Joan

Joan is a special visitor who comes to the player's town each Sunday morning(6 AM to 12 PM) to sell turnips. She is a brown boar with large white tusks carrying a basket on her back with white turnips inside. She wears ragged blue clothes and a small, blue bandana on her head. Originally she only sells one type of turnip in, and sells two types in and. After City Folk she joins your party as a turnipmaster. Despite her old age, she is actually extremely powerful. She is able to attack by charging, but what makes her especially powerful is her arsenal, which includes explosives like molotov turnips, turnip grenades, and when transformed with Action Replay, atomic turnips, which are so powerful that to avoid taking damage you have to follow the ways of the 50s (get behind an asteroid and duck and cover!)

Turnips
Joan's background is unknown, but she appears in town before 12 noon in every so far. In, she sells White Turnips, which are sold for a fix rate. White Turnips, however, sell for a different price depending on Stalk Market. The Stalk Market is a play on the existent Stock Market in reality. More than one can be bought a week from Joan. Players can ask Tom Nook what White Turnips are currently selling for at two different times of the day, which will have different prices and he will buy White Turnips between Monday and Saturday.

In and, she continues to sell White Turnips which work the same way as they did in the original games. She now also sells Red Turnip Seeds for 1,000 Bells which will need to be planted like flowers, and be watered each day so they can grow to their full potential and later sold to Tom Nook for profit. Only one Red Turnip can be sold to player(s) each week.

Joan can be asked to explain her store and turnips, but she wishes not to explain how her store works. However, she does not act gloomy while explaining.

Trivia

 * Joan is the only character in the whole series to have a voice specific to herself. Her voice is much lower and gruffer than that of the rest of the female characters, which leaves her mistaken as a male character.
 * Joan always tells the player no matter how many years they have been playing, that she has been selling turnips for over 60 years, she still mentions this in Animal Crossing: City Folk, even if the player has been playing for ten years!
 * Joan is also part of the Golden axe trading event and at times she may not have the red turnip seed with her.
 * Her name may come from Dow Jones & Company. A female boar (or any female member of the pig family) is called a sow (Sow Joan).
 * She is the second character to appear on the first game, Animal Forest. She appear on the background of the train after K.K. Slider introduces the game.