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Character Information
Character Name: Tate Langdon
Canon: American Horror Story
Canon Point: Right after returning home the day of the school shooting and being shot.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Dead but not a ghost.
History: American Horror Story, Tate
Personality:
"In 1994, I set my mom's boyfriend on fire, and then I shot and killed 15 kids at Westfield High. I murdered the gay couple who lived here before you, and I raped your wife."
Chad once described Tate as "Norman Bates Jr." - In reality, Tate is like a cocktail of Norman Bates, Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer. (No, I'm serious, so this whole app is one big content warning.)
Aside from being a cocktail of some of the most horrifying people in history, Tate Langdon is a typical teenager. He goes to school, he likes girls, he runs track. That being said, he is the typical teenager of the 90s. That all being said, it doesn't mean he doesn't hold something darker in his personality. While his mother tried to force the idea that he was her perfect son, he knew otherwise.
This of course, leads to his weary and withdrawn behavior, after the years of dealing with Constance Langdon, it does a number on you. Especially when she has her boyfriend, that she's only using, to smother his brother. The said boyfriend only lead to more agitation to wear thin at any possible trust Tate could ever have. During a scene with Tate, Addie, Constance and her boyfriend, he shouts at Addie for thinking that Constance's boyfriend is anything other than a tool. Telling Addie that she's a smart girl and she shouldn't fall for it. While he has no trust or love for his mother, he seems to care for Addie.
He's a loner by nature, due to both his weariness and withdrawn behavior and his hate for his mother. Tate doesn't trust easily, this is shown when he seems utterly skeptical of Violet's dad at first, not really seeming to want to be serious with him. He's quiet because of all this, and generally keeps walls up, only letting those that he deems worthy in. Whether he actually lets them in or makes them think he has is often in question.
When Tate was in school he was often on his own, reading about birds - because they could simply fly away from their problems. He's troubled and intelligent, this leads to him being frustrated with the world. It is one of the reasons he sees it as such a terrible place, where abuse, hate and so many other things run rampant. His agitation with the world and how it is is one of the main factors to his detrimental behavior. He can see things some people can't and he's smart enough to see both the hate and the love in people.
Hate is a thing he chose to surround himself with, instead of love. If he had done the latter he probably would have been a lot more like Kit Walker from Season two. His hatred for his mother is the main force that keeps him going when all the steam is gone, when all the love is gone from him. Her abuse and neglect only making it easier to see the shit, the piss and the vomit that the world is composed of. To say he's an angry boy would be the understatement of the century and while he isn't angry at everyone, he's angry at many. He states that he kills those he loves to remove them from the filthy horribleness of the world.
All of this wears down on Tate's mental stability, and while it raises the question of if he every had any, he was a ticking time bomb. The mixture of seeing the world as what it really is, the abuse his mother put him through and generally the lack of any actual light in his life lead to him being too far gone in depression and instability to get better - as Violet's dad states later on, finding Tate a threat to his daughter. He ends up snapping and pulling a kamikaze stunt, the situation becoming far too much for the teenager to handle.
Tate sets his mother's boyfriend on fire then shoots and kills fifteen people at his school before returning home. This of course leads to his untimely death after being cornered in his room by a S.W.A.T. team. He pulls his gun out to shoot them, seeming to see it all as a game, or perhaps an escape, before being shot to death.
Tate is a psychopath, and he feels too much and has far too much empathy. Those all are big factors for his inner turmoil. Tate is what most people would consider evil, while some or most doctors would call him "sick" or "mentally unwell" he doesn't seem to try too hard to label himself, even when he talks to Violet's dad, he seems more curious about how the other male thinks his brain works, which gives him a lot of insight to how Mr. Harmon's own brain works. Whether he clings to the therapy because he's bored or because he's lonely is questionable.
If the rest of this app hasn't made it really blooming obvious that Tate has both self harming and destructive tendencies then I've done something wrong. It's very clear that Tate is a very unhappy teenager. He takes this out on both himself via self harm and the rest of the world. He's mentally sick and obviously depressed probably due to his inability to ever see any light in his life. This he states talking about Violet, saying she is the only light he's ever seen in his life - that leads to his obsession with her.
