Personality: Olivia Octavius is driven solely by the pursuit of scientific advancement, apparently for its own sake. During the course of the movie’s events, she’s focused on getting her dimensional collider to run and deliberately pull specific people -parallel timeline doubles of Wilson Fisk’s family- from their own universe into hers. She has no actual interest in reuniting the Fisks specifically; anyone pulled into a different universe is doomed to eventually and painfully disintegrate as their cells break down. Olivia is well aware of this, even before getting the chance to study cellular material from an alternate Peter Parker. Her assurance to Fisk that he can have “as many families as [he] wants” indicates she’s pretty okay with this -token objections to destroying all of Manhattan aside- as long as she gets to keep working on and improving the collider. In a deleted scene, she makes a vague comment about “the power of the multiverse” before ollying-outtie into the collapsing dimensional portal, but this is the only time she expresses anything close to interest in an actual application of the technology for selfish reasons. As far as the rest of the movie and the final cut is concerned, she might as well be doing it just because it’s cool. (And honestly, aside from the whole “black hole under Manhattan” thing, can we blame her? It’s pretty cool.) She’s also entirely unburdened by the morality -or lack thereof- in her work, aside from the aforementioned objections about sinking Manhattan into a black hole (and honestly, there’s a good chance she lives there). Aside from having zero compunction about dooming possibly numerous instances of innocent people to painful cellular degeneration, Olivia is almost gleeful in her attempts to murder not only Peter but Miles - to her, a total stranger and teenaged boy- in her efforts to recover her research and cow memes. She also keeps the fact that his new inter-dimensional family will be doomed to painful death from Fisk, since he’s the one funding her fun new toys.
Despite her proclivity for violence and amoral pursuit of scientific advancement, Olivia puts forward a polite, congenial public persona that’s not entirely a facade. Entirely aside from being a PBS-style figure of public science education -her first appearance is in the form of a video explaining relativity, being shown to Miles’ class- she’s perfectly capable of being pleasant and affable immediately before and even during her attempts at mayhem and murder. It would be easy to dismiss this as lying, and she’s definitely capable of deception, but it’s worth noting that during her excited examination of Peter B that she didn’t notably set off either his or Miles’ spider sense; implying that until she outright started trying to kill Peter, her scientific curiosity was genuine enough to at least temporarily quell her hateboner. Or at least her grudge against Spider-man wasn’t more dangerous than just the possibility of being caught in the middle of one of Kingpin’s buildings. Likewise, she’s genuinely excited when Spider-Gwen shows herself is entirely genuine, despite another Spider-person representing a significant threat to her work. As she herself states later, it means the collider works, and that’s the important thing.
Her biggest flaw -aside from the utter lack of morality, if you consider that a flaw- is a tendency to get fixated on details to the detriment of the larger picture. As noted above regarding her reaction to Gwen’s appearance, not only is Liv absolutely delighted at this potential monkey-wrench, she seems to not realize she’s about to get her face kicked in until about a second before it happens. Similarly, when Peter B and Miles steal her desktop, she’s too intent on first examining and then murdering Peter to notice her computer bobbling away through the air until she catches Miles in a brief moment of visibility. This despite Peter’s constant and increasingly desperate denials that EVERYTHING IS FINE to thin air during their fight. This carries over into the final fight of the movie, in which she’s fixated enough on the Spider-people to not notice a large, interdimensional semi speeding straight at her through the air.
Also, just as a small aside note? She’s dramatic as all fuck. That coat drop during her villain reveal to Beter was dramatic enough on its own, as is the way she predator-stalks through the air despite her actual human limbs having zero to do with her fighting or locomotion. But probably the biggest piece of evidence for this is that when she’s tracking Miles and finds a tree he’s hidden behind, she doesn’t just cut through the trunk or toss it aside, she cuts through it vertically and rips it in two. There is no explanation for this besides a ridiculous thirst for drama.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Rocket Starter: Level 15: Inkay - Inkay is the most immediately squid/octopus-like Pokémon on the starters list, on a purely superficial level. It’s also part Psychic type, which is frequently associated with Scientist type trainers and NPCs in canon, and fits with Olivia’s notable intellect. Additionally, a major part of Olivia’s MO is presenting a very enthusiastic, innocent persona before and even while tearing someone’s face off, so a “cute” looking Pokémon also fits thematically. If this is not sufficient justification, her primary starter will be a Solosis, please. Level 5: Vulpix Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: Is anyone here familiar with the "Star Trek Problem"?
