C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Hayden McClaine
Canon: American Horror Story
Original or Alternate Universe: ou
Canon Point: 1x12 Afterbirth, end of the season finale.
Number: --- » 012 » 020

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History:
❝ the thing is, doctor harmon, is that i have a crush on you. ❞
❝ that's a bad move. seriously. ❞
Once upon a time in the lively city of Boston, MA, there was a 21 year-old psych student named Hayden McClaine. She was smart, beautiful, witty- ( Well, "You're smart as hell." -- "Is hell smart?" grade witty, at least. She tries! ), and fun in an "I like to drink beer!" kinda party-girl way. All very typical for an inspired college student. The flaw though, was that she had a crush on her professor. Oh, that Ben Harmon was quite charmin', and he was foxy to boot. Smart, funny. Everything Hayden could ask for in a man. Except he was also very much married. Bummer, right?! Nope! Hayden pursued him anyway, seeking extra help with him after class, and even, one night, inviting him out to the bar to talk more about 'interpersonal aggression'. Which it turned out, she didn't really need the extra discussion to help her understand the subject better! It was all a ploy! After some not-so subtle flirting on both ends, Ben admits his marriage has been heading down a bad road, and Hayden finally admits that she has a crush on him, and eventually, somewhere along the line the two sleep together.

It's never said how long this has gone on, but it all abruptly ends when they're caught, in bed, by Ben's wife Vivien. That is the true bummer here, according to Hayden.

❝ i thought we had an agreement. do i have to get this number changed? ❞
Months go by and the Harmon family moves out to LA, into a new house which ends up being pretty damn awful for them, in the long run. Not that Hayden came along for that. Nope. She's back in Boston, doing whatever it is college students do there - when HORROR STRIKES! Kinda. We find out, in a phonecall to Ben, that Hayden is pregnant.

GASP!

So she tells him she needs him there, after deciding to get an abortion, and a few days later he's staying at her place, promising to stay disconnected from his life back at home long enough to support Hayden through the operation as much as he can. He makes it very clear that he's going to be sleeping on the couch, and she says a lot of very mature things about how she can't believe how "textbook" she was for sleeping with a married guy ( "That's not who I wanna be anymore". ), that they weren't meant to be, and Ben even toasts to said maturity and grace with which she's handling her situation. It all seems pretty straight forward and simple until he checks his phone a second time and she promptly bursts into tears, exclaiming that all she ever wanted was for him to love her! Yikes, right?

The next day we find them in the abortion clinic, both nervous, but sure that it's the best for both of them. Hayden insists she's fine. Unfortunately! Right after she's called in to see the doctor, leaving Ben alone in the waiting room, he checks his phone and sees he has 13 missed calls from home and immediately books it out of there to see what's wrong. Turns out Viv and Violet were attacked that night by three serial killer enthusiasts trying to use them in a reenactment of one of the murders that took place in the house back in the 70s. Of all the freaking things to happen! Ben heads home immediately, and-- essentially leaves Hayden to deal with the abortion all alone. Oops.

❝ i'm not a whore, ben. i matter. I MATTER. ❞
Fortunately! This isn't the last we see of Hayden, not by a long shot. Because just a short time after Ben returns home and answers a number of questions ( with lies ) about what he was doing in Boston to the police that are investigating the Harmon's home invasion, Hayden shows up in LA! In his study! She explains that she didn't have the abortion, that she decided to keep the baby, and that Ben would be its father. Mhm. She's decided to move to the city, and that he will 100% support the plan. It's all decided. Ben starts to protest, claiming he doesn't have the cash, and Hayden freaks out, yelling in his face that she matters just before the doorbell rings. Phew! Ben's saved by- a detective. Great. Hayden leaves without a fuss, asking him to meet her at a place called Norm's at 3pm the next day. Good. They'll have a nice, long talk, far away from his family's home. He agrees.

Naturally, the next time we see Hayden is the next day, after Ben fails to meet her for that 3pm date. She bursts into his home, storming around and yelling for Mrs. Harmon, saying they need to have a talk. She's pissed, and she makes a point of correcting Ben when he tells her to calm down because she's acting crazy ( "I am NOT crazy, I am angry." ). She really is crazy though, because she starts explaining that she thinks she and Ben should tell Viv together, about her pregnancy and his new obligations, like it's the most rational thing in the world. Ben tells her they can talk it all out somewhere else, and when he says they can go anywhere she likes, she calms right the hell down. Like a switch was flipped. Everything's great again! She even gives him a very heartfelt kiss, and leaves the house with a big grin on her face, probably because she's about to pick some expensive restaurant for Ben to take her for this little date talk.

