Story of Seasons/Characters/Tree of Tranquility

Characters who have appeared in Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility and Harvest Moon: Animal Parade.


 * Bishie Sparkle: All the marriage candidates (yes, even the girls) have a bishie sparkle when you first meet them.

Angela/Kevin/Molly/Kasey
The player characters. Angela and Kevin for Tree of Tranquility, and all four in Animal Parade.


 * Brown Eyes
 * Curtains Match the Window: Arguable only for Molly, who sometimes looks red-haired in artwork.
 * The Chosen One: This is pretty much the explanation for Finn's existense in Animal Parade—he's the guide to the chosen one to restore the Goddess Tree.
 * Friend to All Living Things: Except moles.
 * Generation Xerox: The New Game+ mode of Tree of Tranquility has you playing as your child... Who looks exactly like you do, lives in a town exactly like yours, and can even (provided they're the same gender as your original character) marry the same person. Um. Also, their child can start a new adventure, continuing the cycle for as long as you choose to.
 * Harem Seeker: Considering the number of marriage candidates in the game, you can certainly make your character into this.
 * Hello, Insert Name Here: Their default names are already in the blanks, but most people just ignore them.
 * Heroic Mime: As always, aside from canned answers during Scripted Events. You see your character's mouth moving often, but there are never any words.
 * Idiot Hair: All of them, with the exception of Kasey, who has Hair Antennae.
 * Skirt Over Slacks: Both Angela's and Molly's default outfits.
 * Virtual Paper Doll: You can dress them up in different outfits and accessories once you purchase them at the tailor's or festivals, or have them made by the blacksmith.

Craig
Anissa's father, he runs the local farm and seed shop along with his wife, Ruth. He is not the biggest talker, and he and Ruth tend to fight a lot.


 * Drowning My Sorrows: In Animal Parade, until the yellow bell is rung, which restores the power of earth to the land and allows his farm to thrive again.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When you first meet him in Tree of Tranquility, he calls you an idiot over and over again. However, Ruth comments that he actually seems to like you, and he does warm up as you befriend him.
 * Lazy Husband: Although, in Animal Parade (and Tree of Tranquility to a lesser extent), he's more demoralized than anything and does become more active as the island improves.
 * Perpetual Frowner

Ruth
Anissa's mother. Runs the local farm and seed shop along with her husband, Craig. Usually, the two of them are fighting. Ruth frequently gets angry at her husband's slacking off on working the fields. As a result, she is rather overworked.


 * Perpetual Frowner

Anissa
A gentle, graceful young woman who lives on her parents' farm, which is where she's usually found. She is interested in medicine and healing.


 * Beauty Mark: Near the outside corner of her left eye.
 * Can't Hold Her Liquor: More mild than most, but the reason she gives for not liking cocktails is that they give her awful headaches.
 * Fear of Thunder
 * Floral Theme Naming: Only in the Japanese version. There, her name is Anise, and her brother's name is Thyme.
 * Florence Nightingale Effect
 * Onee-Sama: Her brother Taylor thinks very highly of her.
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: To the letter.

Taylor
Anissa's younger brother. He runs a seed delivery service.


 * Anime Hair
 * Shonen Hair
 * Annoying Younger Sibling
 * Blue Eyes
 * Free-Range Children: In Animal Parade, as you're introduced to him, he announces that he's going to go on a journey, like his sister, to try to help the farm in some way. You don't hear about it again - even from his parents - until he comes back.
 * Goggles Do Nothing
 * Mouthy Kid
 * Shotacon: It is possible for a female to propose marriage to Taylor with the Blue Feather. This seems to be taken seriously, though he will decline because he isn't ready and doesn't think he can satisfy her, averting a potential May–December Romance.
 * Young Entrepreneur: Kid's like 11 or so, and yet starts up his own phone-order seed delivery service.

Jin
A doctor who works at the local clinic.


