CHARACTER: AMY POND

AMELIA "AMY" JESSICA POND

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Time active: September 3rd - ??
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PROFILE

name. Amelia "Amy" Jessica Pond
aka. Amelia Pond; generally only applies when she is a child, is her formal name. "The Girl Who Waited"; a title used occasionally in canon, referring to her waiting for the Doctor. And the Doctor has often referred to her solely by her surname "Pond".
type. Doctor Who; coming from the beginning of episode 2x13 (The Big Bang) just the younger Amelia touched the Pandorica, reviving Amy who was inside the Pandorica being kept near life for two thousand years after being shot dead by her boyfriend Rory (accidentally).
played-by. Karen Gillan.
canon puncturing. Puncturable.

personality.

Amy is a hard young woman to pin down- both metaphorically and literally. She's always been a very energetic, feisty girl who does things her own way and does whatever she likes. She's very independent-minded, never quite conforming to what anyone thinks she should be.

Very opinionated, and very stubborn, it often takes a lot to change Amy's mind once she's already got an idea set in her head. She's the sort needs serious proof in her face to be shown she's wrong, otherwise she stays with her own opinion. She's generally come to the conclusion that, more often than not, she's right and trusts her opinion before most others'. She's the sort of girl who questions things around her, in a half-way rebelliousness. She was the girl who questioned authority, asked "but what if this?"

Amy has long conditioned herself against trusting others immediately. She's learned that while a person may say "oh, I'll be back in five minutes! promise!" they may take twelve years, or possibly never come back. It takes a bit of work to earn Amy's full trust, and very few people can lay claim to having Amy trust them entirely. She's got a cynical streak in her that will override the parts of her that would believe a person straight off, stemming from her childhood. People lie, people break their promises.

She's not easily frightened by strange things happening around her. Mad man crashes into her garden in a blue box asking for food, she didn't bat an eye, and she had only been seven years old then. She certainly can be frightened, of course, as evidenced by her fear of the crack in her wall (that liked to follow her around, she found, disturbingly enough). Indeed, the crack in her wall that she grew up with easily made most other frightening things pale in comparison. And Amy does naturally have a brave streak in her. She's also very good at accepting odd things without becoming too confused. A trait easily gained when one travels around space and time to all sorts of made places with the Doctor, but even before then she wasn't easily shaken.

Amy is a fun girl. She's a girl who likes to play, go on adventures, discover and explore, do things that most adventurous little girls would probably like to do. While she had considered herself mostly grown up, the Doctor easily reversed most of that, and her adventurousness is a reigning feature in her personality. She's rather playful, and could be considered a bit mad with her sometimes outright childlike nature. Though, not too childlike, as when her playfulness is awakened, her flirty side naturally follows. Amy can be rather flirty, but she always means well, and her boyfriend Rory very much has her heart. Though, of course, that doesn't mean she can't suggest a snog with the Doctor, but did anyone ever expect her to grow out of that?

Amy has always been a fairly outgoing girl, lacking any real shyness, even when she was a child. She's very friendly, and used to meeting new people (and leaving old people behind) on a regular basis. She's better at forming short-term relationships than she is long-term ones. Oh, sure, she has friendly acquaintances that she's known for her whole life in Leadworth, but that's generally the extent of her longer-term relationships with people. Most people only get so very close to Amy before they reach the extent of the relationship. Amy has never been much of a commitment-minded person. Hell, it took her a a lifetime of friendship, several years of dating, a year and a half of engagement, and then adventurous travelling (and death) to realize how much she cared about Rory and that she truly did want to marry him.

history.

Amelia Jessica Pond was born in Scotland to Augustus and Tabetha Pond in August of 1989. The family lived there for a handful of years until moving to the sleepy English village of Leadworth. Shortly thereafter, Amelia's parents were gone, eaten by the crack in Amelia's bedroom wall, a crack in time and space. However, this created an alternate universe where Amelia had moved to Leadworth after being orphaned to live with her Aunt, instead of going there with her parents.

At the age of seven, little Amelia was tormented and terrified by the crack in her wall, where she heard voices at night. There weren't a lot of things that scared the Scottish girl, but that crack did. At Easter, she prayed to Santa to send someone to fix it. And as she did, a box crashed into her garden, crushing the shed there. Of course, brave little Amelia went to investigate, and found there a raggedly-dressed mad man called the Doctor who was asking for food. Of course she brought him inside, since Aunt Sharon was out, and tried to cook him any food he asked for, but he seemed to not like any of it and instead ate fish fingers and custard while Amelia enjoyed a box of ice cream.

Afterwards, they went to look at the crack in Amelia's wall. The Doctor seemed to open it up (and a giant eye appeared which was frightening as hell, thank you very much) and close it again, but he seemed to think there was more to it. Despite this, at the sound of bells, he ran back to his box, claiming he had to leave, but promising he'd be back "in five minutes". And then left, him and his blue box vanishing from Amelia's back garden. But he'd be back, Amelia was sure. He promised! So Amelia packed some of her things (of course he'd take her away with him), and sat outside to wait. And wait. And eventually fell asleep, waiting in her garden.

