Somebody

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Artwork of Somebody
Species Gender
Cat Unknown
Role Placeholder
Main appearances

Other appearances
Name in other languages
 だれかさん
 N/A
 Qualcuno
 Jemand
 N/A
 Chépaki
 Alguien
 N/A
 N/A
 Chépaki
 Alguien
 N/A

Somebody is a special cat who appears only in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. 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.

  • Somebody has taken the place of several amiibo-invited villagers who were kicked out through the door, which Knox is going towards.
  • After confirming, every instance of Somebody has been replaced with a random villager, while Knox (who was not kicked out) remains.

Someone

Mabel telling a player that a default design was made by "Someone from Anytown" in New Leaf

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 Wild World, they are known as "someone from a town"; in City Folk, they are known as "Someone from Far Away"; in New Leaf, they are known as "Someone from Anytown"; and in New Horizons they are known as "someone from Anyisle."

Although their English name is different from the placeholder cat seen in Happy Home Designer, Someone and Somebody share the same name in the original Japanese and several other languages, most notably French which uses the pun name "Chépaki"[nb 1] instead of a direct translation of the word "someone." However, these names do vary between games (see #Names in other languages).

Gallery

Trivia

  • Somebody's internal ID is puppet00. Models for two more apparently gendered versions of the Somebody puppet exist in Happy Home Designer'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.

Names in other languages

Somebody (Happy Home Designer placeholder)

Japanese だれかさん
Dareka-san
Somebody-san

German Jemand Somebody

European Spanish Alguien Somebody

European French Chépaki from "Je ne sais pas qui" meaning "I don't know who"

Italian Qualcuno Somebody

Someone (designer)

Note: in Wild World, "someone from a town" is replaced by various specific names in other languages.

City Folk: "Someone from Far Away"

Japanese だれか
dareka
somewhere

Korean 누군가
nugunga
someone

German Jemand Someone

European Spanish Alguien Someone

European French M. Chose Mr. Thing

Italian Marzia uses an actual name

New Leaf

Japanese だれか
dareka
someone

Korean 누군가
nugunga
someone

German jemand someone

European Spanish alguien someone

European French Chépaki from "Je ne sais pas qui" meaning "I don't know who"

Italian un tale a guy

New Horizons

Japanese だれか
dareka
someone

Korean 누군가
nugunga
someone

Simplified Chinese 某人
mǒu rén
someone

Russian некто
nekto
someone

Dutch Kweniewie from "kweenie wie", slang for "I don't know who"

German jemand someone

European Spanish nosequién from "no sé quién" meaning "I don't know who"

European French Chépaqui From "Je ne sais pas qui" meaning "I don't know who"

Italian chissàcchi from "chissà chi" meaning "who knows who"

Notes

  1. A pun on the sentence "Je ne sais pas qui," meaning "I don't know who"