Yes, you read that title correctly. Yes, this is incredibly autistic. I'm 100% convinced there is some deep lore in the Animal Crossing world.
>There are shown to be sapient and non-sapient versions of certain animals. This includes frogs, octopi, turtles, birds/owls, and hamsters. My neighbor Ozzie the koala even has a pet hamster. The existence of pet bowls, dog houses, and cat towers suggests the possibility of non-sapient dogs and cats. Possibly a relic of a bygone era before they gained what we call personhood/sapience? Fetish gear? >The smoker and barbecue items are displayed with meat and cheese being cooked. Are there non-sapient cows, pigs, and chickens, or is something much more sinister happening here? >When you turn a snapping turtle to Blathers, he claims to have been attacked by one, and states that he had to climb on top of a car to escape. At first this might suggest that sapient birds have lost the ability of flight. And yet in every game prior to New Horizons, we see Pete the pelican, clearly a sapient, flying to deliver mail. Yet he is the only one who is able to fly, no other bird in the game shows this ability, not a single bird or eagle villager. Is flying something that just has to be retrained to sapient birds? >Why do we see no humans outside of player characters? >The entire fossil exhibit, especially that of NH which show the genetic lineage and evolution of life in the world of Animal Crossing. This shows it was similar to that of our own world, and the Pleistocene exhibit within there is beautifully done showing the relations between the living sapient animals and their ancient cousins. Such as the mammoth/elephant, the sabertooth/feline races, the australopithecus/humans, etc. >How old is Tucker(pic related)? Is he the last living mammoth?
Discuss Animal Crossing lore here. I want to hear about your finds.
I don't much care for AC "lore" outside of figuring out a history and personality for individual villagers to make up a story about them. Like how Spike had scars and golden horns. He's a rough guy, but maybe that means he was hunted for his ivory or something.
Charles Bell
question for lore fags; I got the pet bed furniture item and based on the evolution chart in the museum the're real actually animals right? so would it be weird if I wanted to bring isabelle home and make her sleep in a pet bed and eat out of a dog bowl?
Jacob Reed
>there are less advanced forms of existing animals on our own planet, humans to apes for example >possibly tofu meat, most likely said lesser forms >flight is probably seen as exercise to birds and blathers is a fatass, other non-flying birds may just be lazy >humans probably live in their own human-majority towns with the ocassional animal much like how you live in a mostly animal town with the occasional human (also your mother sends you letters) >callback to the aforementioned lesser animals point, and a lead into final point >mass extinctions likely never happened, dodo also still exist, mammoths still likely exist. fossilized mammoths are likely ancient versions of lesser variants of the villager animals and as a final super point >ancient neanderthal fossils also exist, likely imply the feral race equivalent of your human character is caveman-like and possibly still exist and roam like wild turtles, birds and frogs do now how those feral humans may be treated is completely unknown
Nathaniel Peterson
it could be akin to you being asked to walk around in a loincloth and carry a giant club (if the feral parallel for humans isn't gorilla's and is instead cavemen) so either racist or just a comical gag or a fetish thing if she's into it which she probably is
Kayden Walker
I think the name "Animal Crossing" suggests some sort of crossing of realities that the player character migrates into, perhaps for being a misfit where he came from? Maybe the same could be said for all of the villagers to
Joshua Foster
I was browsing the animal crossing wiki, and it says that maybe this character’s design was inspired by Conker the squirrel
Not if she's into petplay, remember it's possible those items are fetish gear.
Leo Anderson
The Animal Crossing series is fundamentally a commissioned psyop to acclimate impressionable children for the dark future ahead of us.
The title, Animal "Crossing," refers to animals being crossed with humans. Hybrid slaves will be commonplace in the future and legitimate experimenting already began years ago. The game specifically features hybrid creatures who arrive to the human's homeland and adopt his/her lifestyle, making it seem normal when they suddenly integrate into society in real life.
The progression path is incredibly mundane and is just a bunch of daily repetitive chores. This is training children to become obedient consumerist workers who grow up to eat, work, sleep, repeat, then die, without ever questioning the system they adhere to. This is also blatantly apparent with Tom Nook's purpose. Nook is essentially a bank who makes it appear so easy and fun to borrow exorbitant amounts of money to build and renovate whatever you want. This teaches children that it's okay to eventually borrow from a bank, no matter how small or large it is, and this is definitely the only possible way you can accumulate material possessions. In the game it may take just a few days to pay off a loan, yet again making it seem so quick and easy. In reality, it takes years or decades.
There is probably other evidence to this theory but this is just what I've noticed so far. I believe Nintendo was commissioned by a shady organization back in the Nineties, who realized what an insanely powerful tool video games can potentially be to manipulate children's minds, to create this series for the purpose of ensuring generations of obedient consumerists.
Maybe the pet items are a similar situation as the Confederate battle flag where there's a debate as to whether or not they're racist.
>Dogs can cats insist they represent the oppression of their respective peoples >Humans insist that those items meant no harm, and rather those items were made out of love for dogs and cats and the two species were often treated well. Cases of abuse such as dogfighting were rare and often frowned upon. >Dogs and cats then bring up how they were eaten in places like China >Humans let them know that the rest of the world despised this when humans were dominant species and China was wiped out after the rest of the world got fed up with their shit after the COVID-19 fiasco of 2020. >Pandas such as Chow were allowed to live. >Dog and cat girls that exclusively fuck humans don't care and embrace that shit, submitting to their human masters. Petplay is more akin to raceplay.
