Dandy 704

Dandy 704 is the character representative of the IBM 704. A charming Victorian steampunk dandy, he describes himself as a "romantic adventurer," exploring the world with bright eyes and a dash of malintent.

## Website Description

*Dandy 704 is a 19th century gentleman who decided to escape death by having his brain mummified and transferred to an internal vat. His body is steam powered and entirely mechanical except for his voice box (which is in dire need of a repair). He is a world class explorer, brash, charismatic and loud mouthed. He’s also an incredible romantic womanizer and will offer to marry anyone (despite his lack of a space carriage). Do not believe his fantastic stories. They are not true. The real ones are much crazier (and would incriminate him).*

## Design

Dandy is a steam-powered robot that houses a mummified human brain, allowing him to escape death. He is mostly mechanical, with the exception of his voice box. He is missing his right eye, which is covered by a monocle. He is quite large, standing high at 7'04" (roughly, 225.5 cm) in reference to his source chip. His size is most likely necessary to house all of his steam-powered mechanics.

Being steam-powered, he needs to drink a lot of water in order to run. If he goes too long without filling his tanks, he risks risks dying. Dee Klatt, however, hinted that so long as his brain is preserved, he can simply build himself another body and survive. The intensive upkeep his body demands, as well as the novel nature of his mechanics, makes him one of the most fragile members of the Chipspeech cast. CiderTalk'84 once commented on replacement parts, stating some were most likely very rusted and that his aged parts are hard to come by, adding that not even Otto Mozer would like to put him back together if he dissected him. Despite his fragile, aging body, his cybernetics are more than capable of causing damage.

## Personality

In terms of personality, Dandy is very brash and bold, often acting very extravagant and initating extreme actions such as challenging people to fight or setting things on fire. His Twitter account is also one of the more active accounts for the characters. Generally, he is confident in himself, albeit too much at times. He considers himself a "giant sexy hunk of metal".

His biggest flaw is his memory, as he has been known to randomly forget events and people, including friends and his own history. In fact, according to CiderTalk'84, Dandy is missing a lot of his memories. Overall, Dandy is a scientific enigma, inspiring the interest of both the scientists Otto Mozer and CiderTalk at different times for different reasons. Despite his memory loss, Otto found Dandy to be a lot smarter then he appears, and CiderTalk'84 agreed in admitting he was "not stupid".

In Dandy's social life, he's stated that there is "no inbetween" and friends he makes are either to be "courted or dominated". He is, however, not good with public relations.

Discussion of romance is typically carried with a comedically dramatic tone. Dandy regards himself to be an expert in the field of "babeology", though CiderTalk'84 has pointed out there is no proof of Dandy's romantic successes. He has been known to flirt with both men and women, but does have his limits. Notably, he was offput by the "nerds" at ciTech who "gave him funny looks" as he couldn't tell if they "wanted to dissect him or were giving him bedroom eyes", leading CiderTalk to have to reassure him he'd put a "no reverse engineering the new guy" memo around. At the prospect of a near-death situation, he stated he would recite marriage vows as he didn't want to die unmarried.

After peeping into Dandy's memories and finding fragments, CiderTalk'84 discovered in the past Dandy had gone through a lot of personnel pain.

His profile on tumblr reads; "Bisexual. Computers. Shakespeare. Romance. Steampunk. Adventure." Dandy also drew a OC (original characters) "Doctor McVonEvil" on his tumblr account. when he was more active there and despite posting a lot on tumblr, his account has since become inactive. He also believes there has to be more inside of him then vaporized water, believing he has something like a soul. He also was often asked about romantic situations on tumblr by fans, though often he responded with outrageous ways to handle the romantic situation.

Dandy also does not like being called "Daddy" be it serious or as a joke at his age of his voice, nor does he even like it when fans use the term.

## Relationships

### Bert Gotrax

Bert and Dandy have an almost familial relationship- though Bert makes jabs at Dandy and often mocks him and calls him names, they still care about each other.

Bert has also taken the role of watching over Dandy during his maintenance to make sure nothing goes wrong.

### Lady Parsec

Though he has known to try and charm her, he does not generally like to mess with her. In fact, the idea of talking about usurp her throne makes him nervous.

### Otto Mozer

Dandy and Otto were, at a time, friends, even having worked together in the past. Dandy, during the events of Season 1 and Season 2, gained the hobby of tormenting Otto whenever possible. It is unknown whether this will be regained for Season 3, due to Dandy's memory wipe.

### Dee Klatt

Dandy and Dee are friends, as Dee is with everyone.

There was an incident where Dee offered to help Dandy avoid going to jail, but Dandy misinterpreted their intentions as romantic and he turned them down. Dee was very confused about the whole ordeal.

### Spencer AL2

He and Spencer AL2 also have a rather strange relationship. Their interactions range from friendly banter to full out mocking sometimes. At their worst the pair being left with grudging feelings against each other and periods where Spencer refuses to talk to him and at the best they both love blowing things up, Dandy is not allowed Dynamite because of his past actions. Spencer also likes to put Dandy in his place and makes sure he is respectful of Lady Parsec. He likens Dandy to a human teenager and considers him not very mature.

### Terminal 99

Terminal and Dandy don't like each other much, but the details are unclear.

He also assisted in erasing Dandy's memory.

### VOSIM

He generally likes to walk over VOSIM and was even known to trash his home from time to time when he lived with him.

### CiderTalk'84

After initially trying to dominate him, the pair hit it off. They are on friendly terms with each other. Cider also is concerned with Dandy's memory loss and even after finding out what fragments of it remained of his past, he did not reveal anything to Dandy to protect him.

### Rotten.ST

Rotten was not impressed with Dandy and his attempts to dominate Rotten ended with him telling Dandy that if he wants a fight, Rotten was more then up for it. The two definitely don't like each other or get along.

