❝amy pond, the girl who didn't make sense.❞
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{| amelia "amy" pond. |}
"like a name in a fairy tale." - eleventh doctor
fandom: Doctor Who
deviance: Deviance 1
age: 21
gender: Female
species: Human
canon point: 5x11 - "The Lodger"
canon used: All the material used in Series 5 as well as some of the Doctor Who novels featuring Amy Pond.
{| psychology. |}
Amy Pond is the Scottish girl in an English village. She's an alien (not literally, c'mon). She’s the girl that doesn’t quite fit in it. And she could care less. Yeah, she’s Scottish? What of it? She says what she wants to say and does what she wants to do regardless of what others might think. Her occupation in Leadworth - a kissogram - should be enough of an indication of that.
She is feisty and has a wicked sense of humor and occasionally a short temper. She's quick with a quip and is not afraid to tell you exactly what she thinks. No one is above or below her, so she's still going to be fair about her judgments. You just might not like them...
Time spent alone (and with four psychiatrists) growing up, Amy became very cynical and skeptical. People were always telling her they would come back, but yet she found herself abandoned - whether it was her aunt, her parents or the Doctor. For her, that was somewhat psychologically damaging. It might not be immediately apparent (certainly not to herself who refuses to believe what others tell her), but she’s quite a lost soul. Nothing in her life really makes sense, but she seems to be oblivious to it. This is what makes her such a complex girl. The pieces are all there, but they don't exactly match up.
With this questioning nature of hers, she finds it hard to accept that some things - people - are real. At times she has trouble trying to convince herself even when she's looking them square in the eyes.
This is why Amy has a distrust of everyone. Even in regards to the one person who she should trust the most, there is something inside her that tells her not to. She's going to ask a lot of questions before she puts any faith into anything. She almost puts everything through tests. The Doctor had to prove himself when he returned by showing her the apple and practically pleading with her to believe him. Rory is constantly put through "reviews" and forced to keep up with her standards.
By the same questioning token, she is forever curious and forever stubborn - mad and impossible - and that is forever going to get her into trouble.
Although she does have certain trust issues, Amy is still willing to put her faith in people. Like Rory, someone who had always been there when others weren't. (As you can see, he passes most of her "tests"). But at this point, he has little effect on her considering he never existed. But we'll get to that headache in a second.
She has a fear of routine and being stuck in one place before seeing all there is to see in the world - in the universe. Her eyes have always been on the sky since she was a little girl. Even though she has trouble sometimes, she's not afraid to believe in the impossible. It might take some convincing, but the Doctor is helping to change that.
Think before you act or speak doesn't always apply to Amy. She is the type of girl that if she wants to kiss someone, she's going to do it. She's persistent and won't hold back. Unfortunately, that means she's prone to impulsive and rash decisions. This is apparent after her near-death experience with the Weeping Angels. She was put into the position where she thought she wasn't going to make it home. Adrenaline and emotions ran high and Amy acted on them. Physically. It might have been a mistake, but she's only human after all. And she believes in second chances; a single mistake shouldn't be a reason to punish someone.
Yes, Amy's only human, but that's also her biggest strength - to think like a human has gotten her out of more tight spots than you would imagine. Her humanity and empathy allows her to see the good in everyone and everything. She's the type that can identity your flaws, but love you for them. And in that same capacity, she is willing to sacrifice herself. If putting herself on line means saving a lot of people, then she'll do it.
She also has the ability to think quickly on her feet. Strokes of genius aren't uncommon for her, even if she doesn't always think of the consequences they might have.
Her emotions are strong, and one of her biggest assets. She cares deeply about anybody close to her, and will defend them to the end. When meeting new people, and she's quick to do so, she's generally friendly and accepting unless given a reason to be otherwise.
She's not all fire and sass, although that makes up quite a bit of her personality. Inside, deep down, she is still a child - innocent and scared; she is still the young Amelia Pond who puts faces on apples and draws cartoons of a certain raggedy imaginary friend. One thing has changed though, she has finally become the adventurer she was always meant to be as she travels through time. Her excitement and curiosity knows no bounds now that she has all the time in the world and all of space at her fingertips.
Fearless and brave, she doesn't seem all that fazed when the strange and unusual happen to her. (You have to be when you're battling aliens daily). But it'll still warrant wide eyes and eyebrow raises from her. She's very strong and very independent. She doesn't need to be the damsel in distress because chances are she's the one that will be jumping in there and saving you. Whether it all goes to plan is something that Amy never knows. But it's always worth a shot, in her eyes.
