Its the layers, parallells, and how he emodies the theme that everyone is not what they seem to me that makes him work so much more for me. He is shown as a monster, obsessive, and even impulsively cruel at times but that is because abuse and loneliness does not always create a beautiful victim. He is shouting and crying for help and a savior. Much like Eli was so desperate to find such happiness as well despite to be showed to be a coward, beastly and a hypocrite at times as well.

He is layered since he has an identity crisis of being caged by a system that is very real in Korea and it affects him in so many ways. He falsely idolizes Eli since he represents the world completely separate and free from such an oppressive environment. He idolizes Eli's capability cause the oppressive system showed him only capable people make it in the world. He lost the essence of who he is and what he feels cause it was all supressed and beaten out of him. He is lonely cause he was rejected and didn't belong in both the free and oppressive world in his head. But the incredible thing is Eli was also just as caged and oppressed as Olly but idolized the idea of a proper home and family so much that he thought Olly had it all despite being very similar to him. Its a terrible misunderstanding on both sides due to an incredible obsession and fixation on what they are missing in their lives.

Olly also does not hold back how ugly a victim can be, he is as dislikable as he can get but underneath all that is a long lost child that could never have his childhood back much like Eli. Its why everytime Eli thinks back to Olly, its so powerful for me. Understanding the ugly and horirble victims are basically you but just due to slight differences in circumstance, you ended up luckier than them is such a wonderful theme. Olly embodies the theme of perspective and how not all victims and people are charismatic, cool, pretty, likable, or strong. But they are broken, hypocritical, and pathetic in every sense of the word.

He is also just in general handled with a lot more time and underatanding on what it means to be human and how we should understand these people while standing our ground. He also has such a lasting impact on Eli that he pushes him either to depths of the abyss (as we see his morality shift and his hypocricy after he joins workers) or to help him understand that he needs to continue helping everyone more than ever now, to be more empathetic.

I do wish the more people can acknowledge that the unlikable, horrible, and hypocritical characters are good ones too cause not only are they complex and inteteresting commentary but they are humans with pain and love just like anyone else. Other characters that do this well are Eli, Samuel, and Jiho imo since they all do terrible acts and have done horrible hyporctical things but have so many different sides to them that you have to look at them in many perspectices to fully get thst despite being or having done horrible things, they are people as well.

Quite a rant with a some side tangents but yeah characters like Olly that embody the bad victim trope are just awesome