So I was recently going through the pictures on my 3DS and found out that around 65/70 of them were screen shots from my animal crossing play through. I thought this would be something fun to share with the universe as I’ve had many adventures in Animal Crossing, including shaking fruit off of trees, getting stung by mosquitoes, you catch my drift? Exciting stuff has happened.
Without further ado, my first year (and a half), in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
This picture was taken 3 days after I made my purchase of Animal Crossing. You see, I bought the game pre-owned and didn’t realize that I needed to delete the previous owners profile before it would let me become mayor. In fact, I didn’t even know that when you started a new game you did become mayor. Thankfully a friend of mine told me so I managed to figure it out eventually and finally become the mayor of Rineport! Starting to wish I’d thought of a more creative name.
If you aren’t familiar with Animal Crossing I should probably explain that there isn’t really a main goal of the game. Basically, you move to this new town, and it’s your job as mayor to build new buildings, work with the other villagers to keep the town up and running, and most importantly, you have a home that you can put stuff in and upgrade at your will, but in order to keep upgrading you have to pay of your previous home loan. This photo was taken after I finally managed to pay off my first home loan. That’s right folks, I’ve got a mortgage. I’m 21-years-old, only having moved out of my parents house 2 years ago, and I have a mortgage. In a video game. In a video game where every other person is an animal who you can convince to say, “Butts.” whenever you want because you have the sense of humor of a 12 year old. Speaking of that:
Heh, heh. Butts.
This photo was taken the one time that my best friend decided that I was allowed to come and visit his town. We did everything that normal friends would do when visiting each others towns that they built from the ground up. I visited him up at his home, he showed me around, he showered me with thousands and thousands of bells (Animal Crossing currency) and then we blew it all at da club.
After the club we decided to go to his “island” which has it’s own mayor, an old ass turtle who’s like a thousand years old and forces you to do different activities like deep sea diving for fish and sea slugs and other fun things. 
The boat ride was fun though. Eventually we decided that I didn’t have enough fruit growing in my town (I think I only had apples at the time) and since I was on his island I thought it best to grab a few bananas and a few coconuts while I was there to bring back to my island. I borrowed some tools from the kind dancing tree stump on the island and proceeded to MURDER/CHOP DOWN one of the trees which my friend screamed at me about because I didn’t realize at the time that you just have to shake the trees to get the fruit. Oops. This is me post tree murder and my friend crying over the husk of his once living tree friend.
This was the time that I won the bug contest FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW. MUAHAHAHA. NO ONE WILL EVER TAKE MY TITLE. I have all three trophies smack dab in the middle of my living room on top of my kitchen table for all to see.
Both of these photos are evidence of my lack of friendship.
This was from the second time this little seagull guy shows up on my beach having no idea where on Earth he came from. I think Rineport might have a strange immigration problem…spoiler alert he was from Guatemala.
This picture was from…you guessed it…MY BIRTHDAY! When I decided that I needed to check in with my villagers instead of spending time with real people on my birthday. My villagers didn’t know I was turning 21 and therefore forgot to bring alcohol.
And finally. This creepy rainbow clown sheep…is Pietro. He is my arch enemy. He is the Judas to my Jesus. The Satan to my God. The Swiper to my Dora the Explorer. I have never spoken to him. Nor do I intend to. A few weeks back, I accidentally went inside his home and I cannot explain the horrors that I found within. I am convinced that it is his murder/torture dungeon to which he captures his victims and forces them to laugh at his jokes and honk his red nose and tickle his feet. I’m telling you, it was so bdsm/50 shades of gray in there just instead of black leather whips they were all rainbows. Unfortunately, my dear friends, I have not been able to find the picture that I took of this place, and have since not been able to go back inside of his murder dungeon. The picture I attached above is a photo of his home which i dug holes around and trapped him in the doorway of, and yet he would not go inside, therefore I could not go inside. One day Pietro, I will find proof of your crimes, and you will be forced to leave under suspicious of being A CREEPY MOTHER F***ER. That is all.
So that’s just a little brief look at my first year of Animal Crossing. I’ve spent countless hours harvesting fruit and paying on home loan after home loan. I’ve said hello and goodbye to many dear friends along the way but have not forgotten one of them after this long year. RIP to all of the villagers who said that they were “Moving” but were more likely taken into Pietro’s murder dungeon and probably killed days later.
Here’s to another great year!
-Bec
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