Sebastian Derik

"The pain helps me remember."

- Sebastian Derik

Sebastian Derik was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent/assassin until he became the test subject of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. His memories were erased and he was given the new identity. Unlike his former colleagues, he remembered who he really was, suffering from the side effects of the GH.325 serum.

Early Life
"Are you sure you're not from Iowa because you just sounded like it." "Baltimore, born and raised."

- Janice Robbins and Sebastian Derik

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Derik was an assassin who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. and discovered that he was dying.

Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
Derik, along with five other agents, was handpicked by Agent Coulson as a test subject for the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. At first he had a successful recovery. However, he eventually started to speak gibberish and writing the Words of Creation. Despite his claims that he was fine, Coulson had his memory erased and gave him a new identity.

However, Derik started to write the blueprints, carving it on a wall and then eventually tattooing it on his body. Due to the pain, Derik eventually remembered who he was and who else was part of the T.A.H.I.T.I. project.

Tattoo Parlor
"The pain helps me remember."

- Sebastian Derik

Sebastian Derik visited a tattoo parlor, and paid an artist who had previously worked on him. The artist suggested to him that he should wait, for the fresh tattoos had not yet healed, but Derik insisted.

As Derik removed his shirt, the artist told him that the procedure would be painful. Derik, covered with the Words of Creation tattoos, told him that the pain helped him to remember.

Killing the Patients
"The lunatics are running the asylum."

- Sebastian Derik

Derik visited the apartment of young woman Janice Robbins, where she had been smitten by him. Derik admitted that they had met before, as Robins had suspected. The man took his shirt off to reveal the Words of Creation tattoos, and Robin began to panic as she saw them. She told him she'd seen the pattern before, as she had been exhibiting the hypergraphia as well.

Sticking with his theory of pain helping to remember, Derik whipped out a knife, and carved the Words of Creation into Janice's flesh, eventually killing her.

Derik's next victim was Hank Thompson, another former T.A.H.I.T.I. Patient. Thompson is a loving husband and father, who wanted nothing to do with the writing. Phil Coulson confronted Thompson first, but Derik managed to knock Coulson out cold, and capture Thompson, locking his wife and son away.

As Coulson attempted to rescue Thompson, Derik restrained Coulson, and in turn, carved the writing into his arms and chest. Thompson managed to escape and free Coulson from his noose. After a brief fight between Derik and Coulson, Derik spotted the last piece of the puzzle: a toy train track system that Thompson had built. At the revelation, Derik calmed, and left in peace.

Allies

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. (First Incarnation)
 * Nick Fury - Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director
 * Maria Hill - Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy Director

Enemies

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Phil Coulson - Former Project T.A.H.I.T.I. Supervisor
 * Skye
 * Alphonso Mackenzie
 * Janice Robbins † - Fellow Project T.A.H.I.T.I. Patient and Victim
 * Hank Thompson - Fellow Project T.A.H.I.T.I. Patient and Hostage
 * Katie Thompson - Hostage
 * Hank Thompson's Son - Hostage