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Amelia "Amy" Jessica Pond was a young Scottish woman who was the first companion of the Doctor in his eleventh incarnation. She was also the wife of Rory Williams and mother of Melody Pond, later revealed to be River Song.
Biography
Early life
Amelia Jessica Pond was born in Scotland in the year 1989. She was later orphaned and moved to England to live with her aunt in Leadworth. It was later revealed that her parents were swallowed by the crack in her room. (DW: The Big Bang).
Meeting the Doctor
Amelia first met the Doctor at Easter in 1996 after his TARDIS crash-landed in her backyard from damage sustained from his regeneration. The Doctor offered to take her traveling with him, but first had to keep the TARDIS' engines from phasing, requiring a quick trip into the future. The Doctor told Amelia he would only be five minutes, but he ended up taking twelve years. During the interim, Amelia became obsessed with her "Raggedy Doctor", creating dolls, comics and dress-up games around him, convincing her friend Rory into dressing up like him. Her Aunt Sharon sent her to four psychologists, whom she ended up biting after they tried to make her think the Doctor wasn't real. Reaching adulthood, Amelia took on the name "Amy", became Rory's girlfriend, and took a job as a kissogram.
Amy passed her driving test first time round, though it may have been due to the fact she wore a revealing skirt on the day of the test. (DW: Space)
Eventually, Amy met the Doctor again. Although distrustful of him at first, she eventually helped the Doctor to defeat Prisoner Zero and warn the Atraxi to never come back to Earth. While waiting for another two years for the Doctor to return after he took the TARDIS to the moon and back to break in the new engines, Amy got engaged to Rory and was due to be married on the 26th of June 2010. The night before the wedding, the Doctor returned to keep the promise he made to Amelia on Easter 1996. He took her on as his newest companion on the condition that she be returned before the following morning. She did not tell the Doctor she' was to be married. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Travels with the Doctor
Amy's first trip in the TARDIS was to Starship UK in the 33rd century. There, she accidentally discovered the ship's secret--it was actually piloted by a Star Whale, opting to forget about it via the ship's voting booth and leaving a message for herself to get the Doctor off the ship before he could make a terrible choice. After meeitng Liz 10 and once again learning the truth abouth the ship, Amy released the Star Whale from its toturing to prove that it came voluntarily to earth as it couldn't stand to hear children screaming because it was kind and the last of its kind - much like the Doctor as Amy points out to him. This experience strengthens her bond with the Doctor as she had to keep him from making the Star Whale a vegetable and earned forgiveness for trying to keep him from knowing the truth. When leaving the Starship, the Doctor received a phone call from Prime Minister Winston Churchill, asking for help with a tricky situation.(DW: The Beast Below)
Following Winston's call, the Doctor and Amy then set off for war-torn London in 1941, where they met Winston Churchill and his sceintific advisor Edwin Bracewell. However, the "Ironsides" that Bracewell had given to Winston to assit in the war were actual two Daleks, which the Doctor forced into revealing their true nature by constantly yelling their true name and his when his patience reached its limits. Amy helped the Doctor out when he headed to the Dalek's spaceship, where they recreated pure Daleks from a lone surviving Progenitor, by convincing Edwin not to commit suicide after learning he was a dalek-created android and modifiy spitfires to go into space and destroy a dish on the Dalek ship that was keeping night-time London lit "like a christmas tree". Upon the Dalek's departure from the WW2 era, Amy helped the Doctor deactivate the detonation of the oblivion continium inside Bracewell by convincing him that he was human. However, a perplexing thing occured around this time; Amy had no idea who the Daleks were despite their invasion in 2008. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
Soon after, Amy and the Doctor met River Song for the first time in Amy's perspective and defeated an army of Weeping Angels. During this time, Amy nearly died under the power of one of the Angels, who took an alias given by the Doctor, Angel Bob. It was around this time Amy realised that the Crack from her wall was "following" her and would erase anything it came into contact with from history. Amy specualted that River was the Doctor's wife in his future, but nethier had her question denied or confirmed. She later had the Doctor return her home to explain that the following day was her wedding day and, perhaps out of pre-marriage jetters, fails in an attempt to seduce him. She then learned that she was the latest companion for the Doctor after tricking him in unlocking visual records of his past TARDIS companions before he adamantly suggested retrieving Rory. (DW: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)
