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Rats

Acho the Poet

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IGN: acho
Preferred name: Acho^note usually pronounced "AH-koh"
Personal pronouns: He/They
Specialty: Wordplay
"Do you ever feel like a piece of cheese?
Floating through the wind, wanting to start again…"

Acho, full name Ratcho, is the Poet of the group. He started out in the Laundry Room with Apo and Sniff.

Acho has one life left. They were chased down and killed by an oversized cat clone on Day 47 when Scott's revenge plan against the cats backfires, and was mauled by another cat on Day 57 after aggravating it.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Acho has lilac fur; it's justified from him being a former pet fancy rat who had purple ink spilled over him, and his fur is revealed to be naturally greyish white in his lore finale.
• Becoming the Mask: Takes on the persona of a poet in emulation of his ex-owner and admits in his lore finale that he has no idea what he's doing, but as the other rats point out, he's actually doing a decent job at it.
• Cuteness Proximity: Goes out of their way to visit the axolotls in the Garden pond, affectionately referring to them as "little men".
• Expository Hairstyle Change: They have avoided touching water through their time in the Rattic to prevent the purple ink spilled on them from washing off, as a connection to their past; they undye their fur using the humans' washing machine after embacing Freedom Over Prosperity, saying they'd rather "rip the band-aid off" and get it over with rather than taking it slow.
• Hates Baths: Has consistently and desperately tried to avoid touching any bodies of water throughout their time on the SMP.
• High-Class Glass: They wear a monocle over their left eye and are immediately assumed to be posh and caring for expensive brands. In truth, they only do so to emulate their poet ex-owner.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: At the end of Day 23, during an argument with Oli, Acho declares himself one of the two rats in the Attic on good terms with the humans. Cue the Janitor running him down and trapping him in a cage within the minute, which Oli lampshades.
• Liberty Over Prosperity: Being a former pet, Acho spends a significant part of the series having an Identity Breakdown from struggling to find a sense of belonging, and the hectic life in the Rattic gradually sends him into a state of delusion that he's better off retreating into a pet cage. It takes a while for him to break out of this and embrace "freedom" rather than going back to "before".
• Never My Fault: After his stream chat accuses him of "let[ting] another rat perish" on Day 8, Acho denies it, despite having refused to save Krow earlier that day for not calling on him and Oliver for "legal representation" to help it, causing it to lose its first canon life from not being rescued from the cage at all.
• A Pet into the Wild: Used to be a pet fancy rat who somehow escaped and arrived at the Mansion a few weeks afterward, and is hesitant to talk about his life before the Mansion. It's heavily Played for Drama in fuelling his personal arc and internal conflict. His lore finale reveals that he chewed through the wooden cage he was kept in and escaped that way, and he comes to realize that his ex-owner was quite neglectful towards him.
• Running Gag: It's not a sailor hat, it's a beret, thank you very much.
• Safety in Indifference: The reason Acho decides to let himself get adopted by the Son in the middle of an Identity Breakdown on Day 80 is because of this, citing Freedom from Choice and not having to worry about death or danger or grief. He soon finds he misses his friends and the joy and purpose he's found with them more than he does life before meeting them, and rushes to break out.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: Much of the poetry he quotes are rat-ified pastiches of various songs and poems, though some are based on songs written by his content creator counterpart.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, brie.
• Your Favorite: Sneaks out a melon slice from the Basement for Apo after rescuing them.
• You're Insane!: Tells Oli this point-blank after interrupting one of rats monologues at the end of Day 23, for saying rat would be willing to commit murder to "change the world" and for not thinking things through about life in the Mansion, e.g. saying rat would leave to live outside the Mansion's grounds despite the forests outside being filled with Savage Wolves that can and will kill them if given the opportunity.

Apo the Cosplayer

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IGN: apokuna
Preferred name: Apo
Personal pronouns: All pronouns
Specialties: Sewing and parkour

Apo, or Ratpo, is the Cosplayer of the group. They started out in the Laundry Room with Acho and Sniff.

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• Cosplay: Apo is designated as the Cosplayer of the group, and spends most of the series wearing one of Little Red Riding Hood, nicknaming themself "Little Rat Riding Man".
• Expository Hairstyle Change: A subtle change; following his "Forgotten Memories" lore finale, Apo can be seen with longer hair, implying that he's growing it out as he embraces his gender identity.
• Friendless Background: Has spent months living alone in the woods prior to the start of the SMP, and mentions on Day 29 that xe made xyr first friends in the Mansion with the other rats.
• Gift-Giving Gaffe: On Day 39 and following Ratsgiving, in honour of Oli's initiative of "Garbage Day", Apo — clearly still resenting rat for having them Pushed at the Monster and being acquitted for it — decides to give rat a globe "because I know you can't read it whatsoever" (and thus garbage to rat) and glass shards because they hope "it pokes through your intestines". Oli takes it all in rats stride.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Describes the interior of the Janitor's Van on Day 29 to be white, desolate, and empty, designed to invoke this reaction, and invoke it, it does — sending her into a pessimistic spiral to the point of yelling at her flea-chat to find another rat companion lest they be sent to be poisoned and killed too.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After trying and failing to coax Acho out of the Son's cage on Day 80, Apo retreats to the Rattic Bar to ask Martyn for the strongest drink he's got.
• Meido: Dresses up as Haru for the Halloween event on Day 16 in emulation of human festive practices, having learnt that from living in a cabin before coming to the Mansion; Martyn quickly also joins in on the bit by donning his own maid dress. He wears the outfit again while grieving during the Christmas event on Day 64.
• Sweet Tooth: Makes a dark joke on Day 29 that the Janitor didn't even offer him candy before capturing him, and the Grandmother gives him several packets of "Scootles" for Christmas.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to their Twitter character bio, watermelon, and by extension, melon juice.
• Trauma Conga Line: Day 29 has been rough for Apo — first, ze gets caught by the Janitor raiding the Laundry Room, who openly expresses murderous intent to the rats whom he knows are sentient, then ze's trapped in his Van to the exterminator's and left to Go Mad from the Isolation while preparing to die, and after being rescued and having a philosophical moment to live by Carpe Diem, ze raids one of the Storage Rooms with Oli for cosplay gear, only for both of them to get cornered by Oy and Oreo and for Oli to shove hir off a ledge to be mauled to death while he escapes.