❝ you know what I'd love? a big, thick, juicy- ❞
/SHOVEL TO THE FACE!
... No, that probably wasn't how that sentence was supposed to end.

But that's the hilariously unexpected thing that happens next, and incidentally, is how Hayden dies. Larry the Lighter Guy decided to take Ben's problems into his own hands and eliminate his very obvious problem. He kills Hayden with a few blows to the head with his trusty shovel, and expects Ben to pay him for it. A grand. That's what Hayden's life cost, apparently. Her burial is sad, but only because Ben doesn't just get Larry to shove her in a hole in the ground, oh no. That very same day, he patches up the spot with a big slab of pavement, then builds a gazebo on top of it. Yeah.

A S K
H I M
The great part about Hayden's death is that it just so happened to take place on the property of a house that lets you keep on living. Kind of. Hayden returns to the house on Halloween as a ghost, showing up on the front porch looking like death and giving Ben a look that was just shy of murderous. We only catch a quick glimpse of it though, because he immediately slams the door in her face, convinced that her death must have been some kind of scam, and he's not about to invite her into the house just so she can extort him or harass him or anything else. Of course this doesn't stop her though, and her next move is much more straight-to-the-point, she calls Vivien to ask if Ben's told her about Boston. The conversation is tense, because despite Viv being pretty tired and just fed up with the whole day, she immediately starts to explain that she's been in Hayden's position before, she's been with a married man and expected him to leave his wife and blahblahblah, but it just didn't happen. She explains all this, and Hayden seems to ignore it, instead telling Mrs. Harmon that Ben found something in her that she could never get with his boring old wife. Eventually Viv gets pissed off, yells that she wishes she just ripped her smug little face off when she had the chance, and Hayden tells her that it's way too late for that ( ha ha ha because she's already dead ) and tells her one more time to ask about Boston before hanging up. And in true horror movie fashion, when Viv turns back to look in the mirror, the words ASK HIM are written in the fog. S p o o k y.

Viv runs down the stairs and yells to Ben that Hayden is in the house, that she didn't see her but she knows he's there, and he grabs a knife to go looking for her, set on ending this once and for all. His search leads him down into the basement, where he shouts her name a few times until Hayden appears from the shadows ( "I love it when you say my name. Say it again." ), looking as dead as ever. She's also pretty depressed, and horny, because she starts to ramble about how mean it was for him to shut the door in her face, then moves right along into how badly she misses kissing him. It's really confusing. The only problem is that she's literally spitting out blood ( and some of her insides, gross ), which just leads her to being reminded that oh yeah, he got her killed. And buried her under a GAZEBO. She's really pissed about that. Finally, after she rants about how lowly he must think of women for burying her in the yard like that, he lashes out, asking what she wants. She just wants his wife to know the truth, that's all, she has to know the truth about them. Which of course Ben wants no part of ( and he calls her crazy again! sick. ), but just when he starts to further voice his feelings--

DONG!

It's Larry with his trusty shovel again! This time hitting Ben hard on the back of the head, just once, knocking him out. Larry immediately jumps into an apology for, well, killing Hayden, but she dismisses it, saying she'll deal with him later because now she has to deal with Vivien. Unsurprisingly, Larry asks to help, pulling out his lighter and saying he hasn't had a reason to use it in ages. ( Larry's crazy. )

Conveniently enough, Chad ( another dead resident of the Murder House who posed as an interior decorator for the family ) starts mauling the Harmon's lawn decorations, pulling Vivien away from the bathroom long enough for Hayden to jump in the tub and wash off all the dirt and grime and blood. The water's a thick murky red by the time Viv finally comes back into the house, looking for Ben because ohmyGodChadisCRAZY, but she ends up walking past the bathroom and hearing Hayden in the tub and immediately runs to trigger her silent security system back in her bedroom. Good call, Vivien! She probably would have headed to the bathroom next, but she's distracted by the dog barking her head off at one of the other rooms in the house. So Viv checks it out, and finds that someone has lit a fire! Crap! During this time, Hayden gets out of the tub, and heads down to the kitchen, again following the horror movie rules by calling Viv again instead of just letting her find her there. Of course, her cellphone is back in the bathroom with the tub, which she discovers is full of that disgusting redbrown water Hayden left behind. Ick. She ends the random phonecall by saying "Come over here, girl.", implying that she's about to do something crazy like... cook their family pet. Hilariously enough, Hayden somehow times out a perfect prank - putting tomatoes in the microwave so they explode just as Vivien makes it into the kitchen. It looks pretty convincing. The poor dog!

