In Night Watch she is the ranking officer on the scene when Vimes arrives when they have first cornered the homicidal Carcer on the roof of the Unseen University Library, and surprises Vimes by having taken charge of the situation and made decisions as he would have made them, having noticed and responded to details he didn't expect others to see. Jingo credits her with the idea of using trained pigeons for in-city communication between Watch officers. She begins her career in the City Watch working in an old privy, but rapidly earns Vimes' trust and respect and is given what she needs when she needs it. Originally trained as an alchemist, Cheery left the Alchemists' Guild to join the watch after she blew up the entire leadership of the Guild. As he says, 'I want someone who can look at the ashtray and tell me what kind of cigars I smoke' (a reference to Sherlock Holmes). The Commander of the Watch, Sam Vimes, hires Cheery in Feet of Clay as a one-dwarf forensics team. Her name is likely a play on the term 'smart ass' (or arse) combined with the British nonsense phrase 'Cheery Bum,' a common misunderstanding of the refrain of the kitsch Italian song 'Ciribiribin'. Cheery's father was Jolly Littlebottom, and her grandfather was Beaky Littlebottom in keeping with the tradition established by Disney in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' regarding the naming of dwarfs. Cheery Littlebottom is a dwarf member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, introduced in Feet of Clay.

Watches with little disc