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❚❚❚❚❚ OOC INFORMATION Name: Jenny Contact Information: gobrookeyourself Personal Journal: wehappyfew Age: 25 Characters Played: N/A ❚❚❚❚❚ IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION Name: Olivia Dunham Fandom: Fringe Age: Approximately 31. Canon Point: During 2x21 "Over There: Part 1" when she, Walter, and the other Cortexiphan kids try to travel to the other side. Instead of ending up in a parallel universe, Olivia will end up in the game. Original Universe or Alternate Universe? OU Personality: Olivia Dunham is the very definition of a workaholic. Not only does she frequently work late hours/take her work home with her, she is also willing to go to any lengths needed to ensure the successful completion of the cases she is on. Whether it is finding people, going into the field or pushing her body to extremely dangerous lengths (such as taking drugs that could potentially kill her just to see if she can access John’s memories in her own memory after his death, due to a shared consciousness between the two of them while he was alive), Olivia will take any risk necessary unless it involves dangering other people. And then she will try to figure out another way to solve the case, even if it means endangering her own life. When the case gets personal, too, like when Olivia finds out about Cortexiphan and finds out that she was given it at a young age during the trials, Olivia tries to get as much information out of Nina Sharp as possible. Though she is incredibly dedicated to her work usually, when she or the people she cares about become involved, such as the case with the brain melting computer virus that her niece nearly fell victim to, (or the case is a resurfacing one from years ago that Olivia was never able to solve, such as the case in an episode where a serial killer resurfaces after years of silence) she becomes even more determined to solve the cases and solve them quickly. During the case with John Scott, when Olivia found Walter Bishop who would not help without Peter’s involvement, Olivia took it upon herself to lie to Peter, to basically blackmail him so that he would help out. Partially because she wanted to solve the case, but mostly because she wanted to find a cure for her lover. The thing that motivated her the most was making sure that she could talk to him, to find out what had led him to betray their country but also to make sure that everything he had claimed to feel about her and everything she felt about him was real. She was absolutely terrified that he had just been using her. Of course, that doesn’t mean that she trusts or loves people easily. She has walls built up because of her step-dad as well as John Scott, who told her that he loved her before she found out that he was working against the government. She even mentions to John, when they’re discussing his proclamation of love, that she was “bad at this, up until you.” Though she knows and is very upset with John for committing treason against her country and her government, she is more shaken up over the whole thing because she feels like he lied to her and she immediately begins to doubt their entire relationship/everything he claimed to have felt about her. Because of that, she tries to keep people at a larger distance than she had before. Up until Peter Bishop starts working his way under her skin, that is. Though the field that Olivia works in is heavily reliant on people not involving their emotions in their cases, if for nothing else than sanity’s sake, Olivia tends to be very emotional. She lets her emotions drive her and force her to work even harder on her cases, even to the point where she’s more often at work/bringing work home than actively trying to enjoy her life. It’s most likely because of her step-father and how he beat her mother when she was younger, resulting in Olivia shooting but not killing him. She had to watching her step-father beat her mother on a regular basis and eventually, at around nine years old, she finally snapped. Experiencing that and knowing that he is still out there somewhere, alive and likely hurting other people because she wasn’t, in her eyes, strong enough to finish the job, is what has pushed her to become the best FBI agent she possibly can. Involving her emotions in her work has, as she put it, allowed her to get into the minds of the criminals they are going after. It lets her figure out why they’re doing what they’re doing, what could make them snap and, most importantly, the most likely events that would lead towards them getting caught. Because of her childhood and the leftover resentment she has towards herself for not being able to shoot to kill her stepfather, Olivia still has issues with shooting a gun, even though she’s been trained to use it and uses it whenever it is needed. During the show, if we look closely when we see her using her gun, we can see the hesitation on her face. She isn’t the type of person who enjoys harming people, even if there is no other way to ensure the safety of those around her (or herself), but she will do it if the job requires it. She may not show it very often (consciously, anyways) and she may not let it get the best of her, but she struggles with herself when she has to harm someone. Even when she doesn’t have to use her gun on anyone, she sometimes still gets scared during the job. We can see it in her eyes on various jobs, even if she does her best to never let it