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[alphaintraining]

» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Rea
Current AGE: 18
Personal JOURNAL: animegl
IM & SERVICE: NearTheHeart (AIM)
Player PLURK: NearTheHeart
Current CHARACTERS: N/A

» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Derek Hale
Canon & MEDIUM: Teen Wolf | TV Show
Canon PULL-POINT: Post season 2
Character AGE: 24

Character ABILITIES: Derek was born a werewolf, giving him heightened senses (smell and hearing being the most emphasized), strength, speed and healing. These are all things he has even when he’s in human form. But when he transforms, or even partially transforms, he grows a pair of fangs and claws, and his eyes turn red, marking him as an alpha. Being the alpha makes him the strongest type of werewolf out of the three (Alpha, Beta, and Omega). He’s able to give people the bite that can change them into werewolves or kill them. Having a pack makes him even stronger, but that’s not just true for him, because all werewolves are stronger in number than alone. But it’s the Alpha’s duty to lead the pack.

Alphas-unlike Betas or Omegas-also have the ability to fully transform into a wolf, instead of the more human-looking transformation Betas and Omegas have. But, for whatever reason, we have yet to see Derek fully transform so it’s not really an issue.

Derek isn’t affected by the full moon because he’s been trained to maintain his humanity and stop the change during this time. Physically and emotionally, he appears to be completely unaffected, but he’s told Isaac before that he feels every moment of the pull the moon has on them. So, while he feels the urge to shift, he’s able to control it. The way he does it is by having an anchor, something to focus on that helps him remain human. His anchor is, unsurprisingly, anger.

Character HISTORY: Derek was raised in a fairly normal family, and had a fairly normal childhood...Or as normal as growing up in a wolf pack can be anyways. Not much is known about his family or his life before the series starts, so I’m assuming a lot here. What we know if he was raised in a family with both werewolf and human relatives, and that there was a lot of them. Aside from his immediate family he was probably living with uncles, aunts, cousins, and maybe even grandparents. We also know that they all lived in a secluded house somewhere in the forest surrounding Beacon Hills.

Here’s where the trusty headcanon comes in. Being born a werewolf and living apart from pretty much everyone but his relatives, Derek probably wasn’t a very social kid. He had a sister he was close to, and probably some cousins he hung out with, but aside from that he wasn’t out to make himself noticeable. So in high school he took to swimming a lot, both as a way to work off the extra testosterone being a werewolf causes and because it’s one of the few sports he could do without coming into contact with other people who he could potentially hurt. That is, until Kate Argent catches his eye, and suddenly he does want to be noticed-by her.

And he is, and they get close, start dating and everything is great. Or so he thought. But what he didn’t know was that Kate was from a family of werewolf hunters whose legacy goes back centuries and her real intentions were to get close to him as a way to bring down him and his family. She manipulates him all too easily because he’s a teenage boy in love for the first time. Then one night while Derek and his sister were in New York at school-presumably starting college-Kate, along with some help, set fire to the Hale family home, burning everyone in it, werewolf and human, alive. With the rest of their family dead-with the exception of their uncle Peter who was now catatonic-the alpha powers went to Laura, Derek’s sister.

At some point, Derek realizes that Kate was the one responsible, but it’s never clear how he finds that out. But he also never tells his sister the true behind what happened. After the fire Derek and Laura move to New York and stay there for the next six years. Until one day Laura hears about random, vicious animal attacks happening in Beacon Hills, luring her back to investigate. But when she suddenly loses contact with Derek, he’s drawn back to Beacon Hills and his old home to find answers and his sister.
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Character PERSONALITY: Derek Hale is, at first glance, an angry, untrusting, and mysterious guy. He never speaks more than necessary and has a thing about appearing and disappearing in random places (like the boy’s locker room, the lacrosse field, and a high school party) at random points during the day with the purpose of watching and/or cornering someone into an interaction when they’re alone. And while this makes him seem like the biggest creeper ever I’m not gonna lie, he kind of is he usually has a reason for everything he does. He’s just not particularly keen on telling people his reasons unless he deems it something they should know. When it comes to information, whether it’s about himself or just in general, he plays it very close to the vest. It’s not that he’s trying to be secretive, because most of the time he chooses to withhold information because he doesn’t think it’s anyone’s business. But when confronted about things, he can be very blunt and plainspoken.

Another factor that makes him so closed off is the fact that he has extreme trust issues thanks to Kate Argent’s betrayal, which leaves him questioning what motives someone might have for helping him. He believes that everyone has some kind of angle, himself included, in everything they do and so believes that he can’t trust or rely on anyone unless he has something of value that they want. It’s this belied that leads Derek to sometimes exploit people’s feelings or the things/people they care about in order to get them to do what he wants. For Scott, he threatens all the bad things that could happen if he doesn’t let Derek teach him control over his transformation. For Stiles, he uses violence and intimidation, capitalizing on the boy’s fear of him to get him to do things. He even does this to the kids he bites to form his pack, choosing kids with histories of abuse, illness and loneliness so he can tell them how much better their lives would be as a werewolf.

He’s also prone to solving all of his problems through violence. He sometimes uses violence to get what he wants from people, again, Stiles is the best example of this. But he also resorts to violence in other matters, like dealing with the Kanima in season two who turns out to be someone he knows. He’s spent the entire season thus far aiming to kill it, but even after it’s revealed that Jackson is the Kanima and that there might be a way to reverse the effects, he still sticks to his guns, believing that killing him is the better option. He also uses violent measures in order to train his betas, usually by throwing them around or even resorting to breaking their arms on a few occasions to teach them how pain can help anchor them to their humanity.