Despite this bump in the road, Amelia was still convinced that her raggedy Doctor would come back. And insisted such to everyone she knew. Who, unsurprisingly, thought she was being terribly obsessive over who they all saw as Amy's imaginary friend. She made dolls, drew pictures, made her best friend Rory Williams dress up as him and play with her. It got to the point where Amelia's Aunt Sharon took her to psychiatrists to "fix" her and get the little girl to understand that her raggedy Doctor was not real. Amelia went through four of them- four, because Amelia would bite them when they insisted that her Doctor was not real- before everything hit a crossroads.

Heading towards being a teenager, and being given up for a lost cause (no doubt if she wasn't as stubborn and outgoing as she was, she would have been known as nothing more as "crazy Amelia Pond"). Amelia- switching to the nickname Amy- began to doubt in her own mind if the Doctor was real or if everyone around her was right. What if he really was her imaginary friend? What if it was all just in her head? Either way, Amy knew it was time to move on. Even if he was real, he wasn't coming back. He had broken his promise, he hadn't been back five minutes later, and he wouldn't be back ever. That's what people did, said they'd be "right back" and then never return. Amy understood that. He wasn't coming back.

Amy grew from a small girl to a young woman. Best friend Rory Williams became not-boyfriend Rory and then sort-of boyfriend Rory. Amy was a kissogram, an occupation that earned her a lot of odd looks, but few dared to say anything as Amy had a tendency to be one of those people was just In Control, somehow, in charge of everyone, for whatever mad reason. Life was going well. Very well.

So well, in fact, that the cosmos seemed it was time to throw a wrench in the gears.

The Doctor returned, twelve years too late, to find that the little Scottish girl had grown into a full-grown woman in a police woman's outfit. Amy hadn't wanted to believe it at first, instead trying to half-force her mind into knowing there was no Doctor, that this man who looked just the same as he had twelve years previous simply couldn't be her raggedy Doctor. But, of course, he was, and Amy got over that as they (and sort-of boyfriend Rory) tracked down Prisoner Zero, an inter-dimensional shape-shifting alien who had been hiding in an unseen, unknown room in her house for the past twelve years. Prisoner Zero was taken away by the Atraxi (who from the gist seemed to be giant eye-aliens who policed… stuff). And it all went so fast that Amy didn't even have to think before the Doctor vanished, yet again, though this time with no promise to return.

That day rocked her life again, but Amy wasn't a child any more and didn't let it change her day-to-day as much as his first visit had. The only thing was that Amy now had multiple testimonies that the Doctor wasn't imaginary, and as such she wasn't viewed as quite as odd as she generally was otherwise. Just over a year after that event, a bigger change in Amy's life came when boyfriend Rory proposed to her. She said yes, of course, and a date was set for June 26th 2010.

But on the night before her wedding, the Doctor returned a third time; this time to invite Amy travelling with him. In his mad blue box that supposedly had a library and a swimming pool and could travel through time and space. And a part of Amy wanted to say no (particularly the part that didn't think the Doctor could just waltz in and assume she'd leave with him), but despite the obvious reasons that she shouldn't, she did, with the intention of being returned before her wedding the next day (despite the Doctor's obvious issues of arriving on time).

They visited the Starship UK where Amy stopped the Doctor from killing the star whale that was powering the ship, knowing that it wouldn't run off if the torture of it stopped; she compared it to the Doctor, as someone so old and so wise and the very last of it's kind that it couldn't just stand by while children cried. They met Winston Churchill and dealt with the daleks; a robotic alien that the Doctor insisted Amy should know about. The daleks got away, but Amy hoped they would just return to where ever they came from and never come back.

In a visit to a museum (the Doctor was keeping score), they found a message from a woman that Amy would then meet, named River Song. Who, quite obviously, was the Doctor's wife. They faced the Weeping Angels, stone creatures who would kill you if you weren't looking at them. After escaping them for a short period, Amy found the crack from her bedroom wall in the crashed spaceship the Byzantium, though she didn't get to have time to think about it much. Because Amy looked one in the eye, one came into her mind's eye, and Amy was near death until forced to close her eyes to save her life. The Doctor then left her in the care of guards while he and River Song went to find a way out, and while Amy was sour, she didn't exactly have any argument to give. But the crack from the Byzantium expanded, and one by one the men left to guard her went to investigate it, and never returned, erased from existence.

Which left Amy alone in a forest on a spaceship with the Weeping Angels somewhere nearby, the crack eating it's way towards her, and unable to open her eyes or die. The Doctor contacted her through a walkie-talkie, using it and his sonic screwdriver to lead her through the forest past the Weeping Angels, who had to be convinced that she could see them despite the fact that she couldn't. She made it through, just barely, and then the Doctor made it so the Angels were sucked through the crack, closing it. Afterward, River Song left them, and Amy decided that to take the Doctor home to show him what she was running from. And after showing him her engagement ring and wedding dress, she decided on a whim to seduce him, though he fervently refused, instead shoving her back into the TARDIS and picking up her boyfriend. She regretted her attempted seduction of the Doctor later, though she refused to admit it to anyone, shrugging it off.

