R. Dorothy Wayneright

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Image:Rdorothy.jpg R. Dorothy Wayneright (the "R." presumably stands for "Robot", a prefix coined by Isaac Asimov for his robots) is a female android—or more properly a gynoid—in the anime series Big O. She is modeled after Dr. Wayneright's late daughter Dorothy.

Dorothy appears at first glance to be human but possesses the expected strength, agility, and intelligence of an android. Her skin is completely white, but she has red hair. Her hairband is actually a CD drive that she can play information disks in. Her body parts sometimes make mechanical sounds, and there is generally little inflection in her face or voice (she only raises her voice to shout one time in the entire series - a cry of "Roger!" in the final episode during Roger's fight against Big Fau). However, she seems to possess emotions, and has smiled on occasion, in particular with clever sarcasm when speaking with Roger Smith, usually about his shortcomings.

Dorothy can actually play the piano extremely well. She obtaines Roger's aid in taking lessons from master android musician R. Instro so that she could improve her performance even more early on in the series. She can play a wide variety of styles (from classical to the blues). Initially Roger insisted that as a robot her playing was little more than playing a recording, because she didn't improvise but just perfectly repeated an existing performance. However, Roger soon found that Dorothy actually does add her own "feeling" and creativity to her music, leading him to question just how "human" the robot is. Dorothy is fond of playing the piano very loud in the morning as her required "wake up call" for Roger, which annoys him when he wants to simply sleep in.

Dorothy lives with Roger, and a running joke among the fans - due to Dorothy's apparent 'age' and nonhumanity - was the precise nature of their relationship, which was later alluded to in the series.

Dorothy has the physical appearance of an 18 year old girl, though it has actually probably been less than a year since her construction when Roger first meets her. However, her mind contains the memories of the dead 18 year old daughter of her creator, so she functions just as well as if she had that much life experience. Other characters don't think she's unemotional, but more often think of her almost as a sullen, quietly pouting teenager.