History Characters / DontStarvePlayableCharacters

Wilson Percival Higgsbury is the only character playable at the start of ''Don't Starve''. and the main character of the game. He'll slowly accumulate a lot of facial hair after a few days, which protects him from the cold; or, if he chooses, he can shave it off and use it as a component to construct a Meat Effigy - a meat-filled wooden sculpture of himself, that resurrects him into a new body when he dies.

* BoringButPractical: His power is being able to grow a beard. Sounds lame compared to things like extra strength, being immune to fire, or having a familiar... yet he comes with no weaknesses at all, unlike the others. The beard itself gives free sanity when shaved, and keeps him warm in the winter as well.
** As of his rework, Wilson's Insight Tree can grant various not-insignificant buffs such as better torches, converting common items into rarer ones (such as the limited quantity/dangerous or tedious to farm ancient gemstones) or simply making his beard stronger. His affinity tree, unlocked after defeating either the Ancient Fuelweaver or Celestial Champion, simply grants him a 10% damage and defense buff dependent on which side he chooses, along with crafting their rare materials, Pure Horror and Dreadstone, or Pure Brilliance.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: When examining a rabbit hole, he'll remark that it must lead to "the secret kingdom of the bunnymen". With the addition of underground caves to the game, it turns out he's right.

* InformedAbility: Despite being described as "The Gentleman Scientist", he doesn't have any exclusive crafting recipes or advantages in science like Wickerbottom or Wagstaff. His introduction cinematic shows that he is in-fact quite a [[StupidScientist bad scientist]].
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in the rework, where he has a skill tree. Still, he's less of a scientist and more of an alchemist.
* JackOfAllStats: His attributes are all average (his sanity is higher than hunger or health, but so is that of most other characters'), his only special power is his beard, and he has no special weaknesses.
** This gets [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] slightly by him being the only character to have a [[TechTree skill tree]], but it's still quite easy to use, you just needs patience to unlock everything. Though that in of itself is difficult already as this is ''[[NintendoHard Don't]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Starve]]''.

* TheMedic: In the wave survival event, "The Forge", Wilson's new perk of being able to revive teammates three times as quickly with quite a lot of their health restored makes him ideal for keeping the party alive.
** He also apparently knows how to [[AnArmAndALeg amputate limbs]], if his analysis of the Peg Leg in the Shipwrecked DLC is to be believed.

* TheProtagonist: Being the first playable character, heavily featured in advertising, the first character to be given an official backstory, and has two shorts dedicated to his connection to the story, he's definitely the most focused character of ''Don't Starve'' next to Maxwell, Charlie, Wagstaff, and Winona.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Subverted. Scientist he may be; but he uses BuffySpeak or normal sentences to describe things ("It's all piney", "It's cute, in a gross kind of way.") He can sometimes use scientific terms, however, like when he gets wet, he says: "Oh, H[[subscript:2]]O."

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Maxwell, during the events of the Cyclum Puzzle comics and ''Don't Starve Together''.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Downplayed, but he and Willow are usually paired together in promotional material, and are shown to get along fairly well.

* {{Transmutation}}: Wilson is able to gain this ability as of his rework, being able to convert certain similar items to and fro from each other, from [[SimpleYetAwesome simply converting twigs into logs or even mass producing some of the rarest gems in the game with little of the effort that is usually required to find them.]]

%%* LittleMissSnarker

* TheHeart: Webber's kindhearted and polite demeanor seems to have endeared him to most of the other survivors. Even Wilson, Willow, Winona and Wolfgang, noted arachnophobes, are shown to not have any problems with him, bar some nervousness from Wolfgang that quickly dissipates the moment Webber's in danger.

* OddFriendship: With Wendy, presumably over being the only children in the camp. He once gave her a friendship bracelet.

* TokenNonHuman: They were originally this in the base game, being a robot among human characters. That slowly changed as [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider Webber]], [[SillySimian Wilbur]], [[PigMan Wilba]], [[PlantPerson Wormwood]], [[BigRedDevil Wortox]] and [[FishPerson Wurt]] were added. However, they still remain a TokenRobot.

* TokenNonHuman: They were originally this in the base game, being a robot among human characters. That slowly changed as [[FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider Webber]], [[SillySimian Wilbur]], [[PigMan Wilba]], [[PlantPerson Wormwood]], [[BigRedDevil Wortox]] and [[FishPerson Wurt]] were added.