Viv runs back upstairs to hit her panic button again, but it's too late. Hayden's already up in her bedroom, ready to monologue. She starts asking a lot of questions about what Viv knows about her husband, what he's capable of - adultery, clearly, but murder maybe? Viv's having no part of it, asking her to leave, but Hayden persists, saying they have to talk about Boston. The pregnancy, the truth about everything. This is when Hayden discovers that Vivien is pregnant too, and yeah, naturally, she freaks. She thinks that that's why Ben won't leave his wife to be with her ( "He didn't want me to keep my baby because he already had yours." ), and she breaks a picture frame, picking up a broken piece of glass and starts to move towards Vivien, saying she's going to cut the baby out of her stomach because that's obviously what's best for everyone. Luckily! Ben finds his way into the bedroom just in time, and Hayden backs off once he admits that he went to Boston to see her. So he does, but Vivien starts crying because apparently it's been at least a year since she caught them together, so it's impossible that she was pregnant with his baby. But! It turns out! Ben and Hayden had sex even after they were caught. Bad husband! It's enough to make Hayden back off though, and just in the nick of time, the Harmon's trusty security guard comes into the bedroom and takes Hayden away in his cop car.

If only Hayden wasn't actually a ghost and could actually leave the house. She makes it a good distance away, long enough to have a creepy conversation with the security guard about her true love for Ben, how they're meant to be together, but once they make it to the police station, she's vanished from the car and back at Murder House, just like that.

❝ and i have such a need. sometimes i vibrate with such rage, it terrifies me. i act out. we're supposed to fix our issues? we never can. it doesn't stick. ❞
The next time we see Hayden, she's interruption one of Nora's ( another Murder House ghost ) sobbing sessions, saying she needs to cut the shit because all that crying is driving her nuts. They proceed to have a conversation about the truth of things in the house - Nora doesn't seem to believe or realize that she's dead - like the fact that it keeps the souls that died there, trapped, whether they're innocent or guilty of playing along with the game, tricking the living into thinking they're still alive. She talks about the powers she's discovered about the house, how it lets them be invisible to the living if they want to be, and they can even act on their urges and impulses too. Hayden explains that she's had sex with another ghost in the house, proceeds to get so angry she stabs him over and over, but he just wakes up good as new a few minutes later. She gets frustrated, explaining that there's no way to resolve their issues since none of what they do sticks.

Nora essentially waves this whole explanation off and starts to cry again, asking for her baby. Which gives Hayden an idea. It doesn't take much to convince Nora to help her get Viv's babies ( TWINS. through the grapevine, Hayden's learned that the bitch is having TWINS ), one for her and one for Nora. The plan? They're going to get Vivien out of the house and into the loony bin by driving her insane, leaving Ben with both the babies in the house once they're born.

The rest of the episode is spent pulling out all the horror movie stops, leaving creepy things around the house for Vivien to find ( like the leather mask that Tate wore to impregnate Viv, OH YES he's the daddy of one of the kids because he's awful he promised Nora a long time ago he would help her get her baby back, and impregnating the current female owner of the house was obviously the only way to make that happen since they're all dead and can't procreate. ANYWAY ), and pushing furniture around the room, until eventually Vivian grabs Violet ( the Harmon's only child ) and tries to leave the house. But! Hayden even convinced the creepy serial killer enthusiast ghosts to help scare Viv too, and they show up in her car, forcing the pair back into the house.

The next morning Viv and Ben get into a fight over her trying to leave with their daughter, and it's clear now that he's fully convinced she's starting to come unhinged. When they ask Violet to say again what they saw in the car the night before, she lies and says it was nothing, that she was only agreeing with her mother because she thought it was the right thing to do. She lies because Tate convinced her not to, knowing her parents would take her away from the house if they knew the truth of things.

Which is kind of perfect, because now Hayden knows she can count on Tate to help her drive Vivien out of the house, just to keep Violet there. She finds Tate in the basement, all broody and sad, and she tries to get him riled up to go terrorize Vivien again ( despite his BROODY PROTESTS ) by offering to fool around with him. He declines, of course, because he's in love, but she knows he's going to help her out anyway. Game, set, match. She just makes sure to yell one last note of inspiration before he leaves the basement - "You better locate your BALLS before you go in there. That bitch is tough!"

