Dr. Olive Lanchester

"Are you really so dull? Your primitive minds truly cannot comprehend the magnitude, the importance, the necessity of my work? The world you think you know is so trite. You've yet to understand what it will become, and who might be behind it."

- Dr. Olive Lanchester to Team MICA.

Dr. Olive Lanchester is an evil scientist and one of the archenemies of Team MICA.

Appearance
Olive stands approximately 5'10" tall, and weighs 130 lbs. She has bronze-tanned skin with many scars on her body, long black hair, and yellow eyes.

Her attire consists of a small, tight-fitting black top that exposes her stomach, long, loose-fitting grey pants, black heeled boots, a white lab coat with red and black stains on it, and a pair of thin black eyeglasses.

Past
Olive Lanchester was born to a wealthy couple, Oran and Jaida Lanchester. However, Jaida passed away in childbirth, leaving Olive to grow under only the parentage of her father. Oran was a successful rehabilitative surgeon, working in reconstructive and prosthetic surgery. Olive was fascinated by her father's work and would observe him whenever she was allowed to. She was obsessed with the idea of repairing and enhancing others, and would often watch as her father gave robotic prosthetics and organic replacements to his patients. She was inherently fascinated by the Faunus, and thought of them as a more enhanced and evolved species (though many of her friends thought otherwise). When Olive was thirteen years old, his father remarried to a Huntress named Aurelia Shelly. Though Aurelia attempted to form a connection to her new stepdaughter, Olive despised her and avoided her at every opportunity. Eventually, Olive received a stepbrother named Viktor, whom she also hated. One day, in a desperate attempt to flee the crying of her baby stepbrother and advances of her stepmother, Olive ran from her family manor and into the nearby briar patch. However, as she wandered there, she was suddenly attacked by an Amun. Before it could hurt her, Aurelia rushed in and saved Olive. Despite being thankful for her stepmother saving her life, Olive was intrigued by the Grimm, as she had never seen one so close before. She began studying other types of Grimm, and was soon fascinated by them as well.

When she was eighteen, Olive moved out and went to a prestigious medical school. She majored in rehabilitative surgery like her father, but also studied biology, both human and Faunus anatomy, and Grimm studies. She was especially fascinated by the studies and research of a Dr. Merlot, but did not wholly agree with his thinking.

Eventually, Olive earned her doctorate and became a relatively successful surgeon. However, she was still obsessed with bodily enhancement, and secretly began studying the taboo subject of human/Faunus-Grimm hybrids. The idea was certainly far-fetched, as Grimm were soulless creatures of darkness and humans and Faunus were intelligent and soulful. She began studying Grimm in her spare time, even getting the opportunity to study a wild Eden with a pair of Hunters. She began researching the ability to fuse human/Faunus DNA with the essence of the Grimm, though she could not fund this research due to its controversial nature. She made a deal with a criminal organization and their leader for funding in exchange for medical care and weapon production/repair, and they accepted. Now funded with mob money, Olive began her research, but it did not turn up many results.

Soon, she decided that if she could study, dissect, and experiment on live Grimm, she could potentially discover their biology and reveal a formula to her vision. She also thought that robotics may be one of the answers.

Experiments
"You slay Grimm every day. What do you care that it's still alive?"

- Dr. Lanchester responding to Team MICA's horror at her experiments.

Dr. Lanchester soon found a combination that she thought would get her closer to her vision. She developed a serum able to temporarily stun and tranquilize Grimm. She then took live tranquilized Grimm such as Beowolves, Creeps, and Ursai and forcibly inserted metallic, robotic humanoid endoskeletons into their bodies and robotic enhancements on their exteriors, using her surgery skills, food, and a steady supply of negative emotion from other criminals to ensure they stayed alive just long enough to complete the procedures. When the Grimm awoke, they would be mutated, mechanically modified freaks and little more than puppets. Olive decided to test these mechanically modified Grimm out by sending them to attack Huntsmen and Huntresses in remote locations. Many were severely injured, and one Huntress was killed. Though the sightings of mechanically modified Grimm was believed to be rumor at first, word travelled and escalated so quickly that a professor and Huntsman from Haven Academy was sent to investigate. However, in order to ensure secrecy, the mission was disguised as a curricular recognizance mission performed by Team MICA. However, after the professor and the team were almost killed by a mechanically modified Beowolf, they learned the truth, but were sworn to secrecy afterwards. The team and the professor tracked down Olive's hidden lab, and proceeded to enter and find her. They were horrified at the cruelty and despicable nature of her work, though she simply thought of them as primitive.

Final Battle and Death
"Humans. Faunus. Animals. Plants. Grimm. I see past those limited forms. I will bestow upon Remnant a higher form of life. And once it's alive, I will be... divine."

- Dr. Lanchester's god complex.