There’s also a large weight of guilt on Derek’s back from the death of his family. He feels at least partially to blame for bringing Kate into his life and allowing her to use him like she did. And mostly, it’s survivor’s guilt because at this point he’s also lost his sister and feels utterly alone and powerless because he wasn’t there to save any of them. Which is why, despite the distance he keeps between himself and his pack and Scott and Stiles, he truly does care about their wellbeing and has fought many time to help keep them alive, because he doesn’t want to lose anyone else. He feels responsible for all of them somehow. And that’s why when Erica and Boyd finally do leave him at the end of season two, it hurts him. Not just because he’s alone again to deal with his problems, but because he ends up losing people anyways, the only difference this time being is that they’re both still alive.

Derek isn’t one to do something for the hell of it. Everything he does has a reason or a vendetta behind it. He made his pack, firstly, to make himself more powerful and to have allies against the new group of Argents coming into town as well as the pack of Alphas that were coming for him. He hunts the Alpha in season two primarily because he killed his sister and only secondly because he could expose the existence of werewolves to the world. He insists on mentoring Scott because he knows he’s not strong enough to take on the Alpha alone. He has a hidden, usually personal, agenda for everything he does. But he also usually has the best of intentions. His methods are just usually wrong and extremely questionable. But he is a good guy at heart who wants to keep people safe. He’s just not as altruistic or forgiving as Scott is of people. Where others would prefer to talk something out, Derek would prefer to just punch, kick, or kill until the situation is resolved.

Despite all of this, Derek is slowly-and I mean slowly-starting to open up a bit. It’s clear that he has a fondness for Scott, one that isn’t returned, but that’s not completely Scott’s fault. He’s risked himself multiple times to save Scott’s live from hunters, his girlfriend’s mother and his own stupid decisions. Despite wanting Scott in his pack, he really sees Scott more as an equal than as his potential beta. He also cares about his pack a great deal, considering they’re the closest thing to a family he’s had since he lost his own. Even Stiles, who irritates Derek more than anyone else in the show, is seen as an important ally when it comes down to it. They’ve had to work together a number of times and have saved each other’s lives easily as many times.

Despite being stoic and serious nearly 98% of the time, Derek has been shown to have a sarcastic sense of humor, although it’s not one to rival Stiles’ by any means. And since becoming Alpha what confidence he already had has skyrocketed, making him more cocky and arrogant than he was as a beta. At the beginning of season two he was definitely riding on a power high of being in charge and having a new pack, and while he’s come down from that a lot by the end of the season, it’s not completely gone.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Derek is very much a “by his own power” kind of guy. I can’t really see him using a weapon outside of what he naturally has (his claws and fangs). So I think his strength would be the best weapon. It’s something he can develop as he goes along, even though he already has a super human level of strength; he’s nowhere near, like, superhero level of strength. So he has some space in there to grow.
Chosen SKILLSET: Fighter.

» SAMPLES
First PERSON: [Derek doesn’t have any trouble figuring out how the netbook works. He’s never been particularly tech savvy, but its features where simple enough to figure out after a few minutes playing with it. He sets it to voice and begins speaking with a false calm tone, anger and irritation clearly at war despite his efforts to disguise it.]

I’ve gotten the whole welcoming spiel. I know what we’ve been brought here to do. What hasn’t been explained to me is why I should care. I have my own problems to deal with back home. I’m not looking to fight someone else’s battle.

[With that said, he switches the netbook off and lays it on the desk next to him, not curious enough about the responses he’s sure to get to keep it on.]

Third PERSON: Sometimes Derek dreamed about his family. Those kinds of dreams hadn’t been a rare occurrence in the weeks following the fire, but they had started happening less and less as the years went on. In fact, he hadn’t had a dream like that for months now. Not since Laura’s death. Not since he’s been given another family member to mourn and even more nightmares to supply his restless sleep. It usually begins with his mother and father, both doing something equally domestic, cooking, laundry, sitting at the kitchen table talking about their day. Then it’ll move on; Laura will show up, a bright grin on her face that he’ll never see again outside this dream land. A familiar voice will crack a joke behind him and he’ll turn to respond…and the dream will be broken. Instead of facing his funny uncle with his countless jokes and cheer, he comes fast to face with a monster. The Alpha. The beast that used to be his uncle lunged for him, jaws wide open, like he meant to swallow Derek whole. ’Who is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ He heard Laura singing with laughter in her voice. And as sudden as the dream started, it ended.

Derek shot up in his bed, sheets soaked through with sweat and tangled around his limbs. Wiping hair and sweat from his eyes, he fought the covers back and got out of bed. It was only then that he realized his claws had come out sometime during his dream. He stared down at them, watching them retract at will. That dream had been particularly intense, because it usually took a lot more than that to make him loose his control. Picking up his discarded shirt from the ground, he dressed quickly, ears tuning into the rest of the apartment, checking if he’d disturbed either of his roommates. He didn’t particularly care whether he woke them up; he just wanted to avoid having a confrontation with them if he could. He needed to get out, he needed to run, get away, but he didn’t know from what. Probably from himself.

Unbidden the things he said to Erica and Boyd before they left came back to him. ’Once you stop running, you never stop.’ He casted aside those thoughts as soon as they came. He couldn’t afford to worry about his lost pack members right now. He had no way of finding them from here even if he wanted to. Finally, he made it out of the apartment and quickly down the stairs and out into the fresh night air. He inhales deeply, his body humming with new found energy and the intense urge to shift. He pushed it down, as he always did. This wasn’t the place. This wasn’t home. He needed to get out.

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