Post by The Third Doctor on Nov 12, 2011 22:02:53 GMT -5
Let's see, I guess I'm Canon.
M' name is James McCrimmon, but you can call M' Jamie.
Depends when ya meet M'.
I'mma human, more importantl' I'mma Scot.
I'm from Earth, Scotland.
I was the piper for Clan McLaren'.
(OOC now.)
Appearance: More often than not, Jamie wore a traditional Scottish kilt with a red tartan. He was often chided for continuing to wear his kilt, even in situations where it was too cold to wear it.
After initially changing out of his battle-ragged 18th century clothes into a wet suit during the course of an adventure, he began to include more modern clothes in his dress — including several turtlenecks of varying colours, a tan leather vest with a reversible cow-patterned fur lining, a Nehru jacket, a sleeveless pullover, neckerchiefs, anoraks and a laced black shirt. While he usually wore his fur-covered sporran, there was a stretch of time early on during which he didn't. (The Highlanders through the start of The Web of Fear) He would, when necessary, wear a space suit or sometimes a disguise.
The kilt was sometimes jokingly referred to as a "dress" or "skirt", to which he would take mild offence. When deciding who would have the task of dressing in drag as a disguise in a society where women were in power, the Doctor mentioned his youthful, androgynous appearance in contrast to the rest of the male prisoners, despite his masculine gait, and his comfortability with wearing a "skirt" as reasons that he should be the one to go undercover to retrieve their confiscated clothing. He and the Doctor also dressed as washerwomen with wool padding while smuggling King James II into a rowboat. After correcting the Doctor on calling his kilt a "skirt", Jamie mentioned that he thought they looked like "a pair of old fishwives". One of the flustered, half-hearted insults levelled at him by the Doctor was being referred to as a "hairy-legged Highlander".
Later, he reverted to his 18th century dress, including a white ruffled shirt, a black jacket and a red tartan sash. When Jamie cleaned himself up after living rough in the ducts of Space Station Chimera, the Sixth Doctor unkindly suggested to Jamie that he perhaps could use a bath more often in general, which was likely a reference to 18th century hygiene.
Personality
Jamie had a very strong connection to his Scottish homeland. When presented with the sound of bagpipes and the misty sight of Scotland on the scanner, he was lured out of the TARDIS, as this was what he wanted most. Despite having viewed the English for a long time as his mortal enemy, he would come to team up with a Redcoat from the Forty-Five, who was also displaced in time and space, in order to rebel against the War Lords.
The Doctor and Zoe both often teased or insulted Jamie about his intelligence. Zoe expressed relief that Jamie hadn't thought of x-rays before her, which would have been "awful", and the Doctor even suggested that they run away because of Jamie having an idea. Jamie was simple and straightforward, but he was also intelligent, practical and full of common sense, despite having no formal education and being from the past. It was these qualities which often put him ahead of his companions. He came a long way from questioning why the Doctor hadn't bled the wounded and having never heard of "germs" before (he assumed the word came from "German"). Rago assessed Jamie and discovered that his brain showed signs of recent rapid learning. It was his idea to dig through to a borehole and intercept the seed device which saved the travellers. Later, while the Doctor and Zoe were revelling in their rescue of Dulkis with only a minor volcanic eruption, it was Jamie who pointed out that they happened to be standing on the island that would erupt. (DW: The Dominators)
Although he didn't understand the TARDIS, he was enthusiastic about it. His journey was a voyage of discovery; almost everything he experienced was new to him. The few times when Jamie showed worry or concern were when his companions were in danger — particularly Victoria. When the unconscious Doctor was threatened by an Ice Warrior, Jamie attempted hand-to-hand combat with it, despite being unevenly matched and at great risk to himself, to protect him. (DW: The Seeds of Death) Jamie saw the Doctor as a friend and mentor. He was extremely loyal to the Doctor and they were nearly inseparable. He learnt a lot through his experiences, but also believed the Doctor needed his help. When Ben and Polly left the TARDIS, Jamie reassured them that he would look after the Doctor. (DW: The Faceless Ones)
Jamie was initially very shy around girls and awkward in situations where they were forward. In one case, he wanted the ladies, who were primping him, called off because he was afraid of what they might do to him if he looked "charming". He kissed Sam in order to steal her plane ticket. When he was being flirted with by girls in a '60s coffee bar wearing plaid miniskirts — to which he exclaimed, "Oh, if only the Laird could see that!" — he hurried back to the Doctor, not comfortable with having been given the difficult task of questioning them, despite the Doctor stating that Jamie was so much better at it than he.
