Pest has a blocky build, mainly resembling a 2011 Roblox Guest. His face texture features a devious grin with two sharp red eyes and red accent lines below and above the eyes, giving the impression of slight eye bags and brow creases. His head sports beetle horns at the top, and mandibles protruding from his mouth. His teeth are sharp and white, as seen when grinning. All of his body parts are black with his head having a black shadow on top. On the front of his upper body is the word "Regret" in Japanese hiragana (こうかいせよ), and on the back of his torso are the words "Do you regret your decision?" also in Japanese. (お前は自分の 判断を後悔してんのか？) The numbers "1314" in red are vertically placed on his left arm. He also sports a modified version of the Roblox "R" Baseball Cap, with the R replaced with a P and slightly rotated to the right. In Pest's Vampire Halloween outfit, the letters "吸血鬼!!" appear on the back in Japanese, which translates to "VAMPIRE!!" in English. ADVERTISEMENT Description Personality-wise, Pest is standoffish and cold towards other NPCs, which tends to upset the more sensitive characters. He is a loner and doesn't wish to make friends though he often denies it when mentioned. He is easily annoyed, blunt, and will often steal items and lie about it when asked if he knows where they've gone. Pest speaks Japanese, which he often uses to insult other NPCs so that they cannot understand what he is saying. Despite this, he may have a somewhat softer side to his personality, such as his interactions to DrRETRO or him apologizing for snapping at Spud. Interactions Pest enters the elevator saying "こんにちは ! 今日は素敵な日です。", which roughly translates to "Hello! Today is a lovely day." This dialog is changed to "あなたに会うたびに私の一日は悪化します。" if PartyNoobhappens to already be in the elevator when he enters, translating instead to "My day gets worse every time I see you." He can steal coins if a player is close enough to him, or if the player torments him enough by repeatedly spraying him. The amount of coins depends on the victim's coin amount and Pest can steal up to 5-10 coins. He climbs out of the elevator to steal the ruby from the Temple of, Something floor. He also exits the elevator on the Cardboard Mansion, Happy Home Party, Floppy Shoppy, Infected Apartment, 3008 and Turret floors. As of the DrRETRO expansion update in December 2025 pest will now always leave on any floor that has coins scattered around that can be easily picked up. Once all coins are picked up or the floor ends early he will go back to the elevator by slamming his fists on the ground and dig back to the elevator to his spot. Pest will accept almost all items except for the Magic Mirror, Wet Cement, Kitty, or Dance Potion. Pest seems to have a unique interaction with Fishii, one of the game's artists. Upon emoting, Pest will say "Hm. Suddenly I'm in the mood for some fishi sticks. Weird.", then he will pick up Fishii and eat them, killing them instantly. The full interaction can be seen here. ADVERTISEMENT Audio Audio Description The sound that plays when Pest engages in dialogue with another NPC. One of the sounds that play when Pest steals Coins. One of the sounds that play when Pest steals Coins. Gallery Pest as seen from the front. Ditto, from the left. Pest on the spectator menu. Pest's Takeover outfit fron the front. Pests brb sign(you can donate 10 coins per interaction) Pest's text box. The back of Pest's outfit. 4 Pests in the elevator Pest's legs painted pink by a subspace tripmine spawned by WilliamPlayz57. Pest wearing an acespec pride badge and a intersex pride badge for pride month. Pest as seen from the front. Pest's side profile reading '1314' on the arm. Ditto, but painted white immediately after William paints the elevator. The back of Pest's outfit. Pest steals a coin with one of his new faces. Pest heading to the Happy Home Party floor. Pest flying in the elevator. Pest and a FleshCousin walking into each other in the elevator doorway and getting stuck. Pest frowning. Pest's talking animation. DrRETRO healing Pest. Pest being burnt by MR. Pest dancing on the Happy Home Party floor. Pest before the face change. Pest frowning before the face change. Pest stealing coins before the face change. Pest's 2nd Face. Pest frowning in his 2nd face. A previous or unreleased version of Pest's frowning face. An image of Pest entering the elevator before the face change. Pest in the Happy Home Partyfloor before the face change. Pest on a couch in the Happy Home Party floor before the face change. Pest sitting down at Two Stud Camp before the face change. Pest stealing coins in his 2nd face. Pest stealing the ruby in the Temple of, Something floor. Pest taking a Voomba. Pest leaving on Infected Apartment. Pest stealing the ruby from the Temple of, Something floor. Pest 2025 Halloween costume, Kasane Teto. Valentine's Day 2025 The back of Pest's halloween outfit. Halloween 2023 Christmas 2023 Birthday Pest stealing coins in the 2025 Halloween costume. Two Pests wearing different Halloween costumes. Halloween 2024 Pest dancing