History Characters / HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife

* AgeGapRomance: Lumina is his love interest from ''Another Wonderful Life'' onwards, despite their nine (four internationally) year age difference. Their DS descendants are also love interests in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon DS (Cute)]]'', though it's unclear how old that incarnation of Leona/"Lumina" is since she starts with AWL Lumina's Chapter 2 outfit, and they are explicitly stated to be childhood friends.

* HeyYou: Habitually calls the player "babe" in ''Another Wonderful Life'', and "dude" in ''A Wonderful Life: Special Edition''. These are both renderings of the same Japanese speech habit: he's overusing the second-person pronoun ''kimi'' in a way that comes across as overfamiliar and condescending (and flirtatious if used towards a woman).

* AgeGapRomance: In the ''Wonderful Life'' games, the mid-thirties Marlin harbors romantic feelings for the 19 year old Celia. Downplayed significantly overseas, where Marlin is 32 and Celia is aged up to 26.

* DelicateAndSickly: He was this in his childhood; he's still somewhat fragile.

* PerpetualFrowner: Most conversations the player has with him he's never seen without a frown. There are some moments however where he does show a smile, especially if you're looking to marry him in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]''.

* TookALevelInKindness: He is less of a jerk when you try to woo him in ''Another Wonderful Life'', same goes for his counterpart in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS''.
* VagueAge: His age is not stated in the Japanese guidebook for the ''Wonderful Life'' games, but a line he can say in Chapter 2 once married makes him being under 30 in Chapter 1 extremely unlikely given the customary ages for Japanese company presidents.

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Well...sort of. If you marry Rock, his dad will comment that Rock was "like a son to them". Rock becomes flustered and changes the subject. Add this to several other hints in the game, as well as the fact that Rock looks ''nothing like them'' and...yeah.]]

* Tomboy with a Girly Streak: One of the first outfits you can unlock as Pony is "I Love Bears", a pink and yellow little number with Da-chan on the front.

* Determinator: While the story of ''A Wonderful Life'' begins with Takakura going to visit Mark and telling him about the farm due to Mark's lack of direction in life, Another Wonderful Life has Pony take the initiative, sending Takakura a letter in a bright red envelope that ends with the line "I want to try working on the farm." Takakura remarks that she has her father's strange spirit.

* DreadfulMusician: They are noted to be tone deaf, a trait Takakura remarks they inherited from their father.

* StalkerWithACrush: In AnWL and AWL:SE, his first rival heart event with Celia shows him watching her from behind a building, while she tends to the crops, unaware of his presence. He's startled when you catch him, and stammers out [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "I wasn't watching Celia or anything...!"]]

* StatuesqueStunner: Pony is the same height as Mark, making her taller than most of the residents and many of the men. The flavor text when examining the stairs to Muffy's room says it's 'much 'too small for you to enter''.

* AllThereInTheManual: Mark's age is stated to be 25 in the official Japanese guidebook.

* CallToAgriculture: Of course. We don't know what they were doing before, but the game starts with them taking over their dad's farm.
* FarmBoy: Brought in from the city to become one. They quickly get the hang of it.

* TomboyishPonytail: Pony permanently wears a ponytail to fit her farmer image.

** In the Japanese ''Wonderful Life'' games he is "Mash".

%%* StalkerWithACrush: In AnWL and AWL:SE, his first rival heart event with Celia shows him watching her from behind a building, while she tends to the crops, unaware of his presence. He's startled when you catch him, and stammers out [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "I wasn't watching Celia or anything...!"]]

* AgeLift: Received the most drastic one out of the bachelorettes: her age was listed as 19 in the official Japanese guidebook, and as 26 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas— likely due to the arranged marriage factor as well as the age gap between her and Masshu/Marlin.

* AgeLift: Her official age is 27 (with her birth month being June) in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 30 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.

* AgeLift: Her official age is listed as 25 in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 28 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.

* AgeLift: Her official age is 26 in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 34 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.

* AgeGapRomance: Lumina is his love interest in despite their nine (four internationally) year age difference. Their DS descendants are also love interests in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon DS (Cute)]]'', though it's unclear how old that incarnation of Leona/"Lumina" is since she starts with AWL Lumina's Chapter 2 outfit, and they are stated to be childhood friends.

* {{Yandere}}: In AnWL'' and ''AWL:SE, his first rival heart event ends with him saying "I'll decide who's good for Celia and who's not!"

* RummageSaleReject: Green hat, striped shirt, brown vest with tassles with beatnik shades. He easily stands out.
* WordSaladLyrics: The song he sings doesn't really make sense.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's really the second-youngest bachelor after Rock, but people tend to treat him as if he's much older. Must be the beard. To drive this even ''further'', Gustafa is the only bachelor who will never age, and by the end of the last chapter will still look the same as the day you met him, compared to Rock and Marlin whose hair starts to grey by the second chapter.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's fourteen in the original ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Wonderful Life]]'' game before being bumped up to being 16 (18 internationally). But even then, she looks like a preteen. ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' rectify this by using her adult appearance from the start.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's normally nice but in ''DS'' her blackbelt skills appear when provoked.