Dr. Lanchester sent her mechanical Grimm after the team and the professor. Aden was hurt, but the abominations were eventually defeated when Israel and the professor dropped heavy machinery on them and destroyed them. Infuriated, Dr. Lanchester herself battled the heroes, but was quickly defeated. As she fled, she unleashed all of the normal Grimm she had held captive for her experiments in the future. The team was able to fight them off, and Dr. Lanchester escaped through a back door. However, she was cut off by one of the released Ursai, who proceeded to attack and kill her. What remained of her body was found by the professor and team afterwards. They reported back to Haven, knowing the threat of the mechanical Grimm would be no more.

Personality
Dr. Olive Lanchester is eccentric, obsessive, delusional, and egotistical. She truly believes her work is the next step in evolution, no matter how many human, Faunus, or Grimm lives need to be lost during that process. She views herself as a harbinger of a new era for Remnant, one of biological and mechanical perfection, and as such has a deep-rooted god complex.

Relationships

 * Oran Lanchester - Olive harbors deep respect and love for her late father, though she is still bitter about his second marriage.
 * Aurelia Shelly-Lanchester - Olive despises her stepmother for interfering with her life and trying to replace the mother she never knew. Her profession as a Huntress bored Olive, and may be one of the reasons behind her hatred for Huntsmen and Huntresses.
 * Viktor Lanchester - Olive hates her younger brother for being the offspring of Aurelia and for shifting the focus away from her. She never had much of a personal connection to him, as he was only five years old when she left home, and she never contacted him since.

Primary Weapon: Gravedigger
Olive's main weapon is referred to as Gravedigger. It resembles a large, four-foot-long shovel, with a large curved blade at one end and a handle at the other. The blade is composed of a powerful metal alloy, allowing her to cause small, concentrated tremors when she strikes the ground with it. Additionally, she can use it to scoop and hurl objects at foes much like an actual shovel. Since she rarely ever participates in combat outside of her lab, she has several large buckets of various types of powdered Dust strewn about in there. In combat, she can fight with the blade, but can also run to one of the buckets, scoop up a large heap of Dust, and hurl it at foes. The distance will determine how far the powdered Dust particles fly apart, so at close range the Dust will cause a large, concentrated burst, whereas longer distances will result in a wider, more scattered spread attack.

Secondary Weapons: Tranquilizers
Though usually reserved for Grimm, Dr. Lanchester also carries three high-powered tranquilizer syringes on her at all times. If needed, she can throw these as projectiles. The serum stuns and knocks the target unconscious for approximately ten minutes.

Fighting Style and Abilities
Though she has weapons, Dr. Lanchester prefers to not fight. However, when she has to, she usually fights in erratic, unpredictable ways. She is skilled in strategy, and likes to lure foes into environmental hazards or traps to avoid close-quarters combat. With her weapon, she is exceptionally skilled, and can hold her own against students and sometimes even Huntsmen and Huntresses.

Dr. Lanchester also has a photographic memory.

Semblance
Olive discovered her Semblance in her early adulthood. She has the ability to absorb and channel electricity. She is immune to electric shocks (even ones as powerful as lightning), and will feel little to no pain during them. After absorbing electricity, she can either reroute it into her muscles for a physical boost, her mind for a mental boost, or simply expel it back out in a electrokinetic attack.

Strengths and Weaknesses
Dr. Olive Lanchester's biggest strength is her mind; she possess extraordinary intellect and processing, and is a highly skilled problem solver, strategist, researcher, and scholar. She has advanced knowledge in the fields of biology (human and Faunus anatomy, Grimm biology, zoology, and botany) and mechanics, technology, and robotics. She is also no pushover in a fight, and is an exceptional fighter.

However, Olive is not a fighter like others, and has no formal combat training. While she is not a pushover. She is not extraordinarily difficult to outmatch physically. In close quarters combat, she can be overpowered and defeated rather quickly.

Trivia

 * Olive's name is based on the color of the same name, being a light shade of green.
 * Dr. Olive Lanchester alludes to both Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelly's 1818 horror novel Frankenstein and its countless adaptations.
 * Olive's last name “Lanchester” alludes to the late actress Elsa Lanchester, who portrayed the Monster's Bride in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein.
 * Olive's name and Aura color are associated with green, which is the color of the monster's skin in many adaptations.
 * Olive's eyes are yellow, as the monster's eyes are described as yellow in the novel.
 * Olive is a doctor and surgeon obsessed with human enhancement and taboo subjects, much like Dr. Frankenstein.
 * Her weapon resembles a shovel and is called Gravedigger, which alludes to the fact that the original Frankenstein monster was an amalgam of dug-up corpses.
 * Her Semblance with the absorption of electricity refers to the process of galvanism, which is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. This process is what inspired Mary Shelly's idea of reanimation of dead tissue with electricity, the basis for Frankenstein.
 * Olive's stepmother's maiden name is Shelly, alluding to Mary Shelly, and her stepbrother's name is Viktor, alluding to Victor Frankenstein.
 * Dr. Olive Lanchester is a character belonging to NerdWithAKeyboard, inspired by elements belonging to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth Animation.