#Solaceon Island's Secret Elephant Club (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

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I am now forced to use the new form of posts, so I'm forced to put my photo captions in the alt text, which will block you from seeing the lower left corner of images, ugh. Tumblr why.... At least fix the images fixing in place and refusing to move first before you force the new post layout on everyone!

Anyway, starting with a letter I recieved on June 12th: Cyd sent me something silly. Considering he doesn't live near anyone, I wonder who he's seeing outside his window...?

Then I got bored on June 24th and sent Raymond a creepy letter for the heck of it, heh.

On June 26th I had sent out a bunch of letters with numbers and fruit pretending it was some lottery, since one villager (I believe Tucker?) recieved 10k Bells instead of fruit. So Del responded the next day in confusion, heh.

On July 2nd the new flowers I set out for Axel's front yard finally grew, and I think they look better. It seemed weird with red lilies right in front of the yellow bouquets behind them.

July 13th: I decided to gift Raymond some apples, then somehow managed to trap a snowball when I was in the middle of trying to destroy it, heh.

July 14th: I kind of blanked when Raymond asked for a new saying... augh.

July 15th: Then Croissant's Birthday came back around! I let Cyd host without a bunch of resetting like last year. I gave out some cupcakes, but didn't really do much playing, of course.

pic 1: jun 12th: Why are people hanging out in front of his place anyway? I rarely see people other than Cyd over there. pic 2: jun 24th: decided to send Raymond a stalker-type letter, heh. pic 3: june 27th: Del was confused by the lottery he got, heh. pic 4: july 2nd: The red lillies in front of Axel's house seemed kind of weird, since the bouquet had yellow flowers that looked better with the blue house. pic 5: jul 13th: I accidentally knocked down some apples and decided to give him all 3. pic 6: "You can eat them now if you're that hungry, ya know?" Croissant said. "I want to get the perfect photo first, though!" "...Ah, I feel that," Croissant nodded. pic 7: Unless I moved something around the snowball, I couldn't touch it anymore. Croissant wasn't allowed to kick a snowball to its doom today… pic 8: july 14th: I swear I had a better saying idea for Raym, but I blanked… pic 9: July 15th: "Oh, it's… almost everyone from the Secret Elephant Club!" Croissant exclaimed before Axel loudly shushed him. pic 10: "Tucker canceled late, so they got me to come instead," Del chuckled at the Elephant's failed plans.

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(captions~) Jan 3rd: New Outfit Tuesday was interrupted a bit by Cyd, but I think this silly green outfit winded up being cute, heh!

Jan 10th: Another New Outfit Tuesday with a cute yellow/blue color focus~  I don’t get to use that hat often and I was surprised when I remembered those aerobic leggings, haha!

Jan 17th: Yeah, the only thing interesting happening in Solaceon now is me changing up Croissant’s outfit every Tuesday, ugh...

Jan 19th: Well, today I caught Ken wearing his most recent Birthday Gift, and Axel was once again annoying his Club members with exercise tips and tricks, heh!

pic 1: Hmmm, Scottish Japanese... pic 2: In this case this ‘bag’ is being used because the character doesn’t have a proper bag. pic 3: Saw this printed dress in Ables a while ago and decided it should be in next outfit, so here we are! pic 4: Going shopping? pic 5: Went with a 'popular girl at the summer camp' vibe here, but also she's a bit geeky, hence the glasses and handmade flower crown, ig. pic 6: Summer Camp means heat and heat means fans pic 7: Spotted Ken wearing his Birthday Gift, nice! pic 8: Caught Axel... showing off his clenching technique to Cyd?  I feel like he's taught both of the Elephants in his club how to properly exercise, heh!

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Sep 24th: No way!? I finally saw all three elephants together hanging out!? And got to join their silly Elephant Activities???

Well, unfortunately it was Axel's turn to plan an activity, so Croissant wound up wearing himself out, haha!

pic 1: "Wow, finally proof of the Secret Elephant Club!" Croissant gasped. "There's no secret elephant club, Beppo C," Cyd said, but Croissant decided to see what Axel and Tucker were talking about. pic 2: '…Of course he's planning something like that,' Croissant thought. pic 4: 'Yeah, of course Rucker would say something like that,' Croissant nodded from his not-sneaky position. pic 5: "Don't worry, Tucker! I'll run with you!" Croissant shouted enthusiastically.

