Characters who have appeared in Harvest Moon for the SNES.
For characters from other games in the series, check out the Characters page here.
Pete
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Future characters who use his design typically have brown eyes, a blue hat, and their handkerchief the other way around. This game features blue eyes, a green hat (though the sprite shows it blue, possibly to not blend in with the background), and the handkerchief facing the back.
- Expy: Pete is near identical looking to the protagonist of Legend of The River King. The main difference is the green cap, and that was abandoned in later installments.
- Farm Boy: You become one after your grandfather's death. In the Bad End you end up quitting.
- Heroic Mime: There are some lines in the game implied to be from Pete but it's all internal.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Has bright blue eyes to show off his innocent and youthful farmer persona.
Ann (Original)
- Bungling Inventor: Ann does invent things properly. It just happens a lot of the time they also blow up or just don't work too.
- Establishing Character Moment: Her appearance in Magical Melody when one of her inventions blow up on her face.
- Fiery Red Head: She's a spunky redheaded woman. Her father worries that she's a bit too fiery for most men.
- Girliness Upgrade: In the original, all wives are palette swaps of each other. Ann suddenly starts wearing dresses post-marriage and acts a bit like a housewife, though she's still a Wrench Wench. Subverted in Magical Melody, where she keeps her pants and jacket.
- Tank-Top Tomboy: Underneath her jacket, befitting her Wrench Wench status.
- Tomboy: She's the most tomboyish bachelorette. She's also the only one who doesn't wear a dress or skirt, at least until marriage.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She's a tomboy who wears her hair in a ponytail.
- Wrench Wench: Ann enjoys inventing things.
Nina
- The Cutie: She's the most bubbly bachelorette by far.
- Innocent Flower Girl: Her mother owns the local flower shop. Nina loves just about every plant.
- Older Than They Look: She may seem like a little kid but she's supposed to be an adult.
- Pink Is Feminine: She's possibly the most feminine bachelorette in appearance. She loves flowers, is decked out in pink, and even has naturally pink hair.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: It's pink but close enough.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks like a younger version of her mother. This is continued in Harvest Moon 64 where Popuri and her mom greatly resemble Nina, who is heavily implied to have been Popuri's grandmother.
- Third-Person Person: She refers to herself as "Nina", probably to emphasise her childish nature. It seems odd in English, and Magical Melody dropped it.
- You No Take Candle: Her translation ends up like this more often than the other girls, such as "I want to do garden forever."
Ellen
- Alcoholic Parent: Her father is the town drunkard, and Ellen spends many nights at the bar, pleading with him to come home. He keeps elements of this in Magical Melody but is overall more sober.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Her father is an alcoholic and it frustrates her.
- Boyish Short Hair: Subverted. She looks the part, but in her behaviour, she is one of the most feminine characters in the game. Her Magical Melody note even takes note of her hair.
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
- Cutting Off the Branches: She doesn't identify the protagonist as her grandson in 64. It's unlikely that she's the canon bachelorette.
- Friend to All Living Things: She adores animals and is also people friendly.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She has an androgynous appearance and loves working with farm animals, but generally she's quite feminine.
- Gratuitous Japanese: Her pet bird is named "P-chan" even in the English translation.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: She wears a dress but still looks somewhat androgynous. Downplayed more in Magical Melody.
- Missing Mom: Her mother isn't in Magical Melody.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: In Harvest Moon 64. It's not sudden from her perspective, as she's an elderly grandmother by then, but it's still Played for Drama, and her granddaughter Elli doesn't take it well at all.
Maria
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original game, the closest she has to a "job" is helping around the local church. In Magical Melody, there is no church for plot reasons. Maria is instead a librarian.
- Hot Librarian: Only in Magical Melody.
- The Ingenue: She's a pleasant, religious young woman who enjoys reading and going to church.
- Meaningful Name: The religious girl is named "Maria".
- Missing Mom: Her mother wasn't used in Magical Melody
- A Saint Named Mary: Maria is one of the most religious characters in the series. She worships a pagan god, but her name is still a Christian reference.
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl: Downplayed compared to future characters in the series. She keeps to herself.
- Strong Family Resemblance: With her mom. Maria from 64 is her grandchild and looks like her with a different hairstyle and glasses
- Token Religious Teammate: One of the most religious characters in the franchise. It's even present in Magical Melody, where the town doesn't even have a church.
Eve
- Adaptational Modesty: Her tight red dress is replaced with a looser, more flowing pink and white one in Magical Melody.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Or as close as the series will ever get. She's pretty direct about flirting with you, offering to kiss you if you can drink "juice", or to wash your back if you jump in the hot springs with her, and the bartender likes having her around because she's good for business.
- Lie Back and Think of England: She has intimacy issues; her affection for you will drop if you go to bed with her, while other girls' affection will go up in the same situation. Averted in Magical Melody.
- Likes Older Women: If you choose to pursue her. In Magical Melody, she lampshades this when you show her a blue feather because she knows she's older than you are.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents' death is a major issue for her.
- Stepford Smiler: Type A in Magical Melody. She came to town to bring her grandfather, Terry, home to live with her, but he refuses to leave with her; this upsets her more than she lets on to others.
Church Boy
A local kid who is typically by the church.- No Name Given: No matter how much you talk to him.
- Precocious Crush: He has a crush on Maria. It doesn't go anywhere.
- She's Not My Girlfriend: He acts this way toward the Fortune Teller's grand daughter at first. Eventually he falls for her.
Nina's mother
The local florist.- Eyes Always Shut: At least it looks like it. Her redesign in Magical Melody is this way.
- No Name Given: In the original title at least. In Magical Melody her name is given as "Liz".
- Romancing the Widow: She has a romance with Ann's father, who is a widower himself. If you marry Ann they get married.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Nina seems to have gotten her looks from her moms side.
Ann's father
The owner of the Tool Shop.- Adaptation Dye-Job: His brown hair became blue in Magical Melody
- Cannot Spit It Out: He has trouble courting Nina's mom. If you marry Ann, that apparently bolsters his confidence, because the ending sequence shows them getting married.
- No Name Given: In the original title. Magical Melody names him "Michael".
- Romancing the Widow: Has a crush on Nina's mother. They will become married if you marry Ann, though not if you marry Nina.
