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Not to be confused with Balls.
Characters are objects you need to play in any level of Rolling Sky. There are currently 15 types of characters in the game. Characters can be changed from a button with a Ball as an icon. Excluding the Normal character (default), characters can be bought with Fragments 
or obtained in certain events.
List of Characters
Normal
is the default character, and is unlocked when the player opens the game for the first time.It has no special ability, as it is the first character you get in the entire game. It is usually a non-animated 2D image, but it gets swapped with a 3D model when it crashes.
- If it crashes into an obstacle, the ball will explode into many little pieces that will scatter everywhere.
- If it crashes into an obstacle while using a shield, it flashes in multiple colors.
- If it falls down, it would fade into a black color while the music stops.
- This character actually costs -1 fragments, instead of 0. This can be seen by a glitch reproduced by an unknown action.
RS-001
(full name: Rolling Sky character No.1) is a character that most likely resembles a motorbike.This is the first unique character (excluding Normal). RS-001 is obtainable for 160 fragments, with a 30% chance of getting a shield when used. Previously, it cost real-world money. It introduced special character powerups. It was introduced in the Reggae update. When playing, it will drive itself.
Basketball
is a character similar to Normal, but with an animated basketball texture.When it crashes, it flies off-screen. During the Street Basketball update, there has been a lucky spin where you can collect Balls, Shields, and the Basketball skin itself.
Previously, to obtain Basketball permanently, the player must collect 10 puzzle pieces. If the player has not yet collected the 10 pieces, they can still try for free for 3 tries, just like RS-001. After those 3 tries are used up, the player must pay $2.99 (€2.49) in order to get another try. Today, it costs 40 fragments to unlock.
This character was originally referred to as "basketball" in the game. This has been corrected in an update. However, it wasn't fixed in the French version of the game.
Magic Pupil
is the first Halloween character.It appears to be a green eyeball. It has a green trail when rolling and, upon death, explodes into little green pieces.
It was introduced in the Midnight Carnival update.
Trick Ball
, previously known as Troublemaker, is the second Halloween character.It is a mummy-like creature. It's mostly colored black, but it has a 30% chance of wearing a pale bandage-like shield. It also has green eyes. When it crashes, it explodes into dust. It is the first character to be introduced alongside a bonus, before the Pumpkin and Skeleton Party.
Voyager
(named Alan Walker when it was first introduced) is a small blue-and-white robot.It first appeared in the game when Ignite was released. Unlike the Characters before it, Voyager doesn't roll; instead, it can hover.
Snowball
is the only Christmas character so far.It has black eyebrows, black eyes, a carrot nose, a smile made out of dots, and a Santa hat on top of it. It looks exactly like the head of the snowman of the Snowboard power-up from Varying Christmas. The skin can be unlocked for free by collecting "Snowflakes" or snow-labeled mystery boxes in the level The Winter for a limited time.
Supersonic
is a robot-like character in Rolling Sky, introduced in the Neon update.It looks like a robot with horns pointing to the sky. It also has a 30% chance of getting a shield when being used.
It is one of 2 characters to change in certain themes, those being:
- Blue in Discopower
- Teal or greenish-blue in Viable Echolings and Ultrasonic
- Pink in Echolings
Scarab
was introduced in Egypt's update. It is a beetle with wings.It is the only character which can float (30% chance of triggering), which
means players will not fall on a 5-tile radius for a few seconds. Its wings change colors in Neon Keops. It costs 200 fragments.
Clown
usually appears as a skull wearing a clown nose.There's a 30% chance for it to have a shield, and it will appear as a skeleton within a red ball with
another skull on it. It opens its ball and the skeleton inside shows up, pushing up the shield when getting a big jump. It was introduced in the Circus update.
Football
is a character added in Rolling Sky.It is a white & gold soccer ball/football. It acts very similar to Basketball. It was introduced in the World Cup update. This character doesn’t have a shield, It costs 160 fragments.
