Derek Hale

* Human
* Werewolf
* Evolved Werewolf

**Derek Samuel Hale** is the son of the renowned Evolved Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and an Samuel Clarke, and is also the younger brother of Laura Hale, the older brother of Cora Hale, the nephew of Peter Hale and the maternal cousin of Malia Tate. He is the husband of Aurora Pierce and the father of  Talia,  Bexley,Clarke, Declan, and Emery Hale. He is the uncle of Bonnie Hale. He is the brother-in-law of Lila Pierce, Chris, and Kate Argent.

As a born Beta Werewolf in the centuries-old Hale Pack, Derek grew up knowing about the supernatural and embracing his lycanthropy. Derek is a member of the **Hale Family** and the **McCall Pack** as well as a former member of the **Hale Pack**.

## Biography

Derek was born the middle child of renowned Alpha Talia Hale and her husband, Samuel Clarke, on the outskirts of Beacon Hills, California in the late 1988. As a member of a centuries-old and highly esteemed Werewolf bloodline, Derek was raised along with his sisters Laura and Cora and his uncle Peter to see lycanthropy as a gift.

When he reached high school in 2003, he joined the Beacon Hills Cyclones basketball team. However, when he first came into his powers in adolescence, he had great difficulty learning to control his transformations during full moons, even despite the fact that he was able to maintain control at any other time, nearly exposing himself during a basketball game that happened to fall on a full moon.

Talia attempted to train Derek to stay in his human form by using a large bronze coin stamped with a the symbol of the Hale Family, the triskelion, which she claimed was a powerful talisman for control when used with the mantra, "Alpha, Beta, Omega." Unfortunately, since Derek knew there was nothing actually magical about it, it did little to help him, which led Peter to teach him to use anger, rage, and hatred as an anchor to his humanity, a method which ultimately worked, though it wasn't exactly the healthiest coping mechanism. This caused him to be a generally angry person in general who had a hard time connecting with others as a result.

One night when Derek was a teenager, he was running away from Argent Hunters when he ran into a Beta who belonged to Ennis' original pack. Before they could fully identify each other, the Hunters caught up with them and shot the Beta through the neck with an arrow. Derek was too stunned to react and only avoided the same fate due to Peter's timely intervention at the last moment. The boys rushed over to a nearby root cellar to "hide and heal," as was the Werewolf protocol for when they were caught by Hunters and wanted to avoid drawing the danger to the rest of the pack. Unbeknownst to Derek, however, the root cellar was actually built around the roots of the Nemeton, a powerful tree used as a sacred meeting place for Druids.

A short time later, after Derek and Peter had returned home, Derek met a quiet, shy girl at school named Paige Krasikeva, who he immediately took a liking to after she proved immune to his put-on cocky, jock-like demeanor. They soon fell in love with each other and spent as much time as they could together, even if it meant that Derek was just watching her practice the cello in the music room. For unknown reasons, Peter remarked to Derek that their relationship would be doomed if she ever found out that he was a Werewolf, and claimed the only way that he could prevent that from happening would be if she was given the bite and turned into one of them. Peter thought they should take advantage of the fact that several Alphas were in town meeting with Talia, including Deucalion, Kali, and Ennis, since he knew that Talia wouldn't give Paige the bite without Paige's informed consent.

With this in mind, Peter later arranged for Ennis to bite Paige, as he had lost one of his Betas to the Argents already and believed that doing a favor for Derek would put him in Talia's good graces. However, after luring Paige to the high school, Derek was only able to listen to Paige's terrified screams for a few moments before he decided to intervene and stop Ennis from biting her. Unfortunately, Derek was only fifteen and a Beta at that time, so not only did he stand no chance against him, but he arrived too late to change anything—Paige had already been bitten and was fearfully crawling away. In a not-uncommon twist, Paige's body rejected the bite, and black blood began to pour from her nose and mouth, forcing Derek to bring her to the Nemeton's root cellar to hide out while he figured out what was going on.

Derek took as much of Paige's pain as he could, but when it became clear that she was dying, she admitted that she always knew Derek was different because of his Werewolf mannerisms, such as remarking that he had "caught a scent" and could "hear things that no one else could hear," and added that she had also seen a lot of phenomena that couldn't be explained throughout her life in Beacon Hills. After she confessed her love for Derek, Paige then begged him to kill her to end her suffering, and though Derek refused at first, he eventually agreed to forever relieve her of her pain by using his Werewolf strength to snap her spine.