Austin Young
Animals who have sentience have ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. They have lost the ability to reproduce but have gained humanity and immorality.
Landon Ward
Reminds me of that movie Sorry to Bother You
Grayson Hughes
Every Animal Crossing game is just about an new attempt at a furry commune. A furcon that never ends. All of the animal villagers are just humans in costumes.
Wyatt Murphy
only a couple of them re wearing costumes like nook and zipper, and there's no guarantee they're human underneath
David Kelly
Pretty sure that would be like inviting a black guy to pick up cottons off your backyard
Lincoln Martinez
Samefag here
I think this whole idea of crossing into a different spiritual realm is really common in Japanese folklore. Maybe you can say that the player character got 'spirited away' even?
Evan Barnes
How are there sentient robots and desserts? Is ankha *really* from ancient Egypt? Why are Marshal and Raymond so fucking adorable?
I was supposed to invite them? I usually just sneak up on them with a burlap sack
Landon Bailey
Anyone remembers The Strange Secret of Animal Crossing? I reread it recently and I still think it holds up way better than most other "creepy" stories made in kid's games.
there are both villager frogs and fish frogs so consider that, and there are both villager hamsters and pet hamsters so there are non-sapient versions of some animals
Jayden Hernandez
Does anyone have that webm of that insane Japanese city? The soulless one that looks like an actual city.
Bentley Davis
Threas 404d here user D6D4X
Ayden Smith
those could simply be the fossils of pre-chibi evolutions of the current species, as the dodo exist. there very well may be dinosaur villagers like t-rexes walking around that we haven't seen yet(which i dearly hope we do because that would be the sickest shit) remember a lot of bugs and fish are gigantic and very off-proportioned in comparison to their real-life counterparts, its possible all creatures adapted into cutesy and slightly pudgy forms over time
Elijah White
The banned item signs inside the airport >imply hijackings have occurred in the Animal Crossing universe.
reminds me of that shitpost over those toilet paper bear commercials and how the TSA one implied there was a 9/11 in this world of talking bears that somewhat fetishistically worship the idea of wiping their own asses
for the user that was drawing on my board, it was deleted cause a guy left with the minus.
Lincoln Turner
I-is there any evidence that nook is wearing a costume?
Elijah Gray
I hate that there's a board limit sometimes my wonderful art is deleted by nooks shitposting they shoulf up board limit by a ton.
Joseph Wood
Imagine if you found a human skeleton that was realistically proportioned for the museum and it was called the missing link
Mason Carter
>Possibly a relic of a bygone era before they gained what we call personhood/sapience? >Are there non-sapient cows, pigs, and chickens, or is something much more sinister happening here?
It's infinitely more likely that there are simply non-sapient Animals; similar to how in our world there are dozens of monkey and ape species. The difference between Tom Nook and a Raccoon would be comparable to ourselves and a Capuchin Monkey.
>Is flying something that just has to be retrained to sapient birds?
Probably. Humans were originally long-distance persistence hunters, but ask any user here to jog for an entire day straight and see how many of them can do it.
>Why do we see no humans outside of player characters?
My basic assumption is nothing cryptic: humans are probably just an uncommon minority compared to all the other villagers.
>How old is Tucker(pic related)? Is he the last living mammoth?
Tucker is most likely just a throwback: a person who, through a combination of unflattering genes, simply looks an awful lot like a caveman. Look up pictures of Neanderthals on google images- you've probably seen one person in your life who's resembled a Neanderthal.
Ayden Sullivan
so KK slider is visiting my town now. anything special i can do with him other than request songs? like does he give me vocal versions of songs?
Sebastian Lopez
it was vaguely mentioned in the older games, but it might've been a joke animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Nook >Nook seems to have a varied reputation among the villagers, with some speculating that he is, in fact, a man in a suit. In fact, when asking Dr. Shrunk about one emotion, he talks about how we all wear masks, and then says that Tom Nook "wears a raccoon suit, but it serves the same general purpose". Many will say that he has a checkered past, hinting at illicit activities - the fact that he seems to have a history with Redd (who describes Tom as a "raccoon in an apron" and treats him as something of a business rival) supports this, this is further hinted in Happy Home Designer as talking to Tom in his house he says he worked with a fox in the past and it was a horrible experience. this might just be a reference to how he's a tanooki and not a raccoon rather than suggestion that he's human or something
Ian Baker
Post another codr for your island for your mums you know who you are
Jason Murphy
Hey did you close the gate?
Jordan Jenkins
Yes we need to go to your island to plant these new flowers
My guess is that there's some de facto segregation in the AC world, humans normally live away form animals.
Your character has always been portrayed as happy to get away from their old life, they're probably outcasts or maybe just animal pussy hunters
Matthew Harris
Someone recreated a Japanese city in animal crossing new horizons. But I can't find the webm because you can't search the archives. Surely someone knows what I'm talking about.
Connor Sullivan
The same way you get everything else retard. The wallpaper is animated and slightly 3D which is EPIC.
Angel Phillips
How often or long are you guys playing? I can't seem to play for more than 30 mins to an hour while I check up on the shop, fruits, talk to some villagers, etc.
