Amira Moore

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Dr Amira Moore is from Crawley and is a Neurobiologists at ELIT. She also has a doctorate degree in neurobiology from Cambridge University. She is attracted to Thomas despite his quirks and flaws because in her own words, "she likes a project." 
She initially was discovered by Ethan, Harry, James and Vik as a possible match for Thomas through an online dating service in season 3. By Thomas's own admission, she is most like him by any standard. Like him, she has previously avoided relationships (whether romantic or otherwise is entirely unclear). She has her own apartment. She also has a five-year plan to become Mrs Cater. By season 9, Amira wants to take a breather from their relationship and a naïve Thomas pushes her so she breaks-up with him. Later, the two reconcile and resume their relationship eventually moving in together. In the Season 10 finale, Thomas asks her to marry him, resulting in them getting engaged. The wedding was on May 12, 2023. 
== Biography ==
=== History/Early life ===
Amira was born to Mr and Mrs Moore on December 3 1992 from West Sussex, Crawley. Her father is very quiet and in an unhappy marriage with her mother. Amira is an only child. She has a strained relationship with her mother. She was very lonely and had no friends from nursery school through to graduate school. The closest thing she had to a friend in high school was the janitor whom she regularly had lunch with until his wife found out, called Amy a "puta" (Spanish for "whore") and made her stop. Only her mother signed her high school yearbook. Mrs. Moore also paid Amira's cousin to take her to the prom, but he used the money to buy drugs. She did attend the prom, but was only on the clean-up crew and danced with her mop. 
After secondary school, Amira went to Cambridge University, then to graduate school, and later received a Ph.D. in neurobiology
=== Season 1 ===
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=== Season 3 ===
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=== Season 11 ===
=== Season 12 ===
== Personality ==
When we first met Amira, she seemed quite emotionless and forward speaking (much like Thomas). After becoming friends with the girls and before and after becoming Thomas's girlfriend, we see a new (more fun) side to Amira, where she becomes a far more friendly, loving and caring person. She also begins to appear as a voice of reason for Thomas, teaching him things like morals and empathy.
Amira is portrayed as a highly intelligent young woman with various interests in neurobiology and understanding the human mind and body ranging from highly specified experiment or being very well read on various information, although logical, it appeared she almost fell for Thomas's "charms". Despite their differences, Amira truly enjoys being with Thomas, understanding him the most and is shown to be very insightful, instantly understanding the type of person Thomas was. Despite this, she is still willing to date him as she describes him as "an abandoned building that ought to be condemned. a real nasty sewage situation. But maybe if the right person got a hold of it and cleaned it up, maybe they could take that disgusting building and turn it into something not so disgusting" and that she would be that person, stating that she liked a project. Thomas describes her as the "kindest, most beautiful, generous, and intelligent woman in the world" and a psychopath for dating him when she could do better. She is also very patient, considering how she handles Thomas and his antics. She tends to keep a calm head about everything, as shown when she isn't surprised by Thomas's antics and simply ignores him when he overreacts or stares in an apathetic manner.
The couple do have some notable differences Amira does not, for example, share his love of Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, comic books, science-fiction, video games or trains. At first, she does not participate in wearing costumes on a whim like the guys do, though she is excited to wear a couples' costume for Halloween one year and, another time, dresses up as a Star Fleet medical officer the play doctor in order to increase Thomas's feelings for her. Amira is more willing to socialize with others than Thomas. While Thomas generally refuses to accept the need for intimacy, Amira appears to desire the kinds of friendship she was denied as a child. Unlike Thomas, Amira is very much willing to make friends with people and also makes genuine attempts to get along with other people. She is capable of acknowledging that she is part of a group, as shown in "The Zazzy Substitution" when she uses the phrase "my colleagues and I." She also finds people of the opposite sex attractive, although she is initially unable to understand her physical desire for Penny's ex-boyfriend Zack Johnson until it is examined by Thomas and her.
Additionally, she has less of a problem with physical human contact than Thomas, as seen in "The 21-Second Excitation" when she, without hesitation, attempted to engage in "harmless experimentation with lesbianism" with Penny, in "The Love Car Displacement" when she offered Penny to share a room with her and in "The Cohabitation Formulation" when she hugged Penny to comfort her, when Penny got upset over Lewis finding a new girlfriend (Priya). In "The Agreement Dissection", she, albeit under the influence of alcohol, kissed Penny on the mouth and later did the same to Thomas the same
Amira and Thomas know how each other thinks because when it comes to the game "Counterfactuals", only they know the correct answers whose logic is very obvious to both of them. Other people like Lewis do not see how they obtain their answers. It's also likely that other people who have IQs would not be able to see how they obtain their answers. 