The traveling couple
After learning that Amy was getting married, the Doctor responded by collecting Rory from his bachelor party and took Amy along with him on a trip to Venice, 1580 as a wedding gift because he knew how much time travel with him can casue his comapnions to become blind to the things in their normal lives. They then stopped a group of Saturnynians from flooding the city and repopulating it. Amy was nearly converted into a half Saturnynian by Rosanna and her son Francesso, but saved by Rory and the Doctor. Amy then asked Rory to continue traveling with her and the Doctor, to which he agreed. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
Soon after, the TARDIS crew found themselves trapped between two realities by the malevolent being known as the Dream Lord. The Doctor defeated the Dream Lord after he worked out his reality puzzle was just a dream and the situation brought Amy and Rory closer together as she realised she couldn't live without him when he died in one of the dreams. Thus did it prove that Amy made her choice of which man she wanted to love. (DW: Amy's Choice)
In Cwmtaff, Wales, Amy witnessed the resurrection of a group of Silurians after a failed attempt to reach Rio. Amy tried to help create an alliance between humans and the Silurians with their leader and a fellow human, but this chance was ruined by a bloodthristy Silruain commander and a human killing a Silurian. When fleeing through the tunnels to the TARDIS, Amy noitced another crack and was horrified when Rory dies from taking a shot meant for the Doctor from the Silurian, Restec. To her angusih, Amy watched as the crack absorbed Rory and her memory of him vanished as, unlike the clerics, he was part of her personal history. Amy was then left with no memory of him and was then taken to several nice places by the Doctor as his way of appologising. (DW: The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood)
Unknowing of the Doctor's intentions, Amy was still being taken to a number of nice places that she requested when she arrived in Paris 2010 to visit the Van Gogh exibit. There, the Doctor noticed that there was an evil face in once of the paintings and Amy ends up heading into the past where she meets Vincent Van Gogh in person and constantly turns down his romantic proposals. However, after sadly having to defeat a blind Krafysis, Amy, along with the Doctor take Vincent to his exibit in 2010 were they have the exibit curator, Dr Black, talk about the positive things that poeple now think about him to inspire him to be more cheeful. Though Amy thought that Vincent would live longer due to their interference, Amy was proven wrong as no new paintings existed, but the Krafysis no longer existed in the painting and Vincent's sunflower painting is now dedicated to her. While taking with Vincent during her time with him, Amy was shown to subcociously remember Rory as she was crying and he could hear her "song of sadness". (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
After that, the TARDIS materialised in a park in Chesterfield but it dematerialised, leaving the Doctor stuck in Chesterfield, while Amy was trapped in the TARDIS. Amy spent a time in the TARDIS before the Doctor solved the problem of what caused the TARDIS problems landing, which ended up being someone's failed attempt to build a TARDIS. She also found her wedding ring that the Doctor had been hiding in his pocket after Rory's death/erasure, given her a lot of confusion. (DW: The Lodger)
Amy and The Doctor later visited "Space Florida" a week prior to the events of the Doctor's temporary erasure from the universe. (DW: The Big Bang)
Restarting the universe
Following a trip to Planet One to translate the diamond cliffs, Amy and the Doctor met River Song again (who Amy learns will keep meeting them in backwards order of their adventures) and became involved in a trap for the Doctor involving an Alliance of the Doctor's enemies. During this time, Amy is almost converted into a Cyberman by the remnants of a Cybersuit left at the Pandorica. After meeting Rory again, who had been recreated as an Auton, Amy's subconcious memories of him resurface, but she is fatally shot by Rory as the Nestene Conciousness was controling his actions. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
However, following a series of paradoxical events, the Doctor placed Amy in the Pandorica to keep her alive and he set out to restore the universe after
his TARDIS had exploded and caused the cracks in time. Amy was healed by her younger self providing the genitic material the Pandorica needed to fully revive her. After the Doctor succeeded in restoring the universe after time was almost out, he was erased from time, but left a psychic impint in her mind so that she would remember him.