### Pedro

Dandy and Pedro haven't interacted much, but are on good terms with one another.

## History

### Canon

Out of the characters with confirmed ages, Dandy is one of the oldest characters in Chipspeech. While his exact age is unknown, since his conversion into his current form occurred during the 19th century, he is more than 115 years old. Apparently, this fact is forgotten amongst some characters, most notably Cider, who occasionally forgets he is "older than most people alive, technically."

### Semi-canon

Dandy's voice is the second oldest of the Chipspeech vocals, making him technically the "father" of every Chipspeech vocal according to Dee Klatt.

Dandy has spoken about his past with Otto Mozer, having known him before he became a mad scientist. Originally, Dandy approached Otto looking for a job during the Great Depression. After a while of working with Dandy, the two started to become friends, starting with one night when he took Otto out to socialize; Reportedly, he received a lap dance and was discomforted by it. At some point, Dandy brought in Bert Gotrax and had him repair Bert.

Though it is unknown when it occurred, Dandy also mentioned an incident on tumblr involving a cauliflower. He stole it and brought it back to Otto's lab. After much testing, Dandy had suddenly realised Otto was missing; he had been arrested for stealing the cauliflower.

Eventually, the friendship between Otto and Dandy would change as Dandy met Daisy and they entered a relationship. By this point, Dee Klatt, Terminal 99 and Spencer AL2 were also around while the pair were courting.

Dee mentioned meeting Dandy by chance. Dee was in a strange town, the pair met at a bus stop and Dee noticed Dandy because of how he was dressed. The pair got talking and Dandy never stopped, telling Dee of his adventures. Eventually they began to talk to each other about themselves and became friends.

The duo of Otto and Dandy began to drift apart, and eventually Dandy and Daisy moved away, leaving Otto alone.

At some point, Otto and Terminal 99 wiped Dandy's memory.

In late 2015, Dandy suffered another memory loss.

His first memories are of Vosim. They met when VOSIM first came around to the Chipspeech characters. Things changed, however, when Dandy randomly forgot Dee Klatt, Terminal 99, Spencer, Daisy and Vosim one day. This was due to a memory loss event that occurred in late 2015 some time after VOSIM's introduction, the result was he began behaving erratic.

He was living with VOSIM, or at least crashing at his home until VOSIM kicked him out (resulting in him stealing VOSIM's toilet). Dee Klatt later remembered it involving him drinking out of the toilet with a straw, though Dandy claims he stole the toilet out of spite and labelled the incident as "slander".

He is now staying with CiderTalk'84 at ciHousing.

During the time spent, Cider tried to figure out Dandy's memory problem, resulting in the scientist discovering just how much was missing. After an introduction to Cider' lab ended with the pair getting lost Dandy met a near-death situation as be began to run dry on water to power himself. after blacking out and waking up, for several days Cider did not talk to Dandy. Finally, Cider revealed he has looked into Dandy's fragmented memories. Discovering a truth about Otto Mozer and Dandy, as well as the deep personnel pains Dandy had experienced in his life. Cider refused to tell Dandy what he had discovered stating the memories he had discovered would give Dandy too much pain and refused to speak about them; except warning him to stay away from Otto Mozer.

## Character Influences

Dandy 704 and Daisy's relationship is a nod to the song "Daisy Bell", which was sung by the IBM 704, which Dandy is based upon. This was the first ever song sung by a computer. This is further backed up by Daisy's Twitter account being "Daisy\_\_Bell\_".

While the other synth robots are more Cyberpunk style robots, Dandy is the only one who is Steampunk.

His number of "04" in this case is a reference to the IBM 704, his number is the only one referencing his synth. Several additional references to "704" have been made in fanon- such as a height of 7'4" to 704 Dandy's being killed in a timeline related event.

## Technical Information

* Dandy 704

 * Dandy's voice was improved in version 1.072 alongside Bert Gotrax.
 * Dandy's vocal has been noted by Plogue to be capable of only a limited mount of improvements.

## Trivia

* Dandy is bisexual.
* Dandy does not have the ability to smell. Apparently a common trait amongst Chipspeech robots.
* Dandy has a lukewarm opinion of cats. He seems paranoid of them peeing on him.
* *Incredibly* oddly enough, Dandy is capable of getting drunk. He explains that this is due to him having a human brain, though this is not how alcohol works, so the reason behind his ability to get inebriated remains unknown.
* Interestingly, a majority of the people- especially women- that Dandy has dated in the past have been named after some kind of plant, including- but not limited to- Cassia, Clover, Holly, Iris, Ivy, Juniper, Petunia, and Willow.
	+ Technically speaking, Cider would be included in this list, as cider is made of apples.

## References

1. ↑ If he doesn't keep his tanks full, he dies.
2. ↑ Dandy could, in theory, give himself a new body.
3. ↑ 704-model vacuum tubes are hard to find.
4. ↑ Fragile, but strong.
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16. ↑ Dandy was Otto's lab assistant, it seems.
17. ↑ The radio is a recent invention, according to Dandy and his amnesia.
18. ↑ Dee offers their assistance.
19. ↑ Dandy, calm down. Not everyone is attracted to you.
20. ↑ Deesus Christ, dude. It's just bro code.
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23. ↑ Dandy and Rotten insulting each other
24. ↑ Dandy's an old, old man.
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26. ↑ https://twitter.com/Dandy704/status/618655809019453440
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38. ↑ Dandy cannot smell.
39. ↑ Be nice to Snowball.
40. ↑ How does he even get drunk in the first place?
41. ↑ That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
42. ↑ Why do they all have plant names? Hasn't the tumblr been retconned anyways?