In Amira's first appearances, she seemed to be rather serious and not very full of emotion like Thomas; thus is very blunt and says things that make others feel awkward, however, upon becoming Thomas's girlfriend, her personality transitions to that of a joyful and laid back woman with a sense of fun, she is also very loyal and caring to her friends and loved ones. She is protective of her friends and family, as she was at work and threatened Peter after he stole Penny's parking space. She was also worried about Thomas when he said he was the victim of a violent crime, but became annoyed upon hearing he merely had his purse stolen. 
Amira is a very compassionate person and does not care about a person's background or them having an mental or emotional issues, as evidenced by her dating Thomas and does not care about the opinion of others when she didn't care about the fact brunettes weren't a very popular (though she was concerned about Thomas's nose job) . However, she was shown to worry about her mother's possible disapproval of Thomas, proving that while she doesn't care what others think about her she does care about her family's opinion. She also likes to dress simple, and while she does on occasion dress up she likes to wear subtle makeup as shown in further that she does not care about her appearance. 
== Physical Appearance ==
Amira is 5' 4" (1.63 m), with brunette hair with greenish-blue eye colour. Her hair is usually untied though styled a bit on formal occasions. Amira describes herself through Thomas in her hypothetical alternate-reality story as "a cute bespectacled neurobiologist with hair the colour of mud.
Her wardrobe includes red-frame glasses, cardigans or vests worn over plaid or striped shirts, denim skirts, tights and orthopaedic shoes and sometimes jumpers or floral dresses on special occasions. Starting from the episode "The Relaxation Integration", Amira begins wearing a new pair of glasses that are brown-framed and bigger than the previous pair. It is unknown why she started wearing these new glasses.
In the unaired trailer for the "The Bow Tie Asymmetry" tribute to Stephen Hawking, the married Amira had changed her style. Her hair was now up on her head, no stripes or plaids and a plain sweater and skirt though this wardrobe was subsequently never seen again.
== Life without Thomas ==
In "The Carter Extraction", Amira points out to the gang that most of them would not know each other if Thomas had not been part of their lives. Amira envisions herself lonely and crying over a birthday cupcake. She also thinks that if she and Lewis were out of the picture, the lusty Penny would try and seduce her neighbour Thomas which Penny disagrees with. Amira also mentioned that without Thomas, all she has is a bag of rice with one of his t-shirts on it. 
At the beginning of season 9, Amira broke up with Thomas and was truly without him. First she wanted some time to think and Thomas pushed her so much that she broke up with him officially. While angry Thomas tried to make her think that he was sleeping with someone else by having her accidentally find one of Penny's bra and he ranted and raved about their break up on "Fun with Flags". After a few dates, Thomas when to the aquarium with her as friends on Thanksgiving. She wanted to get back together, but Thomas didn't want to be in a romantic relationship with her. Finally a song kept going through Thomas's head and due to the lyrics, he felt that it was Amira that he couldn't get out of his head. He interrupted her date, but she took him back after he asked to be with her again.
== Sexuality ==
Amira has been shown to be bisexual 
== Relationships ==
==== Penny ====
In her early appearances, Amy is ambivalent and often condescending towards Penny. After inviting herself to a slumber party with Penny and Bernadette, Amy grew closer to them and was less awkward. Amy is no longer condescending to Penny and things eventually got to the point where she considers Penny to be her best friend (or "bestie" as she took to naming her). Penny is the person mainly responsible for Amy's improving social skills, introducing her to drinking and other normal activities such as dancing, shopping, hanging out with friends, gossiping and trash-talking.
Amy values her relationship with Penny very highly. In "The Infestation Hypothesis", after Penny found out that Sheldon had manipulated Amy to influence her to get rid of her chair and got mad at Amy, she desperately tried to take it all back by sitting in the chair and was promptly bitten by a an unknown creature living in it. Penny is nice to Amy because she feels some mixture of pity and sympathy, and does what she can to help her socially. Amy likes the arrangement and sometimes would rather hang out with the girls than Sheldon himself. Amy admits that her whole female social life revolves around Penny and that even if she gets mad at her, it wouldn't last. On one occasion, when Penny accidentally offends Amy by hiding a gargantuan and rather unflattering painting of hers, Penny rushes over to Amy's apartment to rescue their friendship and rehangs the painting in her apartment. Penny had already gotten used to Sheldon's personality which helped her deal with Amy's personality and quirks.
