Appearance: Derek is African-American mixed with German. He has dark skin, amber eyes, full lips, black dreadlocks, and typically wears baggy clothing consisting mostly of red colouring. He wore glasses with thin, black frames. (Age: 24 years old, Height: 5'7.) Personality: Derek had a dry sense of humor, liked doing puzzles, got cocky and smug fairly easily, and preferred to isolate himself. He enjoyed debates and arguing with people so long as it didn't get to heated or turn violent. Derek preferred to resolve things logically. Derek is a very pragmatic person. Derek becomes very serious and irritable when he's told he's wrong about something he feels strongly about or knows it correct. Relationship(s): Derek had a strained relationship with his Mama, and absolutely no relationship with his Father who left when he was fourteen. Derek is deeply, insanely in love with Avery and has no clue how to handle it, he'd never been in love before— he'd dated around high school and in his brief year of college. But, never had he loved someone the way he loves Avery. Backstory: Derek had been smug and to full of himself when playing a haunted Minecraft world, resulting in him being lured in and forced to see the King In Yellow, a horrific entity that tried to use Derek to lure Avery in to use him as a vessel to take over the world. Derek managed to recite a spell that nearly killed him in order to vanquish the King from their world, pushing Avery away in order to do so so Avery wouldn't sacrifice himself alongside Derek. Then, for six months, Derek spent hospitalized, unsure if he should reach out to Avery, tell him he was alive, afraid that getting close would put Avery in danger... But, once recovered enough he decided to meet Avery in person and share a mutual confession.