 * Dark and Troubled Past: Became a doctor
 * Expy: His resemblance to Jin from Samurai Champloo has not gone unnoticed.
 * Florence Nightingale Effect
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * May–December Romance
 * : Very rare for the Harvest Moon series.
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * Adjusting Your Glasses: His talking gesture

Perry
In Tree of Tranquility, he's a relative of Jin's. If there's still a blood relationship in Animal Parade, it's never commented on, and instead of working in the Clinic, he works as the preacher at the local church, which had been suspiciously empty in ToT.


 * The Apprentice: In the Clinic in Tree of Tranquility.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Likes Older Women: In Animal Parade, he has a barely-hidden crush on Mira, whose husband recently passed away.
 * Preacher Man: In Animal Parade.
 * Good Shepherd
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Van
Anissa and Jin's son, should they get married.


 * Child Prodigy

Yolanda
Chief chef at the inn and Maya's grandmother.


 * Apron Matron
 * Cool Old Lady
 * Supreme Chef

Jake
Owner of the inn and Maya's father.


 * Happily Married: He's downright uxorious. (That means doting on one's wife, and the word was probably created specifically to describe him.)
 * : Temporarily, anyway,.

Colleen
Jake's wife and Maya's mother.


 * Happily Married: Ridiculously happily. She and Jake take the cake for schmoopiest couple in the series, and they've been married for at least twenty years.
 * Supreme Chef

Maya
A waitress at Waffle Town's inn. Loves fine cuisine, but couldn't make it herself if her life depended on it.


 * Big Eater: Given how much she likes to talk about food.
 * The Cutie: Not surprising, given what her parents are like.
 * Genki Girl
 * Lethal Chef: Despite this, she has her own cooking show, if only out of the "Those who cannot do..." school of thought.
 * Through Her Stomach

Chase
A cook and waiter at the inn. In Animal Parade, he becomes the head chef at the bar, instead.


 * Bishonen
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Gameplay and Story Segregation: There is a minor event where you can bring him certain dishes and he'll taste-test them for you. Giving him an orange cake during one of these would lead to him saying it's not good enough and to bring him a better dish. Ironically it's one of his favourite items.
 * Hair Color Dissonance: His hair seems like it's pale blonde, but taking a closer look reveals that it's actually pink. This could be an artistic represantation of a "strawberry blonde," but still...
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He tends to have a snarky way of speaking and teases or outright insults Maya up until he marries.
 * No Accounting for Taste: He and Maya, sometimes. Their daughter Dakota even points out the fact that they fight all the time, and even cites it as the reason she'll never get a younger sister.
 * Parental Abandonment: In Tree of Tranquililty, he says that he can't remember his parents' faces. However, what happened to them is never mentioned. (And the subject is never brought up in Animal Parade.)
 * Word of God has declared him an orphan
 * Supreme Chef: To contrast with his counterpart, Maya. He even says, when they get married, that she doesn't have to try and cook any more—just taste-test.

Julius
Works at the Blacksmith with Mira. In Animal Parade, he works at the accessory shop as a jewelry designer.


 * Bishie Sparkle: His is even special-er amidst the normal Bishie Sparkle of the other candidates, because his sparkles have roses in them.
 * Bishonen
 * Bowdlerize: In Japan, the first rival event between him and Candace in Animal Parade has him getting mad at Candace because he thinks she thinks he's a crossdresser. In America, this was changed to him thinking she thinks he's... short. In some sense, this makes it funnier—Candace never does say why, so one could interpret it as Julius being oblivious to how camp he acts.
 * Camp Straight
 * Casa Lane Parenting: He notes that his parents travel all over the world and sometimes forget to contact. Somewhat justified in that Julius is an adult, so they know he can take care of himself.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: "Candace is marrying the blacksmith? I thought he was a woman when I first met him!"
 * And so did a whack of the fandom
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Metrosexual: He's so flaming, he isn't allowed into barns, but he's still a bachelor.
 * Opposites Attract: His relationship with Candace.
 * Say It with Hearts: Just about every line he has ends with a star, heart, or musical note.
 * She's a Man In Japan: Only just averted. Supposedly, Natsume tried to remove him entirely or change him into a girl, but decided against it. Even if he were made female, his outfit is still more fitting for a foppish man than a girl. Word of God denies this, for whatever reason.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: You could almost pass it off as him having dyed it—he does have streaks in his hair—but his kids in Animal Parade prove that he's a natural purple.

