Matty, Tatertot,
DOB 05/24/1999.xxxxxxGENDER MalexxxxxxSEXUALITY Bisexual
ZODIAC SIGN Gemini xxxxxxOCCUPATION Tutors English for non-English speakers, aspiring detective.
QUOTE "I'm like the Nancy Drew of finding useless information"
HEX CODE #4175aaxxxxxxSONG INSPIRATION Came Out Swinging
CODENAME Ground Control
ZODIAC SIGN Gemini xxxxxxOCCUPATION Tutors English for non-English speakers, aspiring detective.
QUOTE "I'm like the Nancy Drew of finding useless information"
HEX CODE #4175aaxxxxxxSONG INSPIRATION Came Out Swinging
CODENAME Ground Control
GENERAL STYLE
Only one thing is certain about Matty's style, he doesn't dress to impress anyone. The only thing he usually manages to keep under control is his hair, usually shoving on a hair wrap on its unruly days to keep it from going everywhere. Most days, Usually he can be found strolling around in whatever he found on the floor that morning, whether it be his best shirt and a pair of shorts or the most ugly Christmas jumper in the world paired with bright yellow jeans. As most people can usually tell at first glance, he tends to favour outlandish and crazy colours and prints he finds in the thrift store. His mother is an accomplished designer who despairs at her son's lack of style but usually creates outfits for him from the unwearable scraps of cloth he brings home from the thrift store, creating actually wearable clothes from garish prints.
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He's fascinated by cold cases. Stars and Planets.
Sleeping late. Old photographs of his parents
from before he was born. Rainy days. Fruit
especially peaches and passion fruit. He has
a passion for architecture. All things tacky
and vintage. Take out, especially pizza. Old
motels that he can explore. Reading old
detective novels. Logic games. Riddles. Obscure
TV shows. Big fan of listening to podcasts
about historical figures and conspiracy theories.
Late nights. The LA skyline. His little brother,
Morgan. He adores most of the kids he tutors.
Loves languages, especially Spanish and French.
Exploring waste grounds. He watches a lot of
cop shows. Bright colours and neons. Awful
pukeworthy patterns. He loves hanging out
with the neighbors club
Getting up early for things. Struggling to work
something out on his own. Sweaty hot days. Packed
malls and stores. TV commercials and Ads for useless
products that get called 'innovative'. Black coffee.
Failing at things that he's supposed to be
good at. Bad romance movies. Forgetting to text
his friends back. People who eat really loudly
in movie theatres or just move theatres (due to loud
eaters and sticky floors). People who don't keep
their desks tidy. Huge dogs. Bugs that fly into
your face. He hates mathematics and physics.
Matty hates people who are too optimistic and
don't accept bad things happen. Fixating on tiny
details that don't help the big picture. Public
restrooms, so much so he refuses to ever use one.
His mom's CD collection (All country. Save him)
PERSONALITY
The first thing you learn about Matty is that his laugh is truly infectious. Its a warm belly laugh that carries from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head, it's a laugh that you cant help but grin at. He radiates warmth and love. He always tries to find the good in a situation and often finds that good hilarious. He is the life of the party, involving everyone in stupid dances and completely made up party games, no matter how bad someone feels. He's the positive force in the neighbors' club, always there to crack a joke in the middle of a silence or to comfort and do his best to reassure those around him.
Matty was never the most academically gifted student favouring athletics over mathematics however he is intuitive and resourceful. His skills lie mostly in puzzle solving and is quite skilled at lying which he wholly puts down to watching every episode of CSI and Criminal Minds ever aired. In school he excelled in Languages and sociology and is determined to do everything he does to the highest standard and is often called a perfectionist.
To Matty, there's nothing more important in the world than his family. He dotes on his little brother and on days where he isn't too busy, can be found curled up on the sofa playing video games with his brother and letting him win more often than not, purely to see his brother grin and giggle. He spends most of his free time with his mother cross-legged on her bed, helping her design new creations for her collection or out buying fabrics for her (no matter how horrendous the fabric Matty brings home she wouldn't trust anyone else with the job). He has a soft spot for the kids he tutors, attentive to their needs and focusing on how they can work together to learn.
Despite his outward confidence, he finds it difficult to trust people fully, even close friends he's known for most of his life. He is deeply afraid that the people around him, even friends and family, may be betraying him and it leaves him full of self doubt. He overanalyses social interactions and blames himself for small things going wrong. Since Mason's disappearance, he has taken to analysing everyone around him, becoming more on guard.
Matty was never the most academically gifted student favouring athletics over mathematics however he is intuitive and resourceful. His skills lie mostly in puzzle solving and is quite skilled at lying which he wholly puts down to watching every episode of CSI and Criminal Minds ever aired. In school he excelled in Languages and sociology and is determined to do everything he does to the highest standard and is often called a perfectionist.
To Matty, there's nothing more important in the world than his family. He dotes on his little brother and on days where he isn't too busy, can be found curled up on the sofa playing video games with his brother and letting him win more often than not, purely to see his brother grin and giggle. He spends most of his free time with his mother cross-legged on her bed, helping her design new creations for her collection or out buying fabrics for her (no matter how horrendous the fabric Matty brings home she wouldn't trust anyone else with the job). He has a soft spot for the kids he tutors, attentive to their needs and focusing on how they can work together to learn.