Jamie seemed intrigued with the short dresses that he had seen the ladies wearing and teased Victoria about whether she saw herself wearing something similar, for which she admonished him for thinking of something like that. Despite his early shyness, Jamie began to flirt more, but was always gentlemanly and chivalrous. Jamie apologised when he realised that it was Rapunzel's hair that he had climbed and assured her that he was quickly passing through when she expressed wariness at inviting him inside her castle. Jamie expressed old-fashioned values about the roles of men and women; often seeing it as his duty to protect the ladies, even when they rebuked him with modern concepts of feminism and women's suffrage. When Zoe misidentified his Scottish origin, calling his kilt a barbaric form of garment and asking whether he was a Scandinavian or a Dane, he told her to watch her lip or else he'd put her across his knee and larrup her. He later gave Zoe a spanking over his knee when she had been taken over by female superiority brainwashing After having been ignored by Anita earlier, he gave Peri a peck when he was about to leave with his Doctor. He had previously shared two kisses with Sam and one with Victoria.
HABITS AND QUIRKS
Jamie had a habit of pretending to understand technology beyond his ken with a shrug and a nonchalant "Oh, aye." He often used analogies to describe the new things he was seeing — he compared Space Station Chimera to "twenty castles in the sky" and called the Sontarans "knights in armour" or "potato heads". If he couldn't find one, he simply accepted the thing with wonder.
He had a particular fascination with gadgets such as Polly's secretarial Dictaphone, which she kept his recordings on for many years after, and the small radio that he was given by Tobias Vaughn. Although he didn't know how they worked, he was able to figure out how to get these simple devices to function.
Jamie carried a dirk, though he rarely ever used it, and only then in self-defence, as when he stabbed a Sontaran in the leg. He also wielded a sword or claymore on occasion, particularly while in his own time. On several occasions, he used or expressed interest in weapons such as explosives, grenades, rock-throwing, and guns, both historical and futuristic. Good in a fight, he was also known to tackle enemies to the ground and get into physical altercations. He often took it upon himself to go after beasties.
He enjoyed a high degree of familiar physical contact, such as friendly shoving, prodding, pulling, hand-holding, climbing on top of or being climbed upon, and hugging. When stressed for any reason he would often grab on to his companions for reassurance, with a marked preference for grabbing the Doctor. The Doctor and Jamie often participated in innuendos and double-entendres with each other.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Jamie had the ability to sense and reject subconscious mental manipulation while asleep, as well as sense danger. He was also the first to be affected and detect that something was wrong after they had exited the TARDIS upon first arriving in the Land of Fiction.
The young piper had musical ability, though he rarely displayed it. When his family legacy of piping was mentioned, he noted that all he had left of his bagpipes was the chanter. The Doctor wanted him to teach him how to play the bagpipes in return for being invited aboard the TARDIS. He later found some bagpipes in the TARDIS, which he planned to mend. At one point, he danced the Highland Fling in an attempt to dance out of the room and escape. The Doctor remarked that Jamie often attempted to hide his recorder from him.
He also was able to ride horses and used this skill to escape a Confederate soldier after knocking him off of his horse. (DW: The War Games) He was also adept at rock climbing. He scaled steep rocks with the aid of Rapunzel's rope of hair. However, he wasn't particularly good at tying knots and the Doctor wanted to be reminded to give him a lesson sometime.
Jamie expressed worry about being drowned and said that he couldn't swim when Ben suggested that they escape by swimming. The Doctor also mentioned that a member of their group might not know how to swim. At the time, Jamie and Polly were fleeing the rising water which was quickly engulfing the underwater city of Atlantis. The Doctor and Jamie occasionally paddled a kayak, or a rowboat together on the Thames.
History
At the conclusion of an adventure in which the Cybermen attacked a space station, Zoe Heriot joined the Doctor and Jamie. Jamie got along with her very well, despite her teasing him for his intelligence, even though Zoe came from a 21st century background very much unlike his own. In the Land of Fiction, Jamie temporarily changed into a different youth of the same age when the Doctor failed to put together his facial features correctly in a test.
When Zoe and Isobel Watkins were abducted by Tobias Vaughn, the Doctor and Jamie investigated him and evaded Packer, whom Jamie tackled to the ground. Jamie was pleased to have been given a small radio and didn't want the Doctor to break it when he suspected the gift. The Doctor and "the boy" were recognised by U.N.I.T.'s former Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, now Brigadier, from their meeting during the Yeti attack in the London Underground several years before. (=Jamie's leg was injured by a Cyberman's grip while climbing out of the sewers where he and the girls had gone to photograph the Cyberman. After a stay in the hospital, Jamie left with the Doctor and Zoe to stunned surprise at the sight of the appearing and disappearing TARDIS.
