“Jacqueline Hyde, get both your selves over here!”
— Carmen, Where in Time season 2 episode 7
“At school they taught me how to be so pure in thought and word and deed
They didn’t quite succeed
For everything I long to do, no matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too
It’s a... it’s a... it’s a... it’s a... it’s a sin”
— Pet Shop Boys, “It‘s a Sin”
"Jacqueline is sweet and soft-spoken; Hyde's berserk personality loves to cause catastrophes. Jacqueline's dueling dual personalities keep Acme agents on their toes, making her Carmen’s ultimate double agent!"
—
Where in Time game manual
((I've loved Carmen since I was about three and watched the PBS game shows. My favorite entry in the franchise, however, is
Where on Earth. I've never quite let up on my Carmen fandom, and I run
F**k Yeah Carmen Sandiego on Tumblr. I am, incidentally, very gay and very trans.
I chose Jacqueline Hyde partly because she's amusing, and partly because I for some reason had a crush on her as a child. And, in small part, because as someone who is both the world's biggest bitch and the world's biggest sweetheart, I can relate to the whole duality thing. Though unlike Jacqueline, I don't actually have dissociative identity disorder...))
Random tidbits:
- Jacqueline is pan, though she doesn't realize it as she's never thought about it. Hyde is too busy wreaking and enjoying chaos to be attracted to anyone.
- Jacqueline's favorite song is Take a Chance on Me by ABBA.
- Hyde developed a year prior to Jacqueline's meeting Carmen, following a car accident (see this post).
- Jacqueline has a deeply unsettling recurring dream in which she glows red and is horribly mean, with no moral compass at all. She's not sure what, if anything, it means...
Timeline:
- 1959 - Born
- 1975 (age 16) - Car accident; Hyde develops
- 1976 (age 17) - Jacqueline meets Carmen and joins VILE, coming forward in time to Carmen's then-present day
- Age 19 - Present day
AMA thread with more background