Toby
Local fisherman, a laid-back young man who likes taking naps in the shade and fishing his days away.


 * Engaging Conversation: How he proposes in his rival heart event.
 * Eyes Always Shut: It appears to be genetic. His uncle Ozzie, cousin Paolo, and his potential son with Renee, Matt, all have them as well.
 * Lampshaded with Matt: "Everyone tells me he's got my eyes."
 * Though when he does open them during some Cut Scenes, they're.
 * Your child with him in Animal Parade has  as well.
 * Missing Mom
 * The Quiet One: He's not exactly shy, however.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Paolo
A little boy who hangs out at the lighthouse. Toby is his cousin.


 * Cheerful Child
 * Missing Mom
 * Nice Hat, which might be a Shout-Out to the previous Harvest Moon male characters.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: He turned the entire town into a Rube Goldberg Device alongside Phoebe, and says some pretty mature things on occassion. Makes you think how old he really is...

Renee
A young woman who works at her parents' ranch. She's easygoing and spends her spare time fishing.


 * Brown Eyes
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Friend to All Living Things: She does berate her parents for not taking care of the animals "properly".
 * Pink Means Feminine: Her Fall/Winter outfit.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: In training.

Mayor Hamilton
A description of the character goes here.


 * Improbable Hairstyle: There's a curl in the front sticking straight up that's almost as big as his head and he still manages to look like he's got male pattern baldness.
 * Landlord
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife -
 * Ultimate Authority Mayor

Gill
An arrogant and saucy boy, and the son of Mayor Hamilton.

"Gill: Whatever... It's not like I'm happy just because I got to see you, Hello, Insert Name Here... * blush*"
 * All There in the Manual: Well, all there on the offical website (English translation is in the second post down here) anyway; his backstory, which turns him from a plain Jerk with a Heart of Gold to a full Jerkass Woobie.
 * Defrosting Ice King: Becomes this if your character befriends or courts him.
 * Icy Blue Eyes
 * Idiot Hair: Though he's presumably quite intelligent.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His grumpiness belies a genuinely noble attitude.
 * Jerkass Woobie:
 * Missing Mom:
 * Tsundere: He often acts pushy towards/belittles the main character though he greatly respects them for restoring the island and will still tease them now and then if they become his close friend or girlfriend.

Elli (Tree of Tranquility)
A receptionist who works at Town Hall. She provides the weather report on television.


 * The Cameo: In Animal Parade, she does not live in Castanet, but can still be seen on TV.
 * Continuity Cameo: From Harvest Moon 64 (she mentions having been a baker and not a nurse)

Dale
The carpenter, Luke's father and acts as mentor to Bo.


 * Badass Moustache
 * Gentle Giant
 * Perpetual Frowner: He's actually a very cheerful character, but darned if you can tell by looking at him.
 * Stout Strength
 * Unusual Eyebrows: Of the fiery kind. His son Luke has them as well.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Luke
The fiery-tempered son of the Carpenter.


 * An Axe to Grind: And for about eight hours a day in Animal Parade, he stands outside of the carpenter's shop and swings that axe at nothing. You'd think someone would get on his case for that.
 * The Fool
 * Fourth Date Marriage: With Selena. The first time they meet, they get into a fight; not much later, he basically asks her "Wanna get married?" out of the blue.
 * Friend to All Children: Surprisingly enough! He loves kids.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Missing Mom
 * No Indoor Voice
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Samson
Selena's father who runs the Pineapple Inn on Toucan Island.


 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Funny Afro
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language
 * Happily Married

Sue
Selena's mother who lives on Toucan Island.


