Appearance: 5'8ft. Black dreads. Dark skin. Light brown eyes. Black, thin rimmed glasses. Usually wearing comfortable clothes, primarily red. Personality: Derek is arrogant and introverted and avoided leaving his apartment like the plague. He was distant and apathetic and extremely pragmatic... But he loved Avery. A lot. He didn't like people or conversation, he felt awkward talking to people... except Avery, Avery was perfect to him. Backstory: Derek had been arrogant. Flat out. He dropped out of college because it was unfulfiling to him, then he became a freelance programmer to avoid working with people or for a corporation — then he accidentally gazed upon a horror outside his comprehension that gave him infinite knowledge, in a video game. He thought he was gonna die. He didn't though, instead he saw the next victim of the King In Yellow, saw Avery DeMayo and... He fell. Hard. Fast. Every detail about this one specific person unveiled to him and he fell. Derek was brave, brave enough to go against that horror, met Avery in the game, thought he died... Then Derek was alive, alive in a hospital room, and as soon as he was released he went off to meet Avery in person and cry that day. He, Derek Hutchins, cried because Avery had started crying. . . . They started dating a week later, and moved in together three months ago. They've been together for a year now. Derek wants to keep Avery forever.