* HiddenDepths: Would you believe that the nerdy archelologist has a blackbelt?

* AgeGapRomance: Flirts with Lumina and can even marry her in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon DS (Cute)]]'' despite their seven (five internationally) year age difference.

* JerkAss: Arguably this in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]''.

* BerserkButton: If you break Celia's heart, he would've kicked your ass had Celia not intervened.

%%* StalkerWithACrush: See below.

* {{Yandere}}: There is an optional scene in which he muses over Celia's beauty, which ends with him saying "I'll decide who's good for Celia and who's not!"

!!Takakura
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Your father's best friend and mentor figure on your farm.

* AerithAndBob: In a town full of American-friendly names like Chris, Patrick, Celia, and the (Asian) couple Tim and Ruby... there is Takakura.
* AllThereInTheManual: His bio in ''Friends of Mineral Town'' mentioned he used to work in construction. This is confirmed to be the case in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonMyLittleShop My Little Shop]]''.
* BigOlEyebrows: As shown in the picture.
* CoolOldGuy: Takakura in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' may be silent and more than a little distant with you, but he has the farm's best interest always in mind, and is a sort of father figure to your character after your own dad died in the beginning of the game.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His eyes only open when he is surprised, such as when he is shown an unfamiliar item.
* MentorArchetype: Helps the player out on the farm, and gives important information on how to run the farm.

!!Your Child (Named [[CanonName Toto/Andy]] in ''My Little Shop'')

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[[caption-width-right:300: Your Son (if you married Celia) and your Daughter. Both with their Toddler, Child and Teen forms.]]

Your child will appear in Chapter 2 after they were born. Their interests and what career they will have can be influenced by your decisions and who your friends are. They can have one of six different careers consisting of: Farmer, Rancher, Artist, Musician, Scholar or Athlete.
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!!Tartan
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A two-headed plant that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Takakura grew in his house]]. If you get the chance to befriend him, he can let you create hybrid crops.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Carrots in their crop form, though he doesn't mind their seeds.
* DubNameChange: Tsurutan -> Tartan.
* LuckBasedMission: How trying to make hybrid crops work. You'll need to feed him two different seeds to create a brand new seed. However it's not guaranteed that'll work so you need to keep trying. Though fusing seeds and certain flowers (Gemsoils, Happy Lamps and Upseeds) has much more success by giving it a special benefit (Grow on any soil, grow in any season and crop rank is S respectively).
* MotorMouth: Tartan always tends to talk his heads off.
* PlantPerson: More plantlike than most examples, but the fact he's capable of speech and sentience still applies.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He's allergic to carrots. However you can let him analyze carrot seeds.

!!Daachan (named Daniel in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'')
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A strange teddy bear that you can buy from Van for your child. But there is something about it that makes it off-putting.

* CreepyDoll: Rather homely looking, rather UglyCute though.
* DubNameChange: From "Daa-chan" to "Daniel" in ''DS''.
* LivingToys: Moves around when no one is around, though your child knows his secret.
* TheVoiceless: In the ''Wonderful Life'' sub-series it's mute. It can talk in ''DS''

!!Harvest Sprites
A trio that resides in the big tree at the spring. They've also appeared in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSaveTheHomeland''.

* AlliterativeFamily: In the English translations their names rhyme.
* BigThinShortTrio: Flak is the biggest one, Nic is the smallest one, and Nak is the one in the middle.
* ChromaticArrangement: Nak wears red, Flak wears yellow and Nic wears blue.
* DubNameChange:
** Ebony -> Nic
** David -> Nak
** Flat -> Flak
* SirSwearsALot: The biographies obtained from connecting Friends Of Mineral Town and A Wonderful Life claim that Flat/Flak has a "dirty mouth".
* {{Youkai}}: Like all Harvest Sprites, they're explicitly ''korpokkur'' in the Japanese version: fairy-like little sprites originally from Ainu folklore, somewhere between a youkai and a cryptid.
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!!Celia
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A farm girl who works on Vesta's farm. She's peaceful and sweet. Vesta's brother, Marlin, has his eye on her.

* AgeLift: Received the most drastic one out of the bachelorettes: her age was listed as 19 in the official Japanese guidebook, and as 26 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas— likely due to the arranged marriage factor as well as the age gap between her and Masshu/Marlin.
* ArrangedMarriage: Celia's parents want one of these for her. She never goes through with it though.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The brunette. (Nami's the redhead and Muffy's the blonde.)
* BreakTheCutie: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' if you bring her up to four hearts and see all of her events, then choose to marry someone else, it means she left her arranged marriage for nothing and shatters her heart. She, Vesta, and especially Marlin will ''never forgive you.''
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has mild traits of this, mostly associated with her love of plants.
* DubNameChange:
** In ''AWL''. From Sepilia -> Celia.
** In ''DS''. From Sapele/Sepilia/Sepiria/Serena -> Celia.
* EducationMama: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' she really wants to see her son grow up to be a scientist and always wants him to be studying.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Including her crops.
* IdiotHair: She has a cowlick.
* TheIngenue: The kindest bachelorette in the Valley, and has two or three men after her.
* ShipperOnDeck: In one of Marlin's Heart Scenes, she will pretend to feel tired and leave so Marlin and Pony will have some alone time.
* TookALevelInJerkass: If you don't marry her, due to Vesta's influence and her previous heartbreak.

