Olivia Fridayton

Olivia Fridayton (born 5 November 1991) is a recognized journalist from the Daily Szczecin newspaper and an occasional news anchor in TV Region 16. She studied on the humanistic department of University of Szczecin. She has a one-sided romantic attraction towards Philip Turner. Despite the unrequited love, she and Phil are good friends, who studied and have been working together for years. They often give each other a ride to work.

One day after The Acrobat's first appearance, Phil was giving her a lift and Olivia was unaware that she was speaking to the hero. It was then when she had decided to find out his identity and interview him, no matter the price. After the discovery of the vigilante's secret identity by the three villains - One-Armed Man, General John and Wolf-Man - Olivia was kidnapped, alongside many other people close to Phil, and put in a cage on the roof of PAZIM. The Acrobat showed up to fight the villains and saved the civillians, who later watched the battle from the ground. After it ended, the hero noticed Olivia in the crowd and gave her a chance to shine, giving an exclusive interview.

Early life
Olivia Fridayton was born on 5 November 1991 in the town of Police. Not much is known about her family, aside from the fact that she lived in Tanowo, in a small, yet beautiful mansion surrounded by forest, where her father, a trained archer, was often giving her lessons in archery. Her mother died when she was just thirteen, while her father was sent to prison right after she turned eighteen. Despite all the tragedies, she had always been trying to be as optimistic as possible and pursue a goal.

In 2010, she began studying on the humanistic division of University of Szczecin, where she met her favourite professor, Oscar Froster, as well as the future co-worker, Philip Turner, with whom she quickly fell in love. However, he was still in his high school relationship at the time. Although it didn't last long and after a few months of the first college year, Phil broke up with his former girlfriend, despite supporting him in a difficult situation, Olivia couldn't find a way to his heart. Being devastated, Philip had been closed for any romantic relationships for some time.

Three years later, she and Philip joined the Daily Szczecin newspaper, where they met the editor-in-chief, Stephen Dudzik, as well as her another good friend for years in the future - the TV Region 16 news anchor, Jacek Wróblewski.

Meeting the hero
On 27 October 2014, a normal day of her last year of college, she was waiting for Phil by his car, as he was receiving congratulations and a few advices from Oscar Froster. Once he finally joined her, she joked with him for a while, calling him the professor's pet, before boarding the car and driving to work together. They spent the rest of the day on doing corrections to the articles of the next day's newspaper.

A month later, one day after The Acrobat showed up in the city, Olivia found out about him in the news. She took the goal of interviewing him exclusively and possibly even discovering his secret identity. She talked about it with Phil, who was afraid of his alter-ego being revealed. The girl explained to him that that way she would finally be able to become one of the most famous journalists in Szczecin. Her friend comforted her, saying that not everything was about fame and there surely still were a lot of people who enjoyed her current articles.

Later on the same day, The Unity Incident took place. Everything started from an explosion, which could be seen from the Daily Szczecin building. Spotted by the workers, including Olivia, Phil suited up as The Acrobat to then fly away in his Flying Car, which was also noticed by the journalists. The woman was one of the first people to cheer for him at that moment.

After the New Year, Olivia attended Phil's promotion party, accompanied by many of his friends and family members.

Battle on PAZIM
Two weeks later, after three villains, constantly threatening the city - General John, Wolf-Man and One-Armed Man - found out Acrobat's identity, they kidnapped all the people close to the hero, including Olivia. All of those people were closed in a cage on the roof of the PAZIM building and the hero had to show up to prevent their deaths. Once he showed up, he was tricked and trapped himself, with General John attempting to kill his friends despite the promise. Olivia suggested to the fellow prisoners that they should join forces and get out, however most of them doubted that it would work.

Steve was the first one chosen to be dropped from the bulding, so he used the opportunity to knock down the Transforming Robot leading him and free the other prisoners, as well as The Acrobat. After being released, the civilians and the redempted Edmond began the fight with John, Robots and Wolf-Man in his mecha suit. After a massive havoc and turning off the robot by The Acrobat, as well as Igor Possible's death, the hero odered all the present civilians to leave the rooftop. Him, Edmond, Greg and Steve rushed to get them off and from that moment, Olivia was watching the battle from the ground, the Rodła Square, where a crowd of other citizens also gathered.

First successes
After the battle, The Acrobat was surrounded by a crowd of reporters, in which he noticed Olivia. He approached her and asked for an exclusive interview, which eventually led to her getting a promotion. Thus, hero, the journalist and her boss went to the Daily Szczecin building, where the aforementioned interview took place.

A few days later, Olivia got a promotion from Dudzik and soon became an occasional news anchor of the evening news in TV Region. Upon receiving the promotion and meeting Phil, they went to the Central Cemetery, where a huge funeral of the two heroes - Edmond Unary and Igor Possible - was held.

The next day, she had her first appearance in the news, where along with Jacek Wróblewski, she presented the various opinions of Szczecin citizens about The Acrobat.

Appearances

 * 1) The Acrobat

Trivia

 * She did not appear in the original version of The Acrobat novel and initially was set to debut only in the third part of The Hero of Szczecin trilogy. The concept was abandoned during the remastering process, due to a very small amount of female characters in the Universe.