Somebody

Somebody is a special cat character who appears only in. They are a wooden puppet who can only appear as a temporary placeholder on the role selection screen for a facility for a removed villager invited via amiibo. When an amiibo villager is kicked out by dragging their icon to a door, their slot will be taken by Somebody. However, if Somebody is still present in a slot when confirming, they will be replaced by a random villager from Main Street.

   

Someone
Someone is a related character mentioned in several games, who used as a placeholder for the designer of custom patterns at Able Sisters, or mentioned by villagers to be the designer of their clothing. In, they are known as "someone from a town"; in , they are known as "Someone from Far Away"; in , they are known as "Someone from Anytown"; and in they are known as "someone from Anyisle."

Although their English name is different from the placeholder cat seen in, Someone and Somebody share the same name in the original Japanese (だれかさん, Dareka-san) and several other languages, most notably French which uses the pun name "Chépaki" instead of a direct translation of the word "someone." Though consistent in Japanese, the name and town used as a placeholder vary in some other languages between games — see the section.

Trivia

 * Somebody's internal ID is puppet00. Models for two more apparently gendered versions of the Somebody puppet exist in 's files, a blue-tinted version of the puppet (puppet01) and a pink-tinted version with eyelashes (puppet02). They have dummy "cloth" textures over where their clothes might go, despite the used brown Somebody model not wearing clothes. These models do not appear to be used in-game.

Someone (designer)
Note: in, "someone from a town" is replaced by various specific names in other languages.