...Unfortunately, the Lazy responds by removing himself from the equation, then Axel tries to take on Tucker and I's laps, lol. Cyd probably winds up doing some fitness training for vocals or somethin'.

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(captions~) Mar 15th: Mint was asking for a new greeting.  Mint can make you feel healed, so I kind of just went with it, haha.

Mar 17th: I saw Raymond hanging out with the elephants,so I got the idea that Raymond might’ve been trying to learn how to act like an elephant, heh!

Mon, Apr 10th: I was totally surprised to see that K.K. Slider’s concert could be put off all the way until Monday!

Apr 13th: I also let Cyd change up his name for Croissant, since he seemed to have dropped Bepposi for some reason...

Apr 16th: I finally finished the Smile card!  I’m not playing as much lately, but this was neat to see~

Apr 23th: Amazingly, I caught a new dialogue between villagers??  It was very cute seeing Mira ask for help, only to immediately blow off Raymond’s personality, haha!

pic 1: Well, mint doesn't make me feel healed, but other people seem to think it does, so eh. pic 2: It's not often that I see all three elephants near each other (I wonder if there's something in the programming that doesn't like three+ of the same species gathering...?), so I was surprised! pic 3: "Whoa, he actually got pushed all the way to Monday!?" Croissant gasped. pic 4: I only realized later that I think that was one of Kabuki's names for Macaron... pic 5: Keywords: Foolhardy /  Hero/Heroine  // I was super glad to finally finish this one! pic 6: "...I believe the word you're looking for is 'glass'," Skye said.  Raymond nodded in agreement. pic 7: "Hold them together menacingly around your stomach area, of course," Croissant joked. pic 8: "So my role is fancy-party, huh?  Ha HA!  That's the role I was BORN to play!" Raymond shouted excitedly before wiping a paw over his face and getting into character. pic 9: Croissant pretended to hold a wine glass, nodding along with Raymond's chatter. pic 10: Croissant let out a snicker, but told Mira she would be fine.  Though Raymond looked a bit heartbroken that there wasn't a happy ending for his character.

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(captions~) Aug 13th: I spotted an Elephant Club meeting in progress, huehue~

Aug 14th: After talking to Apple about clocks, I decided to fix the two houses that had clothes on the floor... and I could do both on the same day! I was worried Raymond would have to wait until the next day, but Nook didn’t have any complaints with two house overhauls!

Mira got some birds for the play, along with an extra kitchen... I wonder if she’ll use it?  She has one in rotation, after all.  Raymond finally got that chair, that he couldn’t sit in, rotated!  The den chair is no longer unused! (hopefully)  He also got a coffee cup back, along with the bulletin board I once tried to gift him for Christmas (though this time Croissant gave Raymond a picture of his Corgi instead of the flag, aww!)  And on the computer he’s probably making his personal website!

pic 1: "So about that eve-" Axel stopped mid-sentence at the bell ringing, staring into Croissant's soul.  "Bad time, Bepposi," Cyd spoke up.  "Sorry, sorry!" Croissant excused himself. pic 3: "I mean, pop stars definitely have scheduled appearances and concerts and stuff..." Croissant tried to explain, though Apple didn't listen. pic 4: ...This was a clock ad!? pic 5: "Thanks, I'll do my best!" Croissant smiled. pic 6: I wanted to match her brick road a bit! pic 7: I wonder if she'll use this kitchen, or just keep using the one in rotation...? pic 8: I love how you can put the bird far back enough that the string below it is behind the tree! pic 9: Next up was Raymond, who had put the lounge shirt on the floor once again...  I think this is a great exterior upgrade~ pic 10: I also finally looked at Soundscapes in these and gave him the Park Soundscape!  He definitely liked eating in a park when he could.

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(captions~) Today started out with looking at a bunch of design codes I had saved, and I finally downloaded that Clatteroid Hat, which I used in the newest outfit I made for Croissant! I randomly decided to use the Cast, but the socks show up on the toes, so I had to use leggings.  Obviously the intention is that it’s a fake cast, but that still felt weird! (Didn’t stop me from holding B to run, though...)