That night, they plan to attack. The first thing Hayden does is freak Viv out enough for her to hit her panic button again, then grab the gun she stole from her realtor so she can defend herself against whatever it is that's going bump in the night. She takes a shot at the first thing she sees in the dark, and she ends up shooting Ben! OOPS. The security guard shows up not too long after, and Ben gets medical attention while Viv rests upstairs in her room, a little bit sedated so she stops freaking out so much. It's the perfect time to strike.

Hayden makes a point to snatch up that stupid alarm system trigger right away ( "LOOKING FOR YOUR LIFE LINE?" ) and throws it on the ground so she can stomp all over it and smash it to pieces. Viv's too drugged up to get out of bed, and is forced to listen to Hayden yell and yell and yell about how she doesn't want Ben, how she thought she was so privileged but really she's been missing out all this time - she wants what's in Vivien's womb. Creepy, right? Cue Tate ( "He liked it so much the first time he's going for round two." ) pulling her out of bed and climbing on top of her, but Ben hears her struggles before anything worse happens ( thank god, seriously ), and both Hayden and Tate vanish. They're successful though, the police take Vivien away to a mental institution, and she goes without a fight - she believes she'll be safer there than she ever was in the house. And she's right.

❝ i'm sorry, ben. i was pregnant, scared, and hormonal - i was a crazy bitch when i came here on halloween. i deserve whatever punishment you think is right. ben, this thing has been… so ugly, it's not me. it's not how i want you to think of me. i don't know if we have a future together, but i've always been there for you. from the beginning. just want you to remember that. ❞
By this time, Hayden's older sister realizes that she's been missing from Boston for a while now, and flies out to LA to confront Ben ( with a missing persons detective, no less! ) about what happened to her. The facts all add up - Ben was the last person to see her, but just as her sister starts throwing accusations in Ben's face about being the babydaddy and having a perfectly good reasons for wanting to get rid of Hayden, she strolls into the kitchen like nothing's wrong. It's clear right away that Hayden doesn't think much of her sister, saying she's surprised she even gave a shit that she was missing, but no, everything's fine here. She's decided to move out to LaLa land, so she can go home now, bye.

That same day Hayden meets a nice, living boy named Travis! Who just so happens to be Constance's boytoy, one whom she treats pretty damn poorly ( and is also too damn old for him, Hayden notes ) and agrees to hop into bed with her pretty damn easily. Of course, he makes the mistake of telling Hayden he's not going to tell Constance that he cheated on her, and Hayden gets mad, asking him "what's the point?!" She explains that sex is his only weapon against her, that if he stops having sex with her she'll start praising him and crushing on him like crazy again, but it just doesn't stick. Because Travis is dumb as a brick. He asks her what she's doing there in the house, and she explains that in due time she'll be living there because she and Ben are in love. When he asks why, if they're in love, did she have sex with him, she replies "To see if I could do it with a guy that's still alive." So much for subtlety.

Later that day, while Ben is hanging out on Hayden's gazebo, she appears without warning, giving him another pleasant reminder that she believes their love was written in the stars. That she was meant to take his class at the time his marriage was falling apart. It's just a whole lotta talk for "now that Viv is gone, we can finally be together. Of course though, Ben says no, they weren't meant to be together, that he's not even in love with her and he never was. She seems weirdly okay with it at first, tears in her eyes, but she asks for a hug, and then she- starts trying to make out with him. He lets it go on for probably a second longer than he should to be convincing, but then he pushes her back, tells her it's over and she can't just hang around here anymore. But she's not, she says! She's here to tell him that she thinks Viv was sleeping with the sex security guy behind his back, which could have been true, considering Ben just found out that Viv's twins have two different fathers. Ruh roh.

Skip ahead a few hours and Travis is back, ranting and raving about some fight he got into with Constance, all while he's having ( unsatisfying ) sex with Hayden. He finishes too soon, which is annoying enough, but then he tells her he thinks he's in love with Constance and that they're going to have a baby ( "A baby, what, fossil?" ). He promises he'll come back again, but Hayden- Well, she snaps. And stabs him. Repeatedly. First in the gut, then in the back once he falls over. ( "Oh, shit. Now what'm I gonna do with you." ) Eventually the ghosts form a plan to cut up Travis' body and make him look like another resident of the Murder House, a famous murder victim called The Black Dahlia. They get Larry to bring the cut up pieces of Travis' body to a random overpass, and leave him to be discovered there. All taken care of! And there was even a plus side - Travis' murder scored a story in the newspaper, which dubbed him The Boy Dahlia. Sweet!

