application

[duelo]

player information
● name: Jen
● age: 34
● contact: mistojen
● other characters: Caitlin Snow (apped)

character information
● name: Derek Hale
● canon: Teen Wolf
● canon point: Post S4 + a few weeks CRAU
● age: 27

● (canon) background: Derek on Teen Wolf Wikia.

After leaving Beacon Hills, Derek woke one day to find himself in the Alpha Complex, a futuristic dystopian underground society run by an insane technological entity called The Computer, or Friend Computer. In Alpha Complex, he was presented as a clone of himself, pulled from the annals of history. He believed it due to the propaganda indoctrination thrust upon him before actually reporting to duty and being sent to a communal living space which he shared with Buffy Summers and, eventually, Alcide Herveaux. Derek didn't believe it for long, because he remembered things too specifically from home and while he'd been told those were simply glitches in the cloning process, he believed them to be memories.

Alpha Complex was constantly in turmoil and under terrorist attack from different Secret Societies rebelling against The Computer and the Specials — a group into which Derek fell as a playable character in the game — so while living in the Complex was a nightmare, Derek set out to accomplish two things almost exclusively:

• He wanted to get the wolf back. He's a born werewolf and had no access to those abilities or that part of himself with which he so heavily identified. He most recently learned that the wolf was within him all along, he simply had been denied access through some technological means. For this, he heavily distrusts technology, where before, he simply was indifferent to or uninterested in it.
• He wanted real food to be available to all clearance levels. Alpha Complex was built on a hierarchy that allowed only the very rich and powerful "luxuries" like real food. Tired of subsisting on Soylent and feeling the negative impacts to his body from the lack of real food, he used his position as a Physical Fitness Assessor to conduct a study to prove that the lack of real food on lower level clearanced Citizens was negatively impacting their physical fitness. Very recently, his study was completed and he'd been granted permission to offer real food — a piece of fruit or a vegetable only, but that's still something — to Alphas and Specials who performed well on their assessments.

There is no canon deviation for this CRAU given that he had been written off the show and his canon point at entry was just post season four (when he'd been written off). Next to nothing has changed about his personality except that he's more receptive to working in a team after being exposed, in a new way, to so much hate directed at a small group of which he was a part (the Specials) and he has a new appreciation for the werewolf inside himself after having been denied access to it for three weeks — in canon, he'd been without those abilities for a few days and that had been sobering enough, but three weeks is a long time.

Beyond that, he's developed an unofficial relationship with Katniss Everdeen, who had also been assigned as a Physical Fitness Assessor, which is still very slow-moving and mostly revolves around supporting one another in their emotional times of need. He became very close friends with Buffy Summers and Alcide Herveaux after being forced to live with them and he has a new understanding for "hunters" and a lot less initial outrage and fear at their very existence because of her. It was nice to connect with another werewolf, as well, and it's made him a lot more willing to socialize outside his "pack" because he can see that not all strangers are dangerous, just because he's had poor experiences with so many others.

● abilities: For a more detailed explanation, please refer to the Beta werewolves page on Teen Wolf Wikia, but here is a basic, quick rundown:

• Supernatural strength, endurance, agility, and senses
• Accelerated healing: Derek can heal much faster than a normal human being, however this can be hindered if his injuries are sustained from an Alpha werewolf or through the use of wolfsbane or mistletoe, both of which are toxic and can be deadly to Derek.
• Pain transference: By placing his hand on someone, Derek can siphon their pain away from them and into himself. It's never started outright, but is hinted in canon that he can do this with their ailments to a degree, as well, although by doing so, he risks taking too much and killing himself in the process.
• Memory transference/alteration: While Derek does not tend to use this ability, he is canonically able to insert his claws into the back of a person's neck in order to extract or share memories from or with them. This is something that some more skilled werewolves in his canon have used to remove memories from others or extract subconscious memories from those who have repressed them.
• Response to light: If caught on camera with a flash, Derek's eyes will glow brightly making his face almost indistinguishable on film.
• Control: Derek has complete control over his transitions and the bloodlust that comes with the full moon. He can transition completely or halfway at will, with or without the full moon's presence.
• Transition: 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.

● strengths: Derek is very resilient both physically and emotionally. He's been through a lot in his life, in fact people have tried to kill him on several occasions — including actually dying near the end of his tenure on the show — but he's always bounced back, either with the help of others and his healing abilities or via his evolution as a werewolf. In Beacon Hills, Derek has learned that being a lone wolf just doesn't work and his few weeks in the Alpha Complex only solidified that because he'd literally needed the help of others now and again during terrorist attacks when he felt fairly useless with the lack of his werewolf abilities to help. Now, he's much better about being a part of a team than he used to be. He's also a lot more inclined to help people he doesn't know if they need it, because he's been on the receiving end of help from strangers that saved his life in the Complex.

He's smart and resourceful, another thing that only intensified while in the Complex. He's a support system. Back home, he tended to be the support for Scott McCall's pack both because he wanted so badly to be a part of something that he bent over backward to help even if it wasn't in his best interest and because he tended to be someone they turned to for advice — of that group, he's one of the few born werewolves available to give that information.

He likes to pretend that he doesn't care about other people, but that's a facade; he sometimes cares a little too much. When Derek decides someone is part of his pack, whether they realize it or not, he becomes incredibly protective of them. When he falls in love with someone, he falls hard and fast and he isn't afraid of letting people know that he cares about them.
● weaknesses: Derek has trust and abandonment issues. He feels very much that everyone he cares about gets hurt and because of that combined with those trust and abandonment issues, Derek tries — keyword being tries — to keep people at an arm's length.

Because he's so willing to put himself out there once he's decided someone belongs in his inner circle, he can be very prone to manipulation. He's impulsive and reactive, so he tends to make brash and poor decisions that typically end in the loss of people he cares about — in some cases, because they've been killed.

Derek always puts his safety and best interests on the backburner in favor of others, sometimes even though they don't actually always deserve it. While he's definitely got self-preservation instincts, he also doesn't always believe that he's worth saving and, because of that, he'll put others first more often than not.

● skills (optional): While Derek doesn't have military background, he'd still be interested in the Perimeter Guard. So the skills applicable that he'd have: quick thinking and reflexes. His werewolf abilities make him a lot more durable in battle when needed. Beyond his natural werewolf abilities, he's actually very good with a gun, now, having been taught how to use one by a mercenary and, coming from Alpha Complex, he'll be arriving with a laser gun that can do quite a bit more damage in a more precise manner, which he received standard issue on his first Troubleshooting Mission at the Complex. He's better at following the instructions of a female superior given that he was raised in a matriarchal pack and feels like women make better leaders, but he's still good at falling in line when he needs to do so. (I'm aware that there's a separate thing to fill out for Perimeter Guard, so that's something I'll check into if/when I'm accepted).
● housing (optional): no preference

● network username: d.hale

● network sample: From CRAU setting | Non-CRAU

● prose/action sample: From CRAU setting | Non-CRAU