!!Muffy
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A waitress who works at the [[MyLocal Blue Bar.]] Perennially loveless, she often laments her ill luck with men. (Worse still, she doesn't seem to realize the affection that bar owner Griffin has for her.) She's a rather feminine girl, taking delight in makeup and jewelry.

* AgeLift: Her official age is 27 (with her birth month being June) in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 30 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Wavy curls of gold. (Nami's got the red and Celia the brown.) Though it is revealed if you marry her that [[spoiler: she uses curlers to get her hair like that every day.]]
* DubNameChange:
** In ''AWL''. From [=MuuMuu=] -> Muffy.
** In ''DS''. From Muu -> Muffy.
* DumbBlond: Not too strongly, compared to Rock, but it's there.
* {{Expy}}: Of Eve from the first game in the series. She's a bittersweet blonde bartender in a red dress.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'' counterpart is a lot less catty than her ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife A Wonderful Life]]'' counterpart.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]'' Muffy can be seen crying now and then by the river over the latest boyfriend in the city who's broken her heart. Whether he was cheating on her, or secretly using her as his mistress, she always simply convinces herself that she'll find her man one day. [[spoiler: But... since you can't marry her in the game, she never does.]]
* MayDecemberRomance:
** Her designated love interest (outside of the player) is Griffin, 16 years her senior. She only marries him in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'', though.
** She's also several years older than the player character.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Even amongst the [[ArtisticAge young looking characters]], she is a canon example. It's not easily noticeable that Muffy is in her thirties already.
* OldMaid: In her Chapter 2 bridge cutscene, she bemoans that being over 30 has caused her love life troubles.
* StepfordSmiler: She really wants to get married and have a family, but just keeps ending up with the wrong guy. While this does upset her, she's determined to keep a smile on her face. [[spoiler:If the male PC gets her to three hearts and then dumps her, she never really recovers from the heartbreak.]]
-->'''Muffy:''' [[spoiler:[[WhatTheHellPlayer I thought you were different...]]]]
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her jacket. Her post-marriage dress in the special edition of ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' is also blue.

!!Nami
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A traveler who drifted into Forget-Me-Not Valley and then forgot to leave. She lives at the village's inn but is quickly running out of money.

* AgeLift: Her official age is listed as 25 in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 28 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.
* AerithAndBob: Not as bad as Takakura, but still.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The latter of the three. (Muffy's the blonde and Celia's the brunette.)
* BrokenBird: The most aloof bachelorette you'll meet and the most jaded too.
* TheCameo: Appears in ''Magical Melody'' as a weather girl, presumably in a timeline where Mark/Pony didn't marry her or befriend her. She can't be married in that game.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She takes a while to warm up to you. Most of the items she likes are either difficult meals or crops to attain in your first year, or flowers or vegetation that don't appear until fall or winter, causing her to be one of the most difficult to romance.
* DubNameChange: In ''DS''. From "Nazka/Nasuka" -> "Nami".
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her hair was combed and straight in ''A Wonderful Life''. It didn't become messy until the DistaffCounterpart.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: If you choose her.
* IcyBlueEyes: She has sharp blue eyes befitting her aloof nature. Her son will have these too.
* MaternallyChallenged: Fights with her son, goes off to the bar every night and spends most of her days wandering aimlessly outside. The baby will be fine on his own...
* MessyHair: She has bedhead-looking hair that is only scruffier in ''DS''. It fits her laidback personality.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you're not good enough friends with her, she'll leave the valley permanently. If you ARE, she'll ''claim'' she's leaving the valley forever... but she decides to return. She likes Forget-Me-Not Valley too much.
* TheSnarkKnight: Nami can be very sarcastic.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's very detached at first but will soften up once you befriend/marry her.
* UnkemptBeauty: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]'' and the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'' games, she has noticeably shaggier hair compared to ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]''.
* WalkingTheEarth: Has no intention of sticking to one place for long, and had only been lingering in the Valley when you showed up because she liked this place.

!!Lumina
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A well-to-do orphan who was raised by her grandmother and lives in the villa.

