Olson

*All that glisters is not gold, often have you heard that told...**This article is about The Dark Pictures Anthology's first installment,* ***Man of Medan***
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* **Olson**
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## Biographical Information

### Nickname(s)

The Captain (by Junior and himself)
Fuck Knuckle (by Conrad)

### Occupation

Fisherman
Pirate

## Relationships

### Other

Junior (Partner in crime)
Danny (Partner in crime)

## Game Information

### Death

Flooded
Matters of the Heart

### Cause of Death

Split in half by cargo door
Electrocution
Heart attack

## Technical Information

### Model

Winston Thomas

**Olson** is the main antagonist in *The Dark Pictures Anthology*'s first installment, *Man of Medan*. He, along with his henchman Danny and younger brother Junior, is a pirate fisherman who kidnaps the protagonists in order to rob them. He was voiced and motion captured by Kwasi Songui and was modelled on Winston Thomas.

## Appearance

Olson is a man with a dark complexion. He has dark brown eyes (the left eye is blind), very shaved black hair (appears almost bald) with a big scar running from the center of his head to the middle of his forehead and a trimmed beard. Olson also has creases near the nose.

Olson wears a blue ripped sleeveless shirt with a garnet collar and dons green cargo shorts with a bunch of pockets. Olson also walks barefoot.

During storms and attacks on the protagonists, Olson, like the other pirates, wears a dark green raincoat. As the game progresses, Olson's clothes become slightly dirty and wet as he moves around the ship. Also, the top of his shirt can be covered in blood.

## Personality

Olson comes off as demanding and very aggressive. After taking over the Duke of Milan, he proclaims himself the new captain and demands total obedience. Olson is violent and ready to hurt the protagonists if they provoke him or do not follow his orders (beats Conrad for his evening taunting and hits Fliss if she tries to call for help), and sometimes even threatens to kill them (tries to shoot Conrad when he sails away on a boat and threatens to shoot Julia when Alex blackmails Olson with Danny). At the same time, Olson can show his merciful side as during a storm, he can save Fliss when she is about to fall overboard.

Olson is very greedy and always covets as much wealth as possible. Upon learning about the Manchurian Gold, he sets out to find it and treats the protagonists like prisoners, for which he was criticized by Junior and Danny as the pirates only had to rob the group. Even when Olson is exposed to Manchurian Gold, which is actually a chemical, he is still eager to find the treasure and becomes paranoid, thinking that gold is being hidden from him and the group wants it for themselves.

On the Ourang Medan, beginning to see hallucinations, Olson falls into a panic attack and begins to truly believe that the ship is haunted and that the spirits of the dead have come for him. At the same time, he continues to think of himself as the captain and feels power over the protagonists as without the distributor cap they won't escape anywhere. Also, Olson is shown to be more prone to violence as when encountering the protagonists, he always deliberately tries to kill them in a violent way.

## Biography

Olson was one of the pirates to board the Duke of Milan in the stormy night of June 20, 2019. Having found the coordination of a gold, the pirates drove to the abandoned SS Ourang Medan, only to find out the threat lying within. Subsequently, Olson gradually became insane because of the ship's atmosphere, which culminated with his death, becoming another victim of the SS Ourang Medan.

## *Man of Medan*

### Main Story

#### Act 1

While riding a speedboat, the pirates encounter the Duke of Milan and accidentally brushes the dive buoy, damaging the boat. Olson complains to Fliss and Conrad, to which the latter taunts them by throwing money in the water, causing the embittered trio to sail away.

At night, Olson and the other pirates sneak onto the Duke of Milan and take the protagonists hostage, in particular Olson ambushes Fliss. Locking the group in the main bedroom, Olson sits at the helm. After a while, he takes Fliss and threatens to force her to cooperate when Conrad, who was also brought in by the pirates, intercedes on her behalf. Olson begins to beat Conrad, but under persuasion from Fliss and Danny, he calms down and continues to talk with Fliss. When Conrad is attempting to escape, Olson plays a major role in the suppression of the protagonists' rebellion. Regardless of the outcome of the escape attempt, when the protagonists are taken back to the cabin, Danny finds a document about Manchurian Gold on the shelf and reports it to Olson.

When the storm begins to approach, Olson takes Fliss out on deck and orders her to find out how long it will last. As the storm intensifies, Olson leads the boat to the coordinates of the Manchurian Gold and becomes one of those who sees the SS Ourang Medan.

#### Act 2

Thinking that there is Manchurian Gold on the ship, the pirates board and take the protagonists with them. The trio locks the group in one of the rooms, after which Olson and Danny leave to inspect the cargo hold. When the protagonists manage to escape, Olson takes a sledgehammer with him and goes off to look for them. He finds Alex and Julia on the bridge at Cargo Hold 1 and breaks the bridge, causing the couple to fall into the water. As the two get out of the water and begin to run away, Olson follows them and possibly catches and kills one of the protagonists.

#### Act 3

After the two protagonists go down for the generator and try to find their way out of the engine room, they see Olson interrogating Danny about the gold. Danny denies it, after which he stabs him in the stomach or stays motionless (depending on whether Alex drowned Danny or not), but either way Olson puts his body on the table. He notices the protagonists and starts chasing them, but loses sight of the two.

* Olson & Flooded
* Matters of the Heart

If Alex is dead, went down for the generator, or is the only one left in the radio room, those who survived the confrontation with Junior in Cargo Hold 3 (the two protagonists and Junior himself) will notice Olson running on the balcony and follow him. Meanwhile, Olson makes it to Cargo Hold 2, where he encounters a third protagonist who has come down after the others. Depend on decisions made and whoever opened the bulkhead door, Olson will die by being split in half, electrocution, or a heart attack.

If Alex is left with someone in the radio room, Olson will wander around the lower deck and, after encountering the protagonists, start running away from them. Olson stumbles upon a kitchen, where he dies of a heart attack caused by the Manchurian Gold, with the distributor cap in his hand.

## Possible Deaths

Possible Deaths
 Electrocution
 Heart attack
 Matters of the Heart | Always happens.

## Trivia

### *Pictures*

* Olson appears in 3 pictures: Know the Ropes, Cut and Run, and In the Offing.

### *Facts*

* Born in French Polynesia like Fliss, Danny, and Junior, Olson can speak both English and French fluently.
* Olson has the most forms as a hallucination: Alex's double, drowned, bloody and anomalous.

### *Deaths*

* Olson is one of many of characters in the anthology who always dies.
* Olson is one of many characters in the game who can die from:
	+ A heart attack. In Olson's case, he can suffer a heart attack from Manchurian Gold.
	+ Being split in half. In Olson's case, he can be split in half by a cargo door.
	+ Electrocution. In Olson's case, he can be electrocuted in an electrocuted flood.

### *Other*

* Olson shares the same face model as:
	+ André Tanguy from *Shattered State*.
	+ Older Vincent Barnes from *Little Hope*.
	+ Balathu from *House of Ashes*.
* Olson is one of many characters in the anthology that has chapters named after them.
* Olson is one of many characters in the anthology who has confirmed relatives. In Olson's case, he has Junior as his younger brother.
* One of Olson's lines: "*I'm the captain now!*" is a reference to the 2013 film *Captain Phillips*.