When the Doctor asked the Time Lords to intercede to return the victims of the War Lords, Jamie desperately urged the Doctor to escape his sentencing in the TARDIS, but submitted when they could not, promising to never forget the Doctor. A tribunal of Time Lords told the Doctor that they would return Zoe and Jamie to their homes. They would also alter Zoe and Jamie's memories, allowing them to only remember their first adventures with the Doctor, but not their travels with the Doctor in the TARDIS. The Doctor watched Jamie, now back in 1746 at the Battle of Culloden, come to the momentarily confused realisation of where he was. Jamie was fired at by a Redcoat, whom he then ran after with a sword, proudly yelling "Creag an tuire!" for the Clan McCrimmon.
The Doctor undertook a mission for the Time Lords and requested (blackmailed) them to have Jamie by his side. The Time Lords consented, altering Jamie's memories to believe he was still travelling with the Doctor and Victoria, who had in fact left the TARDIS to live out her life on Earth. (PDA: World Game)
Immediately following the Doctor's recruitment by the CIA, Jamie accompanied the Doctor on a diplomatic mission to Space Station Chimera. Here, Jamie believed he saw the Doctor killed in a massacre by Sontarans and hid in crawl spaces. Over the next few days, he reverted to a feral condition. A future Doctor and Peri appeared and Jamie, wielding a knife, made to attack him. Subsequently, Jamie helped to rescue "his" Doctor, who had not died. Jamie spent much of his time evading and being captured by Shockeye, who planned to eat him. When this adventure had concluded, Jamie left with the Doctor in the TARDIS, intending to rejoin Victoria.
Jamie experienced the events on Helicon Prime and was temporarily left in 1967, where he began working at a Scottish radar station. He assisted the Doctor in battle against the ruthless Quarks and joined him in numerous clashes with Quarks and Cybermen. He was later deposited back in the Scottish Highlands, his memories altered once more by the Time Lords.
After being returned to his own time, Jamie married Kirsty McLaren and they had "more bairns than there are days in the week", with numerous grandchildren by 1788. In order to correct a mistake that was made in 1688, where Jamie tried to help King James II and ensure a victorious future for Scotland and Bonnie Prince Charlie, a visitor came to help alter history back to its original course. However, Jamie chose to once again forget the memories of his adventures with the Doctor that were brought back.
M' name is James McCrimmon, but you can call M' Jamie.
Depends when ya meet M'.
I'mma human, more importantl' I'mma Scot.
I'm from Earth, Scotland.
I was the piper for Clan McLaren'.
(OOC now.)
Appearance: More often than not, Jamie wore a traditional Scottish kilt with a red tartan. He was often chided for continuing to wear his kilt, even in situations where it was too cold to wear it.
After initially changing out of his battle-ragged 18th century clothes into a wet suit during the course of an adventure, he began to include more modern clothes in his dress — including several turtlenecks of varying colours, a tan leather vest with a reversible cow-patterned fur lining, a Nehru jacket, a sleeveless pullover, neckerchiefs, anoraks and a laced black shirt. While he usually wore his fur-covered sporran, there was a stretch of time early on during which he didn't. (The Highlanders through the start of The Web of Fear) He would, when necessary, wear a space suit or sometimes a disguise.
The kilt was sometimes jokingly referred to as a "dress" or "skirt", to which he would take mild offence. When deciding who would have the task of dressing in drag as a disguise in a society where women were in power, the Doctor mentioned his youthful, androgynous appearance in contrast to the rest of the male prisoners, despite his masculine gait, and his comfortability with wearing a "skirt" as reasons that he should be the one to go undercover to retrieve their confiscated clothing. He and the Doctor also dressed as washerwomen with wool padding while smuggling King James II into a rowboat. After correcting the Doctor on calling his kilt a "skirt", Jamie mentioned that he thought they looked like "a pair of old fishwives". One of the flustered, half-hearted insults levelled at him by the Doctor was being referred to as a "hairy-legged Highlander".
Later, he reverted to his 18th century dress, including a white ruffled shirt, a black jacket and a red tartan sash. When Jamie cleaned himself up after living rough in the ducts of Space Station Chimera, the Sixth Doctor unkindly suggested to Jamie that he perhaps could use a bath more often in general, which was likely a reference to 18th century hygiene.
Personality
Jamie had a very strong connection to his Scottish homeland. When presented with the sound of bagpipes and the misty sight of Scotland on the scanner, he was lured out of the TARDIS, as this was what he wanted most. Despite having viewed the English for a long time as his mortal enemy, he would come to team up with a Redcoat from the Forty-Five, who was also displaced in time and space, in order to rebel against the War Lords.
