(Reality Shifted) OOC: Profile for Jamie McCrimmon
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Character: Jamie McCrimmon (James Robert McCrimmon)
Series/Fandom: Doctor Who
Deviance: 1
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Canon Used: Doctor Who through and including The War Games, Companion Chronicles: Glorious Revolution and Emperor of Eternity. There is some small crossover from The Two Doctors but the actual events of that story have not yet taken place.
Also familiar with the entire televised run of the series, including currently aired episodes, and some of the spin-off media such as Companion Chronicles: Helicon Prime and BFA City of Spires.
Appearance: Courtesy of the Tragical History Tour, here are a few pictures of Jamie for you.
Psychology:
Jamie may not seem intelligent to the casual observer, but that's more a drawback of when he comes from rather than any particular lack on his end. There are still some superstitions that linger from his upbringing and help shape his world view, but he's actually quick to pick up new ideas and concepts and these serve him well when traveling with the Doctor. There may be a lot of justification in what he does, coming up with his own names for things and linking new ideas and concepts to ones he's already familiar with - but it works.
Unfortunately, when he's faced with those new ideas and concepts, there's sometimes a bit of confusion that manifests in one of two ways. Sometimes it's simply a blank look followed by a question about whatever it is. Other times he decides that it's easier if he just pretends he knows what's going on, often accompanied by a simple shrug and something spoken along the lines of "Oh, aye, that." He has a natural acceptance of things, however, and things that at one time have seemed completely unfathomable to him will later simply be a part of what he knows.
He tends to be solicitous and gentlemanly towards women in general, often feeling that they need to be protected - even if that's not the case. However, he does also have a bit of a flirtatious side, and does like to gently tease when he thinks he can get away with it. He finds it hard to admit when he has real feelings towards someone, at least in so many words.
It doesn't seem that he worries about things very much, at least, not when it comes to himself. It's much different for those he considers his friends - he has a strong protective streak when it comes to those he cares about. He views The Doctor as a friend and mentor, and has a strong belief that the Time Lord needs his help.
Perhaps strangely, when he's around the Doctor he can be visibly worried, and will sometimes cling onto the Time Lord. That may be in part due to the fact that he also seems to have a lack of a sense of personal space around the man.
Jamie is a brave, straightforward and practical man. Usually he does exhibit common sense, but sometimes he will give in to his impulses, which does not always end well. He loves to travel, is very enthusiastic about his adventures, and the joy he finds in learning about new things and places is definitely evident.
Other Skills/Abilities:
Jamie is certainly good at fighting, capable of holding his own in hand to hand combat. He does carry a small knife that he can use if needs be, and has demonstrated proficiency with other weapons, such as swords and guns.
He also has musical ability - which is perhaps fortunate given his position as piper to Clan McLaren. Trying to wring something out of bagpipes that is actually recognizable as music and not, say, dead cats screeching...well, it does take some talent. He is also capable of mending instruments - once he found a set of broken bagpipes in a chest onboard the TARDIS and told the Doctor he could fix them easily.
Jamie has an ability to sense danger. It does not always manifest, but when it does, it starts off as a general unease and eventually becomes more intense the closer the danger gets. Normally, this ability just gives the "feeling" of danger. If reacted to, he may be able to do things such as dive out of the way of a trap or be able to pull a weapon against an attacker. He has not evidenced signs of a more specific sort of precognition and it is unclear if this ability will ever be more than a chance to avoid being surprised occasionally (reference episodes: Fury from the Deep, also possibly evident at the end of The War Games).
Other Weaknesses: Jamie is young and strong, but human, and like any human can be injured or even killed quite easily.
History:
James Robert McCrimmon was born in Scotland. His father, Donald, was the piper to clan McLaren (as was Donald's father before him), and the young lad was brought up to be a piper as well. Like many young children, he was curious, eager to learn about the world around him. Unlike many young children of the time, he was also lucky. Surviving through early childhood was no small feat in the 18th century, and the uncertainty of the time he grew up with did not help. But things were mostly unremarkable, until he found himself caught up in the second Jacobite uprising, referred to sometimes as the "The Forty-Five".
Just after the battle of Culloden, the Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive in the Highlands and are taken prisoner by a small band of Scottish rebels that includes one James Robert McCrimmon, commonly known as Jamie. Jamie, the piper to clan McLaren, is helping protect his Laird, Colin, who has been injured during the fighting. He and the Laird's son Alexander reluctantly agree to let the Doctor tend to Colin's wounds. Ben, however, alerts the Redcoats to their hiding place when he drops a loaded pistol. Alexander is killed trying to draw off the Redcoats. Jamie finds himself captured, along with Ben and the Doctor and given into the hands of a crooked solicitor who means to sell them into slavery. The Doctor uses an unwitting Jamie in order escape, infuriating the young Scot at first. Ben manages to explain what it is the Doctor is doing, and once Jamie knows what's going on, he accepts the situation - although not without some reservations. Eventually, the Doctor manages to smuggle arms to the Highlanders who in turn defeat the solicitor and his men. Afterwards, Polly - fearing for Jamie’s safety on the Highlands - asks the Doctor to let Jamie accompany them on their travels. The Doctor agrees, asking only that Jamie teach him how to play the bagpipes.
