Full name: Oliver Solomon
Age: 19
Race:
1/2 French
and 1/2 African American
Gender: Male
Looks: Oliver is a tall boy with an athletic, muscular build. He has light gray eyes, and keeps his hair cut short and close at all times. He tends to wear dark clothing out of habit from having minimalist parents.
Height: 6'0"
Power: Statue Manipulation - Oliver can bring statues to life, so that they can fight for him or just freak people out. It's usually the latter.
Personality:
Oliver is a reserved young man in the sense that he tends to observe and step back to look at the big picture. He isn't very chatty with strangers, but he isn't anti social. When he finds someone he's comfortable with and truly wants to be friends with, he opens up. With close friends he can be quite witty with only a hint of sarcasm.
He tends to be skeptical of others even if he does know them, and he always likes to have a safety net and a fall back plan. He hates rushing into things unprepared and veers towards anxiety attacks when forced to do something he hasn't planned for. During these attacks, Olivier freezes in place and his breathing becomes elevated and rapid. He usually doesn't make many sounds during these attacks but if he does, they'll most likely be whimpers.
Being the son of a cemetery caretaker and formerly a grave digger himself, Oliver tends to take 'frightening' sights and events in stride, as living in one of the scariest places on earth, has steeled his nerves. Despite this, Oliver likes to prank people, but never goes overboard and knows when to cut it out.
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Background:
Oliver had a very simple yet complex childhood. Simple because his world was not filled with toys, and game systems or other children, as he was an only child as well as a social pariah. Oliver's parents were minimalists, and so they raised their son to want not and waste not. But that didn't mean Oliver liked living like that. For the first eight years of his life, Oliver was home schooled but he saw the children outside of his home and desperately wished to be like them. However his parents were odd folk. Not that minimalists are peculiar, but Oliver's parents were just as weird as the place they lived in. For ages, the Solomon family has always cared for the Bruyere Noir (Black Briar) Cemetery. No one knows when exactly their ancestor came into possession of the grounds, but no one questions it, it's just the family business.
Unfortunately, the 'family business' made for a very lonely life for Oliver because when he finally went to school, most kids didn't want to befriend the creepy kid who lived in a cemetery. But Oliver never complained to his parents and never showed them the marks from when the mean kids from the nearby neighborhood threw rocks at him after school and called him 'Zombie freak'. No, Oliver kept all those 'experiences' to himself, because his parents were already going through hard times. His father was recently diagnosed with early onset arthritis and his mother had suffered a miscarriage and seemed to be losing her mind. The poor woman would wander through the cemetery at night calling out to her dead baby and all Oliver and his father could do was watch helplessly.
In high school, Oliver's mother disappeared and then it was only he and his father. His father was pressuring Oliver to drop out of high school and help out with the cemetery, but Oliver wanted to continue his schooling as he wanted to be a lawyer one day. However in the end, he dropped out after his father threw out his back digging a grave. So at fourteen, with the permission of his father, Oliver dropped out of school and became the assistant caretaker of Bruyere Noir Cemetery.
Life was dreary and morbid, but there was nothing he could do about the state of his life, so Oliver continued to dig graves with his father hoping that one day things would look up.
One night, they did in an awful twisted way.
Bruyere Noir was a small cemetery, so grave robbers were uncommon, but word had gone out that the old caretaker was too weak to patrol the grounds and the only other caretaker was a teenager. So one night, three men broke into the grounds with the intent of digging up a freshly laid body of a rich banker's late wife. The woman had been buried with a family heirloom and those men intended on prying it from her cold dead hands.
Oliver's father spotted the men and rushed over to stop them, yelling for Oliver to call the police. One of the men attacked Oliver's father with a shovel, striking him over the head and killing him instantly. Oliver let out a heart wrenching scream of sadness and suddenly all the humanoid statues in the nearest vicinity came to life. They attacked the grave robbers, bludgeoning them to death. When it was all over, Oliver freaked out and ran. Fearing that the death of the robbers as well as his father would be pinned on him, Oliver bought a ticket to Baltimore, Maryland, where the cemetery of his father's friend was located. Oliver took a job as a grave digger there, but his newly awakened powers kept fluctuating and finally his father's friend kicked him out.
Wandering the streets, Oliver soon found out about Lady Baltimore's Academy.
Strengths:
He has a lot of stamina.
He can box a little.
Weaknesses:
He's not very fast.
He has anxiety when forced into situations he hasn't planned for.
Password 1: Jessica Lange
Password 2: Evan Peters
