Lucien

ENFJ. 3w2. **Park Jimin**. Ailee. Iris West. Fred Jones. **Derek Shepherd**. Gwen Stacy. Elle Woods. **Margaery Tyrell**. Kim Possible. Mrs. Maisel. Jaha. Hyun Soo-a (My ID). Parvati (Survivor). Kang So-yeon (Inferno). Lauren (Love is Blind). Rich Stephenson (Community). Amber (A List). **Eve Rothlo** (HTGAWM). Yasmin Khan. Xaro (GoT). Won Hae-hyo (Record of Youth). Faye Miller (Mad Man). Maggie (Charmed). **Silena Beauregard** (Percy). **Helen Blackthorn**.

Alternately blond or black medium straight hair, small and slender, pale, eyes disappear when he smiles, very dedicated dancer and performer, works himself to death, eating disorder, self-conscious and self-critical, hard on himself, very pure and loving and angelic and emotionally open, petty, insecure, craves attention and love. Unique high nasally voice, mothering, peacekeeper, flirty. Circus performer, very flexible and graceful. Grew up in poverty but gained fame and money. Athletic.

## Personality

He is a kind, compassionate, and loving person, as well as loyal and responsible. He considers others, even those she does not know, in her decisions.

Flexible, generous, active, spontaneous, realistic, a giver.

## Physical Appearance

Blonde hair and blue eyes. Black hair and chocolate brown eyes. Brown hair and blue eyes. Pale, beautiful, and petite. He has pale, white-gold hair that falls in ringlets and is often tucked back to show off his pointed ears. He also has blue-green eyes. Has freckles. Wears pink and red armor in battle.

Standing at 5'8.5" and 130 lbs. He is covered in muscle, not very tall, and very slender and lean. His eyes disappear when he smiles, he has short chubby fingers, is extremely flexible, an extremely talented dancer, a mesmerizing mixture of fluid and sharp. He has a high and almost nasally tenor voice.

## Relationships

He and his love would spend some time after first getting together apart, prompting the pair to start writing each other love letters. He is the only person who calls his girlfriend by her nickname, while others use her surname.

## Trivia

He is bad at cooking. He loves mint chocolate chip ice cream. He enjoys dark roast coffee. Bisexual. He can understand and speak Italian.

As a reporter, it is his job to find out the truth. He is very intellectual and an excellent investigator. He follows every lead and rumor to discover the truth behind any story. His background as a psychology student has sharpened his natural wits and intuition. Methodical approach to studying and investigating. Detective skills. Would make a good police officer. Capable tactician and leader. Took over the leadership role. He has creative intelligence. He has a powerful right hook. Since childhood, his father extensively taught him how to defend himself. He has considerable reflexes. He is as badass with a gun as he is with a pen. He is killed in the use of firearms. He is very devoted and protective of his older brother. He can sneak up on people without being noticed. He can tolerate intense pain when needed. He can be very stubborn, and does not like to admit when he is wrong, only doing when he is faced with cold hard facts.

Iris still hasn't learned that she can't talk Barry out of anything once his mind is made up about something throughout the entire series, despite Barry's bad experiences with Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon respectively, Iris and everybody in Team Flash (except Barry) is still fooled by an individual's ability to appear kind-natured, Iris didn't suspect that Clifford DeVoe was a meta-human (even after the Council of Wells informed Team Flash that the latter was the mastermind behind the bus meta-humans) despite the fact that he did not have a criminal record, Iris's concern increased when Barry's suspicions of Clifford increased when he and his wife Marlize lied to his superior officer, David Singh, claiming that he was harassing Clifford (when in truth, he was only conducting the necessary investigation) when Iris tried to persuade Barry to let it go, he refused, even when every member of Team Flash (including Iris) believed Clifford was innocent - Barry's suspicions were proven to be correct yet again; regarding Clifford. Then when Nora West-Allen revealed that she's been working with Eobard to stop Cicada, she stubbornly refused to see the danger of working with him (despite the past numerous times that Eobard has used and manipulated everyone on Team Flash and murdered Barry's mother).

Once getting together with and eventually marrying Barry, Iris provides both tactical and emotional support to him regarding the latter's duties as the Flash, when Cisco and Caitlin grew alienated from Barry for a time; due to the repercussions of Flashpoint, Iris stood by his side. She didn't hold Barry responsible, understanding that he didn't mean to cause so much damage to the timeline and actively tried to help him take down Savitar, Iris is also fiercely protective of her husband, as seen when Clifford and Marlize DeVoe framed Barry for Clifford's murder, she confronted Marlize about destroying their lives and threatened retribution (implying she would resort to murder if angered enough) Iris was also unwilling to trust Marlize to help them prevent the Enlightenment until seeing firsthand how Marlize regretted her actions.

