Derek Bradley

"The safer we live life, the more dangerous it becomes."

- Derek talking to Isabel Marquez, as they overlook downtown Los Santos.

Derek Bradley is a major character in the Crimewave universe. He is a roguish young adult, and pseudo-son to Jack Walton III, in addition to being 1 of 3 figureheads that operate the Crimson Killers.

History
Born and raised in the Hills of Vinewood, Derek never knew what life without the golden spoon, tasted like. Derek's glitz-laden, struggle-less pathway was carved from birth, contrasting his immigrant father, Dominic Bradley, whose American dream started on a rugged boat headed for Liberty City.

Sent to the University of Los Santos, Derek's father aspired for his son to eventually overtake his multi-million dollar BradBraun Casino. Within the years spent at ULS, however, Derek became overwhelmed with an epiphany that highlighted how much of his future was not controlled by his own hands, but was instead being born out of his father's shadow. Through this, Derek uncovered his lack of actual independence, and unpreparedness for living within the confines of pressure. The fresh-faced heir of good fortune never encountered a pitfall that could not be bought with his father's earnings, nor was he anywhere that did not have a strong, familial presence.

What sparked such a revelation, was witnessing and hearing of university students not having the same kind of coming-to before it was too late, and instead got swallowed alive by reality's mental and physical curveballs. While becoming increasingly less afraid to the possibility of failure, Derek developed a more relaxed, and even mischievous attitude. This new chapter personified, became the catalyst to dropping out of ULS and rejecting not his father's love, but wealth and overbearingness.

However, through his maturing adjustment of independence, Derek's naivety to handling the uncertainties of every day, can still be seen in the eyes that hide behind those stylish sunglasses.