She's a "show me, don't tell" me kind of girl, and she wants to be right in the middle of the action. She'll dress up, invade enemy territory, crash a car into a house or steal from lizardmen. Whatever it takes to survive and save universe - an idea she'll never get tired of. Give her a planet and a war over a museum and a textbook any day.
Now, at this point in her timeline, Amy is very complicated and nonsensical. The cracks in time erased Rory from history and she's forgotten that her fiance ever existed. Many things in her own history (her parents) have already disappeared because of the time crack in her bedroom. So, she's prone to bouts of sadness should these memories be unconsciously tapped into.
She soldiers on though as an experienced time traveller, just trying to live up to her fairy tale name somehow.
other skills/abilities: Time travelling! Well, with the help of the Doctor. Even though it hasn't happened to her yet, she will hold of the universe in her head due to a time crack in her bedroom and time energy pouring out of it each night. So, her dreams appear to be very powerful and are capable of rebooting the universe. Oh, and she has a hell of cricket arm. Best not to give her any kind of blunt object.
other weaknesses: The only sign of weakness is slight claustrophobia. (You try being sucked into the ground!)
{| appearance. |}
Ginger. She has long, orange hair that's nearly impossible to miss. But, the best way to sum up Amy is as a leggy, 5'11" slender redhead. She's ghostly pale and lightly freckled. Her eyes are big and bright, colored a vibrant hazel-green. Her lips are naturally full and she's often seen pouting or puckering them. She likes color, so her nails are typically painted. Her wardrobe is just as fun and colorful; she's been seen wearing bright red jumpers, cowboy boots, short skirts and blue overcoats. Appearance is an important aspect of Amy. She is a kissogram after all.
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{| history. |}
The best way to start a story is usually at the beginning, but with Amy Pond her life didn't really start until she was seven. The good bits at least.
But first, we need some background. Little Amelia was born in Scotland in 1989. Sometime before she turned seven years-old, she was orphaned by her parents and moved to Leadworth (England) to live with her Aunt Sharon. ("It's rubbish" explains her thoughts on that.)
So, seven years-old, Easter night, she prays to Santa (holidays apparently confuse her) to fix a strange crack in her bedroom wall, which sometimes she hears voices from. She asks for a policeman, but doesn't get exactly what she wishes for - a box not a man. A raggedy man does come popping out afterward, and he called himself the Doctor.
After strutting into her house and demanding an apple (and yoghurt and beans and bacon and bread and butter before finally deciding on fish fingers and custard of all things), the two get acquainted and he decides to investigate the scary crack. He opens it up to receive a message: Prisoner Zero has escaped. Before he can work it all out, he has to leave because the TARDIS engines are phasing. But he promises to come back for her in fives minutes.
Five minutes didn't exactly happen. Determined Amelia Pond waited all night in her garden with a suitcase for the Doctor to return. Minutes turned to hours to days to weeks to month and then to years. Throughout this time, she became obsessed with her "imaginary friend" and presumably made him the center of her universe by drawing cartoons and making figurines and forcing Rory to dress up as him. Her aunt insisted on psychiatrists to fix this delusion, but like any defiant child they didn't work out. Literally. She bit them.
Sometime during these younger years, they did get to her. She became cynical and shunned her childhood by tossing out the name Amelia and adopting Amy and the job of a kissogram. Amelia Pond grew up.
Twelve years since the night in her garden, the Doctor finally returns having it really only been five minutes for him. He comes back to a leggy policewoman with a cricket bat and handcuffs living in Amelia's house, but in fact is just "Amy" all grown up at the age of 19. Some reunion. He tells her that Prisoner Zero has been hiding in her house this entire time. To which Amy insists none of it is real despite everything she's seen. The Doctor, however, proves his authenticity and makes her believe for twenty minutes while he gets her (and her 'kind of boyfriend' Rory) to help him save the planet.
Just as they have Prisoner Zero cornered, it changes forms and uses little Amelia as a psychic link because one had already been formed between them. The Doctor gets her to remember its true appearance, and thus grabbing the Atraxi's attention. They were able to send Prisoner Zero back, but just like when she was a child, the Doctor runs off again. He disappears into a fully restored TARDIS without a word to Amy.
Sometime after this day, Rory popped the big question and she said yes. She might have grown up, but she never really stopped waiting for the Doctor. When she hears the sounds of the TARDIS two years later, she still recognises it and immediately jumps to her window. So, now, on June 25th 2010, 21-year-old Amy is finally asked to go with him. Because, you know, it only took fourteen years for that to happen. She doesn't accept right away, skeptical and curious of his motives, but her only condition is: get her back before tomorrow morning. You see, Amy left on the night before her wedding, which she chose not to mention.