* AllThereInTheManual:
** According to the [[http://www.hmotaku.net/images/awl/Lumina%202.jpg character profiles]] in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Friends of Mineral Town]]'', her parents died in a train wreck.
** The Japanese site for the first game says she was 14. She was aged up in future titles to make her a love interest to Rock and Mark.
* AgeLift: Was fourteen in the first game, sixteen (eighteen internationally) in ''Another Wonderful Life'' and ''Special Edition''. ''DS'' and ''Cute'' outright use her adult design from the start.
* AscendedExtra: In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Wonderful Life]]'', she's just a girl in her early teens who develops a PrecociousCrush on the protagonist. In ''Another Wonderful Life'' she is Rock's rival love interest. In the ''Special Edition'' that came out for the [=PS2=], Lumina is aged up and made into a bachelorette.
* DubNameChange: In ''DS''. "Leona" -> "Lumina".
* LonelyRichKid: Unless you do anything about it, the only person she will ever have to talk to is her elderly butler, her high maintenance grandma, or ''ROCK''. In the DS games she can befriend Mary if you connect to the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Mineral Town]]'' games.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Being the youngest bachelorette means she still looks youthful as the others reach SilverVixen territory.
* NoAccountingForTaste: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'', she eventually marries the playboy Rock. Most of their events afterwards involve them getting into fights with one another. (Heck, even their rival events are SlapSlapKiss!)
* {{Ojou}}: She's the young, proper granddaughter of the richest woman in town.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's fourteen in the original ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Wonderful Life]]'' game before being bumped up to being 16 (18 internationally). But even then, she looks like a preteen. ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' rectify this by using her adult appearance from the start.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: In most files Lumina won't turn into her "adult" design until your child is in their Child stage. If you marry her however, when you get to the second chapter she's already changed models.
* PrecociousCrush: On Mark, though she initially views him like an older brother. She even cries if he marries someone else.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: For Rock in ''Another Life'', and to Mark in ''A Wonderful Life Special Edition''.
* ProperLady: Raised to be one of these by Romana.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Her grandmother took her in after the untimely deaths of her parents.
* RichBoredom: She's amongst the richest in town but has no actual friends besides the protagonist and doesn't really do much.
* RichesToRags: If you marry her she happily goes from richest girl in town living in an enormous mansion on top of a hill to farmer's wife down by the river. However it should be noted that the player character can earn a LOT of money as a farmer, so this can be subverted.
* SailorFuku: Only in the first two chapters. Averted in the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'' games.
* SpoiledSweet: She lives in an enormous house with her own butler and a fountain in the garden, but she's nothing but kind and friendly the vast majority of the time.
* TrademarkFavoriteDrink: Her favorite gift in ''DS'' is Relax Tea.

!!Flora
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Carter's assistant. Though they share a tent together, their relationship is strictly business. While intelligent and strong, she's not a very good cook.

* AgeLift: Her official age is 26 in the official Japanese guidebook; increased to 34 by Natsume in the manuals that came with ''AWL'', ''AnWL'', and ''AWL:SE'' overseas.
* ActionGirl: She's a blackbelt, as [[StalkerWithACrush Daryl]] finds out first-hand. In the DS version, she'll teach you some of her signature moves.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's normally nice but in ''DS'' her blackbelt skills appear when provoked.
* TheDitz: She was given a slight version of this in the DS games. Not helped by the fact that she speaks with prolonged words and uses ~ at the end of her sentences a lot.
* HiddenDepths: Would you believe that the nerdy archelologist has a blackbelt?
* IronicName: Flora hates plants.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Internationally, she's around 34 years old, even older than the OldMaid Muffy.
* OneNoteCook: In ''DS''. Her curry is fantastic, but anything else she makes is barely even edible.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: In ''DS'', if you don't see her Blue Heart event before you marry, you won't be able to unlock the Hot Spring near the mine.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Carter in the ''Wonderful Life'' games. They live together, work together, and never end up getting married. Despite rumors, they're only friends.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: In ''DS'' she becomes an eligible bachelorette. Her relationship with Carter was also changed in order to have him serve as your romantic rival for her.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Flora is a glasses wearing archaeologist.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves curry of all kinds in ''DS'', with her favorite being Rainbow Curry.

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[[folder: Bachelors]]
!!Rock
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The son of Tim and Ruby at the inn, though he looks ''absolutely nothing like them.'' He's a party animal who loves just lounging about and looking for fun stuff to do.

* AgeGapRomance: Flirts with Lumina and can even marry her in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon DS (Cute)]]'' despite their seven (five internationally) year age difference.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Calling him a 'moron' in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]'' may not be the best choice to make. Neither is making Lumina cry.
* CampStraight: His three favorite things are partying, fashion and women.
* CasanovaWannabe: He even wears a sleazy leisure suit.
* CloudCuckooLander: Not so much in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'', but in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]''...wow. Let's just say he declares your ''dog'' his arch-enemy.
* DubNameChange: His ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'' incarnation is named "Romeo" in the Japanese versions.
* DumbBlonde: He may be a guy, but ''boy is he ever.'' He's as dumb as a... er... well... [[InsultToRocks you]] [[{{Pun}} know.]]
%%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Well...sort of. If you marry Rock, his dad will comment that Rock was "like a son to them". Rock becomes flustered and changes the subject. Add this to several other hints in the game, as well as the fact that Rock looks ''nothing like them'' and...yeah.]]
* InformedAttribute: He tells you he's a pro skier. Knowing Rock, though...
* JerkAss: Arguably this in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]''.
* {{Keet}}: An adult, but he still counts.
* LazyBum: Rather content to live the life of a layabout. This changes when you marry him [[spoiler: when he'll run your farm when you pass away]].
* MeaningfulName:
** Rock isn't the smartest guy in town.
** His ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'' incarnations name is "Theatre/{{Romeo|AndJuliet}}" in Japan.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 22, but looks like a young teenager.
* TheSlacker: Doubly so in his ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'' incarnation.

