Ollie
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Oliver "Ollie" Bradley |
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Intake |
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| Gender | Male |
| Year of intake | 2019 |
| Sponsor | Harmony |
| Gender at intake | Cis male |
| Date of birth | c. 1995 |
| Name at intake | [show]Oliver Bradley |
Ollie is a boy in the 2019 intake. He is sponsored by Harmony.
Pre-transition
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At the age of 6, Ollie's parents began to abuse him. His mother would hit him with a slipper, and his father would be unsympathetic, commanding him to take the beating like a man. At one point, he was hit so hard it left a red mark on his cheek, and he was locked in his room with no school, TV, or computer for an entire week. This abuse continued throughout his childhood, and was noticed by his Gran. He stayed with his Gran until she became too ill to take care of him, was put into a nursing home, and died there. Before she died, Ollie held her hand, but she couldn't hold his in return as her fingers had curled up. She advised him to leave home as soon as he could.
He began getting into fights at school during his teenage years. At the age of 15, he won a fight at school and impressed the boys in his class, who would hit their desks with their hands and chant his name in approval. At some point during his teenage years, he fell in love with a girl called Sonia. They later married, and moved in to a house together, Ollie seeing this as fulfilling his promise to his Gran to leave home as soon as he could. The two of them decorated the house and garden together, Sonia being responsible for the garden itself and Ollie taking responsibility for the deck. They made plans to sit out and watch the sunrise every summer morning, however only ended up doing it a few times.
Some time into their marriage, Sonia came to realize that Ollie was violent and abusive, and believed he was incapable of change, causing the two to divorce. Later, after leaving him, Ollie sought her out in a bar, where he discovered her and her new boyfriend. Here, he hit her so hard that he bounced her head off of the bar, and broke her new boyfriend's legs. For an unknown reason, they never pressed charges. This incident is what put him on Dorley's radar.
First year
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Ollie was sponsored into the programme by Harmony.
During his first two weeks in the basement, Ollie was highly resistant. He is was tased 16 times in those first two weeks, the most amount of times of any of the other boys, for repeatedly attempting to steal a taser from the sponsors. He believed that if he could do this, he could use it to escape. Ollie largely ignores Stefan's introduction to the basement, watching TV and talking to Declan.
Sometime between the 14th and the 25th of October, Ollie once again tried to steal a taser and got locked in the cells for a time.
Like the other members of the intake, Ollie was sexually assaulted by Karen on the 26th October, but his reaction to this is unknown.
After Declan was sent to the cells on 25th October, Ollie and Raph became notably less hostile. They spend a lot of time together, and do not antagonise the other members of the intake. This lasts until the 9th of November, when Declan is returned from the cells, causing the two of them to become much more confident again. However, this does not last long as, during a conversation with Ollie and Raph, Declan reveals himself to be an unrepentant rapist and is washed out.
Declan's fate is stated to have spooked Ollie and Raph, causing them to become passive again. Ollie spends most of his time either alone in his room, or huddled with Raph in the common room. He participates in the Feminism 101 lectures that began on the 14th November, but has no notable reaction to them.
Sometime between the 14th and 22nd of November, Ollie and Raph begin to befriend Will. This continues until the 27th November. On the 27th, Ollie, Will, and Raph wait until the opportune moment when there are the fewest amount of sponsors in the common room, and the sponsors have turned their backs to them, and launch an escape attempt. Despite Stef attempting to warn the sponsors, this still results in Maria being severely injured by Will. The three of them are tased down before they can do anything more, and Ollie is the last of the three to be dragged by the Peckinville soldiers to the cells. Despite their attack, Maria prevents the three of them from being washed out. Ollie, Will, and Raph are kept in the cells and on a separate schedule from the boys in the common areas. They are given minimal entertainment, but no further punishments.
Ollie has a violent reaction to disclosure on the 30th November: swearing, shouting, upturning his cell to the best of his ability, and kicking at the glass door before becoming exhausted and falling asleep.
On the 5th December, Ollie is stated to have infuriated Harmony in some way. He is the most resistant to the programme. When Stef visits Will he passes by Ollie's cell as he whilst he sleeps. Ollie has been force-fed and has notable bruises over his body. It is unknown for certain, but likely that these were the result of self-harm. Will believes that he throws himself at the walls of his cell.
