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Derek Hale | Teen Wolf | reserved

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OOC INFORMATION
Player: Snow
Age: 24
Personal Journal: faoladh
Contact Info: conriochted @ AIM // regisword
Other Characters: N/A

IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Derek Hale
Age: Not given outright canonically (in the range of 22-24, with player working on 24)
Canon: Teen Wolf (TV Series)
Canon Point: End of season 2
Species: Werewolf
Gender: Male
Orientation: Tentative leaning on no preference with no immediate interest. Derek's last shown relationship was with a woman, but said woman burnt down his family home when he was sixteen with his family in it after having seduced him. Overall he spends two seasons focused on more important things, and he's got trust issues miles wide. Orientation probably wouldn't be a factor, in the end, as much as finally building trust with another person to that degree again would. So in the long run he's not going to be happy about having a spouse at all, regardless of their sex or gender.

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History: @ the wiki
Appearance:

Approximately 220 pounds, give or take, of 6'2" man-shaped tank, Derek is dark-haired, scruffy, thick-browed, and looks a little like he was carved out of marble. His eyes feature central heterochromia (green with brown-gold around the pupil), though almost look colorless in a lot of light, unless he lets alpha red bleed into them. On his back, between his shoulder blades, is a tattoo of a triskele, the ink burnt into his skin. His wardrobe and hairstyle are both fairly simple-- leather jackets, henley shirts, wife beaters, jeans, things that are comfortable yet casual-- with his hair simply swooped up into the ever popular duckbutt.

However, like all werewolves, his facial features change when he shifts. Elongated claws are also synonymous with this face.

Personality:

Derek Hale is a six layer gordita of manpain. Manpain and guilt.* It weighs on his shoulders like a heavy burden, because even (six to eight) years after his family was killed? He's carrying that grief with him, and feels that he's at fault for the fire that burnt down the Hale house, family and home and all, when he was just a teenager. With his sister killed only in recent months, and his uncle untrustworthy after killing her in his madness, it's only worsened since.

And because of the error that he made in trusting a woman with a pretty face and words, he has intense trust issues. The only person that he did trust was Laura, his sister, and now that she's gone? There's no one he feels he can really trust. So despite his wish to have a pack again-- whether out of a sense of loneliness with a side of good intentions or just on a quest for power, as some may think, it doesn't matter-- he's a loner by choice most days. There are times where he'll seek out company, but it's either for his own means or rare and with a select few people. Interestingly enough, he doesn't tend to turn away people when they seek out him, though he's not exactly the most welcoming person.

His abrasiveness and anger and occasional violence, however, is largely in self defense. It's his way of reacting to things to keep himself safe, emotionally, mentally, and physically. He's not all posturing-- god, no-- but he does a lot of it to keep himself separate from others. It's how he keeps from getting burned again like he did before. And his anger is his anchor to his humanity, as rough and volatile as it is. Coupled with his guilt, it helps him stay grounded, even if it winds up leaving him a little misguided at times. Blind with fury and/or grief, and all. It really doesn't help that he's bullheaded and stubborn, prone to tunnel vision.

The thing here, though, is that he's not all aggression. Not entirely. Derek has strange charisma (both dishonest and actual), and an interesting sense of humor that's a mix of dry wit and bitter, sardonic sarcasm. He's actually got sass, which can surprise a person. He's intelligent, despite the brute force that he packs a punch with, and it shows in his behavior outside of rough decisions and in his commentary. It's a depth not many people seem to realize he has, because he keeps them at a distance (a con, to his supposed pros of keeping himself safe with his distrust and distance). There are even times where he's immature, with his humor. Kind of an ass, even. To pretty much everyone, even people he has some amount of closeness to.

And that's something all together. He's gotten his pack together both out of a necessity to himself, to replace something he's lost, but he's also close to them. Maybe he doesn't trust them wholeheartedly like he should, but he has a companionship with them. Even with people that there's a great deal of distrust, he's got banter and witty exchanges with. He almost, almost, has friends. And that's enough for him to be possessive and protective of them, in his strange way. While Scott turns away his offer of brotherhood, of pack and belonging, he still goes out of his way (and risks his life) to keep him safe. With Stiles, a human that he's constantly butting heads against, he turns his back on a threat to make sure that he's safe.

