Olivia Craw
| Olivia | |
|---|---|
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| Serial number: | Not Specified |
| Species: | Robot |
| Type: | Nandroid |
| Job: | Maid, Nanny, Estate Custodian, Legal Guardian |
| Owned by: | Herself |
| Age: | ~18 years |
| Status: | In Service |
| Canonicity: | Fanon |
| Created on: | 2020/08/19 |
| Created by: | OliviAnon |
Olivia is a nandroid formerly owned by the late Andrew and Janet Craw to assist in maintaining their home and the care of their children, Laurel, Andy, and Tommy. Andrew and Janet custom ordered Olivia with purple eyes and a vanity name, and she is the oldest nandroid still in service anywhere in the country, having served the Craw family for eighteen years.
After the death of her owners and extraordinary legal persuasion by surviving relative and lawyer Carter Craw, Olivia became both the legal guardian of her masters' children and the custodian of the estate until the eldest becomes of age. She is in possession of a Three Nines Fine warranty ticket, granting her perpetual maintenance and repair support from Sterling despite being long past her original End of Life date.
She is currently unable to perform her usual household duties due to damage sustained to her left and right arms, which are now slightly bent up and down, respectively. Chronic and uncontrollable shaking in both them and her hands precludes her from reliably holding or manipulating cleaning tools and other items. Her advanced age and low production count challenges her parent company when sourcing replacement parts.
Character summary
Personality
Present-day Olivia is a quiet and reserved nandroid, usually keeping to herself unless summoned and perfectly happy and content in her role as the Craw family's maid. She often helps the children of the family with their own activities, and enjoyed listening to Janet perform with her piano, sometimes even tapping out her favorite tunes on nearby surfaces on her own time. While possessing the training to do so, she refuses to play on Janet's piano and will not touch it outside of dusting. She dislikes rock and roll and other similar types of music.
Because of her responsibility in protecting Andrew's vast antique collection, Olivia is a stickler for dust and finds dusting one of her most enjoyable household duties. Her extended interactions with Andrew's collection have left her with a fairly robust knowledge in certain categories of antiques.
Relationships
Olivia maintains a working relationship with two of Sterling's local repair center staff, facility directory George Kursk and senior repair engineer Dr. John Penwell. George is her liason of sorts for warranty and repair support, and Dr. Penwell is her dedicated service engineer.
Although instrumental in putting Olivia in her current position, Olivia dislikes her master's brother Carter Craw. Between Carter's abusive personality and Olivia's crippling injuries, the two have a strained long-distance partnership in keeping the estate out of Melanie Craw's hands.
In the past, Olivia had a nandroid twin named Natalia who worked for Andrew's brother Carter, with whom she graduated in the same class from Nandroid School. Natalia's radically different and mean-spirited personality meant the two rarely saw eye to eye, but could occasionally get along under the right circumstances. With the stress of her current position, Olivia sometimes misses Natalia's unshakable confidence in all situations.
Olivia strongly dislikes Oliver, Carter's botler replacement for Natalia, and actively avoids interacting with him as much as possible. Carter's move to the West Coast made this easy, until recent events putting her in regular contact with Carter increased her risk of talking to Oliver.
The Craw children are Olivia's pride and joy, the surviving descendants of her deceased masters and her raison d'etre to continue operating. She'll often assist them in practicing their various hobbies or with other activities, comforts them while they grieve, and lately has been teaching them how to perform household chores themselves while she awaits Sterling's repairs.
To be completed.
Biography
Early Life
Like all known nandroids Olivia trained at and graduated from Nandroid School, alongside her sister Natalia. Her original long ponytail was docked after a tangling incident with a fan, an accidental door closing requiring replacing some of her fingers, and one optic was replaced after being struck and destroyed by a falling baseball.
Serving the Craws
To be added.
Her Masters' Deaths
To be added.
Behind the Scenes
In early revisions of Three Nines Fine Part 1, due to OliviAnon's initial lack of familiarity with the source material, Olivia's purple eyes and name ending in -ia instead of -y/ie were originally attributed to her being an older model than Emmy. Upon discovering the comic and that Emmy is likely a first-generation nandroid, these details were altered to make her newer than Emmy, while still retaining the purple eyes and -ia name to avoid retconning the character design.
Trivia
In the context of her story, Olivia is a Model 02 nandroid, putting her in the next class to graduate after Emmy's.
The Three Nines Fine ticket is based on the warranty tickets from Stress Test Anon, differing only in that it does not expire.
In Three Nines Fine, nandroids have a ten year warranty, after which they can either continue to receive maintenance under a prohibitively expensive extended monthly warranty, or be traded in for a newer model. Owners may also choose to forgo the support model entirely, but considering a nandroid's cost this is usually avoided.
The Craw court ruling is briefly mentioned in Nandroids in Space while Tilly is watching television [1]. This scene was later tied into Three Nines Fine Part 6 with expanded dialogue from the newscaster [2].
Dr. Marduk is briefly mentioned near the end of Chapter 15 of Nandroids in Space. [3]
Gallery
Official Webcomic
Miscellaneous
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"TITLE TBA", a 2022 drawing by Baldarek illustrating the photo discussed in Three Nines Fine Part 7.
Appearances
As a fan character, Olivia does not appear in any chapters of Emmy the Robot.
However she does appear in the following fan stories:
| Author | Title | Link(s) | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| OliviAnon | Three Nines Fine | https://archiveofourown.org/works/31204727 | SFW |
