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First, and for quite some time the only, member of the forensics department in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Originally trained as an alchemist, Cheery left the Alchemists' Guild to join the Watch after an incident which forced her to leave the guild (she blew up the entire leadership of the guild - people tend not to forget such trivia...). Cheery came from Überwald, got Angua as the first friend in the city, and as a result became the first openly female dwarf member of the Watch and, for that matter, of the whole dwarvish race. This caused a cultural revolution and a notable degree of unrest among the dwarfs. Another non-dwarvish trait is her relative indifference to gold, seeing it as just another, not especially reactive or intrinsically interesting, chemical element.
Later she is promoted to sergeant. Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes thinks an awful lot of her - which is more praise than you could believe.
She causes all kinds of grief when she goes back to Uberwald as an open female. Imagine shouting obscenities whilst naked in a church during the Victorian times and you have some idea of what wearing a skirt in traditional dwarf areas is like. However, she begins a cultural revolution and introduces two new pronouns - "she" and "her" - to the dwarfish language. Many detest her, but many are beginning the journey to "coming out" (this is really not too far-fetched a comparison) as a woman thanks to her.
She pronounces her name "Cheri".