Anyway, Wardell’s talk is in the next post~

pic 1: Croissant had some herb-y rice porridge for breakfast! pic 2: While he ate, he looked up some designs and found this one that might work as a polish later...? pic 3: This polish set is from a post that hasn’t been posted by the queue yet pic 4: I had decided I would change the outfit up on Jan 7th!  ...People can't wear socks on the foot with a cast, though!  I know it's fake, but still! pic 5: I went with the jeggings!  Glad I finally downloaded that clatteroid hat design~ pic 6: I thought about using the cane-shaped St. Patrick's Day wand, but green isn't a color in this outfit! pic 7: I caught the Elephant Club hanging out!  Cyd was just to the left, by Plus Park. pic 8: "A Shoji divider just came in the mail from Wardell today..." Croissant sighed. pic 9: I had a vine ladder in storage, and I figured it would be great to have a ladder going down to Redd's boat!  There's no flat, empty tile to the right, so I had to put it here :( pic 10: And another item is removed from the Wardell-Order list~

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(captions~) Sep 1st: A new month, and Croissant didn’t even get a letter from his Mom, lol. I found Saharah wondering around by the campsite, and an abandoned notebook filled with pressed flowers in Flower Storage that winded up being Mira’s.  (Hopefully she used some of the flowers in there...)

I also noticed Isabelle’s flowers changed, though they probably had been for a while...  And I got the hat question from Raymond again, but none of them really fit him!  Oh, and then I went on a couple Mystery Tour Islands to get some wood for Tucker’s present, finding a Big Fish Island along the way... but I only got Black Bass.  Sharks aren’t available yet, ugh!

Sep 3rd: I noticed the  grass was much greener compared to the first post-snow shot, and it’s v pretty!

I took Label’s visit as an opportunity to change Croissant’s outfit to something more suited for the incoming Summer, so check under the cut for the results!

“Sporty, huh...?” Croissant muttered, thinking about it as he headed to the Gemini Closet by Able’s.

Croissant: *shoves his ponytails in there* I knew immediately I would take those socks out of the official outfit, lol.

“Yes, nailed it!” Croissant grinned.

protected from panty shots!

The end result!  Macaron got a Dad outfit, so Croissant should have one too! ...Or would socks and sandals be even more ‘Dad’?

As I was looking through green shirts that were darker than the tee-parka, I was reminded of this shirt, and realized I needed to use it in an outfit!  Shorts seemed too weird for a grilling dad (not that sandals is good for grilling either...), so he go the green cuffed pants.  And then the only darker green hat was either the Leprechaun top hat or Luigi, so he’s a Gamer Dad, lol. I forgot an Idle-Tool, but that’s fine...

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(captions~) Nov 30th: I guess Celeste only had two new diys, because she gave me star frags again tonight!  ...Now I only care about getting stuff from Wisp at night, haha.

I also decided to actually look at the wooden music box I made a while back, and I noticed that the background is brown instead of the usual blue, and, along with the expected different version of KKS’ song, you can’t change the volume or shuffle songs, aww...

Dec 1st: Summer is here in Solaceon!  Beetles are on the trees, Toy Day decorations are up, and... Tucker is sick!?  Poor Elephant...

Speaking of elephants, Axel sent me a letter that totally sounds like an assignment he would give to the secret Elephant Club?  Which is super cute.  Too bad Tucker couldn’t finish the assignment because he got sick.

Anyway, the rest of the screenshots are below~

pic 1: 'Oh, star frags again huh?  I guess there was only new two diys she had," Croissant thought, accepting her gift thankfully. pic 2: ...This version of Dirge isn’t very good, honestly. pic 3: "The one volume is pretty quiet..." Croissant complained. pic 4: I freaked out a moment because I thought my Switch was suddenly whirring!  Took me a moment to realized Summer set in and she had the fan going! pic 5: "Oh my gosh, Axel!?" Croissant gasped.  'I wonder if he made the other members do that too...?' pic 6: "yup, tree beetles are back!" Croissant laughed. pic 7: "I couldn’t finish Axel’s assignment for today,” Tucker muttered sadly to himself.  A half-finished letter to Mint was on his table.  Croissant made sure the elephant went to sleep. pic 8: The ReSe Building had their decorations up too, of course~ pic 9: This was the only new item, but I never bought the stands in NL's Museum Shop, so maybe I'll use this one? pic 10: "It’s time for the plumeria to bloom!?” Croissant gasped. (Molly was the camper.)

I got a video of Croissant walking forward and pushing aside Ken, but I figured it wouldn’t be interesting for here; So here’s the first frame of Croissant walking into Ables, right as Ken was beginning to leave!

“Oh, the weeds bloomed into dandelions!” Croissant gasped. (Later on I visited someone and realized in Winter the weeds look completely different?  I can’t believe I never realized fully-grown weeds look different every season!)