!!Marlin
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A ranch hand, and Vesta's brother. He moved out to the valley when he was young because of his failing health, and he's still a bit frail. He can be cold at first, but when he warms up, he shows himself to be a kind-hearted person. He does tend to worry, though.

* BerserkButton: If you break Celia's heart, he would've kicked your ass had Celia not intervened.
* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't mince his words, and on first meeting he will merely tolerate the player's presence before asking them if they needed anything or leave. This makes him come across as cold to most people.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: He will open up as you befriend him, and he is very protective of Celia.
* DelicateAndSickly: He was this in his childhood; he's still somewhat fragile.
* DubNameChange:
** In the Japanese ''Wonderful Life'' games he is "Mash".
** In the Japanese ''DS'' games he is "Ash".
* HandsInPockets: His default mode when walking around is to have his hands in his pockets. His official art in the small guidebook even shows him in this pose.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Varies depending on the game and actions. In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' he will ''not'' be nice to you if you pursue Celia, but if you marry someone else he'll be a good drinking buddy. And in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]'' he becomes more like a very shy guy who just happens to not smile often.
* PerpetualFrowner: Most conversations the player has with him he's never seen without a frown. There are some moments however where he does show a smile, especially if you're looking to marry him in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]''.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Vesta's Red.
%%* StalkerWithACrush: See below.
* TookALevelInKindness: He is less of a jerk when you try to woo him in ''Another Wonderful Life'', same goes for his counterpart in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS''.
* WhenHeSmiles: Since he's always frowning, when he does start getting more comfortable with the player he seems gentler when he smiles, especially if you're actively courting him.
* {{Yandere}}: There is an optional scene in which he muses over Celia's beauty, which ends with him saying "I'll decide who's good for Celia and who's not!"

!!Gustafa
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A songwriter who lives in the valley, and something of a hippie. He's a loner and a wanderer, but he'll befriend you if you like--he might even show you some of his music. He's pretty in-tune with nature. He likes Nami; he's attracted to fellow loners.

* AscendedExtra: He went from being a rather pointless character in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' to one of the three potential spouses in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]''.
* DubNameChange: In ''DS''. "Gusta" -> "Gustafa".
* EruditeStoner: He's [[GRatedStoner not stoned]] as far as we know, but he ''acts'' like it sometimes...
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Your dog will listen to his music.
* GagNose: Even when he is supposed to be prettied up as a potential spouse, the artwork for him seems to exaggerate the size of his nose.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: The original games are implied to take place in the 2000s and the DS ones are a century later, yet Gustafa is still is a hippie living in a tent.
* NiceGuy: He's a very kind and cheerful man.
* PrematurelyBald: According to concept art, he's this under his hat.
* RoundHippieShades: He wears a pair of glasses that he rarely takes off. They have a purple lenses in ''A Wonderful Life'' while his DS counterpart has black lenses.
* RummageSaleReject: Green hat, striped shirt, brown vest with tassles with beatnik shades. He easily stands out.
* WordSaladLyrics: The song he sings doesn't really make sense.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's really the second-youngest bachelor after Rock, but people tend to treat him as if he's much older. Must be the beard. To drive this even ''further'', Gustafa is the only bachelor who will never age, and by the end of the last chapter will still look the same as the day you met him, compared to Rock and Marlin whose hair starts to grey by the second chapter.

!!Griffin
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The owner of the [[MyLocal local bar]]. Griffin is a aging, calm and gentle guy who loves to play music and mix up drinks. He's known Muffy for years and has a small crush on Muffy. In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]] [[DistaffCounterpart Cute]]'' he is a marriageable bachelor.

* CoolOldGuy: A very easygoing man who'll welcome you to his bar. He also plays the guitar too if you're lucky.
* DubNameChange: In ''AWL''. Garfun -> Griffin.
%%* GagNose
* HiddenDepths: If you're lucky, sometimes when walking into his bar you will catch him quietly playing a song on his guitar for whoever wants to listen.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's pretty surprised that someone as pretty and young as your character would want to marry a gruff looking old man like him. In ''Cute'' he is this to both him and Muffy ''and'' him and the PC. If you go after him, he even asks you if you think you can really be attracted to a man his age.
* NiceGuy: A very easygoing and responsible bar owner. Even stops you from drinking too much.
* ParentalSubstitute: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'', he behaves more as a father figure to Muffy, and brings her to you for your wedding.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: He has a crush on Muffy in the original games but can outright marry her in the DS games. He can also marry the protagonist in ''Cute''.
%%* PornStache
* SickeninglySweethearts: Of all the rival marriages in the DS games, he and Muffy are certainly the happiest. While they aren't overly lovey-dovey around each other, they give off this vibe when comparing them to the other unhappy couples.

