Derek Hale

***Derek Hale*** (Hebrew: ***Derek Heil*** - ***דְּרֵק הֲיֵיל‎***) is one of the main characters in ***Sonic the Hedgehog: Fangs and Speed***. He is an Evolved Beta Werewolf that was born to a centuries-old and highly esteemed Werewolf bloodline, the Hale Family. Derek is also a member of Team Sonic, being a main muscle member alongside Knuckles the Echidna, and a former member and Alpha of the Hale Pack.

## Early Life

Derek was born in 3250 as a middle child of renowned Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale on the outskirts of South Island, Mobius. 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.

In 3262, during a full moon, due to his lack of control, Derek accidentlly killed an unknown Mobian. Because he took an innocent life, Derek's glowing eyes color changed from bright Gold, to a cold Blue.

At one point, Derek's mother, Talia, encountered Doctor Eggman while he was hurting citizens in the urban area of the South Island. Talia confronted Eggman and demanded him to stop, but he attacked her. Talia immediately fought back and defeated him. Since then, a war began between the Eggman Empire and the Hale Family. In this war, Derek's role was to destroy and burn any of Eggman's bases and headquaters that he finds. Laura later joined him in this role.

In 3269, while Derek and Laura were walking in the woods, Doctor Eggman snuck up to the back side of Hale House with two of his accomplices with a barrel full of gasoline, they poured the gasoline around the house. Then they took a lighter and lit the gasoline, and the whole house started to catch fire, and everyone inside was burned to death. Derek and Laura arrived too late and got to watch their house burning. After the fire was gone, Derek and Laura's glowing eyes changed from Beta Blue & Gold, to Alpha Red. Which means that Talia's Alpha spark passed to them.

After the fire, Derek and Laura found an abandoned ruins in the desert, and stayed there for the next 2 years. But a few months later, Laura dissapeared. Derek searched for her for days, until he finally found her dead in the woods, fatally mauled.

Laura's death was a crisis point for Derek. For the next 4 years he trained non-stop, using fear and anger as his anchor. Desperate to get ready for the day that he will face Doctor Eggman, kill him, and avenge his family.

## Throughout *Sonic the Hedgehog: Fangs and Speed*

As one of the main characters, Derek appears in all 4 episodes in ***Sonic the Hedgehog: Fangs and Speed***.

## Appearance

Derek is a tall and muscular man with black hair, green eyes, and olive skin. He tends to wear simple, casual clothes such as Boot-Cut jeans, a black leather jacket, and shoes, 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 to remind him that all werewolves, whether Alpha, Beta, or Omega, have the potential to rise to one rank or fall to another.

## Personality

Derek is a kind, serious, compassionate, and very intelligent man. But it didn't happen overnight. At the begining, Derek was a brood and aggressive werewolf, filled of grief and anger following the Hale House Fire and the murder of his family. For the next four years, he used violence and fear to train himself in preparation for facing his sworn enemy, Doctor Eggman, and seeking revenge.

However, his encounter with Sonic and his friends eventually made Derek's nicer, friendlier personality come out. Despite Derek's outward personality in the since the fire to the first couple of episodes, the one trait that has remained constant through the series is his selfless nature and his desire to protect the innocent people around him.

When Derek died in episode 4, he finally fully realized that he now has a new family that cares about him. That allowed him to come back to life as an Evloved Werewolf, an ability that is incedibly rare.

## Powers and Abilities

**Evolved Beta Werewolf Physiology;** It is evident that Derek is a formidable and skilled combatant. He exhibits the typical attributes of a Werewolf while also possessing singular abilities as an Evolved Werewolf, like his mother.

* **Super Strength:** Derek possess superhuman strength which allows him to perform incredible physical feats such as breaking and snapping thick chains, throw grown people across a room with ease, and punching through solid stone walls.

* **Super Speed:** ​​Derek can move, run and react faster than any normal creature, and one of the only ones who can keep up with Sonic. Additionally, because of his dexterity, Derek is able to run on all fours, making him faster than if he ran on two legs.

* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** Derek can perform a variety of extreme acrobatic stunts that normal creatures cannot do, such as jumping incredible heights and land lightly on his feet.

* **Super Senses:** As a supernatural creature, Derek's senses of sight, smell, hearing are heightened to a superhuman degree.

