Oliver

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## Name

**Oliver** (オリバー, *Oribā*?) is one of the side characters of the Shadows House series. He is a Shadow working in the house as a Star Bearer and is the master of the "Living Doll" Olly.

## Appearance

Like the rest of the Shadows in the house, Oliver is completely black and appears to be a silhouette of his "face", Olly. He has messy wavy hair and round glasses held by a chain with little gears. He is always slouching. Oliver wears a dirty-pink shirt with a green ribbon tie, light-gray shorts and gray knee-high boots with heels and a gear design in front.

## Personality

Oliver is outgoing and excitable. He is a true inventor, loves learning new things and experimenting, not fearing failure and always looking for new improvements, though sometimes putting himself and others in danger in the process. He's friendly with everyone and has a hard time keeping secrets, especially while rambling.

## Plot

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### The Debut Arc

Oliver was present at the Debut, welcoming the winners as a star bearer.

### Master Robe Arc

Oliver was inside the machine operating to suck the scorches at the hall.

Later on, during the belle's punishment Oliver and Olly presented a prototype helmet model to them.

After John and Kate busted into their new location of their laboratory, Oliver was beyond excited for Emilico's presence, due to the fact that she helped with their machine during the scorches scene in the hall. He instructed Anna to serve the visitors tea, which later he awarded them with a cube of sugar which is his way of expressing his love.

Oliver gets asked by Kate about his inventions, which he glad to show and explain some to her. She later began questioning him about the master robe, Oliver responds saying he thinks its a male. Oliver was also asked about Christopher, which he stopped Kate saying he won't be talking about that topic.

Before Kate and John leave, Oliver hands them two different keys, one that opens living dolls rooms and the other for repairing the entrance that John destroyed.

Later when John came to fix the entrance, Oliver came to inform him that he's requested in the star bearers conference room regarding marriage applications.

Oliver was present during Maryrose and Rosemary's escort to Edward.

### Inspection Arc

Before the inspection, Oliver talks with Olly about coffee. Olly tells him the coffee is different than the special coffee, Oliver says he knows the taste and thinks if its specially made for living dolls after not having effects on Olly. Oliver thinks if the great grandfather was responsible for the coffee, later realizing they shouldn't be doubting the great grandfather. Oliver tells Olly they should focus on researching rather worrying about unnecessary stuff.

During Edward's visit to the star bearers after his inspection, Oliver comes to their defense after Edward notices two bottles were missing.

### Hunt on The Powerless Arc

Oliver gets a visit by Kate in their lab to ask about the reports of soot powers. He tells her he doesn't have a key to it and also adds that he invented a machine that could detect lies for finding out the culprit. He shoes it to Kate and even uses Kate and Emilico as test subjects. He asks them questions to get the machine to work based on their emotions. Oliver then asks them one last questions, if they were freed from the brainwashing, Kate and Emilico express negative emotions, which meant they were, resulting in t hem getting trapped on the chair.

Oliver and Olly express how their invention is a success, even if it was on experimenting level. Oliver points out to Kate that she stinks her business into things not meant for her. Realizing Kate wouldn't cooperate more, they turn to Emilico and continue the process with her, resulting in another reaction of the machine. Kate points out to them if they were also freed from the brainwashing, they react saying it is indeed wrong to think of unnecessary topics.

Oliver makes a hypothesis about the brainwashing, he uses Emilico for that sake, putting a syringe of coffee facing her face. Kate reacts negatively, making the machine show a reaction, then Oliver confirming his thesis, resulting that the special coffee is what causes brainwashing and thanks to Olly's freeing from the brainwashing. Oliver gets excited and says he wants to research the topic of unification, Kate tells him that if he would unify, he'd lose Olly. Olly says he'd be ready to die for research purposes and then Oliver thinks he should erase Kate's and Emilico's memories.

As Emilico got free from the chair, Oliver tries to stop her but fails. He then faces Kate and she tells him that they could work together and change everything. Oliver doesn't go with what Kate said as he says nobody can get in his way on curiosity. Olive then looks to find something to catch Emilico as she is trying to ruin their invention with Olly trying to stop her. Oliver finds a shooting device and shoots it at them, trapping Emilico and Olly together. With them on the ground, he picks the hammer up and proceeds to hit Emilico on her head. He then gets disturbed by the scene of Kate outside her chair, he gets to the machine in order to capture her again, but Kate managed to catch him with her soot power.

Kate confused Oliver with her jacket as she used her soot form underneath the glass to act as a pawn. Oliver is amazed and can't believe that Kate could develop that well in such a short time.  Kate reveals to him that she was a human before, she tells him she doesn't understand it as Oliver questions her. She later removed him her soot, Oliver was so intrigued that he eventually freed her and decided to work with Kate, as he was interested with the topic.

After freeing Kate, she got mad at Oliver and Olly for endangering Emilico. They both deeply apologize to both of them. Kate tells them they shouldn't endanger themselves for research. Oliver gets touched by her words as he remembers the joy of his peers when he invents stuff, then turning to Olly and telling him not to say such things about being a sacrifice for research.

During the second gathering of roses, Oliver and Olly get invited by Kate. As they arrive Oliver is amazed by the fact that Kate's debutant's team were all freed from the brainwashing. He later proposes a marriage application to Kate. Kate asks why, Oliver says it's just to raise her evaluation, does not necessarily mean they would get married. Kate rejects the offer. Patrick then hands him the keys to where they keep information about soot powers, Oliver then gets the reports and hands it to Kate.

After finding out who the culprit was, Oliver inform Kate about the decision regarding Gilbert and the disciplinary team. He also tells her to provide some support to Barbara as she's in low spirits.

### Soot Ivy Incident Arc

During the chaos of the soot ivy around the children's building, Oliver with his new invention, the MK3, reached to where Patrick was, having Olly, Lydia, Liddy, and a faceless doll on board. He notices a medal on Patrick, figuring Kate instructed him to take over while she was at the Lord Grandfather's Wing. He asks Patrick what should they do, and with the face less doll they had. Patrick gives permission to the faceless doll to speak and explain the situation, turned out it was Ram. Oliver then suggested they should use Lydia's soot power to find out more about the person responsible for the soot ivy.

As Patrick figured it was Margaret, she begins attacking them with soot ivy, Oliver takes all of them on the machine and retreat to where the other members of the research team were. Oliver says Margaret would collapse if she would continue to release this much soot. Patrick tell Oliver he would deal with Margaret, asking him if his machine could travel on the soot ivy, replying with no. After Jeremiah suggests he would take Patrick, Oliver and the others would help the other children trapped within the soot ivy.

## Powers and Abilities

### Soot Power

Oliver can links his body to machines and control them to move as he pleases, basically working as the power source. Intermediary: Using his own inventions getting the feeling of being one with them.

## Etymology

* **Oliver** comes from Old Norse meaning "ancestor’s descendants". It also stems from the Latin and French words for "olive" or "olive tree", respectively. The olive tree has long been associated with "peace", "dignity", "fruitfulness", and "beauty".

## Trivia

* Oliver and Olly call Emilico a "super living doll" for being able to effectively fight the phantom with their invention.
* They later also call Rum "super veiled doll" for her observation skills and insider knowledge.

## Gallery

**Image Gallery of Oliver**

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