Olivia Pierce

dethtoll said:

There was fucking snake lady porn BEFORE XCOM 2 was even out.

The concept of a snake lady is a quite a little bit older than XCOM 2.


Pictured: XCOM fanart from the 12th century

Also any other sort of <animal> lady, really.

Also same for <animal> men, too.

The thing is, we have no idea (AFAIK) how old Olivia was when she took her post at Mars - she could have been (from the in game portrait) be early to mid thirties.
Samuel mentioned decades of research, add in the climate of Mars and the artificially produced gravity, air etc. No wonder she looks, well, fucked. I'm guessing she has just aged badly due to the Martian atmosphere, and it's probably given her terrible ailments such as arthritis, muscle atrophy etc.
The demons saw her wanting to be strong and pretty again, and prayed upon this by spoon feeding her the bullshit to get what they want.

Just my theory, at least.

Tetzlaff said:

I completely agree to that!

Haven't experienced Olivia Pirece yet, but from the looks she seems an interesseting character. And she is not the stereotypical sexy evil bitch.

But she's style the archetypal white girl.

I'm pretty sure the archetypal white girl doesn't look like a 60-year old crackhead in a zero suit gone horribly wrong or worship demons in space.

I just realized that she is actually wearing something.

But shit, who would wear such a ugly thing? Even the UAC staff have better clothing.

Voros said:

I just realized that she is actually wearing something.

But shit, who would wear such a ugly thing? Even the UAC staff have better clothing.

Pretty sure it's the thing unique to her (I guess they went for functionality over form, even though I have to wonder why they didn't go a mix of the two).

The lore is that she had some bad form of scoliosis and she opted to get grafted to an exoskeleton thing. I'm not sure why that forecloses, like, putting on a jumpsuit, but whatever.

id hit

She's slim enough to where she could wear cloth over her exosuit.

Voros said:

I just realized that she is actually wearing something.

But shit, who would wear such a ugly thing? Even the UAC staff have better clothing.

Someone who suffers extreme pain when standing or moving, but refuses to take pain killers because they could cloud her mind regarding further research does not seem likely to care about the newest fashion and how that exoskeleton that torments you 24/7 looks on you.

Arctangent said:

The UAC is run by a hulking robot scientist and his psychic super computer and does experiments on Hell energy and hellspawn before you get into the stuff most workers didn't know about.

Not to mention, read some of the datalogs about the UAC and listen to that hologram greeter. The UAC is fucked up.

Well, considering they thought that Hell would be a good energy source and they have such wonderful slogans as "The road to hell is paved by the UAC" or something of that kind, I'm just going to assume that virtually everyone working in that God Forsaken place is just 100% brain-dead. They make the people who came up with Jurassic Park (In universe, obviously, not the writer) look brilliant in comparison.

tuo said:

Someone who suffers extreme pain when standing or moving, but refuses to take pain killers because they could cloud her mind regarding further research does not seem likely to care about the newest fashion and how that exoskeleton that torments you 24/7 looks on you.

Does she feel pain?

Seems more like the suit takes it away.

If you ask me, making the suit that color is just awkward. I'm not gonna say anything on the design though.

Voros said:

Does she feel pain?

Seems more like the suit takes it away.

If you ask me, making the suit that color is just awkward. I'm not gonna say anything on the design though.

The codex entry states that while she feels extreme pain due to the suit, she refuses to take pain killers as they would cloud her mind.

Voros said:

If you ask me, making the suit that color is just awkward.

I'm feeling the same about the colour. If they had maybe used a darker tone or two different colours it would be easier to distinguish her from the suit and the exoskeleton. As of right now she just looks like one white/beige human-shaped mess.

Xeliv said:

I'm feeling the same about the colour. If they had maybe used a darker tone or two different colours it would be easier to distinguish her from the suit and the exoskeleton. As of right now she just looks like one white/beige human-shaped mess.

I somehow get a "Dune Movie (David Lynch) Stillsuit (H.R. Giger - RIP)" vibe from her appearance. Maybe that's why I like it so much. It looks organic while at the same time it feels "wrong/artificial".
Anyway, thanks to Frank Herbert :)

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Rumor has it that she was John Romero's (the one on the stick) original Bitch. No wonder she's reduced in such a state after all those years of abuse.

Doom is set in the future and by that point, you would have solved most any physical ailment through medical nanobots and genetic augmentation. But this is Doom we're talking about, so having outdated, unnecessary technology is a must. Props to the Dune reference btw.

You know what'd be funny? If it turned out the UAC was just way behind the times in terms of technology and the actual Earth was super futuristic. Given their brilliant idea to use Hell as an energy source, wouldn't surprise me.

GoatLord said:

Doom is set in the future and by that point, you would have solved most any physical ailment through medical nanobots and genetic augmentation rectal computers

FTFY

The younger Olivia Pierce gives off a Catherine Halsey type of vibe.

HellVain said:

The younger Olivia Pierce gives off a Catherine Halsey type of vibe.

Shh... The Halo fanboys could use that to bash Doom.

But seriously, I never noticed that until now. At least Catherine stayed on humanity's side "albeit, unethically)