I am not necessarily asking that you tell me everything step by step (I know that would take decades) but I am asking for any links to videos that you would recommend for me, someone quite new to both Unity 5 and coding, that explain how to make a character (first or third person) that can do a variety of things, like picking up objects, storing the objects in an inventory, attacking with the selected objects, health bars, etc, but they do not have to include all of these things. Thanks.
This is an incredibly complex question.
All of these things are separate parts of a game and not just contained to the Character. I would suggest starting with the Unity tutorials to get a feel for how games are constructed in Unity in terms of architecture, and then dive down into the finer details of character creation.
Here’s a link to the Unity tutorials: Learn Game Development Without Coding Experience | Unity