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Player Information:
Name or Handle: Emily
LJ: iluvroadrunner6
Email: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: AIM & Plurk - iluvroadrunner6
Any current characters here?: Sam Winchester
Character Information:
Character Name: Olivia Dunham (from the other side), aka Fauxlivia, aka Bolivia, aka Evil Olivia.
Age: 32
Canon: Fringe
Appearance: Olivia is 5’8”, and athletically built, with long, dyed, red hair. She’s attractive, but not conventionally so, and she doesn’t try and play up her looks. She’s confident, with an easy, relaxed stride and tends to wear fitted, combat style-wear, including heavy boots, loose-fitted pants, and layers of long sleeve shirts and jackets.
Personality: It’s hard not to think of this character in terms of the first Olivia that we meet on screen, the one from “our” universe, aka Olivia Prime. Just by virtue of being the second Olivia introduced, she becomes the road not taken for her character, the way Olivia could have become, if certain instances in her life were different.
First and foremost, Olivia is a Fringe agent, and a loyal one at that. She always has the back of the people she works with, and puts their safety before her own. She’s the kind of woman who runs into swirling vortexes of doom (and no, I’m not just being glib there) on a regular basis in an attempt to quarantine them and keep them from swallowing her universe whole. She puts herself at risk on a daily basis, and she’s never once blinked at that duty. This is what she does, and she’s aware of that. The people she works with are also her family-she would do anything for them, and the reverse is true as well. It’s one thing to have that loyalty, it’s another to be the kind of person who receives it in return, and Olivia has that in spades.
She has a relaxed, comfortable way with people that isn’t really seen in Olivia Prime, because of their different backgrounds. This Olivia was never experimented on by Walter Bishop and William Bell, she didn’t lose her mother at a young age, and she never had a stepfather who abused her. She’s much more open person, who’s more comfortable with people and taking risks socially. She jokes and teases, which Olivia Prime does, but it takes her much longer to loosen up with people than it does this Olivia. She’s also much more comfortable with the romantic side of her personality, as the show displays her in a committed, healthy romantic relationship, which we have yet to see Olivia Prime experience. She also has a strong distaste for alcohol, which might be attributed to the fact that she doesn’t have hard memories to drink away.
They are the same, however, in their commitment to their jobs, and their commitment to people. This Olivia is just a bit faster to trust and let her emotions show. She’s quicker with a smile, and quicker with a joke, but at the same time, it’s a little easier to tell when she’s out of her comfort zone. She falters a little easier, because she’s not used to having to cover her reactions. It makes her a bit more of an open book, and a bit easier to trust her, but also easier to know what she’s thinking, and that can put her at a disadvantage in a world where she doesn’t have anyone she already knows and trusts watching her back.
In the end, what you have is a Fringe agent with a heart of gold who will do whatever she needs to do to do her job and help people. At least at this canon point.
If you are apping a character arriving from another game: N/A
Background: Here, written by not me.
The basics are this. In the Fringe universe, their theory on alternate realities operates on the principle of choice. Every choice a person makes creates an alternate universe to their own where an opposite choice is made, and they continue to branch out from there. To simplify things, Fringe focuses on two “main” universes, one that’s based in the contemporary world, while the other is slightly more advanced in a technological sense, but still not quite the same. So, to keep it simple, this Olivia Dunham (henceforth referred to as Fauxlivia for simplicity) was raised in a universe that exists alongside our own, but based on different choices by it’s residents.
In 1985, Doctor Walter Bishop from our universe (henceforth known as Walter) built a machine to cross between worlds in order to save the other side’s Peter from a fate of certain death. Walter was a brilliant scientist, obsessed with the alternate realities and he built a screen that allowed him to see between worlds into the other side and into the other Walter’s (henceforth referred to as Walternate) lab. Walter’s Peter had the same disease, and since he knew that the other side had more advanced technology, he was watching them to try and catch some kind of insight into how to save his own Peter. Unfortunately, time ran out for his Peter, and he died at the age of seven, but due to the advancements on the other side, the other Peter (essentially THE Peter of the show) managed to survive for a little while longer. Walter watched as Walternate still tried to find a cure for his Peter, and happened to catch the moment when the cure appeared while the other man’s back was turned. Desperate not to let both Peters die because of his own foolish mistake, he built a machine that allowed him to pass between universes, which he then used to kidnap the other Peter in order to cure him. He really did have every intention to return him. He just never did.
You’re probably asking, what does this have to do with Fauxlivia?