The TARDIS itself is strange and alien, and Jamie finds it hard to believe that he's left Scotland, but he soon finds that he has indeed traveled through space and time. He travels to the lost city of Atlantis, finds himself on the moon, in the far future and Earth - but over 200 years past his time. He meets the fearsome Cybermen, the crab-like beings known as the Macra and the Chameleons, and does things no 18th century Scotsman would dream to be possible - like fly on an airplane or walk on the moon.
After their encounter with the Chameleons, Ben and Polly choose to leave the Doctor and remain on Earth. Jamie chooses to stay with the Doctor instead, assuring Ben and Polly he will take good care of him.
Shortly thereafter, he meets Victoria Waterfield. The TARDIS has been taken, and in their search to find the time machine, Jamie and the Doctor wind up back in Victorian England and face to face with an old enemy - the Daleks. As part of their plan, they captured Victoria, using her to ensure her father's cooperation, but what they really want is the Time Lord and his companion to be used in an effort try and isolate the "Human Factor". While Jamie is forced to undergo a test to rescue Miss Waterfield, the Doctor has to record his reactions. with the Doctor and Victoria's father, they travel to Skaro, the Dalek's home planet and find that the Doctor not only has found the "Human Factor", he has unwittingly provided them the "Dalek Factor" as well. They must find a way to stop the Daleks from taking the "Dalek Factor" and using it on the unsuspecting people of Earth. They do so, but not without losses. The greedy Maxtible, the noble Kemel, and Victoria's father all lose their lives.
Just before he dies, Victoria's father asks the Doctor to look out for his daughter, as she has no family left. The Doctor agrees, and Victoria joins them on their travels. Once again, they meet the Cybermen, this time facing off against the fearsome Cyber-Controller on their home planet of Telos. Afterwards, the crew of the TARDIS travel to Tibet and run into what is later revealed to be the robotic Yeti, under control of the Great Intelligence.
In their next encounter, with the reptilian Ice Warriors, Jamie is temporarily paralyzed by a blow from one of their weapons. However, the technology of Britainnicus Ice Base means they have advanced medical capabilities and they are able to heal Jamie.
He then meets the evil Salamander, who is a near-exact duplicate of the Doctor, and nearly winds up getting sucked out of the TARDIS when Salamander tries to impersonate the Doctor in order to effect an escape. The Yeti and the Great Intelligence are faced again, this time with the help of U.N.I.T. and Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, and then they encounter a parasitic form of seaweed that is capable of mind control.
It seems part and parcel of traveling with the Doctor is a constant sense of excitement. No sooner is one enemy defeated than another is revealed. Jamie finds that he thrives on the adventure. Victoria, unfortunately, does not. After the seaweed incident, she chooses to stay behind with the Harrises.
During their time together, Jamie had become exceptionally fond - more than fond - of Victoria, although he never actually tells her how he feels. He is quite unhappy when she no longer wishes to travel with them and is quite angry with the Doctor for letting her go. For a time afterwards, he loses interest in just about everything, including traveling in the TARDIS.
After Victoria departs, he and the Doctor meet up with the Cybermen again, and a young girl by the name of Zoe Heriot. While at first the young Scot is a bit irritated by Zoe's personality (having her giggle at his kilt probably didn't help), once he gets to know her better they develop more of a friendship. Together, they face the small but deadly robotic Quarks, then find themselves outside of reality in the Land of Fiction. Jamie is turned into a cardboard cutout of himself and his face wiped away. Due to an error by the Doctor in restoring Jamie's features, he is temporarily turned into a different looking young man, and it is Zoe who helps to return Jamie to himself when he is transformed a second time.
Once they break free of the Land of Fiction and return to normal space-time, Jamie, Zoe and the Doctor work with UNIT to prevent the Cyberman invasion of Earth. The trio then find themselves caught up in a struggle between the merciless Krotons and the race of people known as the Gonds. Once they have helped defeat the Krotons, they travel to Earth in the 21st Century, where the T-Mat is the primary means of transportation and the Ice Warriors are using it - to attempt to take the Earth for themselves. Managing to defeat the Ice Warriors and their deadly fungus, Jamie and the others find themselves pitted against space pirates who are after the valuable mineral Argonite. Through luck and ingenuity, the pirates are defeated and brought to justice.
Jamie would likely stay with the Doctor for the rest of his life, but unfortunately, the choice is taken out of his hands. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the midst of a battlefield, and the Doctor finds a helmet that at first leads him to believe the TARDIS has landed in the middle of World War I. However, appearances can be deceiving. While the soldiers fighting the battle are from that era, the battleground is one of a series of zones controlled by an alien race as part of their plan to create a super army from the survivors and use that to take over the universe. With the help of Jamie, Zoe and rebel soldiers, the Doctor is able to stop the fighting. However, the Doctor runs into problems with getting everyone home, and is forced to contact the Time Lords for assistance. While the young Scot does his best to help the Doctor escape, they are captured and the Doctor is put on trial to face his crimes. The Time Lords inform the Doctor’s companions that they will have to be placed back in their own times, which neither want to do. Jamie, especially, is still utterly convinced that the Doctor needs him and tries to talk the Time Lords into letting him stay, to no avail.
