Jamie
Jamie Alexandra Clancy
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Portrayed By Dakota Fanning
Gender Female
Date of Birth December 11, 1997
Age 11
Zodiac Sign Sagittareus
Aliases Undine
Place of Birth Unknown
Current Location Building 26, Washington, D.C.
Occupation Former Acrobat, currently 'entry specialist'
Known Relatives James Clancy (Father, missing), Anne Clancy (Mother, deceased)
Significant Other None
Known Abilities Aqueous Form
First Appearance How come you call me cherry?

Once an acrobatic prodigy, she performed with the Clancy Carnival with her mother, Anne, as well as a safer solo act. She went missing when her mother was murdered, after which the Carnival went out of business. Eventually her father, James Clancy, was arrested on the belief he was involved in the murder and his daughter's disappearance. (See below for details.)

History

For a life that would one day be filled with tragedy, adventure, and strange powers, Jamie’s life started out pretty ordinary. Well, as ordinary as one can call being born in a circus. Clancy Carnival was one of the few travelling circuses left in the country, and it was owned by Jamie’s father, James Clancy.

Jamie’s mother, (Anne), on the other hand, was one of the performers. An acrobat, Jamie spent the first few years of her life wanting nothing else but to be an acrobat like her mother. And she had talent too. By the time she was six she was able to balance on a balance beam, (though a wire was still beyond her reach), while juggling, and rope-climbing and contortion acts. By eight she was doing performances on the high wire with her mother, though her mother did most of the difficult stuff.

Jamie never went to school, she never had time with the performances and the travelling. However, her mother taught her to read and write and do basic addition and subtraction. Most of their time, though, was spent learning and practicing new acts, since Jamie’s talent at such a young age was one of the few things drawing an audience.

Jamie loved her father, but it was her mother she was the closest too. She even knew her mother’s secret, something that even her father didn’t know. When Jamie was in the bath, her mother would make the water take forms, and move around like puppets.

Then, while the circus was visiting New York City, performing in the Central Park, tragedy struck. A pair of thieves struck their tent while Jamie was changing after her solo act, getting ready with her mother for the trapeze. Hearing them coming, her mother had Jamie hide in a trunk.

Jamie could hear the entire conversation. The thieves told Anne that she’d be fine if she just let them take what they wanted. And she did, until they moved for the trunk that Jamie was hiding in. When Anne refused to let them take it, they shot her.

They took the trunk without looking inside. Jamie stayed hidden, terrified, while it was loaded onto a truck. It was only as it was driving off that she snuck out of the trunk. As soon as the truck stopped to make a turn, she jumped off and ran. And ran some more.

Had she made her way back to the circus, she would have found her father alive and well. Traumatized, though, she felt that everybody must have died at the circus, and she went into hiding. After a couple days, something clicked in her mind. If she’d been braver, she thought, she could have let them know she was in the trunk, and they wouldn’t have shot her mother. What followed wasn’t a conscious decision, but from that moment on she never let fear get in the way of doing something. Anything.

She took to freerunning first, using her acrobatic skills to allow her to keep moving past obstacles. At first it was just for the thrill of it, finding joy in life again. She still wanted to be famous, though, and found that her stunts impressed the other kids, she worked on getting better. She also did unrelated stunts, like jumping the gaps between buildings and other such dangerous things.

Back at the circus, her father refused to report her missing, thinking any authorities that found her wouldn’t bring her back but send her to a foster home. So he kept the circus in town, and the entire group would go out looking for her. But New York is a big city. After a few months, the circus went out of business and her father finally reported her missing, but once the police found out how long she’d been missing they didn’t have much hope of finding her, and arrested her father on suspicion that he’d done something to her and tried to cover it up.

Jamie lived on the street for a while, getting attention first of the other kids by her daredevil stunts, and then later by criminals. She got a job working for a man, ‘Curly Joe’, nicknamed that because of how he looked like Curly from the Three Stooges. He was a lot more intelligent, though, and used Jamie as a runner. By this point, few adults could keep up with her, especially on a course with a lot of obstacles, allowing her to make deliveries and to even get away if anybody suspected her.

It was shortly before she turned ten, an hour before she was to show up to Joe’s to make a run, that she tried her biggest stunt ever. She’d jump from one building, across the alley below to catch the ladder of a fire escape and then ride it down. Unfortunately, she failed, not jumping far enough. In a panic on the way towards the ground, she screamed, and then everything changed.