Bek the Fighter

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IGN: bekyamon
Preferred name: Bek
Personal pronouns: All pronouns
Specialties: Combat and navigating

Bek is the Fighter of the group. She used to live in the subways in the city before moving to the Mansion, and started out in the Lobby with Oli.

Bek has two lives left. He was accidentally killed by Eloise during their date due to an underestimation of the rats' toughness.

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• Action Girl: From a rat whose specialty includes combat, this is obvious.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Downplayed and subverted. While running from two oversized cat clones on Day 47, Bek rushes to the Mother to get captured and teleported away from the cats, as opposed to being mauled to death on the spot. Unfortunately for her, the Mother captures the cat clone with her, which almost kills her in the cage, but she is luckily freed in time.
• Bouncer: She works as this for the Rattic Bar, and is usually there to keep an eye on any visitors, who may or may not have been previously banned from the place (or had restricted access) for various reasons. Her fleas are also quick to check the rules of the establishment in case she has to throw anyone out.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: They prefer to use fists to fight as opposed to weapons like swords and knives.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Briefly on Day 19, as pointed out by Will and Krow; while on their way to rescue another rat from the Maid's Room, Bek laughs at the Maid and calls her an idiot for not being in her room to keep an eye on the rats trapped there, which is immediately followed by them being captured by the Maid.
• Lesbian Jock: Vehemently denies any attraction to men, and runs a fighting ring.
• Noodle Incident: On Day 2, she mentions that she once got stuck in a tin can.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Bek, a small rat, almost manages to beat Ponk, a badger guest wearing a leather tunic, in a fight and possibly could have if he wasn't wearing the armour.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to her Twitter character bio, pizza.
• Visual Pun: Bek operates a secret, underground gym-slash-combat club under the cover of a rat laundromat built into an upturned laundry basket. As he puts it, it's a money-laundering scheme.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Gender-Inverted Trope. She is shirtless, no matter the weather. She explains that it's to have the widest range of motion in a fight. Of course, being a rat in Minecraft probably helps with getting past the media nudity taboo… and she's left in dismay when everyone else forces her to put on a shirt in the finale so that she won't freeze to death in the January cold.

El the Diplomat

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IGN: soupforeloise
Preferred name: El/Eloise
Personal pronouns: She/Her
Specialties: Crafts and diplomacy

El is the "Diplo-rat" of the group. She started out in the Play Room with Jimmy and Krow. A former "aristo-rat", El left home in pursuit of her dreams to become an artist.

El has one life left. She was first killed by a wolf while exploring the woods with Scott on Day 53, and was later blown up by Owen in the destruction of the future Doomsday Device's core during the Jingle Jam Christmas event on Day 60.

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• Blue Blood: According to her 1st episode, El is an "aristo-rat" whose family owns three alleyways and two garbage bins, one of which she inherited at birth.
• City Mouse: El proclaims herself to be from the city and unprepared to handle constant threats like wild wolves. According to Scott, she's more from the suburbs, at least in contrast to Shelby being from the Big Applesauce.
• Cuteness Proximity: Her first reaction to the axolotls in one of the garden ponds is to coo over them, calling them "sea rats".
• Defector from Decadence: In spite of being from rat nobility, El left "aristoracy" behind because she thought it wasn't right for her family to treat commoner rats poorly and leave them to go hungry.
• Forced Transformation: Is temporarily turned into a cat after a potions mishap courtesy of Oli on Day 39. Thankfully, the transformation is reversible.
• Handwriting as Characterization: El is one of the few rats who can write for much of the series, and is the go-to scribe whenever the rats have to leave Forged Messages to the humans; it's suggested that her "passable for human" and implicitly good handwriting is a remnant of her noble upbringing.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After a long day of wrangling Tubbo's shenanigans and the start of the feline invasion on the household on Day 10, El decides to "hit the Rattic Bar".
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After her Forced Transformation into a cat on Day 39, El starts gaining a craving for milk and meowing in between reading.
• Noodle Incident: On Day 15, while trying to convince Ponk that they have to leave the Mansion as soon as possible, El recounts sneaking into a big house when she was younger and finding a taxidermied badger mount on the wall there.
• Pass the Popcorn: When Tubbo runs to 1v2 the cats of the Mansion, some of the other rats watch on from the table in the Lobby, with El asking if anyone has popcorn while watching with a spyglass.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to her Twitter character bio, pine nuts.

Jimmy the Safety Rat

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IGN: SolidarityGaming
Preferred name: Jimmy
Personal pronouns: He/Him
Specialty: Safety
"There's one thing Safety Man needed, and it was a knife."

Jimmy is the Safety Rat. He started out in the Play Room with Krow and El. In spite of his designated role, he has a boisterous streak and dubiously violent tendencies.

Jimmy has two lives left. He was killed by a massive cat clone on Day 47 when Scott's revenge plan against the cats backfires.