This was just the start of several adventures, and the start of proving herself as a true companion of the Doctor. And she made sure of doing so right away.
Her first stop, after being thrown out into pure space, was in the 33rd century on Starship UK. They wind up discovering a dark secret - that a Star Whale is being tortured to propel the huge ship. Amy was given the choice to either forget or protest. She took it upon herself to forget what she saw and leave a message for herself to stop the Doctor from making an impossible choice. This first mistake, deciding what the Doctor needed to know, was bad enough to be told she was going home. But she uses her eyes and realises that the whale didn't need to be trapped to fly the ship; it would pilot on its own. The similarities in the Star Whale and the Doctor - old and kind and the very, very last - help Amy make the decision to set it free. She saves the day and saves the Doctor from making a terrible mistake. And ultimately proving herself to be someone he needs.
Amy Pond: 1. Everyone Else: 0.
After that, Amy answers a phone call from Winston Churchill. Next thing she knows, she's in Churchill's bunker during the London Blitz. They find out that he decided to use Professor Bracewell's "Ironsides" to help win to war, which unknown to everyone are actually Daleks. The Doctor, after accidentally restoring the Daleks, defeats them, but still manages to let them escape. Bracewell is revealed to be an android created by the Daleks with a Oblivion Continuum bomb inside. However, Amy saves him from detonating by convincing him that he's human.
And that's twice the companion has saved the day. Amy Pond: 2. Everyone Else: 0.
Some time later, Amy and the Doctor pick up River Song and travel to the crash of Byzantium where an army of Weeping Angels are dormant and hiding. Amy is confronted with a recording of an Angel and by staring into its eyes it climbs into her mind and begins to "shut her off." She's forced to keep her eyes closed or the Angel would kill her. The crack in her bedroom appears on the Byzantium, apparently following Amy and swallowing up people and therefore erasing them from time (literally the end of the universe). To rid them of the Weeping Angels, the Doctor sends them into the crack.
After the traumatic experience, she asks to be taken home. Back in her time, in her room, on her bed (is she not giving enough hints yet?), she unsuccessfully tries to seduce the Doctor. Even though it's out of adrenaline and nearly dying in the Byzantium, the Doctor freaks out and rushes off to go pick up her fiance, Rory Williams, and bring him along to help them reconnect. It's also at this time that she briefly learns of his other companions.
But a date to Venice turns dangerous. And not so romantic. There is obvious tension and unresolved issues between them. Amy does her best to avoid the subject at all cost and does a rubbish job of explaining herself when he finally asks... The discussion is put on hold as they discover the city is slowly being taken over by vampires - well, they thought they were vampires. They actually turn out to be fish from space. Yes, fish from space. Amy is captured and they attempt to drain her of her body's moisture, but this time she's saved last minute by the Doctor and Rory. Later cornered by one of the Saturnynians, Rory protects her (or at least tries to before having his behind saved by her), and she thanks him with a big snog. All seems well, and she realises how much she enjoys having them both around, asking Rory to come along instead of being dropped back off in Leadworth.
Alright, alright. So, the score is even now.
Soon after, the TARDIS crew found themselves trapped between two realities by a being called the Dream Lord. One reality is Upper Leadworth, five years into the future, where Amy is married to Rory and pregnant. The other is that of a powerless TARDIS falling into a frozen star. In one of the dreams, Rory is killed. Amy, completely broken, berates the Doctor for not being able to save him. This is the first time she's exposed to a darker and, in her eyes, useless side of her noble hero. He can't fix everything, so what is the point of him? He's not the perfect person she always made him out to be.
Still unaware of which reality was real, and no longer caring, as she was not about to live without Rory, Amy crashes a camper van into her house, killing herself and the Doctor. Thankfully, the trio wake up in the TARDIS, having seemingly triumphed over the Dream Lord. However, the Doctor realises that the TARDIS world was just another dream, and blows themselves up, returning them to reality.
But what this adventure helped her to realise was that when it came down to the Doctor and Rory, it was going to be Rory. And that it always had; it just wasn't something she was fully aware of.
Next stop calls for a holiday, yeah? Not so much. Dressed and ready for Rio, the Doctor and the TARDIS ends up bringing them to Cwmtaff, Wales in 2020, where Amy and Rory see their future selves on a hill. The Doctor and Amy meet leaders of an expedition who are drilling deep into the Earth. But the Earth seems to be fighting back, and the ground begins to crumble beneath their feet. Against the Doctor's orders, Amy runs back to save one of them, but something below the surface grabs her and pulls her underground.
