Lindsey Thorndyke

Lindsey Thorndyke (リンゼー・ソーンダイク) (neè Fair ) is a character that appears in the anime series Sonic X and its comic series published by Archie Comics. She is a human, the wife of Nelson Thorndyke, and the mother of Christopher Thorndyke. She is a very famous and talented actress whose reputation has made her a celebrity. Because of her work, she spends most of her time traveling the world or on the movie set, and as such spends little time with her family. Nonetheless, she is a loving mother and wife who cares deeply for her family.

Past
The sister of Sam Speed, Lindsey eventually became a highly famous movie star and married Nelson Thorndyke. Together with Nelson, Lindsey had a son who came to be named Christopher Thorndyke. Together, they would live in a luxurious mansion in Station Square. Wanting to give their son the best, Lindsey and Nelson chose to focus on their careers so that Chris would never need anything. However, they unintentionally ended up neglecting Chris, who just wanted parental love. This led to Chris developing unnoticeable problems dealing with separation.

New World Saga
Sometime after Chris turned twelve, Lindsey gave Chris a call to tell him that she would not be home anytime soon due to rainy weather on the movie set having delayed her work. During this, Lindsey heard Chris admit that he went swimming last night in the adult pool in order to fish a cat out of the water. Forgiving Chris for breaking his promise of not swimming at night in the adult pool, Lindsey bid her son farewell and called Nelson to tell him about Chris' escapade.

Eventually, both Lindsey and Nelson found the time to return home from work at the same time. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by Ella, Mr. Tanaka and Chuck. While Lindsey was eager to see Chris, he did not come home from school as promised. While Nelson grew increasingly worried, Lindsey convinced him to trust Chris and wait. Eventually though, Lindsey grew worried herself and contacted all the TV news stations for a special report. When evening fell though, Chris finally came home, and Lindsey and Nelson gave their son a loving embrace before having dinner with him as a family.

Settling down at home in hopes of resuming her motherly duties, Lindsey decided to have a house party and invite Sam to it. During preparations, Lindsey welcomed back Chris when he came home from school. As Lindsey thought about what to wear for the party though, she noticed that Chris and Chuck looked distressed. In an attempt to hide Cream and Cheese, who were in the living room, from Lindsey, Chuck and Chris convinced to go to her room and get dressed for the party. Soon after though, she called for Ella to help find her dress. Just as Lindsey was getting ready though, she received a phone call from a director who invited her to star in a new movie. While Lindsey accepted the role, she wanted to wait until tomorrow in order to attend her son's party. However, delaying the production was out of the question, meaning Lindsey had to leave immediately. This made Lindsey consider herself a bad mother for leaving Chris again so soon. Informing Ella and Tanaka of her departure, Lindsey, with a heavy heart, left for the movie set.

Chaos Emerald Saga
Later on, Lindsey had Chris and his friends over to visit the set of one of her more notable movie screenings that had them filming at a haunted castle that was under the control of King Boom Boo and his minions, the Booms. After night fell following a long day of acting, Lindsey bid her son goodnight and retreated to her chambers. While she was alone in her room and putting on makeup however, the Booms decided to pull tricks on her before kidnapping her. She was later saved by Chris when he used the Talisman against King Boom Boo and his minions to free her and the other people that the Booms had kidnapped from their prison dimension. Afterward, Lindsey was taken to safety by Chris and his friends, who sealed up the angry King Boom Boo in his catacombs once they were scot-free. However, Lindsey believed it all to be a dream, or part of a movie. Afterward, they were let in on the ghosts' past by a local policeman. Later, Lindsey and Nelson would sponsor a race between Sam Speed and Sonic so Sam could race Sonic in his new Rocket Car. At the end of the race, Sonic won by a long shot, and Lindsey congratulated him on his victory.

