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if we were invincible; if we could never die, then all the world could rise against us and we'd dare to fight.

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Character Name: Derek Hale
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Canon Point: Post S4
Canon Wiki/Source: Derek on Teen Wolf Wikia
Contact Method: He was visited in a dream and the Also Humans took on the form of his late older sister, Laura.
Character History:

Derek's personality changes depending on who he is keeping as company. He's more likely to be his true, pleasant self with a woman he's seeing and more likely to come across as brooding, sarcastic, and disdainful around others like Scott McCall and his pack until they get to know him. With trust and abandonment issues to put most to shame, he's very careful about who he's willing to let in. Mostly because oftentimes, he makes poor decisions in this vein which only perpetuates the issue at hand. With the untimely death of his first girlfriend when he was a teenager — in which Derek actually had a hand — which preceeded his following girlfriend burning his childhood house down around his family trapped inside it, killing them, never mind his baby sister abandoning him for greener pastures and his only surviving uncle both murdering Derek's older sister for her Alpha spark and Derek later finding out that that same uncle created a Dead Pool of all the supernatural creatures in Beacon Hills, it's practically a miracle that Derek even still functions in society at all. ...if existing on the fringes of life counts as functioning, that is.

Derek is well-read and intelligent, but he sometimes has a tendency to think reactively rather than proactively and it tends to bite him (no pun intended) in the ass. This is largely the reason that the pack he threw together the moment he had the Alpha spark to do so fell apart, ending with two of them being killed, one of them using him solely for the bite and never really being a part of the pack, and the last being forced to switch allegiance for his own safety. He's very private and tends to keep to himself if not close to his pack, when he feels he has one. He is, however, susceptible to a strong positive personality (whether true or manufactured) and, deep down, he still wants to expand his heart to others. Derek 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. The fact that he's lost so many lovers, either through death, betrayal, abandonment, or a combination of those and he continues to keep trying with new women when they crop up in his life is evidence to that. It would appear, by the paternal way he treats the teenagers around him, that he wants to start a family, someday, and because of these aspirations, he unwittingly makes himself vulnerable to others — women, especially — when he least expects it. The right (or, more often, wrong) person can sneak up on him and weasel their way into his life.

While he's not very trusting, Derek is very trustworthy. He 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. He has, in fact, died protecting others and was luckily brought back to life by his evolution into a full werewolf. Countless times, he's risked his life for others and will likely continue to do so if the situations arise where he feels it necessary. He's loyal and that tends to be a fault, for him. There have been times when his loyalty to another person only managed to hurt or put him in danger, in fact, this tends to happen more often than not — not only do Kate and Jennifer, his homicidal exes, come to mind, but so do Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, who've thrown him under a bus several times, with or without good reason. Derek is getting a little bit better about this, but sometimes his character judgement is off and as much as he likes to pretend that he trusts next to no one, he doesn't always illustrate that very well, because he is very susceptible to manipulation. As of late, he's learned that trust can be earned, but it doesn't have to be an uphill battle for someone, anymore.

Some other notable characteristics of Derek's personality are his largely unexpected passive wit. When he makes jokes, however seldom it happens, it's usually subtle in tone and one has to actually be paying attention to his words or facial expressions to catch it. He genuinely wants to be happy, so he goes through the motions and he's getting there, but he's got a ways to go, still.

Derek is a support system. Intellectually, he benefits McCall's pack because he's the only born werewolf they know (other than Peter); between his life experience and his research via family-kept documentation in the Hale family vault, he is a veritable encyclopedia of supernatural knowledge as it applies to his home universe. 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, as evidenecd by his continued toleration of his uncle Peter and ongoing attempts to be a part of Scott McCall's pack by helping them whenever he can, even if it isn't to his benefit. 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. With that in mind, though, he does tend to be initially very standoffish with foreign werewolves, because his experiences so far with other packs (sometimes even including McCall's) have not been positive for him since the fire, but that doesn't mean he won't eventually warm up to them.

Derek was raised in a matriarchal pack and his respect for women runs deep, which might have been why he was so easily manipulated by so many of them. He trusts that women know best and that when women are in charge, that's when things run the smoothest, because ‌in his own experience, that seems to be true: his mother's reign as Alpha was much more collaborative and successful than his own, Peter's, or Scott's, and Satomi's pack seems to get tangled in the least amount of conflict. After seeing himself as an Alpha by stark contrast to his mother and older sister before him, and after seeing Scott in charge of a pack that largely ended up getting into more trouble than they probably intended, Derek has learned and still believes firmly that men should not be leaders. When men lead a pack or a society, he believes, that is when there will be bodies in the wake of a battle. He's much more likely to trust a woman's judgement on survival than he ever will a man's.

Abilities/Special Powers:

• 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 practised 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.

WEAKNESSES:

• WOLFSBANE—has effects that can include hallucinations, weakness, unconsciousness, and even death, depending on the species of Wolfsbane, how much of it to which Derek is exposed, and in what way it is delivered (whether airborne, ingested, injected, etc).
• MOUNTAIN ASH—can be used as in impenetrable barrier or to manipulate Derek's behavior.
• LUNAR ECLIPSE—renders werewolves from his universe completely powerless for the duration.
• HECATOLITE—can block the effects of the moon. When the natural cycle of transformation is interrupted for too long, a werewolf's tolerance to it is diminished; essentially, being kept from the effects for too long only to have them return too suddenly could cause Derek to lose all the control he's gained over his transforming and would amp up his bloodlust to be nearly insatiable.
• ELECTRICITY—steady application of low amperage can keep Derek in his human form and weaken him. Heavy voltage could kill him.
• MISTLETOE—is poisonous to Derek and could make him violently ill, starting with nausea and vomiting and could be fatal in large doses.

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