Derek Hale

> "When I see someone hurt, I want to help [...] when they beg for help, I help."
>
> **Derek Hale** to Conri Tlanta

* Human
* Alpha Shift
* Full Wolf Shift

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Landlord
* Architect
* Member of the Hale Pack  (Formerly)
* Alpha of the Hale Pack  (Currently)
* Supernatural Consultant Of The Beacon County Sheriff's Department  (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Sourwolf, Cousin Miguel  (by  Stiles)
* The Alpha
* Alpha Hale
* Lobishomen
* Wolf-Man
* Der, Love, Alpha  (by  Conri)
* Dad, Daddy  (by  Eli)
* Sully, Derbear  (by  Diana)
* Dear Nephew, Der  (by Peter Hale)

### Species

* Werewolf (Originally)  (Beta, Omega & Alpha)
* Evolved Werewolf (Currently)  (Beta, Omega & Alpha)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Talia Hale †  (Mother)
* Laura Hale †  (Older Sister)
* Cora Hale  (Younger Sister)
* Peter Hale  (Uncle)
* Malia Hale  (Cousin)
* Eli Hale  (Son)

### Relationships

* Paige Krasikeva †  (Late Girlfriend)
* Kate Argent  (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Erica Reyes  (Kissed)
* Jennifer Blake †  (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Braeden  (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Conri Tlanta  (Fiancée)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* Jackson Whittemore  (Into A Kanima/Omega Werewolf)
* Isaac Lahey  (Into A Beta Werewolf)
* Erica Reyes  (Into A Beta Werewolf)
* Vernon Boyd †  (Into A Beta Werewolf)
* Victoria Argent † (Unintentionally)  (Into An Omega Werewolf)

### Significant Kills

* Paige Krasikeva  (With Consent)
* Peter Hale  (1st Time)
* Jackson Whittemore  (With Consent; With Peter Hale) (2nd Time)
* Vernon Boyd  (Indirectly; Uncontrollably)
* Unidentified Oni  (Indirectly; With Chris Argent)
* Unknown Number Of Deadpool Assassins  (Presumably; Self-Defense)
* Unknown Number Of Monroe's Army Members  (Presumably; Self-Defense)
* The Nogitsune  (With Jordan Parrish)

### Cause of Death

* Stabbed repeatedly with Berserker claws

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'0"  (Feet)
* 1.83  (Meters)

### Eye Color

* Hazel  (Human Form)
* Red  ( Alpha Werewolf/ Evolved Alpha Werewolf)

### Hair Color

* Black

**Derek Hale** is a shifter werewolf, the son of the renowned Evolved Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and an unnamed father, the father of Eli Hale, the younger brother of Laura Hale, the older brother of Cora Hale, the nephew of Peter Hale and the maternal cousin of Malia Hale. He is also the mate/fiancée of Werewolf-Witch Hybrid, and birth father to his child, Conri Tlanta. He is the son-in-law of Danae Tlanta and Kol Mikaelson, as well as a good friend to the hunter, Diana Winchester.

Derek is a member of the **Hale Family,** the **Tlanta Family**, former ally of the **McCall Pack** as well as the Alpha of the **Hale Pack****.**

## Early life

Derek was born the middle child of renowned Alpha Talia Hale and her unnamed husband on the outskirts of Beacon Hills, California in 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, 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.

Derek soon met and fell for a girl, named Paige, and tried to get close to her, while Peter showed up and told him he couldn't unless she was turned into a werewolf, by Ennis, who had just lost a beta. Derek reluctantly agreed after awhile, and Peter was pleased.

Peter 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, and biting her, she began to reject the transformation, which would kill her. After she confessed her love for Derek, where they hid under the Nemeton, 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, an ironic turn of events since Derek would later engage in a romantic relationship with her.

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. Shortly after Paige's death, Derek met Kate Argent, who, unbeknownst to him, was an Argent Werewolf Hunter who initiated a love affair with him in order to gain information that could be used to take out his family.

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-mortum by Hunters to ensure she would not be able to heal and revive herself.

## Adulthood

As a born Beta Werewolf in the centuries-old Hale Pack, Derek grew up knowing about the supernatural and embracing his lycanthropy. However, 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 late 2010 or 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, 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.

