#echospringsooc

Hi everyone :) My name’s Sophie, I live in England, and I’m 25 years old! I currently have 2 jobs, and am studying a Masters in Book History, so apologies if activity is rather sporadic.

Here are a few of my favourite things: Elementary, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, RTD’s Doctor Who, Peter Pan, reading basically anything, every cat in existence, and vintage clothing.

And here are a few notes on my daughter, Jamie:

For those of you who haven’t seen Elementary, I apologise for spoilers. Consider yourself warned! (Also, please go watch it, because it’s the best adaptation of Sherlock Holmes ever. Seriously, Benedict Cumberbatch who?)

Jamie was born in Kent (I’m going to nail down a more specific location later!) to two mathematicians. But, though they imparted their clever intellects onto their daughter, they imparted little else. From a young age, nothing stirred inside Jamie Moriarty’s heart. She felt no empathy, no love, for anyone. To call her a sociopath would have been an insult to her, however -- she never hurt small animals, or attacked her classmates in fits of rage. Her lack of empathy wasn’t a burden, but a weapon, which she wielded.

During her childhood, she learnt quickly that it was best to act like everyone else, and she perfected a mask of friendliness and warmth which fooled most people. But, behind this mask of smiles and British politeness, she was the same calculating, cold, social chameleon.

She moved through her formative years with quiet ease, performing remarkably well at school, but always distant from her peers. Where she excelled was fine art -- she was able to put a pencil to paper and capture the likeness of anyone or anything with ease. When she had completed her mandatory education, she went on to study Fine Art at the prestigious University of Oxford, and from there, she became a contract fine art restorer, mostly lending her talents to the British Museum, but occasionally travelling further afield to take up work for other museums and galleries.

It was around this time that her criminal nature reared its head, and she began occasionally switching original paintings for her own copies. She always did this with arguably moral intentions -- the paintings would have been reframed, or deliberately filed down, were they go to back to their original homes. She was, arguably, saving the artist’s original works in their original form.

Quite suddenly, shortly after the death of her father, Jamie moved to America. She had no emotional ties to England, and was curious what America would have to offer her. So, she moved to Echo Springs. After spending her entire adult life almost constantly moving, it was a change of pace to stay in one small town, but she’s settled into life here very well, taking a job at the Echo Springs Museum as a fine art restorer.

The recent dead bodies in the woods haven’t disturbed her at all. She is intrigued, but, beyond that, completely unaffected. What plays on her genius mind more are the odd dreams she’s been having, of people she’s never met, and a baby girl, and carefully handwritten letters tied together with string, and pools of blood.

TL;DR: Jamie Moriarty is a fine art restorer, whose meticulously crafted polite and friendly persona belies a hollow and cold nature. She has a history of thievery, stealing irreplaceable works of art from various galleries and museums in England, but has yet to do that in Echo Springs. Check out her bio here, stats here, and potential connections here!