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• Dark and Troubled Past: As he states on Day 10, the reason Jimmy is the Safety Rat is apparently because he took a pledge after his old house burnt down with everyone in it.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After attracting the attention of the Gardener, Jimmy runs off into a pond to escape, and leads on the Gardener enough for him to drown in the garden pond. Thankfully for the humans, the Gardener respawns.
• Hypocrite: In spite of being designated as the "Safety Rat", Jimmy has a fairly reckless streak that lands him in trouble every so often, has gotten himself and many of the other rats caught by humans on numerous occasions, and is more than willing to try and stab humans with a knife. When El comments on his hi-vis safety vest at the very start of the series, Jimmy describes himself as "all about safety", and accidentally shoves her off the toy box they were on literally two seconds later.
  Krow: That didn't seem very safe!
• Lack of Empathy: Downplayed. On Day 29, when Apo is captured and imprisoned in the Janitor's Van, Jimmy questions if the rats even cared if the Janitor drove off with Apo, essentially questioning if they should even bother saving them. Only when just about everyone else responds with a resounding Blunt "Yes" and/or start protesting does he declare himself on board with the rescue mission as well.
• "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: He claims on Day 1 of the SMP that 'Safety' is his middle name.
• No Social Skills: While he's able to get along with most of the other rats, Jimmy can get quite tactless at times, especially when he's angry.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, there's a course one has to take to run around with a knife, and another to take to hold scissors properly; Jimmy has alleged to have failed the latter due to a bad accident.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Jimmy is decidedly one of the more… unhinged rats, shall we say, and has been constantly running around with a knife since Day 1 and threatening humans every other day. He also endorses Scott's Revenge Before Reason plan against the cats when he first hears of it, though his opinion immediately shifts to opposition when it's clear it's not working as intended.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, porridge.

Krow the Strategist

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IGN: krowfang
Preferred name: Krow
Personal pronouns: It/Its
Specialties: Theft and strategy

Krow is the Strategist of the group. It started out in the Play Room with El and Jimmy.

Krow has one life left. It lost its first life from not being saved from a cage in time on Day 8^note and denying "legal representation" (i.e. help) from Acho and Oliver, then was mauled by a cat on Day 19. It lost its third life after being blown up by Owen in the destruction of the future Doomsday Device's core during the Jingle Jam Christmas event on Day 60, but was brought Back from the Dead using one of Oli's lives at the end of the event.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Justified; Martyn and Owen mention on Day 2 that Krow's red fur streaks were dyed using tomato paste, while Krow claims it's dyed from fox blood.
• Back from the Dead: Loses its third and final life in the Jingle Jam Christmas event, in which death in any time period is equivalent to a death in the Mansion's present day, but is brought back to life through the other rats' asynchronous singing to "wish upon a star" and Oli's second life.
• Closest Thing We Got: On Day 59, with Sniff unavailable, Krow is roped into brewing healing potions in an attempt to repair Phil and Kara's wings, as the only rat who has remotely any brewing experience after Scott enlisted its help in his revenge plan that ultimately led to the Cat-astrophe.
• A Dog Named "Cat": A rat named 'Krow', specifically. This has caused some occasional confusion during Phil and Kara's guest appearance on Day 59; it also takes offense when Owen finds a quest-book from the Gardener titled "Stupid Crows".
  Krow: Pay attention to the Krow. You guys may be crows, but I am always the Krow.
• Ear Notch: Is vehemently anti-cat and the one time it tries to play nice with a cat, it loses a canon life to the cat and receives this. Martyn's "Secret Santa" makes a nod to this incident:
  I'm the S to the A to the N-T-A
  I've got a fat rat tum and my whip is a sleigh
  Because I'm tuggin' on the reindeer
  Humans better steer clear
  Or I'll be taking out the chunk like cats did to Krow's ear
• Extreme Omnivore: Surprisingly enforced. Krow mentions on Day 59 that its fleas say it had a phantom membrane at one point, i.e. what Phil and Kara are looking for, but later reports back that it ate it. In reality, Krow picked one up from killing hostile moths (phantoms in-game) earlier in the series, but due to Gameplay and Story Segregation, wasn't supposed to have it in the first place.
• Friendless Background: On Day 8, after its first canon death, Krow's conscience cites that it's "never been used to staying in one place, which made [it] give up on making friends"; Krow's first reaction is, naturally, to complain about the psychoanalysis.
• The Illegible: Implied on Day 9, where Krow says it can write, but its handwriting is too shaky for writing any Forged Messages; it's suggested this may be related to its small size in contrast with much larger quill pens.
• Interspecies Romance: Played for Laughs in the first week or so, where Krow repeatedly tries to kiss the human NPCs for the bit. This ends up landing it in hot water on Day 8 when trying to kiss the Mother, as it's caught and loses its first canon life from this.
• Mysterious Past: Downplayed. Little is known about Krow's life before the Mansion, with it saying it doesn't really remember on Day 1. That being said, it alludes to a few details later in the series, including a lonely past.
• Ridiculously Successful Future Self: In the version of the future the rats travel to during the Jingle Jam Christmas event, Krow will eventually be the first rat to set foot on the Moon, which causes the rats to question whether the future is unchangeable and if that makes Krow immortal. As it turns out, it doesn't, and while Krow is brought Back from the Dead at the end of the event, Word of God eventually jokes about it getting run over by a car and losing its last life permanently at some point in the future, making Krow's true fate questionable. invoked
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Krow once straight-up logs out after being cornered and nearly killed by a cat. Given it's already on one life at a time, it's a perfectly understandable decision.
• Skewed Priorities: Overlaps with Heartwarming; upon finding out the Janitor knows the rats are sentient, Krow tries to go up to him to ask for his personal pronouns.
• Sticky Fingers: One of its cited specialties, implied on Day 8 to be from a lifetime of being the rat equivalent of a Street Urchin, whereupon its conscience urges it to snap out of "survival mode", make some friends by perhaps not stealing from them, and gain other skills.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to its Twitter character bio, tuna. It even asks its conscience for a tuna salad between life and death on Day 8.

Lizzie the Baker

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IGN: LDShadowLady
Preferred name: Lizzie
Personal pronouns: She/Her
Specialty: Baking
"Everyone else is building a house and I'm trying to shank the cat."

Lizzie is the Baker of the group. She started out in the Kitchen with Scott, in search of ingredients to bake a cake.

