She causes all kinds of grief when she goes back to Überwald as an open female. (this is a p***-take of the Roundworld tradition that dwarfs needed silly names such as Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy et cetera). She started inauspiciously, but then with a name like Cheery. Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes thinks an awful lot of Cheery - which is more praise than you could believe.
Jingo credits her with the idea of using trained pigeons for in-city communication between Watch officers. She begins her career in the City Watch working in an old privy, but rapidly earns Vimes' trust and respect (and there's not many that do that!) and is given what she needs when she needs it. Another non-dwarfish trait is her relative indifference to gold, seeing it as just another, not especially reactive or intrinsically interesting, chemical element. This caused a cultural revolution and a notable degree of unrest among the dwarfs. Cheery came from Überwald, found her first city friend in Angua, and as a result became the first openly female dwarf member of the Watch and, for that matter, of the whole dwarfish race. Originally trained as an alchemist, Cheery left the Alchemists' Guild to join the watch after an incident which forced her to leave the guild (she blew up the entire leadership of the guild - people tend not to forget such trivia.). The first, and for quite some time the only, member of the forensics department in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Grandfather Beaky Littlebottom, Brother Snorey (d.)
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