“That isn’t going to save my golden watering can, though...” Croissant sighed.  Just a few minutes ago he had had to make a new golden watering can from scratch.  (That can lasted a looong time ...though the reason it lasted so long is that I hadn’t used it for a long time, lol.)

“Heh, the room for the logo is smaller than the space for designs!” Croissant laughed. (I almost replaced the water breaker with this, but it seemed off...)

I had Croissant write a thank you letter to Axel, aww~

I gave that milk-bottle lamp another thought and decided it would look pretty in the Mermaid Room, so here it is! I also noticed that you can’t see the bubbles flowing in the wall with the actual lights on (both white and yellow lights), so this room joins the legion of rooms with lights off, lol.

I saw the marble version of this item and knew I had to use it somehow... And this was the first spot I thought to put it, so the lifeguard-referee can reach the music!

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I got Mushroom Season Island last time, and today was Maple Leaf Season! ...Still didn’t get the new rug, tho.

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Jul 10th: The Fishing Tourney was back, but I didn’t have any fish to sell, so C.J. only talked to the residents, heh!

Jul 11th: Nothing really interesting happened, but I noticed Mint was wearing the chic rose crown with her fox-muffler coat, and they work really great together!!

Jul 12th: Wait, crud, I forgot to concert again... Anyway, I read a cute letter from Raymond, saw two club members hanging out around a fire, and... finally saw a new white pansy, ugh!

Jul 13th: New door decor day, since I finally remembered to order it yesterday.  And Raymond also lost a bag, though I investigated Ken first, so I missed out on a friendship point... Though I'm pretty sure everyone’s maxed by now, heh.

Jul 14th: Dressed up in a new outfit so his face will be exposed for the candle-blowing video I plan to do tomorrow for Croissant’s birthday~ It’s just a simple winter outfit with a jean jacket and a sash that Croissant would’ve changed by taping a paper saying ’Birthday Boy’ onto it.

Can’t wait to see who hosts his party!!

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(captions~) May 8th: I caught Mint hanging out in the playground, huzzah!

...And also Del reminded me of how I nearly killed myself as a kid because I was too hyper-focused on beating a boss in Wario Land 3 that my legs took me towards the busy road instead of the Dairy Queen we had just parked at... I was so close to being in a classic cartoon situation... *shudders*

And at night, Axel spotted the elephant slides on the playground, so I wrote a bit in the captions about him excusing himself from the conversation to tell the Secret Elephant Club + I caught Raymond relaxing on the rocking chair by his house before he was at the concert a few moments later, where he had his eyes closed to Mountain Song of all songs, so I wrote him as being sleepy and Croissant having to escort him to home, aww~

May 9th: Tucker was sick this time, and I’m pretty sure it’s the first time he has been, so I caught all his dialogue!

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“Alright, make sure to get some rest, though,” Croissant said before heading out.

...Meanwhile Croissant has bought one of everything in Ables multiple times, heh!

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(captions~) Project! Part 4: Looking for new spots for some of the items that I had set aside! I also got a bunch of the playground items I wanted from other players!

Alongside the rodeo springy-ride-on are the white and zebra variants, representing Colton and Savannah respectively!  Ah, it’s great to think about Fairies again~ (I also ordered some other playground equipment that represents villagers, but I’ll wait to explain tomorrow, huehue~)

Since the zebra was sent directly to me by a switch friend, I had to open the gate for the last two items, only to realize I had completely forgotten about the helmet on Croissant’s head!  What’s even better, is that Orville dropped a Lore-bit by mentioning ‘the dodos at the other airports’ while requesting Croissant take off the gear!

I also caught two elephants hanging out at the concert, but...

...Y'know, I don’t remember Cyd ever sitting down at K.K.’s concerts?  What if he had a rivalry with the dog because the dog plays so many genres of music.  Well, that would’ve been more of thing when he was younger and more petty, haha!

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(captions~) Aug 29th: The ski goggles finally came... but I just remembered that it’s Spring in the game, not Autumn, so he’s probably a bit warm...

...Apple’s fear of vampires reminds me of how I used to wear my mom’s scarf to bed to protect from vampires in the night...  It's really long, so it was annoying to work around when flipping over.  I’m the type that wanted it tight, just like my ponytails, which was probably a bad idea for sleeping...

Aug 30th: I went through the closet, looking for things I 100% knew I wasn’t going to use any time soon, and noticed all the Gulliver stuff! ...I only winded up putting the Sphinx out in front of the museum, though.  I never walk that close to the museum, since the path isn’t there, so I thought it would be perfect!

