I actually have read almost no S5 fic. XD; It felt sort of unnecessary - there're no emotional threads hanging, and it seems the show itself's got hold of the plot bits. I think most of what I've ended up reading are various crossovers, like... [other series] trundles along, then a blue box shows up.
My idea of Amy Pond in short (this is not stuff I need or expect to see in a fic, per se, but her portrayal should be congruent):
1) She kind of fronts. Like, she actually is a tough cookie, events prove it, but she wants to be seen as a tough cookie too, she doesn't like being vulnerable. As time goes by she overcompensates less, though.
2) She's a tomboy. Despite the short skirts and all that she's not very girly, she just has nothing to hide - no body image issues, no sex hangups. She doesn't seem to prize girliness, actually; my guess is that she has no close female friends of her age bracket, in fact might have been disliked by other girls. Boys would have liked her, both romantically and as friends. I don't think her emotional guardedness is just because everyone thought she lied about the Doctor, but the idea of him was something she fell back on over and over, so there must've been other stuff going on, other sources of loneliness.
3) Differentiating between Nu!Who's young ladies: Amy is most likely to instigate (and win) a drinking contest in a space bar for cred. Rose wouldn't, Martha definitely wouldn't, Donna would be more FUCK YEAH SWEET ALCOHOL straight up, River... no one in their right mind would challenge River.
4) She shades more toward the adrenalin junkie side of "wonders of the universe etc." It's not so much getting to know people or cultures on their own terms as the process of navigating outrageousness on the fly that appeals.
5) She was genuinely geeky as a child; she was into stuff. This is probably what I like best about her.
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My idea of Amy Pond in short (this is not stuff I need or expect to see in a fic, per se, but her portrayal should be congruent):
1) She kind of fronts. Like, she actually is a tough cookie, events prove it, but she wants to be seen as a tough cookie too, she doesn't like being vulnerable. As time goes by she overcompensates less, though.
2) She's a tomboy. Despite the short skirts and all that she's not very girly, she just has nothing to hide - no body image issues, no sex hangups. She doesn't seem to prize girliness, actually; my guess is that she has no close female friends of her age bracket, in fact might have been disliked by other girls. Boys would have liked her, both romantically and as friends. I don't think her emotional guardedness is just because everyone thought she lied about the Doctor, but the idea of him was something she fell back on over and over, so there must've been other stuff going on, other sources of loneliness.
3) Differentiating between Nu!Who's young ladies: Amy is most likely to instigate (and win) a drinking contest in a space bar for cred. Rose wouldn't, Martha definitely wouldn't, Donna would be more FUCK YEAH SWEET ALCOHOL straight up, River... no one in their right mind would challenge River.
4) She shades more toward the adrenalin junkie side of "wonders of the universe etc." It's not so much getting to know people or cultures on their own terms as the process of navigating outrageousness on the fly that appeals.
5) She was genuinely geeky as a child; she was into stuff. This is probably what I like best about her.