Olivia

"'Everything does feel like a dream, doesn't it? There is this ethereal feel to everything...'"

Olivia is a playable character or a NPC encountered in Fear &amp; Hunger: Termina.



Lore
A botanist looking to find the whereabouts of her sister in the town of Prehevil.

Olivia is one of the fourteen contestants of the Festival of Termina. She's a reserved, yet outgoing woman - being one of the only people in the train with openly friendly mannerisms and a caring personality.

Olivia spent most of her childhood cooped inside her an overbearingly religious household for being of a more fragile build, finding escapism in books about botanism and nature and the company of her twin sister, Reila, who preferred to go outside and make friends while also dedicating herself to studying engineering and new age technology.

During high school, Olivia suffered multiple small strokes in a short period of time and was left bedridden. Her parents immediately turned to religious healers in an attempt to bring her back to health, despite her sister's desperate pleas for them to seek moderns doctors instead. By the time they were convinced it was far too late - Olivia was diagnosed with an abnormality in her spinal cord that affected her blood flow. Even after going through extensive operations and several medical treatments, she was bound to a wheelchair for the unforeseeable future.

Later in life, Olivia and her sister enrolled in the same university in Bremen - both relieved to finally be away from their parents' religious control. During her time in the university, Olivia had trouble connecting with her peers, but nevertheless was ranked top of her class and excelled in her field. The same could be said for sister, who got to participate in an exchange program between the Bremen Empire and the Eastern Union, much to Olivia's jealousy.

Eventually, Olivia graduated and got to start her own botanist research in the biggest greenhouse of Bremen, yet she still felt like her sister outclassed her in every regard - Reila would travel all over the world, keeping contact and telling Olivia about her work through letters, but one day the letter came to a halt.

After six months, Olivia's parents got information that her sister was supposedly accused of treason against the Bremen Empire, being kept in an undisclosed Bremen prison. Olivia couldn't do anything about it - the only time she heard of her sister again was when news of a terrorist group called the Nameless Liberty Underground broke her sister from prison.

Olivia recognized the name of the organization, recalling that she heard the professor Reila was seeing over the years mentioning them in a passing conversation. She investigated where the professor had gone to, only to find out he had been executed months ago - suspiciously enough, also for treason.

Riffling through his office, Olivia found several letters between the professor and Reila, sent long after she graduated. In her last letter, Reila had sent cryptic writings about 'a cube' and how 'the Eastern Union was desperately trying to replicate the cube', her last words voicing concern that the Kaiser of the Bremen Empire was after the 'operation in Prehevil' and how she still had time to act by heading there herself.

According to her investigation, Prehevil was a medium-sized town in the country of Bohemia. Olivia would head there without delay.

Traits
Olivia starts equipped with a knife, turtleneck shirt, foldable wheelchair and, if selected as a starter character, a One-winged necklace.

Unlike any other character in the game, Olivia is permanently bound to a wheelchair. As a result, she is unable to walk up stairs. Doing so will result in Olivia's character sliding off of the tiles. To combat this, she can unequip and re-equip her wheelchair with the C key by default. While her wheelchair is unequipped she will move at half speed in exchange for the ability to climb up stairs. These traits are only present if the player is controlling Olivia. She will act like any other party member if recruited.

If Olivia enters a battle without her wheelchair equipped, she will be unable to attack until it is re-equipped. In combat, certain enemy attacks (i.e. Tackle) are capable of knocking Olivia out of her wheelchair, which results in it being forcefully unequipped. This applies to Olivia as both party leader or recruitable character.

Olivia is capable of using two-handed and one-handed weapons, including guns.

If one of Olivia's arms are removed, she will move considerably slower. If both of her arms are removed, she will be unable to move, prompting the player to quit breathing in order to cause a game over. No notable effects are present if she loses her legs.

Character History Choices

 * 1) Character choice 1: While being outdone by your sister in school what subject did you focus on?
 * 2) Give into jealousy and pursue science - Gain the [Short Circuit] skill.
 * 3) Stick to botany - Gain [Undergrowth Awareness] skill.
 * 4) Character choice 2: What did you do about your sisters relationship with the professor?
 * 5) Steal the affection of the professor - Gain the [Recipes of the 15th Century] book.
 * 6) Focus on your own studies - Gain the [Advanced Botanism] skill.
 * 7) Expose his relationship - Gain nothing.
 * 8) Character choice 3: What field did you specialize in?
 * 9) Folklore Botanism - Gain the [Skin Bible - Vinushka] book.
 * 10) Toxicology - Gain the [Toxicology] skill.
 * 11) Character choice 4: What did you bring to Prehevil?
 * 12) Bring a book to read - Gain the [Alchemilla vol. 1] book.
 * 13) Herbs - Gain 2 [Green herbs], 2 [Blue herbs], 2 [Lavender] and 1 [Red herb].
 * 14) Food - Gain 2 [Dried meat] and 1 [Moldy bread].
 * 15) Skip Character History
 * 16) *Gain 3 Blue vials (Easy Mode only), 1 Green herb, 1 Blue herb, 1 Blue/red mixed herb, 1 Moldy bread
 * 17) *Learn the skills Undergrowth Awareness and Advanced Botanism

Location and recruiting
On Day 1, Olivia will be with the others outside the train and later on move inside it along with Marcoh and Marina. She will inform you that the others left for the city and that she's worried about them, asking you if you could go look for them.

On Day 2, she will move to a patch of grass just outside the train. If Marcoh and/or Tanaka are still alive by then, a scene where they find a wheelchair in Prehevil can be witnessed; they hand this wheelchair to Olivia at the train, which allows a player to recruit her afterwards.

Once Day 3 starts, she is no longer at the train.

Trivia

 * If the players read her mind, they can find she is interested in a loving way towards Levi and Marina, asking herself what is going on. This could mean that she's being affected by the festival of Termina, as caused by Rher.