Lizzie has two lives left. She was shot by Mr. Icraga with a crossbow in the finale.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has partially pink fur.
• Back for the Finale: Lizzie accidentally falls asleep after the first few weeks and only wakes up in time for the finale. And then she gets shot by Mr. Icraga with a medieval crossbow. Luckily for her, she still has two lives to spare from being Put on a Bus for most of the series' run-time.
• Girly Bruiser: Is generally seen as a Sweet Baker by the rest of the rats, but is quite eager to shank cats or even humans with the knife she usually uses to cut cakes.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Subverted. Despite presenting herself as an old Sweet Baker and being quite friendly, she has a violent streak.
• Team Chef: While Lizzie is nominally this as a baker, she spends most of the series asleep and ultimately never gets around to do much baking herself.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to her Twitter character bio, toffee.
• Uncertain Doom: She doesn't appear again after being shot by Mr. Icraga; though a Freeze-Frame Bonus at the tab-list later that day reveals she still has two lives, it remains unknown whether she is able to escape from the Mansion in time to escape the Janitor's wrath.

Martyn the Pun Master

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IGN: InTheLittleWood
Preferred name: Martyn
Personal pronouns: He/Him
Specialties: Looting and puns

Martyn, alleged full name Mratyn Nibblewood, is the Pun Master of the group. He started out in the piano in the Music Room with Owen. While he alleges to have come from "Frank's farm", in reality, he's a human from a world like ours, who was sent there through the datastream to search for and destroy the elusive L.O.O.T. Shard of the world.

Martyn has one life left. He sacrificed his first life so Oli could win his court case against Apo on Day 36; he lost his second life by being mauled by a cat while trying to save Oliver on Day 57, and was burnt to death in the chimney trying to save Philza and Kara on Day 59. However, he previously made a deal with a spirit during the Halloween event on Day 16, who gave him a fourth life.

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• The Bartender: He runs the bar in the Attic and has given out his share of advice when it comes to inter-rodential relationships between the rats.
• Big Eater: On Day 1, he claims to have eaten four human-sized Scotch eggs in a row once, though what complicates matters is that he's technically a human trapped in a rat's body…
• Dimensional Traveler: He shares Character Overlap with V-Tuber Martyn and his datastream-hopping lore.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Played for Laughs on Day 3, where Martyn bans Owen from his then-future Rattic Bar for making a What's a Henway? joke at him in the in-game chat earlier that day; he's left only half-barred later that day after helping to stock up the alcohol supply, quarter-barred at the start of Day 16 for recognizing a Halloween decoration as a cat instantly, and fully unbanned for turning up to the bar's opening after the Halloween event on Day 16.
• French Maid Outfit: Spends part of his time on the server wearing blond twintails and one such outfit in his "Ratsune Miku" persona.
• Gold Digger: Gets engaged to Water during her guest appearance in an attempt to get his paws on her royal termite fortune.
• Hurricane of Puns: As befitting of an establishment run by the Pun Master, every menu item in the Rattic Bar is named after a rodent pun, including Smirnoff Mice, Tailquila, Mratyni, Cosratpolitail, Whiskery, Rat on the Beach, Long Island Mice Tea, Piña Tailada, Strawberry Ratuiri, and Shots of Taileys.
• Laser-Guided Karma: On Day 57, Martyn lures the Gardener into walking into the Lounge's fireplace, who complies due to Artificial Stupidity. He's caught by the Gardener and put in a cage shortly afterward.
• Leonine Contract: When the spirit Owen traps in his carved pumpkin calls out to Martyn to free it, Martyn only agrees in exchange for an extra canon life to be "beyond" normal rats and a piece of glowstone to "shine" upon everyone else.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Discussed; Martyn claims to have 500 children by the time the series takes place, though none of them are ever seen in the livestreams or episodes.^note A later livestream has him claim that he only has two kids, which is likely a reflection of his content creator counterpart's family life. Given his background as a Dimensional Traveler, it's unlikely for this to be true.
• Pungeon Master: Martyn's designated specialty is being the "Pun Master", and he engages in this behaviour every so often.
• Rugged Scar: Martyn has scars on his right arm, but no one knows for sure how he got them. He lies about their origin every time, like fighting off a large cat six times his size or activating a Mouse Trap with a full block of cheese.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Played for Laughs on Day 59; when Phil questions how no one has been asked for ID in the Rattic Bar, Martyn replies they only do so when Jimmy the Safety Rat is around, and Bek, his bouncer, jokes about how the resident Lawyer is paid off to turn a blind eye.
• Team Dad: While having a Troll streak a mile wide, Martyn is considered the oldest of the rats, is often seen as a leader figure, and has organized several activities in the series. Martyn is also quite attached to the rats himself, most notably seen in the succeeding Pirates SMP, where he indirectly refers to the other rats as his "old crew".
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, "gRATed" cheese. He claims it's because full blocks of cheese are heavy enough to hold down a trap, but the grated stuff isn't.

Oli the Garbage Rummager

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IGN: OrionSound
Preferred name: Oli
Personal pronouns: He/Rat/Garbage
Specialties: Rummaging through garbage, eating things he shouldn't eat, and monologuing about rat life
"I came in just to cause problems."

Oli is the Garbage Rat. He started out in the Lobby of the Mansion with Bek. Born in the sewers and raised in the trash, he had a rough life prior to his arrival there.

Oli has one life left. He was first murdered in self-defense by El, then has his second life stolen to revive Krow at the end of the Jingle Jam Christmas event on Day 60.