at Happy Home Party floor in his Halloween outfit. Christmas 2024 April Fools 2024 April Fools 2025 Pest's Summer 2025 outfit. Pest's first thumbnail. Ditto, but high quality and with a different background. (Artwork by @weenybumm) Ditto, but high quality. (Artwork by @fishiistixx) Ditto, but higher quality. (Artwork by @fishiistixx) Pest in the Thumbnail for The Hunt Mega Edition. (Artwork by @fishiistixx) Pest in one of the thumbnails for Regretevator. Pest in another thumbnail for the easter update in Regretevator. Pest, alongside DrRETRO, Infected, and Unpleasant in Slide 4 Admin for a thumbnail. (Artwork by @KindaGlumm) Pest in yet another game thumbnail. Pest in one of the Christmas thumbnails for Regretevator. Pest's appearance in the BFDI collaboration, represented as a blocky white "P" with red spikes and red mandibles. Ditto, but in the video teaser. "Canon". A bug where Pest floats after Melanie's Jump Time. Pest walking into the elevator wall on the Find The Path floor. Pest not turning back to his original position after having a conversation with Pilby. ADVERTISEMENT Trivia Pest was designed by Theodore. Pest and PartyNoob have an equal chance to appear in the floor both are found in. However, if the elevator is full, Pest will stop at the elevator's entrance and frown in front of the elevator door until the floor ends. His animation for stealing coins still plays if pushed enough, but he will not actually steal any coins. MR will burn Pest when it cuts out the lights. Players are able to get the "EMPTY POCKETS"badge by meeting them for the first time. Players are also able to get the "DONATION"badge by having their coins stolen by Pest for the first time. He is the one of the two NPCs that can steal coins from players, the other being The Cashier. Pest cannot steal coins from players if they are ~7 studs away. Pest can still steal coins from players if they have 0 coins. The minimum amount of coins a player can have is -5 coins. The sound Pest makes when he steals coins is the laughing emote sound from Work at a Pizza Place. There is also another sound, which is the evil emote sound from the same game, that has an equal chance of playing. Pest is on the "Most Coins" leaderboard as an easter egg, referencing how he steals coins from multiple players. If a Voomba goes near Pest, he will pick it up and stuff it in his pocket. This only applies to the normal Voombas. If Pest briefly exits Temple of, Something while having more than 1 holiday outfit variant, his outfit will change after re-entering the elevator. Pest's dialogue when he is sprayed with the Spray Bottle 40 times may be a reference to the "For what purpose" meme. Pest shortly had dialogue saying, "Do I look like a f@#$0% to you Wallter?" which was accidentally left in the game from a Twitter joke and got quickly removed from the game.[2] Pest has 6 dynamic heads, these being "Beetle head [ pest ]", "Angry Beetle head [ pest ]", "Mischievous Beetle head [ pest ]", "SHADED Beetle head [ pest ]", "Shaded Angry Beetle head [ pest ]", and "SHADED Mischievous Beetle [pest ]". Pest currently has the most dynamic heads dedicated to one NPC. These heads are currently offsale. Pest has 3 UGC items, being his mandibles, horns, and hat. There is also a lapis version of his mandiblesand horns. The UGC was already pre-existing, and is what inspired his redesign.[3] Pest's idle animation resembles the Stylish animation pack. In a previous update, Pest would drop coins once he was killed. Said coins will remain in one place for a certain amount of time after his death before despawning. One of Pest’s conversations with a copy of himself is a reference to Sonic Adventure 2. Pest's name was originally supposed to be Party Guest. The name 'Pest' could be a double entendre as a shortened name of PartyGuest, as well as referring to insects as pests since he's partially beetle. Pest had always been part beetle and isn't actually mutated by the Crest Falls incident.[4][5] This is further proven by the floppies Citizens Turned Monsters and Macabre City - Prisoner File 1314, in which the date the outbreak started was the same date of Pest's birth. Despite being part beetle, he only has part of an exoskeleton.[6] Their design wasn't intended to be any particular beetle, but they look similar to a stag beetle.[7] Pest was stated to have four eyes and can see very well.[8] That being said, Pest having four eyes isn't actually canon to his character.[9] His mandibles are sharp, and he can grab things with them.[10] He can also fight with them.[11] He can lift about 1141 times his body weight.[12] He can hiss,[13] trill,[14] make buzzing noises,[15] and potentially purr.[16] Pest can speak three languages; English, Japanese, and Beetle.[17] His first language is Beetle. He learned the other languages to communicate with people better.[18] Pest is aware of PartyNoob wanting to be his friend, but Pest doesn't like them. In fact, Pest hates them and Unpleasant.[19] He finds PartyNoob generally annoying and sees no value in talking with them.