* AmbiguousSituation: The fact that he shows up as merely a holographic projection in ''Don't Starve Together'', and had such a trait all the way back in his playable appearance in the single-player version, strongly implies wherever he ended up, he's not actually in the Constant. [[spoiler: The end of Wilson's rework short shows someone residing in his house, which once belonged to Wagstaff, wearing the same gloves as Wagstaff and observing the events of the short through Wilson's portal, strongly implying he's escaped the Constant altogether and is observing from outside of it, but not actually giving a straight answer.]]

* GreenThumb: He has access to the "green thumb" crafting tab, allowing him to craft items that no one else can use, gains sanity from planting most plants, blooms in the spring (or DLC equivalent), gaining a faster speed and increased hunger drain, and plant-based enemies don't bother him. He also has the unique ability to plant seeds without the need for a farm plot, and in DST the resulting crops stay fresh on the vine 50% longer than if they were planted by anyone else. However, he also loses sanity whenever he kills a plant, whether by chopping down a tree or picking flowers.

** As of his rework Wilson can allocate 15 skill points earned over time to various not-insignificant buffs such as better torches, converting common items into rarer ones (such as the limited quantity/dangerous or tedious to farm ancient gemstones) or simply making his beard stronger. [[spoiler:Defeating the Ancient Fuelweaver lets Wilson slot the Shadow Courtier perk which gives him 10% damage resistance to shadow creatures and lets him deal 10% more damage to Them.]]

* TechTree: Wilson is the first, (and probably only) character to get a skill tree in ''Wilson Rework'' update. You get to make upgrades to certain stats like your torch can broaden in light, to being able to store food in your beard, to more complicated crafting involving nightmare fuel and gems.

* CuteButCacophonic: Her voice can best be described as an erratic horn.

* {{Foil}}: To Wes. Wes is a fragile French {{Pretty Boy}}. Despite all of his phobias, Wolfgang is a {{Rated M for Manly}} character whose nationality is still unknown.

** To Wolfgang. Wolfgang is a hulking {{Rated M for Manly}}, while Wes is a weak {{Pretty Boy}}. They are both foreigners, but while Wolfgang speaks in [[YouNoTakeCandle broken English]] and his nationality is a [[NonSpecificallyForeign mystery]], Wes doesn't speak at all and is confirmed to be French.

* RatedMForManly: When Wolfgang achieves his mighty form his muscle mass becomes so great that it [[WalkingShirtlessScene rips the shirt he is wearing]]. [[MusclesAreMeaningful That's not just for show.]]

* BigEater: Has the largest stomach in the game. [[{{PowerUpFood}} He needs to be constantly feed so he can keep his strength]].
* TheBigGuy: Typically has the highest base health in the game, and has his already bulky sprite increase with his Mightiness. Not so much when in his wimpy state, though.

* LightningBruiser: A Wolfgang in his Mighty form has one of the highest Health (losing only to a highly upgraded [=WX-78=]), is the hardest hitting character of the game, he also has a nice 25% speed boost as well.

* MonochromeCasting: Especially prominent before the release of the Shipwrecked DLC. Prior to its release every human character was white. Even still, the cast remains largely this after the few later additions. Before finding a middle ground in [[ArtEvolution Don't Starve Together]] the first two characters of color had [[ButNotTooBlack noticably lighter skin]], despite being Hawaiian and Black respectively.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The Souls are his exclusive items and an animal-based mob (or a player) will drop them while dying when Wortox is in range. Wortox can collect a stock of 20 of them for him to eat or to be released to heal himself and any other player around him by 20 HP. The downside is that the 20 Souls cap is surpassed the Souls will explode out of his inventory making him lose 10 Souls and some sanity in the process. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And the Souls can be stored only in his main inventory]].

* BoringButPractical: Her Navigadget is a compass that point the location of the same object the player puts inside of it. Which can be useful for tracking the items you are in desperate need of or the source of that item. It certainly isn't as awesome as her Pew-matic Horn or her Dodge skill but it's still a very useful tool from her.

* BladeOnAStick: She is the only character capable of crafting a Battle Spear, though she can give it to others in ''Don't Starve Together''. In the Forge, Wigfrid wields the Pith Pike and later can gain access to the Spiral Spear.

* HeelFaceTurn: Wickerbottom's refresh video indicates that she was working with Maxwell to induct people into the Constant, but at some point she ended up going there herself and now simply looks to survive. Nobody bares any ill will against her, either, and she bares none to them.

* ImmuneToFire: In addition, close vicinity to fire will gradually restore her sanity.