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• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Oli repeatedly smashes the Fourth Wall out of existence on Day 1, making references to the rats' character sheets on Twitter and content creation on channels.
• Brooklyn Rage: Oli, like garbages sister Shelby, is from New York and used to be a street-fighter. Garbage also casually threatens to kill any rat who tries to steal garbages memoirs to the Butler.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: In his lovesickness, Oli writes in his memoirs to the Butler on Day 19 about the rats' presence in the Mansion and how "they're not all good" for stealing said memoir, to everyone else's dismay.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Oli's mother apparently "died long ago from rat diseases" and his father was apparently flushed down the toilet of a night club and drowned as a result, causing him to turn to rummaging through garbage for survival. He also has an absurdly large number of dead family members; the only one who's confirmed to be alive is Shelby, his long-lost sister whom he thought was dead.
• Dirty Coward: Apo's first life was lost because Oli pushed them to the clowder of cats ambushing them to save himself. This results in a Courtroom Episode, where he's acquitted.
• Extreme Omnivore: Oli, befitting of the Garbage Rummager, has been known to eat substances like apple seeds and glue. He is a rat, though, which are known for eating just about anything and everything.
• Interspecies Romance: Oli has a crush on the human Butler of the Mansion, and wants to, in his words in the finale, "pork" him; when the other rats find out, they decide to let him have "this one" in part due to his Dark and Troubled Past. However, this is Played for Laughs throughout the series as the Son has been blamed for several of Oli's attempts to catch the Butler's attention. It doesn't work out in the slightest.
• Pooping Where You Shouldn't: Has a tendency to leave rats faeces (various Chisel and Bits bits in-game) all over the Mansion and the Attic, including on windowsills and tables, behind and under furniture, and in other rats' houses.
  Oli: Wherever I go, I leave my mark.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to rats Twitter character bio, garbage.
• Vague Age: He often says a different number whenever someone asks about his age, and he claims to have been on the Titanic during its sinking. He also claims that his mother was the model for the face of the Statue of Libraty/Ratue of Liberty, yet its real-life counterpart was designed and assembled in the 19th century.

Oliver the Lawyer

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IGN: olivesleepy
Preferred name: Oliver
Personal pronouns: They/He
Interests: Law and order
"Someone's been jailed! They need a lawyer!" (plays Law & Order sound effect)

Oliver is the Lawyer of the group. They used to live in the walls of a lawyer's office in New York until they decided to hop in a UPS box and shipped themself out to a random address in the countryside, i.e. the Mansion, and started out in a storage room with Will.

Oliver has one life left. He was first killed by Martyn on Day 1 at Oli's request for telling Acho about the Attic's open window to the roof, and drowned while trying to access the future Doomsday Device's satellite during the Jingle Jam Christmas event on Day 60.

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• Bookworm: Other than law documents, living in an office means Oliver has read plenty of the books there in their time, including books on human civilization and how they're formed; they are also aware of concepts like the human education system and make a passing mention to the cat clones performing mitosis. However, their human knowledge isn't perfect either, as while they have heard of a xylophone as of Day 81, they assume it is a scientific instrument.
• I Call It "Vera": Names their letter opener knife "Justice".
• Ingesting Knowledge: Discussed on Day 1. It's claimed that Oliver is smart and knowledgeable because whenever they eat a paper document, they absorb the information and knowledge printed on it.
• Non-Action Guy: He's not great at fighting and running, in part due to his lawyerly background.
• Noodle Incident: They make references to several cases dealt with in the law office they were from, including one involving an escape room.
• The Pen Is Mightier: Most of the other rats use Sewing Needle Swords or safety pins; Oliver stands out by wielding a large pencil.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": As they put it on Day 57, Babamari, their adopted Glow Squid child, is "like 'calamari' but baba".
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Suggests running away from the Mansion during the Cat-astrophe on Day 47, saying it's not a safe environment for him to raise his adopted Glow Squid child with Sniff, Babamari.
• Secret-Keeper: For most of the series, Oliver is the only one in the know that Will has stolen Oli's diary and read rats memoirs, in part due to Oli threatening to kill anyone who does so.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to their Twitter character bio, melatonin gummies and important time-sensitive documents in the law office they're from, though the paper holds no nutritional value.

Owen the Tinkerer

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IGN: Owenge_Juice
Preferred name: Owen
Personal pronouns: He/Him
Specialty: Tinkering and engineering

Owen is the Tinkerer of the group. He started out in the piano in the Music Room with Martyn, having clambered in to try to fix it. He's incredibly passionate for his craft and embodies the analytical, curious scientist, but tends to act accordance to rules and order.

Owen has two lives left. He died from the Wither effect after inhaling deadly fungal spores at the end of Day 39.