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. 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; whom ended up turning into an Immortal Werewolf from Conri Tlanta's bite) or left the group. This was the same time he met werewolf-witch hybrid, Conri Tlanta, who had an allegiance with the Alpha Pack, and its leader, Deucalion.

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, when he came back into his Alpha powers due to what he later learned was a power siphoning spell placed on him by a druid, and linked to Scott McCall, draining the healing spark from Derek into Scott. The spell failed, however after Derek evolved, and the Scott was weakened, forcing the druid to use the spark of a dead alpha from the Alpha Pack, to keep Scott an alpha.

This was also when he discovered his child, Eli Hale, in New York with the birth father, Conri Tlanta, who gave birth to him after their one-night stand in Mexico, when Conri spiked their drinks with liquid wolfsbane. Derek briefly lived at the Victorian mansion with Conri, before Conri learned about the Deadpool from Derek, and both of them went to Beacon Hills, where Conri promptly destroyed every assassin, ending the Deadpool.

After the events of the Deadpool and his surprise development into an Evolved Werewolf, Derek once again left town for a while, where he continued to bond with his family, building their pack even bigger with the additions of Theo Raeken after he reformed, and started going to school for his GED. Derek even learned that Erica was alive, and had been turned into an immortal werewolf hybrid, and even flew out Stiles' dad and Liam Dunbar for Thanksgiving. Noah came for Stiles' graduation, and Liam visited during the summer, before Derek left the family in pursuit of packs that had been slaughtered in South America, leaving Conri and Peter to lead the pack. He contacted Cora, and informed her of the rebuilt pack, suggesting for her to return before he went off the grid, despite Conri's tracking spells on him.

However, he did come back 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. He fought alongside Conri and the rest of the pack that had come to fight upon both Liam's and Noah's request, including Theo, Peter, Luke, Conri, Danae Tlanta (Conri's mother) and Diana Winchester, a hunter who had been hired by her good friend, Danae to enter the hunter's army, and be the pack's double agent. Conri ended up killing nearly all of the hunters, alongside Theo, Peter, and Luke, while Danae, Diana, and Derek, (The Triple 'D' Trio) using rings, spelled by Danae with a vision removal spell to fight the Anuk-Ite. Derek subdued the creature, while Danae roared at Scott, ensuring that he wouldn't try to get close to them as they killed the shapeshifter. Diana lopped it's head off with a wolfsbane-laced blade, and Danae used a containment spell to lock its spiders, before she used a fire explosion spell in the courtyard of the high school, to destroy the spiders with fire. Derek and Conri were reunited at the end of the war, and the hybrid informed him that he had turned Deucalion immortal due to his injuries.

The pack returned to the East Coast after Derek and Stiles explained to the McCall Pack that Danae and Diana were associated with Conri, and had come to help, despite the "True Alpha's" anger that Conri, Diana, and Danae killed many, if not all of the hunters, before letting Monroe escape. Diana informed him that she would come back, but they let her go with a bruised ego, and she knew that she would be killed one day. Upon their return home, Derek is ecstatic to see Eli and his life finally falls into place.

In the year of 2026, Derek was revealed to have been hired by Sheriff Stilinski as a supernatural consultant to the Sheriff's department. He had also been raising for the last fifteen years a son named Eli, who had not yet manifested any of his Werewolf abilities and displayed a lack of interest in accepting his lycanthropy. The Nogitsune was freed from his prison and returned to Beacon Hills to finally kill Scott, Derek and the rest of the McCall Pack, with him sending his Oni to capture the majority of Scott's packmates and allies to leave him outnumbered. Though the McCall Pack and their allies managed to kill the Oni with the assistance of the newly-resurrected Allison Argent, the Nogitsune proved to be too powerful to be contained. Derek ultimately decided to sacrifice his life to ensure the destruction of the Dark Kitsune and kept the creature immobilized to allow Jordan Parrish to incinerate them both to death with his Hellhound powers.

