Matthew "Matty" James

Matty James was college student and journalist from Warren, Ohio. After meeting with the Tenth Doctor, Matty joined him on his adventures through time and space. He eventually met and became romantically involved with Hex. He is also the only companion besides Hex who has interacted fully with each incarnation of the Doctor.

Humble Beginnings
Matty’s mother and father met during a trip to London. His mother was an American studying in England, while his father was simply frivolously traveling. The two of them met, and fell in love in the few short weeks. Jessica eventually needed to go back to the states, while Marc decided to follow. They married two months later, and Matty was born eleven months later.

Matty had a good life growing up, and had no complaints, until his little sister arrived and the only complaint was he wasn’t an only child. Jessica died soon after the birth of her daughter due to unknown complications during his pregnancy. Marc raised both children on his own, although he needed to work himself ragged to do so. Matt and Sam were lucky that their mother’s parents helped to the best of their own ability.

Early in his life, Matt loved to investigate the world around him. From kindergarten onward, he began to tell stories about the world around him. He would tell what the butterfly was doing, or he would explain the way his teachers looked and taught their lessons. He always wanted to explain the world around him. In High School, he began his journalism career first as a reporter, and eventually as an editor of the newspaper.

During his college career, he made his way quickly through the ranks of reporter to editor once again, although he preferred actually being out in the field and finding the stories. The problem was, he never knew what kind of stories he was searching for. He researched sports, arts, and other news items and none of them seemed to continue to catch his interest. The world around him had already begun to bore him. He loved writing, and he loved journalism, but the subjects he wrote about bored him.

Initial Journey's with the Doctor
Matty met the Doctor as the Time Lord searched out an odd sonic disturbance in Warren, Ohio after awkwardly landing the TARDIS. Although he initially did not want young Matty to come along, he eventually warmed to the young man after seeing him hold his own against a Slitheen.

While watching the creation of Earth's moon, a strange signal from another TARDIS led Matty to meet Hex and begin a journey to save the Doctor. The Black Guardian, a former nemesis of the Doctor, with the help of the Carrionnite made the Doctor begin to degenerate to his former incarnations. They traveled across space and time as the Doctor moved backwards through each incarnation. Hex and Matty began to build a bond between the two of them.

After bringing the Key of Time together, Matty saved the Doctor by linking their three respective timelines making it impossible to change any of them without changing all three. The three began to journey together meeting up with River Song as the Sontarans brought together paradoxes in time.

The Murderers on the Orient Express led them to a new woman to join their group. Emily was a time detective and helped them solve the case of the murders, which was a group of purists trying to stop the Forest and a Silurian from being in a relationship. Emily proudly joined the group at Matty's behest.

There greatest journey was still down the line. After Matty packed up his apartment back in 2004, the four of them went on their greatest journey. Soon after meeting up with the Osirian, Sutekh, the four were separated throughout time and space.

Matty met a young man named Tomy who introduced him to River Song for seemingly the first time. After convincing her that he knew her in her future, River helped Matty sucessfully break into the Time Agency. The three kidnapped a young Time Agent and used her to bring them back in time to the 21st Century where they ran into Torchwood and specifically Martha Jones.

Using U.N.I.T.'s pilfered alien technology, the used Matty to bring them all to the crossroads. The groups together ended up defeating Sutekh, stopping Omega (who was behind the entire event), and creating a new Eye of Harmony. After some trepidations about staying with the Doctor, Hex talked to him into it.

Unknown Adventures
Matty traveled with the Doctor for several months, although in his actual era several years had passed. Matty spent Christmas and Easter with his family each year. He was best man at his sister's wedding, and even was at the birth of both of his nieces and nephews. He toted Hex along for most of these events, and the two of them have seemingly been in a much longer relationship to Matty's family then to themselves. The Doctor also augmented his phone allowing his family to call him or he to call his family whenever he wants.

Next Great Adventure
Matty's next great adventure began in Hawaii where the Doctor planned on having a white Christmas, if only he knew how to fly his TARDIS.

Family

 * Jessica James - Mother (deceased)
 * Marc James - Father
 * Samantha James-Hill - Sister
 * Phillip Hill - Brother-in-Law
 * Jamie Hill - Youngest Niece
 * Amelia (pronounce Ah-Moll-E-Ah) Hill - Oldest Niece

Personality
Matty is a fun-loving guy who doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do with his life. But at 21, he doesn’t have to know what he wants. He studies journalism, and loves to know the secrets of the world around him. He also tends to get himself into a bit of trouble (generally at his college paper it’s with the people around him). He wants to do something great with his life, but he is stuck in his small city he grew up in. He cares a lot about his friends, although very slowly they are all leaving to go to their lives after college. He loves life, and is quite the exuberant personality. He does tend to get angry when people look down at him because of either his sexuality, or because he is still in college (and doesn’t have the ‘real-world’ experience). He’s a good guy, with a great heart.

Skills and abilities
Matty has learned Venusian Aikido from the Doctor and tends to practice it whenever he can. He is becoming well versed at it, and has used it more in practice than he'd like to admit.