HAYES, OLIVER

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Growing up in Floaroma Town with very conservative parents, Oliver strived to make them happy his entire life. Ever since he was young, his mother was sickly and he viewed her in this holy light. Like she could do no wrong, and she was everything to him. He always did everything he could to help her, and followed his father’s side of being in law enforcement for generations just to see her smile. But what she always spoke about, what she wanted more than anything else was to be a grandmother and to see Oliver start his own family. As he reached adolescence and realized he only had an eye for men, this tore him apart.

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Shortly after he finished high school and joined the police academy, his mother passed away. He was buried in grief and damn near drank himself to death, before his best friend snapped him out of it. Lillian managed to pull him out of his rut and help him get back on his feet, and at some point he realized that she had fallen in love with him. It felt awful, when he first asked her on a date. Oliver was trying so hard to be something he wasn’t, for his mother who had already passed away. Lillian was a wonderful woman and he loved her as his best friend, but knew too well that he could never love her as he should. Yet they got married, and they had a little girl… And that terrified Oliver. He knew that he had the same disease that his mother did, and that there was a good chance he’d pass it onto his child. Huntington’s Disease was passed on far too easily, and having that girl was the most frightened he felt in his life.

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Soon as possible, they had their daughter tested for the disease. When she came up negative, the relief Oliver felt was immense. Before they had another, just a couple years after their little girl was born, Lillian was killed in a car accident. She hit a patch of ice, and died almost on impact when her car hit a tree on the driver’s side door, crunching in on her. Again Oliver was devastated, but this time he was determined not to drown himself in alcohol again. He couldn’t. Instead, he devoted his everything to doing whatever he could to make his daughter’s life better. Never did he seek out another partner, determined to be able to take care of her alone. Plus he just couldn’t do it again, he could pretend to love another woman and he couldn’t go through the constant stress of worrying about whether or not his genes would kill any future children.

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As his baby grew up, he found himself glad for his time with Lillian. His daughter mattered more to him than anything, and he never knew he could love anyone so much. She was his little princess… Probably for far longer than she would have liked. Even now, with her being a grown adult, he still is very protective of her. He’s always done secret background checks on anyone she’s dated, and he chased off the ones he didn’t like. While he knew he was overbearing at times, he knew he couldn’t live with himself if something happened to her. If she was gone, he knew he wouldn’t be able to be pieced back together again. Oliver also decided long ago not to tell her about his disease, not wanting her to know that his time was limited. He didn’t want her to feel pressured into starting a family before she was ready, as he had… Plus his courage left him every time he tried, he didn’t want to break her heart. Even now when he’s beginning to show minor symptoms, he’s trying to hide it from her.

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Ever since he graduated from the police academy, he was working on the force in Jubilife, not too far from his own town. He managed to climb to the position of lead detective, too. Yet after Floaroma Town was destroyed during the Team Galactic attack, he dropped his career as soon as he could. His father had died in that attack, the old man never having moved out of the small down. While it didn't hurt him quite as bad as the deaths of his wife or mother, he was determined to make sure Galactic paid for what they had done. There was only so much he could do, stuck in Jubilife, so he opted for changing to join the Rangers and do as much as he could to keep them from doing any further attacks. While it’s a bit annoying restarting from the bottom of the ranks, he’s a workaholic and is confident that he’ll rise higher in no time.