Amy then woke up, on the morning of her wedding, with everything as it should be. Her Mother and Father never got swallowed by the crack in her bedroom and therefore existed. Amy had her wedding with Rory and was temporarily given River's diary so that she would remember the Doctor and bring him back into the universe from the otherside of the Cracks; having the one crack in her wall all her life gave her the ability to bring things back if she remembered hard enough. Instead of settling down back in her home town, Amy, along with Rory and the Doctor go on another adventure following a call from "[Her] Majesty" detailing an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express -- in space. (DW: The Big Bang)
Amy did not change her name to Williams following her marriage, and the Doctor insisted on calling her husband "Rory Pond". (DW: The Big Bang, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War)
Honeymoon
The Doctor left Amy and Rory on a honeymoon planet (a planet on a honeymoon with an asteroid) shortly before his TARDIS was stolen by the Claw Shansheeth of the 15th Funeral Fleet, temporarily stranding him until he retrieved it with the help of old companions. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)
Some time later, Amy and Rory were still on their honeymoon when they got caught in a cloud shell above a planet. Amy donned her policewoman outfit again, and helped the Doctor in his Christmas Carol-like story as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Eventually, all ended well, and she and Rory continued on their honeymoon.
At this point, The Doctor suggested a Moon that was actually made of Honey (although it was neither real honey nor really a moon) as a prospective honeymoon destination. He further commented that although there were some lovely views, it was however, technically alive and slightly carnivorous. (DW: A Christmas Carol)
At one point, nearing the end of their Honeymoon, the Doctor's TARDIS materialized inside itself after Rory unintentionally caused it to do so while helping the Doctor conduct routine matainence. However, the Doctor was able to figure out how to dissolve the resulting space loop by using it to thier advantage, This caused an embarassing moment for both Amy and Rory due to how he caused the mistake. (DW: Space / Time)
As A Ganger
Main Article: Amy Pond (Ganger)
After their honeymoon, Amy and Rory returned to Earth. During this time, they got their own house and a pregnant Amy was kidnapped by Madame Kovarian and the Church at an unknown time. Amy was replaced with a Ganger synchronized to her senses so that she couldn't tell she had been removed from her time. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
The Doctor then stopped the signal after promising to find her and Amy awoke in her real body on Demon's Run to find herself full-term pregnant, with Madame Kovarian, the Eye Patch Lady, (literally) watching over her. Being instructed to push, Amy began to give birth. (DW: The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)
Further Travels
After birth, Amy's daughter Melody Pond was taken from her by Kovarian, but allowed appointments to see her over the month following birth while they waited for the Doctor. Meanwhile, the Doctor was raising an army to get Amy and Melody back, in which he succeeded. Amy then learnt that Kovarian had replaced Melody with a Ganger, which subsequently dissolved following a failed trap. Amy was left on Demons Run while the Doctor left to search for Melody. Amy finally learned who River Song truly was after the Doctor was covertly told beforehand; River was Melody, grown up. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
Known Family
- Tabetha Pond (mother)
- Augustus Pond (father)
- Sharon (aunt)
- Rory Williams (husband)
- Melody Pond, later to become River Song (daughter)
Personality
As a child, Amelia was seen to be brave and not frightened easily even when alone. She prayed to Santa Claus to help her with the crack in her wall, and thus was not surprised to meet the Doctor when he first arrived. She was both repulsed and amused by the Doctor's immediate demand for food, and wished to travel with him shortly after their meeting.
In her later life Amelia or "Amy" became rather wild and tempestious, possessing caustic wit and a front of indifference. She was very cynical and skeptical due to him breaking his promise to be "back in five minutes" and returning twelve years later. (DW: The Eleventh Hour). However, she showed signs that deep down, she was still the young Amelia Pond she had been during her first meeting with the Doctor, proving herself resourseful and adventurous. She was acutely intelligent with an intuition that sometimes rivalled even the Doctor's. (DW: The Beast Below)
During her early travels with the Doctor, Amy (perhaps subconsiously) romanticised him as a hero who could save anyone. Yet after Rory appeared to die in her arms during a lucid dream caused by psychic pollen, she realized the Doctor was not the omnipotent being she had assumed he was. (DW: Amy's Choice).
