Derek Carruthers

**Derek Jorge Carruthers** is a forward for the Ottawa Senators. He plays on a line with his boyfriend Andy Bowman and Dan Riley. He is one of the main characters of *Giving In To The Influence*.

## Personal life

He is from Brampton, Ontario. His father's side of the family is Scottish (even if his grandfather was already born in Canada) and his mother's side is Argentinian, even if his mother was already born in Canada.

He’s the baby of the family, with a brother seven years older than him, and sisters five and three years older than him. He has ten nephews and nieces.

He's in a relationship with Andy Bowman and they have a cat in common, Bobsled. Previous to that, he had only dated women (a girlfriend in high school), casually, and had a lot of one-night stands. He had, however, jerked off to guys before.

They came out publicly to the media with Derek making a careless comment, unintentionally. They eventually get married.

After retirement at 33, he moved to Winnipeg to become a "trophy husband". There, he coaches peewee, befriends Blue Bombers and complains about the cold. They stayed for three years in Winnipeg and then went back to Ottawa after Andy retired four years later.

## Playing career

He was drafted in the third round and played for the Ottawa Senators, in the fourth and third lines, until he retired at the end of the 2022/2023 season.

He's had at least one concussion in this career, sustained during the 2016-2017 season on a hit by Sandro Carmen.

## Physical appearance and personality

He has brown eyes and brown hair. He shaves regularly and has experimented with non-playoff facial hair. His eyes are very dark and he is hot. He primps a lot and his style could be described as designer brand everything (but for underwear, where he's a chaos demon who’d wear pink zebra-striped brief-briefs one day and boring boxer briefs the next). In the thicc scale, he is **Pretty big!!**.

He is relentlessly kind, almost annoyingly so. He is also very protective of his friends, family and team. He's an ESFP and in the Global 5-SLOAN Multidimensional Typing System, he would be a SCUEN. His love language is Giving/Receiving Gifts.

## Trivia

* He was a Leafs fan growing up.
* His play is similar to David Clarkson's.
* He's in the "gets into fights and you know he’ll knock a man down" category of fighters.
* He's weirdly good about following his diet, with the exception of alcohol. His healthy food fixation is his most petty little secret.
* In the Canadian Bird debate, he would be in Team ~~shithead~~ Canada Goose.
* He's the fighter in the team.
* He mumbles to himself in Spanish and taps the wall like he’s looking for a hollow spot before games, for luck.
* He's fluent in Spanish and conversational in French.
* He has some terrible tattoos. The only reason he doesn't have a terrible Andy-related tattoo is because Andy won't allow it.
* He's very into Harry Potter.
* Once a one-night-stand took pictures of him and tried to sell them.
* He wears 89 for the year he was born.
* He hums along to obnoxious female Canadian singers.
* His family are terrible trolls.
* In a Hogwarts AU, he would be a Gryffindor.
* He screams at spiders.
* If he were a drink, he would be jelly shots.
* In the reaction to cold scale, he's "I am the Michelin man, you cannot see me through my layers."
* He likes Beyoncé.
* Doesn’t cry at weddings but would cry at his own.

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