The Player character is one of the main protagonists of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series and has appeared in every game to date. According to the player's decisions in the personality quiz, he or she can get up to 19 different Pokémon results.
Personality[]
Per tradition in most Pokémon games, the player character has very few if any speaking roles in the actual dialogue of the game. However, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has a few parts in which the player actual speaks. (Most of the time their dialogue is in their thoughts, implied by them speaking in parenthesis like this.)
The player is usually very intent on doing the right thing. However, they very rarely push their beliefs or ideas onto others and slowly let other characters (usually the partner) come to terms that their idea may be legitimate. The player is also very caring for anyone they consider a friend and usually quite prepared to protect them from anyone they consider an enemy.
Despite this, much of the personality is left up to the player because of the few speaking parts that are shown. it is generally believed that this is because the game leaves it open to the player themselves to decide how they would react to every situation.
Roles in the games[]
In Red/Blue Rescue Team[]
In Red/Blue Rescue Team, the Player awakes in a grassy field with no memory of anything other than their name. They meet the Partner responsible for waking them up. After a short exchange, a Butterfree approaches and informs them it's baby has fallen into a crevice and cannot get it out. The Partner volunteers you both and you go in to rescue the Butterfree's child.
After you finish that job and receive your reward from the Butterfree, your new partner asks you rather bluntly if you would like to join a rescue team with him or her, starting the game's adventure.
Plot: Red Rescue Team/Blue Rescue Team
In Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky[]
The Player was originally from the future and worked with Grovyle to change the past and stop the planet's paralysis. Using their Dimensional Scream ability, the Player learned where the Time Gears are in the past and traveled there with Grovyle through the Passage of Time. However, Darkrai, who somehow learned of the plan to change the past, interfered and attacked the two while they were travelling through time. The Player took the attack meant for Grovyle and ended up becoming entangled in the forces of the dimensions present during time travel, the result turning them into a Pokémon, giving them amnesia, and separating them from Grovyle. The Player would end up on the beach outside of Treasure Town where they would meet the Partner.
Plot: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky
In Gates to Infinty[]
In Super Mystery Dungeon[]
Different from other games, the Hero wakes up under a tree near a waterfall alone. After sipping water and becoming terrified by their reflection, the hero is attacked by three Beheeyem and attempts to flee, bumping into a Nuzleaf along the way who helps them escape. He then asks if Hero wants to stay at his house, since they have no home or parents and are presumed as a school age child, which the hero is forced to accept, and the game starts as they journey to Nuzleaf's village, Serene Village.