History and personality:
History:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_PondAmelia's parents vanished when she was little. She was old enough to remember them in a vague sort of way. But she doesn't quite remember when they vanished, or where they went. She also is unclear in her own mind if they vanished before or after she moved to England. She hates England, compared to living in Scotland, but her memories of that are dim too.
She lived with her Aunt Sharon, who is never around, for some unknown amount of time, with a crack in her wall. A crack that may well have been in her wall back in Scotland.
When she was seven, The Doctor crashed into her backyard in what he claimed was a time machine. He came in, made a horrid mess of her kitchen, checked the crack in her wall, and promised he'd be back in "five minutes". She pointed out, "people always say that" but was convinced to trust him. She watched him vanish into the night, then ran inside to pack.
She pulled her suitcase into the yard and sat on it. She waited all night. When she awoke in her bed the next morning, she still believed he would come. Over the next year, she drew and created everything she could think of to keep the memory of him alive and clear. She played Raggedy Man with Rory, and kept waiting... hoping...
Personality:
Amelia Jessica Pond is a resourceful and independent little girl who would love to have someone taking care of her, but... doesn't. Without parents for as long as she can remember, raised by an absentee aunt Sharon, and hearing voices in her wall, Amelia had to become strong. She does wish, though, for someone to take care of her, or at least come and fix the crack in her wall. She even goes so far as to pray for help. Of course, being a small child... she prays to Santa...
Given the crack, and given all that space time energy pouring into her head, Amelia is fairly open and accepting of weird things, and pretty hard to scare. She takes the arrival of the doctor in stride, because a crashing Tardis and a raggedy man are not as scary as the voices that haunt her every night.
She is also a font of hope. And patience. This is a child who believed she would be taken away by the strange man who crashed into her backyard, on an adventure. She stayed up waiting for him to come back. She always hoped he would come for her, she stayed out waiting. Even when she woke up in her own bed the next morning, she still believed.
This isn't to say that she doesn't question authority, including him. She mouths off to him, challenges him, and meets him challenge for challenge. But she still ultimately accepts him, which goes to her resiliency, especially as he goes through all the food in her kitchen, accusing her of poisoning him and worse. Still, she cooks and preps for him, in hopes that he could fix the crack in the wall... and because she is so terribly lonely.
Amelia holds on to what little she has, and is terribly creative. After meeting the Doctor, she makes dolls and drawings of him, and a plush Tardis. She clings to these things, like she clings to the way her mum put faces on apples to make her like them, way back when she had a mum. Like she clings to the hope that he will return. She even makes her best friend Rory play Raggedy Man with her.
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