Professor Dorothy T. Webbington-Tailor / Dot

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GENERAL:


NAME Professor Dorothy T. Webbington-Tailor (Dot)
AGE 110 presently
GENDER Female
RACE Automaton


PHYSIQUE


HAIR Polyfiber semi-organic tissue crafted in the University Department of Science, subward Chemistry. Often pulled into a bun. Coal in color.
EYES Gunmetal Blue.
BODY Originally made entirely of oak. Became unstable and received an iron overlay and joints that encircle long oval bits of decorative original oak. Remains oak/iron hybrid.
EXTRAS Runs on cogwork and in need of near-constant winding to continue running. Main form of communication was a coin-operated disk-based music box with five playable tracks until 1905, when her second caretaker gave her a set of aluminum and cloth lungs, which she still communicates with at present day. Also makes use of a small stomach-like boiler which powers finer musculature in the hand by use of steam. Once tried to create a skin for herself in 1969, but it ended in failure.
SUMMARY Created in 1902 by Tarrant TailorDot was originally a life-sized marionette playing cent shows to advertize her creator's odds-and-ends shoppe, Tinker Tailor. She was entirely manipulated by Tarrant until early the next year when she became cog-powered, and from there, was upgraded with her own sense of self.


PERSONA

LIKES Biology, Old-timely Music, Wine, The Pursuit of Knowledge, Experimentation
DISLIKES Discrimination, Travel, The Color Lime
STRENGTHS Well Connected, Educated, Observative
WEAKNESSES Quick to Act, Overthinks
FEARS Fire, Falling
FLAWS Physically, her delicate inner cogwork.
SUMMARY Often stern yet spontaneous, her own worst enemy. Twitchy at times, and nearly completely dependent on another being, automaton or human. After the death of her first and second companions (and the assumed death of her creator), she sits alone in the home of her first companion she bought many decades after his death, waiting for a new companion as she writes on her typewriter and reads, constructing new biological theories.


REFLECTION

FAMILY Ella and Elm, never completed brother/sister twins, destroyed by unknown human in 1904. Tarrant Tailor, creator and ex-vagabond, owned Tinker Tailor before its eventual closing in 1904.
FRIENDS/MATE Professor David C. Webbington, professor of biology and first companion/second owner, inspired many of Dot's later upgrades and gifted her with voice. William Hamitt, succeeding professor of biology in light of Webbington's death, co-worker to Dot and second companion, worked to further Dot to her current state and became the best of friends with her, though he held the title she sought.
HISTORY Created as a marionette in 1902. Gained cogwork in 1903. Gained music box 1904. Shoppe closed in late 1904. Given to Webbington in 1905. Gained lungs in 1905. Pursued her educational career from 1906 to 1919. Lived with the retired Professor Webbington from 1919 until his death in 1922. Worked alongside William and went on many adventures until his death in 1968. Attained William's title as Professor in 1966, two years before William's death. Gained hair in late 1968. Gained skin in 1969. Lost skin in 1969. Experimented many decades after. Broke off eyebrows in an accident in 1972. Reinstalled eyebrows in 1972. Met Thomas Wilson and Theodore Oldmott in 1992 and handed them her position as Professor of Biology in 2004. Stepped down from University of Vermont in 2004 and bought Webbington's household.