Voyager II
was introduced in the Alone update.It appears to be an upgraded version of the Voyager. It can be obtained by either using 300 fragments or by completing the extreme challenge in the Alan Walker levels event, which was removed.
This is the only character which has a 50% chance to get a shield.
Pumpkin
is the third Halloween character.It appears to be a partially wrapped pumpkin with carvings on it , introduced in the Skeleton Party
update. There are 2 ways to get the pumpkin: either to buy it with 500 fragments or get 1st-5th place in the Faster competition. This character is the most expensive character, and is the only character to have a 100% chance of having a shield. Similarly to Trick Ball and Magic Pupil, when it crashes, it explodes into dust. This character was going to be introduced in Halloween Night, but it failed to make its debut that day.
Handball
Handball in Flower Dance's thumbnail
Instead of a green aura, it's a cherry blossom flowers trail. It was introduced in Flower Dance's update, and it costs 200 Fragments.
Happy
When the game is paused
When the game is paused, its expression changes to an angry one, while the 2nd character in Clone gameplay constantly changes the expression from happy to angry. It was introduced in Happy's update, and it costs 200 Fragments. Coincidentally, both the character and the level have the exact same name.
Drum
It’s a tropical-themed drum introduced in The Brazil Carnival & Crescent Moonbeam update. However, this character is not mentioned in the update message.
(Weekly Challenge) Hammer Bot
appears to be a robot with hammers for arms.It only appears in Weekly Matches, where it's the only playable character. It's almost impossible to crash it, as it will destroy any obstacles, but Falling will kill it. However, as of The Shadow Warrior update, it can float; however, up to 10 points will be deducted from your score. The only things it can't break are the Reflector Gates, the baskets from Street Basketball and Hoop Dream, and the walls in The Eye of Horus and Egypt. It's crash animation seems to be the Bot just flying away off-screen.
Trivia
- Some Facebook posts in which the Normal character was replaced with something else, coincidentally, show a pumpkin[1] and basketball[2] years before they were added as actual characters in-game.
- The longest gap between two characters is 5 years, being between the Pumpkin and the Handball.
- Snowball's earliest appearance looks rougher than the final one, and it has blush, a glowing nose, and more visible freckles.[3]
- Freckles could be seen on Snowball on the Home screen back when it was first available.
- Before Pumpkin was released, a fanmade character that looks like Supersonic was featured on Rolling Sky's Facebook.[4]
- The Two Hand Hammer Bot
seems to have a unique variant of Smashing Obstacles; it destroys any obstacle it touches with no limit. - RS-001 is the only character who isn't spherical.
- You can use the Debug Button to get all the characters without any fragments.
- Characters can be seen on some of the app's icons. A simplified purple Voyager can be seen on Ignite's update icon, Snowball on Varying Christmas's, The Magic Pupil on Midnight Carnival's, A simplified purple Supersonic on Neon's, a simplified green Scarab on Egypt's, the Pumpkin on Skeleton Party's, and the Football on World Cup's.
- The Happy character is the first and currently only character to share its name with a level. It is also the first to feature a different animation while the game is paused and to not be featured in the thumbnail of its level.
- In localized versions of the game, there are some grammatical mistakes regarding characters.
- In the Spanish version, the rename for Magic Pupil is called "Pupilas Mágica" without the "s" in "Mágica"
- In the French version, Snowball is called "boule de neige" without capitalization.
- In the German version, Magic Pupil is called "magische Pupile" and Scarab is called "heiliger Käfer". They’re both grammatically incorrect by not capitalizing “Magische” (Magical) and “Heiliger” (Holy), respectively
- In the Italian version, Voyager and Voyager II aren't capitalized.
- In the Russian version, Supersonic is called "сверхзвуковой" without capitalization.
- In the Spanish version, the rename for Magic Pupil
- Basketball , Football , Handball, Happy and Drum are the only characters to fly off screen upon death.