Realizing you accidentally created a digital monster is stressful, but scrubbing them from your island is surprisingly easy.

A group of seven diverse Mii characters, including one in a clown costume and one in a bear suit, jump joyfully in the central town square of Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream.

You start out thinking it would be hilarious to put your terrible former boss or an ugly gremlin character into the game, only to watch them constantly start arguments and completely ruin your island's economy. Or maybe you just made a simple typo, and now the robotic voice synthesizer is butchering your best friend's name every five minutes. Now before you waste another week listening to awful mispronunciations or dealing with a resident you actively despise, I am going to show you exactly how to take control back. You are the mayor here, and you have the power to edit their entire existence or simply send them to the digital void.

If you want to catch up on the rest of my island management strategies, you can find all my other guides over in the Tomodachi Life hub.

The Town Hall Hub

You cannot edit a Mii by simply tapping on them while they are wandering around their apartment. All the administrative heavy lifting happens at the Town Hall. This building is unlocked right at the start of the game, sitting prominently on your map.

When you enter the Town Hall, click on the Mii List. This pulls up a massive grid of everyone currently living on your island. Tap on the specific resident who is causing you trouble to open their personal dossier. This is your command center for tweaking their identity.

Altering Names And Pronunciations

The text to speech engine in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream is incredibly charming, but it is also notoriously terrible at reading anything that is not spelled phonetically.

If you have a Mii named "Siobhan" or "Sean," the game is going to say it exactly how it looks, which sounds ridiculous. To fix this, click on the Edit option in their Town Hall profile. You will see two different text boxes for their first and last name. One is how the name is spelled on the screen, and the other is how the game actually pronounces it out loud.

You can type the phonetic spelling into the pronunciation box without ruining how the name looks visually in the menus. I highly recommend spending five minutes testing the audio playback button until the game stops sounding broken.

Changing What They Call You

Your Miis will occasionally refer to you directly, usually by calling you your real name or whatever title you assigned yourself when you made your initial "Look-alike" Mii. If you are tired of them calling you by your first name and want them to call you "Your Majesty" or "Boss," you need to edit your specific Look-alike Mii profile.

Change the nickname field in your own profile, and the entire island will instantly adapt and start using the new title. It is a tiny detail, but it goes a long way in making you feel like you are actually running the place.

Adjusting The Personality Matrix

Sometimes the issue is not their name, it is their behavior. If a Mii is constantly crying or picking fights, you probably messed up their initial slider settings.

From the same Edit menu in the Town Hall, you have full access to their personality sliders. You can shift a hyper aggressive resident into an easygoing softie with a few drags of your stylus. If you are blindly guessing what these sliders do, you are going to make things worse. I strongly suggest you read my breakdown of all personality types so you actually know what behavior you are programming into them.

Keep in mind that changing a Mii's personality will alter how they interact with their current friends. If they are already married, drastically shifting their attitude might cause friction at home. For a refresher on how compatibility works, check out my guide on how to get married.

The Digital Eviction Notice

Editing is great, but sometimes a Mii is entirely unsalvageable. If they are constantly throwing objects at their neighbors and ignoring my advice on how to fix friendship fights and depression, I stop trying to help them. I just erase them.

Deleting a Mii is permanent. You do this by going into their profile in the Town Hall and selecting the Delete option at the bottom. The game will give you a few very dramatic warnings, asking if you are absolutely sure you want to scrub them from existence.

Once you confirm, they pack up their room and disappear. They are gone from the apartment building, their friendships are erased, and any married partner they had will revert to being single. It sounds harsh, but managing a clean roster is a core part of the game. Do not feel bad about evicting a troublemaker to keep your island peaceful.

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