Coach Morceau Oleander is a major character in the Psychonauts franchise.
Oleander is the main counselor at "Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp", which he runs like a drill sergeant and right from the start is very mean to all the kids. The first level in the game is a battlefield–like training course within Oleander’s mind throughout which his voice is heard yelling insults at the trainees, including the player no matter how well they are doing.
Later, after the campers’ brains start being stolen, it is revealed that Coach Oleander is plotting to steal all of them and use them for brain–powered psychic tanks which he intends to take over the world with. To this end, he is working with Dr. Loboto, the proprietor of a nearby insane asylum, to extract the brains.
Appearance[]
Morceau Oleander is a very short, bald man with orange-colored skin. His nose and eyebags are red. His ears are small and placed low on his head, which takes up half his body size. He has very short legs, skinny arms, and slightly yellow teeth. He has a brown handlebar mustache, goatee, and curly eyebrows. His right eye is a blue and made of glass, while his remaining left eye is brown. He has a long scar running down the right side of his face. He wears military boots, an ammo carrier sling, black leather gloves, and a honey colored coat with various (likely self-made) medals of honor clipped on. He has four fingers on each hand. Morceau wears a pickelhaube with a wine bottle stopper pushed onto the spike to soften it. He additionally sports a skull brooch.
Personality[]
Morceau Oleander acts tough on the outside. He puts up a front of a seasoned army man, even though he was never actually in the military. Although he acts like a boot-camp general around the campers, he seems to genuinely care about them as students, as many of their drawings can be found proudly hung up around his treehouse classroom. Morceau is very emotionally unstable and often tries to hide it. He is susceptible to intense outbursts, especially when in proximity to psychoactive minerals. He loves rabbits and upbeat pop music.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Telekinesis: He levitated Raz in the intro cutscene and can levitate boulders during the Brain Tank battle.
- Shield: Used it in the fight against the other camp staff. When the player obtains Shield in Lungfishopolis, it is stated that it was stolen from Kochamara, meaning it might have been Oleander's power.
- Marksmanship: His Psi Blast color is normally green, however it is light blue (Kochamara) in Lungfishopolis.
- Telepathy: Oleander accidentally communicates his world domination plan to Raz through misuse of the camp broadcasting system. He can also talk to animals using his mind, as he is shown communicating with his pet rabbit as a child. Oleander can also telepathically talk to Raz in Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin.
- Zoolingualism: Coach Oleander can talk to animals according to the Li-Po backstory document. He used to talk to Mr. Bun as a child.
- PSI-Punch: Oleander has a small obstacle course in his mind specifically to teach campers how to use PSI-Punch.
- Psychic Defense: Oleander has considerable psychic defenses that are difficult to penetrate even by powerful Psychics.
- PSI-energy transfer: Coach is able to temporarily transfer his psychic energy to Raz in Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin.
- Levitation: Coach uses levitation to get inside his jeep.
- Astral Projection: Coach can astral project into minds using a psycho portal or a brain tumbler.
Background[]
Morceau loved rabbits as a child, having a field full of rabbit hutches, and growing attached to one in particular named Mr. Bun. However, he was the son of a butcher who believed that animals were good for nothing but food, and reinforced this by seizing and butchering Mr. Bun right in front of him. This experience proved to be incredibly traumatic for Morceau and has haunted him ever since.
As he grew older, Morceau grew a desire to join the military to protect his country, but he was rejected from every branch due to not being tall enough. Morceau's already scarred mental state was damaged further, and he grew a strong hatred for tall people. Eventually he joined the Psychonauts, claiming he was a former soldier. To reinforce this falsehood, he fabricates a warzone-like Mental World and a Memory Vault titled "Oleander's Pride." He eventually was assigned as one of the coaches of Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, alongside Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello, which he designed the advertisement pamphlet for. Oleander was in charge of training the children in the basics of their psychic powers in his "Basic Braining" course within his fabricated mental warzone.
Eventually his unresolved mental issues caused him to devise a plan for global domination. He employed mad scientist Dr. Caligosto Loboto at the nearby abandoned mental asylum to build an army of Brain Tanks. To accomplish this, Loboto mutated and brainwashed a lungfish named Linda into becoming a hulking monstrosity that would kidnap the Whispering Rock PSI Cadets' for him, in order to remove their brains to find ones capable of powering the tanks. Oleander controlled the lungfish by through the superhuman persona "Kochamara."
Oleander also conditioned a sleeper agent persona called the Milkman within asylum inmate and former security guard Boyd Cooper. Boyd was to burn down the asylum when Oleander gave the signal to awaken the persona, and was assigned to be the guard of the asylum gate.
History[]
Psychonauts[]
Coach Oleander is first seen in the intro cinematic, delivering his open monologue to the campers around a fire. He was interupted by Razputin Aquato, who had snuck into the camp, fell out of a tree. Oleander was unable to read Raz's mind, but he allowed Raz to stay after hearing his recital of the recruitment pamphlet. Oleander then ordered the children to report early the next morning for Basic Braining.
Oleander pulls the campers into his mental warzone, believing his obstacles to be impassible. To his surprise, Raz made it to the end of the course and found the secret place where Oleander had kept his plans for the Brain Tanks and world domination. He pulled Raz out before he could see the plans and rewarded him with his Basic Braining merit badge.