I also decided to put the wedding wall-hanging bouquets out in the living room, so that wall is even more full of vegetation!  I also swapped the snowglobe for the seaglobe, since the snow is gone; + I put out the pink heart doorplate again, since Marine Day is... well over, lol

Aug 31st: It’s the final day of August, and Tucker’s Birthday Notice went up! ...I wonder what I should get him?  Maybe a closet, since he tends to just throw his hats everywhere... *searches villagerdb*  Might go with a cherry wood!wooden chest, so he'll hopefully rotate between that and his DIY table?

I also caught Mint talking about weird exercise methods, heh.

(Sep 3rd me: uhh, why was this in queue...?)

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(captions~) It’s MInt’s Birthday day!  ...Though first on the docket was moving Mira’s house back as a part of Project! Season 4. I also unveiled the trio of surprise items: Elephant Slides representing the members of Solaceon’s Secret Elephant Club!  Imagine if they met here from now on, omg

I also put out my representative for Isagi and Nagi on the Football/Soccer field, and I had a couple of other thoughts for Project! that I lost along the way because it was also New Outfit Day and Fruit Umbrella Day, ugh...

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I didn’t expect Ken to reply with that, omg!

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First post of Croissant’s Birthday, and it looks like one of the Secret Elephant Club’s tasks might be to host Croissant’s birthdays!  ...Well, that theory depends on Tucker doing so in 2022, anyway.

No Boyfriend at  Croissant’s Birthday Party though, oof...

Anyway, just like last time, I have a bunch of content I snapped today, heh!  Only one video, though, which is the next one!

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(captions~) Apr 8th: I caught Ken talking about his poncho opinions (which apparently also includes ‘It’s only a poncho if it’s made of burlap’...  Yeah, no), and Mint asked for a new greeting.  Although, now that I think about it, the new greeting kind of sounds like she’s trying to intimidate Croissant... Oh, and Raymond commented on my clothing like usual, but it turned into a question this time!  So new dialogue, yay~

Apr 9th: I finally got enough Nook Points to redeem a photo, and I got the boys, because I miss talking to the one while he wandered around the island, aww~ They're Gemini, of course, haha!

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I caught the Secret Elephant Club hanging out without their leader this time!  Maybe it was Axel’s time for the club activity and he made them work out?  Tucker was sleeping, so that would certainly make sense!

Oh, and Del was finally wearing the imitation cow skull, yay!

New outfit time!  A Cosplay inspired by Cardcaptor Sakura Costumes! Specifically: these two.  More so the first one, but the second one has the same kind of collar in the back with the stars on the end like this design has.  And the draped skirt just kind of matched the general vibe of the outfits, I think? Whatever, it’s a cute CCS-style outfit~

This is the only wand I have with a face sticking out you can donk something with, huehue~ I mean, as you could tell with my rant when I grabbed this design, I’m used to the first version of her staff with the bird-like design.

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(captions~) Mar 17th: I walked in on a Secret Elephant Club Meeting, but it quickly broke up, and Cyd pretended he just came to plaza to sing, haha! Then I gave Apple the other shirt I bought her, since she was wearing the madras plaid one, saw Elvis complaining about no one doing math in their head anymore (you can’t use a calculator to do timestamp math though, Elvis...  There’s a bunch of websites for that though, of course!), and got some white TVs for Croissant to watch as he lounges on the fancy mermaid couch~

Mar 18th: Iiiiiit’s Update Day!  I’m gonna get the newly re-released sanrio cards, so I’m gonna avoid getting any Sanrio stuff ahead of time!  Any other update items are fair game though, huehue~

First up was changing the doorplate, now that Shamrock Day was certainly over, plus I put the 1st Anniversary Cake out in the kitchen and took pictures of the cookies I don’t think we saw in the promo picture?  I don’t remember seeing a ladder or helmet cookie, anyway!

Oh, and it was time to get out of the green outfit, and use another design that’s been on stand by!

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Also, I noticed that the puffy hairstyles had special bang shapes for when you’re wearing helmets shaped like this, too!

I went with the afro hairstyle, but I don’t really have a reason why?  But I guess it might be funny imagining Croissant trying to shove all that hair into a stocking cap... whatever.

I forgot to look into a new Idle-Tool for the outfit until later, after I got the new Nook Mile items~