1. **Sight:** Derek can use his glowing eyes to see in complete darkness, over long distances, and perceive things that cannot be seen with normal eyes.
2. **Smell:** Derek has an extremely strong sense of smell that allows him to track animals and supernatural beings over long distances solely by smell.
3. **Hearing:** Derek has a greatly enhanced sense of hearing, giving him the ability to hear whispers from hundreds of meters away, and sense approaching enemies. Plus, Derek can tell if someone is lying or not by hearing their heartbeat.

* **Master Combatant:** Derek is shown to be a highly capable fighter, using his Werewolf instincts and supernatural powers in conjunction with gymnastics.

* **Accelerated Healing:** Derek has the ability to heal from very minor to moderate wounds within moments and more severe wounds within several hours.

* **Longevity:** Derek has the ability to accelerate healing and replace dead, dying or aging cells at a constant rate, which means Derek has a very long life span and will retain his youthful appearance much longer than normal creatures.

* **Strategic Thinking:** Derek is gifted with the ability to think strategically. Which he learned this ability from his uncle, Peter Hale, as a child.

* **Pain Absorption:** Derek possesses the ability to absorb the pain of almost every animal, and supernatural beings by gripping tightly their hands. This ability manifests as dark veins that creep up Derek's hands and arms until they reach his chest, his neck and even his face, depending on how much pain he absorbs.

* **Animal Instincts:** Derek is an apex predator, and can thus claim dominance over animals such as dogs, cats, and deer to command them to do what he wants, such as stop barking or go away.

* **Supernatural Knowledge:** Having been raised up in the supernatural world his entire life, Derek has a vast amount of knowledge about supernatural species and other mythological creatures.

### ***Former Alpha Abilities***

* **Granting Power:** Derek used to have the ability to turn almost anyone into a werewolf - usually to a Beta Werewolf - via "the bite".

* **Alpha Roar:** 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 another Beta Or Omega Werewolves in or out of a transformation.

* **Healing:** Derek used to have the ability to perform a ritual to heal others, but at the cost of losing his Alpha Spark, demoting him back to Beta or Omega. Derek used this ability to heal Sonic from a deadly poison injected into his body by one of Doctor Eggman’s robots, and as a result, Derek lost his Alpha spark. By the way, not only that Derek healed Sonic, he also passed him some of his werewolf abilities, giving him some of his heightened senses.

* **Healing Disruption:** Derek used to have the ability to cause wounds in Beta or Omega-level werecreatures to take longer to heal than regular wounds.

* **Memory Manipulation Ritual:** Derek was skilled at using his ability to view of steal someone’s memories by piercing the back of their head with his claws and entering their brain. But even though he is skilled, Derek still has to be careful. Because if he does one thing wrong, the piercing may cause paralysis or death in the one he tried to penetrate.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane:** Derek can be weakened by exposure to wolfsbane, and possibly even killed, depending on what strain it is, the method of exposure, and whether he will be able to take it out in time or not.

* **Emotional Vulnerability:** Despite Derek's kind and caring nature, his traumatic past has left him emotionally vulnerable. His deep compassion for his friends and the weight of his losses may heighten his emotional responses and make it challenging for him to maintain emotional stability in certain situations.

* **Loss of Control:** Derek's intelligence and self-awareness can help him navigate his lycanthropic abilities, but there may still be instances where his emotions overwhelm him, leading to a temporary loss of control. During these moments, he may struggle to manage his werewolf powers effectively, potentially putting himself or others in danger.

## Relationships

### ***Friends/Allies***

* Sonic the Hedgehog (Best Friend, Team Leader)
* Miles "Tails" Prower (Close Friend, Teammate)
* Knuckles the Echidna (Close Friend, Teammate)
* Amy Rose (Close Friend, Teammate)
* Walt Wallaby (Close Friend, Ally)
* Barby Koala (Close Friend, Ally)
* Wombat Stu
* Downunda Resistance
* Laura Hale 💀 (Best Friend)
* Talia Hale 💀
* Peter Hale
* Cora Hale 💀
* 7 unnamed relatives 💀

### ***Enemies***

* Eggman Empire
* Doctor Eggman (Sworn Enemy)
* Metal Sonic
* Kate Argent
* Undentified Bserserker 💀