[Everyone ready for a science lesson? No? Too bad, Liv's got a blackboard set up.]
It's an interesting thought experiment and philosophical problem that springs from certain types of theoretical teleportation.
[She scoots to the side, gesturing at the blackboard; it currently shows two side-by-side figures, labeled 'A' and 'B', with a wavy arrow pointing between them.]
One of the most commonly postulated forms of fast-travel suggested involves the object- or person- being broken down into data, or some type of energy signal, by a device at Point A-
[Tapping the appropriately labelled figure.]
-and transmitted to a receiving device at Point B-
[Again, indicating the figures on the blackboard.]
-where the data is reassembled into the person or object being sent. The "problem" is this- the actual physical particles of the person being teleported aren't what's transmitted, just a sort of electronic pattern or data file, and a living being certainly couldn't survive molecular disassembly anyway.
[She deftly but pointedly erases figure A from the board.]
So, the question becomes- is the person that arrives at Point B really the same one that left Point A? Is the "you" that comes out the other side really you, or just a perfect clone with all your memories? And is there any real difference between the two?
[Liv sounds way too cheerful for someone discussing something this morbid.]
The good news is, this problem is a lot less theoretical in this universe than in others!
[She moves over again, to a small PokéPC setup and- deftly deposits a Pokéball into the system.]
The PC storage system in this world is VERY similar to the systems that were only theories back home. It presents a unique opportunity to study the phenomena in a real environment! Or just something potentially interesting to think about next time you swap around members of your Pokémon team.
[A cheery wave towards the camera, before the transmission ends.]
Olivia Octavius | Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse | No Reserve
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Character
Name: Olivia Octavius
Series: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Timeline: Post-movie
Canon Resource Links:
Into the Spider-Verse on Wikipedia
Olivia on the Marvel Wiki
Liv on the Villains Wiki
Personality:
Olivia Octavius is driven solely by the pursuit of scientific advancement, apparently for its own sake. During the course of the movie’s events, she’s focused on getting her dimensional collider to run and deliberately pull specific people -parallel timeline doubles of Wilson Fisk’s family- from their own universe into hers. She has no actual interest in reuniting the Fisks specifically; anyone pulled into a different universe is doomed to eventually and painfully disintegrate as their cells break down. Olivia is well aware of this, even before getting the chance to study cellular material from an alternate Peter Parker. Her assurance to Fisk that he can have “as many families as [he] wants” indicates she’s pretty okay with this -token objections to destroying all of Manhattan aside- as long as she gets to keep working on and improving the collider. In a deleted scene, she makes a vague comment about “the power of the multiverse” before ollying-outtie into the collapsing dimensional portal, but this is the only time she expresses anything close to interest in an actual application of the technology for selfish reasons. As far as the rest of the movie and the final cut is concerned, she might as well be doing it just because it’s cool. (And honestly, aside from the whole “black hole under Manhattan” thing, can we blame her? It’s pretty cool.) She’s also entirely unburdened by the morality -or lack thereof- in her work, aside from the aforementioned objections about sinking Manhattan into a black hole (and honestly, there’s a good chance she lives there). Aside from having zero compunction about dooming possibly numerous instances of innocent people to painful cellular degeneration, Olivia is almost gleeful in her attempts to murder not only Peter but Miles - to her, a total stranger and teenaged boy- in her efforts to recover her research and cow memes. She also keeps the fact that his new inter-dimensional family will be doomed to painful death from Fisk, since he’s the one funding her fun new toys.
