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1. Season 5 American Horror Story

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The ghosts of Roanoke, and why the Chens are different than the others.

This next post isn't about a main character, but it is more like a circumstance and common question viewers have on ghosts and the Chens in particular for AHS.

the AHS afterlife, and the entity that is the ghost

In AHS, lots of people die. But one of the things that give AHS fire, is that they explore the characters after what happens then they die. Some go to Hell, some go to a Heaven, and some are so different you have to ask 'WTF??'

Characters that have clearly done wrong usually go to a metaphysical hell. Delphine tortured slaves for a good chunk of her life, so she becomes a tortured slave in her afterlife. Addy wants to be a pretty girl, so she ends up in an afterlife where she is a pretty girl. (It has been established Billie Dean Howard is a true medium, being able to interact with ghosts and telepathically talk to a dead Violet and acknowledge Tate, so we are safe to assume her observations are indeed true and canon). It really is up to the writers what happens to a character, and it seems depending on emotional depths of their situations in their respective seasons, it demonstrates where they go. (Donovan went to a heaven of the smell of blueberry pancakes and the feeling of a perpetual Saturday morning. Why? he was a nice mamas boy that loved his mother :p) Selfish characters usually end up in Hell, but characters that violated the natural order like Misty Day (she brought back anything and everyone, just cus), or characters that clearly had the shit end of the stick (Elsa Mars and her struggles with EVERYONE) make them exceptions. Most ghosts tend to be straight forward with how they haunt (bearing the wounds that killed them in the after life, continuing their goals like the nurses of Roanoke), but then you have an enigma like the Chens.

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Why are the Chens like Kayako and Sadako of the Grudge and the Ring? The Stringy haired ghost girl

Alot of people question why the Chens are different from other ghosts. They have marionette motion with crunching sounds, can scale walls, and being colder than their surrounding environment is noteworthy. A lot of the progressive viewers will simply write this off as THEY ARE ASIAN ITS RACIST, but being someone of Asian descent, I'll explain why they are the way they are. (trust me, there is a very good reason, and when you find out why, you'll want to give Ryan props)

Asian ghosts are different than Western ghosts

The Chens are an interesting family. Emphasis is made on how they wanted to assimilate to American culture (they only spoke English in the house, dressed in western clothes, the parents gave their daughters western names like 'Amy') Asians have very strong ties with their ancestors, and it is most likely their ancestors made them they way they were in the afterlife. They tried to fend off the Butcher, but because the Butcher had the law of the land on her side, and westernized asians praying to the betrayed ancestors for the Chens failed big time. The ancestors were not happy they left their Asian roots, so they decided to not help them, and only helped them in the afterlife (scaling walls would be pretty fun, and is a leg up on other ghosts that are incapable of this feat, although, this could also be looked at as a disgraceful punishment, but the ancestor's influence still remains). In the afterlife, It can be surmised that one is truly free of the confines of the physical world. The ancestors took them back and allowed the Chen family to be like other Asian ghosts of Asian folklore.

The Chens were Taiwanese, but the type of ghost they become (Onryo) is not only from Japan, but also exists in other Asian countries. Khmer, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Lao, and Thai all have these kinds of scary ghosts that can scale walls and other unholy things.

It is true the Chens are like the way they are because they are Asian, but this is not in a racist light, the people of AHS that become ghosts become ghosts respective of their ancestry (East Vs. West). And the nature and reason why a character has the afterlife they have, is means to develop the character and explain further questions.

The Chens are Asian style ghosts not because of blatant racism, but the fact the writers did their homework on an eastern metaphysical afterlife

Season 5 American Horror Story

It doesn't help that Asian ghosts seem scarier because of the marionette motion, stringy hair, and uncanny valley however.

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