Despite his outward confidence, he finds it difficult to trust people fully, even close friends he's known for most of his life. He is deeply afraid that the people around him, even friends and family, may be betraying him and it leaves him full of self doubt. He overanalyses social interactions and blames himself for small things going wrong. Since Mason's disappearance, he has taken to analysing everyone around him, becoming more on guard.
YOU KNEW MASON?
When the Tate's moved next door to the Bass family, then 3 year old Matty finally had someone his own age to hang out with. The two were inseparable in the years before elementary, always on playdates. Despite the two parting ways for a brief 2 years after the birth of Matty's brother and his mother's decline in health, soon Matty and Mason grew close once again. Now Mason's missing, Matty feels like the part of him that brought him back to normality has been lost. He feels like it's his duty to don the detective cap, for better or worse.
HISTORY
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Patrick Tate would tell you about love at first sight. How he rolled his car into the garage to see a woman bathed in fluorescent lighting with a grease streaked face that was framed perfectly by loose curls. He would tell you about how she fixed his car and fixed her heart. Maggie Tate however would tell you about the lanky wild haired boy in his fathers car, sheepishly handing over the keys. Still he was funny and Maggie liked that so when he finally convinced her to come out for coffee she had one of the most wonderful dates. When the pair finally married, Patrick convinced Maggie to follow her dreams and start her fashion career. Patrick grew to be a workaholic, spending weeks away at a time. This didn't change when the couple's first child, Matthew was born. He became more inclined to spend time at the office rather than with his young family. However, Matty was a relatively well behaved baby, giving Maggie time to work on her various collections and shows. When Matthew turned 3, the family made the decision to up and move to LA for the benefit of both his parents careers. They settled into the house fairly quickly but soon his father's job began taking him further away again, leaving the mother and child alone. It was during this that Matty's mother and Mason's mother bonded. The two families living right next door to each other meant they had plenty of time to get to know each other. The two hit it off, bonding over a light lunch while their toddlers played in the backyard. The two hit it off almost immediately, their days turning into games of hide and seek between both houses.
During childhood, Matty became the outgoing class clown, known to be the life and soul of every bad middle-school disco. His father was mostly absent, constantly at work or away on business trips, whilst his mother continued designing. He wasn't a perfect student, but he had the gift of intuition. He idolised detectives, devouring every Crime show he could watch before bed time. It was only a matter of time before he put his skills into finding lost items for kids at school. During this time, the LA neighbors' club was formed and it was only a matter of time before they all bonded like a group of mismatched siblings. They ate dinner together, hung out after school and camped. For the first time in his life, Matty had people other than his mom to depend on.
At 13, Matty began to withdraw from his social life to care for his mom and new-born brother Morgan. His mother had a traumatic pregnancy and after the birth, her health steadily declined. Matty became the protector of his brother, dropping him at day-care before school and picking him up straight after before heading home to make dinner. The family became isolated and Maggie's illness hidden. They managed the charade for 2 years before Maggie had to be taken to hospital. Matty turned to the Bass family for help. Despite having removed himself from his old friends, he once again found solace in them. His father returned back from his business trip when he found out how serious Maggie's condition was. As she started to regain strength, so did their relationship and the family started to heal. He was inducted back into the LA Neighbors' Club and it felt like he had never left. He fell back into the old routines of hanging out and having fun. It felt as though he had never left. Everything was going perfectly until he returned home from a tutoring session to find the whole neighbourhood swarming with cops and his mother and father at Mason's house. Mason was missing. Mason was missing and he'd taken away the part of Matty that had made him feel like he was part of something. They had to find their friend, they owed it to him. This was going to be a long game of hide and seek.
During childhood, Matty became the outgoing class clown, known to be the life and soul of every bad middle-school disco. His father was mostly absent, constantly at work or away on business trips, whilst his mother continued designing. He wasn't a perfect student, but he had the gift of intuition. He idolised detectives, devouring every Crime show he could watch before bed time. It was only a matter of time before he put his skills into finding lost items for kids at school. During this time, the LA neighbors' club was formed and it was only a matter of time before they all bonded like a group of mismatched siblings. They ate dinner together, hung out after school and camped. For the first time in his life, Matty had people other than his mom to depend on.
At 13, Matty began to withdraw from his social life to care for his mom and new-born brother Morgan. His mother had a traumatic pregnancy and after the birth, her health steadily declined. Matty became the protector of his brother, dropping him at day-care before school and picking him up straight after before heading home to make dinner. The family became isolated and Maggie's illness hidden. They managed the charade for 2 years before Maggie had to be taken to hospital. Matty turned to the Bass family for help. Despite having removed himself from his old friends, he once again found solace in them. His father returned back from his business trip when he found out how serious Maggie's condition was. As she started to regain strength, so did their relationship and the family started to heal. He was inducted back into the LA Neighbors' Club and it felt like he had never left. He fell back into the old routines of hanging out and having fun. It felt as though he had never left. Everything was going perfectly until he returned home from a tutoring session to find the whole neighbourhood swarming with cops and his mother and father at Mason's house. Mason was missing. Mason was missing and he'd taken away the part of Matty that had made him feel like he was part of something. They had to find their friend, they owed it to him. This was going to be a long game of hide and seek.
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