Dr. Arduino

* Current Reference
* Season 2 Reference
* Outdated Reference

"Dr. Mom" (by Telly)

## Relationships

Sadie Storm (Fiancé)Con Ivory (Best Friend)

Dr. Wyre (Friend from College)

Felix (Creation/Adoptive Son/Assistant)

Telly (Creation/Adoptive Daughter)

Unnamed Father

Unnamed Brother

Unnamed Sister

Harley Arduino, most commonly known as Dr. Arduino or just Arduino, is a mechanic in Valleyville. She has a workshop located in The Robot Kingdom, and for sake of convenience, lives there as well. His living space is connected to the workshop itself, and he shares this living space with the rest of her family, Sadie Storm, Sam Storm, Felix Arduino, Telly Arduino, No-Name Arduino and Roux.

## Appearance

Dr. Arduino is a 7ft-even Hispanic human with brown hair and medium brown skin. He appears entirely human apart from the fact she has 2 sets of arm, the lower set of which are robotic. As far as gender expression, Dr. Arduino tries his best to be perceived as androgynous as physically possible. When asked about his assigned gender at birth, he will never give a definite answer. Arduino only uses the masculine and feminine binary pronouns, honorifics, and terms, and does not use gender neutral ones.

#### Season 1

At the beginning of the series, she used to wear a white unbuttoned lab coat with dark green gloves over it, and under the lab coat was a turquoise sweater. He had dark grey pants and black shoes, and on her face, he wore green safety goggles which obscure his eyes. Her official eye color was unknown, as he'd never been seen without these goggles on. Upon asking her about his true eye appearance, she would give out some outlandish and obvious lie, and this answer would change every time you ask him. In the season 1 finale, he briefly changes to a black eyepatch, green sweater, black cargo pants and a belt with a gun holster, and black boots.

#### Season 2

In season 2, his clothing reference was changed, and he now wears a green long sleeve, black pants, a toolbelt, grey shoes and grey gloves on her lower set of arms. After gaining more confidence around people by being partners with Sadie, Arduino was comfortable enough to drop the goggles outside of work and instead wears a black eyepatch (which is sometimes switched out for eyepatches with different designs for special occasions).

#### Season 3

In season 3, not much changes from his previous season 2 design, other than slightly longer hair, his long sleeve being changed to a short sleeve green button up, and a small amount of facial hair being added to her face.

## Role in Valleyville

Arduino is a mechanic which specializes in creating and repairing sentient robots in Valleyville. His occupation would be most accurately compared to a doctor in human society. Most of her job consists of robot families commissioning him to build a toddler or child robot for them, though Arduino accepts commissions from anyone for any reason. He also does physical repairs, debugs, and check-ups for any robot that asks.

## Backstory

Arduino was born and raised somewhere outside of the Valley. The exact place he came from is unknown, though she grew up with her father, sister, and brother. He lived outside of Valleyville until he graduated high school, moving to Valleyville alone after graduating. She attended college in Valleyville.

It was revealed that Dr. Arduino had originally lived a very nice life outside of the valley, being very popular in his high school and very skilled with robotics even as a teenager, as well as working on cars alongside his dad. She had only moved to Valleyville after an unspecified project exploded in his face, resulting in scarring of the left of her face and the loss of his left eye. Because of this, his popularity dropped immensely and the humiliation and bullying had become so bad her parents opted to send him to Valleyville instead.

## Personality

In the beginning of the story, Dr. Arduino was said to be nervous around strangers, and a recluse to the rest of the valley. However, after meeting Sadie Storm, she began to come out of her shell and become more social. When in her comfort zone, or around people she trusts, he does become more loud and energetic, joking and laughing with people close to her.

## Role in Story Events

### Season 1

#### Introduction

Dr. Arduino is first introduced as part of the story's first scene with Nickle Ivory. When Nickle offers to take Rotary home from the lake, they stop at The Arduino Family Workshop and get Dr. Arduino to take them both to The Robot Royal Estate on his hoverboard. Once there, Dr. Arduino returns Rotary to Dr. Tinker, and then has a brief conversation with Theollus Teleman. He drops off Nickle with Sucretel Ivory, and then goes back home for the night.

#### Sadie's Death

After tuning in for Sadie's QnA livestream where an accident in the lab leaves her undead, Dr. Arduino and Felix go to Sadie's place of residence to help him.

#### Sadie and Harley's Date

Sadie Storm invites Dr. Arduino on a date sometime after the events of Sadie's death. On the date, they seem to hit it off, and at the end of the night Dr. Arduino even tells Sadie about the secret regarding his face/eye.

#### The Power Outage/The Assassination of Queen Luna

For the full explanation of this event, see The Power Outage (Season 1 Finale).