Characters belonging to PowerWash Simulator.
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The Player
"Dirtfinder"
The player character, owner of a power washing business in the city of Muckingham who's hired to do a number of odd jobs around the city and its adjacent areas.
- Badass Normal: The player ends up stopping a volcanic cataclysm event that would've likely destroyed the entire Pacific Rim. And all they did was use a pressure washer.
- Determinator: Cars, planes, backyards, houses, the Mars rover and even ancient statues, no job is too small or too big for Dirtfinder.
- The Faceless: Wears a full body protective suit for their job, so their face is never shown under the visor.
- Heroic Mime: As an avatar for the player, their character never actually speaks or interacts with their clients in any meaningful way besides some moments where a request or line was implied. They also end up saving the world.
- Heroic Neutral: In both the standard career mode and the Midgar DLC the PC willingly works for both heroic and villainous characters, doing their best work for both.
- I Have Many Names: Dirtfinder, Doc, Wishy, the "Filth Amendment", and so on.
- The Perfectionist: They do not do incomplete jobs. You can't complete a map until every last speck of dirt is gone.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Naturally, because this is a stand-in for the player, they're never given a real name. Calvin Miller calls the player character "Doc", while Harper Shaw gives them the nickname "Wishy" later on. A lot of the other clients seem to settle for "Dirtfinder" (after one of Shaw's business name ideas), hence the usage for the folder.
- Saving the World: By cleaning the structures and the ancient temple near Mount Rushless, the protagonist manages to stop The End of the World as We Know It and save both Muckingham and the Earth itself.
Clients
General tropes
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Different flavors of it for each new caller, but let's just say for this folder that the citizens of Muckingham can be a bit... eccentric.
- Conspiracy Theorist: A lot of them, given that it's a relatively smaller town and rumors go by fast in it. Much like with the above trope, the theories vary between each client.
- The Ghost: You only ever read their text messages to the player character, as there are no other modeled characters in-game. At most you get a hint they're watching you work (and you do get support from some of them during the final job) but never do you actually see anyone.
- Nice Guy: With a couple of exceptions the inhabitants of Muckingham seem to be a bunch of charming, well intentioned oddballs with nothing but praise for the PC and their fine work.
Harper Shaw
Jobs: Clean the Van
The player's first client and close associate who helps them get their business up and running.- Cloud Cuckoolander: In his "quest" to find a good name for the player's business, apparently he ended up with several that ended up being spread around town, resulting in each new client calling the player something new. He also has some weird idiom choices (like saying an RV he couldn't buy would've been his "wasp-chewing chu-chu").
- Foreshadowing: During the fishing boat job, Harper mentions that he lost his phone while out in the desert. Not long after, someone uses his old number to tell the player to come see them back there, which turns out to be Ceruleon Skye in his flying saucer.
- Hidden Depths: He likes archaeology and helps Sonya with her excavations offscreen while the player works.
- Mission Control: The closest thing to this trope in the game, as he helps the player with some implied research requests and also keeps tabs on the going-ons around town.
- The Nicknamer: Calls the player "Wishy", and apparently one of his jobs is to help businesses with their name choices, hence why the power wash job you take ends up being called so many things.
Calvin Miller
Jobs: Clean the Backyard, Clean the Bungalow
A volcanologist who lives with his parents in Muckingham, interested in the recent surge of activity in Mount Rushless.- Animal Lover: Implied to own two dogs he calls his "girls", and tells the player they're "aspiring volcanologists" themselves after his backyard is cleaned, as they're already climbing everywhere. Apparently his patience reaches a limit with Ulysses, though.
- Badass Bystander: He leads the evacuation efforts when Mount Rushless is close to eruption.
- Family Man: Loves his parents dearly, and calls upon the player to clean their bungalow as one of the earlier jobs after they're done cleaning his personal backyard.
- Mission Control: Shares this role with Harper as the client that talks to the player the most, giving them updates on Rushless' situation and how he's looking for Ulysses around town. He also helps coordinate the evacuation of Muckingham when the volcano nears eruption and tells the player he's also getting his parents to safety.
- The Nicknamer: His call-sign for the player is "Doc".
Leonard and Dolores Miller
Jobs: Clean the Racecar
Calvin's parents, a sweet elderly couple who lives in a small bungalow the player helps clean up. Leonard himself is also a retired racecar driver.- Cool Old People: They're both friendly and very personable, with Leonard getting extra cool points for being a former racer and having kept his "wagon" for personal use.
