The Engineer

The Engineer
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Hair Color	Yellow
Information
Home	Roboville
Story Role	Antagonist (HDS) Minor Character (BS3)
Family Members	Brother of Heather 2.0
Occupation	Engineer
Status	Alive
Game(s)	(Chapter 5 Onwards)

“Don’t you fucking move Creator! You’re coming with me, asshole.”

–The Engineer

Michael Robert Row, also known as The Engineer, is a Human created by GuyThatExists that appears in the short stories Heather Dating Sim as a supporting character and Blank Slates 3 as a cameo.

He is a version of Mike that lives in Roboville, a version of Rapoville where he had mechanized everything. He is much colder and more calculated than his canon counterpart, although he is easily excited by prospects of escape, and he ends up directly helping You and Alme come face to face with the Master of the Abyss. After you jump into The Abyss, he begins to harness Abyssal Energy for use in Roboville, helping him create communication between alternate universes. He would later send Q-Heather to find Temte Mapleleaf, as The Void needed her help.

Appearance

Being a version of Mike, he shares many of the same attributes, although he appears much older. He has grown a small goatee and now wears glasses. He also wears a lighter blue shirt and a long, white lab coat.

Story

Before Heather Dating Sim

After the events of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, Mike was never woken up from his coma, and thus, he stayed in the Raposa world. Eventually, he began to update and mechanize Rapoville thanks to technological advancements from Galactic Jungle. He continued to upgrade the village, eventually mechanizing the Raposa and creating the Mechanized Raposa. He continued to develop the village, mechanizing Frostwind to keep the Raposa from leaving, but something eventually happened to the villagers, causing Mike to shut down all but seven or eight Raposa, taking away the free will of all but Heather 2.0.

Heather Dating Sim

Canon Path

You first meet The Engineer when Heather 2.0 leads you into his office. She asks him to explain quantum technology to you and plugs into a quantum port to access your memories. This gives Mike the idea to give Heather 2.0 a quantum upgrade. He runs off with her after sending you to find Pleather and Alme. He quickly returns with the now upgraded Q-Heather.

He urges you to jump into The Abyss to fight the Master of the Abyss, and you oblige, jumping in with Alme. Mike doesn't play a major role in the fight against the Master, but uses the time while the Abyssal Rifts were open to harvest Abyssal Energy and contain it. After the fight, while people reunite from across the universes, Mike explains that he now had access to the energy.

Eventually, everyone begins to leave Roboville, and Mike wishes you luck in life. Later on, he derives a way to communicate between universes, sending you a text from Roboville.

Non-Canon Paths

• If you break into The Engineer's Lab, there is a high likelihood that Mike will shoot you.
• If you and Alme break into Heather 2.0's chamber, he will break in and try to kill Alme.
  • If you shoot Mike during this segment, both of you will die.
  • If you don't shoot Mike during this segment, you will give up on life but be sucked into the abyss.
• If you, Alme, and Pleather all meet up in The Engineer's Lab, he will explain the multiverse to you.
• If you decide to kill the Master, Mike and Willham will create the 3DS Stylus.
• If you decide to spend the rest of your day with Q-Heather, Mike will see the error of his ways and be sent back to his Belleview.

Blank Slates 3

The Engineer is next seen during a lunch with Willham, Pleather, and Heather 2.0 some time after Heather Dating Sim concludes. He gets a call from Temte Mapleleaf, asking for help with locating the displaced people. This ends their lunch, as Willham and Pleather both head back to their respective realms, and Mike works with 2.0 to help Temte.

Mike is next seen working on Maribot, where he gets a call from Alme, asking him to help locate Temte and send her to The Void to help with an emergency. Mike agrees to help and runs over to Heather 2.0's room, telling her what Alme had told him. Heather 2.0 jumps into action, and Mike stays behind in Roboville.

Quotes

“I saw! Who is that?” –The Engineer “Do they want to hear about it, or do they want to use it?” –The Engineer “As for how you can get home, I can take this quantum drive and directly connect it to 2.0, that way we could – in theory mind you – calculate where the cracks would appear and jump in.” –The Engineer “Where are you gonna be?” –The Engineer “Pleather and Alme are both at the beach looking at scraps, go grab them and bring them to the Eternal Flame Pedestal!” –The Engineer “Y/n, Pleather, Alme? Introducing Q-Heather!” –The Engineer “We can’t. If we go in and something goes wrong, we won’t be able to get you back out. All of Q-Heather’s servers are built in this Roboville, so we need to stay back and defend them if the cracks try to break anything.” –The Engineer “I ended up collecting a shitton of it. We have enough energy to power Roboville until the universe dies out!” –The Engineer “Y/n, it’s Mike. From Roboville. If you’re getting this message, we’ve cracked something big!” –The Engineer