!!Carter
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The local archeologist who works at the dig site with his assistant Flora.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: He doesn't actually do a lot of adventuring, but he has the ''spirit'' of one at least.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: In the DS games everyone in the valley really loves curry... except him. He ''hates'' it, [[OneNoteCook especially when Flora makes it.]]
* FacePalm: One of his favorite expressions in the DS games.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: One ''DS'' event has him trying fruitlessly to get out of having to eat Flora's curry. He can't eat it, because... ''[PlayerCharacter walks in]''--he, uh, promised he'd go eat lunch with HelloInsertNameHere! ''Didn't he?'' (Be nice and rescue the man.)
* MayDecemberRomance: He and Flora aren't too far apart, but he and the PC of ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS Cute]]'' are.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Despite rumors, him and Flora are platonic in the ''Wonderful Life'' games, and in the DS games if you court either or don't provoke their Rival Events. In ''Cute'' Flora even calms his PanickyExpectantFather tendencies, and she ends up the godmother of your child.
* {{Precursors}}: He got into archaeology because he thinks he might be descended from them. [[spoiler: In a [[GuideDangIt ridiculously difficult-to-see-scene]], the Harvest Goddess tells him he's not, but he ignores her because he's not about to give up his life's work.]]
* PromotedToLoveInterest: To the protagonist in ''Cute'' and Flora in both DS games.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Villagers]]

!!Vesta
Marlin's overbearing sister and owner of Vesta's farm. She takes great joy in her work and is normally quite good-natured and cheerful. Just... don't cross her. We warned you.

* ApronMatron: Part of her working clothes. It shown to be worn as the game progresses.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Particularly if you broke Celia's heart.
* FieryRedhead: Lord help you if you set her off.
* {{Gonk}}: Less so than most but she has a large chin, husky voice, large size, and very muscular arms.
* ParentalSubstitute: Serves as a motherly figure for Celia ever since she moved in the Valley prior to the game.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red for Marlin's Blue.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the first chapter, he frequently asks the male protagonist if he's looking for Celia.
* SiblingYinYang: She's very talkative and loud while her younger brother Marlin is shy and soft-spoken.

!!Patrick & Kassey
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Twins who make fireworks.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Patrick apparently takes pride in being the second best pyrotechnic in the world, with his brother being better than he is.
* DubNameChange: Both in ''AWL'':
** Pasaran -> Patrick.
** Kesaran -> Kassey.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Kassey wears blue overalls with a smiley face, Patrick wears green overalls with a flower. Also Patrick has a single hair on his bald spot where Kassey doesn't have one.
* PyroManiac: They make fireworks for a living, and reside in a tower that resembles a giant rocket.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Averted with their English names, while their Japanese names rhyme and are named after a type of {{Yokai}}

!!Samantha
Grant's wife and Kate's mother who moves into town in the second chapter.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She seems to be an incredibly high maintenance woman, impatient with guests and her daughter and Grant tries his hardest to avoid coming home from work for as long as possible because of her.
* DubNameChange: In ''AWL''. From San -> Samantha.
* TheGhost: She is noticeably missing in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS''. It's explained that Grant finally got the good sense to divorce her.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Considering how she acts towards her husband...
* YamatoNadeshiko: Wears a kimono, PrimAndProperBun, tends to the house and child-rearing. Someone you don't want to piss off.

!!Grant
Kate's father and Samantha's husband.
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* TheAlcoholic: Heavily implied. He's at the bar a lot when not working, and in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'' his favorite gift is Wine.
* AwfulWeddedLife: He's miserable in his marriage to his wife and avoids going home because of her temper as often as he can. In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'', he gets the courage to divorce her.
* HenpeckedHusband: He comes across as this due to Samantha's arguably domineering personality.
* {{Salaryman}}: He's styled after one and even gets drunk a lot after working like one.
* ShrinkingViolet: Very passive compared to his wife and daughter.
* {{Workaholic}}: He purposely works long hours to avoid meeting his [[BitchInSheepsClothing less-than-nice]] wife and bratty daughter at home. In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'', he works hard to support him and Kate.

!!Kate
A little girl who loves to torment Hugh. She lives in the village with her father, Grant.
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* [[FarmBoy Farm Boy/Girl]]: Brought in from the city to become one. They quickly get the hang of it.

For info on the characters as they appear in the remake, ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife'', go [[Characters/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife here]]. For characters from other entries in the [[VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons]] series or the franchise in general, go [[Characters/StoryOfSeasons here]].

For info on the characters as they appear in the remake, ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife'', go [[Characters/StoryOfSeasonsAWonderfulLife here]]. For characters from other games in the series, check out the Characters page [[Characters/StoryOfSeasons here]].