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• Agent Scully: He's skeptical of any claim unless he can see it with his own two eyes, including Tubbo's hunch about the cats' presence on Day 10 and Billzo's Punched Across the Room ability on Day 62.
• Ambiguously Related: Owen's mother alleges his father to have been a great inventor and scientist, which Owen later grows disinclined to believe due to a lack of evidence in writings and inventions. However, there is one rat who possibly fits the bill: Rusty, the rat who pioneered dimensional travel, wrote a book on how to open portals to other realms (and indirectly helped Sneeg find his way back to the Origins worlds), and has since moved on to traverse the multiverse.
• Black Sheep: Subverted. Tubbo tries to frame Owen as this and as Les Collaborateurs for "the Ratsistance" for wanting to live in quiet hiding from the humans of the Mansion, as opposed to wanting to kill them or cause mass property damage. In reality, not even other members of "the Ratsistance" hold views as extreme as Tubbo's.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast: While destroying and removing patches of invasive fungus from the garden, Owen secretly ignores Scott's warnings of how deadly it is to investigate it for "science", first keeping one of the mushrooms in a containment chamber on Day 35, then after planting said mushroom in the Boiler Room to get rid of the moth infestation there later that day, going into the Boiler Room to investigate it further at the end of Day 39, albeit at his gear-chat's request^note (by an 87% poll victory). By the time he's realized what a bad idea that is, it's too late. His lore finale reveals this fiasco happened in the first place because he let his Pride get to him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was raised as the youngest in a massive single-parent household, who was separated from his family after the owner of the cottage they lived in the walls of called an exterminator on them.
• Delayed "Oh, Crap!": On Day 29, after insisting on how he told Bek's group in the Apo rescue mission how not to overload a boiler to ensure it functions properly, Martyn, Acho, and Scott are quick to point out Owen technically told them exactly what to do, and that Bek's group consists of some of the most volatile rats in the Attic, which can only end poorly.
  Owen: (Beat) Oh no, they're gonna blow up the boiler, aren't they?
  (Everyone else affirms this)
• Disappeared Dad: The only things Owen really knows about his father are based on what his family told him, allegedly a great scientist himself, though he later assumes it must have been a Motivational Lie.
  Owen: I was born to one of the greatest rat tinkerers that ever existed.
  Krow: Go on.
  Owen: I don't really remember his name.
• The Engineer: Owen's specialties are listed to be tinkering and engineering, and has received several tools as presents throughout the series. His love for gadgets and machinery is exploited by Bek on Day 29; Bek's team in the rescue mission for Apo winds up utilizing Owen's knowledge on how the boiler worked to sabotage it, causing its destruction.
• Extreme Omnivore: He's practically on par with Oli, the literal Trash Rat, for having tasted the strangest items on a server of rats, and is willing to take a bite out of anything he can get his paws on. This includes his own chisel (mistaking the gold part for cheese), a compass, a wither rose, oxidized copper, Scott's Christmas tree, and a Tide Pod. Deconstructed in the latter case, as cc!Owen immediately gives his character the Poison status effect using commands for doing so. He also refuses to eat the invasive fungus with toxic spores, but moreso because he wants to investigate it For Science!.
• Fictional Disability: The only rat without a tail in the canon era, though the character bio artwork depicts him with one and it doesn't affect the gameplay out-of-universe. He has denied this when asked about it.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • "The Big Rat Who Makes All the Rules", for being one of the server admins out-of-universe and one of the tallest rats in-universe.
  • Water refers to Owen as their "hero" for saving them from being trapped in a cage several times. Owen, not being a fan of bugs in general, doesn't like this.
• Inexplicably Tailless: Owen stands out among the cast for being the only tailless rat in-game. It's implied that he lost it to a clock in the past, and his lore finale all but confirms that it was in an accident while attempting an ambitious tinkering project.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Owen has 461 older siblings.
• Mysterious Cube of Rubik: Implied; Owen picks up a Rubik's cube at some point off-screen, presumably from the toy store in New York on Day 60 (as he didn't livestream his perspective), and later mentions having spent a couple of days trying to solve it. Later on Day 62, he attempts to solve it while trapped in a cage, waiting to be rescued, and proudly announces that he's solved it in the finale while everyone's on the run from the Janitor after he invaded their home and figuring out how to survive the winter.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On Day 29, Owen reflects that him trapping one of the cats in a homemade box cage may have inspired the Janitor to trap the rats in one such cage, with the rat caught in question being his closest friend.
• The Not-Love Interest: To Scott; they are affectionate and protective towards one another and even have a Stargazing Scene together, but the relationship is explicitly stated to be platonic.
• Psychological Projection: Upon being advised to carve a scarier design for his pumpkin to ward off the spirit on Day 16, Owen redesigns it to the scariest thing he can think of — a clock. Martyn and Apo immediately interpret it as "ageing" and the passage of time, which Owen goes along with whenever someone questions it (as he himself lives in a broken grandfather clock).
• Romantic Wingman: Tries his best to give advice to Bek in her romantic pursuit of El.
• The Runt at the End: Describes himself as such in his 3rd and 24th episodes for being the youngest of hundreds of siblings and thus not being the most nourished of the lot, though he mentions experiencing a growth spurt afterward^note (apparently at the age of 2 while being canonically 3). It's this upbringing that has motivated him to think his way out of situations rather than brute-forcing things.
• The Smart Guy: Being the resident scientist, Owen tends to be more knowledgeable and cautious than the other rats, though he has his moments of acting like a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, and one instance of that got him killed.
• The Spock: He has a strong preference for logic and subtlety and grew up being on the cautious, rule-following side, and tends to be dismissive of intuition and struggles with emotions and tone at times; however, there are several critical moments where his own emotions and pride cloud his better judgement.
• Sweet Tooth: Has a large candy stash from the Halloween event on Day 16, hidden under his carpets so no other rats or spirits can find it.
• Too Clever by Half: His Fatal Flaw; he acknowledges that sometimes, his pride gets the better of him, including losing his tail to an over-ambitious project involving a clock and his first canon death, which only happened because he thought he could think of a solution while not listening to the actual experts on related topics. His insistence on fixing the Festering Fungus problem also almost kills him, as his homemade gas mask ends up being so stuffy that he almost suffocates in the smoke from the burning toxic fungus.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, tangerines.
• The Un-Favourite: Downplayed. Being the youngest of a giant litter and not having realized his talents or any noteworthy traits yet, he often felt overlooked and sidelined growing up, but it's clear that his mother was trying her best.

Scott the Farmer

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IGN: Smajor1995
Preferred name: Scott
Personal pronouns: He/Him
Specialty: Farming
"I am systematically coming for the Gardener and the Chef job, and once I remove both of them from the house, I will be coming for the Maid next."

Scott is the Farmer of the group, and later the de facto chef. He started out in the Kitchen with Lizzie. Raised in a large farming family, Scott fled his original home after the farm was sold and human construction work began there. In spite of this, he's happy to be in the Mansion after making many friends there.