He's not all bark and no bite-- granted, he'll make threats a lot that he doesn't actively see through, but don't doubt for a second that he will bite if pushed to. It's proven when he literally does bite Victoria Argent so that he can save Scott's life.

Derek does care, in his own way. It's just hard for him to show it, because he's got so many layers of guilt and grief and anger holding it back. There's a potential there for him to be both a better alpha and a better person. He just needs to find it and maintain it, rather than turn around and fuck it up. He needs to find a way to trust the people that make up his pack, willingly or not.

tl;dr, Derek Hale is a werewolf version of a moonpie. Just wrapped in leather and badassery and angst.*

Abilities:

Werewolves found in the world of the Teen Wolf television series have a variety of abilities at their disposal. As an alpha werewolf, Derek's abilities rank higher than a beta's, and even higher than an omega's. He's still perfecting them, however, as he has yet to take the alpha form (a full shift into a wolf) as of the start of season three, and there are stronger alphas out there.

Strength - Werewolves are shown to be much stronger than humans, capable of the complete and utter destruction of locker rooms and the rending of car parts. They can also take more of a beating, as their fighting style is mostly a lot of flips and a lot more throws. Derek has been thrown into walls, dumpsters, ceilings, etc and has been able to get back up again with very little trouble. It's only when he's been given a sound beating that he shows difficulty getting up again.
Agility - Werewolves are faster and all around more agile than humans, on two feet and on all fours both. Employing a lot of flips, jumps, and launches in their brawls, it's shown that they're just overall much lighter on their feet and all the more quicker for it.
Senses - Hearing, sight, smell, and taste are all amplified due to lycanthropy, even without the full moon. Tracking-- both by scent and sound-- are employed numerous times in the series by multiple wolves. The full moon seems to enhance these abilities, peaking the stronger the moon is.
Healing - Rapid healing is common to all werewolves, but omegas cannot heal as quickly without a pack, and an alpha is capable of healing much faster than a beta in general. However, wolfsbane will slow or even completely hault any wolf's ability to heal, and injuries caused by an alpha will take any werewolf longer to heal from, regardless of their own status.
Memory transference - By inserting their claws into a person's neck, they can share memories with the person-- and also take them away. Thus far, the only wolves shown to be able to do the latter have been the alpha back of season three, with Derek being the only one to do the former.
Pain transference - Though only shown once in the series thus far, the ability to take pain from others-- animal and human alike-- is said to be a common ability among werewolves. This only means their pain is taken: the injuries or illness themselves remain.
Immunity - Save for when signs of aconite poisoning or another supernatural induced reasoning are present, werewolves are immune to normal human illnesses and diseases. Erica's epilepsy is cured when given the bite, and the same can be said of Scott's asthma.
Electrocution - Specific of Derek, he has a minor resistence to being electrocuted due to the torture that Kate put him through during season one. He's shown to be shocked by two tasers in season two, and it barely caused him any delay.

Other:

* These quotes brought to you by your lovely Stiles player. Bless her soul she is a gift.

SAMPLES
First Person: Post + threads from rubycity_rp

Third Person:

One could say that it wasn't exactly uncommon for Derek Hale to be out when most people were asleep in their beds. More common than anything else, honestly, due in part to the silence that fell over Beacon Hills and a general inability to sleep for more than five hours in one sitting.

There was too much to do, between traversing his territory and making sure Beacon Hills was peacefully unawares, training his overly dysfunctional pack, and overall trying to find a moment to breathe. From the moment he'd arrived back in town on Laura's trail he'd had very little time to catch a breath, and he'd barely had time to mourn Laura after she'd finally been buried properly. Not when one problem after another arose up to plague them.

Peter's madness, the Argents more than once, the kanima, dealing with his new pack...

Finding time to himself where he wasn't trying to formulate a plan or lick his wounds was pretty damn impossible.

Now, though, he'd found a brief moment to enjoy the quiet of the night. It made travel easier, at least, and by the time he'd reached his destination he would've had enough of a break that he'd be ready for whatever rambling explanation he'd wind up having to sit through.

Rolling his eyes, he ignored the easily accessed front door and began his easy climb up the house towards a familiar window. There wasn't an actual light on, he could tell, but it wasn't hard to miss the sounds of life inside or the dim glow of a computer, proving easily that there was a teenager awake at three in the morning up above him better than knocking on a door ever would have.

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