Characters are the in-game creature that the player controls, present in the game Among Us. Players can move characters in a two-dimensional field of play, and they can interact with the environment in multiple ways, ranging from completing tasks to preventing Sabotages. Characters may also interact with each other, such as engaging in murdering or reporting a dead body. A player may customize their character in some ways, such as changing the character's name, color, and cosmetics. Cosmetics include hats, skins, visor cosmetics, and pets.
Appearance[]
Living characters are shown as short, round-bodied astronaut-like creatures wearing spacesuits of different colors. They lack arms, have short legs, and their spacesuits do not reveal what is underneath. They do not have a visible face, instead they express themselves through an glass visor that resemble a cyclopean eye. Sometimes, players will appear to have four-fingered floating hands at certain moments, such as the killing animations when they are killed by An Impostor. On the contrary, the Reactor Meltdown UI shows a five-fingered hand being scanned. A small pack rectangular shape is also mounted on the back of the suit. Impostors are similar in appearance to Crewmates, however they can open their belly, revealing a huge mouth with several pointy teeth and a thin, sharp tongue as seen in the Friends List trailer and death animation.
If a player is eliminated by normal gameplay, they will turn into a ghost. Ghosts look the same as living characters, except that they have a ghost tail in place of legs and are translucent. Their currently chosen skin will not be displayed below the character.
If the player is a Crewmate, all characters will display their names in white above their heads. If the player is selected as An Impostor, then any other Impostors will see their names (including their own) as colored red.
If An Impostor kills a Crewmate, they will leave behind a decapitated corpse, which appears as the bottom half of the body lying down with a single bone sticking out of it.
Trivia[]
- According to Submit Scan, characters weigh 92 pounds and are 3'6" tall. The only exception is Fortegreen, who weighs 132 pounds.
- Not much is known about the characters' biology. while some think they are people in costumes, others think they are the costumes themselves. It is shown in the dead sprite that the player has a vertebral bone, however the area around it will be the corresponding color. In The Fungle, an inflatable dinosaur-shaped float can be seen having a visor similar to the character, further reinforcing the second theory.
- The impostor is an alien. this is shown in his death animation using his sharp tongue to kill a crewmate. This becomes even clearer in Hide-And-Seek mode where the impostor screams abnormally and has his tongue sticking out the entire time.
- Players will play as Fortegreen while connecting, along with the username "???".
- The default name used to be "ForteBass," named after Forest Willard's username.[1]
- Between versions 2021.4.2 and 2021.6.30, Fortegreen was named "GareBear".
- Crewmates may be Henry Stickmin characters, as a human-like voice can be heard in Communications.
- Among Us did a retweet, revealing if you look under the space suit, you will see the same thing.
- Characters can drink through osmosis.[2]
- In a tweet from Among Us, they said that characters "either have no toes or each leg is actually just a giant toe."[3]
- Character sprites are stored in the game files as a base template instead of sprites for every color. Red marks where the main color goes, blue marks shadows, navy blue marks the outline color, shades of pink are used for the insides, and shades of green are used for the visor.
- This color is referred to as 'Crewcolor' on cosmetics with such coloring to allow them to change to the color of the character.
- Before version 2022.3.29, players using a PC could move around and open UIs during the Role Reveal screen. This was probably a bug.
Gallery[]
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.png "Ghost character (base template).png (11 KB)")
.png "Console Cursor (base template).png (7 KB)")
Old designs[]
Old player assets until version 2019.11.5
These were the original designs of the assets, used before version 2021.6.15 & version 2019.11.5 (ghost model).
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_old_design.png "Venting character (base template) old design.png (4 KB)")
_old_design.png "Ejected character (base template) old design.png (4 KB)")
_old_design.png "Ghost character (base template) old design.png (5 KB)")
Audio[]
| Audio | Description |
|---|---|
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on the carpet. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on dirt. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on glass. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on metal. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on plastic. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on snow. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on tile. | |
| The sounds that characters make when they walk on wood. |
References[]
- ↑ "originally, the default crewmate name was "ForteBass", not "???"". Innersloth Discord server, Buttery Stancakes. October 17, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ↑ "osmosis". Twitter, AmongUsGame. November 30, 2020. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- ↑ "they either have no toes or each leg is actually just a giant toe". Twitter, AmongUsGame. November 21, 2020. Retrieved November 30, 2020.