Well, it’s simple. (Except not, because nothing ever is in this show.)
Walter’s kidnapping of Peter didn’t just have an effect on the Bishop family, but on the world as a hole. That one hole in the fabric of reality rippled outwards, and caused multiple tears in the universe. Walternate, who was the most knowledgeable mind in the world on quantum physics and what was happening to their world and later became the Secretary of Defense, created Fringe Divison as a branch of the government in order to monitor and provide damage control on plugging the holes in the universe, also dubbed “fringe events.” Later, as the Division expanded, they took on other weird science cases, but their main focus was holes torn in reality and closing them with a substance called amber. Which probably actually had real amber in it.
Fauxlivia joined her world’s version of Fringe Division in 2008. She was raised by her mother on a military base where her father was stationed, and he later died in unknown circumstances. She had a younger sister named Rachel, but she died in childbirth about seven years prior to current canon. Fauxlivia is known as being one of the foremost agents in her division, and I am picking her up pre-any canon events. Why? Well, it’s before she becomes a double agent on the other side, her background gets twice as complicated, and well-before she gets knocked up by Peter Bishop. It’s just easier for all involved if she’s just a simple Fringe agent who happens to get kidnapped by an evil Sith Lord.
So that’s that.
It also should be stated that technology isn’t the only thing that’s different between worlds-actual historical events differ between them. (ie. They have Regan on their money.) So a lot of pop culture references will be lost on her, and she probably won’t fourth wall the world.
Special Abilities or Weapons: She’s a gold-medal winning marksman, but other than that, she’s just your average badass Fringe Agent.
Sect: Civilian
Job: N/A for right now.
Samples:
First Person:
[the video feed comes on to reveal dressed Olivia who’s looking vaguely amused at this whole thing]
Okay. Let’s skip the part where I talk about how this is a teenage boy’s wet dream, and get to the part of the story where we actually do something about it. I know I’m probably not the first person to suggest the idea of leaving but if there’s something that brought us here, it can put us back, right?
So-why hasn’t anyone found it yet?
[there’s a pause for effect, a bit of an animated face as she waits for an answer, before she sighs]
Falling through the tear in reality that I was trying to close is a little embarrassing, I’ll admit it, but I never thought that the other side would look like a cult sci-fi film from the seventies. Star Wars, right? I’m pretty sure that the craze died out when they saw how ridiculous the puppet looked. Green and big ears? Not exactly inspiring of cinematic greatness.
[there’s another beat, and a bit of a slump]
Tell me there’s somewhere else to go, at least? The robots are … freaking me out.
Third Person:
Olivia wasn’t one for waking up where she didn’t belong.
She wasn’t a drinker, she didn’t plan on becoming one anytime soon, and she hadn’t had a head injury recently, but for some reason, she did felt like she had the hangover to end all hangovers and she was definitely where she wasn’t belong. It was like something out of a sci-fi set, but back in the days before they actually mastered CGI and things actually looked real.
Oh, and she was in her underwear. That always went over well.
“Okay, Liv. You can get out of this.”
Easier said than done, when you really got down to it.
She needed to prioritize. Panicking wasn’t going to get her anywhere, and as much as she may have wanted to, she wasn’t going to waste her time. Taking a breath, she started to glance around the sparse room, and trying to figure out where to start. First, clothes. Then, getting help.
She tried thinking back to the last thing she remembered, and she was coming up blank. There was a Class Four event in an old school theater in New York, and she and the rest of the team were going to investigate, but somewhere along the way it seemed that she got lost and somehow wound up somewhere else. It’s possible that she could have gotten sucked into the event itself, but she wouldn’t have survived that. Not when you’re getting sucked into a black hole. And this wouldn’t have been how she landed. Still, her brain was searching for a grasp in the things she understood, and this wasn’t getting her anywhere. She needed answers.
It took her a couple minutes to track down the droids-and no, they weren’t creepy in the slightest-and as she was pulling the shirt over her head, one hand ghosted to her ear to find the cuff and try and get in contact with the rest of her division. “Call Linc-” She stopped just short of getting out his name when she realized that the cuff wasn’t there. None of her belongings were. She needed to get out a distress signal and she needed to do it fast.
She wandered over to the tables, slowly going through the options that were available, and when she stumbled across the data pad. It seemed to be a means of communication if nothing else. Time to get the message out there.
Anything Else: Jolee Bindo does love his blue milk. Also, if any part of this app is confusing, I … apologize. Olivia lives in a confusing world.