Iris wants nothing more than to help those around her, she is highly intuitive and has an innate curiosity, being amazed and intrigued by the fantastical events that are happening in Central City, particularly the Flash, after becoming a reporter under Mason Bridge, she becomes even more so in investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding Harrison Wells and S.T.A.R. Labs. Iris is more stubborn than her father, Joe and holds true to her morals, despite what others may want of her, she isn't afraid to take risks and or jump into action when need be, as seen when she helped take down Tony Woodward and William Tockman. Her ability to gather and analyze evidence and come to accurate conclusions is also noteworthy.

When Iris finally figures out that Barry is the Flash - and finds out Barry, Joe, and Eddie - individuals she's explicitly trusted all kept it from her, she feels immensely betrayed and disappointed. However, soon after she came to overcome her feelings of betrayal, and proved her worth to the team and reconciled with her father since he pushed for her to be kept in the dark after Grodd's attack.

Iris is proven to care a great deal about Barry since they were kids, having thought of him as a brother-figure, unaware that Barry has actually been in love with her since childhood, as such she can be seen as a little oblivious in regards to Barry's feelings for her until he confessed he loves her, despite being in a committed relationship with Eddie Thawne, Iris showed slight jealousy when Barry started going out with Linda Park, this suggests, and later confirmed, that she is unaware of her own romantic feelings for Barry; though it also shows that on a subconscious level, Iris regrets choosing Eddie, eventually in the wake of Mark Mardon's impending tsunami threat Iris, fear about they were about to die, finally realized her romantic feelings and she and Barry shared their first kiss. However, since Barry inadvertently erased those events she remains unaware of these feelings deep down.

After discovering that Barry is the Flash (although technically for the second time) Iris begins to realize her romantic feelings for the latter.

Upon Iris reuniting with her long-lost mother, Francine and learning of the existence of her brother, Wally West, Iris felt betrayed and angered that her mother kept Wally out of her and Joe's lives, and initially wanted nothing to do with her, although her anger towards Francine was justified, but not her behaviour, as Iris unfairly treated her mother badly; even after the latter explained why she left; was to turn a life around, as she was a drug addict at the time. However, she didn't hold any ill will against her father for not telling her Francine was alive, understanding he was trying to protect her from feeling abandoned. Iris was eventually able to forgive her mother on the latter's deathbed.

He is a no-nonsense death row attorney who prefers the glamorous lifestyle of the most famous city, and trades legal blows with the best of them. Attended the most prestigious college. His relationship with a renowned colleague grew into an epic romance, but came to an end when she left him. Though every now and then he finds himself sucked back into her tangled web of lies, cover-ups, and murder, despite spending years attempting to get over her, and the pain starts all over again.

## Personality

Margaery's beauty was equaled by her cleverness, which she had in abundance. A true protégée of her grandmother Olenna, she was a gifted manipulator who knew how to maneuver her way in court politics. Margaery's strength was in her ability to win the minds and loyalties of her subjects, which had proven to be a threat to those who rival her family, such as the Lannisters. She demonstrated her formidable skill in her charity work to win over the commoners of King's Landing, as well as her manipulation of Joffrey by making him think she was excited by his dark impulses. In return, Margaery gained the acceptance of both her subjects and Joffrey, who was an unpredictable and uncontrollable madman to everyone else, including his mother. This proved to be a threat to Cersei, who only relied on the fear of her family name and her position as a source of power.

Margaery possessed the tact, politeness and - in many respects - political acumen that Cersei lacked. While Cersei was blunt and often rude, Margaery was capable of exuding the courtly behavior and courtesies expected of a queen - while still privately engaging in palace intrigues to increase her family's power. Cersei scorned her status as a woman in a realm dominated by men, though she was willing to use sex as a weapon to seduce those she needs (such as her cousin Lancel). In contrast, Margaery worked *within* the social standards of "proper" femininity in Westeros, but adeptly turned them to her favor, to orchestrate political machinations from behind the scenes. Like most players in the "game of thrones", Margaery's ultimate goal was to gain power - either by sitting on the Iron Throne or being in close proximity to it - but unlike many others, her machinations were not motivated by devious powerlust or a claim to the succession (as a Tyrell, the latter was irrelevant), but simply a desire to secure her family in a place of influence where they could direct political affairs in their favor.

