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Pizza
"What's your favorite food?"
A dog working for Chicory as her janitor, taking up her brush upon her disappearance. While they adore Chicory as much as anyone else, their doubts about being worthy enough to follow in Chicory's footsteps weighs heavily on Pizza's mind.- Almighty Janitor: Finding the brush on the ground gives Pizza the power of color, which they use to become the next Wielder of the Brush.
- Ambiguous Gender: Pizza is never referred to with gendered pronouns. In other languages, such as Italian or French, the game will ask if you wish to be referred with male, female, or gender-neutral pronouns.
- Bad Liar: Their mom remarks that they're still a terrible liar even after they've long come of age.
- Canon Name: The game's Kickstarter page
names them "Pizza", and when cycling through name choices that the game gives you, "Pizza" is the first option. - Cartoon Dog Breed: They're a small yellow Funny Animal dog. They look a bit like a Golden Retriever, but their family look like other different dog breeds... and their dad is a raccoon, further muddying the waters.
- Commonality Connection: They turn out to have quite a bit in common with Chicory because they both have similar thoughts concerning their inadequacies and self-worth. It's what allows Pizza to actually bond with Chicory.
- Does Not Like Spam: Pizza hates holeys (aka doughnuts) because their father often brought holeys home from his shop growing up. It got to the point where Pizza is just sick of them now.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The game asks you what your favorite food is, which is actually how you name the dog, with "Pizza" being the default food.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Pizza considers themself an unworthy inheritor of the brush, especially since they were merely a janitor that picked it up in a time of crisis. To where the Chapter 3 boss is a facsimile of Chicory giving Pizza a "The Reason You Suck" Speech based on their feelings of inadequacy next to Chicory, and the Chapter 4 boss is a mirror image based on their internalized self-doubts. It's this shared feeling of inadequacy that helps Pizza and Chicory to bond, and work together to properly restore the world's color.
- Hero-Worshipper: The very first few lines of the game are Pizza praising Chicory as the best wielder yet, and how proud they are that they can work as her janitor. This leads to eagerly picking up the brush to follow in Chicory's footsteps...and then feeling completely inadequate in comparison.
- Humble Goal: During the Wielder's Trials, while expressing doubt over becoming a wielder, Pizza is asked if they were happy with their old job as a janitor. Pizza admits that, while it wasn't completely satisfactory, the fact that they had set, non-abstract goals to complete and made a notable (if small) improvement to the world around them was fulfilling enough.
- Meaningful Name: Their default name of "Pizza". Whereas most people are named after individual foods or spices, a pizza combines lots of things together to make a delicious result. Quite appropriate for them, since they use the advice and knowledge of everyone they meet to save the world and stop the corruption.
- Older Than They Look: Pizza's much shorter and looks younger than their younger sister Clementine.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: When first reuniting with Pizza's father at Potluck, he teases Pizza's Hero Worship of Chicory by calling the hare Pizza's girlfriend, which Pizza is quick to deny.
- Super Drowning Skills: Despite gaining the ability to swim through paint, they can't swim in actual bodies of water until they unlock the ability to do so because falling into one instantly teleports them back to dry land.
- The Unchosen One: Normally, wielders of the brush are chosen by a predecessor, but Pizza just picked it up because they wanted to help Chicory. Chicory eventually reveals she let them keep the brush because they were Unchosen, not wanting to perpetuate a cycle of great expectations that already gave her intense grief.
- Wall Crawl: The fourth Brush ability they unlock allows them to swim through paint up vertical surfaces.
Chicory
- The Ace: People in Picnic have nothing but praise for Chicory, including Pizza, who takes every opportunity to sing Chicory's praises as both an artist and as the Wielder of the Brush.
- Big Damn Heroes: She comes to save Pizza in the final boss fight when they get trapped with her own created brush, and proceeds to assist them from there.
- Broken Ace: She's secretly an anxious wreck with imposter syndrome that inadvertently triggers the events of the game when those feelings finally get the better of her.
- Broken Pedestal: Becomes this for a while toward Pizza following what the manifestation of her fought as the Chapter 3 boss claims giving the brush to them was a mistake on top of what she says to them afterwards, leaving Pizza in a somber state throughout Chapter 4.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Enforced. When entering her room for the first time, trying to color her or her furniture enough times will cause her to scream, erase what the player has drawn, and disable their brush until they leave. It's also Foreshadowing that she had something to do with the world's current colorless state.
