Player



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. There are several unalterable differences, however - 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 "dunce 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 backstory to the human character(s).

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.

Appearance
In each game, your face is determined by a series of questions that somebody asks.

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 * Game
 * Determination
 * Animal Crossing
 * Rover talks to player on the train to your new town.
 * Animal Crossing: Wild World
 * Kapp'n asks player series of questions.
 * Animal Crossing: City Folk
 * Rover talks to player on the bus.
 * Animal Crossing: City Folk
 * Rover talks to player on the bus.
 * Rover talks to player on the bus.

In Wild World, the questions are as follows:

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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".