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I'm trying to figure out Father Lantom's character ~~for a fic maybe~~ and after rewatching all the bits of the show that he appears in I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a timeline for him. And if it is possible he knew Jack Murdock; or just of him...

From what I can figure he was in Rwanda in 1994 - though it's never explicitly said, it's definitely implied he was there during the genocide - which means he probably wasn't in Hell's Kitchen when Matt was a kid and his dad was alive. But the actor is in his seventies -born in 1943 - so it's very possible for Lantom to have been a young priest in Hell's Kitchen when Jack was a boy/growing up.

But then in one episode, when he knows Matt's name, he implies that he asked around to find out about 'Battlin' Jack Murdock' and his son, meaning that he didn't know him.

TL;DR: I wanna know if it's believable for Father Lantom to have known Jack Murdock and if anyone has any insights into Father Lantom's timeline.

Depends in what sense they 'know each other' (badumtiss)
Depending how close they were, Lantom might have known Jack but been away for the 'Battlin Jack' part. He might have known him just as Jack or Jonathan or 'Mrs Murdock's son that keeps calling the communion wafers Christ Crunchies'

OP

I was mostly thinking of him knowing Jack in the sense that Matt wasn't the first Murdock to confess they had the devil in them. Definitely not as 'Battlin' Jack' but definitely knowing Matt's grandmother and her son.

I really just wanted to make sure it was entirely plausible for him to have known Jack.

AYRT, I'd totally buy it.

It also depends on where the church assigned Father Lantom to be at the time. He was in Rwanda in 1994 but he may have been assigned to a different country or state until recently, years after the accident.

OP

Yeah there's that too. But there's no sign Father Lantom is from Hell's Kitchen so being assigned there could've been him being assigned a place out of state. And I can see him now, as an old man, returning to the place he used to call home after everything he's seen in his life.

Maybe?

AYRT

This is actually the theory that I've been working off of whenever I think about Lantom. I went to a Catholic university and the most fascinating part was listening to the priests and their stories about where they had gone and what they did. They all had really colorful backgrounds and had some surprising adventures.

OP

Oh awesome! Glad to know I'm not alone in my theory. That sounds really cool! I'm a christened Catholic but ah, really really lapsed and the only experiences I have with priests is that I've gotten during Mass. And I've not been to Mass for oh probably a decade by now.

But I keep seeing Father Lantom as like, this missionary/volunteer who ended up in so many places. I've figured out a rough timeline for him - born in the 1940's; probably decided to become a priest in his late teens/early twenties. Did all the work for that; which takes about six years! Spends his late twenties/early thirties in Hell's Kitchen (where he meets a young Jack who is at the oldest in his early teens) which puts him into the 1970's. Spends time as a missionary in either the Pacific or Africa (or both) with brief periods in the United States (but not Hell's Kitchen) and by the early 1990's has been assigned to Rwanda. Gets out of there in the late 1990's or early 2000's - once all the Civil Wars in the region have stopped because I don't see him as the type of man to leave until he's sure he's done all he can. Possibly got pulled out because of all the wars? Either way, comes back to the United States and as soon as possible goes back to Hell's Kitchen because he's senior enough to have a choice and he wants to go home. And here he meets Matt- and then asks around to find out what happened to that Jack Murdock kid who'd told a young priest - who didn't yet believe the Devil was real - that he had the Devil in him.

Idk if that's a very accurate timeline... I've been trying to research it but it's still a lot of cobbling together and well, no personal experience. Also sorry to just unload my headcanon at you...

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