- Deuteragonist: The game is as much about Chicory as it is the player character.
- Friendless Background: Her profile in the Kickstarter mentions her duties leave her little time to make friends. Chicory admits she's never had any growing up being so focused on becoming a wielder.
- Guilt Complex: Chicory blames herself for color disappearing from the world and the spreading darkness that comes with it. This guilt is so bad that, in Chicory's boss fight, her negative thoughts and self-loathing manifest as sketchy red paint that screams, claws, and slices at Pizza. All the while, Chicory is telling herself that the corruption is all her fault, and that Pizza should just leave her to die. Pizza does eventually manage to get through to Chicory, managing to calm her down and end the fight. It's only when the truth about the brush is revealed, and thus proving Chicory isn't entirely responsible, that she starts getting better about hating herself.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: As bad as Pizza can be about putting themself down, Chicory is even worse. The reason that Pizza is able to become the Wielder in the first place is because they picked up Chicory's brush after she left it outside her room, since she felt like she'd never be good enough for it. When Pizza first talks to her in the game, she openly admits that she's depressed and being down on herself. Even after she snaps out of this funk, Chicory still constantly puts herself down in spite of Pizza singing her praises all the time.
- Hold the Line: Pizza can't damage Chicory in her boss fight. All Pizza can do is dodge Chicory's attacks and try to get through to her so Chicory calms down.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for accidentally creating the corruption threatening the world. However, it's later learned that the doubts of all past wielders are responsible, and Chicory was just the breaking point.
- Mentor Archetype: After Pizza helps her deal with her anxiety while admitting their own, she helps Pizza become a proper wielder.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: In the climax, Chicory ditches her Blackberry-esque Wielder's Cloak after deciding to follow her own path and helping you fight the final boss with her own brush.
Blackberry
- Broken Pedestal: Chicory looked up to Blackberry, which is why she tried so hard to meet her expectations, hiding her flaws to be perfect. When Blackberry tried to take the brush back after staying quiet about the problems she noticed in Chicory until that point, the latter felt betrayed and created the most recent wave of corruption.
- Left Hanging: In the postgame, whether or not she and Chicory reconcile is up in the air deliberately, as neither is sure they'll meet again and Blackberry feels things went too far to make amends.
- My God, What Have I Done?: During one of the Wielder's Trials, Pizza meets a past manifestation of Blackberry, from right after Chicory succeeded her as wielder and cut ties with her. This past Blackberry is fought as a boss, switching between denying her fault in what transpired and lamenting what she's done and calling herself a monster. When talked to following the boss fight, it's clear Blackberry still has a guilty conscience about what happened despite her attempts to downplay it.
- The Perfectionist: In addition to her "precise" style, most wielders hold the title for only a few years, but she went decades before choosing an adequate successor. And even then, she felt that Chicory wasn't adequate enough from the imperfections she hid, leading to disaster.
- Stern Teacher: She was a strict mentor to Chicory, who pressured her into being perfect so the latter can prove her worth as a Wielder, which unfortunately contributed to Chicory's later breakdown.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As Chicory tells Pizza during the Wielder's Trials, Blackberry kept quiet about the flaws she noticed in Chicory until it was time to actually pass down her title, at which point she tried to take the brush back. This only exacerbated Chicory's anxiety, creating corruption through the brush, while also giving Chicory reason to isolate herself from her mentor and bottle up her emotions, making the corruption grow even worse.
Other characters
Luncheon
Basil
An elderly hyena who knows a lot about plants, namely that some thrive when colored and others shrivel from it. Passing through his garden is the only way to reach Nibble Tunnel.
Beans
A cat with a very messy house. After Pizza helps rescue her four kids, she ends up converting her house into a temporary sanctuary for other lost kids, throwing out furniture sets (which Pizza can then claim) to make room.
- Second Love: The father of her kids is never seen, and she ends up dating Pepper, the mother of one of the rescued kids.
- Trash of the Titans: Beans's house is one at the beginning, messy and filled with objects and things she's collected over the years. As she decides to take in more lost kids until she can locate their families, she starts cleaning up to make more space for them.
Cola
A hyena that runs the local cafe. Asks Pizza to help design a custom t-shirt to help promote the business.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: They're running late when Pizza first meets them, and instructs how to open your inventory to change outfits while putting on their work apron.
