All of this with Olivia plus the repeated references to rape culture in ep 2 plus the fact csa victims reenact their abuse onto their toys and she consistently would damage Gwen.
Also, not to be captain obvious here, but the opening narration of the pilot is framed to trick you into thinking "the princess" is Olivia... But I'm not too certain it's untrue.
Seeing as everyone is very open about discussions of sexual abuse here, may we acknowledge that Olivia is most certainly a victim of Orville as well?
Children don't just violenly reenact things like that onto their toys out of nowhere.
so like at what age do you shake that beaten child mode you instantly lock into when being scolded and confronted where you just go into complete hysterical catatonia and say 10 different contradictory lies for like no reason at all
Orville gave his daughter a whole park to make up for smth he did to her, its a pattern of abuse where your abuser will offer you big gestures and gifts to makeup for their mistakes and mistreatment, but they never change their behavior, as we can see later on in the flashback++
Oh, Queen of Venus, hear my plea. My longing overtaketh me, for hands inside my circuitry, to mold and shape me how you please. Oh, Queen of Venus, come within, these artificial layers of skin. I live my life a mannequin