The Doctor took Amy and Rory to Venice in 1580 as a date for the engaged pair to repair their relationship. Which they did, while the trio dealt with vampire fish from space. Afterward, Amy told Rory she wanted him to stay with her and the Doctor. They dealt with a two-dream world choice where they found themselves in a twisted choice that boiled down to Amy choosing either Rory or the Doctor. When Rory was killed in the future-world where they had been married and about to have a baby, Amy crashed a van into their house, killing herself and the Doctor who sat in the passenger seat, in the hopes that the other world was the real one so she could have Rory back, finally realizing how much she loved him. But the future was a dream, and it turned out the frozen TARDIS world was as well, they learned when the Doctor blew up the TARDIS in that dream-world, returning them to the really real world where it turned out they were under the influence of psychic pollen.

On the way to a trip to Rio de Janeiro, they landed in Wales 2015 where they caught a glimpse of what appeared to be the future versions of Amy and Rory. The three split up, Amy and the Doctor checking out the nearby drill station. Amy was sucked through the ground, and held hostage by the Silurians until they brokered a peace with them, though that peace nearly fell through the cracks when one of the Silurians was killed. In a mad dash for the TARDIS, the Doctor stopped to look at the Crack- the same one from Amy's bedroom wall. While doing that, he was nearly shot by one of the Silurians, but Rory stepped into the line of fire, and was killed. As Rory was eaten by the crack, the Doctor dragged Amy back into the TARDIS, leaving Rory's body there. As Rory was erased from time, he was also erased from Amy's memory and life, leaving the Doctor as the only one who remembered him, and the only proof that Rory Williams had ever existed in the form of Amy's engagement ring sitting in the TARDIS where Rory had left it.

But while Amy couldn't consciously remember Rory, the Doctor tried to make it up to her for Rory's death by taking her to a series of nice places, making Amy suspicious as to why he was being so nice to her. After a trip to the van Gogh exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay, the pair went to investigate the reasoning for a monster appearing in the window of a church in one of van Gogh's paintings. Vincent and Amy hit it off particularly well, and after dealing with the unfortunately blind creature wreaking havoc on the nearby town (that only Vincent could see), the Doctor and Amy took Vincent to the exhibit to show him what a difference he had made. After dropping Vincent off again in his own time and place, they returned a third time to the exhibit, Amy thinking that they had surely made a difference in Vincent's life- that there would be more paintings, that he hadn't committed suicide when he had. But she was disappointed to find that was not the case. The Doctor explained to her that lives were a pile of good and bad things, and while the good things can't always take away the bad, the bad things can't spoil the good things. And they do find two minor changed- the evil face from the church window painting is gone, and van Gogh's Sunflowers painting now has the dedication For Amy.

Amy was then left alone in the TARDIS when it failed to fully land in a park in Colchester and the Doctor was thrown out. They were able to stay in contact while the Doctor tried to live as a human for several days on Earth, to solve the problem for the TARDIS not landing, and Amy had to keep it stable or else it would, in basic, blow up. Once the problems were fixed, and the Doctor returned to the TARDIS, Amy went through his coat pockets for a pen and found the engagement Rory had given her. She didn't understand what it meant, as she did not remember Rory.

Sometime later, they received a message from River Song, etched on the oldest cliff in the universe, and went to 102 AD near Stonehenge, where River was masquerading as Cleopatra with a Roman army at her beckon. They investigated the Pandorica, a containment box that was rumoured to hold the most evil creature in all of space and time, which was ready to open. Amy was saved by a Roman solider from the clutches of a Cyberman. The solider would then talk to her later, and Amy found herself crying with joy, though she couldn't understand why. When it turned out that all the Roman soldiers were Autons, plastic robots, the solider begged her to run before he killed her against his will. It was then that she recognized him as her boyfriend, Rory Williams, and remembered him. But that happiness was short lived as Rory accidentally shot her with the gun located within his hand, and she fell to the ground.

Later, after the Doctor was released from the Pandorica (which had been built as prison for him by his enemies, as it turned out), the Doctor would place the "mostly dead" Amy inside to be released at a later time, while Rory stood guard over the Pandorica.

abilities.

TARDIS traveller; As she has travelled in the TARDIS, she has the ability to understand any language. As a time-traveller in general, her mind reacts differently to alterations in time (such as remembering the soldiers eaten by the Crack in the Byzantium), but this does not generally apply to things within her own pre-travelling life (such as not remembering Rory Williams after he was eaten by the Crack until faced with him again).

appearance.

A fair skinned ginger-haired young woman with a Scottish accent. That's the general description you'll get of Amy Pond. She's taller than most, reaching 5'7 with what have been described as "wonderful" legs. She's quite aware that her legs are one of her best features (along with all her other features, thank you very much) and tends to show them off, wearing leggings with short shorts or skirts.

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