Tate Langdon is an irredeemable monster. (_irredeemable) wrote, @ 2024-07-15 01:29:00 |
|
|||
OUT OF CHARACTER Name: Jen Age: 31 Email/AIM: mistojen[at]gmail[dot]com / RockinTheHD Timezone: EST IN CHARACTER Name:Tate Langdon Fandom: American Horror Story Age: 17 Point in Canon: pre-show (early 2010; in the canon time line, this is after he kills Patrick and Chad, but before the Harmons move into Murder House [the Harmons moving in is the "real time" start of the series]) Puncturable: Noooooo omg. Alignment: Depends on the day. (Neutral until he snaps, which will inevitably happen, at which point he'll then be on the villain timer, yes?) Powers (If any): Tate's a corporeal ghost. He's already dead, therefore cannot be killed*. In canon, he's shown as stronger than a boy of his size and age should be, he has the ability to conceal himself by making himself invisible to the eye of the beholder, and the ability to appear and disappear from sight and move through his environment almost like teleporting, at will. *Tate can be killed, but it only sticks for a few seconds or, at most, minutes, according to patterns in his canon. That said, when it comes time for Tate to be removed from the game for his villainous nature, he'll have to be sent back through the rift for anything to be permanent. Weaknesses: While he's not trapped in Murder House in the game's setting, giving him the advantage of being able to move around freely, he can still be sent away (for good) from any character who tells him, firmly and meaningfully, to "Go away." He has no choice. He has to then leave that character alone. Personality: First things first... click the image for details. Tate Langdon is a psychopath. He is a liar, a master of manipulation, and can (and will) easily alter his personality to best fit the person with whom he is conversing. This will likely exhibit itself in contradictory conversation on the network wherein Tate says one thing and strikes out another, or will appear in logs when Tate is saying one thing while thinking another, both instances of which will be thoughts or words on the opposite sides of the spectrum from one another. He can be very charming or terrifyingly menacing and can fluctuate between the two (and anything in between) as though flipping a switch. He's selfish and has a one-track mind. Tate needs a purpose; at this canon point, his purpose is to find a baby for Nora, another ghost in the house with whom he has a very close bond that stems from his childhood. Outside the house, his purpose can and will probably vary until he finds one he feels the need to set in stone. Likely, given his future in canon, he will find someone he feels the need to protect. He will stop at literally nothing to fulfill whatever he sees as his purpose and has been known to go as far as to murder others in cold blood in an effort to achieve it. His emotions are not real. They are largely imagined and he's become so good at lying that he's taught himself to believe the lies he tells. This extends from the smallest, most trivial things (ex: that he agrees gay porn is hot, when attempting to impress a girl) to much deeper seated falacies (ex: that he has no idea that he killed fifteen kids when he went on a Columbine-like rampage through his high school the day he died). Tate cannot actually feel, with little exception. That said, he is in love with the idea of feeling true emotions and will go through the motions like an expert. If one didn't know better, they would probably think he actually feels the things he appears to feel. Tate doesn't understand the concept of emotion and he has no remorse for any of the things he does, says, or thinks. He speaks first and asks questions never. He's impulsive and reckless, prone to rage (which is one of the few emotions with which he actually can identify and often actually feel), and is incapable of shame. He is a narrow-minded boy, largely peacocking bravado he doesn't actually possess. Tate has abandonment issues and is afraid of rejection — both of these things are triggers for Tate that have and probably will always continue to cause him to snap, which usually ends in the death of others. This is a boy who is prone to behaviors like stalking, obsession, and a very dangerous clinginess. He craves parental figures to replace the ones he does not have in reality, but would react to them inappropriately by pushing away a father figure and overindulging a mother figure. For example, the mother figure he has chosen (Nora) wants a baby and when the homosexual couple living in the house begin with fight and decide not to adopt one, he kills them in order to make it possible for a new family to move in who might be more apt to have a child he can steal for her. Later in canon than is his current canon point, when the Harmon family seems an unlikely candidate for offspring due to the marital problems of Ben and Vivien, rather than kill them (because he believes himself to be in love with their teenage daughter), Tate instead rapes Vivien and impregnates her himself. In another example, he tells Ben