Scott has two lives left. He was killed by one of the cats on Day 43.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Justified; as apparently he got caught in some flower dye pre-canon and part of his fur went cyan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the friendliest rats, who once blithely suggested to burn the Maid alive with a fire charge he found, and has threatened to turn any rat who messes with his crops or gardens into compost on more than one occasion.
• Book Dumb: Being raised in the country means he doesn't quite learn to read until after settling in the Mansion, but he really knows his stuff when it comes to agriculture and invasive species which can affect it.
• Cabin Fever: Is notably more irritable when cooped up in the Mansion and unable to go out into the Garden, and it's suggested that not being able to have a hand in food production has contributed to his Chronic Self-Deprecation tendencies.
• Country Mouse: Scott's backstory; being raised in a farming family means he gets stressed easily indoors and is much more comfortable outdoors. He takes to learning about more 'urban' aspects like enchanting quickly.
• It Was a Gift: Scott refuses to throw in the Nether star Sneeg gives to him to try to open the portal for Sneeg to leave, and even packs it up to take it with him before fleeing the Rattic in the finale; Sneeg himself cites that Scott sounds similar to and reminds him of "a space man [he] once knew".
• The Not-Love Interest: To Owen; they are affectionate and protective towards one another and even have a Stargazing Scene together, but the relationship is explicitly stated to be platonic.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Receives a nasty gash from losing his first canon life to a cat, immediately responds with a Revenge Before Reason plan, and later mentions having "horror flashbacks" on Day 57 when Martyn dives down to save Oliver and dies distracting the cat.
• Revenge Before Reason: After his first canon death, Scott gains a large scratch scar on his right arm and is adamant on getting his revenge, even if the normally cat-hating Krow, Owen, and most of the rat population all try to dissuade him due to the danger; they even compare his behaviour to the typically-unhinged Tubbo. The plan ultimately backfires; under his potion's effects, the two cats multiply in numbers, one of those cats gets killed by another cat, two more suddenly drop dead, and the rest shift in sizes — either enlarging to half the height of a human or shrinking to the size of a termite. The resultant disaster, which Scott ultimately very much regrets, ultimately causes two canon deaths.
• Rough Overalls: Scott, being the resident farmer rat, wears overalls as a part of his everyday ensemble, and vastly prefers staying in the outdoor gardens and wheat fields to being cooped up in the Mansion, especially at the start of the SMP when the Garden was still inaccessible.
• Serious Business: Do not mess with his farms.
  • At Oli's trial, Scott goes as far as to say that if Oli did have Apo Pushed at the Monster, they probably deserved it, just because Apo trampled his crops once.
  • On Day 42, after Will lets out "Hole Cow", a cow kept in a hole in the Garden for milk:
    Scott: Touch the Hole Cow again, you meet the axe, Will.
• Skewed Priorities: Upon realizing how thick of a Scottish accent the Janitor has in the finale, he cannot help but comment on it while everyone's running for their lives.
  Scott: He's coming for my gig!
• Stepford Smiler: Accidentally shoot your best friend? Run off into self-isolation, beat yourself up about hurting another individual, and showcase horrifying levels of self-worth issues while falling into a depressive daze.
• Team Chef: Since Scott is the one in charge of the food supply as the resident Farmer, this eventually extends to cooking as well. However, contrary to his belief, brewing potions is not like making soup, and when his potion-fuelled revenge plan goes outright catastrophic, Owen physically bars him from trying to brew an antidote which he doesn't know how to make anyway.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, carrots and pumpkin pie.
• Tranquil Fury: Has been known to casually threaten various other rats for messing with his agricultural and later culinary domains with barely a change of tone in his voice.

Shelby the Negotiator

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IGN: ShubbleYT
Preferred name: Shelby
Personal pronouns: She/Her
Specialties: Negotiating and thievery

Shelby is the Negotiator of the group. Hailing from the streets of New York, she stumbled across the Mansion and was locked in the Dining Room cupboard with Tubbo prior to their debut in the series, before being found by Bek.

Shelby has two lives left. She was killed by Scott for disrupting the rats' award show on Day 84.

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• Brooklyn Rage: Shelby is from New York, her rat-house is constructed with the brick wall of the Attic exposed to remind her of home, and she speaks with a New York accent while in character. She has also broken into a Boiler Room filled with deadly fungal spores (which have already claimed Owen's first life), survived the ordeal, and tried to murder a cat that was trying to kill her.
• Character Witness: Oli calls on Shelby to act as this for him in his trial.
• City Mouse: Subverted; while Shelby is from New York City, she takes to life in the rural Mansion quickly and proves herself to be quite hardy.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: While making a statement on Oli's behalf during his trial, Shelby defends that he could not have been guilty of pushing Apo to cats to save himself, but repeatedly comments on his lack of hygiene and manners in the process… which is just as much as you can expect from a pair of siblings.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to her Twitter character bio, garlic bread. While living in New York, she used to sneak into various humans' studio apartments to eat their garlic bread.
• Uncertain Doom: Shelby doesn't appear in the finale and Oli claims that she's dead, but considering this is Oli, this claim is neither confirmed nor denied, and isn't verified by anyone else.

Sniff the Builder

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IGN: Snifferish
Preferred name: Sniff
Personal pronouns: All pronouns
Specialty: Potion brewing

Sniff is the Builder of the group. He has lived in the woods for the past year and a half prior to moving into the Mansion, and started out in the Laundry Room with Acho and Apo.

Sniff has three lives left.

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• Abnormal Allergy: They are allergic to potatoes.
• The Clan: Sniff is from one such extended family, living with six generations of relatives, including xyr sister, uncle George, George's six children, among whom one cousin, Ruby, has recently (as of Day 1) given birth to a litter of twelve. On Day 3, xe add that the commune xe was from totalled about 100 in poulation.
• Ironic Name: Sniff, despite their name, cannot smell well. This is lampshaded by the characters.
• Queer Colors: A non-binary flag can be seen on Sniff's bedroom wall in their house. Their content creator counterpart, and presumably Sniff the character themself, identifies as non-binary and genderqueer.
• Sticky Fingers: Sniff's fleas call her a kleptomaniac for taking everything she sees, but she doesn't know what the word means.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to their Twitter character bio, mushrooms.

Tubbo the Speedster

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IGN: Tubbo_
Preferred name: Tubbo
Personal pronouns: He/Him
Specialty: Speed

Tubbo is the Speedster of the group. He started out in the Dining Room cupboard with Shelby. Although he is the smallest of the rats, he is a force of chaos and an all-round Wild Card.

Tubbo has one life left. He first burnt to death after running head-long into the Drawing Room fireplace on Day 5, then was killed by a cat after trying to fight it on Day 10.