Although Margaery had to develop many different facades depending on who she is trying to manipulate, she was shown to genuinely have a good heart, compassion, and empathy. Margaery had loving relationships with all of her family members: she loved her brother Loras and was entirely tolerant of his homosexuality - to the point that when her father contracted a marriage-alliance between herself and Loras's own lover Renly, she acknowledged that it was a paper marriage, and was quite frank that she had no issues with her new husband continuing his sexual relationship with her brother. In addition, she rather resourcefully suggested utilizing Loras in order to help conceive a child with Renly. She also showed genuine concern for Sansa Stark and tried to form a friendship with her, even offering her help to get out of King's Landing once married to Joffrey - though this may have been in part because she had the more long-term goal of good relations with the North, sensing that the unstable Lannisters wouldn't be in power forever. She shared a very strong bond with her grandmother, sharing her acuity for manipulation and political maneuvering. Though she had developed many facades in order to sway the opinions of others in her favor, she was extremely loyal to her family and house, and would go to great lengths to keep them safe. Though she was willing and able to feign affection for Renly and Joffrey, she genuinely cared for Tommen (she may not have exactly loved him, but it's quite clear that she at least liked him) and bore him no ill will when he failed to stop the arrest of both her and her brother, a feeling which he reciprocated to such an extent that he willingly committed suicide when she was murdered by Cersei.

He was not outmaneuvered.

## Quotes

"*Sometimes severity is the price we pay for greatness.*"
"*The lowest among us are not much different from the highest, if you give them a chance, and approach them with an open heart.*"
"*Lies come easily to you. Everyone knows that. But innocence, decency, concern? You're not very good at those, I'm afraid. Perhaps that's why your son was so eager to cast you aside for me.*"
―Margaery to Cersei after Cersei orchestrates Margaery's arrest and imprisonment.[src]
"*I've had lots of time to think about how good I was at seeming good. All those stories I told myself about who I was and why I did the things I did. There were so many lies in those stories.*"
Unwed son of one of the most powerful lords in the country. He is considered to be not only very beautiful, but very intelligent despite his relatively young age. His family is a loving family, and he has a good relationship with both his parents and his brothers. He has a close relationship with his paternal grandmother, who tutored him in the skills of court intrigue. Many houses and eligible lords want to marry their daughters to him and gain alliance with his formidable house, but his father has been holding out for the most favorable match possible.

Margaery is younger in the books, sixteen at the time of her marriage to Renly making her the same age as Robb Stark. However, Margaery has been further aged in the series, making her slightly older than Robb Stark, as Natalie Dormer is four years older than Richard Madden. The TV series producers enjoyed Dormer's audition so much that they decided to overlook this minor difference. Thus while Margaery is the youngest of Mace's children in the books, TV-Margaery is officially a year or two older than her brother Loras - though in the male-dominated culture and inheritance system of the Seven Kingdoms (with the exception of Dorne), this does not change Margaery's place in line of succession, or significantly change her character.

Margaery's true motivations are not discussed in the books, but the TV series makes her ambitions clear to the audience. This is largely due to the narrative mechanics: Margaery is not a POV character in the books (neither are Renly or Loras), and the scenes at King Renly's army camp are told from Catelyn's point of view - logically, she doesn't see the inside of Renly's tent nor is she privy to Margaery's actions. The TV series has the freedom to expand on the stories of non-POV characters, hence the apparent expansion of Margaery's character. Thus Margaery in the TV series is faithful to Margaery's actions and behavior in the books, it's just that the TV series actually depicts events which occurred "off screen" in the books.