“Who are you and how did you get past the gate?” –The Engineer “You know who I am, don’t you?” –The Engineer “Hm, so I’m not crazy. That’s a nice thing to confirm. So, here's the first question. Where are you from?” –The Engineer “Oh, I can relate to that. Now, second question. Who are you a variant of? Me? Jowee? Fuckin’… Teo?” –The Engineer “You’ve met different Heathers? You’ve been able to jump between universes? How? Please, you have to tell me!” –The Engineer “You have to tell me more! How’d you get the cracks to open?” –The Engineer “Maybe we can find a way to control it…” –The Engineer “You look like me. Is this why you came here? Just to fuck around with my stuff?” –The Engineer “Where is your home anyways? Belleview? Rapoville? The Void?” –The Engineer “Oh! You’re from Earth! That clears everything up!” –The Engineer “Alright, I have an idea! When the cracks open up, I can connect this to 2.0, and she can analyze the multiverse! All we have to do is jump into the crack with her to get the results!” –The Engineer “2.0, you have no idea how important this is. Meet me by the pedestal!” –The Engineer “Y/n, please come with me! We’re both gonna get to go home now!” –The Engineer “2.0!!” –The Engineer “The system’s fried. Completely unresponsive to input. Plan’s gone y/n. We’re not going home.” –The Engineer “That would make sense. Jowee was an excellent explorer, so anyone able to hold their own out of their own universe would surely be a version of him.” –The Engineer “So, is this your first universe or your second?” –The Engineer “Well now you have to tell me how you got here.” –The Engineer “Nothing to set either of them apart at a glance? Nothing obviously missing? No one trapped in a bottle?” –The Engineer “I’m sure that it doesn’t connect too closely, although it’s odd that you got pulled into these worlds if yours is so different.” –The Engineer “My Heather? From Belleview-X? You’re certain?” –The Engineer “You should come join us then, meet me and y/n at the pedestal.” –The Engineer “Maybe Belleview-? is actually Belleview-X. Wanna go meet Heather and find out?” –The Engineer “The system’s fried. Completely unresponsive to input.” –The Engineer “She has her Mike. I’ve seen this one before, long time ago.” –The Engineer “Ok cool, you’re just as lost as I am then. Honestly, I have no idea what to do with you if you don’t know at the very least who you are. Just go… find yourself an open home or something.” –The Engineer “Sorry, just go in.” –The Engineer “Oh, hey you two. Getting along well?” –The Engineer “I really got you thinkin’ that much? Well, be my guest; I’m curious too.” –The Engineer “No obvious matches. Hmmm, 11.6% possibility for Jowee, and that’s the highest confidence I can see. 10.25% Mari, 9.5% Mike, 7% DJ. Nothing that meets any good estimation threshold.” –The Engineer “The fuck was that!? Heather, scan the village!” –The Engineer “Don’t just stand here! Follow her!” –The Engineer “Who are you. Y/n. How did you get here?” –The Engineer “How do I find a crack? Hey. Answer the question.” –The Engineer “Alright. Give me one good reason not to kill you right here.” –The Engineer “Is that so? Prove it. Get the Master here, now.” –The Engineer “Good to know. Thank you 2.0.” –The Engineer “Looks like you’ve done everything you needed to. Goodbye, y/n.” –The Engineer “After this long stuck in this prison, that’s hardly a concern.” –The Engineer “Any last words? Good. See you around y/n.” –The Engineer “Seriously? Begging for your life at a moment like this? You do realize what’s going on here, right?” –The Engineer “You really wanna go home y/n? I do too. Let’s get the fuck out of here.” –The Engineer “We don’t have time to discuss that right now. Did all of you get here through the cracks?” –The Engineer “Do any of you know how to navigate the Abyss?” –The Engineer “You really don’t have any idea how ironic that is. Although if you aren’t gonna cooperate, I don’t have a use for you. I’ll just go find your other friend.” –The Engineer “Hello friend! This is the Engineer speaking! Our protection drone here has noticed that you have left the village! We all know that for our systems to work properly, we have to stay in range of my signals. Now, you are being delivered to a safe location where you can be stored until we can fix you up.” –The Engineer Through Frostguard “The system’s fried. Completely unresponsive to input. Y/n, you better have a damn good explanation for all this.” –The Engineer “Why did you do that? You could’ve died! Alme nearly broke down!” –The Engineer “2.0! You’re back!” –The Engineer “I don’t know and frankly I don’t care. You’re alive!” –The Engineer “What are you doing? We just got her back and I’m not letting you break her!” –The Engineer “So, Alme. Y/n. Nice to meet you two in person! I’m Mike Row.” –The Engineer “Oh, don’t think I didn’t listen in to everything you two talked about when you got here. I’m sure you’ve met some form of Heather than looks like a Raposa. This is our version of her, Heather 2.0!.” –The Engineer “Don’t mind if I do. This is where we are right now, Rapoville-X.” –The Engineer “Anyways, Rapoville-X is the home of Heather 2.0, Jowbot, basically everyone here but me. I’m from Belleview-X, a hypothetical Belleview that exists connected to this Rapoville.” –The Engineer “Because I have the memories from that realm. I remember Aly, my Heather, all of it. The only thing I can’t remember is how I got here or how I could get back. Alme, you’re a special case. You’re outside of most of the realms in The Void, meaning you’re not from a Belleview or Rapoville. However, you seem to be connected to Belleview+ and Rapoville+ as I’ve been calling them.” –The Engineer “Belleview-DC5. That’s what I’m calling it.” –The Engineer “Well, according to this data, in that town called Bellevue, there’s both Jeremiah and Heather. Turns out, there’s a version of our lives that exists as video games. Drawn to Life. Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. Drawn to Life: Two Realms.” –The Engineer “You bastards! What have you done!?” –The Engineer “Oh, don’t think I didn’t listen in to everything you three talked about when you got here. In fact, Pleather got here a long while before you two!” –The Engineer “Now, you Pleather, you’re from Plushview, or Belleview-P as I have it labeled. We currently don’t know anything about the connected Rapoville-P however.” –The Engineer “Oh my god you’re alive… Heather… You’re here and you’re alive!!” –The Engineer “How’d you get here? Actually nevermind that, we can get home now! I can finally go back to Belleview!!” –The Engineer “What the hell is going on here!? Fuckin’ hell you guys, you’re gonna kill her!” –The Engineer “Alright I’ve had enough of this.” –The Engineer “Alright, let’s get you over to my lab, shall we?” –The Engineer “So, y/n. What realm are you from? Hello? Earth to y/n?” –The Engineer “Get off of me, asshole! I’m trying to save her life!” –The Engineer “Don’t you fucking move Creator!” –The Engineer “You’re coming with me, asshole.” –The Engineer “Almost. You have one try Creator. Send us back.” –The Engineer “Alright, you had your chance. I’m going home whether you like it or not.” –The Engineer “Holographic? Oh, you mean 2.0! No, you haven’t met her yet, just seen her likeness. But you have to tell me more! How’d you get the cracks to open?” –The Engineer “We’re out of time!!” –The Engineer “The defense mechanism. I added it in case anyone tampered with the Quantum Drive. It sends them back to right before the incident.” –The Engineer “Hey, y/n? Can we talk for a second?” –The Engineer “I think I have a way to send everyone you and Pleather back home if you’d like.” –The Engineer “It’s okay buddy. You’re almost ready to go.” –The Engineer “Huh, that’s weird. Anyways. You should join me down here.” –The Engineer “Hello! We were told to come here by Willham, and this is supposed to help you send us home.” –The Engineer “Good luck out there, y/n.” –The Engineer “So, you got the hots for my sister?” –The Engineer “You better be careful with that. Don’t need to get on my wrong side.” –The Engineer “Oh don’t worry. I know that. Just know that if for any reason, you fuck her up? You’re done.” –The Engineer “Alright everyone, charge up!” –The Engineer “I was wrong about the village. This wasn’t the right path.” –The Engineer “When the Creator didn’t send me home, I thought if I took control of the world, took the place of the Creator, then I could find a way home for myself. I was wrong.” –The Engineer

