Axe Boy

**Robbie White**, also known as the **Axe Boy**, is a Difficulty Level 2 Hunter available for purchase after the completion of the prologue. He is one of **28** playable Hunters added to Identity V.

—Robbie White (Deduction Star 2021)

## Appearance

Robbie is a short, petite, headless child with sickly, bluish skin, and sharp, gnarled tree branches growing and jutting out of his neck.

He wears an old set of blue dungarees with a large hole in the left knee over a black-and-white striped shirt with long sleeves, a matching sock on his left foot, and a bare right foot. A burlap sack with a stitched split resembling a mouth is also tied over where his head should be, with the frayed ends flying and the sack secured with a twine rope. He grasps a relatively large Carpenter's axe with a wooden handle and a black, single-bladed, rusty head wrapped in bloody, white linen bandages in his right hand, nearly concealed by the frayed, flying ends from his sack.

## Gameplay

The Axe Boy is a Hunter who can increase his movement speed, decrease Survivor movement speed, and has a ranged attacking potential. He starts each game with multiple pines that spawn automatically around the map, each having a circular area of effect, in which small flames will spawn and circle around, which he can pull towards him in a straight line, damaging any Survivor they touch, or boosting his movement speed if it reaches him. Any Survivor who leaves any circular area of effect without dismantling the pine within will have their movement speed reduced. He is also able to set down roads, which drastically increase his movement speed when he is on said road.

### External Traits & Abilities

Below is a list of Axe Boy's intrinsic traits and abilities. For more in-depth information, please check the individual pages.

 Corrupt Area | *As time goes by, the Peaceful Pine seedlings will grow and expand their roots to form a Corrupt Area. As the seedlings grow, two Resentful Souls will converge unconsciously in the area. When there are multiple Corrupt Areas formed by Peaceful Pines overlapping, a Restful Road will be formed between every 2 Peaceful Pines.*
 Dispel Souls | 0
 Restful Road | 1000

### Character Statistics

Below is a list of Axe Boy's statistics. To view other Hunters' gameplay data, please view **this article**.

## Concept / Design Notes

### Design Notes

This character hopes to return to the earlier purer sense of American horror, and minimize the sense of magic, so the original design with branches in the body was scrapped. Since the character is a child, the basic idea was a "candy-begging kid during Halloween". The character does not have a head at the time of setting, so we covered the head with a piece of cloth. In order to be different from other hunters, we tried to combine the European and American style of white cloth ghosts with the Japanese sunny doll/teru teru bozu, using tattered linen and rotten edges to show a pure sense of power, which also complimented the rough axe weapon. The striped clothes and socks imply that the character has been in a prison-like place in the past; the torn socks and another foot show the childish nature of the character.

## Change Log

November 19th, 2020
* Buff: A Resentful Soul possessing a Survivor will no longer disappear with its Peaceful Pine.

May 13th, 2021
* Nerf: The farthest distance for controlling Resentful Souls with Tier 0 ability "Dispel Souls" is reduced from 36 meters to 32 meters.
* Nerf: The time required for Survivors to destroy a Peaceful Pine is reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
* Nerf: Tier 2 ability "Corrupting Breath" will no longer take effect on the same Survivor again within 4 seconds.

## Trivia

* He is the first child hunter (also the first child playable character) in the game and the youngest hunter so far to date in the game.
	+ He along with "Little Girl" are the only playable child characters in the game.
* In the Chinese version of Identity V, instead of having a real axe, Robbie carries one made of wood.
* Robbie is referred to as a "solemn little angel" in the 2020 Halloween Event.
	+ Dolores also refers to him as "her angel" and describes him smiling as "looking like an angel" in his 2022 Letter.
* Robbie is stated to like sweets in multiple places.
	+ In his Deduction Star Quotes he also states he likes chocolate.
	+ The description of his B-Tier Costume Freak confirms he loves lollipops and his A-Tier Costume Wail has a giant lollipop in place of the axe.
	+ His C-Tier Costume White Sugar states he used to love the taste of raw sugar.

## References

1. ↑ In Axe Boy's 2021 Letter, April 25th seems to be the day he was decapitated by the window. It may also be his Birthday as in his 2022 Letter there is no stated date for it, implying it could be the Character Day.
2. ↑ Chinese wiki confirms the voice actor. https://wiki.biligame.com/dwrg/%E7%88%B1%E5%93%AD%E9%AC%BC
3. ↑ As Pumpkin Lantern in the Halloween 2020 Song. Announcement by the voice actress - Instagram
4. ↑ Confirmed on the Japanese Edition of Reference Book
5. ↑ He appears in all three episodes of Identity V Stage Play as Robbie White
6. ↑ Design notes of characters are from the first volume of the Official Art Reference Book.