* SadisticChoice: When she was a child she had to choose between be killed by a Terrorbeak or burn down an orphanage full of people to destroy it and save herself. [[ForegoneConclusion She chose the latter.]]

* SupremeChef: A minor example. The introduction of the "chef" traits among the survivors made Willow the second best cook in the Constant after Warly, as they share the perk to cook faster over an open fire and being able to use a lighter to cook.

* ThermalDissonance: She is immune to fire and resistant to warmth, but she suffers horribly the cold as a result. She loses more health and sanity when she is freezing, winter gear is less effective and she takes fewer hits to get frozen by enemies with ice attacks.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She shares Wilson's attitude towards spiders, although, also like Wilson, she is perfectly fine with Webber.

* CheerfulChild: Despite his situation, he seems to be taking it all in stride. He's a monstrous looking fusion of boy and spider, with scraggly fur and a maw full of teeth. Despite his appearance, he's one of the more nicer characters in the game, who's managed to endear himself to the other survivors, including noted arachnophobes like Wilson and Willow. Maxwell says it best:

* CordonBleughChef: Webber can creat special "Switcherdoodles", cookies that can transform Spiders into their more stronger variants. The key ingredient Webber uses to make these cookies however, is ''Monster Meat''. Any other survivor that tries to consume these cookies will get a negative hit to their health and sanity.
* CreepyGood: He may be part spider and frightening-looking, but he is one of the more innocent, sweet characters.

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* TheCutie: Wormwood is a sweet and innocent guy, whose innocence at how he views things comes across as endearing.

* CreepyMonotone: Their voice is just an electric beep playing one note. Though not noticeable otherwise, if they sing the Starver's Carol in ''Don't Starve Together'', whereas the other characters will sing the notes in tone, WX-78 will just "sing" the notes [[https://youtu.be/S9InlWjJrQE?t=127 in the same note throughout]].

-> '''Voiced by:''' a synthesizer

-> '''Voiced by:''' a sawtooth tone

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Downplayed with Wilson. Much of his dialogue shows him as... rather eccentric. He's obsessed with puns, his ideas as to what science entails can be bizarre, and the stuff he has invented have an unusual thought process put into them. The Gardeneer Hat is essentialy a wearable plant pot, made because Wilson believes that to understand plants, one must wear them. Most of the time, however, he's shown to be fairly grounded as one of the saner survivors.

* FlatEarthAtheist: He doesn't believe in the supernatural because it's "unscientific", despite seeing supernatural creatures and occurances on a daily basis.

* LooksLikeCesare: Let's see... Crazy hair? Check. Very pale skin? Check. Dark circles under his eyes? Check. Skinny? Check.

* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Not a blade per say but Wilson can gain the ability to throw lit torches and have them stick the landing in order to create temporary hands free light sources.

* AbusiveParents: Or rather, the matrons in the orphanage she lived in. Their response to Willow waking them up in the middle night due to a Terrorbeak attacking her was to lock her inside a supply closet and snatching Bernie from her as punishment. Because of this, Willow was forced to take drastic measures to survive the next Terrorbeak attack.

* NonSpecificallyForeign: His name is German, but his quotes are all over the place, sometimes suggesting France, sometimes Russia, sometimes some other place entirely.

* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: For such an advanced automaton that can ''eat food'', WX-78 still takes damage over time from being caught in the rain or being in puddles and tides.

* SupportPartyMember: They can become this with certain circuits that make them give off a positive sanity aura, illuminate, increase or lower the temperature in an area around them. Ironic considering their [[AxCrazy per]][[TokenEvilTeammate son]][[RoboticPsychopath ality]].

* BlackBeadEyes: When she does open her eyes in-game. Until Winona was added, she was the only female character to have them.

* TheMillstone: He got "promoted" to this in Together, as the fanbase will note that a JokeCharacter in a multiplayer game is much more irritating than in a singleplayer game.

* NoodleIncident: What Wes exactly did for Maxwell to be displeased with him (resulting in him being trapped by Clockwork Monsters) is never explained in game. His character refresh finally reveals the reason why. In trying to rescue a little girl's doll, the mime ended up interrupting Maxwell's attempt at kidnapping his old debtor, George T. Witherstone, taking his place in being trapped in the Constant by complete accident and ruining Maxwell's attempt at revenge.
* NotCompletelyUseless: The fact that the balloons serve as a distraction, regardless of their -5 sanity per use penalty, is a plus [[EverythingTryingToKillYou considering the setting,]] [[JokeCharacter and the character.]] Popping the balloons will also do damage, and if a bunch of balloons are together, they pop all at once.