In his final moments, Derek proved himself to be one of the most virtuous of Werewolves, before he was saved from death by his mate and fiancée, Conri Tlanta, teleporting into the fire, and grabbing his fiancée before Derek could be anymore badly burned. Diana and Danae managed to get Eli away from the McCall Pack, and to the house Derek and Eli had been living in, which in actuality was one of Conri's safehouses. Conri put Derek in the basement, where he bit his arm, and forced his blood into Derek's mouth, hooking him up to multiple IV bags that held the hybrid's blood. Derek healed from his burns, and by the time Eli got to the safehouse, his father greeted him, showing him Derek, who was passed out in the master bedroom, Eli collapsing into Conri's arms in relief that his dad was safe. Conri praised Eli for his first shift, and they flashed their eyes at each other, causing Derek to stir, and beckon his family close to him, where they all fell asleep together.

## Personality

Derek's personality traits became more amplified after he became the Alpha, as the power he gained in conjunction with the fear caused by the Alpha Pack's imminent arrival caused him to behave harshly to the Betas around him, using fear, violence, and pain to try to teach them how to survive the threats to Werewolves in the area. Derek's power struggles continued to become even more immense after his packmates were either killed or alienated from him during the Darach and Alpha Pack battles, which made him lose all confidence in himself.

However, despite Derek's outward personality, his selfless nature and his desire to protect the innocent people around him shines through his tough, cold exterior. Despite his frustration with Scott McCall Stiles Stilinski, Derek still went out of his way to protect and save them, often at great physical risk to himself. This only became more pronounced after he lost his Alpha abilities, because once the pressure was off of him to lead the town's supernatural community, he was able to relax and mellow out, allowing him to act as a more patient and compassionate mentor before he evolved, and realized what had happened to his spark after he lost it.

Much of Derek's sense of identity is tied to his lycanthropy, and it was eventually because he embraced both his human and his Werewolf nature that he was able to become an Evolved Werewolf like his mother and older sister, giving him the ability to full-shift into a real wolf, an ability that is rare among Alphas and unheard of among true Beta Werewolves. After he evolved and two months after getting his alpha spark back, he darkened in his respect and emotions to Scott, who he had mentored, and who had unknowingly stolen his Alpha powers.

His life became complete when he became father of a son, whom he and Conri Tlanta, the birth father named Eli, and raised him together in Conri's pack house, where they rebuilt the Hale Pack. Although he loved his son unconditionally, Derek blamed himself for inadvertently traumatizing Eli when he was still a toddler by roaring at a pack of coyotes that would have likely killed Eli had Derek not intervened, which became the day where Eli refused to accept his family's gift of lycanthropy, despite Conri's return home, and consoling of their son. However, Derek eventually convinced Eli in accepting his status as a Werewolf and helped him complete his transformation before both of them joined forces against the Nogitsune, which became the battle where Derek almost lost his life to the Dark Kitsune.

## Physical Appearance

Derek is a tall, muscular, and handsome man with black hair, which he usually styles up with gel, blue-green eyes, and rough 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 had either facial stubble or a scruffy beard.

He is also notable for having a black triskelion tattooed between his shoulder blades to remind him that all Werewolves, whether Alphas, Betas, or Omegas, have the potential to rise to one rank or fall to another. In his full wolf form, Derek's fur is completely black, and until he regained Alpha status, with his eyes glowing red, they were bright blue.

## Powers and Abilities

**Evolved Alpha Werewolf Physiology:** Derek possesses the common abilities of a Werewolf. In addition to that, as an Evolved Werewolf like his mother and sister, he also has powers that are unique to him. He temporarily lost these powers in but ended up regaining them again at the end of the season; it was revealed that this occurred because Derek was "evolving" into a Werewolf who could fully shift into a real wolf.