A huge sort of cause and effect factor to Tate's personality is his ability to kill without any remorse, this is due to both an utter lack of morals and the fact that he feels like he's doing them a favour so they don't have to deal with the world, after he becomes a ghost he seems to kill to achieve goals or protect those he's become attached to. He says he's different from before and while it seems like a blatant lie of a plea, it's somewhat true. Instead of killing Violet because he loved her like he killed all the people he liked, he lets her live, even going as far as to trying to save her even though he knows she'd become a ghost.
Probably the most dangerous thing about Tate, isn't his ruthlessness, but it's the fact that he's charismatic, he is easy to talk to and finds talking to people easy. From the way he behaves, most people wouldn't assume he's as dangerous as he really is. He's great at acting and putting up an utterly innocent facade when it comes to it. He also has no issue with lying, so while he's charming, he's also manipulating. Manipulation is something the teenager is great at and seems to be something he is constantly doing. If asked, he'd say he learned from the best: Constance, his bitch of a mother.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
"If you love somebody, you should never hurt them. Never."
✔ intelligent ; Tate is intelligent, this is shown many times throughout the series with plots he pulls as a ghost.
✔ ruthless ; Tate can kill someone without any remorse, as long as it suits him or if he's protecting someone he cares about, there will be no hesitation.
✔ manipulative ; Tate knows exactly how much to push someone and how to press every button, and while he may take daring risks he is charismatic to pull it all off.
✔ physically fit ; Tate used to run track in high-school, while he's not super strong, he's got average fitness.
✘ human ; Despite being fit, Tate is only human, standing at 5'11", he's not overly strong, nor does he have any super powers, he's simply a human.
✘ unstable ; Tate is mentally and emotionally unstable, and this is often used against him, he's got self harming tendencies and more often than not reacts to things in a volatile way.
✘ mommy issues ; Tate has strong abandonment issues and mommy issues. This stems from the abuse and neglect his mother put him through. It's one of his biggest flaws and he has a bad habit of clinging to those that show him any parental affection.
✘ obsessive ; Tate is obsessive with many things, people, goals, and even things. This is one of his biggest flaws and often lands him in trouble.
Samples
"I'm tired of hurting people."
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[ Eerily dark eyes stare into the network feed, he seems unfazed by being shot and then showing up in a new place. All the other features of Tate's face however do not match the dark sinister look in his eyes. Blonde hair, pale skin, dimples and soft features. ]
Is this Hell or Limbo?
[ The teenager pauses to look around him before his attention lands back on the phone. It's obviously not a jail, so... All those bullets he'd felt. His hand moves over his chest as if to feel for bullet holes... Even if his chest isn't riddled with bullet holes and injuries, his shirt has holes left by the bullets... It had happened, his shirt is ruined.
He probably looks ridiculous in all honesty, a dark black shirt pocked with bullet holes that show off sections of his contrasting pale skin. ]
You'd figure there'd be an easy distinction. [ These words are said around a playful smile - he's not scared, at all or maybe he is and he's good at hiding it. He's not going to call for his mom, even if the witch were here she wouldn't help him; he's not her perfect little son and he never will be. ]
Prose Log Sample:
It had been easy to douse the little fucker in gasoline, it had been even easier to flick the flame onto him. The best part was hearing him scream as the flames engulfed him. He'd feel the pain and suffering that Tate felt - but really, in all honesty, he was being magnanimous. Instead of making him life and deal with the world, Tate was giving him a way out; Tate was giving him a way to escape it all, especially the inevitable heartbreak his mother was going to put him through. The man should be thanking him, not that Tate cares, he still hates him.
Next was the school, he prepared for the noble war. It was him against the world, and he would win, no matter what it threw at him. He was fed up with it winning and destroying his life. There was no more sitting around adding another scar to his arm as all the happiness was sucked from him, as his view on the world became less and less saturated. Enough is enough! Tate was putting his foot down. Shooting the fifteen students wasn't hard at all. In retrospect taking human life is so easy it's almost laughable. He decided he wasn't going to kill his mother, no, she didn't get a way out, she would have to deal with all of if after it was done.
The interesting part was next, heading home, slipping past his mother and heading up the stairs to his room. Next was his own freedom, he'd be able to fly away from all his problems like all the bird he'd read about, all the birds he'd heard outside his window in the earliest mornings. He doesn't feel sad, he doesn't feel anything. He doesn't have any regrets, none at all. If he had the chance to repeat the day? He'd do it again, even if it meant all the bullets piercing through him again.
