Derek Thomson

Derek Thomson is a character role-played by Skiliyo.

Inspiration
The inspiration for this character came from Only fools and horses character - Del Boy. Skiliyo loves the TV show and can relate to a lot of what Del Boy has been through and speaks the same lingo.

Background
Derek is a man without a plan, he just goes with the flow. He spent most of his life in the UK and ran a casino in Birmingham before the police caught on to his illegal doings and forced him to move to Los Santos for a fresh start. He speaks in cockney and generally confuses people he speaks to as they have no idea what he is saying half the time.

Overview and memorable moments
Derek is incredibly loyal, smart at times and tries to be as fair as possible to anyone he comes across. He is also S+ max rank at boosting and a good mix between hacker and driver. He likes to keep things interesting by doing stuff that seems fun such as using his cyber truck in bank plans and being random example here!

Derek has a lot of connections in the city and likes not to make too many enemies Los Santos is a city of opportunities. Derek is has a great friendship with Raymond Romanov and have done numerous jobs such as Vaults, VAR, Boosting, Drug selling and so on. Derek has even taken the fall for Ray on a huge drug charge ($16000 fine and 210 months) but made to ensure his safety due to his company

After saving Ray from this serious drug charge Derek went to jail for 210 months however upon release Ray picked up Derek from jail with Speedy and Dean. However shortly after meeting them they forced Derek to steal from the reef but Derek was hesitant as he is good friends with Harry, Eve and Bruno. With this hesitation Dean and Speedy forced Ray to drive to an island and ocean dump Derek.

Ray and Derek have a lot in common such as driving bikes, woman and money, hence why Ray asked Derek to join his R.U.S.T crew. Another close relationship of Derek is Harry Brown and they normally are found boosting if they are hanging out. Right now in Los Santos Derek is apart of the R.U.S.T Crew which is Raymond Romanov's early tsunami crew and the team consists of Ray, Derek, La Flare, Chemist, Wren and Kiwi.

Derek has proven him self as a key member in R.U.S.T by trying to be the fairest and making sure the crew prevails no matter what. He is normally the one that tries to reason if there is a conflict among the crew. His value to the crew is being the getaway driver using the cybertruck or BMW streetfighter and heist artist for jobs.

Jet Pack Jesus Arc
During the events of the huge storm that swept through the city, gangs all around were getting added to the dark web app. At first no one knew what that meant, until a figure resembling Jesus flew across the city, on a jet pack, delivering gang flags. While rumours of this man spread like wildfire, the members of R.U.S.T were curious on why they haven't been invited to the app and received their flag. Derek changed in that moment as if it was a sign to become a disciple of Jetpack Jesus and steer R.U.S.T from Jetpack Satan's path.

Derek created a shrine inside the Roger's building with candles surrounding one of the many R.U.S.T tags. Derek, along with Connell MacGregor, Chem, and David Jackson (Benz,) went around the city talking to random people about their lord and savior Jetpack Jesus. Derek then decided to grab more members of R.U.S.T and take them to the canals by the Scrapyard in which he would baptize them in hopes that they will convert and believe in the god. This however did not end well as people such as Chem were starting to no longer believe in the deity with the help from Kaiba and Cydney Lune, in which they tried to stop Derek from kidnaping innocent civilians. This has continued on for a while until Flare decided to counter Derek by dressing up as a demon. News spread to Derek, in which resulted with Derek handcuffing Flare at apartments to convert him into the jetpack religion, however plans did not go well as officers from the Unified Police Department showed up and thought Flare was being held hostage. Derek, MacGregor, Kiwi and Flare thus went on a police chase which resulted in all four of them being cuffed and detained after getting stuck at home turf.

News of this event was leaked to Chem and he ended up calling Trooper Snow to explain the whole situation that this was all jokes and giggles within the gang and that the police involved were acting a bit to harsh for their liking as they were trying to charge everyone the same even though they did nothing wrong. Snow informed Lt. Casterman that Chem was gonna go down to explain to him what has let up to this situation. At the end Kiwi, MacGregor, and Flare were let go free while Derek was sent to jail. It was offered to R.U.S.T if they wanted to 50-51 Derek as it appeared to the cops that he just lost his mind. From then on Jet Pack Jesus was dead.....or so we thought

Moving up in ranks
A few months has passed and R.U.S.T had officially became a gang. All the full members were added and life was good. The war with Seaside was finally over and Padawans Cyd and MacGregor, along with R.U.S.T adjacent (now known as Scraplings) Eleanor West had proved their worth in the gang. All members came together and discussed that all three should move up in rank. MacGregor was first to be promoted to full member in which he showed gratitude to Raymond in a rather interesting way, then Cydney was second to be promoted to full member. Ray however was a bit hesitant to promote Eleanor, but decided to promote her anyways to Padawan status. Derek then decided to bring back his JetPack Jesus phase and proceeded to baptized all three new members of R.U.S.T. for some odd reason. That was the last time we saw him and hopefully it will stay like that, please no more JetPack Jesus.

Trivia

 * Derek has had one testicle left after a horror boat trip with Whitley Booth, Eve Summers and Albert Intelligence, which a tiger shark leapt on the boat and chose Derek as its prey. Derek survived the ordeal barely but he is now commonly called "One Ball".
 * Was the first owner of the BMW R1100 Streetfighter and Camaro ZL1
 * Derek used to be a cuff-breaking god but is now in fact washed.
 * Derek met Mickey S on the February 26, 2022 and became BFF's.
 * Derek is inspired by Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses. (it's a classic you should watch it)