History Characters / AnimalCrossingPlayerCharacter

* InformedAttribute: In ''New Horizons'', Jock villagers seem to be impressed with your character's muscular build. The character models for player characters are similar to those used in past games, and thus don't exactly reflect a muscular build.

* ExposedToTheElements: The player can wear any kind of clothing in any kind of weather with no ill effects whatsoever. Want to run around in a T-shirt and shorts in the middle of winter? Sure thing!

* SeriesMascot: Shares this role with Isabelle, especially in games like ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The player can go around barefoot from ''New Leaf'' onward, which added the ability to remove socks and shoes.

* AmbiguousGender: Averted in the first few games, but it starts to happen in ''New Leaf'', as the gender of the villager isn't really something the game cares too much about (the mayor ID Lists it, but it's not used to restrict you in-game, so you can merrily ignore it). And while it ''does'' have distinctions between male and female clothing, the game doesn't admonish you for cross-dressing, with the only real effect in-game being the walking cycle of the villager being changed, with very few exceptions (such as the raincoat). Asides from that, you can have whatever hairstyle you see fit in whatever color you see fit, wearing whatever clothing makes you happy, the game follows GenderNeutralWriting for the most part, and none of the villagers or [=NPC's=] will bat an eyelid. You can invoke this fully in ''New Horizons'', as your appearance is no longer being tied to male or female. You can be as masculine or feminine as you want to be, or somewhere in-between, and the game doesn't really question the character's identity.

* NiceHat: In the original games for N64 and Gamecube, male villagers constantly wear an unusual horned hat akin to a Viking helmet, and female villagers wear conical hats. Later games phased these out in favor of hairstyles and headgear (many of which are Nice Hats themselves). Hats similar to the classic horned and conical hats are obtainable as headgear in the later games.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In practically everything but the official games themselves, the player is always given the name of "Villager," "Mayor," or even just "the player."

[-'''Player Character''' | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingMainNPCs Main Town and Island NPCs]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingOtherNPCs Other Special NPCs]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingVillagerTypes Villager Types]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingAnime Anime Characters]] -]]]]]

* PurelyAestheticGender: The gender of the player character makes very little difference gameplay-wise (in most games at least: the boy and girl have different stats in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' for example). There's essentially no distinction between genders at all in ''New Leaf'', and ''New Horizons'', particularly outside of Japan; the gender can be switched at any time, and characters consistently use neutral pronouns to refer to the player.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: As mentioned above, female characters can start out with pink hair. Getting a haircut at Shampoodle in earlier games, or purchasing hair dyes in ''New Horizons'', lets you dye your hair to some non-natural hair color such as blue, green, or purple.

* VagueAge: The player characters resemble children, at least in earlier games, but given the art-style of the game and the fact that they've moved away from home to live on their own, and the fact that they are roughly the same size as most of the other animals, it's hard to tell how old they actually are. The ''New Leaf'' redesign pins them somewhere in the range of young adults, but there's still room for interpretation. ''New Horizons'' features new customization options such as wrinkles, facial hair, and graying hair color, with the intention of making it easy for players to project themselves onto their character regardless of age.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The player needs to learn basic emotions from other characters. (Or perhaps, more accurately, to learn to ''express'' such emotions on demand, as some reactions do happen automatically even if the player hasn't "learned" them--for example, the "shocked" reaction is the player's [[OhCrap natural response]] to [[WickedWasps a wasp's nest falling from a tree]].)

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The player can go around barefoot in ''New Horizons,'' which added the ability to remove socks and shoes.

* EyeScream: If stung by bees, their eye swells up and doesn't go back to normal until the next day.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The player needs to learn basic emotions from other characters. (Or perhaps, more accurately, to learn to ''express'' such emotions on demand, as some reactions do happen automatically even if the player hasn't "learned" them--for example, the "shocked" reaction is the player's natural response to [[BeeAfraid a wasp's nest falling from a tree]].)

* PungeonMaster: Sweet Jesus, what little dialogue they have consists almost entirely of puns. Just about every fish and bug you can catch illicits a pun from your character.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The player needs to learn basic emotions from other characters.

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The player character is the avatar of the player. They start most games in the series by moving into a village populated by anthropomorphic animals; ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'' instead has them and a few anthropomorphic animals head to a deserted island to start a new life. What happens afterward? That's up to you.

* AmbiguousGender: Can be invoked in ''New Horizons'', from the GenderNeutralWriting, and appearance no longer being tied to male or female. You can be as masculine or feminine as you want to be, or somewhere in-between, and the game doesn't really question the character's identity.

* PurelyAestheticGender: The gender of the player character makes little difference gameplay-wise (in most games at least: the boy and girl have different stats in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''). There's essentially no distinction between genders at all in ''New Horizons'', particularly outside of Japan; it can be switched at any time, and characters consistently use neutral pronouns to refer to the player.

This character sheet is about you, the player character, in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' franchise.

* VagueAge: The player characters resemble children, at least in earlier games, but given the art-style of the game and the fact that they've moved away from home to live on their own, and the fact that they are roughly the same size as most of the other animals, it's hard to tell how old they actually are. The ''New Leaf'' redesign pins them somewhere in the range of young adults, but there's still room for interpretation.

* VagueAge: The player characters resemble children, at least in earlier games, but given the art-style of the game and the fact that they've moved away from home to live on their own, it's hard to tell how old they actually are. The ''New Leaf'' redesign pins them somewhere in the range of young adults, but there's still room for interpretation.

* TokenHuman: The player characters are the only humans in the game.

[-[[Characters/AnimalCrossingPlayerCharacter Player Character]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingMainNPCs Main Town and Island NPCs]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingOtherNPCs Other Special NPCs]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingVillagerTypes Villager Types]] | [[Characters/AnimalCrossingAnime Anime Characters]] -]]]]]