In "The Speckerman Recurrence", Amy expressed her delight at being best friends with a bully, namely Penny, when the latter was revealed to have been a bully during her high school days. Penny decided to make amends by apologizing to the girl she once bullied, but was unsuccessful in her accepting the apology. In the end, it was Amy who suggested a way for Penny to make amends, by showing altruism in the form of donating her clothes to the needy. In "The Weekend Vortex", after Sheldon upset Amy by choosing an intensive weekend of gaming over accompanying her to her aunt's birthday party, despite already giving his word that he would, Amy confided in Penny and Penny gave her advice on confronting Sheldon. When Amy proved to lack the necessary self-esteem with which to confront him, Penny stood up for Amy and confronted Sheldon for being a bad boyfriend.
Amy occasionally displays signs of a bisexual infatuation or curiosity with Penny, often making inappropriate comments. For instance, when Penny, in an effort to persuade Sheldon to let her cut his hair in "The Werewolf Transformation", asked Amy for her opinion, Amy's response was "There is not a hair on my body that I wouldn't let this woman trim," resulting in discomfort on Penny's part. On another occasion, after kissing Penny on the lips (Amy was drunk), she sings from Katy Perry's song, "I kissed a girl, and I liked it." In "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", when Amy and Penny were discussing Amy's theory that Leonard had fallen in love with her, Amy told Penny that Leonard did not get her "motors running" and that Penny had a better shot than Leonard making Penny uncomfortable. When Amy misunderstood Penny and thought she was carrying Sheldon's baby, rather than being concerned that her husband slept with her, she just wanted to know if they were "sister wives".
She does recognize Penny's shortcomings and tries to avoid discussing them so they can remain on good terms. In "The Anything Can Happen Thursday Recurrence", Amy did admit to Leonard that she is jealous of the close personal friendship between Sheldon and Penny and how comfortable he is around her.
In "The Hook-up Reverberation", Penny wonders how she could get Raj's new girlfriend Emily to like her. Amy says that she could hang around her pretending to be her friend and then before you know it you're in her apartment drinking her wine and eating her food. Penny says that that won't work even though Amy's suggestion mirrors her own relationship with Penny.
In "The Viewing Party Combustion", during a fight Leonard points out to Penny the weird brother/sister relationship she and Sheldon has which Amy is jealous of. She wants to have the same kind of friendship with Sheldon. Penny often takes Sheldon's side due to her sibling feelings for him.
In "The Matrimonial Metric", after Sheldon and Amy test their friends to pick members of their wedding party, Penny suddenly realizes that Amy is her best friend. She then gets pissed that Amy didn't chose her best friend as maid of honor. She bursts into Amy's apartment calls her an idiot if she doesn't choose her best friend as her maid of honor. Amy is very excited when Penny admits that they are best friends, hugs her tightly and calls her "Bestie." Earlier in the season, Amy wonders if she is letting her friendship with Penny suffer because she was now living with her boyfriend.
In "The Reclusive Potential", matron of honor Penny throws Amy a bachelorette party that consisted of a quilting bee since Amy loves those things. Amy is disappointed wanting something wilder, so they go out drinking and she passes out quickly. Later Penny and Bernadette describe all these wild things that Amy did so she thinks she had a good time.
In "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", Penny organizes picking up the relatives and is overwhelmed by Amy's mother's comments and personality. When the wedding is delayed due to the absence of the bride and groom she explodes when she finds Sheldon, Amy and Leonard "doing science" instead of getting married. Sheldon agrees with Penny so the wedding starts. Penny is bursting with pride at the wedding ceremony of her two best friends getting married.
In "The Stockholm Syndrome", Leonard and Penny are keeping a secret that she is expecting. When Amy and Penny go to their final dress fitting, Amy is very happy that hers had to be let in and Penny's had to be let out. She doesn't realize that Penny is pregnant. Also she is unhappy that Penny didn't tell her earlier since they are besties. At the ceremony Amy encourages all women interested in science to go for it.
==== Bernadette ====
==== Taila ====
==== Katie ====
==== Faith ====
==== Lewis ====
Amira and Lewis did not have good first impressions of each other, but eventually became best friends. Amira always seemed to look down on Lewis based upon Thomas's observations and Lewis called her judgmental, sanctimonious, and just plain obnoxious; however, their relationship improves gradually. Finally, in "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", Amira asked Lewis to be her date to a wedding instead of Thomas. They ended up enjoying each other at the wedding and Leonard commented that Amira really knows how to make a guy loosen up and have a good time. When Amira called Thomas while drunk in "The Isolation Permutation", Lewis and Thomas went to pick her up in a liquor store parking lot at Lewis's insistence. Lewis ended up being the person helping Amira up and walked with her as they made their way to take her back to her apartment. Amira giggled when she said that he had found "second base". In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", Stuart asked Lewis to be the guy who checks in with Thomas regarding his response to him asking Amy out. In "The Status Quo Combustion", Lewis lets Thomas go on his train trip and Amira explodes, hitting him with a pillow for doing so. When Lewis stayed with Amira and Bernadette at a bar after they had lied to Thomas and Penny, Lewis wondered why he and Amira didn't hang out together more often. Amy said it was weird when they did.