* VagueAge: Safe to say Mark is somewhere in his twenties, considering that the youngest bachelorette is eighteen (Lumina in ''Special Edition'') and the oldest being thirty (Muffy), with Muffy being implied as older than Mark.

* AllThereInTheManual: If not for her age being cited as thirty in the manual, you really wouldn't be able to tell.

* OldMaid: Reaching 30 has caused her love life troubles.

* OlderThanSheLooks: She's around 34 years old, even older than the OldMaid Muffy.

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[[caption-width-right:336: Your Son (if you married Celia) and your Daughter. Both with their Toddler, Child and Teen forms.]]

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: His statue that he gives you in Chapter 4 if you befriended him.

For characters from other games in the series, check out the Characters page [[Characters/StoryOfSeasons here]].

* DumbBlonde: He may be a guy, but ''boy is he ever.'' He's as dumb as a... er... well... [[InsultToRocks you]] [[IncrediblyLamePun know.]]

* Meganekko: A pair of cat-eye glasses.

* SecretCharacter: He appears in VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown after giving 30 gifts to the Harvest Goddess.

* DubNameChange: In ''AWL''. From Lou -> Ruby. Averted in the Friends of Mineral Town remake where she returned as Lou.
* SecretCharacter: She appears in VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown after giving 75 gifts to the Harvest Goddess.

!!Nami
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A traveler who drifted into Forget-Me-Not Valley and then forgot to leave. She lives at the village's inn but is quickly running out of money.

* AerithAndBob: Not as bad as Takakura, but still.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The latter of the three. (Muffy's the blonde and Celia's the brunette.)
* BrokenBird: The most aloof bachelorette you'll meet and the most jaded too.
* TheCameo: Appears in ''Magical Melody'' as a weather girl, presumably in a timeline where Mark/Pony didn't marry her or befriend her. She can't be married in that game.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She takes a while to warm up to you. Most of the items she likes are either difficult meals or crops to attain in your first year, or flowers or vegetation that don't appear until fall or winter, causing her to be one of the most difficult to romance.
* DubNameChange: In ''DS''. From "Nazka/Nasuka" -> "Nami".
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Her hair was combed and straight in ''A Wonderful Life''. It didn't become messy until the DistaffCounterpart.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: If you choose her.
* IcyBlueEyes: She has sharp blue eyes befitting her aloof nature. Her son will have these too.
* MaternallyChallenged: Fights with her son, goes off to the bar every night and spends most of her days wandering aimlessly outside. The baby will be fine on his own...
* MessyHair: She has bedhead-looking hair that is only scruffier in ''DS''. It fits her laidback personality.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you're not good enough friends with her, she'll leave the valley permanently. If you ARE, she'll ''claim'' she's leaving the valley forever... but she decides to return. She likes Forget-Me-Not Valley too much.
* TheSnarkKnight: Nami can be very sarcastic.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's very detached at first but will soften up once you befriend/marry her.
* UnkemptBeauty: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AnWL]]'' and the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS (Cute)]]'' games, she has noticeably shaggier hair compared to ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]''.
* WalkingTheEarth: Has no intention of sticking to one place for long, and had only been lingering in the Valley when you showed up because she liked this place.

!!Lumina
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!!!!!![[caption-width-right:125:[[labelnote: Click to see her adult look]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luminafullsize.png[[/labelnote]]]]

A well-to-do orphan who was raised by her grandmother and lives in the villa.

* AllThereInTheManual:
** According to the [[http://www.hmotaku.net/images/awl/Lumina%202.jpg character profiles]] in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Friends of Mineral Town]]'', her parents died in a train wreck.
** The Japanese site for the first game says she was 14. She was aged up in future titles to make her a love interest to Rock and Mark.
* AgeLift: Was fourteen in the first game, sixteen (eighteen internationally) in ''Another Wonderful Life'' and ''Special Edition''. ''DS'' and ''Cute'' outright use her adult design from the start.
* AscendedExtra: In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Wonderful Life]]'', she's just a girl in her early teens who develops a PrecociousCrush on the protagonist. In ''Another Wonderful Life'' she is Rock's rival love interest. In the ''Special Edition'' that came out for the [=PS2=], Lumina is aged up and made into a bachelorette.
* DubNameChange: In ''DS''. "Leona" -> "Lumina".
* LonelyRichKid: Unless you do anything about it, the only person she will ever have to talk to is her elderly butler, her high maintenance grandma, or ''ROCK''. In the DS games she can befriend Mary if you connect to the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Mineral Town]]'' games.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Being the youngest bachelorette means she still looks youthful as the others reach SilverVixen territory.
* NoAccountingForTaste: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'', she eventually marries the playboy Rock. Most of their events afterwards involve them getting into fights with one another. (Heck, even their rival events are SlapSlapKiss!)
* {{Ojou}}: She's the young, proper granddaughter of the richest woman in town.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's fourteen in the original ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Wonderful Life]]'' game before being bumped up to being 16 (18 internationally). But even then, she looks like a preteen. ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' rectify this by using her adult appearance from the start.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: In most files Lumina won't turn into her "adult" design until your child is in their Child stage. If you marry her however, when you get to the second chapter she's already changed models.
* PrecociousCrush: On Mark, though she initially views him like an older brother. She even cries if he marries someone else.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: For Rock in ''Another Life'', and to Mark in ''A Wonderful Life Special Edition''.
* ProperLady: Raised to be one of these by Romana.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Her grandmother took her in after the untimely deaths of her parents.
* RichBoredom: She's amongst the richest in town but has no actual friends besides the protagonist and doesn't really do much.
* RichesToRags: If you marry her she happily goes from richest girl in town living in an enormous mansion on top of a hill to farmer's wife down by the river. However it should be noted that the player character can earn a LOT of money as a farmer, so this can be subverted.
* SailorFuku: Only in the first two chapters. Averted in the ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]'' games.
* SpoiledSweet: She lives in an enormous house with her own butler and a fountain in the garden, but she's nothing but kind and friendly the vast majority of the time.
* TrademarkFavoriteDrink: Her favorite gift in ''DS'' is Relax Tea.