show to those around her. Or tries her best, anyways. Another huge motivational piece for Olivia as they continue to find things out about the Other Side and Massive Dynamic as well as work on cases involving the Pattern is what John had told Olivia right before she died: “Ask yourself why Broyles [the head of the Fringe division] sent you to the storage facility.” Considering Olivia’s need to figure out cases and how she can’t leave puzzles alone, not to mention the fact that it was an incredibly vague message from John that he’ll never be able to explain, Olivia finds herself almost consumed with figuring out what he meant. Without much help or cooperation from Walter or Nina Sharp, William Bell’s right hand woman, she eventually finds out about Cortexiphan and the trials that were ran when she was a child. Learning about that and digging into the history of it leads her to finding out that Walter and William had tested her and, as Walter told her, had felt she showed remarkable promise with the drug. She mentions to Peter at one point that her first time out in the field, back before she was even an FBI agent, about how she had been so scared that she had been looking for a way out. Charlie, who came up to her and said “You’re gonna be alright,” was the only thing that really kept her in place. Even throughout the next few years of her career, Charlie was a huge anchor for her. His death was one she took incredibly hard, especially since she was the one who had to kill the shapeshifter that had taken over his body. Of course, all of that only motivated her more into finding out how to stop the other side from sending more over/to figure out what the other side wanted. Throughout her entire career, Charlie was there to make sure that she didn’t complete succumb to her work. He was able to constantly bring her back to reality, to make sure that she could see the difference between her life and her work. The way that he’s able to joke with her and read through her attempts at shrugging things off is something that no one other person, at least shown on the show, has. He’s someone that she leaned against a lot and someone that she trusted through and through. He was so important to her that she even refused to believe that he could be the shapeshifter until she saw the image constructed by Massive Dynamic of someone’s memory and even then, though she doesn’t hesitate to shoot him while he’s trying to escape, you can tell that Olivia wishes she could find another way because she desperately doesn’t want to believe that Charlie’s gone. Olivia sometimes has a habit of being very impatient when it comes to people/situations. If she feels like someone is holding her back from getting something she needs, especially for a case, she can get really frustrated. It happens sometimes with Walter, when he won’t focus well enough on what he’s trying to research. She tries really hard not to let it get to her, but she can sometimes snap, especially when she feels like they’re under a pretty serious time constraint. That said, Olivia is incredible with children. It’s almost like she has some natural draw to them (and them to her). It’s shown in the series with her niece and a child that they found living underground during one of their cases. He attached himself almost instantly to her and she grew attached very, very quickly to him. Though she has never expressed an interest in having children in the show, at least at this point in time, she does adore them. She has an incredible amount of tolerance towards them and will do whatever she can to make them feel important in/comfortable with whatever situation they happen to be in. Is this character immune? Yes. Background: Fringe wikia! Other Notables: Abilities and notable pieces of canon information: cortexiphan: the drug has stayed in olivia's system/successfully modified her brain thanks to the trial she was in as a girl. because of this, olivia has various "superhuman" abilities, most of which are triggered/controlled by extreme stress and emotions: → ability to move between worlds/universes safely → minor telekinesis (she was able to turn off a pattern of lights connected to a bomb this way and has caused lights to flicker in the lab, though it's never been shown in other aspects so it is unknown if it's true telekinesis or if she just has some strange control over lights) → hypersensitive hearing → extended deja vu (getting glimpses of the alternate universe) as well as being able to detect objects/people from the other side (because of a glimmer that surrounds them) → pyrokinesis (only happened as a child, never as an adult, but has the potential of happening again) → immunity to abilities of the other cortexiphan kids → electrokinesis (shown when she was able to diffuse the bomb) multilingual: german fluently, unknown level of understanding of arabic eidetic/photographic memory: olivia comments on remembering numbers/numerical sequences, though alt-livia confirms it's an eidetic memory in one of the season three episodes when she's pretending to be primelivia training in fighting/shooting: as a member of the FBI and previously the marine corps, olivia has the normal, expected training that any member of those two government branches would have Inventory: Clothes (shoes, jeans, black t-shirt, gray hooded jacket) and a small pistol with a holster for her ankle. ❚❚❚❚❚ SAMPLES NETWORK SAMPLE: Network post #1 | Network post #2 LOG SAMPLE: Log thread #1 | Log thread #2