Ginger
A giraffe, and Pea's roommate. Despite being tall, Ginger's ideal art style is using a small brush to make fine details.
- Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Unlike Pea, who's more energetic, Ginger is mostly silent and doesn't try to force her opinions on others.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Knows what keys to press to change the brush's size (to make it smaller)
Lemon
A Luncheon lizard that's dismayed when all the color disappears from the world. They ask for Pizza's help to repaint their house, and try to be appreciative...but honestly preferred Chicory's art more.
- Chekhov's Gunman: For most of the game, they play a bit part as a regular NPC. But in the finale, they help carry Pizza (who can't swim) across Sips River back to Luncheon to confront the corrupted brush.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Talks about how to use the brush's erase feature when they're dismayed by Pizza's rather basic colors.
Macaroon
A squirrel that only enjoys "tough" colors...though his definition of "tough" is incredibly broad.
- Coming-Out Story: Midway through the game, he comes to terms with being bisexual and admits it to Pizza and himself as the first step.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Tells the player how to use different colors with their brush while requesting to paint his house in "tough" colors.
Oats
A sheep that's interested in fashion trendsetters. By wearing outfit combinations that match his current interests, Pizza is awarded various cool sunglasses.
- The Fashionista: Their only interest is the newest fashion trends.
Pea
Ginger's doe roommate. Despite being small, Pea's ideal art style is using a large brush to make simple, striking movements.
- Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Unlike Ginger, who's soft-spoken, Pea is eager and willing to call Pizza an amateur to their face, say that Ginger's detail-oriented style is horrible, and state that her way is the best way.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Knows both about how to resize the brush (to make it larger), and also how to quickly fill in an area with the basic style.
Peppermint
Pizza's #1 fan. Pops up wherever Pizza's work is showcased, wearing their custom outfits, and presenting Pizza with colorless "Fan Art" versions of their paintings.
Pickle
An encouraging fox.
- all lowercase letters: Talks like this, giving them an air of nonchalance.
- Kilroy Was Here: At the start of the game, Pizza can let them hold the brush, at which point they'll draw their own face on the ground and then thank you for the opportunity.
Pumpernickel
A beaver that's incredibly fussy about balancing color palettes, who also thinks that getting to display "proper" art should be its own reward.
Thyme
A gazelle that muses how there are some matters that are easier or more fun to handle with friends.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Directly talks about the game's co-op functionality.
Zucchini
A bird that came to Luncheon in order to write a book in peace.
- Didn't Think This Through: In the post-game, Zucchini finally finishes writing their book...but dreads that now they'll have to deal with editing, publishing, and marketing it.
Potluck
Clementine
Pizza's younger sister, and a student at the Potluck Art Academy.
- Aloof Big Sister: Downplayed younger sibling example. She's spent more time working on art than Pizza, but doesn't have any bad feelings about not being the next wielder, even inviting Pizza to participate in their art classes and it's clear the two siblings are on good terms.
- Big Brother Instinct: Inverted as Little Sister Instinct. Upon hearing that Pizza was insulted by a manifestation of Chicory's anxiety in Gulp Swamp, she asks them if she should beat Chicory up for it.
- Big Little Sister: Radish assumes that Clementine's older than Pizza because she's twice their height, but Pizza corrects Radish, saying that Clementine's their younger sister.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She dreams of becoming a tattoo artist but is afraid of disappointing her parents with it because she believes that she can't owe up to the sacrifices they've made for the family. Pizza assures her that their parents will love and support her no matter what because what matters most to them is her happiness.
Quinoa
The instructor of the Potluck Art Academy, who eagerly submits all of Pizza's work to a gallery at Elevenses.
- Artificial Limbs: One of their legs is a prosthetic.
- I Coulda Been a Contender!: Averted. After completing all the art classes, they tell Pizza how they once had aspirations to be a wielder, which never could be because Blackberry was their contemporary. However, they have no regrets about this, being completely happy as an art instructor.
Radish
A student at the Potluck Art Academy that doesn't think highly of Pizza. Her mother is Beetroot, a gift-tracker at Sips River.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: The reason for her attitude. No matter how much passion she puts into her own art, only the work of past wielders is showcased around the world. Pizza can try to make things up to her by sending her art to the gallery at Elevenses...only for it to be both complimented and rejected, as the patrons care less about quality than the name attached.