However, since he took the life of an innocent human (however consensual it may have been), Derek's previously gold Werewolf eyes turned blue to indicate that Paige's death had darkened his soul. What Derek didn't realize was that he had killed Paige in the Nemeton's root cellar, spilling her blood onto the roots and inadvertently sacrificing a virgin to the tree. It was the power that Paige's life force gave the Nemeton that allowed Julia Baccari, later known as Jennifer Blake, to survive her wounds at Kali's hands (as Kali needed to become an Augmented Alpha by killing her entire pack, including her Druid Emissary, Julia, as her initiation into Deucalion's new Alpha Pack) until she was found by the police.

Derek continued to struggle with controlling his transformations on the full moon, though he refused to let it stop him from playing on the Beacon Hills High School basketball team.

In 2004, Derek met Aurora Pierce, the developed feelings for each other but the two avoided their feelings. At one of the basketball games, Derek was trying to focus on his transformation. He was flirting with Aurora during a break and she was flirting back. Derek went back to his game, he was playing basketball and listening to Aurora's heart beat when he heard it start beating faster then it normally did when she cheered. Derek started looking around the basketball court when he heard Aurora telling someone that they was hurting her. Derek took off out the basketball court, worrying his family who thought that he was loosing control.

Derek ran into the locker room where Noah was shifted and holding Aurora by the forearm, digging his claws into her arm. Derek told him to let go of her, Noah told him to mind his business. Derek growled at Noah and pulled him off of Aurora, throwing him across the room. Derek went to attack Noah but Aurora grabbed his arm, Noah ran out the room. Derek asked her if she was okay without looking at her. She told him to turn around but he wouldn't look at her. He smelled the blood and turned around to look at her, his eyes glowing blue. When he walked towards her she stepped back slightly and Derek frowned. Derek stepped back and his eyes went back to their green color when the door opened and Talia and Laura rushed in.

Laura seen Aurora's bleeding arm and asked what he did, Aurora assured her that she was fine and that Derek didn't do. The Hales didn't believe them and Talia dragged Derek out of the locker room.

Later, Derek was in his room when Talia walked in, she explained that Noah's mom called and told her that it was Noah that attacked Aurora, she apologized for not believing that it wasn't him. Derek told her that it didn't matter that Aurora was scared of him that she seen his blue eyes. A little while later, he met and started to date Kate.

At the party, Aurora and Derek ran into each other at a party and Aurora got mad and started to drink a lot. She was drunk and didn't want to go home and face her mom so Derek took her back to the Hale house and snuck her into his room along with Colette, who was with Laura.

The two started to argue again and Derek told her to shut up before his parents heard them talking about Kate. Aurora performed a spell so the other werewolves couldn't here them. She admitted her feelings for him, telling him that she didn't want him with Kate then kissed him. He pushed her away as his mother busted into the floor, worried since she couldn't hear them arguing anymore. Aurora threw up in Derek's garbage can. Talia told Derek that Aurora was his responsibility and they would talk in the morning then left his room.

Derek got her into bed and went to leave the room, she grabbed his hand and asked him to stay with her. Derek sighed and got into the bed with her but stayed outside the covers while she was under them.

When they woke up the next morning, Aurora tried to crawl out Derek's bedroom window and Laura pushed his door open saying that both their mothers are waiting downstairs along with Bonnie Destiny. Aurora, Derek, Laura, and Colette went downstairs to found most of the Hale family along with Raven and Bonnie. Lila sat next to their mother with a giant grin on her face.

Freya had them all hang out and Derek invited Kate, and Aurora brought Faye. The two getting jealous of the other being someone, Derek and Aurora started to argue outside the restaurant. Derek asked what her problem was and she told him that she doesn't know and she was leaving. Aurora went to leave when Derek reminded her that she came with her girlfriend.

At some point near the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, while Derek 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, not even Derek or Laura.

Derek, too ashamed to tell his family that he accidentally made it easier for Kate to attack them by dating her, left Beacon Hills with Laura and moved to New York, where they lived together for approximately six years until 2011, when strange animal attacks drew them back to their hometown. Laura came to Beacon Hills first, after she was sent a photo of a dead deer in the preserve that had a spiral burned into its fur. After not hearing from Laura for a while, Derek travelled to his hometown to check on her, only to find that she had been killed by an then-unknown Werewolf and her body cut in half post-mortem by Argent Hunters to ensure she would not be able to heal and revive herself.

