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.
