Jamie Anderson

Jamie Elijah Anderson is the main protagonist of Life Is Strange: Tales Of The Powers and an art student in an art college in Suffolk. He is of Jewish descent.

Appearance
Jamie tends to change his hairstyle and outfit every season. However, he is shown with brown hair, brown eyes and light skin. He is shown to be skinny and stands on 5'8 possibly due to an eating disorder or due to cystic fibrosis.

Series 1
He is shown to wear a more semi-formal outfit consisting of a red jumper over a dress shirt, grey jeans and black and white converse shoes. His hair is also shown to be tidied up and slightly curled but after his hair got wet, his hair started getting curlier.

Series 2
Starting from series 2, his outfit started to become more casual. Consisting of a brown and red jacket over a dress shirt, blue jeans and black and white converse. His hair is growing slightly longer and is getting curlier. He is also shown with a nasal cannula due to cystic fibrosis.

Series 3
His appearance in Series 3 is a lot similar to his appearance in Series 2. The difference is that he is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt under the same jacket and his hair is now longer and curlier.

Personality
Jamie is a shy and anti-social teenager and is really smart. He is also introverted and self-conscious. After the death of his best friend when he was 10, he spent most of his teenage years with depression and anxiety and was closeted. During the events of the show, his marks went down due to his mental health while his professors thought it was because he had no friends due to his antisocial behaviour. After befriending his friend group and eventually dating Alex, he started getting more outgoing and confident. He also became open about his sexuality. He is also shown to be soft-spoken and not stereotypically masculine. Jamie often snaps out of nowhere when he wants to get his emotions out due to his tendency to keep his emotions to himself.

Pre-Series Life
Jamie was born on the 18th of November 1990 in Essex and the youngest of 3 children but the only family member shown in the series is Arnold. He is of Syrian and Israeli descent. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis since birth and went through multiple procedures. He also had to be on oxygen throughout his life due to respiratory issues. When he was 10, he befriended and eventually dated Jayden prior to his disappearance. Throughout his teenage years, he discovered his powers but it is unknown how he got them and didn't know how to control them. He remained quiet and was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. At that point, he stopped being on oxygen due to insecurities.

Original Timeline
Jamie was going to turn 19 in Series 1 where his teachers saw how antisocial he is. Because of that, he joined a theatre club and formed a troupe with his boyfriend, Alex and his friends, Robin, Pat, Ashley and Kris. Jamie opened up to them on why he has been acting like a shy antisocial teenager. His best friend and former boyfriend, Jayden has been murdered. So together with his friends, they tried to solve this murder mystery. Jamie also discovered that his new friends also have powers.

Alternate Timeline
After saving Jayden from his fate in 2001, Jamie has changed in the next 8 years. He is dating Jayden and is more openly gay. He also had a lung transplant a year prior which couldn't be possible in the original timeline because Jamie doesn't want one. He wanted to check on Alex only to realise that he is dating Robin and he was drugged in 2001 when he was 13 resulting in him having epilepsy. He also discovered that Simon is dating Ashley and Jim is studying in Edinburgh.

Powers

 * Levitation: He has the ability to fly.
 * Time Travelling: He has the ability to rewind time and even time travel. He can also freeze time. Though because of his powers, he often gets awful predictions like the fate of his own town in Essex.
 * Empathy: He has the ability to feel other people's feelings and can mind-read. He also can tell how anyone is feeling from psychometry. He can also absorb other people's emotions only if their strong emotions.
 * Telepathy: He can psychologically contact anyone or get in contact with someone with the same power as him. This power is proven to be useful because Robin can use it to locate Jamie when he was kidnapped.
 * Telekinesis: He has the ability to levitate and manipulate objects with his own mind. He can also form force fields with this power.

Limits
Sometimes, when he uses all his powers at once, his nose starts bleeding and then he passes out. He is also shown to not be able to control his powers prior to meeting his friends so he could often get headaches and loose his focus. This is the reason why his marks have been going down.

Equipment

 * Nasal Cannula/Oxygen Tank: Starting from Series 2, he started using his oxygen tank after not using it throughout his late teenage years.
 * Cell Phone: Jamie keeps in touch with his friends and family with his cell phone. The phone model is modelled after the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS due to the show's setting being 2009.
 * Diary: Jamie keeps a diary with him to keep record on what's going on throughout his life in college. He also writes notes about the friends he had made throughout the show.
 * Computer: Jamie has a computer at home mainly to keep track of his friends socials or doing his homework. Viewers might notice drawing apps and Photoshop on the computer showing that Jamie studies graphic design and animation.

