society. During the fighting, members of Dorian’s faction confront people who possess the original powers. The narration frames this as stolen powers fighting their originals, turning the transfer method into a conflict between a power’s established bearer and its new host. The spectacle makes the social and personal consequence of the process plain: abilities once associated with particular individuals have become a resource that Dorian can use to organize an opposing force.

This confrontation also clarifies the difference between possession and legitimacy. Dorian sees the powered people he gathers as better versions of Hero Society and argues that people given godlike abilities should be free to use them for their own needs. His opponents’ institution, by contrast, has judged some gifted people unfit, a history that informs his resentment and stated desire for revenge. Blood transfer gives that grievance practical force: it enables Dorian to gather people who can meet the established heroes on comparable terms. The method therefore underpins both his military preparation and his challenge to the rules governing gifted people.

Meaning and Limits of the Method

The concept links bodily dependence to political ambition. For Dorian, blood is first a means of extending his own life; the same resource becomes a means of extending powers into new hosts and multiplying the number of people capable of using them. The shift from infusion to organized conflict gives the process two different consequences: personal preservation and the creation of a rival power structure. His immortality depends on recurring treatment, while his army depends on the ability to make powers persist in recipients beyond their original hosts.

The account leaves important operational details unstated. It gives the duration of Dorian’s immortality infusion and identifies the combination of Draco’s blood and blood from people with power genes as the basis for retaining powers, but it does not explain the precise procedure for transferring each ability, how long a transferred power lasts, or whether the hosts face costs or limitations. Nor does it establish that every power can be transferred. What it does establish is enough to define the system’s narrative function: blood makes Dorian’s prolonged life possible and supplies the mechanism by which he turns individual Gifts into the strength of a faction.