application ᘚ onepassingnight ✄ tate langdon
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Character name: Tate Langdon
Character fandom: American Horror Story
Version: One
Canon point: End of episode 8.
Importing development from old game? nope
Background: his wikia and overall wikia
Changes from canon, if AU: None
Personality:
"He’s a sensitive boy, a young man with too deep feelings, the soul of a poet, but none of the grit or steel that acts as a bulwark against the horrors of this world."
Oh-so-sweet and dandy: Though Tate does carry a lot of horrible, horrible traits, there is a sweeter side to him that simply wants to please others (mostly the [dead] women in the house). He adores Violet, his girlfriend, and would do anything for her, simply because he loves her. His infatuation with Violet started when he first started seeing her father, Ben Harmon, for psychiatric help. Violet was damaged in a lot of the same ways -- self hatred and loneliness. He felt a need to protect her, to make her happy, but he is never afraid to speak the truth around her. He expresses his true feelings for her on some chalk first, before telling it to her face rather tearfully. He puts her feelings before his, which is a big step for him, since he usually does what he wants, feeling like those people deserve their pain. His harsh views on the world let Violet connect to him, and the two of them get along quite well. During the latest episode (episode 8) he tells her that he will always be there for her after he has had sex with her and after her mother is emitted to a hospital at the end of the episode. He will do anything to make Violet feel safe and comforted. When he sees her cutting herself in the bathroom, he tells her to stop and grabs her wrist, trying to lick the blood away before she pulls her wrist away from him, telling him it's gross. He agrees and tells her that it is gross, she's mutilating herself and he never, never wants to see her do that to herself ever again. He makes her promise that to him. When Violet tries to kill herself with sleeping pills, he drags her from her bedroom and into the bathroom, making her vomit to get the drugs out of her body. She is the only person who has made him go through so much in order to keep someone alive.
↳ Avenger: When Violet was being bullied by a girl at school, Tate goes out of his way to help her out. So out of his way, in fact, that he calls on other spirits to help him. He tells Violet to lure Leah to her basement, telling her that she has cocaine there. When Violet brings her to the basement, Tate calls Leah an ungrateful bitch and makes the lights flicker and brings out another malevolent spirit to attack Leah. Violet sees the 'thing' that attacks Leah, which is hardly human-looking, and is horrified. Leah, tortured and scarred for her life, leaves the house, while Violet is left with Tate, who is proud of himself, and Violet is scared as well. She leaves the scene, upset and scared, while Tate is left in the basement saying that he thought she wasn't afraid of anything. He was confused by her reaction and upset, he thought he had done something good for Violet, only to be shunned for going over the top.
Mommy Issues: Touching back on the subject of pleasing women in the house, the root of the issue resides with Tate and his mother, Constance. He was ignored, mostly, as a child and a teenager, and he expresses great hatred towards his mother to her personally and to Doctor Harmon. He calls her a 'cocksucking whore', and tells Constance, to her face, that he hates her when she asks what the problem is with him. He can't even stand to be touched by her, physically moving out of the way when she reaches out to touch him. He is finding ways to please the people around him, never actually being able to please his mother personally because he hates her too much. He wants to be accepted by another figure that can pose as his mother. He goes so far to ask one of the dead spirits, Nora, if she wants a baby. With her positive reply, Tate continues his promise by raping Violet's mother, Vivien, while Vivien was under the impression that Tate was her husband, Ben. He successfully impregnates Vivien with twins, despite being a ghost.
Ghost: Tate is, indeed, a ghost. He goes on living like he hadn't been shot fifteen times by a SWAT team, and he doesn't remember the pain he inflicted on the fifteen people that he killed at his school on one fine day. He does realize he's dead, but he doesn't remember how he died, or how it felt. He tries to explain to Violet that he would have told her earlier, but knew that she wouldn't believe him.
