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Awards
August 2004 Awards
Angst-Ridden Post
Best Action Post
Cutest Couple (with Major Sidney Kagen)
August 2004 Awards
Most Appealing Female Character
August 2004 Awards
Angst-Ridden Post
Most Appealing Female Character |
Name: Olivia Denise Page
Designation: Civilian
Title: Agent
Call Sign: Flare
Branch: Central Intelligence Agency
Age: 31
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 145 lbs
Hair: Black
Eyes: Hazel
Place of Birth: September 14, 1973, Bellevue New York, United States of America
Martial Status: Single
Position: Computer Specialist
Placing: Eta Squad
Service Record:
* 1986; Suspended for using school computers to change grades
* 1988; Suspended for repeating previous offence
* 1989; Suspended for 'third strike' of previous two grievances. Dropped out of
high school Spring of same year
* 1990; Arrested for hacking into local FBI branch's personnel files. Year spent
in juvenile detention facility
* 1991 late; Arrested on charges of breaking and entering. Bail made, charges
dropped
* 1992; Enrolled into MIT
* 1995; Graduated top of class, MIT
* 1996; Recruited by Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to foreign
intelligence
* 1998; Transferred from foreign intelligence to IT informant
Special Training:
* Basic knowledge of self-defense
* Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Technology
* Highly skilled in coding, Matrices, computer encryptions, firewalls, and
decoding
* Passed both physical and written CIA entrance programs
Background:
Tassha Page was a victim of a New York City rape when she was 21 years of age.
She became pregnant as a result but refused to abort and in September of 1973
she gave birth to a little girl, Olivia Denise Page. Olivia was extremely
attentive from a very early age and she asked frequently over the whereabouts of
a father. For the first few years of Olivia's life her mother avoided revealing
the truth and was very attached, trying to make something good come from her
ordeal, but her daughter was a constant and living reminder of the attack and
the two never grew closer. When Olivia was 11 her mother told the circumstances
of her birth and she has been in some form of trouble or another ever since.
Olivia never did well in school but it had nothing to do with a lack of
intelligence. She was suspended three times, once in middle school and twice in
high school, for hacking into school computers from home and changing her
grades, and when she was 17, she dropped out of school all together. She was
arrested in 1990 when computer security breaches plaguing the local FBI branch
were traced back to a computer that she was using when authorities raided the
apartment. Because she had not yet turned 18 she spent a year in juvenile
detention but shortly after being released she broke into a library in her
hometown of Bellevue to use the computers to start a credit card and was
arrested in the summer of 1991 on charges of breaking and entering. Charges were
dropped when a professor at the local university posted her bail and falsely
vouched as her alibi for the day of the crime. The professor of law enforcement
also held a job within the Central Intelligence Agency's IT division and, having
already taken a personal interest in Olivia's extraordinary scores on her 11th
grade SAT tests, offered to pay for formal schooling at MIT. She accepted and
there she perfected her skill with computers and when she graduated in 1995
learned to use those skills on the side of the law instead of petty crime. A
year after graduating, when she turned 23, she was officially recruited by the
CIA to work in their foreign intelligence department, tracing computer files and
transmissions from suspected foreign threats resulting in the assisting of the
arrests and convictions of over 7 known overseas terrorists.
In 1998 Olivia transferred from foreign intelligence to work as an IT informant
agent for a small group of field operatives...known as a 'Splinter Cell'. During
her 5 years with that group the other agents gave her the nickname 'Flare'
because of her intense personality and quick temper. She carried the callsign
with her to Colorado Springs when she was recruited to work there in February of
2003 and was placed on SG-10 as their computer specialist.
In the very early spring of 2004 Olivia's work with the CIA came back to haunt
her when the ringleader of an international terrorist group known as the Keepers
of Valhalla (KOV) offered a 300 million dollar reward to whomever got him out.
Page was targeted almost immediately and the CIA recalled her to Langley for
placement in protective custody because she had not only been the key agent in
bringing the boss down and was set to testify before a federal jury, but she was
the one who had written the security program for the prison where he was placed.
Olivia, however, never made it to Virginia. She and the two friends she was
traveling with, Sidney Kagen and Callum O'Leary, were intercepted by KOV near
the Kentucky/Virginia border and taken to their base of operations in Cuba. A
deep cover agent, also with the CIA, was working undercover within the Keepers
at the time and realized who Olivia was. He revealed himself to her and was able
to keep her and her two friends alive during their near 4 day incarceration
until, with Olivia's help during her last interrogation, he managed to slip a
message to the splinter cell she had worked with before. Six agents from this
unit along with five from another coordinated efforts and Olivia, O'Leary, and
Kagen were extracted and flown to a hospital in Washington D.C. to recover.
Though Page's testimony and the information gathered by the deep cover agent
lead to the downfall of KOV as a whole, the reward for their leader's release
was still open so Olivia was placed into Witness Protection - against her
wishes. She was allowed to return to Colorado Springs where General Hammond was
informed of the situation but shortly after getting resettled she was notified
that what was left of the terrorist organization had caught wind of her
whereabouts and she was forced to move again. Hammond was sensitive to the
slightly unique circumstances and arranged to have Olivia transferred to the
Beta site, a much more isolated locale where her safety could be better
guaranteed.
=Special Note=
Olivia kept her given first name within the walls of the SGC and all of its
related counterparts and their records but in all other legal aspects and
documents, 'Olivia' does not exist as she took on her middle name of Denise and
uses her mother's maiden name of Bowers. She does not use her first name in
public.
Psychological Profile:
Olivia Page is as tough as they come both physically and mentally. Her work with
the CIA required that she keep in top physical shape to deal with the rigors of
the training program and yearly refresher courses and her upbringing, or formal
lack thereof, forged her brusque personality. Olivia is highly intelligent but
*extremely* introverted. She's not shy - she's classically antisocial. She has
no concept of tact and she is more at home absorbed in computer programs and
coding than she is around other human beings. She will never initiate a
conversation and she will only reply when *she* deems the subject or question
worthy of a response. She seems to see no need for social niceties. She is
abrupt and precise, almost to the point of appearing completely unemotional, and
she has a very 'don't get in my way and I won't get in yours' approach to
everything and everyone, including those in authoritative positions over her
though she has yet to disobey a direct order. She is very solitary, very cold
around new acquaintances and she neither trusts nor accepts attempts at
relationships, romantic or otherwise. She is strict with detail and she takes
any successes and/or failures very personally.
Her work with the CIA did require some sense of teamwork, but with her specialty
being in computers and information technology she was never required to actually
be in the field with other agents. Though her skills are certainly qualifying it
is unclear, given her temperament, how well adjusted, or not, she will become if
placed in social settings.
--Case file notes, CIA staff psychiatrist, Nov. 2002 evaluation.
=Update, March 2004 (Dr. MacKenzie, SGC Base psychologist)=
Agent Page's time at the SGC coupled with her ordeal in Cuba has had a drastic
impact on her. She is still very introverted, but she is not as brusque and some
of her rough edges seem to have been smoothed over. She is much quieter now,
almost introspective, and her intense personality has mellowed somewhat. She is
*very* wary of new faces, even more than she was before, given her situation but
she no longer seems suspicious that acts of friendship are anything but sincere.
Olivia will never be one to find or forge relationships at all easily but
reports regarding the incident with KOV have proven that when such a bond is
formed it is formed for life and she will fight and has fought (as well as paid)
dearly to preserve it. Such a connection is already apparent between her and the
two individuals with whom she endured Cuba. She is extremely close to each and
*fiercely* protective of both. |
