Derek Quenevere

Description

Derek  grew up rich, with his father as one of the richest businessmen in  Fargone and his mother as a successful actress. You’d think it’s a  recipe for neglecting parents, but the Quenevere motto: “Never leave  family behind” clearly contradicts it. Derek has been taught (and shown  in practice) that he can always reach out to the people closest to him,  and that he’ll help out in return.

Derek is quiet and calm, but extremely motivated and team-oriented. He likes to see people around him succeed and is more than willing to help them out wherever he can. He gets a lot of satisfaction from helping others. His whole reasoning for pursuing mechanical engineering and science is to help out his friends and other heroes to stay on top of their game, and make sure they’ll be safe when possible.

Whenever in social situations, he likes to stand in the background, and add his opinion only when necessary. Whenever he takes the foreground, it’s most often to either lead a philosophical debate, or to talk about other people’s goals. Derek is open and honest to the bone, but knows how to deliver hard truths in a considerate manner. His rich privileges sometimes show, but his love for people clearly shows that he means well. 

Most people find his romantic relationship with Katie odd, since they often seem like polar opposites. Katie is Derek’s biggest motivator when it comes to working hard. Derek sometimes gets stuck if he finds something he can’t solve immediately, which frustrates him. Katie knows how to get Derek out of that mood, making sure he can push problems aside if he can’t immediately work on them. Derek often worries if he can finish his studies, and takes a lot of time studying up, or being busy with work, forgetting his social needs. His friends are the anchor he needs to balance work with social life; to balance stress with fun.

Likes:

• Puzzles
• Building
• Philosophizing 
• Family
• Instant hamburger

Dislikes:

• Inconsiderateness
• Cowardice
• Unsolvable problems
• Giving up on people
• Mussels

Abilities

Derek is a lanky guy, lacking in strength, but he makes more than up for it with his knowledge and mechanical prowess. Derek’s a top class engineer and has a good eye for how things are made, and enjoys experimenting and building his own tools and equipment. In the world of heroes, he’s known for his unique gadgets, focused on assisting with a person’s specific powers. A lot of heroes that have some sort of tech on them, probably have Derek to thank for at least a part of it.

Derek himself likes to stand on the sidelines, but often feels an urge to help out on the battlefield. He does this with his own mechanical suits, build to give him superhuman defensive and offensive abilities, ranging from various laser weapons, explosives, and electronic devices. His trademark technology is often noted by its light blue, metallic colours with clunky edges.

Notable Comic Arcs:

• Chaotic Rhyss’ Original Run (Chaotic Rhyss! #1-#22): While Rhyss starts out as a hero, he entrusts Derek with his true identity. Derek in turn helps from the sidelines, testing and giving Rhyss equipment that could help him out while fighting crime.
• Far(from)Gone (Chaotic Rhyss! #113-134): A plotline where the hinted criminal activities in the industry sector of Fargone start back up. Factories are being used for smuggling and several traders have set up a plan together to hijack the entire city. Derek assigns himself to survey the business district, that had slowly become corrupted over the years. Once he finds out that the business district is the heart of the criminal activities, he clears the way for Rhyss to finish the conflict.
• Chaotic Defender (Chaotic Rhyss! #460-#500): Derek gets captured by the Goddess and is almost killed in the process. Afterwards, Derek is purely focused on making sure everyone recovers from the conflict, but forgets that his best friend, Rhyss, deals with the worse mental backlash, who starts distancing himself from most people around him. Derek tries desperately to get his friend back, but all his forceful attempts fail. Instead, he devotes his energy to help other heroes during the Call to War conflict, building new equipment for heroes willing to listen to him on how to get Rhyss back. After he gets Rhyss back, Derek then joins the Friend Force! as it is formed afterwards.
• Chaos! Going Global! (Chaotic Rhyss! #520-#545): Malka’i relics that have been scattered all over the world have started to go beserk, making them appear as beasts. Rhyss apologizes to Derek for leaving everyone behind after the conflict with the Goddess. Derek accepts his apology, and mentions he’s glad to have his best friend back.
• Oblivaeon/Schism (Chaotic Rhyss! #623-633): As most big heroes are trying to stop Schism and his enforcers, Derek, similarly to the other Friend Force! members, help with the search and rescue. Derek with his suit is able to transport people quickly from place to place. He’s also partially responsible for heroes keeping up communication with each other during the conflict.

Comic Notes (Can be expanded or retconned on whenever):

• Derek is a member of Friend Force!, starting with the under the alias: Tech Mech, or the Blue Shield, when describe with his colour coded teammates.
• He is the first one to find out Rhyss’ heroic tendencies and offers to help him with technical equipment.
• Derek is Abby’s brother.
• Later, Rhyss tries to fight Korrode, but he isn’t able to stop him because Rhyss has to breathe in his gasses while fighting him. Derek decides that it is time for him to reveal his first mech suit and fights off Korrode. The metal's so sleek that he can't corrode it quick enough, which makes Korrode flee from the scene.
• Derek becomes friends with Hijack as they help each other with new inventions.
• Same goes for Gadgeteer, who he tries to help with some Springshine family issues.
• During Call To War, while Rhyss is not talking to him, he decides to make equipment for other people to still make a difference in the world
• In this period, he also helps Korrode with making a new suit in order to make living more comfortable for the gaseous being who turned out to be not so bad in the end, giving him the alias Starsteel.
• After Call To War, Derek finishes a special set of armour made with his own base, but mostly added technology from Gadgeteer magically infused into the armour. There are also some added things from Korrode, but this is only revealed later, when Korrode himself resurfaces.
• Derek also creates an AI with some help from Alina, called Telavey, her personality at the start is akin to the Japanese animations that Alina watches. Later on she becomes more of an actual full-fledged character, having a close friendship with Abby.
• At some point, Alina, Derek and Rhyss play a lot of Life’s Symphony and help out with some trouble the game is having. Derek plays as the ‘Paladin Knight’ class.
• After Oblivaeon, Derek starts working as an equipment researcher at Last Call.