Jamie and Zoe have been convinced they must go home, and have said their goodbyes to the Doctor. They step into a plain green TARDIS, and as the Doctor watches the door close, there is a discussion with his fellow Time Lord about his two companions forgetting him. The Doctor is reassured that they will remember their first encounter, but nothing more. He is shown images of Zoe, safe on the Wheel, and Jamie - who has a run-in with a Redcoat that ends rather badly...for the Redcoat.
And this is Jamie's reality for awhile, trying to survive the Highland Clearances. He doesn't plan on going down without a fight, and more than a few Redcoats find this out the hard way. About six months after Jamie has been returned to Scotland, he comes face to face with two men. One is a stranger, but the other Jamie has met once before - the Doctor. The stranger explains he is a representative of a certain Agency that needs his help. Jamie is skeptical, even with the Doctor's presence, and threatens the stranger with his sword. The Doctor, a bit impatiently, advises the stranger that restoring Jamie's memories now would be a very good idea. Jamie, of course, denies that anything is wrong with his memory. He's soon proven incorrect, when the stranger does something (Jamie is never clear on what it is) and all the memories come back. The stranger - another Time Lord - makes haste to leave before Jamie follows through on his threats to run him through, leaving the Doctor to explain the situation. The Doctor has been enlisted to work for the Celestial Intervention Agency. Once he's actually able to explain to Jamie what it is the CIA does, he asks him for his help.
Jamie is furious at first - he does not like the idea of his memories being removed like that - but the Doctor is able to calm him down, and they are soon on new adventures. Well, missions, really, but who's counting?
One day, Jamie comes across a small shop...
Canon Point: Post 'War Games', prior to the events of 'The Two Doctors' (by rather a bit).
Based on the 'Season 6B' theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_6B): The Doctor has been enlisted to work for the Celestial Intervention Agency, a covert organization of the Time Lords. As a condition of the deal brokered with them, The Doctor has demanded the return of the TARDIS and Jamie as his companion, with his memory restored. The Agency has agreed and also provided the Doctor with a Stattenheim remote control device, but installed an override so that they may take control of the TARDIS whenever they choose. Approximately six months passed for Jamie between the end of The War Games and the restoration of his memories, rather than the years between that serial and The Two Doctors, and they have been working for the Agency for a year or so since then, putting Jamie most likely in his early twenties (I'm going to call it 22 for record-keeping's sake). It is just the Doctor and Jamie - Victoria has not rejoined them in the TARDIS.
Reality Description:
Reality for Jamie is the TARDIS, a dimensionally transcendental machine (bigger on the inside than on the outside) that travels through space and time. Due to a malfunctioning chameleon circuit, the exterior of the TARDIS resembles a blue police box commonly found in Britain in the 1960's.
As agents for the Celestial Intervention Agency, Jamie and the Doctor travel to many different planets both in the past and the future. For some strange reason, they seem to wind up on Earth quite a bit. Perhaps it is due to the attraction the planet and its inhabitants seem to have to malevolent alien entities. Or maybe it's that the TARDIS isn't quite as repaired as the Doctor makes it out to be - although it's improved considerably, if you ask Jamie.
Important organizations -
The Celestial Intervention Agency: A organization of the Time Lords that functions in some similar ways to Earth's Central Intelligence Agency. They utilize various resources to gather information and carry out missions, some of which are of a more covert nature. It is said they have connections to many areas of Time Lord society, and have been credited with the invention of Psychic Paper.
Important NPCs -
The Second Doctor: A Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, currently in his second incarnation. Unlike his predecessor, the Second Doctor can sometimes come off as clownish and whimsical, having an almost-childlike recklessness to him at times. He is possessed of a sharp wit and keen intellect, although he often hides it, preferring to give the impression that he doesn't know what he's doing.
Warmer and more caring than his first incarnation, there is still a deep streak of ruthlessness that sometimes will appear - especially when dealing with a known enemy. He has a gift of diplomacy and for winning people over to his side, something that came in handy when he convinced Jamie to go through a series of tests in order to isolate the "Human Factor". He also has a skill for improvisation, as well as noted telepathic ability.
He is fond of playing the recorder, and generally carries it with him in one of the pockets of his oversized coat.
**Edit 8/3: Current mergers:
Jamie and Damon:
Area of Change: Jamie gets Damon's quarters on Gallifrey and Damon gets Two's console room in the TARDIS.
Jamie and Oliver:
Area of Change: For Oliver, a random plot of desert on Gondovan turns into Skara Brae. For Jamie, Gatwick Airport becomes Gondovan's Gondolla Spaceport.
Jamie and AU!Three:
Area of Change: The heretofore unknown but utterly fabulous planet Motian!