Player
From Animal Crossing City
The player is a term for the human character in the Animal Crossing series controlled by the human player. The player may be either a boy or a girl; the differences in all three games are largely cosmetic, with slight variations to some dialogue whenever the conversation becomes gender specific. The players are also the only humans in the game.
The largely-physical differences may be blurred even further due to the fact that Harriet will allow the player to get haircuts of the other gender if one is friendly with her. Kicks will also allow the player to wear shoes of the opposite gender after enough shoe shines have been bought. There are several unalterable differences, however - in City Folk, The female character will always wear a dress, while the male character will always wear shorts, and the female character's default hat is a cone-shaped "princess cap", while the male character's resembles a spiked Viking helmet.
Players will always have an in-game "Mom" who sends them letters at frequent intervals. In spite of Mom referring to childhood events and the home that the player once lived in, there is no indication of any real sense of back story to the human character(s) and occasionally sends presents in the mail.
Only one human from each town may be active at any given time, although in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, visiting players from other games could be in town at the same time.
In the film based on the game, Ai represents a player character.
[edit] Appearance
In each game, your face is determined by a series of questions that somebody asks.
[edit] Appearance Determination in Wild World
The Kapp'n asks you three questions that determine how you would look like. The questions are as follows:
- Do you like the rain?
- No.
- Yes.
- Why are you going there?
- I'm moving.
- None of your business.
- Do you have any money?
- No.
- Yes.
The questions and answers are worded differently. Though, you still get the same face even so. The way your face is arranged can be determined when you answer them in a certain way.
WARNING: Spoilers start/end here.
- Hair is swooped and eyes are round.
- Answer no for the first question.
- Answer "I'm moving" for the second question.
- Answer yes for the third.
- Hair is down and eyes are "upside-down" U-shaped.
- Answer no for the first question.
- Answer "I'm moving" for the second question.
- Answer no for the third.
- Hair is down and eyes are looking to the left with thin eyebrows.
- Answer no for the first question.
- Answer "None of your business" for the second question.
- Answer yes for the third.
- Hair is swooped and you have eyelashes on the bottom of your eyes.
- Answer no for the first question.
- Answer "None of your business" for the second question.
- Answer no for the third.
- Hair is swooped and you have blush.
- Answer yes for the first question.
- Answer "I'm moving" for the second question.
- Answer yes for the third.
- Hair is swooped and eyes are looking straight with thin eyebrows.
- Answer yes for the first question.
- Answer "I'm moving" for the second question.
- Answer no for the third.
- Hair is down and eyes are relaxed.
- Answer yes for the first question.
- Answer "None of your business" for the second question.
- Answer yes for the third.
- Hair is down and eyes are wide open.
- Answer yes for the first question.
- Answer "None of your business" for the second question.
- Answer no for the third.
WARNING: Spoilers start/end here.
[edit] Outside of Animal Crossing
- In WarioWare: Smooth Moves, one of the microgames involves the player taking control of a character, its gender corresponding to that of the controller's. The player must pull the Wii Remote up at the correct time to catch a fish.
- In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a number of human characters appear in the background of Smashville. Both the male and the female humans are available as stickers, while the male character is available as a trophy which is simply named "Boy".