- Retired Badass: Leonard was a NASCAR driver and still has his old racecar. The player gets to clean it after Calvin sent his parents their number.
- Technologically Blind Elders: Leonard doesn't know how to use his phone well enough yet, resulting in his texts being all in Caps Lock.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Leonard is a jolly old fellow, but he can't quite wrap his head around text messages yet. He also mistakes a race he saw on TV for one he participated in, and Dolores has to step in and tell him to rein it back when he gets the urge to speed down a sewer tunnel with his racecar.
Sonya Alamuddin
Jobs: Clean the Ancient Statue, Clean the Ancient Monument, Clean the Lost City Palace
A member of the Global Archaeological Society, Harper's friend and co-worker. She calls the player to help with the results of the society's excavation in the desert.- Adventure Archaeologist: Downplayed. Despite the dangerous circumstances regarding the volcano, she doesn't place herself in the adventure to stop it, instead contacting the player to help out.
- Artistic License – History: In terms of archaeology; in real life, it's probably a good idea not to use a powerwasher to clean out ancient monuments as Sonya so casually requests, especially ones that were buried for so long under sand.
- Badass Bystander: She helps the player get to the Lost City Palace to clean it by helping Harper with some calls.
- Punny Name: "Alamuddin" sounds similar to "all mudded", referring to the dirt-covered ancient monuments she's located.
Park Warden
Jobs: Clean the Playground, Clean the Skatepark, Clean the Gnome Fountain (Bonus)
The warden of Muckingham's public park, a bitter individual who seems to hate the people who frequent his area.- Bad Boss: He's the one responsible for the upkeep of the public park, but apparently the absurdly-mucked playground has only the "odd fleck of dirt" on it "here and there", and the only reason he bothers asking for a clean-up of the skatepark is because of the recent media attention the town's been getting. Supposedly he has employees responsible for the park's upkeep but he doesn't seem to bother asking them for help.
- Grumpy Old Man: His age isn't ever stated, but this is his general demeanor regarding the people who frequent his park, resenting the parents of the children who got skin rashes off his dirty playground and the skateboarders who frequent the half-pipes.
- Never My Fault: Kids getting dermatitis off the park playground? He chalks it up to a bunch of nagging parents, and it's totally not because the place is caked in mud and bird poop because of his negligence.
- No OSHA Compliance: Grumbles about the playground needing to be cleaned because of parents worried for their kids' safety, which he doesn't care about. Oh, but the skatepark, that definitely needs to be cleaned. There's a news group wanting to talk about it, after all.
Aura Smith and Jenny Pebbles
Jobs: Clean the Detached House, Clean the Vintage Car, Clean the Recreation Vehicle
Two vloggers and cryptozoologists who recently acquired the house of Esther De'ath, a deceased former actress. Obsessed with the paranormal, the two hire the player to clean Esther's detached house and vintage car while talking about what they think are supernatural events.- Because You Were Nice to Me: With the player having done a good job for them repeatedly, they let them take their recreation vehicle (an RV) as a gift, or let them offer it to someone who wants it. The player then gifts it to Harper.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: The two jump at shadows whenever they think something strange is going on, with Aura confusing the sound of a washer for a ghost event for example. They also think the symbols drawn around the detached house are Enochian sigils when in reality they're just builder diagrams for the plumbers renovating the place's pipeline.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The two are cryptozoologists, so their job is to determine this trope regarding cryptids and, outside of that fascination, supernatural events. Aura mentions plenty of supposed "ghostly" sightings and sounds as the player washes the detached house, but they're all either caused by lack of research or jumping at every little sound they hear.
- Mistaken for Profound: You get a text noting Jenny opened her attic door only to hear a noise, see a grey blur, and see only a feather left behind. She assumes this is Ester's soul being at rest. Most people would realize from the description she had a bird trapped in her attic.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Downplayed; the two were hoping to start a vlog series about Esther's life history, but it flopped due to the watchers only caring about her patrimony and items being auctioned off online (such as the car). The two still made plenty of money on the bargain, however.
Denver Drill
Jobs: Clean the Fire Station, Clean the Fire Truck, Clean the Fire Helicopter
Muckingham's local firefighter brigade headed by an unnamed chief who serves as the client. He asks Dirtfinder for help with their firehouse and gear.- Big Damn Heroes: They use their fire helicopter to save Calvin when he gets too close to the smoke-spewing Mount Rushless looking for the mayor's missing cat, which requires the player to clean it up afterwards. They also use it to get the Dirtfinder's van to the Lost City Palace for the final mission, at Harper and Sonya's request.