Harmon, whom he is seeing for therapy because he tells himself that he wants to be "good" or "normal," that he wishes Ben was his father and that his life would have been a lot different if he was, and yet he continues to date Ben's daughter against Ben's wishes, rapes his wife, and is largely antagonistic toward the man. Tate cannot and will not accept responsibility for the things he's done, instead preferring to tell himself that he doesn't remember any of it happening and that he doesn't understand why he would do something like that. This, however, does not stop him from continuing with his homicidal and terrorizing behavior. Brief History: Born in 1977 to Constance and Hugo Langdon, Tate was the youngest of the four Langdon children. He was also the only child to have no apparent defects. While his eldest brother, Beauregard, is physically deformed and his older sister, Adelaide, has Downs Syndrome, the last sibling before Tate is mentioned only in passing in canon and is said to have been an albino. Constance called Tate her "perfect son," only to later recant it to specify that he was taken by other malady. When Tate was six, his mother caught his father sleeping with their maid, Moira, and she killed them both, disposing of the bodies. The way Tate understood things, his father ran away with Moira, abandoning the rest of his family. Tate, to his current canon point, is still under the assumption that his father left, even though it's clear that Moira is still trapped in the Murder House with him (a fate anyone who dies on the property must suffer). Whether Tate chooses to continue to believe that in spite of the fact that his father, too, is still trapped in the house or whether he has simply not crossed paths and trusts the word of his mother is unknown. He met Nora not long after, while Constance was passed out drunk and he had lost his favorite toy dump truck in the basement. When he attempted to retrieve it from the shadows, the Infantata, Thaddeus (the abomination created out of the remains of Nora's dead toddler by her mentally ill husband), attempted to attack him. Nora, the original owner of the Murder House before it began to earn its name, stepped in, pulling Tate back and telling Thaddeus, "No! Go away." She promised to protect Tate from Thaddeus and wiped the little boy's tears. At that point, Tate confided that he wished Nora was his mother. A child of the nineties, Tate fell deep into the grunge movement, considering Kurt Cobain's word practically gospel. When his mother lost the house due to lack of finances to continue to pay for it, they moved briefly as a family, only to move back into the house when she seduced the new owner into leaving his wife and daughters for her. Tate made it no secret that he was disgusted at the fact that Larry had moved Constance and her children into the house where his own wife killed their daughters and committed suicide because he'd left her. Worse, still, Tate was aware of the fact that Larry had killed Beauregard by smothering him, something that Constance manipulated him into doing, a fact which was unbeknownst to Tate. The farce that was his "family," at that juncture finally made Tate snap. One morning in 1994, at the age of seventeen, Tate Langdon prepared himself for a day of slaughter by snorting coke, cleaning, loading, and packing up a shotgun into a duffel bag. Tate made his way to Larry's place of employment, the local bank, with his duffel bag and a can of gasoline in hand. He strode purposefully into the man's office, dumped the gasoline all over him, threw a match, and walked back out of the office and out of the bank as though nothing had happened at all. Tate then made his way to Westfield High School, where he was a student, and proceeded to gun down ten students in another part of the school (likely a classroom) before injuring one teacher and killing five students in the library. Tate finished his massacre and calmly returned back home where he was shortly thereafter accosted by a SWAT team. Tate proceeded to commit suicide by cop, reaching for his gun while the SWAT team was already aiming at him; he was subsequently gunned down and died in his bedroom. Because Tate died on the property, he remained trapped in the house as a corporeal ghost and will presumably continue to do so until the end of time. Many years later, a gay couple moved into the house. Not long into their residence, their relationship began to crumble, crushing the promise of a new baby in the house that Tate could steal for Nora, who only ever seemed to want her baby — which Tate misunderstood to mean a baby. Tate snapped Chad's neck and beat Patrick to death with a fire poker. He and Nora then covered the murder by creating the illusion of a murder/suicide in the basement. More details about Tate's canon beyond this canon point from which he's being taken can be found here, for cross-reference. Played By: Evan Peters SAMPLES Third Person: This is my Tate on Dreamwidth First Person: Still on Dreamwidth; let me know if you need something else and I'm happy to provide more samples. |