Name: Derrek McClaw

Age: 4 1/2 human years (around late thirties)

Species: Striped Skunk

Sexuality: grayromantic demisexual

Local/new: local

Description: tall and broad shouldered he is quite muscular for a skunk, though it may not show through his thick black and white fur. He bears the usual long single white stripe down the top of his head to his tail where it branches off into two then back to one again. Derrek normally wears dark clothing, particularly blues and purples, and has a thick, tarnished, silver stud on each ear. He has sharp white fangs and piercing dark brown eyes magnified by black framed glasses with scratched up lenses that he can't hardly see without. He likes wearing dark blue pants held up by a chain belt and either a dark purple or dark blue shirt under a somewhat frayed black leather jacket. He does not wear shoes though does have wrappings around his feet and ankles. He owns an ever present somewhat and slightly tarnished thick silver chain always kept around his neck.

Personality: reserved, observant, somewhat snarky and opinionated, he can come across as rather rude. But this is only his outward personality. If you get to know him he can be friendly, joking, and even sometimes jovial if in the right mood. Though with a fiery temper and a sharp tongue to match it's hard for others to become friends with him. To which he responds by withdrawing more from others emotionally. While he loves a good laugh and well placed joke he absolutely does not tolerate anything offensive to others. He can get very defensive if he thinks someone is being wronged though will deny he ever did so.

Backstory: he started out life in a little wooden shack on the outskirts of a town some ways off from Zootropolis. Alongside his mother and three younger siblings. After he was old enough he would find odd jobs to work to help support his family while his mother mostly stayed at home to tend to his younger siblings. Eventually, when the second eldest was old enough to get a job Derrek moved off to find a better job in Zootropolis. He found more odd jobs there until he got the courage to actually apply for the Preyda modeling agency but they turned him down for reasons unclear to him. He considered becoming a police officer afterwards but quickly shook off the thought, deeming the job beyond his capabilities. He lived there for about a year before a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time caused him to get arrested. It was eventually worked out and his name cleared, but he was never quite the same for it. As the officer who arrested him did so simply because he was a skunk and "seemed suspicious." Since then he has become more reserved, angry, and sullen. He eventually found a job working as a bartender and has stuck with it for about three years. He now lives in the Grand Pangolin Apartments and continues to work as a nighttime bartender.

Job: bartender (works night hours)

Likes: watermelons, equality, a good book, and good company.

Dislikes: stereotypes, insensitivity, bright lights, total darkness, loneliness, heights.

Family: none (open)

Crush: none (open)

Special species needs: he has very poor eyesight and a slight intolerance to the cold, becoming generally inactive and somewhat dormant during winter (or in cold climate settings) which leads to him eating little and sleeping quite often. To avoid this he needs to be kept in warmer climates.

Other: As a skunk he is crepuscular and therefore not usually active during the day or night, but day especially.