 * Gratuitous Foreign Language
 * Happily Married
 * My Beloved Smother: She insists her daughter is still too immature for excitement outside home. She gets better.

Selena
A native from Toucan Island who dreams of leaving home and working as a dancer.


 * Ambiguously Brown: At least, her art is. Her in-game model has more or less the same skin tone as everyone else, with slightly darker shading.
 * Attention Whore: She admits it herself, really.
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Belly Dancer
 * Dark-Skinned Redhead
 * Fish Out of Water: Being from a tropical climate, she hates the cold seasons. She also frequently comments on the different culture, and some of the festivals seem lost on her.
 * Ms. Fanservice

Calvin
A traveling archaeologist who works with Phoebe. He's got an enthusiastic heart.


 * Absent-Minded Professor: Some of the things he says indicates he enjoys letting his mind wander.
 * Adventurer Archaeologist
 * Adorkable: Potently.
 * Estrogen Brigade Bait: Someone at Marvelous apparently realized that most of the game's fans were girls, and started, uh, "catering" more to their interests. Behold the result. Umm... wow.
 * Expy: He's reminescent of Carter from AWL/DS; moreso in personality than appearance. (They're both stern-seeming archaeologists with boyish zeal for their work.)
 * Saying nothing of his resemblance to Indiana Jones.
 * In one of their Rival Events in Tree of Tranquility, Phoebe even says "[he's] like an adventurer from a movie or something!", IIRC.
 * Game Breaking Bug: Unmarriable in earlier copies of Tree of Tranquility, due to a bug that would cause the game to freeze up when the player tried to complete a crucial marriage event.
 * Hair Color Dissonance: Bright blonde in official art; light brown in-game.
 * Hidden Depths: Despite his maaaanly appearance, he's actually very tender-hearted and awkward.
 * It Belongs in a Museum: In this cutscene.
 * May–December Romance: If you pursue him, he alludes to being older than the protagonist, but there's no solid evidence that the gap is as big as he makes it out to be. His official description even calls him a "young man."
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Urban Legend of Zelda: Supposedly, if you get rid of the tablet he gives you in Animal Parade in any fashion, he won't accept your marriage proposal.

Barbara
Phoebe's mother. She usually takes care of the general store and has a very energetic personality.


 * Genki Girl: All grown up, but maintains the sort of personality.
 * Happily Married
 * Opposites Attract
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Simon
Rather more nervous and introverted than Barbara. In Tree of Tranquility, he helps out around the general store, but in Animal Parade, he runs a camera store. In both, he is Happily Married to Barbara and is Phoebe's father.


 * Flanderization: He is obsessed with photography in Animal Parade, which introduces the camera feature.
 * Happily Married: He and Barbara do argue, but they're pretty steadfast.
 * Henpecked Husband: Moreso in Tree of Tranquility, where he's seen with Barbara more often.
 * Opposites Attract
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Phoebe
An inventor, she hangs around with Calvin a lot and helps him.


 * Expy: She's oddly similar to Flora from AWL/DS, both in working with an archaeologist, some clothing, and being a Meganekko.
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Meganekko
 * Wrench Wench: She spends much of her time tinkering with something.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Well, it's more teal, but in terms of strangeness it's all the same.

Hayden
The owner of the bar, and Kathy's father. While his face seems perpetually angry, he's actually one of the island's nicest residents.


 * Face of a Thug: He constantly laments having one. He sort of scares children.
 * Friend to All Children: Actual profession: Bartender. Preferred profession: Preschool teacher.
 * Gentle Giant
 * My Local: The owner and operator, since his wife's death.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: As his daughter Kathy notes, he's excellent at doing housework.

Kathy
A waitress at her father's bar. She enjoys horseback riding.


 * Bare Your Midriff: At least for the Spring-Summer outfits.
 * Bottle Fairy: Only somewhat, but she loves cocktail drinks.
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Expy: Particularly of Gwen in terms of looks and personality.
 * Missing Mom
 * Tsundere: For Owen.