### Powers

* **Super Strength:** As a Werewolf, Derek possesses superhuman strength which allowed him to perform incredible physical feats such as breaking and snapping thick chains, punching through solid stone walls lifting grown adults and throwing them through solid surfaces and across rooms with ease. Because he was 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 utilized his animalistic speed to perform feats such as outpacing a moving vehicle (when he was wanted by the police).
* **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 extended to Derek's reflexes, allowing him to catch arrows in mid-air and quickly dodge punches or bullets.
* **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 was 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 was 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, has also mentored several supernaturals to help them hone their own super-senses, such as 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 extended 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. However, he had bent the rule of that when he was drinking with Conri Tlanta, who slipped liquid wolfsbane into their beers, getting him drunk, and giving him his first hangover. 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 would be able maintain his youthful appearance for much longer than a normal human.
* **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 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, until he regained his blue eyes once he completed his evolution into a Werewolf with advanced shapeshifting abilities. He remained with the blue eyes for two months, before his alpha red eyes returned, due to his alpha spark finally healing.
	+ **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 after the demise of the Deadpool, and destruction of the Berserkers. He is the only Beta Werewolf to be shown to full-shift into an actual wolf, until he returned to Alpha status, though it was 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 manifested as dark veins that creep up Derek's hands and arms until they reach his chest and neck, depending on how much pain he absorbed. 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.
* **Animal Instincts**: As a Werewolf, Derek is an apex predator, and could thus assert dominance over lesser animals such as dogs, cats, and deer to command them to do what he wanted, such as to stop barking or to go away. Derek had used this ability to make a dog stop growling at him on at least two separate occasions.

### Alpha Powers

The following are powers Derek possessed as an Alpha, and still currently retains. Derek became the Alpha after slashing Peter Hale's throat, and began to turn teenagers who gave their consent to get out of diseases that were ruining their lives, and terrible family situations. During the fight against the Alpha Pack, after his sister, Cora was injured, Derek gave up his Alpha spark to save his dying sister, Cora, which changed his eyes from Alpha red back to Beta blue.

Though it was revealed later that the alpha power Derek possessed had been harvested from his body, where it still lay dormant, healing itself from Derek using it at its maximum to save his sister. The power should have been restored within the next two weeks at minimum, and one month, at maximum, but the process was delayed, due to a druid using a spell to anchor Derek's spark of power to Scott McCall, who became a "True Alpha" while the spell fed off the healing spark inside Derek, and transferred it to Scott. When Derek evolved into a full shift wolf, and retained all of his previous abilities after loosing them as a byproduct of evolving, the spark healed completely within a span of two months, and Derek's alpha powers returned. He kept them a secret from everyone outside of his pack, and spent nearly a year learning how to shift his supernatural eyes from Alpha red, to Beta blue, from two witches, who used spells, then potions, until he could do it at will.

* **Power Granting**: As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek has 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 has 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.
* **Healing Disruption**: As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek has 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.
* **Healing**: As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek has the ability to perform a ritual to heal others, but at the cost of losing their Alpha Spark demoting them back to Beta or Omega. Derek uses this power to help heal his younger sister Cora losing his Alpha spark.

### Abilities

* **Supernatural Knowledge**: Having been raised in the supernatural world his entire life, Derek had 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 was especially versed in Werewolf culture and abilities, as he was able to intuit certain packs possessed the ability to inhibit their scent when he and Malia Hale 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 used this knowledge to help train many new shapeshifters in how to use their abilities.
* **Master Combatant**: Derek is shown to be a highly capable fighter, using his Werewolf instincts and supernatural powers in conjunction with gymnastics.

**Expert Marksman**: During his brief time without powers, Derek was trained 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.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane**: As a Werewolf, Derek can be weakened by exposure to wolfsbane, and possibly even killed, depending on what strain it is, the method of exposure, and whether or not he can get medical treatment in time.
* **Electricity**: As a Werewolf, Derek can be weakened or even killed by exposure to electricity, depending on how strong the voltage is. Lower voltages would disable his healing ability and prevent him from transforming, while higher voltages could severely slow or stop his heart completely.
* **Full Moon**: The full moon will make a Werewolf stronger, but it will also make them more rabid and chaotic, which makes them easily hunted by supernatural hunters. However, due to Derek being a Werewolf for almost half of his life, he is rarely ever susceptible to this weakness anymore, although extenuating circumstances can cause even the most well-trained Werewolf to lose control on a full moon.
* **Lunar Eclipse:** During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered in the earth's umbral shadow, a Werewolf or other werecreature will lose all of their powers, including their super strength, accelerated healing, and shapeshifting abilities, making them vulnerable to anyone seeking to take advantaged of this weakness and harm or kill them.

