#i didn't know you can put grass in JojaMart

[studentinpursuitofclouds]

I had a fanfic idea where Sam gets fired from his job for the most stupid and unfair of reasons (not his fault, Morris is just mean), so he and the Farmer (and maybe Shane) team up to ruin the Joja Mart for good (without getting into to too much trouble). Like planting grass inside the store (you can actually do this in the game), rearranging the stock/inventory incorrectly, that sort of thing. Coincidentally, the Community Center gets fixed the very next day…idk if I will write all of this but it’s an idea I have.

Oh ho ho! You know, anon, that would be a great headcanon!

I can imagine Morris really unfairly firing Sam because of a merchandise mover who came and brought out new Joja goods, broke something, and put all the blame on Sam. And Morris, not in the best mood that day, fired Sam without understanding the problem. Even Shane couldn't help Sam when he tried to stand up for him. And when the Farmer found out about this, they decided to give Morris a real hell, and the restoration of the Community Center would finish off the greedy manager Joja completely.

And at the same time... It's quite difficult for me to write such a headcanon, because in this case, Morris will not be the main villain, but the victim.

After discovering the Stardew Valley Expanded mod, I now look differently at the characters that in the vanilla version just act like assholes. Because such an act on the part of Sam, Shane and Farmer will create trouble not for Morris, but for cashiers Claire and Martin. And Morris really only wanted the best for Valley, it was just that his image of "the best" was different. His sad face when the people of the Valley boycott Joja on Community Center rebuilding day. Like wow, I usually dislike Morris, but then...

I'm sorry anon that I'm talking about this mod so often, because maybe you don't know about this mod and I'm just here mumbling about it. But it's just that I've always been interested in being a kind of devil's advocate and looking at the characters as misunderstood personalities, and not cartoonish villains. Such emotions, before the discovery of sve mod, Clint evoked in me, when most people in the sdv community called him creep and 'nice guy', but I always thought that he was simply misunderstood. I hope than makes sense (English is so hard, damn).

But enough of the sad stuff! If you really want to write fanfiction about this, don't forget to notify me, I'm interested in reading it 👀 I might write a headcanon on a similar topic someday, we'll see. Thanks for the question anon! ❤️