Player name: Steph
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algidityCharacter Information
Character Name: Tate Langdon
Canon: American Horror Story
Canon Point: Right after returning home the day of the school shooting and being shot.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Dead but not a ghost.
History: American Horror Story, Tate
Personality:
"In 1994, I set my mom's boyfriend on fire, and then I shot and killed 15 kids at Westfield High. I murdered the gay couple who lived here before you, and I raped your wife."
Chad once described Tate as "Norman Bates Jr." - In reality, Tate is like a cocktail of Norman Bates, Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer. (No, I'm serious, so this whole app is one big content warning.)
Aside from being a cocktail of some of the most horrifying people in history, Tate Langdon is a typical teenager. He goes to school, he likes girls, he runs track. That being said, he is the typical teenager of the 90s. That all being said, it doesn't mean he doesn't hold something darker in his personality. While his mother tried to force the idea that he was her perfect son, he knew otherwise.
This of course, leads to his weary and withdrawn behavior, after the years of dealing with Constance Langdon, it does a number on you. Especially when she has her boyfriend, that she's only using, to smother his brother. The said boyfriend only lead to more agitation to wear thin at any possible trust Tate could ever have. During a scene with Tate, Addie, Constance and her boyfriend, he shouts at Addie for thinking that Constance's boyfriend is anything other than a tool. Telling Addie that she's a smart girl and she shouldn't fall for it. While he has no trust or love for his mother, he seems to care for Addie.
He's a loner by nature, due to both his weariness and withdrawn behavior and his hate for his mother. Tate doesn't trust easily, this is shown when he seems utterly skeptical of Violet's dad at first, not really seeming to want to be serious with him. He's quiet because of all this, and generally keeps walls up, only letting those that he deems worthy in. Whether he actually lets them in or makes them think he has is often in question.
When Tate was in school he was often on his own, reading about birds - because they could simply fly away from their problems. He's troubled and intelligent, this leads to him being frustrated with the world. It is one of the reasons he sees it as such a terrible place, where abuse, hate and so many other things run rampant. His agitation with the world and how it is is one of the main factors to his detrimental behavior. He can see things some people can't and he's smart enough to see both the hate and the love in people.
Hate is a thing he chose to surround himself with, instead of love. If he had done the latter he probably would have been a lot more like Kit Walker from Season two. His hatred for his mother is the main force that keeps him going when all the steam is gone, when all the love is gone from him. Her abuse and neglect only making it easier to see the shit, the piss and the vomit that the world is composed of. To say he's an angry boy would be the understatement of the century and while he isn't angry at everyone, he's angry at many. He states that he kills those he loves to remove them from the filthy horribleness of the world.
All of this wears down on Tate's mental stability, and while it raises the question of if he every had any, he was a ticking time bomb. The mixture of seeing the world as what it really is, the abuse his mother put him through and generally the lack of any actual light in his life lead to him being too far gone in depression and instability to get better - as Violet's dad states later on, finding Tate a threat to his daughter. He ends up snapping and pulling a kamikaze stunt, the situation becoming far too much for the teenager to handle.
Tate sets his mother's boyfriend on fire then shoots and kills fifteen people at his school before returning home. This of course leads to his untimely death after being cornered in his room by a S.W.A.T. team. He pulls his gun out to shoot them, seeming to see it all as a game, or perhaps an escape, before being shot to death.
Tate is a psychopath, and he feels too much and has far too much empathy. Those all are big factors for his inner turmoil. Tate is what most people would consider evil, while some or most doctors would call him "sick" or "mentally unwell" he doesn't seem to try too hard to label himself, even when he talks to Violet's dad, he seems more curious about how the other male thinks his brain works, which gives him a lot of insight to how Mr. Harmon's own brain works. Whether he clings to the therapy because he's bored or because he's lonely is questionable.
If the rest of this app hasn't made it really blooming obvious that Tate has both self harming and destructive tendencies then I've done something wrong. It's very clear that Tate is a very unhappy teenager. He takes this out on both himself via self harm and the rest of the world. He's mentally sick and obviously depressed probably due to his inability to ever see any light in his life. This he states talking about Violet, saying she is the only light he's ever seen in his life - that leads to his obsession with her.
