Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2022: Week 41
Amy Pond, also known as Amelia as a child and given the moniker The Girl Who Waited by The Doctor, is a character in Doctor Who, and the companion of the Eleventh Doctor. She first meets him as a little girl and goes travelling with him as an adult, leaving on the night before her wedding to Rory Williams.
Fans of her character often emphasise her mental health issues, and the intense trauma she went through during her time on the TARDIS, this often being a point of relatability for some of those fans. Fanworks, fandom discussions, and memes often explore or take into account this, and angst and hurt/comfort are fairly common as a result.
She's a member of The Ponds, a term used to refer to the companion family unit of Amy, Rory, often River, and occasionally the Eleventh Doctor himself. Fanworks focusing on this unit are common, though post-canon fics, sometimes involving their son Anthony Williams, will occasionally also be explored.
She'll also often be in fanworks meeting other characters in the Whoniverse, such as other companions, and will often show up as a minor or secondary character in fics focused on a different, unrelated ship, especially in AUs.