* DecoyAntagonist: He starts as ''Don't Starve'' main antagonist. After beating Adventure Mode, he becomes a playable character. In ''Shipwrecked'' and ''Hamlet'', there is no core villain. And ''Together'' has Charlie as the new ruler of the Constant.

* GlamourFailure: His CreepyShadowedUndereyes are a bluer color than everyone else's, and in the character selection screen his Survivor skin has fangs similar to the ones in his monster form near the end of Adventure Mode.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: When first greeting the player and in Adventure Mode, he is much [[LeanAndMean thinner and taller]] than the player characters, but when becoming a playable character, his appearance is drastically changed to fit more with the standard height of the other characters.

** Character quotes from ''Together'' show that he gets along with (and actually kind of likes) WX-78 the best, and is worst off with Woodie, who still clearly doesn't like him much (and is only willing to revive him as a ghost because Lucy, who is a bit more forgiving, said so). Willow also continues to make a lot of jabs at him, and Winona seems to have not entirely forgiven him for dragging her little sister into the Constant.

** He continues to play this trope as an NPC in Together, as he acts as essentially his own faction, with his own plans that go against Charlie's and the Shadow Creature's, and often screwing over the other survivors in the process.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Wigfrid" is the name of the Valkyrie character portrayed by the actress, who herself has never been named.
* PickyEater: She refuses to eat anything that isn't meat (with a few exceptions in ''Together''), which can prove detrimental as she cannot benefit from the bonuses granted by certain non-meat recipes. She does eat Crock Pot dishes that require both meat ''and'' vegetables, but nothing without a meat component. She complains a lot about gardening in ''Don't Starve Together'' since she has no interest in the resulting fruits and vegetables.

* CrutchCharacter: Webber possesses a relatively stable early game as his easy access to meat, silk, and spider glands for healing, as well as using Spiders as allies to keep himself safe from other mobs will ensure easy survibality through your first winter when you play your cards right. However, on later stages of the game, Webber struggles against certain boss mobs due to his lower maximum Sanity and the fact that most boss mobs have large area-of-effect attacks that essentially renders mass Spider allies useless. This makes it more difficult for him to explore the whole world effectively on his own compared to other characters. Webber's character refresh remedies this somewhat by giving him special items that allow him to transform Spiders to more stronger variants and giving him additional abilities.

* PaperThinDisguise: In the ''Hamlet'' DLC, Webber gains access to the "Shamlet Mask", a pair of sunglasses and fake mustache that somehow keeps pigs from mistaking you for a monster. Unfortunately, this also fools his fellow spiders who will attack him on sight until he takes the disguise off.

* HandicappedBadass: He walks with two woodlegs, and walking or even standing still on land drains sanity at a fast constant rate. However when it comes to boats, he is the king of the sea. He even has his own ship, which can fire an infinite numbers of cannonballs.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He makes a few quips about the gameplay mechanics of ''Don't Starve Together'', such as commenting that fish are "still spawning." He also states that the light of day will drive away the Eye of Terror, a nod to how many bosses can only be fought at night in ''[[{{VideoGame/Terraria}} Terraria]]''.
* LifeEnergy: It seems to be the true nature of the Souls he absorbs, as they could be used to heal other people besides himself. And the fact that when other players die around Wortox [[AnatomyOfTheSoul they will release a soul and become a ghost at the same time]] with no apparent ill-effects when resurrected seems to support this. However, Wortox will also refer to player ghosts as if they are souls, despite ghost players having already released their soul on death.

* YoungConqueror: She wants Mermkind to become the master race of the Constant, and improving the living conditions of her people is just the first step for that to happen. Thankfully she likes the survivors enough to consider them allies in her personal quest.

* NoSell: He can't lose sanity through sanity auras. The only way to deplete his sanity meter is to keep him at low health or to use items that grant a sanity penalty to the player.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Old Wanda's perk of reduced Sanity loss and her proficiency with magic weapons makes her a GlassCannon able to deal nearly as much damage as ''Mighty Wolfgang''. The downside is that, as she loses years instead of health when she gets hit, [[OneHitPointWonder she will get killed in one hit by almost every enemy in the game]] unless she is using a good armor. This is adverted when she uses normal weapons, as they will deal only half damage because Old Wanda is physically weaker than the other characters.

* FarmBoy: By examining the photographs in ''Taste of Home'' it is possible to notice that Warly's parents used to live in a farmhouse where Warly probably grew in (justifying this way his quotes about having had goats in the past). He moved away to a more tropical location with his mother only later on.