“Hey, yeah, what’s going on? Sorry, I’m in the middle of a thing right now, can I head over later?” –The Engineer “Just a minute! Yeah, later. Like twenty minutes. Ok cool, see you then.” –The Engineer “Alright, we gotta start wrapping this up.” –The Engineer “Oh, just Temte. She’s found a lead for more displacements and needs us to check her work again.” –The Engineer “Alright, we really do have to get going now. Temte needs our maps and you guys gotta get back to your fights.” –The Engineer “I’ll see you guys next time for sure! And hey, if you can get ahold of Y/N, tell them to come over some time!” –The Engineer “Alme! Hey buddy, how are you? What’s up?” –The Engineer “You did, but since she’s on her quest right now, she asked me to take her calls. What’s going on?” –The Engineer “I’ll see what I can do, Alme. I’ll get her over there as fast as I can.” –The Engineer “Void emergency; I need you to get Temte to Alme as fast as possible.” –The Engineer

Relationships

Family

• Heather 2.0 - Sister and Creation

Allies

• You - Situational Enemy
• Pleather
• Alme Palmette - Situational Enemy
• Willham †
• Temte Mapleleaf
• Creator - Former Enemy

Enemies

• Mayo/Master of the Abyss

Trivia

• The Engineer's line "No one trapped in a bottle?" in Chapter 5 (Solo) > Yes > Jowee is a reference to BreGee's Wilfre In A Bottle AU.
• Heather 2.0 was originally not going to help fight against Goldie in Blank Slates 3, with The Engineer filling that role in an early draft.

Media

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  The Engineer in the final logo for Heather Dating Sim