CODEX : Olive's Backstory .
The Toma Clan was a wealthy family, living in Japan. While they were mostly of German descent, their family had been Japanese citizens since World War 2. A large family, fleeing the Nazis, while still wanting to live with Allies to Germany.
They had changed their last name to "Toma" to better fit in with the Japanese... although it was largely chosen at random.
They started a tech company, which had evolved into a global Empire.
With most of the family, living in separate houses within a large Estate.
Dad had gone to America, to go to a popular Californian university. Where he met his future wife... not in the university... he actually met her well exploring the landscape, and stumbled into a ghetto, with a mostly Mexican population.
They had a one night stand, and she got pregnant... then it turned out, she lied about the pregnancy, to trick dad into marrying her. But she had gotten pregnant for real, by the time this was discovered... She was not a nice lady...
Dad's family pretended not to realize what was going on, as the woman was pregnant, NOW, and they didn't want to create a scandal... it was already scandalous enough, with the college boy / expectant father.
Dad's mere existence was already enough of a scandal, so this certainly wasn't helping.
Mom moved to Japan, to live on the family estate. With the clan building her a house, and hiring a nanny and a maid. Although they were sure to get a prenup when the woman actually married Dad.
Within 7 years, they had 3 children... with mom, thankfully, dying during the birth of the third child. Dad, having lost his own mother to childbirth complications, refused to let that affect how he saw his youngest. Showering her with love.
Unlike his own father, who didn't even let dad live in the same house. Instead living with his grandmother, while playing with his cousins, in the clan estate. One cousin, became more like a sister. To the point Dad's children called her "Auntie".
Little Olive lived a life of luxury and plenty... until he started school...
It was a high end private school, the type of place that vets their staff thoroughly. And only hires the most qualified teachers... but not even that is foolproof.
Anyway, one lawsuit later, and free therapy for life. Ollivander had a new found fear of women...
Things didn't get easier from there. As the family curse held true.
He was later diagnosed with Autism, and put in Special Ed classes.
Not everything was bad, as it was still a luxury private school. That worked hard with the boy to develop the skills he needed... which turned out not to matter, as a few years into his college career, he developed Schizophrenia...
He was trying to live on his own at the time... and ended up another crazy homeless guy.
His family was able to track him down, and brought him back to the estate. Getting him medication... which gave him diabetes... another lawsuit, and Ollivander was back to living in the family penthouse... with a much larger trust fund, that his father controlled... due to the boy being declared incompetent.
However, then Ogden Morrow arrived on the Scene, and developed technology to control disorders like Schizophrenia and Bipolar. The Toma family gave the man enough money, to fund the project without need of military grants. So the boy was outfitted with the chip soon afterwards.
Things finally started looking up, as Ollivander was able to go back to School, and got Doctorates in: Sociology, Psychiatry, Psychology, and History.
He spent the next decade, researching fandoms... after all he already had a pretty sizable trust fund. It wasn't like he needed to have a career that paid ridiculously well...
Then the Oasis came out, and suddenly, people like Ollivander were in high demand.
The boy was hired onto I.O.I. and started making those ridiculous numbers.
He was even able to afford one of Morrow's harddrive implants. Giving him an eidetic memory, and a few dozen new skills. He was also able to buy, from morrow, a cybernetic pancreas and liver, curing his Diabetes.
Then genetic engineering improved, allowing people to stay in their Prime longer.
Yes things were looking up for him... until they weren't...
As the world's resources disappeared, Many of the world's wealthy fled to Mars... but they refused to take Ollivander, on account of his "genetic defects".
His family chose to stay behind with him, although the rest of the clan left... and liquidated their company... so no more trust fund.
Ollivander, and the other, now grown kids, ended up having to support their Aunt. Which wasn't really a big deal, as she was able to get a new job, working in Programming for I.O.I.
A job Ollivander was able to get her, by pulling strings.
Then, resources became so scarce, that all small towns had to be abandoned. Moving everyone into the larger cities, and turning completely to nuclear power.
A few years later, the world's governments agreed to hand everything over to James Halliday, as they fled the planet for Mars.
The Major cities became city states, and a new global government was established. This would have been a good thing... if the people weren't left behind to die in the wasteland Earth was becoming.
Then Halliday died, started that stupid contest, but left control of the planet's government to his former business partner, Ogden Morrow.
Then I.O.I. started to... change. Seeming to go the Super Villain route.
Eventually, I.O.I. was defeated, thanks to the High 5, who won the contest, and inherited the company...
Things were looking up again, but... you know what happened from there.