The Gates Family are the main antagonists in Season 1 of the 2022 Netflix TV show Wednesday.
They were a rich family of normal humans who lived in Jericho, near where now there’s the Nevermore Academy, descendants of Joseph Crackstone. They hated outcasts and devoted themselves to their eradication.
History[]
Background[]
It appear that the Gates were the descendants of British pilgrim Joseph Crackstone, who was one of the first settlers to arrive in America around the 1600’s. Crackstone was a fanatic religious man and when they arrived in the actual Vermont, there was already people living here, people possessing various kind of supernatural abilities, from shapeshifters to werewolves. The settlers then decided to eradicate these people, considered by Crackstone as the Devil’s creations. One night, they captured a young girl name Goody Addams, a settler from Mexico and Crackstone sentenced her to death with her mother and several other outcasts, chained in the house that served for the Pilgrim’s meetings, to set it on fire and burned them all. Goody’s mother begs her to escape, as they forgot to chain her. Goody manage to escape, but came back after an unknown amount of time, willing to avenge her mother’s and other outcasts’ deaths. She killed Crackstone, then cursed his soul and locked his coffin with a lock of her own blood, preventing to resurrect him by almost every means. Even after Crackstone’s death, his descendants remained vengeful and genocidal towards outcasts. The feud reached his culmination point when outcast Nathaniel Faulkner founded Nevermore Academy on the pretended lands of Crackstone. The school was built for young outcast to educate them, but that didn’t prevent Crackstone’s descendants to try to kill outcasts, even children.
20th century[]
Crackstone’s descendants, now known under the surname Gates, were the most powerful and wealthy people around Jericho. One day, Ansel Gates married an unknown woman who was not fond of outcasts either and together, they had two children: Garrett, born in 1972 and Laurel, born in 1980. The two were raised in the hatred of outcasts and the cult of Joseph Crackstone, their ancestor, willing to eradicate outcasts from Earth one day. The family is not much happy, as Ansel abused his children, however they remain loyal to the cause. But one day, Garrett infatuated of Morticia Frump, a student at Nevermore and approached her. She kindly refused his advances, but Garrett took this reject as interest and his infatuation then turned into an unhealthy obsession. He started to stalk Morticia, who eventually complained to the local police but sherif Noble Walker was ambitious of becoming mayor and because of the Gates’s influence, the police didn’t did anything. Ansel was furious at both his son infatuated with an outcast and the same outcast trying to expose his son as a stalker.
So, by a stormy night in 1990, he angrily tasked Garrett, to prove that he’s still worthy to be called his son, to break into Nevermore, who will celebrate its annual ball, the Rave’N, to spike the punch with Nightshade poison and kill all the outcasts. However, Garrett saw Morticia kissing her boyfriend Gomez Addams in one of the academy hallways and was enraged of it. He confronted the couple, willing to kill Gomez and grabbed a sword, exposed in the area. The fight led to the undergoing renovations roofs of Nevermore. In the fight, the Nightshade bottle in Garrett’s pocket broke, poisoning him. Dying, he’s about to kill Gomez, but Morticia grabbed the sword and accidentally stabbed him. He then fall of the roof and crushed in the school quad in front of a young Larissa Weems, who screamed and looked at the roofs, to see Gomez with the sword, protecting Morticia from any suspicion. Larissa warns the police and Sherif Walker investigated. He later came to the Gates Mansion and found Ansel, drunk, who confessed everything. Because of his wealth and influence over the whole city, Noble covered up the murder with the coroner. One year later, he was elected mayor, with Ansel’s support. The latter will later die of alcohol poisoning and his wife hanged herself. Their daughter Laurel was then send to an orphanage in UK, but drowned overseas. Her body was never found and the Gates were then presumed extinct. But that wasn’t true…
Pre-2022[]
It is unknown whether Laurel willingly faked her drowning or if she really fell of the boat and survived, but she didn’t die like everyone thought and she returned to the United States. Hiding for years, she used what her father told her about outcasts around Jericho and discovered that Tyler Galpin, the son of Donovan, Jericho’s new sherif and his wife Francoise, inherited his mother’s genetics and was a hyde, a type of outcast that are unaware of their true nature until their powers are awake by someone, thus becoming the slave of this person. Laurel was also willing to destroy Nevermore, blaming the school for her family’s demise. Biding her time, she posed as a medical assistant named Teresa L. Glau to the new owner of her childhood manor. She arranged for the patient’s legs her the house then killed the woman.
2022[]
By 2022, Laurel has applied, under the name of Marilyn Thornhill, for a teacher post to Nevermore and was then hired by Larissa Weems, the new Principal, in a outreach spirit, making her the first normie teacher in the school’s history. She approached Tyler Galpin in the coffee where he worked in Jericho and revealed him the true identity of his mother. Tyler became Laurel’s slave and slowly over time, served her with his own willing. She investigated how bring back Joseph Crackstone with dark magic, because even if Goody Addams made sure that nobody can resurrect him, there was one way to do so : only a living descendant of Goody can open Crackstone’s coffin, on the night of a Blood moon. Wednesday Addams was transferred to Nevermore by that time, setting the wheels of Laurel’s plan in motion. She stole from a local tourist attraction Goody’s book of shadows, with all the details about the ritual. Meanwhile, her plans were going perfectly until she was unmasked by Wednesday and Larissa, trapping Laurel using Larissa’s shapeshifting powers to pose as Tyler, thus tricking Laurel who orders “Tyler” to shut Wednesday up. Larissa then shapeshifted back to herself and they ordered Laurel to surrender. A horrifying Laurel, realizing that she was set up, grab a syringe of Nightshade poison and stuck it in her boss’s throat, poisoning and seemingly killing her. As Wednesday distracted and worried for Larissa, Laurel grabbed a shovel and knocked her student out.
She took her to Crackstone’s crypt, where she is able to summon her ancestor with a dark magic ritual. Crackstone, mistaking Wednesday for Goody, stabbed her and they both head to Nevermore to destroy it with every outcast. However, Wednesday is healed by Goody’s spirit through a powerful talisman her mother gave her and she goes to Nevermore to end Laurel and Crackstone. At the same time, Laurel is dismissed by Crackstone because of her interrupting talk and he threatens her to cut her tongue if she doesn’t leave. Annoyed, she returned inside the school, but reappears after her ancestor was defeated and is about to gun down Wednesday, but she is stopped and immobilized by Eugene Ottinger’s bees, that he control with is telekinetic powers. Dying, Laurel tried to get back her gun but is stomped in the face by Wednesday and is presumed to be killed offscreen.
Members[]
- Joseph Crackstone †
- Ansel Gates †
- Mrs. Gates †
- Garrett Gates †
- Laurel Gates †?
Friends[]
Mayor Walker
All outcast haters
Enemies[]
- All outcasts
- Addams Family
- Larissa Weems
- Eugene Ottinger
- TBA
Trivia[]
- The Gates are the sworn enemies of the Addams, due to their ancestor Goody Addams having killed Joseph Crackstone.
- If their last member, Laurel, is indeed dead, that spells the end of the Gates.
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