**Mountain Ash**: Like any truly supernatural creature, Derek is vulnerable to the effects of rowan wood and the ashes of the wood (known as Mountain Ash), which can be used as barriers he can neither touch nor cross. As a result, humans and non-supernatural creatures (such as Chimeras, who were created through science rather than mystical means) could ward a building with it, preventing Derek from entering it, or trap him within an unbroken circle in the same way.

## Etymology

* **Derek**: Derek is a masculine English name that comes from the Old English given name Dederick, the origins of which come from a Low German form of the given name Theodoric, a name imported to England from the Low Countries during the 15th century. In German, Derek means "famous ruler," which is an interesting piece of trivia considering that the character Derek Hale was briefly, and is currently the Alpha (ruler) of the Hale Pack, a centuries-old Werewolf bloodline that is famous in the Werewolf community.

* **Hale**: The surname Hale is derived from a geographical locality, "at the hale," i.e. "hall" (either as a proprietor or servant at a residence there). It is also derived from the Old English healh, meaning "nook" or "hollow." In Northern England, the name often has a specialized meaning, either denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, or as a patch of dry land in a fen. It is also sometimes a habitational name from any of the several locations in England that shares the same name.

## Relationships

* Derek and Conri (Former Enemies, Lovers)
* Derek and Danae (Mother-in-Law/Son-in-Law, Packmates)
* Derek and Diana (Allies, Friends)
* Derek and Stiles (Former Enemies/Rivals, Good Friends, Packmates)
* Derek and Eli (Father/Son)
* Derek and Peter (Uncle/Nephew, Packmates)
* Derek and Malia (Cousins, Friends, Packmates)
* Derek and Cora (Siblings, Packmates)
* Talia and Derek (Mother/Son)
* Laura and Derek (Siblings)
* Derek and Isaac (Packmates)
* Derek and Erica (Packmates)
* Derek and Liam (Friends, Packmates)
* Derek and Theo (Friends, Packmates)
* Derek and Deucalion (Allies, Former Enemies, Packmates)
* Derek and Jackson (Former Enemies, Mentor/Mentee, Packmates)
* Derek and Noah (Good Friends, Allies)
* Derek and Argent (Former enemies, Allies)
* Derek and Kate (Former Lovers, Enemies)
* Derek and Victoria (Enemies)
* Derek and Gerard (Enemies)
* Boyd and Derek (Former Packmates)
* Derek and Araya (Enemies, Tentative Truce)
* Derek and Scott (Former Enemies/Rivals, Former Mentor/Mentee Relationship)

## Gallery

Beta ShiftFull ShiftDerek with PeterHale PackDerek with Conri in full shiftDerek with Baby EliOut shopping with EliConri, Danae, and Derek in full shiftDerek HaleRed Eyes
## Trivia

* Derek is a Scorpio, and exhibits many of the sign's traits.
	+ He is innovative, making a career for himself in architecture, being a consultant, and a designer, able to have the creativity to make himself and his family comfortable.
	+ Constantly fighting with his inner battles, Derek has been deterred from his goals, but always manages to come back from it, and come up with something even better than what he had come up with before.
	+ Made for extreme sports and extreme choices and activities, he often make sudden turns and changes to his path as he goes on to discover his true calling.
* He is the only alpha in the history of the Hale Pack, and werewolf kind to lose his alpha status, before regaining it, and despite the fact that he keeps his alpha status a secret from most American supernaturals, it is a fact that many European, Asian, African, and South American packs know about him due to the Nemetons of the world being connected.
* As he stays in a relationship with Conri Tlanta long enough, he begins to worry about their relationship, because of his aging, while Conri stays eternally youthful, and he is already getting small grey hairs in his late twenties.

## Quotes

* "Start the car... Or I'm gonna rip your throat out... With my teeth." - Derek to Stiles Stilinski
* "I don't care about power... not anymore." - Derek to Peter Hale
* "I evolved, like my Mom and Laura." - Derek to Conri Tlanta
* "You're my son. You're a Hale. And you... Are... a Werewolf." - Derek to Eli Hale
* "This is Diana, she's a hunter, and she also changes my son's diapers, and takes out the dead bodies." - Derek to Chris Argent
* "I have a son? Damn...I call dibs on diaper duty." - Derek to Conri Tlanta