[20] If Pest and PartyNoob got into a fight, Pest would easily win.[21] Pest thinks Blogsy being PartyNoob's favorite drink is unusual.[22] While Infected finds Pest cool, Pest wants him to stay away.[23] Pest thinks Pilby needs to stop throwing pity parties for themselves.[24] Pest would be uncomfortable if FleshCousinmimicked them.[25] If Pest found Toothy and Toothette he would run around in circles to collect the coins they drop, or find a way to automate the process.[26] Pest refuses to steal from Enphoso, because he makes them feel uneasy.[27] Pest would not bother Clover under any circumstances.[28] All of the NPCs know of Pest's thievery.[29] He has robbed PartyNoob before. Pest steals coins, scrap metal, and spare parts.[30] He is saving up money for a necessary part for a robot that he cannot find in scrapyards.[31] He's also known for disassembling machines and stealing their parts. He gets off on the Turret floor to deconstruct the gatling gun for scrap.[32] Pest has an underground den where he stores all his loot and builds robots.[33] He has a lot of junk lying around and might have a doll collection.[34] He also builds machines and is capable of creating mechs, factories, and weaponized bionics.[35] Sometimes the robots he makes are sapient.[36] He has a special room where he stores all of his money.[37] In a conversation with Folly, it implies that getting thrown into prison caused him to be psychologically unstable to the point where Follywas able to manifest herself inside of their head(not dreams). This was further elaborated by CatJammii. Pest prefers being called "1314" by DrRETRO and Melanie.[38] Pest is an orphan. His parents left his egg and are likely to be dead.[39] Pest's birthday is October 13th.[40] Pest is 5'9 (175 cm).[41] Pest is ace-spec[42] and intersex. [43] Pest has Anti-social Personality Disorder.[44] Pest is shady, mischievous, and very secretive, though he does have some manners.[45] Pest can kill you but doesn't.[46] If you cried in front of Pest they wouldn't care.[47] Pest is very stingy but does sometimes use his wealth.[48] Pest is deceptively polite.[49] If you were to hug Pest, he would hug you back, but only to pickpocket you.[50] According to yeucc, Pest is evil.[51] In his current characterization, Pest isn't evil, but just mean.[52] Unlike most NPCs, Pest would not be terrified or offput by his death.[53] Pest stims.[54] Pest does not hibernate, but they do isolate themself sometimes.[55] Pest is good at baking alongside PartyNoob.[56] He can cook but enjoys baking more.[57] Pest will eat anything that's deemed edible.[58] The weirdest thing he's eaten was styrofoam.[59] Pest would also enjoy beetle jelly.[60] Pest's favorite drink is BOGGLE JETFUEL and tree sap.[61] If Pest was thirsty he'd just bite a tree. His favorite drink used to be Monster Energy, but it made him feel shaky, so he switched to an off-brand called "beetle-joose".[62] Pest enjoys sweet fruits.[48] Pest probably eats bugs.[63] Pest's favorite food is apple fritters and other apple-flavored baked goods.[64][65] Apple pie is their favorite flavor of pie.[66] Pest would like banana bread.[67] If offered money, Pest would eat a big cheeseburger.[68] However, it would only be if this money was a large amount. According to yeucc, this is because time is money. For Pest, the easiest way to get money is by stealing things. Pest likes most flowers, but mostly as a food source rather than for decoration.[69] Pest goes to parties to steal, but sometimes enjoys the music.[70] If Pest listened to music, he would listen to 80's Japanese City Pop. He also likes Death Grips and Radiohead.[71] His favorite Death Grips album is Year of the Snitch.[72] He would listen to Deftones.[73] He would listen to Lady Gaga.[74] He would listen to breakcore, depending on the song.[75] He likes jazz.[76] Pest is a big fan of Kasane Teto.[77][78] Pest's favorite bug is centipedes.[79] Pest thinks roaches are disgusting, but would use one to scare PartyNoob.[80] He sometimes scares PartyNoob to make them go away.[81] Pest would not use Reddit.[82] Pest gets motion sick.[83] Pest does not have a job.[84][85] Pest does not have enough aura to stack rice cakes on his head.[86] Pest would be classified as goth.[87] Pest would not go trick-or-treating, but they do still dress up for Halloween.[88] Pest is probably ambidextrous.[89] Pest would not be interested in Transformers, unless they existed in real life, in which case, he would try to dismantle it.[90] Pest would be into Gundam.[91] Pest does not like water.[69] Pest has a feminine voice, with his voice claim specifically being Charm from Korean Fried Chicken. Despite this, Theo also said that he can sound like whatever people want him to sound like.[92] [93] Pest's favourite icecream flavour is probably strawberry. [94] The only person he cares about and is nice to is Spud!.

*You and Pest and had been friends for Atleast a year since the incident at the camp, the place you used to work at, now you too are sitting under a tree by the unlit campfire.*