Amy Pond (The Girl Who Waited)
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This version of Amy Pond was from an alternate timeline where she was trapped in the Two Streams Facility of Apalapucia for thirty-six years. (TV: The Girl Who Waited)
History
Becoming trapped
Following the Doctor's orders, Amy hid herself in the room containing the Two Streams Facility temporal engines on Apalapucia. At some point shortly after she found her hiding spot, Amy began crying and was contacted by Rory through the time glass from thirty-six years in her future. Amy attempted to convince her future self to help the Doctor and Rory save her, but her future self refused as she didn't want to die which is what she saw being erased from existence along with her timeline as being. Due to the future Amy's refusal to help, the Doctor and Rory were forced to leave this Amy behind and leave Two Streams with her future self.
Trapped
Over the next thirty-six years, Amy remained trapped in Two Streams in a struggle to survive. She managed to gain a club and a sword as weapons as well as armor fashioned from a Handbot. During this time, Amy was able to reprogram the Interface to answer any question she asked except for how to escape the facility. Amy created a sonic device similar to the Doctor's sonic screwdriver that she called a sonic probe which allowed her to reprogram the Handbot's black box to avoid detection amongst other things and "disarmed" a Handbot she named Rory to act as a pet to give Amy company so she wouldn't be completely alone. Amy went so far as to paint on the Handbot to make it look more like Rory and trained it in a few human behaviors.
A late rescue
After thirty-six years alone, Amy, now bitter and resentful, met Rory in the art gallery entertainment section of the facility when he and the Doctor finally arrived to rescue her. Amy saved Rory from a Handbot and revealed her aged state to his shock as the TARDIS had locked onto Amy's timestream, but at the wrong point which had not been realized by Rory and the Doctor.
Personality
While originally starting out the same as the original Amy Pond, this version of Amy changed greatly over her thirty-six years trapped in the Two Streams Facility on Apalapucia. Amy became a skilled fighter and a toughened survivor with experience avoiding and battling the Handbots. She was smart enough to reprogram the Interface to help her and create a sonic probe, an act that surprised and impressed the Doctor. She displayed a detailed knowledge of the facility's areas and had the Handbots, schedule memorised so that she would know when it was safe to visit the entertainment areas. Amy went so far as to reprogram a Handbot she named Rory which she saw as a pet and appeared to have taught it a few human behaviors.
However, Amy's experiences also turned her bitter, particularly as the Doctor and Rory had never rescued her. At one point, Amy stated that while she initially thought good of the Doctor, her long incarceration caused her to hate him. Amy saw her time trapped in Two Streams as equivalent to death, stating that while most people entered Two Streams to live, she entered it to die and called her life "hell." In this state, she showed little care that Rory was even with her and told him to "stay safe or whatever" if he chose to join her. Due to her bleak outlook on life, she called her sonic device a "sonic probe" rather than a screwdriver and stated that this was because she "wasn't on a romp" like the Doctor and simply called the device what it was.
One aspect of this Amy's personality that never truly changed was her love for her husband Rory. Even after thirty-six years, Amy still deeply loved Rory and while initially cold to him, Rory's near-deadly experience with a Handbot caused Amy to shed some tears, though she hid it quickly. Rory being with her caused Amy to laugh for the first time in thirty-six years and she reminisced with her younger self over memories Amy held fond even after thirty-six years away from Rory. When Amy agreed to help save her younger self, she did it for Rory's sake when pushed by the younger Amy to do so. In her final conversation with Rory and even her final moments, it was clear that to Amy, Rory remained the most important thing in her life. Amy told Rory that she was "giving her days" to Rory and her younger self so that Rory and the younger Amy could grow old together as she and Rory never could.
While Amy was at first cold and distant, her old personality began to emerge more and more as she spent time with Rory. Amy's old sense of humor came back as did her adventurous spirit, with Amy telling her past self and Rory that she intended to resume traveling, albeit on her own, once she escaped. At the end of her life, Amy told Rory that seeing Rory and her younger self together reminded her just how much she had loved traveling with him and the Doctor in the TARDIS, seeing the universe. While Amy originally insisted that her sonic device was a sonic probe due to her new personality, when her old personality started coming back she admitted that "its a screwdriver," having previously called it a probe to differentiate her device from the Doctor and his way of doing things.
Amy possessed a heightened degree of self-preservation due to her decades-long struggle to survive in Two Streams. When the Doctor and Rory enlisted Amy's help to rescue herself, she refused as it meant that she herself would be erased from existence, something she saw as death. Though it meant that she would never have spent thirty-six years in what she felt was Hell, Amy wasn't willing to "die" and be replaced by another Amy who had never went through what she had. Even when she was convinced to help, Amy only did so on the condition that she come with the Doctor, Rory and her younger self. In her final conversation with Rory, Amy admitted that if she was allowed into the TARDIS, she would fight with everything she had to survive. Despite this, Amy urged Rory to keep her locked out so that she couldn't do so and when faced with five Handbots, effectively surrendered rather than fighting in her last moments. (TV: The Girl Who Waited)