Her audience, gathered on the roof she jumped from, ran to the side to look. Only to see, far below, her clothes lying on the ground, with water splattered everywhere like a big water balloon had gone off. Confused and scared, the kids ran off.

Little did they know that the water splashed everywhere *was* Jamie. Not that she really understood it herself at the time. That first time, it took her hours to figure out how to bring herself together again from her droplets splattered all over. She learned to move, flow around as a liquid, and then finally, how to take human shape again. By that point someone had taken her clothes, but she found something to wear in a nearby dumpster and then ran back to Joe’s.

She told Joe when she got back, to explain why she was late, but of course he didn’t believe her, just sent her on her assignment before she could go rest. She did the work, and then found a dumpster to curl up in and slept for almost a day.

She kept practicing, turning herself into a liquid and learning how to move around in it. A couple times she got lost exploring the drains and the water pipes of the city, and once she even got trapped in someone’s water heater. She flowed out the bathroom tap when a tub was being filled, terrifying a poor girl a little younger than her when a portion of her bath water slithered out of her tub and out of the bathroom.

Just after her tenth birthday, a couple weeks before Christmas, she was at Joe’s when he was threatening to punish a teenager that worked for him who had messed up. The teen, in a panic, grabbed a gun and took a few wild shots. One would have hit Jamie, but she turned into water just before it could hit her.

Joe suddenly took an interest in Jamie. The timing wasn’t suspicious to the girl, he said that he’d come to think of her like a daughter and she believed him. Desperate for a family again, when he took her in she was happy. The fact that he helped her, setting up situations to practice her power only sealed the deal. He helped her figure out how to take human form again inside her clothes (so she could reform fully dressed), and how to navigate the city’s water system. It took a lot of practice, but by the end of January he deemed her ready.

He had one of his employees take her out to a house in the suburbs, and had her work her way down through an outside drain, through the pipes and back up through the house’s kitchen sink. She went to the front door and opened it for him, and he’d rob the place. The best part, for Jamie, was returning back and getting praise and hugs from Joe. Every few days they do this. Jamie occasionally takes something from the houses for herself, as well.

Power

Overview: Jamie can turn herself into water in the blink of an eye. When in water form she can move around, flowing as fast as water can but defying the usual limitations, (flowing up and over the edge of a tub, for example), can flow through drains, cracks in doors, or anywhere water can move. She can also apply some force to manipulate objects through water pressure, but it's only as strong as she is physically in human form. When in her water form, she can only be hurt by electricity which damages the bond keeping her in control of the water molecules that make her up. Freezing her will make her unable to act, and turning her to steam will leave her able to float around as a cloud but otherwise unable to act until she condenses back into liquid, but she's still alive. When she's in a body of water in her aqueous form, she's completely undetectable, and can move much faster than any normal human swimming.

Potential: Someday, she'll be able to take on water and bulk herself up, allowing her to fight as a 'water elemental', but for right now she can only take on enough water to heal her own injuries, and even that is still difficult for her. Eventually she'll also be able to blast high-pressure water in a type of attack by taking from herself, but right now she can only squirt about as effectively as a water gun.

Weaknesses: First of all, as stated earlier, electricity will harm her, damaging her control over her molecules and issuing damage that will show as burns on return to human form. (These can be healed by her submersive healing techniques.) If she's frozen in her aqueous form when she returns to normal, even though she'll need to have melted to make the transformation back, her body will show signs of mild hypothermia, which can only be healed by warming up. Just the same, if she's vapourized while she's in her aqueous form, on return to human form she'll have symptoms of a fever until she can cool down.

Power Stunts

Squirt Gun: When in either form she can send a blast of water at someone with about the strength and mass of a regular old-fashioned water gun's blast. This does no damage but will of course make someone wet.

Transform: The key to her whole power. Transforming is easy for her almost instinctual at difficulty Terrible. She's completely unable to transform anything but her body so she can't take clothes with her but she's practiced and can transform back to human into clothes that are lying around except for shoes and socks. She's practiced this enough that she can do this as long as clothes are available with no extra difficulty.

Water Heal Me: When submerging in another source of water in her liquid form she can take in water to heal herself of any injuries she sustained when in physical form. This is difficult for her though at difficulty Mediocre. She can make another attempt for every hour submerged.

Timeline

Quotes (To Come)

  • "Memorable quotes!"

Trivia

  • Jamie can't keep a secret. Seriously. If you want something to remain secret, don't tell her. The only secret she's ever successfully kept was her mother's powers.

Theme Song

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