!!Celia
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A farm girl who works on Vesta's farm. She's peaceful and sweet. Vesta's brother, Marlin, has his eye on her.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Celia's parents want one of these for her. She never goes through with it though.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The brunette. (Nami's the redhead and Muffy's the blonde.)
* BreakTheCutie: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' if you bring her up to four hearts and see all of her events, then choose to marry someone else, it means she left her arranged marriage for nothing and shatters her heart. She, Vesta, and especially Marlin will ''never forgive you.''
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has mild traits of this, mostly associated with her love of plants.

** In ''AWL''. From Sepilia -> Celia.
** In ''DS''. From Sapele/Sepilia/Sepiria/Serena -> Celia.
* EducationMama: In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife AWL]]'' she really wants to see her son grow up to be a scientist and always wants him to be studying.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Including her crops.
* IdiotHair: She has a cowlick.
* TheIngenue: The kindest bachelorette in the Valley, and has two or three men after her.
* ShipperOnDeck: In one of Marlin's Heart Scenes, she will pretend to feel tired and leave so Marlin and Pony will have some alone time.
* TookALevelInJerkass: If you don't marry her, due to Vesta's influence and her previous heartbreak.

!!Muffy
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A waitress who works at the [[MyLocal Blue Bar.]] Perennially loveless, she often laments her ill luck with men. (Worse still, she doesn't seem to realize the affection that bar owner Griffin has for her.) She's a rather feminine girl, taking delight in makeup and jewelry.
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* AllThereInTheManual: If not for her age being cited as thirty in the manual, you really wouldn't be able to tell.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Wavy curls of gold. (Nami's got the red and Celia the brown.) Though it is revealed if you marry her that [[spoiler: she uses curlers to get her hair like that every day.]]
* DubNameChange:

!!Flora
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Carter's assistant. Though they share a tent together, their relationship is strictly business. While intelligent and strong, she's not a very good cook.

* ActionGirl: She's a blackbelt, as [[StalkerWithACrush Daryl]] finds out first-hand. In the DS version, she'll teach you some of her signature moves.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's normally nice but in ''DS'' her blackbelt skills appear when provoked.
* TheDitz: She was given a slight version of this in the DS games. Not helped by the fact that she speaks with prolonged words and uses ~ at the end of her sentences a lot.
* HiddenDepths: Would you believe that the nerdy archelologist has a blackbelt?
* IronicName: Flora hates plants.
* OlderThanSheLooks: She's around 34 years old, even older than the OldMaid Muffy.
* OneNoteCook: In ''DS''. Her curry is fantastic, but anything else she makes is barely even edible.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: In ''DS'', if you don't see her Blue Heart event before you marry, you won't be able to unlock the Hot Spring near the mine.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Carter in the ''Wonderful Life'' games. They live together, work together, and never end up getting married. Despite rumors, they're only friends.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: In ''DS'' she becomes an eligible bachelorette. Her relationship with Carter was also changed in order to have him serve as your romantic rival for her.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Flora is a glasses wearing archaeologist.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves curry of all kinds in ''DS'', with her favorite being Rainbow Curry.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bachelors]]
!!Rock
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The son of Tim and Ruby at the inn, though he looks ''absolutely nothing like them.'' He's a party animal who loves just lounging about and looking for fun stuff to do.

** David -> Nak -

* ChristmasCake: Reaching 30 has caused her love life troubles.

* OlderThanSheLooks: She's around 34 years old, even older than the ChristmasCake Muffy.

* [[HotScientist Hot Archaeologist]]: She's an attractive woman. Daryl certainly likes her, but she doesn't notice.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Less so in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS DS]]''. It might be natural, it might be a tan.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: He sports a pretty neat looking yellow mohawk.

* RoundHippieShades: He wears a pair of glasses that he rarely never takes off. They have a purple lenses in ''A Wonderful Life'' while his DS counterpart has black lenses.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Averted with their English names, while their Japanese names rhyme.