An interesting result of showing Margaery's POV actions is the effect it will have on portraying the sparring between Margaery and Cersei Lannister. Most of the clashes between Margaery and Cersei are shown from Cersei's POV, but Cersei is an "unreliable narrator." Cersei is vindictive and paranoid, and starts suspecting that anything that goes wrong in the capital, both large and small matters, must be Margaery plotting against her, or at least the Tyrell family in general. Intriguingly, at least some of these attempts to outmaneuver Cersei were objectively true, i.e. the Tyrells do try to marry Sansa to their eldest son (Willas in the books, Loras in the TV series) but how much of these plots were actually masterminded by Margaery, or simply Margaery following orders from her father Mace and grandmother Olenna, weren't entirely clear. The inner mechanics of House Tyrell's political schemes in the capital are not directly portrayed in the narrative of the books. Margaery could conceivably have masterminded some of these, while others may have been the actions of House Tyrell as a whole, though Cersei increasingly fixates on Margaery and blames her for everything the Tyrells are planning, because she fears that Margaery is the new young queen who has come to supplant her. Even so, as Cersei's paranoia increases, she starts blaming Margaery for plots which other parts of the books objectively establish that other people were responsible for (i.e. Littlefinger, Varys, the other scheming courtiers, etc.). Due to these events occurring in Cersei's skewed POV narration the books were never entirely clear about which of these were plots Margaery herself directly orchestrated (at least *some* actually were), and which of these plots Cersei irrationally blamed on Margaery even though she actually had no hand in them (at least some events were revealed to not involve Margaery at all). Thus the TV series may end up definitively establishing which events Margaery was or was not responsible for, when this was left deliberately vague in the novels.

The first book, *A Game of Thrones*, features a small subplot hinting that Renly Baratheon was working as an agent to the Tyrells' rising power by trying to bring Margaery to King's Landing. He shows her picture to Ned Stark and asks if she resembles Lyanna Stark, hoping that such a resemblance will convince Robert to cast Cersei aside and make Margaery Queen. A slightly bemused Ned insists that Margaery and Lyanna look nothing alike. Ned thinks it ironic that Renly, who is said to strongly resemble a young Robert, should be smitten with a girl whom he thinks resembles Lyanna. In the second novel, Renly reveals that he and Loras have planned to wed Margaery to Robert.

As Margaery's popularity and influence over Tommen grow, Cersei becomes convinced that the Tyrells undermine the Lannisters; that they conspired with Tyrion to murder Joffrey; and that Margaery is the queen whom Maggy referred to. Driven by her paranoia, Cersei seeks to dispose of Margaery - but not simply kill her as she did with Robert and the previous High Septon; Cersei is aware it must be done in such manner that will not jeopardize the alliance with the Tyrells (at least until Stannis is defeated).

Cersei plots Margaery's downfall directly by arranging for her to be accused of serial adultery. First she sends Osney Kettleblack to seduce Margaery, but he fails because Margaery is always with her cousins and other companions. Cersei tries another plan: she forces Pycelle to admit he has supplied Margaery Moon tea (a contraceptive/abortive potion); next, she extracts a confession by torturing Margaery's singer about the men with whom Margaery allegedly slept; then she instructs Osney Kettleblack to visit the High Sparrow and confess to sleeping with Margaery.

Margaery and her cousins are arrested based on the above false testimonies and are charged with lewdness, fornication, adultery and high treason. When Septa Moelle announces that, Cersei pretends to be shocked and claims that it is impossible, Margaery and her cousins are totally innocent. The septa states that Margaery and her cousins were examined by septas, and it was revealed their maidenhood is not intact; Cersei barely manages not to laugh, because she knows the real reason - Margaery's habit of riding horses (riding a horse astride may indeed cause the hymen to crack). Cersei thinks gloatingly "*I do hope the little queen and her cousins enjoyed those rides of theirs*." She believes that Margaery is doomed and Maggy's prophecy is foiled; but, as happens with almost each and every scheme Cersei comes up with, this one goes wrong too.

The High Sparrow grows suspicious that Osney Kettleblack appears so pleased with himself during the confession. Under torture, Kettleblack breaks and tells the truth: that he never slept with Margaery; he has in fact been sleeping with Cersei; and he killed the previous High Septon at her orders. Together with Lancel's testimony about his affair with Cersei and about Robert's death, the High Septon has enough grounds to arrest Cersei too. Shortly after her visit at Margaery's cell, which she enjoys a lot, Cersei suddenly finds herself in much worse position than Margaery, charged with much heavier crimes.

When word of Margaery's arrest reaches them, her father and Randyll Tarly abandon their military campaigns in the Stormlands and the Riverlands, march on King's Landing with their armies and demand Margaery's release. As the case against her is weak, Margaery is released to Randyll Tarly's custody while awaiting trial for her alleged crimes.