Psycho Killer: Tate has killed people, and he does express remorse for it. When Doctor Harmon, the psychiatrist, tells him that he can't come to the house anymore due to him feeling uncomfortable about Tate seeing Violet, Tate persists on bugging Ben about seeing him for his help. He doesn't want to continue to be the way he is -- he wants to be better. He wants to be good. He continuously had visions of his killings, and would try and stop the visions by jerking off in hopes that sexual pleasure would make the visions go away. They would, for a while, but then they would come back. Tate was upset about it not working, so he poked and prodded at Doctor Harmon until he let him continue to see him for help. Later, he's happy to say that the visions have stopped, and he's more relaxed about the subject all-together, and less defensive. Despite that, Tate is incredibly hard to break open. His mind is incredibly damaged and he is somewhat of a sociopath. His feels are twisted in ways they shouldn't be, and he does not feel pity or empathy a great deal of the time, unless it's towards Violet. He expresses disgust towards Doctor Harmon when he starts crying, but did, indeed, lay a hand on his out of sympathy. He can show his feelings for people he cares about, and even if it's rare to see any of those feelings, he will slowly begin to open up if he feels he can trust someone. However, even though he wants to be a better person, he still continues to kill the people around him, such as Chad Warwick and Patrick. He is going in a circle of what he should do in order to please the people in the house. He may not have the visions anymore, but he still has the sick personality that he walked into the doctor's office with.
sidenote: Tate has killed seventeen people overall. The fifteen kids at the high school, along with Chad and Patrick.
That Teenager: Although Tate is incredibly emotionally stunted, he still has the teenager inside him. He's playful and smart, and he will touch on uncomfortable subjects if he feels threatened or doesn't want to talk about something. With Doctor Harmon, in order to avoid talking about himself, he goes on about what he fantasizes about -- which happens to be his daughter, Violet. He goes so far that Doctor Harmon starts to feel uncomfortable, and politely asks him to stop. Tate doesn't, and that is when Doctor Harmon tells him to keep away from his family and tries to push him towards another psychiatrist. That's not all that Tate has for his snide attitude, though, he does have fun with Violet up in the attic while he's showing her what he found from past families who owned the house. He fakes a girly accent while handing Violet a gay porn magazine, and when Violet tells him she thinks gay porn is hot, he plays along and says 'totally'. He likes to listen to music, such as Kurt Cobain, and has a bit of a potty mouth. He doesn't exactly censor himself. He also hates high school.
Abilities:
Tate is a ghost, which means all ghost abilities pertain to him. Though he only uses the first one most of the time. This includes:
☇ disappearing/reappearing wherever/whenever he wants
☇ walking through walls
☇ can control things around him: flicker lights, move furniture, rearrange things, etc
☇ Can also see other dead things.
☇ can make himself be in a room without actually being seen. feel something creeping behind you? oh, that's just the wind.
Despite the ghostly things, he's an incredibly skilled fighter, and is able to take on a man that probably weighs a lot more than he does.
Writing sample:
Tate was used to horror shows, to horrible projections showing up whenever they wanted to. It seems like ages ago that he had his talk with Doctor Harmon. The drugs had been helping, but not now, no. Of course they wouldn't be helping now. The visions were jumping back at him as he slept,
Walking down the school hallway, no one can stop him. He knows the secret. He can't stop himself. He's only there to kill the people that he likes, and bang --
No. The waking state was always a problem. It left his heart racing, adrenaline rushing through his blood, telling him to run. He had to make sure it wasn't real. He had to. It was ripping at his skull, it was too much. Sometimes Tate had to sit down for a while, holding his head in his hands just to make the thoughts go away. He had no one here. No one he could talk to. He was completely alone. It was worse than being in the same house as his mother, the dreadful bitch.
There's a girl crying under the table, half-sobbing and half-screaming and looking up at him with big, horrified eyes. He'll just ignore it. She doesn't deserve to live. Raising the gun up to her head he shoots --
It's not stopping. Without Violet around there wasn't anything that Tate had to keep him at bay. He said he would always be there for her -- but now what? Now he was stuck. Stuck in a shit room with barely anything to keep him sane.
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