Woshua

Green means clean

Woshua

Woshua (JP: ウォッシュア) (/ˈwɒʃuə/) is a monster that appears in Waterfall.

Profile

Appearance

Woshua appears to be a blue living bathtub, bucket, or washing machine with a round light green head bearing a blank expression, and a small yellow bird sitting in its water-filled body, along with a crank-like tail colored like its head. It resembles a turtle.

Personality

Woshua speaks in short sentences and seeks to make everything clean due to it being a hypochondriac. As such, it constantly suggests to the protagonist that they clean themselves, especially before touching it. Its germaphobia goes as far as hating "dirty jokes", and it appears to find Moldbygg a heavily unclean monster that it will flee from the protagonist if they hugged Moldbygg then attempted to touch Woshua.

Etymology

Woshua's name is a portmanteau of wash and the name Joshua. Their name also could be a corruption of "Wash You" (Wash You → Wosh Ya → Woshua). Its name can also be derived from the Chinese phrase 我刷 (wǒ shuā), meaning "I brush". Woshua is inspired by OMOCAT, who is Chinese-American.

Main story

After sparing Undyne while also not killing any Woshuas, a Woshua appears at the beginning of the garbage dump, stating that it is cleaning the trash and sorting it into symmetrical piles — "It's hard work, but somebody has to do it."

Woshua can also be found in "The War of Humans and Monsters" story hallway, stating that if it could, it would erase the whole world because everything is so dirty: "Ohhhh. Don't get the wrong idea. I don't want anyone to die. People turn to dust when they die, and that's hard to clean up..." If spoken to again, it says, "Don't turn to dust."

It has new dialogues at the end of the True Pacifist Route.

In battle

Appears with

• Aaron
• Moldbygg

Attacks

• Spiraling patterns of water-drop bullets branch out from the center of the bullet board.
  • If attacking with other monsters, these bullets are light blue.
• A soap-bar projectile with the word "HOPE" on it moves across and bounces on the sides of the bullet board, leaving trails of shining bullets that disappear after a short time.

Strategy

Unused sprite of Woshua happy, perhaps in response to the protagonist asking to be cleaned.

• The protagonist must ask to be cleaned to spare Woshua. This adds three Healing green bullets to Woshua's water drop attack. If the protagonist allows Woshua to heal them, it becomes pleased with its cleaning and allow the protagonist to spare them.
• If the protagonist chooses the action "Touch" while they are unclean, Woshua rejects this action and attacks the protagonist as normal. If the protagonist is cleaned while trying to touch Woshua, they give it a friendly pat.
• It is also possible to make Woshua flee by hugging Moldbygg, then touching Woshua.
• Telling a joke disgusts Woshua, reducing its attack.

Quotes

Bird

• tweet [Neutral]

Woshua

• Wosh u face [Neutral]
• Wosh u teeth and eyes [Neutral]
• Wosh u leg [Neutral]
• Wosh u SOUL [Neutral]
• Wosh u hand [Neutral]
• *whistle as it cleans* [Neutral]
• Out!!! Darned spot [Neutral]
• Scrub a dub-dubs [Neutral]
• Oops, I meant... scrub a sub-SUBS [Neutral]
• Your SOUL is unclean [Neutral if monsters were killed]
• Green means clean [Clean]
• Yuck! [Touch before Clean]
• Fresh! [Touch after successful Clean]
• NO. THAT JOKE'S TOO... DIRTY [Joke]

After turns on one of Napstablook's music

• [Encounter once in the Quiet Area]
  • ... what the HECK is that music?
  • [Aaron] I-I DUNNO, DUDE BUT IT'S SPOOKIN ME OUT ; )
  • ... this is worse than Shyren.
  • [Aaron] No way, Shyren is way less scary ; )
  • ... if you're so scared, why do you keep winking?
  • [Aaron] THESE ARE WINKS OF FEAR ; )
  • Forget it. This beat is too...
  • ... filthy.
  • [Aaron] Wosh! Wait! Don't leave me ; )
  • [Aaron] Is this creepy music my punishment for being creepy? ; )
  • [Aaron] Please... stop... I'll never creep again ; )
  • [Aaron] Wahhhhh!!!!! ; )

Flavor text

• This humble germophobe seeks to cleanse the whole world. [Check]
• Woshua shuffles up. [Encounter]
• Woshua and Aaron appear. [Encounter with Aaron]
• Moldbygg and Woshua appear. [Encounter with Moldbygg]
• Woshua wonders if tears are sanitary. [Neutral]
• Woshua is friends with a little bird. [Neutral]
• Woshua is rinsing off a pizza. [Neutral]
• Woshua is looking for some good clean fun. [Neutral]
• Smells like detergent. [Neutral]
• You ask Woshua to clean you. It hops around excitedly. [Clean]
  • Woshua continues cleaning. [After touched green water]
• You reach out. Woshua recoils from your touch. [Touch before Clean]
• Woshua is terrified of your slimy body! It runs away. [Touch after Hug at Moldbygg]
• You give Woshua a friendly pat. [Touch after successful Clean]
• [Joke]
  • You tell a joke about two kids who played in a muddy flower garden.
  • Woshua's powers neutralized!
• [Joke]
  • You tell a joke about a kid who ate a pie with their bare hands.
  • Woshua's powers neutralized!
• [Joke]
  • You tell a joke about a kid who slept in the soil.
  • Woshua's powers neutralized!
• Woshua is revolted at its own wounds. [Low HP]

After turns on one of Napstablook's music

• You shouldn't read this. [Encounter with Aaron once in the Quiet Area; unused]

Creation and development

Woshua's design was heavily based off a drawing OMOCAT made a long time ago. Toby noted that the design was so "blatantly inspired" by the drawing that he decided to ask OMOCAT for permission to use Woshua. He mentioned that he sees Woshua's design as a sort of trade since he went on to design an enemy in OMORI, describing it as a "Jason ripoff that only shows up in the real world".

Trivia

• Entering the name "Woshua" for the fallen human causes the game to describe it as a "clean name", and allows the name to be used.
• Woshua's face bears a striking resemblance to the logo of MS Paint Adventures logo, which is the home of Homestuck. Toby Fox contributed to Homestuck as a music producer.
  • It also resembles the Sprout Moles' faces in OMORI, which Toby also contributed to.
• The flavor text that appears upon joking appears to allude to the story of the fallen human and Asriel; the first refers to the two playing in a garden of golden flowers, the second mentions Toriel's signature Butterscotch Pie, and the third talks about the human being buried.
• The line "Out!!! Darned spot", is a reference to a scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the scene, Lady Macbeth begins to believe that she has a bloodstain on her hand when there is none, and exclaims "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
• Woshua saying "Scrub a dub-dubs" before correcting to "scrub a sub-SUBS" is a reference to the sub vs. dub debate, one of the oldest debates in anime fandom.
• Woshua is mentioned during Mettaton's news report by the headline saying "WOSHUA CLEANS UP LOCAL CRIME, LITERALLY, FINDS CRIMINALS AND DOUSES THEM IN SOAP, CRIME DOESN'T GO DOWN BUT IT SMELLS AMAZING".

Version history

Version tag	Changes
v1.001	Changed Check stats from "ATK 7 DEF 1" to "ATK 18 DEF 5".