Character

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Characters are NPCs in Baldi's Basics Plus, which can be students, school staffs, and other things in Here School alike. While all of the characters are obstacles to challenge or get away from, Baldi is the only hostile character to cause the game to end by contacting the Player themselves.

Description

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The original cast of characters from left to right: Arts and Crafters, Playtime, 1st Prize, Baldi, It's a Bully, Principal of the Thing, Gotta Sweep, and Cloudy Copter.

All of the characters are designed as 2D sprites, similar to the items and environment objects. For the game's weird bizarre purpose, the characters lack the stylistic unity. The characters' sprites are scanned with CGI models, flash animation or 2D drawing, and realistic photography. To fit the game's nostalgia themes, most of them are edited with the dithering effect and alot of size reduction.

List

Here School Characters

Name	Image	Description
1st Prize		Moves and rotates very slowly. When facing front towards the Player's view, it will rush straight and push the Player.
Arts and Crafters		Avoids the Player at all costs. When all recommended notebooks are collected, if Arts and Crafters is in the Player's point-of-view, he will rush to them in a quick speed, sending the Player to a random location.
Baldi		Appears friendly at first, but becomes the game's only hostility when getting the first quiz problem wrong. Following after the Player, Baldi will speed up each time when the Player incorrectly answers a problem. Upon contacting the Player when close enough, it leads to an ultimate game over.
Beans		Spits a bubble gum wad at the Player and will slow them down. This also applies to other characters.
Chalkles		First located in the blank chalkboard. When observed after a few amount of seconds, Chalkles will emerge out of the chalkboard and rotate around the Player. After 3 seconds, he leaves.
Cloudy Copter		Slowly moves around the hallways, and blows out a strong wind that can push most characters and even the Player away.
Gotta Sweep		Resides in the closet. After 120-180 seconds, it becomes active and starts sweeping through the halls. Gotta Sweep can push almost any character that is in its way, except for It's a Bully.
It's a Bully		Mostly found blocking the path in hallways. Will take the Player's inventory item and allows them to pass. However if there are no items in the inventory slots, It's a Bully will refuse the Player to get through.
Mrs. Pomp		Tells the Player to get to her class in a limited timespan, if they fail to get to her class, she will stomp furiously around the room, attracting Baldi.
Playtime		Wanders around the halls, and if she's a bit close ahead, she will dash towards the Player for a jumprope minigame. Playtime will not let the Player go until completing her minigame or cutting her jumprope with Safety Scissors.
Principal of the Thing		Takes the Player to the office for detention upon breaking one of any rules in front of him.

Corrupted/Glitched Characters

Filename2 is a mysterious character who appears completely different out of all characters in the game. One of the corrupted files hidden in the game, he is typically aware of the game, breaking the fourth wall by telling the Player to destroy the game before it is too late. In Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, some other glitched entities are the SpoopBalloons; the blue, purple, green, and orange SpoopBalloons appear floating aimlessly while the swarm of buzzing red ones will constantly follow after the Player. Both entities' origin or what they came from will have a stronger chance to reveal in the full game.

Filename2

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SpoopBalloons (red version)

Hidden Characters

Minor characters that appear hidden in secret locations as Easter Eggs. They lack their overall personal behavior functions as they take a very small role in the game. These include PlaceFace, 0th Prize, and TestDithered.

PlaceFace

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0th Prize

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TestDithered

Audio

Brief random noises heard on occasions play from the pathfinding code (Baldi's Basics Classic). When a character finds a new location to walk to, there is a 0 in 49 chance (roughly 2% chance) that a random sound will play.

Name	Audio	Description
Creepy sound	File:Creepy sound.ogg	A heavy breathing sound. At the end of the clip, a sound that sounds extremely similar to the ticking sound the alarm clock makes can be heard.
Noise	File:Noise.ogg	A pulsating synth.
Fret	File:Fret.ogg	A strange, chicken-like clucking. It is actually an edited guitar fret audio. In Music Maker, the sound effect is "120 Guitar Fret Noise" and edited with 2B.
Dulcimer	File:Dulcimer.ogg	A buzzsaw.
Tone	File:Tone.ogg	A much quieter version of the Loud Noise's last part. If the start of the sound was made louder, a static sound can be heard before the sound that is supposed to be heard starts.

Trivia

• The idea of characters appearing as 3D models, drawings, or photo-cropped may be based on the Cartoon Network animation series where it also has a lack of stylistic unity on characters.
• All 3D-model characters (Baldi, It's a Bully, 1st Prize, Mrs. Pomp) are made in a 1999 3D-modelling/animation program .
• mystman12 got jump-scared by Mrs. Pomp when she was rendering
• All 2D-drawn characters are made in (Playtime and Chalkles) and (Beans).
• There is a when the characters' voicelines randomly changed high or low in pitch. For instance, it commonly happens with Gotta Sweep when sweeping characters.
• The "fret" sound, one of the random sounds for pathfinding codes, sounds nearly yet uncannily identical to the sound piece heard multiple times in the 1993 first-person shooter game Doom's "Suspense" track, in timestamp 0:56 for instance. Most likely since they use the same MIDI sample.
• The pathfind code's "creepy sound" audio, which sounds like heavy breathing, was actually recorded around 2009. This was revealed by mystman12 in his stream.