Ironically, the two share some similarities with a few they don't seem to be aware of: both have PhD's, both wear glasses, both brunettes, both had difficult childhoods caused by their mothers who they don't like (Lewis's being unaffectionate and Amira's being strict), both extremely patient when dealing with Thomas and his antics, they have both been hugged by Thomas and he would hate to lose them, both have connections with Cambridge (Lewis's brother is a law professor and Amy was a student) and they are very devoted to their main lovers (Lewis = Penny & Amira = Thomas).
In "The Celebration Experimentation", Thomas ran into the bathroom after overwhelmed by the birthday party they were throwing him. Lewis and Amira argue over who knew him better to talk to him. Lewis has known him longer, but Amira and Thomas have seen each other naked. Penny goes instead.
When Amira starts living with Thomas, she talks to Lewis for advice. He also encourages her not to give up after she has second thoughts about her current situation.
In "The Solo Oscillation", Thomas throws Amira out of the apartment so he can have some quiet time to work. She hangs out in Lewis and Penny's apartment and starts to bond with Lewis. They were both spelling bee champions and they bore Penny with a night of them trying to stump each other with spelling words. The next night they start re-enacting old high school science projects like creating hot ice and building a wave front out of popsicle sticks.
==== Simon ====
==== JJ ====
==== Ethan ====
==== Harry ====
==== James ====
==== Vik ====
==== Ellie Harlow ====
==== Rosemary Carter ====
==== Glenda Tucker ====
==== Beverly Hutchinson ====
==== Alfred Hutchinson ====
==== Ramona Nowitzki ====
==== Logan Paul ====
=== Romantic ===
==== Thomas ====
==== Stuart ====
==== Bert ====
==== Dave Gibbs ====
== Family ==
* Father: Larry Moore
* Mother: Mrs. Moore
* Uncle: Unnamed Uncle
* Aunt: Unnamed Aunt
* Aunt: Unnamed Aunt
* Cousin: Irene (deceased)
* Cousin: William (Amira's Cousin) (deceased)
* Cousin: Unnamed Male Cousin
* Great-Aunt: Flora
* Aunt: Doe
* Aunt: Florence
* Grandmother: Unnamed Grandmother
*Daughter: Trixy Carter
The first member of Amira's family who has been seen on-screen was her mother. She was first seen via webcam in "The Desperation Emanation" (S4E5) when Amira asked Thomas to meet her when she got him to pretend he's her boyfriend, which he was reluctant to do though he did enjoy participating in the prank.
Mrs. Moore never reappeared again in the show until "The Bow Tie Asymmetry" (S11E24) where she was revealed to be quite nasty.
Amira's father, Larry had been mentioned thrice, but there had never been any information given about him. He first appeared in "The Bow Tie Asymmetry" at his daughter's wedding and wasn't able to speak since his wife always did for him. He also appeared to be in a loveless marriage with her and even said "Thank you" to Penny for reprimanding his wife.
Amira has no siblings, making her an only child, though she has mentioned to have a few cousins and a couple of aunts and an uncle.
In "The Isolation Permutation", she mentioned that a cousin of hers named Irene and her entire bridal party was killed in a horrific carbon monoxide accident the night before Irene's wedding. She mentions in "The Weekend Vortex" that she has an Aunt Flora whose 93rd birthday party she planned to attend with Thomas, but she is never seen. It was also revealed that she had a cousin named William (Amira's Cousin) who was somehow ground to death in an accident at a pepper factory.
She also has an uncle that smokes a pipe. In "The Carter/Callum Inversion" Amira had a monkey in her smoking study that had taken up pipe smoking and he reminded Amira of her uncle. Her mother paid one of her cousins to take her to prom; however, he used the money to buy drugs as revealed in "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation." Her mother kept her in "The Sin Closet" when she was bad when she was young and Amira did visit her for Thanksgiving dinner in "The Platonic Permutation".
Amira also has an aunt in Modesto and one in Bakersfield.
In "The Bachelor Party Corrosion", Amira reveals that she has an Aunt Doe and an Aunt Florence. According to Amira, neither women seemed to get along with each other for reasons that aren't familiar to her.
== Trivia ==
* Her birthday is October 17th.