The Doctor and Zoe both often teased or insulted Jamie about his intelligence. Zoe expressed relief that Jamie hadn't thought of x-rays before her, which would have been "awful", and the Doctor even suggested that they run away because of Jamie having an idea. Jamie was simple and straightforward, but he was also intelligent, practical and full of common sense, despite having no formal education and being from the past. It was these qualities which often put him ahead of his companions. He came a long way from questioning why the Doctor hadn't bled the wounded and having never heard of "germs" before (he assumed the word came from "German"). Rago assessed Jamie and discovered that his brain showed signs of recent rapid learning. It was his idea to dig through to a borehole and intercept the seed device which saved the travellers. Later, while the Doctor and Zoe were revelling in their rescue of Dulkis with only a minor volcanic eruption, it was Jamie who pointed out that they happened to be standing on the island that would erupt. (DW: The Dominators)
Although he didn't understand the TARDIS, he was enthusiastic about it. His journey was a voyage of discovery; almost everything he experienced was new to him. The few times when Jamie showed worry or concern were when his companions were in danger — particularly Victoria. When the unconscious Doctor was threatened by an Ice Warrior, Jamie attempted hand-to-hand combat with it, despite being unevenly matched and at great risk to himself, to protect him. (DW: The Seeds of Death) Jamie saw the Doctor as a friend and mentor. He was extremely loyal to the Doctor and they were nearly inseparable. He learnt a lot through his experiences, but also believed the Doctor needed his help. When Ben and Polly left the TARDIS, Jamie reassured them that he would look after the Doctor. (DW: The Faceless Ones)
Jamie was initially very shy around girls and awkward in situations where they were forward. In one case, he wanted the ladies, who were primping him, called off because he was afraid of what they might do to him if he looked "charming". He kissed Sam in order to steal her plane ticket. When he was being flirted with by girls in a '60s coffee bar wearing plaid miniskirts — to which he exclaimed, "Oh, if only the Laird could see that!" — he hurried back to the Doctor, not comfortable with having been given the difficult task of questioning them, despite the Doctor stating that Jamie was so much better at it than he.
Jamie seemed intrigued with the short dresses that he had seen the ladies wearing and teased Victoria about whether she saw herself wearing something similar, for which she admonished him for thinking of something like that. Despite his early shyness, Jamie began to flirt more, but was always gentlemanly and chivalrous. Jamie apologised when he realised that it was Rapunzel's hair that he had climbed and assured her that he was quickly passing through when she expressed wariness at inviting him inside her castle. Jamie expressed old-fashioned values about the roles of men and women; often seeing it as his duty to protect the ladies, even when they rebuked him with modern concepts of feminism and women's suffrage. When Zoe misidentified his Scottish origin, calling his kilt a barbaric form of garment and asking whether he was a Scandinavian or a Dane, he told her to watch her lip or else he'd put her across his knee and larrup her. He later gave Zoe a spanking over his knee when she had been taken over by female superiority brainwashing After having been ignored by Anita earlier, he gave Peri a peck when he was about to leave with his Doctor. He had previously shared two kisses with Sam and one with Victoria.
HABITS AND QUIRKS
Jamie had a habit of pretending to understand technology beyond his ken with a shrug and a nonchalant "Oh, aye." He often used analogies to describe the new things he was seeing — he compared Space Station Chimera to "twenty castles in the sky" and called the Sontarans "knights in armour" or "potato heads". If he couldn't find one, he simply accepted the thing with wonder.
He had a particular fascination with gadgets such as Polly's secretarial Dictaphone, which she kept his recordings on for many years after, and the small radio that he was given by Tobias Vaughn. Although he didn't know how they worked, he was able to figure out how to get these simple devices to function.
Jamie carried a dirk, though he rarely ever used it, and only then in self-defence, as when he stabbed a Sontaran in the leg. He also wielded a sword or claymore on occasion, particularly while in his own time. On several occasions, he used or expressed interest in weapons such as explosives, grenades, rock-throwing, and guns, both historical and futuristic. Good in a fight, he was also known to tackle enemies to the ground and get into physical altercations. He often took it upon himself to go after beasties.
He enjoyed a high degree of familiar physical contact, such as friendly shoving, prodding, pulling, hand-holding, climbing on top of or being climbed upon, and hugging. When stressed for any reason he would often grab on to his companions for reassurance, with a marked preference for grabbing the Doctor. The Doctor and Jamie often participated in innuendos and double-entendres with each other.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Jamie had the ability to sense and reject subconscious mental manipulation while asleep, as well as sense danger. He was also the first to be affected and detect that something was wrong after they had exited the TARDIS upon first arriving in the Land of Fiction.
