Likes: reporting, blogging, ice-skating, studying, discovering things, dangerous situations, exciting events, being in the middle of things, conspiracies, conspiracy theories, cookies, hotdogs, cute guys that are terribly bad for her, having lots of locks on the door, dogs, the internet, challenges Dislikes: people thinking she's crazy, police, authorities, the government, big corporations, ice-cream, vegetables, popcorn, being told what to do, restrictions, 'no entry' signs, being injured, being followed, being watched, dead ends, being frustrated, idiots, liars, assholes (even though she's helplessly attracted to them)
Key Facts about their History:
When Olivia was seven, her father - a prominent parapsychologist - had been on the verge of some kind of breakthrough. He'd been talking about finding evidence, proof of the supernatural and he had been preparing his book and a paper that would 'blow the lid off the biggest conspiracy of our times'. He made the announcement to the university he worked at and was ridiculed, completely professionally discredited
It destroyed him and the marriage between him and her mother fell apart quite quickly, he became obsessed with proving that the supernatural was real but with his funding pulled it was difficult, he gambled and poured all of his time into his work before one day he just disappeared. The divorce papers were never signed and he was missing, presumed dead.
Olivia found it really hard to take, her mother had dismissed him as a lunatic and had been forcing him to see a psychiatrist, someone in whom he had confided all of his thoughts and ideas
She was only eleven when he disappeared and she'd been bitten by the bug of her father's interests but she did her best to hide it and study it in the night when her mother wouldn't know. The disappearance was difficult and her older brother - Luke - was a suspect for a while as he was often in trouble with the law and had a well documented relationship with law-enforcement for a number of misdemeanours and it was well known that he and his father did not get along at all
Eventually he was cleared and no longer a suspect and her father's disappearance became a cold case
Obsessed with trying to find her dad and to learn what it was that had driven him so insane, Olivia threw herself into her studies with the intention of becoming a journalist: they got to research things all the time and if she could be respected, she could prove that her dad wasn't crazy, not at all. And she could maybe find her dad along the way
She went to college in NYC and stayed on afterwards, getting a job for a newspaper but after she was overheard by the editor talking about how she wanted to run a piece about New York's unsolved disappearances and if there was a supernatural connection she was promptly fired for being a nutcase
She started an online blog not too long after she was fired, called The Looking Glass which she updates regularly with bits and pieces that she finds about the Supernatural and even though it started off small, she has gathered quite a flowing of skeptics and believers, some of whom help her out and some of whom troll her but hey that's all part and parcel of it
She splits her time between running her blog (which she makes money on through advertising) and trying to search for traces of her father. She spends a lot of time looking into the supernatural and into various disappearances and weird goings on, sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong and has been arrested for trespassing a few times
Any Wanted Lines:
Someone to bring in her older brother Luke - who isn't a believer in the supernatural (yet) and is concerned about her going down the same delusional path that their father did
A neighbour - perhaps of the supernatural persuasion - that she's friends with due to living across the hall from each other