#but look how upset he is #he knows he’s been used again #knows he let someone in and that someone abused him #made him do things he never would’ve done #and that people he cared about ended up dead again #and he puts all the blame for it on his own shoulders #when he was just a pawn #he’s rock bottom and doesn’t know what to do #is trying to make choices to make up for what he thinks he’s done #and he doesn’t care if he lives or dies #just as long as no one else he cares about dies #all he wants to for this to end #the fact that derek’s still standing and living and surviving after everything #is what makes him a hero #that he’s still trying and carrying on with life #makes him a hero (via motleywolf)
Derek’s one of my favorite characters partially because in any other story, he would be the villain. His life would be the back story to a man intent on destroying the world. Yet, he doesn’t. Every choice he makes is because he still wants to help people, to save people. Yeah, they aren’t always the best decisions, but he’s like 23. He doesn’t know everything, and he’s trying to get past his mistakes, to mourn the loss of his family. But he can’t because the world keeps cutting him off at the knees once he gets close to finding his feet.
And still he tries. To save his pack, his sister, the stupid teenagers who got dragged into a supernatural mess they were never meant to be a part of. He tries to stop the world from crashing down around their shoulders, despite knowing it means he has to hold up just a little bit more than before.
Derek Hale has the story every villain wants.
Derek Hale has the heart that every hero needs.