The young piper had musical ability, though he rarely displayed it. When his family legacy of piping was mentioned, he noted that all he had left of his bagpipes was the chanter. The Doctor wanted him to teach him how to play the bagpipes in return for being invited aboard the TARDIS. He later found some bagpipes in the TARDIS, which he planned to mend. At one point, he danced the Highland Fling in an attempt to dance out of the room and escape. The Doctor remarked that Jamie often attempted to hide his recorder from him.
He also was able to ride horses and used this skill to escape a Confederate soldier after knocking him off of his horse. (DW: The War Games) He was also adept at rock climbing. He scaled steep rocks with the aid of Rapunzel's rope of hair. However, he wasn't particularly good at tying knots and the Doctor wanted to be reminded to give him a lesson sometime.
Jamie expressed worry about being drowned and said that he couldn't swim when Ben suggested that they escape by swimming. The Doctor also mentioned that a member of their group might not know how to swim. At the time, Jamie and Polly were fleeing the rising water which was quickly engulfing the underwater city of Atlantis. The Doctor and Jamie occasionally paddled a kayak, or a rowboat together on the Thames.
History
At the conclusion of an adventure in which the Cybermen attacked a space station, Zoe Heriot joined the Doctor and Jamie. Jamie got along with her very well, despite her teasing him for his intelligence, even though Zoe came from a 21st century background very much unlike his own. In the Land of Fiction, Jamie temporarily changed into a different youth of the same age when the Doctor failed to put together his facial features correctly in a test.
When Zoe and Isobel Watkins were abducted by Tobias Vaughn, the Doctor and Jamie investigated him and evaded Packer, whom Jamie tackled to the ground. Jamie was pleased to have been given a small radio and didn't want the Doctor to break it when he suspected the gift. The Doctor and "the boy" were recognised by U.N.I.T.'s former Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, now Brigadier, from their meeting during the Yeti attack in the London Underground several years before. (=Jamie's leg was injured by a Cyberman's grip while climbing out of the sewers where he and the girls had gone to photograph the Cyberman. After a stay in the hospital, Jamie left with the Doctor and Zoe to stunned surprise at the sight of the appearing and disappearing TARDIS.
When the Doctor asked the Time Lords to intercede to return the victims of the War Lords, Jamie desperately urged the Doctor to escape his sentencing in the TARDIS, but submitted when they could not, promising to never forget the Doctor. A tribunal of Time Lords told the Doctor that they would return Zoe and Jamie to their homes. They would also alter Zoe and Jamie's memories, allowing them to only remember their first adventures with the Doctor, but not their travels with the Doctor in the TARDIS. The Doctor watched Jamie, now back in 1746 at the Battle of Culloden, come to the momentarily confused realisation of where he was. Jamie was fired at by a Redcoat, whom he then ran after with a sword, proudly yelling "Creag an tuire!" for the Clan McCrimmon.
The Doctor undertook a mission for the Time Lords and requested (blackmailed) them to have Jamie by his side. The Time Lords consented, altering Jamie's memories to believe he was still travelling with the Doctor and Victoria, who had in fact left the TARDIS to live out her life on Earth. (PDA: World Game)
Immediately following the Doctor's recruitment by the CIA, Jamie accompanied the Doctor on a diplomatic mission to Space Station Chimera. Here, Jamie believed he saw the Doctor killed in a massacre by Sontarans and hid in crawl spaces. Over the next few days, he reverted to a feral condition. A future Doctor and Peri appeared and Jamie, wielding a knife, made to attack him. Subsequently, Jamie helped to rescue "his" Doctor, who had not died. Jamie spent much of his time evading and being captured by Shockeye, who planned to eat him. When this adventure had concluded, Jamie left with the Doctor in the TARDIS, intending to rejoin Victoria.
Jamie experienced the events on Helicon Prime and was temporarily left in 1967, where he began working at a Scottish radar station. He assisted the Doctor in battle against the ruthless Quarks and joined him in numerous clashes with Quarks and Cybermen. He was later deposited back in the Scottish Highlands, his memories altered once more by the Time Lords.
After being returned to his own time, Jamie married Kirsty McLaren and they had "more bairns than there are days in the week", with numerous grandchildren by 1788. In order to correct a mistake that was made in 1688, where Jamie tried to help King James II and ensure a victorious future for Scotland and Bonnie Prince Charlie, a visitor came to help alter history back to its original course. However, Jamie chose to once again forget the memories of his adventures with the Doctor that were brought back.