Mace urges Kevan to have Tommen declare that Margaery is innocent. Kevan has doubts about the accusations against Margaery, but he insists on holding a trial - otherwise, he believes that the whispers will follow her for the rest of her life. He explains to Mace that such act will be considered as a defiance against the Faith; they already have enough enemies (Stannis in the north, ironborn in the west, sellswords in the south), hence it will be unwise to offend the High Sparrow and his followers.

## Personality

Although he was sometimes annoyed by his overbearing mother and sisters, he was nonetheless aware of their closeness and had no doubt that all four of his "very girly" sisters would be at his bedside if he were ever hurt or sick. He said that he chose surgery as his specialty for the quiet escape and solace of the O.R. His profound hurt over Mark’s affair with Addison back in New York is compounded by his view of Mark as his brother, the one constant male influence in his life since the death of his father as a child. Probably due to his own background and experience of growing up in a large, happy family, he was much more open to meeting Meredith's "long lost" half-sisters than she was. He had to encourage her to accept Lexie Grey and Maggie Pierce into her life. He took Lexie under his wing and she saw him as the "big brother" she never had.

He preferred the simple life and lived in a trailer despite earning a high salary. He tried to eat healthy despite his hectic schedule and irregular hours and enjoyed being in nature, especially fishing. He tended to brood. He tends to hold grudges.

Derek tended to have high and exacting standards, sometimes yelling at interns and residents for not meeting them. Although charismatic, his reputation has been known to intimidate the newcomers. However, he was also liked by interns and residents due to his willingness to teach and allow them hands-on experience in his surgeries. He disliked the competitive "dog eat dog" attitude displayed by some of the residents and has been known to threaten severe consequences or throw out residents and interns who try to get in on his surgeries through such means.

At Seattle Grace, he managed to stay friends with Addison, even after their divorce, and was friends with Preston Burke, but was left without friends when they both left Seattle Grace Hospital. He was broken up with Meredith, Bailey didn't want to have a drink with him, and the Chief said he didn't drink. With nobody to talk to, Derek started to talk to Mark again, and they slowly began to rebuild their friendship and soon enough became best friends again. After getting back together with Meredith, he became friends with her housemates and friends, primarily Cristina, Alex, Izzie, and George. They were initially antagonistic towards him as they thought Meredith was sleeping with him to get into the OR, but they quickly accepted him after getting to know him. Derek befriended Owen Hunt due to his relationship with Cristina, Meredith's "dark and twisted sister". After a rocky start to their working relationship, they shared a mutual respect for one another and sometimes hung out with Mark, especially when they have "girl problems".

When Richard began slipping back into the state of a severe alcoholic, Derek was adamant about Richard seeking treatment for his condition, even if it meant jeopardizing Richard's career in the process. When the hospital board learned that he'd begun drinking again, they presented to him the option of retiring. Derek, on the other hand, stood by the plan that Richard enter a rehab program, sober up, and return to his position as Chief of Surgery. While still in denial of his predicament, Richard accuses Derek of forcing his problems out into the open so he could get his hands on the position as Chief. While Derek admitted that he did want the job, he still stood by the plan of Richard entering rehab so that Richard could eventually return as Chief. In Richard's absence as chief, Derek assumed the role temporarily.

Soon after arriving in Seattle, Derek met his future wife Meredith Grey at a bar and went home with her for a one-night stand, only to discover the next day that she was a new surgical intern at the hospital. Although she initially rejected his advances as inappropriate due to their working relationship, Meredith eventually agreed to date Derek, although he failed to tell her about his marriage. His charismatic, charming personality and good looks earned him the nickname “McDreamy” among Meredith and her friends. However, their fledgling relationship came to a sudden halt when Addison arrived in Seattle for a consult upon Richard Webber's request. Addison had also brought divorce papers but made it clear that if Derek was willing to give her a second chance, she wanted to give their marriage another try. Derek struggled over his choice, but ultimately, his sense of obligation to his marriage vows won, and he left Meredith to return to his wife.

After a 17-day vacation, Meredith and Derek saw each other for the first time since Burke and Cristina's wedding and they both met Meredith's half-sister, Lexie. Later, Derek pulled Meredith aside to ask if their relationship was over, and she said it was. However, they ended up kissing and having "break-up sex." They later said that their relationship consisted of S&M (sex and mockery) only. Derek, thinking about his addiction to having sex with Meredith, told her that he wanted more; he wanted to marry her and have kids with her, to build them a house and have them settle down and grow old together. He wanted to die in her arms when he was 110 and he wanted them to have a lifetime. Meredith, as she was, said she needed time and walked away, but they continued to have sex. Throughout this, Cristina helped Meredith with her relationship and tried to help her find out what she wanted.

