❝ somewhere between her seat and his chest, she lost her face, left it behind her like a cast-off scarf, and so she took his instead, snapping it off with two fast bites ❞ ♯ toeat — OLIVIA BLOOM of tara armstrong's Mary Kills People. by lea. 21+ est. 2023
ⁱ﹚ 𝓘NFO. ⁱⁱ﹚𝓟INBOARD. ⁱⁱⁱ﹚ 𝓟ROMPTS.
olivia bloom appears in all of [approximately] twenty minutes of a somewhat obscure mini-series. I do not expect you to be familiar with her or her source material. I do expect you to read my info.
don't be a weirdo <3
I tend to prioritize my friends and plotted threads. the easiest way to start something (other than reaching out via im) is to send in prompts.
please bear in mind that the show mary kills people explores topics such as voluntary euthanasia (not particularly related to olivia's characterization, but a prominent theme across the show), alcoholism, drug trafficking, toxic power dynamics, abusive family dynamics, internalized misogyny and murder/gen violence. olivia is a wolf in sheep's clothing, hiding behind the mantles of mother and housewife.
NAME. Olivia Sinéad Bloom. maiden name Loren.
↪ a homonym of a diminutive, "Liv"
AGE. thirty-eight; verse-dependent
DATE OF BIRTH. december 30th
PLACE OF BIRTH. Vieux-Port de Montréal, [Montreal], Quebec
CITIZENSHIP. Canadian [Dual American; verse-dependent]
MARITAL STATUS. widowed (arc ii).
A self-described "boring stay-at-home mom" to an eight-year-old girl, Olivia Bloom is a creature of details; the (wo)man behind the man behind Bloom Appliances, a small chain of appliance warehouses used to smuggle narcotics.
FIVE POSITIVE TRAITS. resourceful, organized, [selectively] patient, confident
FIVE NEGATIVE TRAITS. vindictive, manipulative, impulsive, arrogant
SEXUALITY. bisexual. not explicitly closeted, though not overtly out.
SPOUSE. Travis Bloom — deceased (murdered by Desmond 'Des' Bennett*)
CHILDREN. Maya Loren
SIBLING(S). Grady Loren — deceased (murdered indirectly by Mary Harris)
*after placing herself in Des's path shortly after his release from prison, believing him to be the sole party responsible for her brother's death, Olivia coerces him [and Mary Harris] into killing her husband in a twisted interpretation of karmic justice.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
arc i. the unseen hand behind her family's operation, olivia hides beneath the meticulously crafted image of the idyllic wife. the doting mother. docile and unsuspecting. but it all seems to collapse in a matter of months as grady is swept up in his own hubris and left to bleed to death on his living room floor and travis, emboldened by the sudden vacuum, takes more than he can repay.
arc ii. the [apparent] solution to all of her problems all but falls into her lap: desmond 'des' bennett is a man easily led, with a moderately successful side-business in murder. she decides to simply ask; it was the least he could do, wasn't it? an eye for an eye. but des is just a face and behind it she finds her own reflection in a diminutive doctor. an attraction, a fixation, that makes her clumsy. impulsive. left to improvise at every turn, clawing her way back to status quo by the skin of her teeth and nothing to learn from it.
