I like to think the entirety of the Moonside trip was just Ness goofing around & not taking anything seriously while Jeff is literally crying & shaking because nothing is making sense.
I only wanted to draw a 80's knee brace then while searching for references I found something else and I don't know i started doing something else completely. So... Steampunk John Ward I guess. Just- just take it.
I've been playing ACNH a lot again recently, and I kinda hate what the new overwhelming power that the player has done to how I view my villagers.
On the one hand, I have given into the "creative player" mindset, where only the aesthetics of the animals really matters to me in terms of inviting them to live on Moonside. But on the other hand, I also still have the old "social sim" mindset, so I have difficulty letting go of animals that I've had a long time.
For example, I've had Raymond on my island since the game first came out because he was my mandatory smug villager, but tbh I don't really care for his businessman theme and was kinda put off from all the hype he had.
At first, I kept him because I felt bad throwing such a "rare" villager in into the void, especially when I knew others would really want him. My original intention was to pass him off to someone else when he got a thought bubble, but before that happened, I actually got attached to him for reasons not important enough to detail here. So ironically, even though this is the game with the (IMO) worst villager dialogue, he still managed to become a "character" for me, the same way Mint, Coco, and even Cole had in the past.
But even so, the bland dialogue and character interactions have kept him from becoming anything more than that, and the little affection I did have for him have started to fade.
So now, as I try to gather villagers that fit the aesthetics of my island better, Raymond keeps coming up on the chopping block, but I just can't bring myself to let him go, even though I know he really isn't going to do anything more for me. It's like I want to be able to say, "I've had this villager on my island since the very start of the game." even though a statement like that means literally nothing anyone, including myself.
And yet. I want to hang onto it. Even though it brings me no joy.
Ya know.
Now that I've written that out, I actually feel better about finally letting him go the next time he gets a thought bubble. I guess venting does actually work on occasion.
I seriously underestimated the amount of archiving I had to do, and now with the potential tiktok ban?
hey at least I have things to post
I got to play around with Illustrator in class (if you couldn't tell, all of these digital archives are from a computer art class I had in high school) and made this. As with most of these, this could be fun to revisit :)