Things past that are sketchy, clear up until he was about thirteen, and his parents died. I don't know how, nor do I know if he actually lived on the farm with the bodies, nor do I know why child wellfare didn't come out and get him. But they didn't. And then his suit ripped. And he had lots of little himselves running about. So he started a communal farm, and for a year he lived with himselves on a communal farm.
The Fantastic Four found him and took him in, then sent him off to live on Muir Island, which was a research facility. There, he helped out Moira (who is the head doctor) as a lab assistant, right up until the time the entire populace of the island was brainwashed. Lots of stuff happened--I can't remember all of it, but it's not important--and he met Val Cooper, which is important.
See, later Val took started the X-Factor program. X-Factor was a team of superheroes working for the government. Like a strikeforce, sorta. Jamie was one of Val's recruits--as near as I can figure, he must be pretty young still. Anywhere from sixteen to twenty-two or so, the way Marvel time works. For my story, I set him at almost twenty-one.
So Jamie went to work with X-Factor. He's also a jokester--though if you read the issues carefully, he starts showing signs of depression pretty quick. A dupe (dupe = duplicate of himself--this happens whenever there's a sharp contact with him. He snaps his fingers, one appears, someone hits him, one appears, etc. He can, however, suppress this.) of his dies, and when he tried to re-absorb it he found he couldn't--it was really dead. This upset him greatly, he felt like he'd killed it.
Later, he killed a villian named Mellancamp in self-defense. He still felt it was murder, though. While tracking down a mutant with a disease similar to the Legacy Virus (comparable with AIDs, though usually only strikes mutants) he contracted the virus and got sick. Shortly thereafter, his friend Guido had a heart attack. Jamie became VERY depressed.
Then he died. Ick.
But it's okay--this is the Marvel universe, and death is temporary. So, Jamie came back! Apparently, as long as he's got a dupe when he dies, his mind is transfered there. Anyway, Jamie came back . . . there's this whole shady area where nothing really happened with him. In fact, they said he came back, but he didn't re-join the team or anything.
Forge had long since become the new government liason between, well, the government and X-Factor. Guido got better, went flying off into space with a woman. Moira got the Legacy Virus--the first, and so far only, human to contract it. Alex died. The team disbanded.
That's where Bodies of Water picks up. Nothing has been said as to what's happened to Jamie since the team disbanded. Heck, they'd forgotten about him even before then. Bad writers!
Anyway, his only girlfriend was a mutant who had the power to make people happy. Stands to reason that he might have been happy around her because of that, doesn't it?
So that's Jamie's bio, and you probably aren't going to find a better one. Unfortunately, people don't write much about Jamie. But that's okay--I love him.
If you do find a page or stories or anything about him, tell me!
This pic was taken from X-Factor 71.
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