Ollie continuously self-harms daily from the 5th to the 18th of December, notably by ripping out his hair and throwing himself at the walls. By this point he has come to hate Raph, and is hostile towards Harmony's attempts to discuss his feelings. He sees little difference between being in the cells and being in the wider basement area.
Upon returning the to common room on the 24th December, Ollie is bewildered by Steph's transition progress and relationship with Aaron. He remains stubbornly resistant, despite attempts by Aaron and Will to make him comprehend the pointlessness of fighting the programme. He repeatedly insults the other boys for going along with the programme, calling them pussies for not fighting back. He makes multiple homophobic and transphobic remarks and when Aaron needles him about how he's being made into a girl regardless, he physically threatens Aaron but is swiftly stopped by the sponsors who raise their tasers at him. Aunt Bea, over the intercom, threatens to wash Ollie out and tells the sponsors to take him to his room and cuff him. Ollie makes another attempt at stealing a taser, is tased instead, and sent back to his cell.
On the 26th December, Will is taken to watch a conversation between Ollie and Harmony. Ollie is initially hostile towards Harmony's attempts to make him discuss how he feels, and demands to see the sun. He refuses to answer why his misses the sun, and implies that he believes talking about his feelings to be emasculating, until Harmony offers him a real meat burger with chips. He accepts this offer, calming down and opening up slightly. Revealing that he and his ex-wife, Sonia, decorated their garden and deck together and made plans to sit out every summer morning and watching the sunrise. Though they only did it a few times, he still misses the times that they did. Harmony then confronts him with his actions, and he hardens up again, returning to swearing at her. He is unable to explain his actions, repeatedly swearing at Harmony. Aunt Bea interjects and states that Ollie did it because she took his power from him, and Ollie swears at her too. Aunt Bea responds by switching off Ollie's light, his forms of entertainment, and deprives him of food and water.
By the 30th December, Ollie's light and entertainment and presumably regular mealtimes were returned. When Will asks Tabby how she would sponsor Ollie, she suggests that she would try and find who Ollie was before he became an abuser, but Harmony's approach is instead trying to make him stop justifying his actions first.
At some point between 30th December and the 5th January, Ollie stopped self harming and was let out of his cell. He spends his time starting arguments with the other members of the intake (mainly Raph), and poking at his arm with plastic cutlery. On the 5th he became angry at breakfast and threw a bread roll at Harmony, missed, and was returned to his cell. He was let out after 5 hours to reduce the amount of sponsors required to keep an eye on all of them.
During this time, Ollie became notably withdrawn. He stayed in the lunch room, not moving or talking to, or acknowledging anyone, behaviour which worries Harmony. Steph brings him dinner and attempts to talk to him, but he didn't acknowledge her or the food and simply left the room to return to his bedroom. This worried Steph and the others in the basement, who informed Harmony by text. Harmony replied stating that she'll bring him dinner in a couple of hours.
Back in his room, Ollie sits on his bed, which he has stripped of its bed-sheets and pillowcase, and records his thoughts into a dictaphone that Harmony has him use as a diary. He recounts his memories of the day, believing himself justified in his anger at Harmony. He sees himself as different from all the other members of the intake - utterly incapable of change, only able to be broken. He spirals into increasingly depressive and resistant thoughts, reminiscing on his violent actions and acknowledging that it served no purpose but to ruin everything. He finishes the diary entry with a message to Harmony, telling her that she can take whatever she wants from him, but he has something he can take from her. After this, he reassembles his bed and takes his electric shaver from his drawer - which he has smashed to pieces to access its blade. He then gets under his sheets and attempts to kill himself by cutting his wrists.
Indira noticed his reassembly of his bed as unusual behaviour, and alerted Jane to check on him. She discovers him bleeding out into his bedsheets, and is stunned. Frankie, having seen what happened on the cameras in the security room, rushes into Ollie's room. She uses the shaver to cut strips out of Ollie's bedsheets to wrap his wrists and tourniquet his arms. Ollie is aware of her, but confuses her for his Gran as they sounded and looked very similar. Soon, Doctor Fatima Rahman arrives with more medical personnel, taking over treating Ollie. Ollie notices her, and is reminded of one of his teachers from when he was younger where he felt safe from his parents, and he loses consciousness. He is soon taken to the medical portakabin.