Meredith asked him to live with her, which he agreed to, saying she was flighty like a deer and that they would take baby steps, showing he would show her all the patience she needed. He wanted to force Alex and Izzie to move out, but Meredith didn't, telling him they were her family. However, he said they could stay and that, once again, he would wait until she was ready. When he discovered her mother's diary, he had a conversation with Mark, where his friend asked him about the trailer. He answered that he was more likely to be kicked out by the end of the week, so he keeps the trailer, but she wanted him to stay, so he lends her his trailer so she can read the diary with Cristina, stating that she needs a place where she can be alone.

### Familial

Family is something that is very important to Derek. His decision to work on his marriage was based largely on his sense of obligation to Addison as his family, the woman with whom he shared "eleven birthdays, eleven Thanksgivings, and eleven Christmases." The choice was not as simple as Derek had anticipated, and he found that he still had very strong feelings for Meredith, even as he tried to repair his marriage to Addison. Shortly before Christmas, he confessed to Addison that Meredith had not just been a fling, but that he'd fallen in love with her; Addison was willing to wait it out, although the situation was complicated further when she and Derek took in Meredith's dog, Doc. Although Derek eventually admitted that the problems in their marriage were partially his fault, his love for Meredith continued to make him emotionally distant from Addison.

When Meredith began dating Finn Dandridge, Doc's veterinarian, Derek became so withdrawn and consumed with jealousy that Addison confronted Derek about his ongoing infatuation with Meredith, and even asked Meredith if she was sleeping with Derek. At a hospital-sponsored prom for the chief's dying niece, Derek and Meredith's emotional affair reached the point of no return. After a heated argument in an exam room, Derek and Meredith had sex, but before they could discuss the implications of their actions, Meredith was called away to deal with Izzie, whose fiancé had just died. The next day, Addison found Meredith’s panties, which had been left in Derek's tuxedo jacket, and pinned them to the hospital bulletin board, while Derek went to Meredith's house and professed his love to her for the first time. Their reunion, however, was not immediate.

Initially, Derek felt immense guilt over the breakdown of his marriage with Addison and went to the hotel room where she was staying to apologize. Instead, he was appalled to find out that Addison, in a drunken stupor, had called Mark in New York to fly to Seattle for a "trans-continental booty call." To Derek's disdain, Mark decided to take up a position at Seattle Grace in a bid to woo Addison back. Although he and Addison acknowledged the end of their marriage and began divorce proceedings, Meredith was less certain and decided to date both Derek and Finn before making a decision between the two. While they were dating, Meredith was admitted for an appendectomy, and Finn's concern for her during her illness led Derek to reconsider his pursuit of her. As she recovered from surgery, he told Meredith that he was walking away, freeing her to be with Finn, whom he considered "the better guy." Meredith, however, had already decided that Derek was "the one" for her, and broke up with Finn. She kept the break-up from Derek for another week and made the unfortunate timing mistake of telling him just after Addison had confessed that she and Mark had not just been a one-night stand, as she had led Derek to believe, but had actually lived together for two months after Derek left for Seattle.

## Career

Professionally, Derek is regarded as one of the best neurosurgeons in the world. His services result in two million dollars worth of annual revenue for the hospital. He is a "tumor junkie" and has performed numerous complicated, risky procedures, including a stand-still operation, two double-barrel brain bypasses, and separation surgery for adult conjoined twins. One of his colleagues and patients Isaac once commented that the reason he came to Derek to take his spinal tumor out was because Derek, upon seeing his scans, was inspired rather than defeated. His confidence was shaken slightly when his surgery to repair a gunshot injury on a colleague, Preston Burke, resulted in Burke’s hand developing a tremor, but Derek remains a competent and skilled surgeon who has not forgotten the importance of compassion and bedside manner when dealing with patients. He is liked by his patients and their family members as he has a way of putting them at ease.

Derek's confidence took another blow when he accidentally clipped an aneurysm on a pregnant woman during surgery, remarking that it was unlike him. While Addison is in Seattle tending to her brother, she consults, and Derek suggests a risky procedure, despite knowing nothing of the procedure or its risks, feeling immensely guilty over clipping the aneurysm and will do all in his, or Addison's, power to keep her alive. Unfortunately, she dies later in surgery, upsetting her husband, who calls Derek a murderer in his grief. This sends Derek into a depression. Later, at a deposition, he learns more of his patients have died than survived, which Meredith reasoned was because he often took seriously ill patients who were at their wits' end and had come to him because no other surgeon would operate on them. Nonetheless, he walks out of Seattle Grace.