- Chekhov's Gun: The fire helicopter that the player cleans, which they later use to help them get to the Lost City Palace.
- Cool Car: A big firetruck the player gets to clean as well.
- Heroic Fire Rescue: From the mouth of a volcano, as they saved Calvin after he became delirious from smoke inhalation.
- Lampshade Hanging: He tells the play that "power" washing requires heated water, so they should consider rebranding to show that they're a pressure washing business unless they're planning to upgrade.
Mayor Jeff Jefferson XIII
Jobs: Clean the Golf Cart, Clean the Mayor's Mansion, Clean the Frolic Boat
Mayor of Muckingham, a job passed down his family line for years. He's also corrupt and is suspected of having diverted the city's water supply for some selfish goal.- 0% Approval Rating: How he managed to stay in office for so long can only be chalked up to nepotism, as virtually no one in Muckingham has anything nice to say about him, implying he doesn't have a lot of voters. He's so despised, in fact, that even the local congregation of monks has taken it upon themselves to cover the front of his mansion with eggs.
- Corrupt Politician: Diverted the town's water supply from the local monk temple to fund a personal ally's greed-fueled search for an ancient civilization and is repeatedly stated to be involved in all manner of illegal activities.
- Dirty Coward: As soon as the player cleans his frolic boat, he messages them saying that they're skipping town with it. Basically, as soon as the cats go missing and the volcano starts rumbling, the mayor abandons his own city and even his pet to save his own skin.
- The Dragon: Ultimately this to Blake Thrust, as the one funding his research on the Lost City of Pacifists and giving him access to the town's water supply for his illegal mining, but staying mostly on the sidelines.
- Karma Houdini: Zigzagged. He was thoroughly humiliated in his attempt to deface the monk temple, and the town is well aware of his crime by the endgame. Even if he's successfully escaped, it's unlikely he can ever return even when things settle down.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Despite his sleazebag behavior, the man loves his pet cat Ulysses and has a big fascination with cats in general, to the point his frolic boat has a big golden cat statue right at the bow. This is subverted when he skips town, though, as he pointedly tells the player that they can keep Ulysses if they find him (her), calling the cat a "traitor". Bear in mind, a volcano is about to erupt and the cat was last seen near it.
- Manly Facial Hair: Described as having an utterly gigantic mustache on his face.
- Nepotism: The men of his family were all mayors of Muckingham before him, all of them equally rich in their accounts but bankrupt in morality.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: He pipes in later as "Timmy Timmerson I" while the player cleans a stunt plane he was riding on a few days earlier, and does a terrible job keeping his identity a secret. He even signs his first text message with his true initials.
Blake Thrust
Jobs: Clean the Drill, Clean the Private Jet
A millionaire who lives near Muckingham, fancying himself an adventurer and archaeologist buff using his money for research purposes. As it turns out, he's not using it legally.- Big Bad: The one responsible for Mount Rushless' incoming eruption after his illegal mining operation struck the magma flow and stirred it.
- Cool Plane: His private jet is outfitted with anti-gravity devices and a freaking laser gun, all of which he supposedly needs for his "excavation" work near the volcano. It doesn't last long against a flying saucer from the future either way.
- Evil Counterpart: With the Tomb Raider DLC added to the game, he becomes this to Lara Croft herself. Both are rich adventurers with archaeological knowledge and the means to do their jobs as they see fit, but Lara is ultimately benevolent in her searches and will go out of her way to stop criminals trying to use ancient relics or forbidden knowledge for selfish goals, even if her methods aren't always ethical. Thrust, on the other hand, uses his money for illegal operations he doesn't even bother conducting himself and is trying to unearth the secrets of a lost civilization purely for his personal gain. He is, in fact, precisely the type of greedy villain Lara Croft often fights against in her games.
- Idle Rich: Downplayed; his drilling machine is operated by people under his employ, never himself. He does fly his jet later to engage Ceruleon Skye's UFO in combat, however. All this with money to spare for his expenses.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Given his private jet, the pun is fully intended; His attack on Skye's ship ends with his plane being shot down and crash-landing somewhere outside of Muckingham.
- Rich Jerk: His avatar on the player's received text messages is a dollar sign, just to flaunt how rich he is. He also uses his money for illegal goals.
