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Player Name: Jen
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Other characters here: Carrie White, Kara Danvers
Character Information
Character Name: DerekHale Hargreeves
Played By: Tyler Hoechlin
Original Canon: Teen Wolf
Personality: Derek struggles with some mild trust issues and he certainly suffers daddy issues. Given the gap between the ends of the spectrum on which his mother and father's parenting styles laid, Derek is entirely too trusting of women, sometimes to a fault, while being exceptionally skeptical and suspicious of most men's probable ulterior motives. The person with whom he is interacting has a lot more influence on Derek's personality in that interaction than anything else. With few, he's open and warm. With some, he's tolerant and patient. With others, he'll seem endlessly frustrated and annoyed.
As much as he might try to hide it, Derek wears his heart on his sleeve, but more often than not, that's just displaying a brooding, glowering, kind of bitter man who has gotten to the point where the further from being a part of the team he can be, the better. Derek can and will fight the good fight, but he lost the joy in it a long, long time ago.
He's close with a couple of his siblings, but hardly with all of them. With so many brothers and sisters, there are entirely too many opportunities for headbutting and Derek is about as stubborn as they come.
Whether he realizes it or not, the stark differences between the way his parents treated him as he was growing up shaped him into the fierce feminist he is today. He might actually lean gently in the direction of misandry, oddly enough, but for the most part, he just has seen and appreciates that women are just as powerful, intelligent, and hardworking as men and, in his opinion, they have a leg up in that they're not conditioned by society to hide their sensitivities. He's a huge advocate for the women in his life and he's fiercely (and potentially dangerously) protective of his sisters, mother, and his closest friend — the woman who does the styling for the houses he flips.
Abilities & Skills:
Childhood: For the better part of his childhood, Derek resented the cold parenting of the family patriarch. He tried increasingly hard to make himself stand out in the small crowd of his adopted siblings. He struggled with controlling his abilities, especially on the full moon, until well into his teens, at which point, he'd given up on trying to impress his father and make him proud. Instead, Derek began to lean into the relationship he'd built over the years with their much warmer and more caring mother. He's always respected how much she does for them and how much better he always felt after airing his frustrations and receiving her assurances.
As a child and in his tween years, Derek was a team player. He used to enjoy being a part of the team and took pride in being Luther's counterpart on Team B. In his early teens, it stopped being a point of pride to be Team B's Number One, because it didn't seem to matter how hard he worked or how much his control improved; it never seemed to be enough and Team B would never be Team A.
By his mid-teens, Derek was practically counting down the days to their eighteenth birthday so that he could move on with his life and leave the superhero team days in his wake and, in fact, started doing maintenance and odd jobs for some of the local apartment managers by the time he turned sixteen. Derek started saving money to move out two years before it was time to actually do it, hoarding (and hiding) his payments in baggies, lock boxes, and jars in his closet, under floorboards, and in a cutout he'd made in his mattress. At the first chance, Derek left the mansion and got himself a crappy apartment downtown, continuing to work doing odd jobs and helping apartment managers with their maintenance until he'd saved up enough money for his first big, solo project: flipping a house in the suburbs.
Present Occupation: Derek started with doing odd jobs and saving money so that he could attempt to get himself where he is now: he's a house-flipper. ...well, sort of. He buys old, decrepit houses and remodels them. He doesn't do the staging; he would be terrible at that.
Present Residence: Derek lives minimalistically, but he could live more lavishly, if he wanted to, now that he's pretty successful and at least somewhat well-known with the house-flipping.
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Player Name: Jen
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Other characters here: Carrie White, Kara Danvers
Character Information
Character Name: Derek
Played By: Tyler Hoechlin
Original Canon: Teen Wolf
Personality: Derek struggles with some mild trust issues and he certainly suffers daddy issues. Given the gap between the ends of the spectrum on which his mother and father's parenting styles laid, Derek is entirely too trusting of women, sometimes to a fault, while being exceptionally skeptical and suspicious of most men's probable ulterior motives. The person with whom he is interacting has a lot more influence on Derek's personality in that interaction than anything else. With few, he's open and warm. With some, he's tolerant and patient. With others, he'll seem endlessly frustrated and annoyed.
As much as he might try to hide it, Derek wears his heart on his sleeve, but more often than not, that's just displaying a brooding, glowering, kind of bitter man who has gotten to the point where the further from being a part of the team he can be, the better. Derek can and will fight the good fight, but he lost the joy in it a long, long time ago.
He's close with a couple of his siblings, but hardly with all of them. With so many brothers and sisters, there are entirely too many opportunities for headbutting and Derek is about as stubborn as they come.
Whether he realizes it or not, the stark differences between the way his parents treated him as he was growing up shaped him into the fierce feminist he is today. He might actually lean gently in the direction of misandry, oddly enough, but for the most part, he just has seen and appreciates that women are just as powerful, intelligent, and hardworking as men and, in his opinion, they have a leg up in that they're not conditioned by society to hide their sensitivities. He's a huge advocate for the women in his life and he's fiercely (and potentially dangerously) protective of his sisters, mother, and his closest friend — the woman who does the styling for the houses he flips.
Abilities & Skills:
- Special Abilities; 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 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 stated 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.
- Skills; Derek is quite handy and has a propensity toward working with his hands. He uses this skill largely for carpentry and odd jobs.
Childhood: For the better part of his childhood, Derek resented the cold parenting of the family patriarch. He tried increasingly hard to make himself stand out in the small crowd of his adopted siblings. He struggled with controlling his abilities, especially on the full moon, until well into his teens, at which point, he'd given up on trying to impress his father and make him proud. Instead, Derek began to lean into the relationship he'd built over the years with their much warmer and more caring mother. He's always respected how much she does for them and how much better he always felt after airing his frustrations and receiving her assurances.
As a child and in his tween years, Derek was a team player. He used to enjoy being a part of the team and took pride in being Luther's counterpart on Team B. In his early teens, it stopped being a point of pride to be Team B's Number One, because it didn't seem to matter how hard he worked or how much his control improved; it never seemed to be enough and Team B would never be Team A.
By his mid-teens, Derek was practically counting down the days to their eighteenth birthday so that he could move on with his life and leave the superhero team days in his wake and, in fact, started doing maintenance and odd jobs for some of the local apartment managers by the time he turned sixteen. Derek started saving money to move out two years before it was time to actually do it, hoarding (and hiding) his payments in baggies, lock boxes, and jars in his closet, under floorboards, and in a cutout he'd made in his mattress. At the first chance, Derek left the mansion and got himself a crappy apartment downtown, continuing to work doing odd jobs and helping apartment managers with their maintenance until he'd saved up enough money for his first big, solo project: flipping a house in the suburbs.
Present Occupation: Derek started with doing odd jobs and saving money so that he could attempt to get himself where he is now: he's a house-flipper. ...well, sort of. He buys old, decrepit houses and remodels them. He doesn't do the staging; he would be terrible at that.
Present Residence: Derek lives minimalistically, but he could live more lavishly, if he wanted to, now that he's pretty successful and at least somewhat well-known with the house-flipping.
Anything else we should know? N/A