<div class="floatright">(http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/34955/Michael-Jai-White-.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Derrick Cines<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>American<br/><br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Ranger<br/><br/><strong>Positive personality traits:</strong>Loyal, dutiful, charming<br/><br/><strong>Negative personality traits:</strong>Arrogant, reckless, guarded at times<br/><br/><strong>Pre-PPDC experience:</strong>He was a mixed martial artist known for beating his opponent quickly even if he took a few blows himself. Derrick got himself to be ranked pretty high in the MMA circuit being in the top 20.<br/><br/><strong>Other skills:</strong>Before he had become an MMA fighter, he had been working as a mechanic. So there are times where he joins the crew to work on the Jaegers and understanding how they work from a mechanical standpoint.<br/><br/><strong>General Backstory:</strong><br/>Derrick grew up on the streets of South Central LA. It was a hard life of living in the hood trying to avoid going to the easier methods of earning money. One day when he was a teenager, he slipped and nearly ended up in juvenille hall but instead was forced to do community service from the person he tried to rob. That person happened to own a boxing gym. It was through having to clean, work and nearly live there that he decided to take up the trade.<br/><br/>He quickly gained rank and status in the local area but felt as though he was headed towards a ceiling where he could not advance. So he began the grueling training of MMA. A few years later after he had gained some kind of a rank in it, the Kaiju attacks began. One of the first nearly cost him the girl he had been dating for about a year.<br/><br/>The Pan Pacific Defense Corps then began to recruit for the Jaegar program. Since it would provide protection for him and a couple of his loved ones, as well as allow him to fight Kaiju, he joined up ready to fight. Now he pilots the Grave Digger with Kevin Blake using their signature "The Call of the Grave" attack.