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Personality
General Personality: Overall, Derek comes across as quiet, easy-going and capable. Although shoved into the leadership role in the movie, he tends to run things by committee rather than by laying down the law and expecting others to follow him unquestioningly. It could be argued that he's a bit of a push over because of this--there are several times in the movie where he allows his own opinion and personal judgment to be over-ruled by the others, especially if they can give him a good reason for their own take on things (or he apparently comes to the internal conclusion that ‘now’ is not the time to push the other person). However, when it gets down to the wire and it’s become a do-or-die situation, he will make his own decisions independent of group consensus, and there is no talking him out of it at that point. You either go along with it, or he stonewalls you.
Personality Specs:
'The Laconic Loner': In the movie, Derek has a habit of hanging back and letting things happen with other people as they will. He uses words sparingly for the most part, and seems to measure his responses to people he doesn’t know well. There are times when he can come across as unfriendly or distant--he doesn't smile much unless he knows you or is comfortable with his situation, and his first instinct with most people is to drive them away or depart from them once business has been completed or he thinks that whatever he’s about to get into could be deadly for the people who come with him. Although he doesn’t come across as not liking people (there are several instances of him being open and friendly with different folks throughout the movie), he definitely comes across as having the ‘just passing through’ attitude.
'Talk To Me': This is very much a trademark tagline of Derek's; he says it several times in the movie to different people, usually when what he knows about the situation has been shaken and he needs more information to get it making sense again. When it's time for that information, he wants it, and wants it badly. He doesn't take no for an answer, and can actually get pretty damned rude about it if answers are not immediately forth-coming. By the same token, once people start talking, he starts listening, and usually calms down and starts to mull on the other person's words and what they could mean long before the person is done talking. If you want to get Derek into a reasonable mood, talking to him does it every time (just don’t bullshit him; that tends to irritate him a little bit. See: His conversation with Sancho when he finds out the kid left home to follow him on the hunt).
'Lightning Bolt Temper': Even Derek has a temper, and when it flares, it's loud, verbally violent...and over quickly. Usually, his bouts of temper are over sudden shocks, such as being attacked by a vampire during the day, or confronting an infected woman that he doesn't know the story on and doesn't trust. It also comes across as being one of the weapons he uses in his job to get information by intimidation or threat when being calm hasn’t worked. An example in the movie is when he's trying to figure out who's been working for the vampires, and his temper comes to the fore, even resorting to threatening his teammates with his gun in an effort to flush out the snitch. He does the same to Zoe in their first meeting after the attack on the café, by both shouting and waving his gun and being generally rough with her until he realizes she’s not to blame for the attack. Again though, once the situation has resolved--either by the other person starting to talk to him, or by the event ending, he recovers quickly, and the calm, collected demeanor is back in place. It should be noted that he doesn’t lose his temper or ‘freak out’ very often in the movie, so it’s arguably also a defensive mechanism with him when his usual way of dealing with things just won’t work.
Ideologies (and some speculation):
Derek seems to keep very simple rules of thumb as far as how he looks at the world. Utmost is the idea that he can and should be able to do things by himself. He's a loner, both because he's capable of it, and likely because it honestly costs him less emotionally in the long run. He knows full well what happens to the people in his lifestyle, and that it’s deadly and short. Since his role is to help people by being the guy that does the dirty work and takes all the risks, he wouldn’t want to drag them into it as well. He can’t really protect them and keep them safe if they’re in the thick of the fight with him.
Another factor into this mindset is the nature of his home world, especially in relation to his job. Most people don't actually believe vampires exist, unless they're clergy, government types who have access to that information...or recent victims of vampires. Everyone else discounts it, and the same people in control who know about it encourage that discounting, which makes for difficult relations with the normal, 'everyday world'. Worse yet, those people in the know are often out for themselves. Rival hunter groups will fight and steal from each other, government and law enforcement contractors will often try to jail or kill, rather than pay, the hunters they hire once the job is done, and of course, there's the vampires themselves to deal with. Derek's world is defined by fear, death, and the general untrustworthiness of his fellow human beings—a feeling that is only amplified when you add in the knowledge that even your most trusted teammate can become your worst enemy if they become infected. 'Trust No One' is a good rule of thumb, and Derek often employs it, although he will make exceptions for people who prove themselves to be reliable, capable, and trustworthy (IE: Zoe, Rodrigo and Sancho).
Despite these factors, Derek still has a very strong moral sense of 'right', 'wrong' and 'needs to be done'. He doesn't steal--the few times he needs things, he pays for them. He takes responsibility for his team-mates' well-being, including refusing to leave one of them in the hands of the vampires once he's been voluntarily captured. And even when it becomes obvious that the contract he was supposedly hired for is fake, Derek goes right ahead and finishes the job anyway. To him, it doesn't matter--'Someone has to go after her' (meaning the master vampire in the movie that started the whole mess). He's more interested in stopping the vampires and making sure everyone else is safe than he is in getting paid.
He has a strong sense of responsibility for other people. From turning around and retracing a day’s worth of travel to check on the monastery that Zoe saw getting massacred in her vision, to voluntarily infecting himself with the vampire virus just to be able to get close enough to the vampire nest to rescue a team-mate, Derek tends to take on the worst and most likely to kill tasks himself. He uses himself as bait, chasing the others off to a safe distance, and even gives them all a chance to run for it when it seems that the vampires might win after all--meanwhile making it clear that he would stay behind and handle it by himself, no questions asked, no blame for those who want to stay safe and alive. It's obvious that even though he should give far less of a shit about other people than he does, he cares more--putting their safety and well-being far above his own.