While in his depression, pushing Meredith away and being almost constantly drunk, Bailey sends Callie and later Owen to try and bring him back. Derek, however, talks to both of them and makes them feel depressed over those who they have "killed", prompting them to start drinking with him, until Richard comes and shouts at him, telling him he is in a much better position than he was. He is promoted to Acting Chief of Surgery after Richard is forced into rehab to keep his job. After Derek orders a patient to be taken off life support against her husband's wishes, the husband returns to the hospital and searches for Derek, shooting several surgeons on his way to him. The shooter eventually finds Derek and shoots him, forcing Richard to take over as interim Chief during Derek's absence from work. Derek returns and immediately quits as Chief, admitting that he hates the job and just wants to go back to being a neurosurgeon. He later tells the counselor that he had wanted to quit for a long time and the shooting prompted him to finally make the decision.

## Notes and Trivia

* He played saxophone in his high school band. He also played guitar.[*source?*]
* He had a scar on his forehead from a motorcycle accident.
* He had a thing for ferry boats.[*source?*]
* He drove a Porsche Cayenne.[*source?*]
* When he first moved to Seattle, the floor nurses described him as "eye candy in a lab coat"
* Derek had five kinds of scrub caps, his favorite of which depicts ferry boats.[*source?*]
* He had a high risk for liver cancer, prostate cancer, baldness, and heroin addiction.
* Before surgery, Derek often said "*It's a beautiful day to save lives*."
* In Here Comes the Flood, Derek mentions that he is a pain specialist. In subsequent seasons he is shown to be a "tumor junkie" who takes on difficult brain or spinal tumors.
* He missed his father every second of every minute of every day.
* He liked to have 16 towels in the O.R. in order to support his arms.[*source?*]
* He walked all his sisters except Amelia down the aisle on their wedding days.
* He made $2,000,000 per year.
* His mortality rate was 1.3%.
* He went to French preschool.
* Likened to a Black-Headed Nightingale-Thrush.

He does not like to be looked at. He can speak out and stick up for himself, and does not merely stand by and do nothing. Kind and caring to others. One of the nicest, and far less shallow and conceited than most of his roommates. Neat freak. He cares strongly for the people he loves. After the death of his girlfriend, he was filled with guilt and sorrow, but it did not stop him from helping his friends and comping clean. An expert rider. Possesses, at least, some knowledge about magic. He is slim, and very beautiful and everyone stares at him. He gets bored of his appearance and changes it often.

## Relationships

In The Bronze Dragon, Charlie has had a not-so-secret crush on Silena for three years, and blushed whenever she was around. As for Silena, she liked Charlie back and flirted with him before a game of Capture-the-flag. Silena and Annabeth plotted to distract Percy and Charles so Charles could ask Silena to the fireworks. When Charlie was captured by Myrmekes, Silena freaked out and sobbed a lot, afraid he would die, and even charmspeaked the bronze dragon awake to save him. After he was saved, Silena gave him a kiss on the cheek, fussed over his injuries, and said that when he defeated the dragon, it was the bravest thing she ever saw him do. Charlie then asked her to go to the fireworks, and Silena was overjoyed and accepted. After this, the two held hands and walked in front of Percy and Annabeth before Silena captured him. Selena and Charlie began dating after this.

In The Last Olympian, the two had been dating for over a year and were fairly serious at that point. Charlie had a picture of Silena in a locket which he kept, and that he looked at when he died. She was very worried about Charlie when he and Percy went on a mission to the Princess Andromeda, and when Percy returned, she asked where he was, with tangled hair and no makeup, which was unusual for her. After she found out Charlie died, Silena was sobbing and devastated and couldn't think about anything else. She became even worse in battle and very distracted. His death was also the reason why Silena stopped spying for Luke, because Luke promised that he wouldn’t get hurt, but he did. When Silena died, her last words were calling out Charlie’s name, and it is revealed that he was waiting for her in Elysium.
Interestingly, their relationship parallels Aphrodite and Hephaestus, because unlike their parents, they were truly in love. Silena is also the only person who called him by his first name, while everyone else called him by his last. She also called him Charlie, which revealed how close the two were.