Shelly
A kindly old lady who works at Sonata Tailoring. She is the grandmother of Candace and Luna.


 * Elderly Blue-Haired Lady
 * I Want Grandkids

Candace
A very shy girl who works in the tailor shop. Older sister of Luna.


 * Curtains Match the Windows
 * Opposites Attract
 * Raised by Grandparents
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Shy Blue-Haired Girl: To the letter.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: She's very quiet and shy, while her sister, Luna, is outgoing to the point of bluntness.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Very blue.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Very blue.

Luna
Candace's younger sister. Unlike her older sibling, Luna is outgoing—and even a little rude! She looks very young, but don't believe that for a second.


 * Cat Smile
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: She dresses like this from time to time. It doesn't help her look much older.
 * Hair Decorations
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * Girlish Pigtails: Lest we forget a single aspect of her appearance...
 * Legal Jailbait
 * Older Than They Look
 * Princess Curls
 * Raised by Grandparents
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: She's the outgoing and brash counterpart to Candace's shyness.
 * Tsundere

Ramsey
An elderly blacksmith. He's Chloe's grandfather and Owen's great uncle.


 * Badass Grandpa: He certainly looks the role and Chloe sees him this way.
 * The Blacksmith
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Doting Grandparent: Spoils Chloe a bit too much. Owen, not so much.
 * Expy: Of Saibara from Mineral Town.

Owen
A big, tough guy who works with the blacksmith. He's very friendly, but also a bit of a party animal.


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Kathy.
 * The Blacksmith: |In training, though he spends most of his time mining.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Friend to All Children: Like Luke, he loves kids and spends time playing with his cousin Chloe and Bo.
 * Gentle Giant
 * Gray Eyes
 * Parental Abandonment: Similar to Chloe.
 * Sleeves Are for Wimps: Until Fall sets in, and he accquires a coat. But otherewise...

Chloe
A mischievous young girl. Owen's cousin and Ramsey's granddaughter.


 * Blush Sticker
 * Cheerful Child
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Genki Girl
 * Raised by Grandparents: Her parents' lack of existence isn't really explained.
 * Around the time of the Firefly Festival, she does imply her mother has passed away.

Wizard (Animal Parade)
A loner who researches spells and likes to spend his evenings gazing into the stars.


 * Ambiguously Brown: However, in the stories on the Japanese website, there is a reference made to him being from a desert town.
 * Crystal Ball
 * Darkskinned Blonde
 * Distaff Counterpart: He's basically the male version of the Cute Witch bachelorettes the series has grown fond of.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls him wizard, but you could find out his real name if you married him.
 * Fetch Quest: His role in the story is to have you fetch three things so he can cure the Witch.
 * Fortune Teller
 * Mayfly-December Romance
 * Mismatched Eyes: One yellow eye and the other green.
 * Must Have Caffeine: He stays up all night (In fact, the only way to meet him before a certain event is to stay out until 2 AM), and most of his favorite items are coffee-related. Hmmm...
 * No Name Given:
 * : Said word for word.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?: Invoked at a certain heart level if he's married, though only as a throwaway, probably to spare the Fridge Depression.
 * Wizards Live Longer: He states that while he has not been around as long as the Goddess or King, he's still been alive for quite some time.

Theodore (Animal Parade)
A circus ringmaster who has lost many of his animals.


 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: He managed to lose his animals because he went off chasing after a cat that crossed his path when he was advertising for the zoo.
 * Expy: Of Mayor Thomas from Mineral Town.

Harvest King (Animal Parade)
An all-knowing deity who helps revive the Goddess Tree.


 * Fiery Redhead
 * Interspecies Romance
 * Mayfly-December Romance
 * No Name Given:
 * Physical God: Gee, ya think?
 * Power Glows
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * The Stoic
 * Sugar and Ice Personality: He shows little interest in interacting with the player character and frequently tells them to go home if they have no business with him. On seasonal festivities, he usually belittles the details.
 * What Is This Feeling?