Party member

Playable characters, also referred to as party or playable cast, are the characters that can be controlled by the player. The EarthBound series has various different playable characters with each installment having a new set of playable characters. Most characters are young kids or teenagers, although in Mother 3 adults are playable as well.

Main characters
EarthBound Beginnings has four main characters that are playable in the game. They are:

Stats
The stats are as follows:

Age
Excluding Teddy, the ages of the cast are found in the Mother Encyclopedia:


 * Ninten: 12


 * Loid: 11


 * Ana: 12

Additional character
In addition to this, there is also a temperory party member that is playable in game, who is:

Pippi is a 7 year old girl who temporarily joins Ninten at the beginning of the game. She is interestingly the only temporary party member in the series who can be controlled by the player. Another interesting fact is her stats are identical to Teddy's, this isn't noticed easily at first because Teddy joins at level 18, unlike Pippi who joins at level 1.

Main characters
As with EarthBound Beginnings there are four main characters. This time all four can be playable at once:

Stats
The stats are as follows:

Age
Unlike EarthBound Beginnings the ages were left vauge by Shigesato Itoi.
 * The EarthBound Player's Guide and official UK website claims Ness is 13, however when asked about his age Shigesato Itoi said he never had an official age, and instead compared him to his daughter who was in 4th or 5th garde at the time, implying Ness might actually be younger than what the player's guide and UK website claims.


 * the UK website says Paula is 11 years old.


 * Jeff is the same age as Ness so he could be 13 years old or younger.


 * Poo is left vague, with the player's guide saying he is "a little older than Ness".

Main characters
There are four main characters and all are playable in the party starting Chapter 5 and onwards. The four main characters are:

Lucas is first playable in the prologue, Kumatora is first playable in Chapter 2, and Duster and Boney iare first playable in Chapter 1.

Additional characters
Before Chapter 4 each chapter has a different playable character assigned to the role of the chapter:

Flint is the main character in Chapter 1, where he is searching for his wife Hinawa who was killed by a Mecha Drago. Later his older son Claus goes to the mountains to get revenge on the Drago who killed Hinawa, and Flint goes off to search for him, but Claus was nowhere to be found.

Salsa is a monkey who is playable in Chapter 3, where he was captured by the Pigmask Army and is fourced to work for Fassad in order to save his girlfriend.

Claus is Lucas's older twin brother who is briefly playable in the prologue. He helps Lucas defeat a Mole Cricket who challenges Lucas for a battle.