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FLIRT, CHAPTER NINE
Remember how Mr. Oliver was a Homo erectus (which I mistakenly remembered as a Neanderthal, causing confusion either here or at lashouts)?
As I recall being discussed then, Homo erectus were actually around average height (5'10 for males) yet Oliver is four feet. So my headcanon is that maybe in addition to being a pre-human homonid, he's also got some kind of dwarfism too. Of course, defining dwarfism by height alone is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder, and Anita says that Mr. Oliver doesn't have any other signs of having a medical conditions...but in humans there are about 200 distinct medical conditions that can cause dwarfism. I doubt Anita knows the physical indicators of each and every one. Plus who's to say those signs would even be the same in a homo erectus? or that they wouldn't have a type of condition causing smaller size that is specific to them that modern humans don't have and thus there's no way Anita would know the signs of it?
I miss Mr. Oliver. He was the only one of the Council who ever DID anything, who had a goal, who seemed to have any awareness of vampire issues at large, and, last but not least, his character wasn't focused around sex sex sex. Seriously, every other Council member that we know jack about is obsessed with sex, sadism, or both, while really not doing much else. Padma tortured Vivian, the Traveller spends most of his time trying to find new bodies to have sex in, we find out in Bullet that Morte D'Amor likes to do horrible sexual things to others because he gets off on their fear, and Belle Morte...'nuff said. We don't know about The Dragon or Queen of Nightmares in this regard, but that's because we don't know ANYTHING about them. Oliver showed up in the flesh, and did none of this. He just got to the goddamn point and didn't waste time dicking around (pun intended) plus he managed to have an 'evil' goal without straight-up FOR THE EVULZ motives and not much of an 'evil' personality, just a 'I'm doing what has to be done and what is my duty as a Council member' type deal.
Ugh, I miss him. Him and Melanie. So much.
( FLIRT, CHAPTER NINE )
As I recall being discussed then, Homo erectus were actually around average height (5'10 for males) yet Oliver is four feet. So my headcanon is that maybe in addition to being a pre-human homonid, he's also got some kind of dwarfism too. Of course, defining dwarfism by height alone is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder, and Anita says that Mr. Oliver doesn't have any other signs of having a medical conditions...but in humans there are about 200 distinct medical conditions that can cause dwarfism. I doubt Anita knows the physical indicators of each and every one. Plus who's to say those signs would even be the same in a homo erectus? or that they wouldn't have a type of condition causing smaller size that is specific to them that modern humans don't have and thus there's no way Anita would know the signs of it?
I miss Mr. Oliver. He was the only one of the Council who ever DID anything, who had a goal, who seemed to have any awareness of vampire issues at large, and, last but not least, his character wasn't focused around sex sex sex. Seriously, every other Council member that we know jack about is obsessed with sex, sadism, or both, while really not doing much else. Padma tortured Vivian, the Traveller spends most of his time trying to find new bodies to have sex in, we find out in Bullet that Morte D'Amor likes to do horrible sexual things to others because he gets off on their fear, and Belle Morte...'nuff said. We don't know about The Dragon or Queen of Nightmares in this regard, but that's because we don't know ANYTHING about them. Oliver showed up in the flesh, and did none of this. He just got to the goddamn point and didn't waste time dicking around (pun intended) plus he managed to have an 'evil' goal without straight-up FOR THE EVULZ motives and not much of an 'evil' personality, just a 'I'm doing what has to be done and what is my duty as a Council member' type deal.
Ugh, I miss him. Him and Melanie. So much.
( FLIRT, CHAPTER NINE )