App for Cuddle City

 PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Jen
ARE YOU OVER THE AGE OF 18? Yes
CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Derek Hale
PREFERRED JOURNAL: duelo 
CANON: Teen Wolf
CANON POINT: Post S4
AGE: 27 (it's never explicitly stated in canon)

BACKGROUND: Wikia

WISH: Derek's wish is simple: he wants the guaranteed safety of his baby sister, Cora.

FIT: Derek will never put his safety before another person's, even if he's not entirely sure it would be to his own benefit, because he's a protective person. Countless times in canon, he's risked his life for others and will likely continue to do so if the situations arise where he feels it necessary. Lately, he's learned that trust can be earned, but it doesn't have to be an uphill battle for someone, anymore. 

Derek is also a support system. He gives off the impression that he's a lone wolf, most times, but he's very much a team player and would prefer a pack status to an Omega one. Because of this, he works very hard to maintain an open mind in spite of his reflexive closed-minded nature; this is a fairly new skill he seems to have harnessed rather recently.

Plus, deep down, Derek still wants to expand his heart to others. He wants to fall in love with someone who isn't just using him...he wants to fall in love with someone who won't abandon him at their own whims. He wants to start a family too, someday. So in addition to his own wish, maybe being in Cuddle City will be able to help him realize that all of this is possible. 

CONSENT: In canon, Derek was raised in a matriarchal pack and his respect for women runs deep. He trusts that women know best and that when women are in charge, that's when things run the smoothest. This also means that when it comes to interpersonal relationships, consent is extremely important to Derek.

POWERS/ABILITIES:

• As a werewolf, Derek can see, hear, and smell things that regular human beings cannot, including chemosignals (chemical reactions in a person's sweat that give off an emotional value he's able to sense and interpret, such as fear, anxiety, happiness, and upset).
• Even in his human form, Derek is exponentially stronger than the average human being. He's also much faster and can take a hell of a beating and still bounce back from it, largely unscathed beyond the pain inflicted.
• Derek has a healing factor that allows him to heal from most injuries. The more severe the injury, the more of a toll it takes on him and the longer it will take him to fully heal from it, but this side of decapitating or otherwise tearing him into pieces, it's damn near impossible to physically harm him in a way that he cannot recover. This, however, is severely negatively impacted by mistletoe or wolfsbane poisoning that, to a point, a large enough dosage of either could be fatal to him.
• His claws can be inserted into the back of a person's neck and, from that, he can draw their memories or give them some of his own. He could, theoretically, alter their memories with this technique as well, but as Derek is not practiced in this and it can be incredibly dangerous to the receiver, he will never attempt it. In addition, Derek is able to draw physical pain and illness from others. Again, theoretically, he could cure a disease with this ability, but he would have to do it at the risk of taking that disease into himself and hoping that his own body could heal from it effectively and efficiently enough not to kill him. It is something Derek has done and will continue to do where applicable, but he is more careful, now, about how much of a person's ailment he is willing to take in one sitting, as too much too quickly could be detrimental to his own health or even fatal to him.
• When captured on film — whether still photography or video — Derek's eyes will glow so brightly that most of his face will become indistinguishable. This can, to some degree, be controlled, should he choose to do so.
• Derek has full control over his transitions. While he still feels the effects of the full moon, he is able to anchor himself to his humanity so that he does not need to turn on a full moon, nor does he continue to experience the bloodlust that younger or newer werewolves often struggle with.
• After his evolution, Derek can now choose to remain in human form, go into a half-transition wherein he looks mostly human with a few werewolf traits, or can fully transition into a black wolf with glowing blue eyes. If he chooses to go into full wolf form, when he transitions back out, however, he will be naked and his clothes from prior to the transition will be lost to the ether.

SAMPLES:
ONE and TWO: previous open game tag with two prose threads

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES / FURTHER EXPLANATIONS

HUMANIZATION: Derek does have full control over his transitions and his base form is human. Unless he needs to protect someone, it's highly unlikely that he'll transform into wolf form. Please let me know if you need any more information in this area!

ANYTHING ELSE? n/a