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• Blood Knight: His reaction to the Father killing Lizzie on sight? Shout to kill him, of course! He's also perfectly willing to try to drop an Anvil on Head to the cats.
  Tubbo: A LIFE FOR A LIFE!
• Cloudcuckoolander: At his best, this is how he comes off as.
  Bek: Who are you? Who are you?
  Shelby: (jumping under the dining table) Hello!
  Tubbo: […] I am the rat that yearns for the cheese! (runs off)
  (Bek and Shelby glance at each other)
  Shelby: He's a maniac, is what he is.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: While he's one of the smallest rats, he's also very loud and vocal about everything.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Get banned from the Rattic Bar? Leave TNT^note albeit non-functional due to in-game limitations outside said bar, rigged to blow!
• Faint in Shock: Tubbo apparently faints and drops whenever he hears a bell. Out-of-universe, it's because his game crashes whenever it happens.
• In-Series Nickname: He's often referred to as "Tub-rat".
• No Party Like a Donner Party: Tubbo is first found locked in a cupboard with Shelby, allegedly for three years as their food supply ran out in the first ten days. This, alongside the lack of sugar, has apparently caused him to turn a nest of ratlings on the lower shelf into "rat burgers" for survival; but Shelby has no recollection of this. This also causes him to trick Bek into engaging in cannibalism without her foreknowledge, to just about everyone else's disgust.
• La Résistance: Tubbo declares himself the leader and representative of "the Ratsistance" (or "the Ratbellion") against Owen, whom he assumes is "the big rat that makes all the rules" in-universe, and whom he calls "an evil dictator" for not wanting to bring harm to the humans and the cats in the face of extermination. When he gets the memo that Owen is not, in fact, in charge of the rats in-universe, Tubbo runs off to form a government to fill the power vacuum.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Twitter character bio, sugar. Not sweets, sugar.
• Tunnel Network: Has constructed one in the Rattic, which he uses to get around all the bases within; as he says, he "lives with everyone".
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tubbo is quick to infer and connect the dots that the humans introduced cats to the Mansion on Day 10 in an attempt to exterminate the rat population, but his attempts at protecting the rats — by trying to kill the humans and the cats — are seen as overzealous at best.
• Wild Card: Tubbo is extremely prone to starting conflicts for no reason and is, in essence, a menace to rat society. The first thing he does on the server is try to start an uprising, and it goes to the point Apo strongly suspects that he might have "ratbies" (rat rabies).

Will the Adventurer

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IGN: willowmvp
Preferred name: Will
Personal pronouns: They/He
Specialties: Exploration and stealth

Will is the Adventurer of the group. Soft-spoken, friendly, but zealous at times, they started out in a storage room with Oliver.

Will has two lives left. They lost their first life after being blown up by Owen in the destruction of the future Doomsday Device's core during the Jingle Jam Christmas event on Day 60.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the sweetest rats in the Rattic, who… comes up with the plan to blow up the Boiler Room? Then helps to go through with it, and comes up with the idea to frame the Janitor for it? Without any alcoholic influence, as El otherwise alludes to? They also threaten Kyle with a sword in private on Day 42 over him and Nuke calling the rats stupid.
• Chekhov's Gun: Finding about a dozen potions in the Drawing Room bar on Day 2, Will ultimately trades two of the Potions of Weakness they obtained and stashed away to Tommy for a red bottle cap, which Martyn then modifies into a cute hat.
• Child-Like Voice: Has a voice high-pitched enough to be mistaken for a child, but is actually an adult.
• Claustrophobia: Is sent into distressed spiralling nearly every time they're trapped in a cage, and once describes the cages to be "too small". Talking to anyone who may be stuck in the cage with them helps as a distraction.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Has been convinced since Day 37 that Scott is secretly a witch for his allegedly strange movements and Supreme Chef skills, and later his passing knowledge of enchantments and building skills… and cue the potion mishap known as the Cat-astrophe; he later manages to convince Acho and to a lesser extent, Oliver of this, but seems to drop it after adventuring with Scott and Bek at the start of Day 51.
• The Cutie: Is described to be a "bundle of adorableness" by their content creator counterpart, and is the winner of "Everybody's Friend" at the 2023 Rat Awards. That being said, beyond the "adorable, small, clueless" descriptor, they do have a spine and a vengeful streak, as well as some Stepford Smiler tendencies.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. Will has mentioned being separated from and "left behind" by his biological family for not being able to keep up with them in an unknown context, and has made the occasional comment suggesting he has lingering issues with this. Despite this, he sends them a Message in a Bottle on Day 81 to let them know he's okay.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Spends their earliest scenes on Day 1 speaking with cc!Will's normal, much deeper voice, instead of the characteristic squeakier one in later in-character appearances; enforced as it's a creator improvisation.
• Forced Transformation: Is temporarily turned into a cat after a potions mishap courtesy of Oli on Day 39. Thankfully, the transformation is reversible.
• Height Angst: Has his moments, being one of the shortest rats and thus not exactly the fastest… which is not great for running from humans. It doesn't help that his Dark and Troubled Past hinges on the fact that he was separated from his family because of this.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Played for Horror; after their Forced Transformation into a cat on Day 39, Will starts gaining more cat-like traits, including being more combative and having a distinctively feline appetite preference, to the point of having to visibly resist eating their own close rat friends… and mentions on Day 57 that they still have occasional intrusive thoughts about the latter despite being returned to their original form and being vegetarian.
  Will: I know I can– I can feel the cat taking over, you know? I kinda… kinda… (to Bek) What if I ate you?
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to their Twitter character bio, cherries… including the toxic pits.
• Typhoid Mary: Ambiguously and heavily played with; Will finds a dried fruiting body of the deadly Festering Fungus in the Basement while solo-exploring (while out-of-character) on Day 37 and decides to keep it, but never displays any symptoms of inhaling the fungus' toxic spores like the other rats. When Scott finds they have this in their possession at the end of Day 47, he has it burnt to make sure the fungus has no chance of spreading, even if none of the rats Will has interacted with since have died from toxic spore inhalation because of interacting with them. This ends up causing quite a lot of conflict even after the Cat-astrophe due to Will's general refusal to give up the mushroom since it hasn't caused anyone harm so far; Scott ends up giving them a Chisel and Bits replica of the fungus as a gift to make up for it later on.

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