While Lindsey worked on another of her movies in Filmdom City, Nelson appeared on the movie set disguised as one of the actors, having planned to surprise Lindsey on their anniversary by giving her the purple Chaos Emerald as a gift. Unfortunately, Nelson's plan backfired when he tripped and fell, causing the Chaos Emerald to emit powerful discharges that damaged the sound stage until Mr. Tanaka managed to contain the Emerald. This angered Lindsey and led to an argument with Nelson. However, the argument got interrupted by the arrival of Dr. Eggman and his robots. With Rouge entering the fray as well and stealing the Emerald from Nelson, Lindsey's gift ended up in the hands of Dr. Eggman, who unleashed E-74 Weazo to attack Lindsey and Chris, forcing Nelson to protect them until Sonic and Knuckles were able to destroy Weazo. Having failed to protect the Thorndykes, Mr Tanaka wanted to tear off his uniform, but Lindsey and Chris convinced him that he did well. Despite the severity of it all, the incident managed to strengthen the family bonds between Lindsey, Nelson, and Chris. Both Lindsey and Nelson also forgave each other, and received the best of wishes from Chris and his friends.

Chaos Saga
Approximately six months later, Lindsey found the yellow Chaos Emerald in a jewelry store and bought it on a whim. Unaware of what she had acquired, Lindsey gave the Emerald to Cream (whom she still thought was a child in a bunny costume) as a gift when she had a meeting with her and Chris. Lindsey soon had to cut her time with her son short, however, due to other obligations. Bidding her son a warm farewell, Lindsey left in such a hurry that she forgot all about the Chaos Emerald.

Shadow Saga
Because of the damage that their mansion had suffered due to the flood caused by Perfect Chaos, Lindsey and her family had to move to the capital for the time being until the mansion could be cleaned and repaired from the flood damage.

Emerl Saga
At some point, Lindsey was swept up in the hype regarding Sonic following the incarceration of Eggman after his latest attempt to take over the world via his Sunshine Balls and the Egg Moon eclipsing the Sun failed thanks to Sonic and his friends. However, she soon found herself under attack by her appliances, which had been sabotaged and corrupted by Eggman to distract Sonic and the others while Bokkun busted him, Decoe, and Bocoe, out of prison.

Homebound Saga
When Chris ran away with Sonic during Project Homebound, Lindsey and her husband came to realize how they had left Chris with a lonely life thanks to Chuck having a talk with them. As such, they resolved to spend more time with Chris like a real family, and eventually find him at their old lakeside cabin after Sonic departed to return to his world on his own via Chaos Control.

Metarex Saga
Over six years after Sonic and his friends' departure from Earth, Lindsey and Nelson discovered that Chris had recently gone to Sonic's world through a portal he had made. Meeting up with Chuck, Helen, Frances and Danny at the portal, they learned that they unable to reactivate the portal and follow Chris to Sonic's world. Although Lindsey was very worried about Chris, Nelson convinced her to have faith that Chris would be fine. When Chuck later figured out to sent items through the portal, Lindsey and Nelson would sent extra luggage to Chris through the portal.

Personality
Lindsey is a very caring, kind-hearted, yet ditsy mother who only wants what is best for her son, even if she usually has no idea of which direction to turn. She has been regretful of how her busy lifestyle constantly keeps her away from her son and along with her husband, she was able to afford a beautiful mansion so that he could enjoy a luxurious lifestyle. Whenever they get together, it usually is not for very long and it has led her to believe that she is indeed a terrible mother on occasion. Regardless, Lindsey was oblivious how deeply emotionally scarred Chris was by her and her husband's absence in his life, but they made it better in the end when they remembered a special vacationing area they all used to visit when they seemed more like a normal family.

She is very over-excitable and, due to her overly-excessive ditsy thoughts and actions, often takes things to the extreme. For example, she sky-dives from a helicopter in order to land on the balcony of her house just so she could visit Chris when he had a small cold. She sometimes tends to act a bit oblivious to certain things as well. She is also shown to be a terrible cook, but enjoys working in the kitchen nonetheless.