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Olivia is energetic and clever and has shown to be quick to catch on to new ideas.<ref>'''Halo: Fractures''', "A Necessary Truth", page 234'' (Google Play edition)</ref><ref name="ll c28"/> She is also empathetic and perceptive, for example quickly noticing [[Veta Lopis]]' anxiety in tight spaces and attempting to calm the inspector down. This was ostensibly to avoid the pair from being discovered, though she also appeared to show genuine concern for Lopis' well-being, unexpectedly opening up to her about a fear of her own; namely one of "white fire" generated by a [[plasma]] discharge. Psychologists stated this was because she had seen her family die in a plasma strike, though she could no longer remember the details of the event herself. As was the norm with Spartan-IIIs, Olivia joined the program in order avenge her family and homeworld. As she was trained, however, she would come to be motivated by a desire to prevent anyone else having to suffer a similar fate. Olivia would later reflect on the tragedy not with bitterness but as something that gave her purpose.<ref name="ll13">'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 13, ''pages 173-177'' (Google Play edition)</ref> She even appeared to take some measure of pride in the Gammas' augmentation-induced mental condition, namely their ability to fight under pain intolerable to any other human.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 23, ''pages 294-295'' (Google Play edition)</ref>