Amy was incredably brave and had a reckless nature. She usually remained flippant in the face of danger, with the exception of her terrifying ordeal in the forest aboard the Byzantium, exchanging barbs with Rosanna Calvierri even when facing a forcible blood replacement and cracking jokes while confronting apparent doom on the TARDIS. (DW: Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice)
Amy could be flirtatious at times and one one occasion, unsure of her own romantic feeling towards the Doctor and Rory, tried to seduce the Doctor despite the fact that the next day was her and Rory's wedding. (DW Flesh and Stone)
As a child, Amy was obsessed with her "Raggedy Doctor" and refused to believe that he was simply an imaginary friend. Even after the Doctor was erased from history, Amy still remembered him and managed to bring him back into her universe. (DW: The Big Bang) She also once referred to the Doctor as her best friend. (DW: Day of the Moon)
Amy loved her friend, boyfriend, fiance and ultimatly husband Rory very deeply. She admitadly had a habit of playfully insulting him, calling him names such as "Stupid Face" – a dynamic most likely due to the fact that the relationship between the two of them began as childhood friends rather than an adult partnership. Despite her tough exterior which often caused her to hide her emotions, Amy was a passionate person and was devastated when losing the people closest to her such as Rory, the Doctor and her daughter. She also had enough knowledge about time to know that it could be rewritten and hoped that there was a way to rewrite time in order to avoid the Doctor's death. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)
Appearance
Amy Pond was tall and long-legged (inspiring the Doctor to indroduce her to the President of the United States with the code name "the Legs"). She had bright red hair, a characteristic which is commented on throughout the series, freckles, and green eyes.
Her finger nails were usually painted in widely varying colours. Contrasting with the past main series companions of the new series, she seems to prefer wearing short skirts to trousers. Karen Gillan has described Amy's clothing style as "thrown together" and expressed that it is true to the common trends in people of Amy's age and generation. According to the 2010 visual dictionary, Amy loves to experient with clothes from the TARDIS wardrobe and has a great sense of fashion.
Behind the scenes
- Amy is the second consecutive main TV companion to have red hair. This fact was noted by the BBC when it issued a statement in response to the so-called 'Ginger controversy' that erupted in early January 2010 due to misinterpretation of a statement made by the Eleventh Doctor after his regeneration.[1]
- Amy Pond is the first televised companion with whose adolescent self the Doctor has had significant onscreen experience. Nevertheless, she is far from unique in having been portrayed onscreen in her youth.
- Amy Pond is the second character with an aquatic-themed name to be created by show-runner Steven Moffat, following River Song. This is not a coincidence, however, as it is later revealed that River is Amy's daughter, and that "River" is translated from "Pond". Other writers, however, have employed "liquid" names; non-Moffat characters like Ocean Waters, Jackson Lake, and Adelaide Brooke have also appeared in the televised Doctor Who universe.
- Amy is the second televised companion to have a Scottish accent, and only the third regularly-appearing Scots character in series history, after both Jamie McCrimmon and the Brigadier. Since neither Frazer Hines nor Nicholas Courtney are themselves Scottish, Gillan is the first Scottish actor/actress to play a recurring Scot in the history of the programme.
- Following the premiere of The Eleventh Hour, the character of Amy Pond was criticized by a number of viewers for being "too sexy" for a family program such as Doctor Who. In response, Piers Wenger, the executive producer for Series 5, stated, “The whole kissogram thing played into Steven’s desire for the companion to be feisty and outspoken and a bit of a number. Amy is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has travelled with, but she isn’t promiscuous. She is really a two-man woman and that will become clear over the course of the episodes."[2]
- Amy Pond is the first series-long BBC Wales companion who wouldn't consider London their hometown. That said, Jack Harkness, who has nearly been in as many episodes as a full series, isn't from Earth at all. However, she is only the second BBC Wales companion, after the short-lived Adam Mitchell, to have met the Doctor in a place other than London. Debatable, as Donna Noble met the Doctor inside the Tardis before taking her back to London.
- Amy is the second companion in the new series who has been pursued romantically by a real historical figure, she was proposed to by Vincent van Gogh. Previously, William Shakespeare made romantic advances towards Martha Jones.
- Steven Moffat has dismissed the fan theory that River Song is a future version of Amy. (DCOM: The Time of Angels)
- Amy has a fondness for Romans. Karen Gillan, who plays Amy, also played a Roman priestess in the episode The Fires of Pompeii.
- Caitlin Blackwood who plays the younger version of Amy is the cousin of Karen Gillan, although the two did not meet until the readthrough of DW: The Eleventh Hour.
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