〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Jen
AGE: 36
JOURNAL: mistojen
IM / EMAIL: mistojen#8486 on Discord; mistojen (at) gmail (dot) com
PLURK: mistojen
RETURNING: Rikki Chadwick

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Derek Hale
CHARACTER AGE: 30
SERIES: Teen Wolf
CHRONOLOGY: Post-series
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: De Chima would be preferable, but random is fine, too!

BACKGROUND: Derek Hale on Teen Wolf Wikia

PERSONALITY: Derek's personality changes depending on with whom he is keeping company. With trust and abandonment issues to put most to shame, he's very careful about who he's willing to let in. Oftentimes, he makes poor decisions in this vein which only perpetuates the issue at hand. 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. For example, his anger at his uncle caused him to slash Peter's throat which then gave Derek the Alpha spark. Subsequent to that, hearing that the Alpha Pack was coming to Beacon Hills, Derek started turning misfit teenagers into werewolves so that he would be stronger for the fight with the Alpha Pack. In the end, one of those werewolves wanted nothing to do with him, one of them ended up in McCall's pack, and two of them ended up dead. Derek still blames himself for that. Eventually, he gave up his spark to save his little sister and that was the point in canon at which Derek appeared to appreciate that he wasn't destined for power and started to give Scott McCall credit where it was due for being a good pack leader.

He's very private and tends to keep to himself if not close to his pack when he feels he has one. In the beginning of the show, Derek lived in the burned out shell of his old family home, moved to an abandoned train depot, and finally into the top story loft of an old, abandoned apartment building he purchased with his inheritance. 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. Two prominent examples of this are his teenage affair with werewolf hunter Kate Argent who, because he trusted her with information she should never have had, was able to murder almost his entire family in a fire she set to their home when they'd locked themselves inside for a full moon and the trust he gave to Jennifer who ended up being the Darach and who had been using human ritual sacrifices to draw more power for herself from the Nemeton, right under Derek's nose.

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. 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 to make that sacrifice. 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. Derek is getting a little bit better about this, but sometimes his character judgment 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. Derek's loyalty has drawn him back to Beacon Hills to fight the good fight beside the McCall pack on more than one occasion after he'd decided to leave Beacon Hills and all of the pain it caused and causes him behind. He's been literally de-aged into his teenage years, killed, and turned to stone for his trouble and he keeps coming back for more. If not for being drawn through the Portal, he probably always would.

That said, the likelihood that Derek will end up joining a team sooner rather than later is high. He's a lone wolf, but it isn't by choice. He'd much rather have a pack and a team would serve as that for him. Derek works much better when he's following a leader than when he's taking on that role and he grew up in a pack where he was raised to believe it was his duty to protect the humans of his town. That might actually be part of why he keeps going back to Beacon Hills to fight.

Some other notable characteristics of Derek's personality are his largely unexpected passive wit. When he makes jokes, however seldom it happens in canon, 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. Once he settles into his new home and makes friends and starts a new life, he's much more likely to actually allow himself to be happy and more of that will come out in him more often.

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, 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. 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.

He grew up in a matriarchal pack. Nothing is known about his father in canon, for example, but his mother was an Alpha who was revered so strongly, other Alphas in neighboring areas would come to her for help or advice. After her death, it's insinuated that his older sister Laura inherited the spark (it's possible that Laura was a True Alpha, however) and after the fire, it would appear that he and Laura escaped to Brooklyn, NY to try to build a new life for themselves, based on the fact that she'd returned to Beacon Hills for answers to what happened with the fire that killed the rest of their family and the fact that Beacon Hills is a town in California, but Derek has a New York State driver's license with a Brooklyn street address.

Even after the death of his mother and the murder of his sister, Derek's still surrounded by strong females. His younger sister is intimidating and holds her own. Allison Argent was strong enough to turn the Argent/Hale rivalry around and, after her death, Derek was able to work closely with Allison's father, Chris, to fight the good fight in spite of the fact that Chris's sister is the one who intentionally set fire to Derek's family home, killing everyone inside, years ago. Lydia Martin is one of the smartest people Derek has ever met and while he's certainly not close with her and, in fact, hardly knows her, he knows that much. His cousin Malia and another Alpha in the area, Satomi, are both incredibly strong and respected by their packs, even though Malia is not the Alpha of her own.

Due to all of his history and the experiences he had being raised in that matriarchal pack, Derek is incredibly feminist, in fact, almost bordering on being a misandrist. He doesn't hate men by any stretch, but he thinks that, with the sole exception of Scott McCall, they're generally the weaker leaders and he's never understood his country's obsession with having a male leader. In his experience, males in leadership are destined to fail: this is evidenced in canon not only by Peter's having bitten and turned Scott as well as biting and unlocking Lydia Martin's banshee and gaining absolutely nothing out of it — Lydia didn't turn into a werewolf and Scott became a True Alpha of his own pack; Peter was killed (and brought back to life) and lost all of his power — but also Deucalion's failure as the Alpha Pack was bested or defected and Derek's own massive failure as an Alpha. He shows doubt in Scott's ability to run a pack until he's proven wrong by season four, and it's only at that point that he starts to give Scott credit as a good leader. It's this belief system that's likely to lead Derek to be especially protective of women, whether he knows them or not, not because he thinks they necessarily need his help, but because he believes they deserve respect and he'll be the first to jump into a conversation to say so if he thinks it needs to be said.

As he's grown older and a little wiser, Derek is more in tune with his weaknesses and he's less likely to go arrogantly into a situation believing the only person who could make things better is him. He no longer craves or wants power, because he's learned that he's not meant to wield it.

POWER: Werewolf Umbrella: 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 won't attempt it lightly and one would be hard-pressed to get him to do so without the informed consent of the recipient. 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, so he's less likely to use this form unless he's prepared for it — he'd be willing to stash his clothes and transition to this full form to have a good run in the woods, for example, but he's not likely to just transition for a fight unless he thinks that he'd be better in the fight in that form.

In slightly more detail than above, Derek can be weakened by several different things. Exposure to 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. A lunar eclipse renders werewolves from his universe completely powerless for the duration; he would effectively be a normal human being. This is the only time a werewolf from his universe can, with normal alcohol, get drunk, because they wouldn't be able to metabolize it fast enough to skip the effects.

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. It's best for all involved if he isn't exposed to this.

Steady application of low amperage of electricity can keep Derek in his human form and weaken him enough to be physically injured and unable to supernaturally heal. Heavy voltage could kill him.

Finally, mistletoe is poisonous to Derek and could make him violently ill, starting with nausea and vomiting and could be fatal in large doses.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [ The video opens and Derek's looking straight at the camera, a sort of neutral expression on his face. Behind him, one can see he's clearly still outdoors. If one is paying enough attention, one might notice the beads of sweat at his hairline and the overall sheen on the rest of his face and neck.

He's just gotten back from a run and he's not feeling terribly satisfied with it. He'd gotten sort of used to a more rigorous routine after visiting Cora and he's missing having the sparring session between runs.

If these people, or at least some of them, are really like him to some degree, surely he can find someone to stand in for his sister in her absence for that, right?

He huffs out a breath without actually meaning to do it, suggesting he's still sort of catching it. ]

Is anybody free right now that might want to spar? I got into a routine back home and I'm sort of missing my partner and I could a use a new one.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: On the TDM

FINAL NOTES: N/A

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