After the majority of his family was killed in a house fire set by Kate Argent and her co-conspirators when he was in his late teens, Derek and his sister Laura fled to New York for several years before they were both lured back home in early 2011.

Shortly afterward, Laura was murdered in order for her killer to steal her Alpha powers, forcing Derek to track and battle against this mysterious and vengeful new Alpha, only to learn that it was actually his uncle Peter Hale, who sought to create a new pack with which to get revenge on those who orchestrated the Hale House Fire. Upon learning that Peter's killing of Laura was premeditated and not an accident like he claimed, Derek teamed up with Peter's first Beta, Scott McCall and his friends, along with Hunters Allison and Chris Argent, to kill him. It was Derek that gave him the killing blow in retribution for killing Laura, which caused Derek to gain Peter's Alpha status.

Derek later discovered that Aurora had used magic to bring Laura back to life.

Sometime later, when Derek realized the Alpha Pack intended to recruit him, Derek began biting and turning several teenagers in hopes of building his own pack to help fight against them. Recipients of Derek's bite included Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, and Vernon Boyd III, though only the latter three actually joined the pack. In Season 3, Derek's pack expanded to included Peter and his newly-returned younger sister, Cora, but his pack was short-lived, as the rest of his Betas were either killed (in the cases of Boyd and Erica) or left the group (such as Isaac, who subsequently joined Scott McCall's new pack after he ascended to True Alpha status).

Derek forfeited his Alpha status in order to heal Cora from mistletoe poisoning, returning him to Beta status. Though he left town shortly afterward for several weeks, he later returned to Beacon Hills a much more relaxed and content man, and he even eventually joined the McCall Pack. After the events of the Deadpool and his surprise development into an Evolved Werewolf, Derek once again left town for a while, where he was presumed to be traveling with his then-lover, Braeden, a mercenary and former U.S. Marshal, for some time afterward.

However, he did come back in Season 6B after hearing that Scott needed his help, and bumped into Stiles (who was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Quantico, Virginia) on the way back to Beacon Hills; Derek had been framed for several mass murders that were actually carried out by Hunters against supernatural creatures, part of Gerard Argent and Tamora Monroe's international crusade to commit genocide against them. Two years after the defeat of the Anuk-ite and temporary win against Monroe's Army, Derek was seen still being an active member of the McCall Pack who was aiding his friends in finding orphaned supernatural creatures like Alec and welcoming them into their ranks.

## Physical Appearance

Derek is a tall, muscular, and handsome 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 colors, a black leather jacket, and boots, and he typically has either facial stubble or a scruffy beard. He's also notable for having a black triskelion tattooed between his shoulder blades.. In his full wolf form, Derek's fur is completely black, and his eyes are bright blue.

## Personality

He has a selfless nature. Derek puts a lot of pressure on himself to protect the people he cares about, and when he temporarily lost his Werewolf powers, he was very worried that he wouldn't be able to be helpful to the pack due to essentially being a mundane human. However, unlike his uncle Peter, Derek does not look down on humans or believe them to be lesser to supernaturals, because he understands that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses regardless of their species.