Amy is captured by a race of lizard people called Silurians, but she manages to free herself. Pick-pocketing comes in handy, you know. Then later, still underground, she's reunited with the Doctor and Rory as they attempt to negotiate with the Silurians for Earth (apparently they were here first). Unfortunately, negotiations turn hostile and they were forced to run and fight back. Thank Ambrose for that; no one to blame but herself.
So, while they are heading back to the TARDIS, the crack appears again, distracting them. One of the Silurians fires an energy beam at the Doctor, but Rory jumps in front of it. Amy is horrified but helpless to save him. She pleads with the Doctor to at least save his body, but they couldn't; the Time Field was already beginning to absorb him. That doesn't stop Amy from fighting until the very last second to hold onto his memory with the Doctor's help. She may be a time traveller now and still remembers the clerics from the crash of the Byzantium, but it's not enough when it's her own history changing.
Erased from existence and Amy's memory, now it's only her on that hill.
As a distraction, unknown to Amy, she's taken to Arcadia and the Trojan Gardens and finally to the Musée d'Orsay. In one of the exhibits, the Doctor notices a strange face in Vincent van Gogh's "Church at Auvers." The two go back in time to talk with van Gogh, with Amy taking a shine to him, especially after he saves her from an invisible creature. Yes, there are even monsters back then. During this time, we see that memories of Rory seem to not be completely lost, but just buried very far beneath the surface. She begins to cry and not know why.
After the creature from earlier is identified, caught and stopped (learning that winning isn't always a good thing), Amy and the Doctor take Vincent on a trip to 2010, showing him how well appreciated his works were in the future. Before they part ways, Vincent asks Amy to marry him, but she declines, stating that she wasn't "the marrying kind." Amy then has the Doctor bring her back to the gallery, expecting to see many more works by Vincent. But she only finds that he had still committed suicide just as he did before. As she turns away, she walks toward another painting, one of sunflowers, which she sees is dedicated in her name.
And this leads to her most recent adventure. The TARDIS materialises in a park in Chesterfield, but quickly dematerialises leaving the Doctor stuck in Chesterfield, while Amy is trapped inside. Mad ginger in a box. Never good. Amy has to fix the TARDIS while the Doctor becomes Craig Owens' lodger until they can get things back to normal. After many tugs of the zig-zag plotter, she looks up the plans of Craig's home and realises there is no second story on his flat. It is in fact, of course, a space ship crash landed and looking for an appropriate pilot. As the TARDIS goes haywire, it isn't until Craig confesses his love for Sophie that the ship disappears and all is safe. Talk about a crash course in learning the TARDIS' controls.
{| reality description. |}
Amy's reality... well, somewhat doesn't make any sense. The crack in her bedroom wall has slowly been eating away at parts of her life. Her parents have been taken, Rory, the Daleks (well, the old version of them anyway), Weeping Angels (which Amy still remembers despite the Doctor throwing them into the crack and erasing them from history) and some of Father Octavian's clerics. But those things, fortunately and unfortunately, do not exist in her reality.
The worst par is that these cracks are popping up everywhere through thte universe and followng the TARDIS wherever it goes - on Starship UK, Churchill's bunker, Venice, beneath the Earth, Craig's flat, etc. Worlds are slowly being deleted as they travel around.
There are gaps in her life and certain things that are missing, but Amy is oblivious to most of them. When asked, she simply has no memory of it. She does remember vague details of her mother and Inverness where she grew up and her as well Aunt Sharon's home in Leadworth. Even though, the TARDIS seems to be her current place of residence.
The TARDIS, as most people know, is bigger on the inside. There is a whole world just there for her to explore. It's apparently equipped with a library and swimming pool. Hopefully both in separate locations. It also has a nifty feature that helps translates the languages of whatever country or alien planet she happens to be visiting.
Leadworth, as much time she spends away from it, is probably the most unique part of her reality as it's her home. It's a boring ol' English village in the heart of Gloucestershire with a thirty minute drive from Gloucester. The town is very small in itself - one of those places where everybody knows everybody, and the local grocerer as probably also your babysitter at one point. More speficially, it contains landmarks like the Royal Leadworth Hospital, Leadworth Parish Church, Leadworth Castle Ruins (Upper Leadworth) and a few other pubs and shops. And benches. Nice benches.
But most of her world now is all of time and space as she travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor. They are the two most important figures in Amy's life (in addition to Aunt Sharon back at home). This raggedy man and magic blue box allow her to visit aliens planets and spaceships and different times and places all across the universe (but they do visit Earth the most). And run into some very scary monsters along the way.
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