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~Tate doesn’t even know how to be without you, to a majorly unhealthy level.
~Is super snuggly, and touch starved. I fully believe Tate would rather unzip your skin and crawl inside your body with you than ever be without you after falling in love.
~Not that he can be blamed entirely for that. Tate has been miserable for most of his life, and you make him happy. It’s something he never wants to let go once he has it
~Would, absolutely NEVER, have you around his family with the exception of Addy when no one else is around
~Tate spends a ton of time making a playlist for you, full of songs that remind him of you and songs that remind him of the relationship you share
~Constantly starving for attention
~Doodles on your skin with black sharpie when he’s bored, and has colored in your fingernails and his on occasion
~Gets quiet sometimes, and is super easily overwhelmed by his feelings, even if they’re good ones so you really have to work at getting him to tell you what’s wrong
~Loves to sneak up on you just to hear you squeal a little and jump at his sudden appearance behind your back. No matter what, I think this would be something you couldn’t escape with Tate.
~Though I definitely think his boundaries have suffered in death, so instead of tiptoeing around you in the hallway to catch you off guard, Tate would probably graduation to showing up in the mirror behind you after a shower or at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night
~Major poltergeist shit, just because he can and it cracks him up
~Tate 100% does creepy stuff like that all the time. It’s the kind of stuff that would absolutely make you super uncomfortable if you weren’t so close
~Makes a lot of self-deprecating jokes, and struggles with those intense insecurities instilled in him by his mother
~Finding faint eyeliner smudges on all your pillows, even though he claims to know nothing about them when you ask
~Huffs and whines all the time because he’s dramatic
~Loves when you read to him, and he needs read to sleep a lot
~His favorite are old time horror and monster stories, with his favorites being either The Strange Tale of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde or Frankenstein
~Catching Tate staring at you in the middle of the night, his arm up under his head, just admiring you in the dark
~Wants to hold you constantly, and will whine and complain until you let him, even when you’re busy or working on something else
~Keeps you hidden from all the other ghosts in the house, and hates when they make comments about or even threaten you
~Is scary protective, just in general
~Tate has no sense of personal space, or boundaries
~He sees nothing wrong with breathing down your neck, going through your stuff, or showing up places where he isn’t supposed to be if that means he can be even a bit closer to you than he was before
~Random kisses all the time
~Would do absolutely anything for you, and I mean that in the most unhinged, alarming sort of way
Pre-death Tate:
~Sneaks you out of class for cigarettes outside
~For that matter, I don’t think Tate would even go to class if you weren’t going to be there with him the entire time
~Wears the same pair of dirty chucks every day, and doesn’t hesitate to track mud all over the place, even when he gets yelled at for wearing them on your bed
~Doing his best to plan fun dates for you, even though he has almost no experience in that arena and constantly feels like he’s doing it wrong
~Keeps everything you’ve ever given him, from little paper notes to the paperclip he once asked to borrow, in a shoebox under his bed.