Cheryl

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**Below contains spoilers for**
Act I & Act II

Cheryl Wimley is a scientist and researcher that works for the Top Secret Facility, where she researches the cutting edge of quantum physics. She lives in Town, USA with Dad and Daughter.

## Appearance

Cheryl has long, wavy, dark brown hair. She wears natural makeup, often with dark eyeliner. She has been seen wearing a variety of outfits throughout the series, most often long dresses or business-casual shirt and pant combinations.

## Personality

Cheryl is a very intelligent and driven person. She has made incredible scientific advancements, and she has very high standards for both herself and the people that she works with. If her subordinates don't meet her standards or rebel against her, she has no problem with letting them go.

However, Cheryl also sees herself first and foremost as a mother. All of her work is in order to get back to her missing daughter. She is willing to go to great lengths to do this, including kidnapping, sedating, and brainwashing people.

She can be caring and sentimental towards Dad and Daughter, and seems to have developed genuine affection for them. She also still seems to have feelings for Malvin. However, she does her best to not let her feelings distract her from her goals.

## History

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Act III

Cheryl was previously married to Malvin Bim, and the two of them had a daughter named Lucia. One day, Lucia didn't come home from school and went missing. Cheryl and Malvin divorced after this. It is theorized that after this, Cheryl devoted all of her research to finding Lucia.

During the course of her quantum research, Cheryl found out that when people die, they are reborn either on Earth, Kepler 22B, or Planet 9. At some point she also started working for the Top Secret Facility with the Computer Master.

In 2017, Cheryl saw Nathan Barnatt upload a video of his "Dad" character to YouTube. She opened up a time portal and abandoned him in the Old Basin in 1999 after trying and failing to program/brainwash him into being "Dad". Then, Cheryl accidently threw Andan and Emily's ship off course while trying to catch a ride to Kepler, causing them to crash in the Old Basin. Consequently, she kidnapped and sedated Andan to get him to play Dad and fund her research. She then told Malvin about her plans and convinced him to help her.

She created the Server to help her run the Dad channel, including the neural network known as the Orbs. She also likely supervised the OVA program. She is at least partially responsible for creating all of the bots in Town, USA, including the Dadbots, the Clients, Daughter, Diane, and AELPHA.

## Relationships

Dad: Cheryl kidnapped and brainwashed Andan to play the character of Dad. She also helped create the Dadbots. She programmed Dad to love and obey her. Cheryl is affectionate toward Dad and seems to enjoy his company, but is ultimately using him to fund her research.

Daughter: Cheryl created Daughter to serve as Dad's daughter. In some way, she seems to serve as a replacement daughter for Cheryl while Cheryl searches for her lost daughter. Cheryl shows affection toward Daughter and seems to enjoy her company, but is ultimately using her to fund her research. When Daughter dies, she expresses regret but says that she will have to "build another one".

Malvin: Malvin is Cheryl's ex-husband and the father to her daughter Lucia. She convinces him to play the role of Neighbor and help her in her efforts to find Lucia. They still have feelings for each other, and ended up sleeping together again. However, Cheryl asserts that they "died" when they lost Lucia, and does not intend to continue a romantic relationship with him.

Diane: Cheryl created Diane to be her friend in Dad's Life. Dad and Diane are programmed to be in love, although she seems to show irritation when Dad and Diane flirt.

Crothers: Cheryl interacts briefly with Crothers in a dream, in which he tells her to return Nathan and Andan to their own times or risk destroying the Universes. Cheryl agrees to return Nathan but refuses to stop her research.

The Server: Cheryl created the Server to help her facilitate Dad's Life. However, when the Server undergoes the Scarlett Upgrade, she can no longer control it.

Clients: Cheryl created the Clients to help her facilitate Dad's life.

Lucia: Cheryl's missing daughter. She will stop at nothing to find her again. Lucia will lose her connection to her past life once she reaches 10 years of age.

AELPHA: Cheryl created AELPHA and later gives him control of the Facility once Scarlett goes rogue. She is annoyed by his abbreviations of the word "affirmative".

Computer Master: Computer Master used to work for Cheryl at the Facility, but she later fired him and terminated his OVA program. Computer Master now wishes to get revenge on her and make her miserable.

Orbs: The Orbs are a neural network that Cheryl created to help her facilitate Dad's Life, although the blue Orbs seem capable of affecting her in unanticipated ways.

## Trivia

* Likes wine.
* Read a romance novel called *Dirty Little Secret* about a wife who cheats on her husband.
* Seemingly still has feelings for Malvin.
* Fired the Computer Master and ended his OVA program.
* Friends with Diane.
* Teaches high-level science in a secret facility that has high security.
* Loves lilies. The smell of lilies affected her in an unforeseen way in Mom's Flowers.
* Was the first character in Dad's Life to be referred to with a "real" name, unlike Dad, Daughter, Neighbor, etc.
* First appears in Dad's Family.
* Played by Erika Rankin.