#dr.periwinkle

Last of the Lamp Crew (depending on how one counts Hugo)

 Dr.Periwinkle is very old for a Lamp, old enough that replacing core parts of Their biological system has a pretty high risk of killing them. So when they had a Hearts attack that took out half their hydraulic system they opted to just remove most of their Hydraulic limbs and convert their front “wing” to act as a support for the bodies system.

They took up jogging to help manage their remaining hearts (preventative medicine was a new field at the time, so this was seen as weird.) and then strength training. The improvement in live quality this gave Periwinkle lead to them switching their field of study to Preventative and repair version the more common replace an remove that is more common in Lamp medical fields. They are partially on Hugo’s ship to study human medicine (which tends not to default to just cutting a limb off and replacing it) along with serving as the ships doctor.

Dr. Periwinkle is a Doctor on a spectrum Lamp Ship, and is one of the first Lamps Hugo and Crew meet outside of the hivemind. 

They are a very good Doctor mostly spending time teaching young lamps into the field. Which is a hard one as you need to compute about twice the amount of arms as three times the amount of senses as a standard lamp. Including one only found within Lamp specialized in the medical field, Hearing.   This is used to listen to the biological sounds like heartbeats which is pretty useful to be as non- invasive as possible. Lamps use a lot of high pressure hydraulics in their biology with can make healing from cuts more of a challenge then a human.  this is also why most fully trained doctors have tool arms that contain tiny hands, working much like surgery bots on earth.