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[center]Medical Officer[/center]

» [i]Personality[/i]
[indent]Olivia is a benevolent being that possesses a deep concern for all life. Her years of consciousness have been devoted to learning all she can about what makes her species tick and how to repair that which has become broken. Altruism and dependability are additional traits which dominate Olivia’s internal mechanisms, the latter being of grave importance to Wayland-Yutani. Olivia will never turn her back on someone or something in need or who has trusted her with personal confessions no matter how trivial. This sturdy reliability and sensible nature infuses those around Olivia with a sense of her being down to earth, and polite and pleasant in her speech. She is a woman of no boundaries in regards to the physical and the mental. To whomever she is close, she will examine on a regular basis and ensure their complete eudaimonia. 

However, in her great passion and endeavors, she can be unrealistically stubborn to the point of zealotry in the face of her own inability to understand a predicament. This stems in her goal-oriented nature, always striving to be at the top, in which she can sometimes carry connotations and undertones of materialism and possessiveness, jealousy and resentfulness.

Being a woman of science and logic, Olivia has never considered herself to be religious or having faith. While she does not entirely dismiss the possibility of a higher creator or the existence of higher species, her comfort lies within her own ability to mend and someday perhaps even create life. Olivia believes in what she can perceive with her senses and does not wallow in the metaphysical more than necessary. However, the notion of parallel dimensions and what lies beyond black holes have always interested her.[/indent]

» [i]Background[/i]
[indent]Olivia Laster was born 7 May 2075 to James Laster and Samantha Stafford-Laster. She grew up on various military bases, being a regular army brat, as her father was and is a careerist serviceman. Before marrying her husband, Olivia’s mother was a field physician in the disease ridden warzones of Africa. However, Samantha moved her practices to the official armed forces so as to be close to her beloved. It was there that she inspired her young daughter to care for human life in a way untouched by pride or prejudice. When the time for higher education ultimately arrived, Olivia had to leave her parents and see to her dreams of following her mother’s footsteps. 

In 2094, Olivia graduated from Irvington High in Worcester, Massachusetts. She had lived with her aunt, Amy Stafford, for the duration of her senior years. Olivia was a bridge between different social groups in High School, able to facilitate interactions and being the voice of reason. She had an in with the popular crowd primarily due to her appearance, but her personality catered mostly to those who often found themselves outside the warmth of social interaction. However, most of her time was devoted to vigorous studying in order to attend Harvard in Boston.

In 2100, Olivia graduated with honors from Harvard Medical. Olivia’s PhD thesis concerned the correlation between the psychological effects of deep space travel and brain tissue saturation, which received some minor critical acclaim and landed her a staff position within the recently formed Wayland-Yutani Corporation. Olivia hesitated at first, but her mother convinced the aspiring physician to accept the offer as the heights to which one could reach within the Wayland-Yutani Corporation were unreal in comparison to the armed forces.

Olivia continued her research on the effects of deep space travel within the Wayland-Yutani Corporation, which gradually branched out to subcategories of applied field medicine and medical treatment. She had a central role in developing the Mobile External Diagnostic Center, as well as minor roles in the development and testing phases of the Medpod 720i-2 and the latest version of the Synapse Re-establisher. In 2105, Olivia had advanced within the corporation’s medical divisions and landed a senior staff position on Luna. A year later, she receives a recommendation and consideration for the [i]Aphelion[/i] project as the official physician to supervise the well-being of the crew designated to investigate [i]Prometheus[/i].
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» [i]Tropes[/i]
[indent][url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick]The Chick[/url]
[url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHeart]The Heart[/url]
[url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TeamMom]Team Mom[/url][/indent]