### Current Powers

* **Super Strength:** As a Werewolf, Derek possesses superhuman strength which allows him to perform incredible physical feats such as breaking and snapping thick chains, punching through solid stone walls (such as the very thick marble walls that surround the vault at First National Bank), lifting grown adults and throwing them through solid surfaces and across rooms with ease. Because he is a born Werewolf, Derek has had many years to hone this ability, allowing him to easily defeat younger or newly-bitten Werewolves in fights. After successfully transitioning into an Evolved Beta Werewolf, Derek was able to use this strength to completely destroy a Berserker by ripping the bear skull that covered its face apart with his bare hands.
* **Super Speed:** As a Werewolf, Derek can move, run and react at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete. Derek has utilised his animalistic speed to perform feats such as outpacing a moving vehicle (when he was wanted by the police), and when he and Scott were tracking Boyd and Cora after they escaped the vault at First National Bank. Derek is also able to utilise his speed when running on all fours in Werewolf form; Derek is especially skilled at loping on all fours due to his many years of experience.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes :** As a Werewolf, Derek can jump from a height of several stories and land lightly on his feet, leap across large ravines, and perform a multitude of challenging acrobatic and gymnastic feats. This heightened agility also extends to Derek's reflexes, allowing him to catch arrows in mid-air and quickly dodge punches or bullets. Like Scott McCall, Derek has incorporated gymnastics into his fighting technique so that he can use handsprings, spinning kicks, and front and back-flips to harness more power to be used in his strikes, as well as to prevent himself from being unnecessarily injured while being thrown around.
* **Super Durability:** As a Werewolf, Derek is much more durable and resistant to blunt force trauma than a normal human, as evidenced by when he was pushed over a ledge by Ennis and fell at least three stories before landing on the escalator below without sustaining fatal injuries. He is also somewhat more resistant to cuts by sharp instruments as well, such as when he had his abdomen clawed out repeatedly by Boyd and Cora when they were in the middle of a full-moon-induced violent frenzy.
* **Super Senses:** As a Werewolf, Derek can use his glowing eyes to see in total darkness, across long distances, and to perceive supernatural phenomena that cannot be seen with human eyes, such as Kitsune auras and the Nemeton when it is shielding itself. He possesses an extremely acute sense of smell that allows him to track animals, human, and supernatural creatures across long distances solely by scent, so long as the scent isn't washed away by rain or overpowered by stronger scents like chemicals. This ability also allows him to discern the emotional state of others by interpreting the chemosignals in their scents. Also, Derek has a very heightened sense of hearing, granting him the ability to hear whispered conversations from hundreds of feet away, sense approaching enemies, and, with some degree of accuracy, determine truth from lie by listening to a person's heart beat while they talk. Because Derek is a born Werewolf and was raised in a family of Werewolves, Derek's senses have been honed to near-expert levels, making him one of the strongest supernatural trackers in the series due to his ability to quickly interpret sensory information by using a combination of his heightened senses. As a result of his expertise, he has also mentored several supernaturals to help them hone their own super-senses, such as Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Malia Tate, and Liam Dunbar.
* **Accelerated Healing:** As a Werewolf, Derek possesses the ability to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments, and more severe wounds within hours. This ability also extends to his immune system, granting him immunity to all human diseases and conditions, as well as making him unable to become drunk on alcohol or high on drugs as a result of his body healing his damaged cells too quickly. Derek has been shown to rapidly heal from injuries as minor as cuts or broken bones and as major as having a steel pipe shoved through his chest for a long period of time, or having his lungs clawed up by the Alpha.
	+ **Longevity**: As a Werewolf with an accelerated healing ability that heals and replaces dead, dying, or aging cells at a constant rate, Derek has a highly extended lifespan and will maintain his youthful appearance for much longer than a normal human. The oldest known shapeshifter, Satomi Ito, is over 110 years old and maintains the appearance of a woman in her late 50s or early 60s, indicating that Derek and other werecreatures could possibly live several decades into their 100s if they are not killed first.
* **Shapeshifting:** As a Werewolf, Derek has the ability to partially shift into a wolf by transforming his body, giving him a ridged brow, pointed ears, thick sideburns, retractable claws and fangs, and glowing eyes. His eyes were originally Beta gold before turning blue after he mercy-killed his high school girlfriend Paige Krasikeva. He then had red eyes for six months or so while he was an Alpha, before giving up his status to save his sister Cora and returning to blue eyes once again. His eyes returned to their original gold color after he returned to his normal age following being de-aged back to his sixteen-year old self by the then-Werejaguar Kate Argent until he regained his blue eyes once he completed his evolution into a Werewolf with advanced shapeshifting abilities.
	+ **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Derek also possesses the rare ability to fully-shift into a real black wolf with glowing blue eyes, an ability that he didn't gain until the end of Season 4. He is the only Beta Werewolf to be shown to full-shift into an actual wolf, though it is assumed that he at least partially inherited this power from his mother Talia Hale, who was an Evolved Alpha Werewolf along with her eldest daughter and Derek's older sister Laura.
* **Pain Absorption:** As a Werewolf, Derek possesses the ability to absorb the pain of animals, humans, and supernatural creatures by touching the person's skin with their hands. This ability manifests as dark veins that creep up Derek's hands and arms until they reach his chest and neck, depending on how much pain he absorbs. Derek once took this ability so far that he actually transferred his Alpha "spark" to his sister Cora, which was used by her body to heal her from her mistletoe poisoning. Derek has used this ability more than any other Werewolf in the series aside from Scott.
* **Animal Instincts:** As a Werewolf, Derek is an apex predator, and can thus assert dominance over lesser animals such as dogs, cats, and deer to command them to do what he wants, such as to stop barking or to go away. Derek has used this ability to make a dog stop growling at him on at least two separate occasions.