- Refused by the Call: At the end of the game, she admits that even though she's happy that she has a chance to make her own brush, she regrets not having the prestige of being the singular Wielder.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: While her artwork isn't accepted by the Elevenses gallery, she is able to showcase it at Luncheon, to great success.
Elevenses
Marzipan
The curator of the Elevenses Art Gallery, which showcases the work of old wielders, as well as modern reinterpretations of said work.
Dinners
Artichoke
A gruff warthog that runs the Dinners Postal Service. Color disappearing from the world has led to a lot of mail not reaching their destinations, so they force the current wielder to deliver the mail.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his bad attitude, he does genuinely appreciate the help, and awards pieces of an official postal uniform in exchange.
Pepper
A skunk that's a single mother. Although she's originally met in Dinners, when she learns that Beans is taking care of her lost kid in addition to various others, she relocates to Beans's house and does what she can to help.
- Second Love: We never meet her kid's dad, but Pepper calls herself "jilted" before asking Beans if she wants to date.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: More of a "Wacky Can-We-Date Proposal", but instead of addressing her Second Love directly, she has Pizza deliver a letter conveying her feelings to "the most beautiful girl in Luncheon".
Brekkie
Curry
A baker in Brekkie that creates fancy desserts.
Slushie
An alpaca sunbathing at Brekkie's beach. Wants to host a beach party so guests can bring Fizz, but first needs Pizza to set up some decorations.
- Trademark Favorite Food: "Fizz", aka soda pop.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: When the beach party actually happens, none of the guests bring any Fizz.
Feast
Prunus
A very small insect that acts as Grub Valley's ambassador, translating the bug language for Pizza in exchange for living on their head.
- Translator Buddy: He becomes Pizza's translator for the insects by hiding in the latter's head.
Queen Drosera
The leader of the insects living in the depths of Grub Valley.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: If visited in the post-game, she admits to being so old that she's witnessed cycles of corruption caused by wielders not taking care of the pain in their hearts, but a combination of her own elderly forgetfulness and assuming such information was still spread at the surface led to her neglecting to mention this back when it would have been useful.
- Cuteness Proximity: Gushes over how adorable Pizza is.
- Royal "We": She always uses "We", "Our", "Us", and always capitalizes them regardless of their place in the sentence.
Other locations
Beetroot
Radish's mother, who lives at Sips River. She's fascinated by the common habit of hiding gifts for others around the world, but declines to collect any herself.
- Hint System: Talking to her has her state what area currently has the most undiscovered gifts, and how many are left there, though she doesn't outright state how to collect them.
Cardamom
An elderly lion living in Appie Foothills. He was formerly the wielder before Blackberry.
- Cool Old Guy: Pizza notes out loud that he's much less... intense than the other wielders, and he explains that the brush can be a burden when you're wielding it.
- Jaded Professional: Pizza can ask about why he chose to pass down the brush. He admits that he loved doodling, but when he became a wielder, people expected so much more from him that it quickly wore him down.
Kiwi
A music-loving bird from Teatime Meadows that wants to collaborate on songs, and then wander around the world to spread them.
- Production Throwback: Kiwi's basically one giant reference to Wandersong, by the same developers.
Pomelo
A lemur that's roommates with Kiwi. They're interested in seeing trash from around the world, and in exchange, they give away spare instruments that Kiwi's brought home and never used.
The Black Forest
The Corruption
A mysterious darkness that takes the form of twisted trees and blackness. It acts as the main antagonist force of the game.
The Source (Unmarked Spoilers)
The Brush itself, passed down from generations of Wielders, would usher in waves of Corruption that threaten Luncheon by tapping into the Wielder's doubts and darkness. By the end of the game, it becomes sentient and revolts against Pizza, becoming the Final Boss of the game.
- Empathic Weapon: It channels the emotions of its wielders, both positive and negative. After being passed down through the ages, generations' worth of suppressed fears and doubts have warped it into an Artifact of Doom spreading corruption across all of Picnic and tormenting its Wielder by echoing their worst fears back to them.
- Final Boss: The last major obstacle of the story. Chicory realizes that the original Brush must be destroyed to break the cycle and stop the corruption, but the Brush won't go down without a fight.
- One-Winged Angel: After its Pizza, Chicory, and Blackberry forms are bested, it quickly cycles through its other past wielders before fighting as its true form: a winged brush.
