Oliver Acrimony

> Guess what, Sara. That phone call doesn't mean shit. You're going to die like the rest of us. You're not going to find immortality anywhere.
>
> Oliver Acrimony, Broadcast Interference

## Oliver Acrimony

* TV Head
* Alive

### Relatives

Ben Acrimony `(brother, deceased)`
Liz Acrimony `(sister, deceased)`

## Gallery

Oliver Acrimony is one of the founders of Dreamworld Entertainment and is responsible for the coding and construction of the animatronics.

## Appearance

   Oliver is a young man with messy orange hair. He has bright blue eyes and deep bags beneath his eyes. He wears a purple button-up shirt with a black tie, black pants, and black shoes.

After dying at the hands of Sara's TV trap, Oliver wears the television on his head. The screen of the TV displays a face with bright green eyes and teeth patterned similarly to a television's "no signal" color bars display. Beneath the television, his face has become heavily scarred and mangled.

## Personality

Oliver is a nervous, timid person and always speaks quietly, making him easy to ignore. Despite his demeanor, he is very intelligent, having excelled in Eric Gale's engineering class and developed the code for the Dreamworld Entertainment animatronics at 20 years old. He cares heavily for his siblings, putting aside his own fears for the sake of their happiness and doing what he can to keep them safe.

After his death, Oliver's quiet nature faltered. He became spiteful and vengeful over Sara's murder of himself, along with his family and friends. His desire to avenge himself and the people he loves is enough to drive him to destructive lengths, such as collapsing the Dreamworld Entertainment facility.

## History

Though he had an estranged relationship with his parents, Oliver grew up very close with his two younger siblings, Ben and Liz Acrimony. He credits the two with having helped him throughout his life in numerous small ways, whether through pushing him out of his comfort zone or helping him fix his tie. He would take them to the county fair and go through various attractions like the haunted house with them despite his fears. At some point, Oliver's mother and father left, leaving him in charge of his siblings.

Oliver met Sara Covetman and Lewis Bright in a computer class in high school and soon joined their friend group. Led by Sara, the trio would begin developing an idea for a children's entertainment center. They enrolled in Eric Gale's engineering class in high school and excelled at it, with Eric noting them as some of the most ambitious students he's had. At some point in high school, Oliver changed his last name from "Collins" to "Acrimony" in an attempt to distance himself from his parents.

Following graduation, Oliver began working at the Dreamworld Entertainment Facility with his fellow founders. He was tasked with leading all technical work, and he would construct the animatronics based on Lewis's blueprints. While he worked, Oliver would let Ben and Liz explore the facility. Even as Sara began isolating herself, Oliver stayed close with Lewis in planning out the facility's opening. He began to develop a security measure of sorts that he kept secret, though it was experimental and unfinished. The coding was meant to allow animatronics to target and dispose of threats to the facility.

Once Lewis, Ben, and Liz went missing, Oliver got in contact with Detective Damien Klein, who had been investigating the disappearances. He suggested that Sara may be the one behind the disappearances. Oliver would continue meeting with Damien, only some of which has been recorded. While Damien asked him about the construction of the animatronics, Oliver explained that they are unable to communicate at all, only for Star Light to start speaking back to them. Oliver's suspicions grew further, leading him to explore the facility's lower levels. He came across various notes to Sara, some questioning the disappearances and some outright accusing her, before he stumbled into a trap that dropped a television on his head, killing him.

Some time after the incident, Oliver woke back up. Knowing that Sara was behind the murder of his friends and siblings, he activated his unrefined security coding as a virus that would collapse the facility, crash the computers, and infect the animatronics so that they would target and kill Sara. At some point, he was locked up in a closet by Sara only to later be retrieved by her and Winnie in order to lure out Damien and Wiatt, both still within the collapsed facility. While being held as bait, Oliver was able to reconnect with his siblings through LolliPop and snap Pop free from the virus's control. He and LolliPop later went to confront Sara along with everyone else in the facility, after which he fell unconscious.

Damien brought the unconscious Oliver to his sibling Celio's house to be cared for. During his sleep, Oliver is haunted by nightmares where he is forced to face his guilt in having caused the collapse and infected the animatronics.

After weeks of being asleep Oliver eventually wakes, being brought back to the Dreamworld Entertainment Facility by Damian who wants to spend time with him now that he's awake. Once the two meet up with Wiatt and Celio in the labs he and Wiatt sit together, being asked about how he must feel with the TV on his head. After asking about the animatronic's memories Oliver explains that even with their programmed backstories they should still realize that they're machines, giving Wiatt an idea. He gives Wiatt a twimblo poster after remarking about Wiatt's twimblo friend, Oddity.

In the months following Oliver's health declined, keeping him bedridden once again. His soul had started to break, and due to it's frail nature any help was dangerous. With the use of Oddity's soul manipulation capabilities Wiatt and Celio removed the TV from his head in a lengthy procedure. Later into the night Oliver awoke in a panic, the memories of his circumstance and constant nightmares returning to him. He began cackling, eyes glowing a vibrant green.

## Trivia

* Early in development, Oliver's last name was "Smith," as seen in the launch version of the Dreamworld Entertainment Website.
	+ Similarly, Episode 2 listed Oliver's last name as "Collins." An updated comment by Rainbott acknowledged that the episode was written before Oliver's last name was decided. In addition, they offered an in-universe explanation, that being that Oliver changed his last name during High School to Acrimony and that Sara's database was heavily outdated.
* Oliver was a part of various older projects from Rainbott before appearing in Welcome to Dreamworld.
* Despite being an excellent coder, Oliver is not good at video games.