Derek Stingler

Derek Stingler is an Ocean District CRiTORA.
== Bio ==
The Jellyfish CRiTORA. With six cursor tentacles, Derek is a master of doing all sorts of things. They aren't the most social of CRiTORA and can easily be noticed by ViRUSES, however.
===Personality===
To be written
==Physical appearance==
Derek's body is entirely black with outlines in green and leaf green. They have rounded eyes with oval pupils, two rectangular hair fringes, and oval ears. Their skirt is composed by triangular segments, and they have six tentacles, which have rounded joints and cursor-shaped stingers.
===Abilities===
To be written
==In the series==
===Minor appearances===
*In CRiTORA: abnormal's Prologue, Derek appears during Isaac's part of the Infestation Invasion. Derek gets ahold of a green laser tag gun to fight ViRUSES. While they're not shown afterward, for the duration of the invasion, they got infected along with other CRiTORA. They reappear in Chapter 5 as one of the CRiTORA participating in a laser tag round along with Miyamoto, Paratchet, and Rizzo.
==Trivia== 
*They are Daydreaming Birdie's self-insert for the series.
*Derek is one of the few minor characters to undergo significant design changes during CRiTORA's development.
===Design origins===
Derek is based on a jellyfish.
===Name origins===
They are named after Daydreaming Birdie's real name, Derek Spangler. Stingler is a portmanteau between Sting and Spangler.
===Design changes===
When first designed in 2017, Derek was yellow and had glasses and buckteeth. 
In Late 2019/Early 2020, Derek was painted blue and yellow and given segmented tentacles and hair fringes atop their head. For the Pilot season, the blues were replaced with pinks. Aside from a more subtle color palette, not much was changed about their design in 2021.
In Mid-Late 2022, Derek's design was modified entirely, now getting inspiration from binary codes, and given an asymmetrical aspect. In 2023, the prohibition sign cheeks were removed, and their eyes acquired matching aspects.
==Appearances==
===Abnormal ===
*What's this Place?!
===Novels===
* CRiTORA: abnormal (Prologue and Chapter 5)
Category:Characters
Category:CRiTORA
Category:Ocean District
Category:Designed by Derek
Category:Non-binary Characters
Category:Thunder Element
Category:Aquatic
Category:Digital
Category:Created by Derek
Category:Invertebrate
Category:CRiTORA Characters
Category:Cnidaria
Category:They/Them Characters