A huge sort of cause and effect factor to Tate's personality is his ability to kill without any remorse, this is due to both an utter lack of morals and the fact that he feels like he's doing them a favour so they don't have to deal with the world, after he becomes a ghost he seems to kill to achieve goals or protect those he's become attached to. He says he's different from before and while it seems like a blatant lie of a plea, it's somewhat true. Instead of killing Violet because he loved her like he killed all the people he liked, he lets her live, even going as far as to trying to save her even though he knows she'd become a ghost.
Probably the most dangerous thing about Tate, isn't his ruthlessness, but it's the fact that he's charismatic, he is easy to talk to and finds talking to people easy. From the way he behaves, most people wouldn't assume he's as dangerous as he really is. He's great at acting and putting up an utterly innocent facade when it comes to it. He also has no issue with lying, so while he's charming, he's also manipulating. Manipulation is something the teenager is great at and seems to be something he is constantly doing. If asked, he'd say he learned from the best: Constance, his bitch of a mother.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
"If you love somebody, you should never hurt them. Never."
✔ intelligent ; Tate is intelligent, this is shown many times throughout the series with plots he pulls as a ghost.
✔ ruthless ; Tate can kill someone without any remorse, as long as it suits him or if he's protecting someone he cares about, there will be no hesitation.
✔ manipulative ; Tate knows exactly how much to push someone and how to press every button, and while he may take daring risks he is charismatic to pull it all off.
✔ physically fit ; Tate used to run track in high-school, while he's not super strong, he's got average fitness.
✘ human ; Despite being fit, Tate is only human, standing at 5'11", he's not overly strong, nor does he have any super powers, he's simply a human.
✘ unstable ; Tate is mentally and emotionally unstable, and this is often used against him, he's got self harming tendencies and more often than not reacts to things in a volatile way.
✘ mommy issues ; Tate has strong abandonment issues and mommy issues. This stems from the abuse and neglect his mother put him through. It's one of his biggest flaws and he has a bad habit of clinging to those that show him any parental affection.
✘ obsessive ; Tate is obsessive with many things, people, goals, and even things. This is one of his biggest flaws and often lands him in trouble.
Samples
"I'm tired of hurting people."
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[ Eerily dark eyes stare into the network feed, he seems unfazed by being shot and then showing up in a new place. All the other features of Tate's face however do not match the dark sinister look in his eyes. Blonde hair, pale skin, dimples and soft features. ]
Is this Hell or Limbo?
[ The teenager pauses to look around him before his attention lands back on the phone. It's obviously not a jail, so... All those bullets he'd felt. His hand moves over his chest as if to feel for bullet holes... Even if his chest isn't riddled with bullet holes and injuries, his shirt has holes left by the bullets... It had happened, his shirt is ruined.
He probably looks ridiculous in all honesty, a dark black shirt pocked with bullet holes that show off sections of his contrasting pale skin. ]
You'd figure there'd be an easy distinction. [ These words are said around a playful smile - he's not scared, at all or maybe he is and he's good at hiding it. He's not going to call for his mom, even if the witch were here she wouldn't help him; he's not her perfect little son and he never will be. ]
Prose Log Sample:
It had been easy to douse the little fucker in gasoline, it had been even easier to flick the flame onto him. The best part was hearing him scream as the flames engulfed him. He'd feel the pain and suffering that Tate felt - but really, in all honesty, he was being magnanimous. Instead of making him life and deal with the world, Tate was giving him a way out; Tate was giving him a way to escape it all, especially the inevitable heartbreak his mother was going to put him through. The man should be thanking him, not that Tate cares, he still hates him.
Next was the school, he prepared for the noble war. It was him against the world, and he would win, no matter what it threw at him. He was fed up with it winning and destroying his life. There was no more sitting around adding another scar to his arm as all the happiness was sucked from him, as his view on the world became less and less saturated. Enough is enough! Tate was putting his foot down. Shooting the fifteen students wasn't hard at all. In retrospect taking human life is so easy it's almost laughable. He decided he wasn't going to kill his mother, no, she didn't get a way out, she would have to deal with all of if after it was done.
The interesting part was next, heading home, slipping past his mother and heading up the stairs to his room. Next was his own freedom, he'd be able to fly away from all his problems like all the bird he'd read about, all the birds he'd heard outside his window in the earliest mornings. He doesn't feel sad, he doesn't feel anything. He doesn't have any regrets, none at all. If he had the chance to repeat the day? He'd do it again, even if it meant all the bullets piercing through him again.