Later, in the medical portakabin, Ollie returns to consciousness. He engages in conversation with Trevor, believing him to be a trans man. He asks Trevor to call the police about Dorley, but he, as expected, refuses. Trevor says he should try to enjoy the programme, to which Ollie replies that, whilst he won't enjoy it, he knows that he can't escape from it. He won't give up resisting, but he acknowledges the inevitable outcome. Harmony then enters the room as she will be watching him overnight, and asks how he feels. He admits that he is not sure, as he was unsuccessful in his attempt and mockingly asking her how she thinks he feels. Harmony responds by apologising for treating him so harshly, however Ollie rejects her apology as she still isn't going to let him go, which she understands. Harmony then opens his curtains, so that, in the morning, Ollie will get to see the sunrise.
As she does this, Ollie notices a scar on her wrist that she covers with a watch strap, and he takes a degree of comfort in this as he starts to relate to her.
On the 6th of January, when Frankie had visited him and Trevor, he revealed to Frankie that she reminded him of somebody that he used to know (his Gran). Frankie, in turn, told Ollie that he reminded her of somebody she used to know: a 24 year old man who drank away all his money and ended up starting a fight he couldn't win, being found dead in the canal at 24 years old, spooking Ollie
On the 11th January, Ollie had noticeably improved in both mood and compliance to the programme. Thinking to himself, Ollie resolved to thank Harmony for showing him the sun again, having lost his contempt for Harmony as she was no longer his captor, but a girl who had cried over him. Whilst he had previously claimed he didn't know how to express his emotions, Frankie and Trevor had pooh-poohed this, telling him that he knew exactly how to express himself when he was drunk and had attacked Sonia and her new boyfriend in the bar, so he did know how to express himself, and the two of them advised him to listen to Harmony if he didn't want to remain emotionally and physically violent. At some point during his time in the infirmary, Harmony had commented on how the two's hands looked similar. This confused Ollie, who was still unaware of the full details of the programme, but Frankie had told him that Harmony was sharing a secret with him. In return, Ollie told her how he had held his Gran's hand as she passed away in the nursing home, advising him to run away from home as soon as he could.
Later, Ollie began the journey from the infirmary to return to the basement. Whilst he contemplated running away, he acknowledged that he completely ruined his old life. In the basement, he recognised that he has a chance to not ruin his next. He also contemplated Trevor's situation, unable to relate to having such a strong feeling towards his own gender. He also returned to the basement as Harmony had told him that she was going to give him full disclosure about the Dorley programme.
Ollie was given full disclosure on the 12th January. His reaction was one of bewilderment and disbelief, questioning whether each sponsor he knew, Aunt Bea, and Frankie were once men, to Raph, Harmony, Jane, and Leigh in the common room. Raph needles him slightly, pointing out that that is how they know the programme works and to trust the process, to which Ollie irately responded with an expletive. Ollie was later invited to join Raph, Martin, Leigh, and their sponsors for a movie night due to his good behaviour.
On the 13th January Ollie and Raph were back on speaking-without-swearing-at-each-other terms, though Raph still considered him the most stupid, and wondered if Ollie would wash out at some point in the future. Later that day, when news of the lockdown notice from Aunt Bea was about to break, Ollie was sat in the common room on the beanbag chair by the supply closet. Unnerved by the sudden change to the routine, Ollie allowed Harmony to comfort him. Once news about the bodies being found at Stenordale began to spread throughout the room, Ollie was confused at the emotional reactions, demanding to be told why Harmony had to leave and process the information, and why Raph was comforting his sponsor so much., and so he was quietly informed. Some time later, the group in the basement moved to the spare mattresses, Ollie awkwardly joined in with the rest of the group, sitting uncomfortably next to Harmony on the edge of the group. He asked if Frankie was going to be okay, and simply nodded at the answer. He gave a hollow laugh at Raph's question about why Beth wanted to go upstairs, and a more amused laugh when Raph stated he used to be a man, to which Raph told him to shut up. Later in the conversation, he asked whether there were still social rules to learn about being a girl, and was told that there were lots, but he would not need to learn them until the later years. He still has a lot to unlearn about being a man first.
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Pre-transition associates
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Sonia
Unnamed Grandmother
Unnamed Mother
Unnamed Father
Unnamed Teacher
Unnamed Classmates