Oliver Kaye

New Agent of the MAN.

## Appearance & Personality

Oliver is relatively short, with dark brown curly hair and tan skin. He's kind, gentle, and perpetually a little nervous. Despite this, he's extremely intelligent, stubborn, and braver than he believes. Just a bit naïve.

## History

Oliver is 22 and grew up on Tetium 1, in Pucara. From the time he was young, he's wanted to be a pilot, with posters of spaceships on the wall of his childhood bedroom. He attended flight school on Vanoth for a few months before failing out, unable to take decisive action when in the pilot seat. He was recruited by Williams at 19 while attending university on Vanoth after she noticed a program he wrote that tracked AI locations, updates and reprogrammings. She realized his pro-AI opinions through some of the essays he had written, and knew that if he continued down this path he would come to the attention of the MAN and be in a lot of trouble. Instead of warning him to curtail his actions, she snapped him up as a potential agent because she believed he could be quite useful to her.

Ollie has two moms: Nadine, an engineer, and Tara, a schoolteacher. He has three younger sisters, Mel (20), Lillianne (19), and Alba (16). Although he cares for all of them, he had a childhood rivalry with Mel and was more distant from Alba due to the age gap. As he was initially unwilling to join the agency, Williams resorted to threatening his family’s well-being, and he hasn’t seen them since joining the agency three years ago.

At the agency, Williams deliberately cut off Oliver from "attachments," regularly switching out his roommates such as Jack and Rachel. She also gave him supplementary assignments, trained him in link interviews, and taught him how to spar. He exceeded her expectations in qualifying as a field agent.

## Quotes

### Episode 2

* "Hi, um, I have, uh, the assignment on the case file you gave me?" (2.3, first line)
* "How- how- how is this ship *functional* at all? It’s falling apart at the seams!" (2.5)

### Episode 3

* "Well, looks like I don’t have a choice, like you said." (3.3)
* "I’ll go do some good, I guess." (3.3)

### Episode 5

* "I’m *really* confused." (5.2)
* "I think it's gonna be fine." (5.7)

### Episode 6

* "If I do get into trouble, I don't think I'll be fighting my way out of it." (6.4)

### Episode 7

* "I don't know what you want me to say." (7.1)

### Episode 8

* "Finally something that makes sense, I guess." (8.4)

### Episode 10

* "I don’t know what you want from me anymore. And I… I *really* want to go home, but I know I can’t. I *know*. And I’m *trying*... But I… I can’t be you. And… I don’t want to be." (10.2)
* "*I can’t go back*. So… I’ll go forward." (10.2)

### Episode 12

* "If *AI are like people*, they all have their own preferences… um, they can just do the jobs that they want to do." (12.5)
* You know, there’s a lot of accidental discoveries? Um, you might be developing one thing and creating something else entirely, maybe someone who’s developed for a military purpose is much better at.... *agriculture,* accidentally. Are you just gonna limit *everyone?* (12.5)

### Episode 15

* "It's *complicated*... And if I... *tell* people... it-it gets even more complicated..." (15.1)
* "See? I was good at the emotional part of flight school." (15.1)

### Episode 16

* *"People* aren’t expendable." (16.5)
* "Nobody has to die." (16.5)
* "You said you were sorry. If you *are…* You should- you should… *make up for it*." (16.5)
* "I want you to start *listening*. And stop *running*." (16.5)

### Episode 19

* "We can always just… eat... eggs." (19.7)

### Episode 20

* "I don’t want to worry people needlessly, I guess." (20.5)

### Episode 21

* “It’s just, you know, sometimes I- I get all these ideas and then… it’s better to… put them down somewhere where I can remember them instead of just going over and over them in my head.” (21.3)

### Episode 22

* “I think I've... heh.... become less myself." (22.2)

### Episode 23

* (About Williams) "She’s… different. Now. Um… which I guess makes her… m-more unpredictable, in- in a sense. To me." (23.4)
* "I… don’t… w-want to… make any mistakes, um, not that I think… that I am, I don’t… want to worry you, um… […] It’s like… I have to… be completely confident in anything I suggest or… or she won’t… listen, and… e-even then I… Sorry." (23.4)

### Episode 25

* 'I’m trying to do good. I don’t want-… I don’t-… N-no- no one was sup...posed to get hurt." (25.2)
* "We’re… we’re trying to bring it down. The entire thing. Not just… the agency.' (25.6)
* "I wasn’t lying when I said it was… complicated, um. And I’m… trying… not… to hurt anyone, but… w-we, uh… might… restart a war by the end of it. Jack, I’m sorry. I know you have… family." (25.6)

### Episode 26

* "I… can imagine it's… hard to walk away. You kind of get… sucked into it." (26.1)

### Episode 27

* "It’s, uh… a weird life to lead, I- I guess. Mostly busy." (27.1)
* "I’m… I’m… I’m not a-afraid of… you, um… f-for me, um… I’m- I’m… concerned sometimes, um… w-what you’d… what you’d do to other people. […] I find it… difficult to predict… w-what you’ll do. And I’m… s-scared you’ll change your mind." (27.3)

### Episode 28

* "So, I… I- I don’t always have… the answers. And… and I’m… also not always right." (28.4)

### Episode 29

* "I didn’t… I didn’t… v-volunteer? For… to become an agent. To work for the MAN. Um, I told you sh-she... recruited me? I think. […] Well, she did, um, but… I didn’t exactly want to *join*. She was… very… *persuasive."* (29.2)
* [About his family] "E-even… even if we… pull this off, um… sometimes I think it... I- I wonder if it… if it wouldn’t be… safer to… let them be." (29.2)
* "S- sorry, I... don't mean to... um... I- I'm not... used to this anymore. [...] Um... having friends, I guess. Which sounds sad, but, um, y- you know what I mean." (29.5)

### Episode 30

* "But it's- it's also, uh... *okay* if... if you're not okay." (30.4)