Oleander then falls asleep for a substantial portion of the game and can be heard grumbling in his sleep from the intercoms around the camp, blasting his mental waves all over camp, and causing campers to have distorted dreams about his plans. Later, he tricked Sasha and Milla into coming to the abandoned mental asylum on Psychonauts business. After ambushing them with Brain Sneezing Powder, he gives their brains to Loboto.
When Raz enters Linda's mind, he fights Oleander, under his Kochamara persona, and defeats him in order to free the lungfish from Oleander's control.
Nearing the end of the game, Oleander arrives at the tower of the mental asylum and finds that Raz has defeated Loboto and rescued all the campers' and both instructor's brains. Sasha and Milla levitate Lili and Raz away so they can apprehend Oleander alone. During the fight, Ford Cruller (outfitted with some Psitanium to keep his mind in check) arrives and blows a handful of the sneezing powder into the Coach's face, leading to his brain being removed.
After the tower's collapse, Oleander's brain found its way into a Psychoblaster Death Tank and blasts Raz's party unconscious, leaving only Raz to fight him. After the tank is destroyed, Raz attempts to extract Coach's brain from the tank, which sprays sneezing powder and causes Raz to sneeze out his own brain. Raz's brain uses Telekinesis to throw itself into the tank with the Coach's brain, causing their consciousnesses to merge, resulting in the Meat Circus, formed from Raz's memories of his circus and Oleander's memories of his dad's butcher shop. After Raz defeats their representations of both his and Oleander's father, Oleander's mental scars are healed.
At some point afterwards, Oleander gathers the children to the reception area stage, explaining that he has been cleared of the insanity that caused his actions and apologizing to the campers for stealing their brains and attempting to take over the world. He then credits and invites Raz onto the stage, for which everyone applauds. When it's revealed that Truman Zanotto, the Head of the Psychonauts and Lili's father, has been kidnapped, Oleander insists on his innocence (as he'd been clearly present with the others), and joins Raz and the others on their mission to find and save Truman.
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin[]
Oleander appears in Psychonauts: In Rhombus of Ruin under probation from the Psychonauts organization, traveling with the others in the jet to find Truman Zanotto. He is stranded inside a sunken cruise ship after the jet crashes. He is found singing music on a stage from his favorite band, All Paul. Raz must burn down the stage using pyrokinesis to free him from the hallucination induced by the psylirium. Oleander then acquires a fake mermaid tail to help him swim through the ocean (as he is unable to swim). He gives Raz a psycho portal to enter Dr. Loboto's mind before he can operate on Raz.
After Raz helps Loboto regain his moral compass, he absentmindedly sets the lab to explode. Raz is able to help everyone escape to the jet, including the Coach who was stuck in the mermaid tail. They all make a mad dash for the jet, managing to recover Truman and Raz (whose mind had been projecting itself across the lab via Clairvoyance) in the process.
Psychonauts 2[]
Coach Oleander, Sasha, Milla, Raz and Lili probe Loboto's mind to investigate the identity of the person who hired Loboto to kidnap Truman Zanotto, as the mad doctor still refuses to reveal any information due to mental conditioning. Although the mission goes awry due to Dr. Loboto becoming aware of their plans, Raz is able to learn that the true culprit is a mole in the Psychonauts organization and seeks to revive Maligula, the greatest threat the Psychonauts have ever faced, although their identity remain a mystery.
Upon returning to the Motherlobe, Oleander finds himself demoted for his actions at the camp, with his office now being a mere broom closet. He works on his new "battle bot" to try to rebuild his reputation within the Psychonauts, but it never gets funded. He is also the internship mentor of Sam Boole, the older sister of Dogen Boole. He has Sam make pancakes to act as heat shields for his planned "peace-keeping device", which he intends to use to defend the Motherlobe in case Maligula returns. He also bitterly expresses his frustration with the budgetary limitations he's forced to work with.
Oleander is later seen towards the end of the game, after Sasha figures out the identity of the mole, and after Milla learns that Maligula has awakened. Sasha, Milla and Hollis Forsythe arrive to Green Needle Gulch to find Raz and Lili seemingly leaving the mind of Truman Zanotto. Before Raz is able to fully explain the situation, he is pulled away by Lili as Lucrecia Mux reawakens her Maligula persona. Oleander and the others are caught in Maligula's maelstrom, forcing Raz to stop her with the help of the other interns.
After Raz pacifies Maligula, Oleander is seen at a meeting with the other major Psychonauts expressing his disbelief over how Lucrecia is allowed to live in peace with Ford Cruller as long as she promises to never kill again. Sasha, Milla, and Hollis are unimpressed, as Oleander had pulled a similarly maniacal stunt not too long ago. Upon realizing that he has no leg to stand on, Coach Oleander acquiesces, and reluctantly agrees that Lucrecia deserves a second chance.
After Raz and the other interns are promoted to Junior Psychonauts, he is seen in the hallway near his office. He offers to let Raz use his mermaid tail, but Raz politely declines, as he wants to learn how to swim properly first. According to Augustus Aquato, The Coach has apparently offered to teach the other Aquatos how to swim, even though Oleander himself does not how to swim (without the aid of the mermaid tail).
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