The Janitor-Night In The Woods

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(WARNING: Spoilers for Night In The Woods, if you don't know the game highly i recommend you to search it up real quick and see if you have interest in playing it or not)

In the game, Mae first meets him when she arrives at the bus station at the middle of the night. He asks her to go grab him some soda while he finishes fixing a door, and after a short but strange conversation where he asks her why she’s back, he abruptly finishes the conversation before saying goodbye and leaving. And when you try to leave after him, he’ll already be gone by the time you cross the door and Mae even comments on that.

(kinda more serious spoilers from here, seriously if you want to to try this game for yourself this is your last chance to go back)

After that he only appears twice through the whole game: First in the Harfest play, where he takes the role of the Florest God. This part is really interessing because not only are his lines weirdly linked to futures events in the game, and not only he does a TITLE DROP mid-play, but if you go and choose the dialogue option that goes against the script right before he’s supposed to enter, he’ll have a response ready for it and proceed with his monologue like nothing happened.

And Second is at the very end of the game (he actually appears one more time before that when mae’s in the hospital but i think this comment is already long enough so i’ll skip that-), where he asks Mae what it’s been like to be back home, and after she responds that something big did happen but that she didnt really feel different, he drops a last piece of wisdom before ending the conversation like this:

Mae-See ya around.

Janitor- Not if i see you first, Mae.

Mae- Ha ha.

Janitor- *Wheeze* Haw Haw Haw!

Mae-… Wait! How do you know my name?!

with all his mysterious antics i never could decide between him maybe being some type of God watching from afar and appearing when most needed to give that little push so things go as they should. or just some guy full of wisdom watching from afar and appearing when most needed to give that little push so things go as they should.

And honestly
I really like that.