### Former Powers

The following are powers Derek possessed as an Alpha that he no longer has after giving up his Alpha "spark" and returning to the rank of Beta.

* **Power Granting:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to turn humans into shapeshifters (typically Beta Werewolves) via "the Bite." He used this ability to turn Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, Vernon Boyd, and Victoria Argent into Werewolves, though the latter was through an accidental bite while the two were fighting each other. However, this ability does not always result in the human turning into a Beta Werewolf, as Jackson was initially turned into a Kanima due to his unresolved identity issues prior to being successfully transitioned into a Kanima-Werewolf hybrid. With this power, Derek could have also turned people through a scratch if his claws went deep enough, though he never used the power this way while he had it.
* **Alpha Roar:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to use his roar as an offensive weapon to scare away supernatural creatures of a lower rank or to force a werecreature in or out of a transformation. Derek used this roar to stop Isaac from attacking Stiles Stilinski on his first full moon.
* **Healing Disruption:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to cause wounds in Beta or Omega-level werecreatures that partially disrupted their regenerative abilities and thus caused them to take longer to heal than normal. Derek used this ability during a physical fight with Scott McCall, causing claw gashes on his abdomen that took several hours to fully heal.

### Abilities

* **Supernatural Knowledge:** Having been raised in the supernatural world his entire life, Derek has an enormous amount of knowledge regarding supernatural species and mythological creatures. He was able to identify Kira Yukimura as a Kitsune by sight alone, and immediately knew what a Wendigo was when Sheriff asked him about it. He is especially versed in Werewolf culture and abilities, as he was able to intuit that the members of Satomi's Pack possessed the ability to inhibit their scent when he and Malia Tate were unable to find them in the nature preserve, and knew of the ritual to use his mother Talia's claws to communicate with her beyond the grave. He has used this knowledge to help train many new shapeshifters in how to use their abilities, such as Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Vernon Boyd, Erica Reyes, Jackson Whittemore, Malia Tate, and Liam Dunbar.
* **Master Combatant:** Derek is shown to be a highly capable fighter, using his Werewolf instincts and supernatural powers in conjunction with gymnastics. His skill as a fighter allowed him to hold his own against Kali for a period of time, as well as hold his own against the Oni.
* **Expert Marksman:** During his brief time without powers, Derek was trained by Braeden in how to use a .22 Sig Sauer, along with the fundamentals of firearm safety and usage. He learned these skills quickly, and was able to utilize them in a battle against a huge squad of hunters-turned-assassins who decided to partake in the Deadpool hit-list.

## Weakness

* Wolfsbane: The effects of Wolfsbane vary depending on the type, amount and delivery method. It can cause hallucinations, weaken, render unconscious or kill werewolves.
* Mountain Ash: When used properly, Mountain Ash can form an impenetrable barrier to keep supernatural creatures in or out. It can also, according to Dr. Deaton, modify their behavior - keeping them from “causing trouble”.
* Lunar Eclipse: Werewolves are powerless during a total lunar eclipse.
* Mistletoe: Much like with humans, Mistletoe poisons werewolves and can lead to death if untreated.

## Relationship

### Aurora Pierce

Derek and Aurora met in 2004 during their sophomore year, the two developed feeling for each other but avoided their feelings. When Derek started dating Kate, the two quit talking until Aurora got drunk at a party and Derek took her back to the Hale house and the two started to argue about Kate. Derek told her to be quiet before his parents heard her. She did a spell so the werewolves couldn't hear them, she admitted that she loved him and kissed him, he kissed her back until he pulled away, He told her that he couldn't do that, that she was drunk. Talia and Samuel rushed into the room when they couldn't hear the two anymore. Aurora started avoiding Derek again and he confront her about telling him that she loved him then avoiding him again. She told him to forget about it, he had a girlfriend even though Kate was a creep and she had started dating someone else. Freya suggested that they all get together.

## Etymology

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