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So I found out about Ava Tate..
Why did they cut her we could've had a TIME with her :( I beg if yous have info or concept pics of her or whatever I beg for them my gf and I are obsessed with this noncanonical woman
Chat what if I made designs for Ava Tate and Timmy H would that be something...
I have an old Bioshock animatic/Animation floating around unfinished and figured I might drag it out from the depths to work on when I can’t get my hands drawing. Still avoiding getting into big projects but fiddling with gifs can’t be that bad right?
BioShock - Who is Ava-Marie Tate?
During the development of BioShock 2, there were a number of ideas that never made the final cut. As the plot went through many revisions, characters were changed both in their design and in their roles in the overall story. One of the most drastic changes involved the removal of a character who was essential to the game's plot. The character in question: famed Rapturian actress and filmmaker and owner of the prestigious Dionysus Park, Ms. Ava-Marie Tate.
What We Got...
Dionysus Park is the sixth level in the campaign, and was once Sofia Lamb's private estate before a flood ravaged the whole area, leaving the area exposed to nature. After you drain the area, you meet Stanley Poole, a journalist from the Rapture Tribune. He blocks the way to Fontaine Futuristics until you do him a favor: with the draining of the park, people are starting to reenter the facility, including some Little Sisters, which you must deal with.
As you progress, you learn that Stanley was a double agent within the 'Rapture Family', the name for Lamb's followers. After gathering enough dirt on Lamb to get arrested by Andrew Ryan's men, he took control of the park, spending Lamb's funds on many a party. Over time, he feared people would find out about his involvement in Lamb's arrest, causing him to have Lamb's daughter Eleanor sent to one of Frank Fontaine's orphanages, before eventually flooding the park.
What Once Was...
In the original concept for Dionysus Park, it would have been an area left untouched by the Rapture Civil War, still brimming with the city's former elegance. Just as in the final product, you would meet with Tribune reporter Stanley Poole as he would give you a mission. However, the mission here was more along the lines of helping him make an expose of Ms. Tate's illicit activities, including the production of an ADAM-based drug named 'Eden' and the rampant parties brought by it.
According to unused radio conversations and audio logs, Ms. Tate would be charged by Ryan to erase all records of any individuals that he feels need to be taken out of the picture. She often described herself a beast among men, taking risks and fulfilling her own interests in comparison to those who restrict themselves from such fruitful fancies that she herself engages in. Eventually, however, even the fame, festivities, and other fruits of labor lost their luster, and she wished for more.
However, when it came time for the erasure of Sofia Lamb, Tate read through her files with a keen interest. Believing Dr. Lamb was one of the few people who would understand her, she laid out a trail of clues for Stanley to follow, eventually leading to her arrest, and thus her induction to the Rapture Family.
What Remains...
Not much remains of Ms. Tate in the final product. So far, there appears to be not even a concept design to her name in the Deco Devolution netbook, unlike her domain of Dionysus Park. Across BioShock 2's different locations, players can spot posters adorning her name promoting two of her works, 'The Black Dream' and 'Health Hazards of the Sun', indicating that she does have a foothold in Rapturian cinema in the final product.
Once someone reaches rank 27 in the multiplayer mode Fall of Rapture, one can spot a quote from Ms. Tate herself on the loading screen, commenting on the closing of Fort Frolic in a way that mirrors her behavior during development.
"It's no wonder Cohen closed the Fort, darlings. Theater is dead… Why play the voyeur when ADAM can make you a star?"
A number of her characteristics were also used in the development of Mlle Blanche de Glace, one of the ten playable characters in Fall of Rapture. The original version of Dionysus Park was used as inspiration for the multiplayer map based on the area included as part of the Rapture Metro Pack DLC released in May 11, 2010.
The latest reference to Ms. Tate comes in the form of her feature film 'The Black Dream', which can be viewed in the station in Fontaine's Department Store in BioShock Infinite's Burial at Sea DLC. While it is attributed solely to Sander Cohen here, the film in question features a woman who may possibly be Ms. Tate herself.
Trivia
According to an interview, she was to be voiced by Juliet Landau, who voiced the Little Sisters in the first game. Apparently, she had already recorded her lines, but they were ultimately unused.
In the Deco Devolution artbook, there exists concept art for an unused multiplayer map called "Siren Song Studios". Players would compete across multiple movie sets, using different props as traps for enemies to fall victim to.
In the BioShock: the Collection version of BioShock 2, all posters of the film 'The Black Dream' have Ava Tate's name replaced with Sander Cohen's.
Honestly kinda pissed that they scrapped Ava Tate from Bioshock 2, because she seemes so interesting HELLO? So now im gonna talk about her....
Ava-Marie Tate was a Québécois actress and movie producer, and a close friend to Cohen whom she traveled to Rapture with.
In Rapture she worked on q couple of propaganda films and cartoons (my headcanon is that she made those plasmid films) like Cohen made propaganda music etc.
Two of her works that we know of and can see traces off are Health Hazards of the sun and The Black Dream (you can watch the 2nd in Burial At Sea)
Ava was also supposed to have a role in BioS2, where she would be the owner of Dionysus Park, hosting several parties there, and she would be the main antagonist of that level.
(The carousel at the beginning was supposed to have been imported from her hometown)
Since Ava made propaganda media for Andrew Ryan, he ordered her to completely erase Sofia Lamb and Subject Delta from Raptures media when he planned his scheme to put Sofia in persephone.
But when doing so, Ava became curious of Sofias beliefs. She herself had grown bored of literally everything, even using ADAM and splicing up didn't seem amusing to her. So Ava decided to erase herself too and join Sophia in persephone.
Alot of her character has been reused for "filmstar" Mlle de Blanche in Bioshock: multiplayer, but I really wish we could've had Ava Tate in the game. I really recommend checking out her wiki (with surprisingly alot of lore if you compare her to other side characters, and she was even completely removed so) as she has a few audio diaries written for her ☝🤓
Unfortunately she doesn't have a portrait or anything, there where rumours that she was on one of the early promo posters for Bioshock 2 but this was never confirmed....
I understand 2K decided to remove her since they did a whole 360 on the plotline of Bioshock 2, and she didn't really fit, but PLEASE I WANT MORE OF HER
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