Associated Deaths

 * Jayden Harrison (indirectly caused): When Jamie was 10-years-old, he had to witness his best friend and boyfriend killed by his own brother.
 * Arnold Anderson (indirectly caused): After Jamie was rescued by Robin and Alex, his brother, Arnold, was killed by Ashley who used her telekinesis to lift up a knife and stabbed him. Although Jamie tried to stop her to prevent her from going psycho, she wanted to do it for the sake of her friends'safety.

Friends

 * Ashley Maddox: Ashley and Jamie are shown to have a sibling-like relationship as Jamie sees Riley as an older sister. She is also shown to be protective of him and actually killed Arnold just to protect Jamie and to prevent other people from falling victim of Arnold's murders.
 * Pat Hendricks: Jamie and Pat are shown to be really good friends. He can also tell if Jamie isn't doing good thanks to his empathy which is also helpful.
 * Robin Jackson: Robin and Jamie are also really good friends. Robin is shown to be concerned about Jamie's health since he has a friend who lived with cystic fibrosis. He also helped locate Jamie when he was kidnapped by Arnold with the help of his telepathy powers.
 * Kris Fawcett: Jamie and Kris didn't have much of a relationship but they are still good friends.

Enemies

 * Arnold Anderson: Even though Arnold is Jamie's brother, he still bullies him throughout his entire life. For Jamie's homosexuality, disease and skinniness. It has gotten so bad, Arnold killed Jamie's best friend, Jayden. In an alternate timeline, they still have a bad relationship and Arnold ended up drugging Alex instead.

Romantic

 * Alex Kenyon: Alex and Jamie have been dating since halfway through Series 1 but were more open in Series 2. Jamie fell in love with him at first site but was shy to say it until he first kissed him in Series 1.

Lamb
Jamie is often associated with a lamb mainly due to his Jewish beliefs. According to the Bible, lambs represents Christ as both suffering and triumphant. This is shown with Jamie suffering from both cystic fibrosis and mental health issues but is later triumphant when he finally reached his goals. Lambs also symbolise gentleness, innocence and purity. When depicted with a lion, it can mean a state of paradise. In addition, the lamb symbolises sweetness, forgiveness and meekness. Jamie has a rather sweet personality and is shown with kindness. He is also meek especially when his brothers bully him.

Name Meaning
Jamie originally means “may God protect”. Besides, Jamie means “holder of the heel” (from Hebrew “'akév/עָקֵב” = heel) or “supplanter” (from Hebrew “'akáv/עָקַב” = to follow/to supplant), because Jacob was born grasping the heel of his first born twin brother Esau and he bought his birthright to supplant him. Jamie is also a unisex name due to the use of unisex names, especially the protagonists in Life Is Strange and Jamie's gender being genderfluid. His name is also associated with his Jewish roots.

Elijah, also spelled Elias or Elia, Hebrew Eliyyahu, (flourished 9th century bce), Hebrew prophet who ranks with Moses in saving the religion of Yahweh from being corrupted by the nature worship of Baal. Elijah's name means “Yahweh is my God” and is spelled Elias in some versions of the Bible. This name also shows more of Jamie's Jewish roots.

Anderson is a surname deriving from a patronymic meaning "Son of Ander/Andrew" (itself derived from the Greek name "Andreas", meaning "man" or "manly").

Trivia

 * Nobody figure out how or why did Jamie gained his powers, this applies to his friends and boyfriend
 * Jamie's Zodiac sign is Scorpio. This sign matches his emotional personality and his love for mystery. Scorpios are also intense and harsh similar to Jamie who would often snap.
 * Jamie is of Jewish descent, his father is a Jew from Syria and his mum is from Israel. Which also explains why his name has Biblical origins.
 * Jamie can speak Hebrew (or Arabic for countries that don't recognise Israel)
 * Jamie is left-handed, his actor, Mathew Baynton, is also left-handed
 * Throughout the entire series, it is shown that Jamie lives in a dorm all by himself. However, he later moves in with his friends and shares a room with Alex.