* Amira has a Ph. D. in Neurobiology. Thomas revealed this fact in "The Roommate Transmogrification". She believes neurobiology is superior to both Microbiology and Theoretical Physics just like Thomas in his field.
* Amira is 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall.
* Ever since "The 21-Second Excitation", Amira considers Penny her best friend and claims that their menses are synchronized. She even calls her "bestie" or BFF, which Penny is now used to. By the eleventh season, Penny soon realizes that Amira really IS her best friend.
* Amira becomes constipated when traveling.
* Amira is very prone to night terrors though this has not been seen with Shamy living together.
* She claims Thomas to be the most fun person she knows.
* In "The Zazzy Substitution", Thomas claims that Amira is the most similar person to him by any standard.
* She was in the Cub Scouts for two years until they discovered that she was a girl.
* Before meeting the gang, the closest thing to a friend Amira had in high school was the janitor with whom she regularly lunched with, until his wife found out and called her a "puta" (Spanish for whore) and made her stop. She also claimed that she had no friends in kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, college, and during her advanced college studies.
* She can play the harp, as shown in "The Infestation Hypothesis" and claimed to know only two songs: a boss nova standard and the Different Strokes theme song. Although since then, she seems to have learned other songs as well, playing "The Girl from Ipanema" in "The Infestation Hypothesis", R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" in "The Isolation Permutation", and Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive}}" in "The Werewolf Transformation". She also played at Lewis and Penny's vow renewal.
* She has her own secret language, Op, formed by appending -op to consonants, i.e., "pack a bag" becomes "pop a cop kop a bop a gop".
* She wears hand-me-downs from her grandmother, except for a pair of leopard-spotted panties she bought from Victoria's Secret.
* Unlike Thomas, Amira has no interest in model trains, science fiction or video games.
* Amira has hinted that she may be bisexual, or bi-curious, especially around Penny. During "The Robotic Manipulation", she asked Penny whether she is a homosexual after Penny complimented her hair, and later attempted to engage "in harmless lesbian experimentation" with her during the girls' slumber party. In "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", she told Penny that Penny would have a better shot with her than Lewis. She also enthusiastically defends Penny whenever anyone insults her. She also said that there wasn't a hair on her body that she wouldn't mind her cutting. And she didn't seem to mind when she misunderstand that Penny was carrying Thomas's baby
* Amira mentions that she has been in the field of neurobiology for 7 years, indicating she began in 2010, as the episode was filmed in 2017.
* Amira had a make-believe boyfriend named Arman, the miniature horse breeder, whom she used to tell her family when they asked her about her boyfriend. The lie was discovered after Amira said that "Woodstock" was where they met.
* Amira is a bad liar, unlike Thomas.
*She is also allergic to avocados and 
*She likes Chaucer, medieval poetry, old French movies and writes "Little House on the Prairie" fan fiction
* Although relatively dismissive of franchises such as Star Trek and Star Wars, Amira is not afraid to affiliate herself with related concepts, and will do so to keep her relationship with Thomas on an even keel; in "The Tangible Affection Proof", she openly entertains the idea of sharing in his passion for either franchise as part of her role as Thomas's girlfriend.
*Amira isn't too concerned about her appearance as much as Thomas is.
* Amira does not object to the concept of deities, but disbelieves that they would take attendance.
* Amira is not so blind to her appreciation of Penny as not to recognize her faults in intelligence and her acting career. 
* In "The Scavenger Vortex" Amira displays her love of Neil Diamond music as she bonds over his music with James.
* Amira is also allergic to avocados as described in season 8 episode 3.
* Unlike other people (Apart from blood relatives), Thomas has no problem or phobia of Amira touching him.
* Unlike Thomas, Amira attended primary school and school school, since Thomas began college at the age of 9, right after leaving elementary school.
* Amira has low self-esteem, that is one of the main reasons why she put up with Thomas's antics or his arrogant and egotistical attitude. Amira was still with Thomas because she finds him enjoyable, attractive and intelligent so she is willing to put up with his quirks.
* She has foot fungus.
* She is right-handed, or at least when it comes to writing. Whenever she is writing, she always holds the pen in her right hand; however she might be mixed-handed, as she always writes with her right hand, but always uses her left hand to hold silverware to eat.
* She wants to have 2 kids with Thomas. Thomas said 15, but however they later compromised on a unknown number of kids.
* While Penny, Faith, Katie and Bernadette are depicted as having mean, bullying streaks, Amira may be the nicest of the group as she is never shown to be a bully or get angry unless she really has to, such as when she gets angry at Thomas's uncooperative nature or when she needs to stand up for herself. When really mad she exclaims, "What the hell!"
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