❝ hey, bitches, you get all that slime off my baby yet? ❞
The next time we see Hayden is after Vivien's babies are born. Well, one of them. The first, smaller baby is believed to be stillborn, but the second ( the one fathered by Tate, of course ) comes out strong, and his birth actually ends up killing Vivien. No big deal though, Hayden only cares about the baby. So much so, in fact! That she plots with the two serial killer enthusiasts yet again, this time to kill Ben right before he can leave the house with the newborn baby, so she can claim the baby as her own, once and for all. They successfully hang him by a rope off the chandelier, making it veryvery easy for her to scoop up the baby and disappear before Constance comes into the house and finds Ben.

Everything is pretty honkeydorey with Hayden and the baby until Constance comes looking for her, demanding the child comes with her because both she and Vivien feel that the Murder House is no place for a child to be raised. Hayden isn't having any part of it, but before she can even finish threatening to keep the baby forever, Travis ( a ghost now ) comes up behind her and slits her throat ( "Aw, shit." ) so that Constance can take the child home with her to care for forever. Foiled!!

The last we see of Hayden is at the very end of the episode, standing outside looking through the window at the Harmon family and Moira putting together a Christmas tree that Ben cut down himself. It's all very touching, in that awful way that leaves Tate and Hayden staring at them longingly angrily because both of them want something they can't have - Hayden wants that damn baby back, and Tate wants Violet to not hate him for ruining everyone's "lives". Hayden makes sure to point out that it's never ever going to ever happen ever. Ha ha haaaaa.

Personality:
pre-death
Hayden really was a normal, almost typical "young college co-ed" in a lot of ways, when she was still alive. Very social, forward, outgoing, outspoken. She liked to party, but not at the expense of getting high marks and doing well in her classes. Her life probably would have been 100% normal if she hadn't fallen head-over-heels in love with her psych professor, Ben Harmon. We don't see very much of her outside of her flash-back interaction with Ben, but he does talk about her like he knows she's on the right track, even warns her against having a crush on him once she admits the truth to him because he thinks she's a knock-out, is "going places", all that. Still, she persists, and ends up sleeping with him. On the one hand, it shows that she can clearly be a little bit manipulative when she wants something ( or someone ), taking advantage of the fact that Ben's relationship with his wife was on the rocks at the time. But it also shows us that she's pretty loose, morally, since she didn't see any problem with sleeping with a married man.

Not until she got pregnant, then it seemed she was aware of how screwed up she was, "typical, textbook", for doing it, saying she didn't want to be that kind of person anymore. There are signs though, that despite the level-headed attitude she has at times, she's very emotionally imbalanced. The slightest things seem to set her off into an emotional outburst, like when Ben checks his phone as soon as she got up to answer the door for the pizza guy. She bursts into tears and tells him that she only ever wanted him to love her. So, basically, she's all talk when it comes to her emotional maturity. She might be smart, might have excellent priorities and time management skills, all the things that make for a great student, but she's definitely not that stable. Her forwardness comes into play in a negative way once she actually flies out to LA to confront Ben about leaving her at the abortion clinic by herself, when she's yelling through his house for his wife, essentially trying to get him in trouble for hurting her. Outspoken quickly becomes 'loudmouthed' when she feels like she's being ignored.

Through her interactions with Ben we figure out that her anger isn't there because he got her pregnant or that he won't answer her calls, it's because she thinks he's treating her like she doesn't matter, like she's unimportant. She's defensive over her own maturity and, essentially, her worth as a person. It's a pretty safe assumption that despite the fact she's aware of her own fortune ( being pretty, coming from a wealthy family, having a good education ) that she has very low self esteem. That she feels the need to prove that she's important, and wants to be acknowledged for it. She takes the idea of wanting to be recognized to the extreme, literally yelling in Ben's face that she matters, and that she isn't just some whore.

It's not very clear if her reasons for needing Mrs. Harmon to know the truth at first are because she's a woman scorned, or because she knows it's morally right for a man to be honest with his wife if he's cheated on her, but after a while all signs point to pure selfishness being her drive for getting Ben in trouble and ruining his marriage.

post-death
Once Hayden dies, all she seems to care about is getting Ben to herself and forcing him to admit to his wife that he slept with her and got her pregnant. At first, anyway. She torments the family with her new abilities as a Murder House ghost until eventually, she corners Vivien and acts out violently. When she first sees Ben again after she dies, she's all over the map with her emotions - angry and horny and scared and upset. Death seemed to have completely ruined any chance she had over being able to control her emotions, and she's lost all sense of subtlety and ..well, common decency that she might have had as a living person.

