Character
Derek
Office rival. Copy room, smug face, opinions about your nails.
Quick facts
- Role
- Office coworker (rival)
- Location
- [[loc:office|Office]] copy room
- Tracker
- derek_relationship (0-3)
- First scene
- OfficeEvent_CopyRoom_Derek
TL;DR
Derek is the coworker who has comments. About your outfit. About your nails. About the fact that you got the promotion he wanted. The arc is small — recurring copy-room encounters where the dynamic can soften into respect or stay hostile.
How to meet him
OfficeEvent_CopyRoom_Derek fires at the office hub at office_stage = 1+. Recurring scene; the variant changes with derek_relationship.
The dynamic
Hostile (default)
He needles. You hold the door open for him and he uses it. “Subtle, the lipstick.” The line lands somewhere between observation and dig.
Neutral
After a few copy-room scenes where you handle him well (firm but not escalating), the tone shifts. He stops with the comments. You’re still not friends.
Grudging respect
The deepest the arc goes on the dismissive track. He starts acknowledging when you did the job well. Doesn’t apologise for the earlier comments — that’s not his shape.
Tips
Derek's not an NSFW arc
There’s no Patreon-deferred deep content here. Derek stays an office-politics character. The “rival” dynamic is the whole arc.
You can shut him down quickly
Picking firm-but-not-escalating responses moves him to Neutral fast. If you want him out of your way as a recurring nuisance, that’s the play.
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