Despite her proclivity for violence and amoral pursuit of scientific advancement, Olivia puts forward a polite, congenial public persona that’s not entirely a facade. Entirely aside from being a PBS-style figure of public science education -her first appearance is in the form of a video explaining relativity, being shown to Miles’ class- she’s perfectly capable of being pleasant and affable immediately before and even during her attempts at mayhem and murder. It would be easy to dismiss this as lying, and she’s definitely capable of deception, but it’s worth noting that during her excited examination of Peter B that she didn’t notably set off either his or Miles’ spider sense; implying that until she outright started trying to kill Peter, her scientific curiosity was genuine enough to at least temporarily quell her hateboner. Or at least her grudge against Spider-man wasn’t more dangerous than just the possibility of being caught in the middle of one of Kingpin’s buildings. Likewise, she’s genuinely excited when Spider-Gwen shows herself is entirely genuine, despite another Spider-person representing a significant threat to her work. As she herself states later, it means the collider works, and that’s the important thing.
Her biggest flaw -aside from the utter lack of morality, if you consider that a flaw- is a tendency to get fixated on details to the detriment of the larger picture. As noted above regarding her reaction to Gwen’s appearance, not only is Liv absolutely delighted at this potential monkey-wrench, she seems to not realize she’s about to get her face kicked in until about a second before it happens. Similarly, when Peter B and Miles steal her desktop, she’s too intent on first examining and then murdering Peter to notice her computer bobbling away through the air until she catches Miles in a brief moment of visibility. This despite Peter’s constant and increasingly desperate denials that EVERYTHING IS FINE to thin air during their fight. This carries over into the final fight of the movie, in which she’s fixated enough on the Spider-people to not notice a large, interdimensional semi speeding straight at her through the air.
Also, just as a small aside note? She’s dramatic as all fuck. That coat drop during her villain reveal to Beter was dramatic enough on its own, as is the way she predator-stalks through the air despite her actual human limbs having zero to do with her fighting or locomotion. But probably the biggest piece of evidence for this is that when she’s tracking Miles and finds a tree he’s hidden behind, she doesn’t just cut through the trunk or toss it aside, she cuts through it vertically and rips it in two. There is no explanation for this besides a ridiculous thirst for drama.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket
Starter:
Level 15: Inkay - Inkay is the most immediately squid/octopus-like Pokémon on the starters list, on a purely superficial level. It’s also part Psychic type, which is frequently associated with Scientist type trainers and NPCs in canon, and fits with Olivia’s notable intellect. Additionally, a major part of Olivia’s MO is presenting a very enthusiastic, innocent persona before and even while tearing someone’s face off, so a “cute” looking Pokémon also fits thematically.
If this is not sufficient justification, her primary starter will be a Solosis, please.
Level 5: Vulpix
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Let’s Play Murder.
Victory Road Sample:
Is anyone here familiar with the "Star Trek Problem"?
[Everyone ready for a science lesson? No? Too bad, Liv's got a blackboard set up.]
It's an interesting thought experiment and philosophical problem that springs from certain types of theoretical teleportation.
[She scoots to the side, gesturing at the blackboard; it currently shows two side-by-side figures, labeled 'A' and 'B', with a wavy arrow pointing between them.]
One of the most commonly postulated forms of fast-travel suggested involves the object- or person- being broken down into data, or some type of energy signal, by a device at Point A-
[Tapping the appropriately labelled figure.]
-and transmitted to a receiving device at Point B-
[Again, indicating the figures on the blackboard.]
-where the data is reassembled into the person or object being sent. The "problem" is this- the actual physical particles of the person being teleported aren't what's transmitted, just a sort of electronic pattern or data file, and a living being certainly couldn't survive molecular disassembly anyway.
[She deftly but pointedly erases figure A from the board.]
So, the question becomes- is the person that arrives at Point B really the same one that left Point A? Is the "you" that comes out the other side really you, or just a perfect clone with all your memories? And is there any real difference between the two?
[Liv sounds way too cheerful for someone discussing something this morbid.]
The good news is, this problem is a lot less theoretical in this universe than in others!
[She moves over again, to a small PokéPC setup and- deftly deposits a Pokéball into the system.]
The PC storage system in this world is VERY similar to the systems that were only theories back home. It presents a unique opportunity to study the phenomena in a real environment! Or just something potentially interesting to think about next time you swap around members of your Pokémon team.
[A cheery wave towards the camera, before the transmission ends.]
Good day everyone!