She's vengeful and mean, and she takes it out on almost anyone that gets in her way. The twist, when her priorities shifted and became that much creepier, was when she found out that Vivien is pregnant with twins, and it becomes less about trying to break up the Harmons' marriage, and completely about Hayden wanting the babies for herself. She literally comes after Vivien with a broken piece of glass, saying she wants to cut the babies out of her stomach. Hayden's crazy! Her anger and jealous cause her to abandon any common sense she might have - like it would have been possible to cut the babies out before they were ready to be born and keep them all to herself. She's jealous because, now that she's a ghost, she can't get pregnant herself anymore. It suddenly becomes all about that. She even plays on Nora's need to have a baby too, convincing her to help torment Viv until they send her away to the hospital.

Also, as a ghost, a whole new side to Hayden comes out - a side of her that's horrifically violent and uncaring. Multiple times we see her coming onto men just so she can have sex with them and then murder them, stabbing them repeatedly. Some are ghosts, so it doesn't matter since they come right back to "life", but one time she takes it out on a living person, and she has to call on the help of Charles ( another ghost ) and Larry of all people to help her get rid of the body so that Ben doesn't get blamed for it. She doesn't care that she just killed an innocent man ( he was using her for sex! and ..she was using him for sex too, but he was acting like she didn't even matter! ), all she cares about is making sure the body's gone so Ben doesn't get sent to prison. And yeah, as stated a few times, apparently death has made her incredibly horny, all the damn time. She doesn't seem to have standards at this point ( she sleeps with Constance's dead husband, yikes ), she just has this need for violence and sex that she even admits she's scared of at times. Death really has made her emotions snap, enough for her to say that it terrifies her. Even if, while she's carrying out these acts of murder or vengeance, she's always pretty damn giddy about it.

On the other hand, occasionally we do see that she's not completely overrun with rage and envy, she actually still is just a sensitive girl. ..Kinda. Granted, she tells Nora that she needs to cut the crap and stop crying because it's driving her nuts, but she isn't exactly being malicious about it, she's just... being blunt. The biggest cue into her real sensitivity is when she's explaining to Nora what the house can do, we see her sitting down in the basement, playing ball with the Infantata. She's nearly crying as she talks about the innocent souls that live in the house with them, that are trapped there despite being pure and never doing anything wrong. She also sympathises with Nora over not being able to have a baby, and okay maybe she's just manipulating her or taking the opportunity to find an ally in taking Viven down, but she says they can each have one of the babies, and seems genuine enough about it. It kind of shows us Hayden's not under the impression that everyone's out to get her or that the world is a horrible place filled with horrible people, she's just a severely unstable girl who is now stuck living with the man that she's in love with and his happy family. Or at least, they're happy by the end of the series. Those bastards.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
WELP, she's dead. So she can't die. Technically. Well, she dies, but she'll heal right back up again. Also, as most ghosts do, she can walk through walls, appear and disappear at will, as in.. she hide in plain sight when she wants to be hidden, be seen only when she wants to be seen. She can move things even when she's invisible to the living, can touch and smell and taste the same as before, all that. She can, in fact, have sex with a living person, which I think is an ability that is very important and one that most wouldn't assume ghosts can do, and if she decides to stab someone with a knife, it'll actually kill them. It's all very real. Which is really just a way of saying she's a little bit stronger than she likely should be, a little bit faster, seemingly "alive" in most ways, but mostly just a little bit more insane because she has nothing to lose.

Her weaknesses are basically all emotional, since physical pain means zero when you're already dead. She's pretty easily manipulated, emotionally, and she's prone to act out when she's been poked at enough. Her control over her emotions, especially as a ghost, is very very poor. On the ship, it'll now also be harder for her to heal. She'll feel pain the same as anybody else ( not that she cares much about that, it's better than feeling nothing at all ), and if she does manage to get herself killed, she'd take a day or two to come back instead of just a few hours.

Inventory:
- this outfit.
- and this dress.
and that's all! cause she's a ghost. and has nothing. ( wah wah )
Appearance: Hayden is played byyy Kate Mara, who looks just like that on the show except she has a few scars on her body ( like in that picture of the second dress above ), probably just from being... hit with a shovel and then thrown in the dirt. yep. Even when she cleans herself up she still has random marks all over her.
Age: 21.
possible triggers: mentions of rape, abortions, and strong violence.