Derek Hale

Character: Derek Samuel Hale. Derek Hale is an evolved werewolf, he can transform into an actual wolf and he’s much stronger than werewolves and average alphas. Age: 23 Species: Werewolf Appearance: Derek is a tall, muscular man with black hair, blue-green eyes, and olive skin. He tends to wear simple, casual clothes such as boot-cut jeans, henley or v-neck shirts in neutral colours, a black leather jacket, boots, and he typically has either facial stubble or a scruffy beard. He's also notable for having a black triskelion tattooed on his back between his shoulder blades to remind him that all Werewolves, whether Alphas, Betas, or Omegas, have the potential to rise to one rank or fall to another. In his full wolf form, his fur is completely black, and his eyes are bright blue. Personality: When Derek was first introduced, he was a sullen and aggressive Werewolf who was beaten down by grief and survivor's guilt following the Hale House Fire and the murder of his sister, Laura. He was prone to threats and anger and had very little patience for the newly turned Scott McCall and his teenager ways. He used violence and fear to train Scott in being able to survive being hunted by the Argents and the Alpha and was vehemently against Scott's relationship with Allison Argent due to him projecting his own unresolved issues about his relationship with Kate Argent onto them. These personality traits only became more amplified after he became the Alpha, as the power he gained in conjunction with the fear caused by the Alpha Pack's imminent arrival caused him to behave harshly to the Betas around him, using fear, violence, and pain to try to teach them how to survive the threats to Werewolves in the area. His power struggles continued to become even more immense after his packmates were either killed or alienated from him during the Darach and Alpha Pack battles, which made him lose all confidence in himself. The one trait that has remained constant is his selfless nature and his desire to protect the innocent people around him. Despite his frustration with Scott and Stiles Stilinski, he still went out of his way to protect and save them, often at great physical risk to himself. This only became more pronounced after he lost his Alpha abilities, because once the pressure was off of him to lead the town's supernatural community, he was able to relax and mellow out, allowing him to act as a more patient and compassionate mentor to Scott after he ascended to his status as True Alpha, and sharing with him and the rest of the pack members the wisdom he had gained from his years as a born Werewolf. Backstory: Derek was born the middle child of renowned Alpha Talia Hale and her unnamed husband on the outskirts of Beacon Hills, California in the mid-late 1980s. As a member of a centuries-old and highly esteemed Werewolf bloodline, he was raised along with his sisters Laura and Cora and his uncle Peter to see lycanthropy as a gift. At some point near the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, while he and Laura were at school, Kate and her co-conspirators set fire to the Hale House while the majority of his family was trapped inside. His mother Talia and between seven and ten additional people (according to two differing reports) died in the fire, and there were only two survivors: Peter, who had second and third-degree burns over the majority of his body that caused him to go into a coma for six years while he healed; and Cora, who, at just eleven years old, went on the run and fled Beacon Hills under the mistaken impression that none of her family had made it out of the fire alive. In his teens, Derek was typically carefree, fun-loving, and extroverted among his high school peers. He was a hopeless romantic, falling in love with fellow student Paige Krasikeva. He was devastated, broken, and wracked with guilt when he was forced to mercy kill her to spare her an even more painful death from rejecting the bite given to her by Ennis. While still in a vulnerable state from this tragedy, he was seduced by Kate Argent in her quest to murder his family. He believes this to be his fault even though in both cases he was a victim of others' manipulations. After these incidents, Derek expresses most of his emotions as anger and displays symptoms of PTSD. He's quiet, brooding, and prefers taking action to making plans. He's initially seen as a villain by Scott, but underneath his hardened exterior Derek hides a great deal of pain, loneliness, and a strong desire to help others avoid his fate. Despite being a victim of multiple assaults, betrayals, and manipulations by others where his will and volition are stripped away and his body is used by others for their own ends, Derek persistently endures the horrors he comes up against and refuses to give up, continually working to try and protect people. Derek is naturally quiet, sarcastic, brooding, irascible and prefers his own company, but possesses great strength of character. Upon rising to alpha status, Derek exhibits hotheadedness from the rush of power and expectation that he'll be able to protect the people he cares about from any enemy. He is unprepared for the responsibility of leading a pack, and his inexperience is reflected in the losses both he and his pack experience. With the exception of Jackson, he forms his pack as a sort of chosen family in order to help outcasts who are as lonely as he is. When faced with the threat of the kanima, he is pushed into running aggressive training sessions for his betas in hopes that it might give them a chance to survive. He prefers taking action against the kanima instead of making extensive plans in order to minimize the casualties that were piling up. This rashness led to suspecting that Lydia was the kanima based on a false positive result from the test he was using to discover the identity of the kanima. 149160 mediumDerek becomes more reserved after dealing with the kanima, Scott's betrayal, and enduring a long summer searching for his betas. Upon discovering his younger sister Cora being alive and well, Derek starts to show more of his emotions. He cares for Cora, is protective of her, and cares about what she thinks of him. After the death of Erica and being used as a weapon by Kali and the alpha twins to kill Boyd, he is shattered. To save Cora from death, Derek decides to sacrifice his alpha status to heal her as instead of helping him to protect the people he cared about, it only made them a bigger target. Now, Derek has greatly matured. He takes on a similar role to the other adults, working with them as well as independently, and as a mentor to the teens. Derek's mother, Talia Hale, was the Alpha of the Hale Family and guardian of Beacon Hills. He had an older sister Laura and his younger sister Cora was born five years after him. His uncle Peter watched out for Derek and sometimes acted as a bad influence on him. Having been born a werewolf, and his family being prominent due to his mother's powerful shapeshifting ability, Derek came into contact with multiple packs. In his teenage years, Derek attended Beacon Hills High School where he played basketball. One day when he was fifteen, he was practicing basketball in the school hallway with his teammates. A girl walked out of music practice complaining about the noise they were making interrupting her cello lessons. Derek got on her nerves but later apologized. She told him she would tell Derek her name if he could play one instrument in the music room. He tinged a triangle. Paige introduced herself. Despite having got off on the wrong foot, Derek entered into a romantic relationship with Paige. He began to fall deeply in love with her, and she with him. Their favorite spot to escape to was an abandoned distillery outside of Beacon Hills. At some point, the Argent family of hunters came into town, hunting a feral Wolf from a neighboring Pack. Derek was caught up in the skirmish and witnessed the werewolf being shot through the throat by a hunter . Peter found him, they fled and kept themselves safe, following the issued instructions werewolf are taught if they are to come across hunters: "hide and heal". They hid in a tree root cellar for two days. Though they didn't know it, they'd hid in the Nemeton. Now, Derek is an evolved werewolf with the ability to shape-shift into a real wolf, just like how his mother could.

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