After playing animal crossing, I was disappointed in the lack of reactions to letters so I decided to write a story on more realistic reactions to certain letters the player can send to animals. Thanks for reading. Not based in any particular Animal Crossing game.
Cleo was just finishing cleaning when she heard the mailman arrive. She had mail! As she made her way to the door, she wondered who had sent her some mail. Perhaps it was that human boy that had just moved into their town. She had asked ,although one might say it was more like she demanded, him to write her soon because she adored getting letters. He hadn't sent her one in the first week she had asked and she merely assumed that he was probably too poor to afford paper like her given his limited clothing he had. The poor thing only had 3 whole shirts that he ran around in. To herself, she had promised to send him a shirt if he sent her a letter. Perhaps today was that day he'd do it. To her delight, he had!
She ripped open the letter and instantly regretted it.
Dear Cleo,
I really can't stand you. You're rude, you look like a donkey, and you're ugly! I hope you get run over by a car!
"The nerve of some people!" said Cleo angry. How dare that twit write such a thing! She was going to get him a piece of her mind. She roamed around town searching for him until she found him.
PLAYER'S POV
Brad was just minding his own business plucking up the weeds growing in his town. It had been a week since he had gotten back to his Animal Crossing town as he had been out of town and had forgotten to take his ds with him. By the time he had realized it was back in his bedroom, he was already on his flight. Now that he was back home, it was time for him to get back to work. A good bit of his subscribers had already been asking for a game-play on it, but sadly they would have to wait. Now he was home and could give them what they wanted.
He noticed Cleo coming his way, looking mad. Oh boy. Who had made her upset this time? Almost every time he turned around, his villagers were either depressed or mad. No matter. He could easily fix this problem by burying a pitfall seed and pushing the horse into the hole. Brad quickly buried the seed and walked around her. Usually when a villager was upset, they didn't want to talk. However Cleo was the one person who did. The weird part was that he didn't press a button. She automatically spoke to him.
"YOU!" she yelled at him. "YOU DIRTY BACKSTABBING...uh...BACKSTABBER! How dare you send such a letter! You're lucky I don't report me to the police! What do you have to say for yourself?"
"What the...?" Brad was confused. He had never seen any dialogue like this before. What did he do and what was she talking about. Since when did villagers threaten to call the cops on you?
"Nothing huh? You probably don't remember what you even said to me!" she said stomping her hoof. "With such a puny brain as your's, you probably don't remember."
The letter appeared onscreen and Brad was stunned. Normally villagers weren't widely known to react to letters so strongly. When it came down to letters, you could pretty much say whatever you wanted as long as the letter wasn't too short or too long and you pretty much had a okay sentence structure. For a villager to actually get mad over a threat was amazing.
"Still got nothing to say?" she asked.
"Well I can't." said Brad. "The game isn't giving me...oh there it is."
There then appeared a text box where you could type in a response which reminded him of Wild World where if you reset, after a certain amount of tries, you had to type in a certain phrase said by Resetti. Brad carefully considered what he wanted to say and typed in, "Bite me" out of curiosity.
At first Cleo looked shocked and then angry. "Oh. I see how it is. Fine then."
With that, she walked off. He tried talking to her, but instead of the camera closing in slightly on the pair and Cleo spouting some dialogue, the camera zoomed in on the two and then set back to its normal setting. He attempted to talk to her some more, but it only did the same thing.
"Well that was weird." he thought for a moment. Was this turning into some sort of a creepypasta? If it was, he catching it on video. He explored the rest of the town and nothing unusual happened. When he uploaded it and came back an hour later, he had mixed reactions. Some cried fake while others tried the same and were eagerly awaiting the same response. Other than that, people were shocked and/or amused.
The next day, he opened up his game and the very first person he saw was Hopper. When he walked over to the penguin, the penguin laughed. "Hey there. *snickers*"
What's so funny? X
What's New?
He picked "What's so funny?" because he legitimately wanted to know. The penguin tried changing the subject by talking about how Cube and might be dating. The game once more gave him the option after Hopper had talked for a while. However he refused to say. This wasn't the only instance. Aziz, Zell, and Tiffany giggled and Gigi and Jeremiah pretended as if they had somewhere to be or something to do. While Gigi had run back into her home, he had caught Jeremiah talking with another villager. When he had gotten closer, he overheard the two laughing and his name being mentioned.
"I can't believe Brad would admit that!" laughed Jeremiah. "I don't I ever could!"
The laughing animation continued playing on Jeremiah while Zell turned and did a shocked animation before running off while the frog continued to laugh. He walked up the frog.
What did I admit?
Some friend you are!
I thought you were busy. X
Jeremiah jumped. "Oh uh I uh um...Okay you caught me. I was laughing at the post you put on the bulletin board. I know you're brave to admit such a embarrassing thing, but it's kind of funny. I-I'm sorry!"
With that, Jeremiah left. Brad followed him and Jeremiah went into his home, locking the door behind him. He decided to investigate the bulletin board and took off for it. Once there he read it, he realized only one person could have posted this.
I have something to confess to you all. I eat boogers. They are my favorite food. Since you guys are going to be my new neighbors, I feel I must share this with you all. If any of you have any boogers you're letting go crusty, please send them to me. Must be fresh, no snot, and most importantly, NO NOSE HAIRS!
-Brad
When he existed the post, the character turned to the screen facing him. There was a message saying, "This means war! Let's post something nasty!"
He didn't even question it. If Cleo wanted to play dirty, he'd play dirty right back.
After Brad's brave confession, I've decided to reveal something about myself. I like poop. Please send your poop to me ASAP! I'm going through poop withdrawal and I need more! I'll die without it!
~Cleo
The next day Cleo was looking forward to laughing at Brad and making jokes about "his" confession. She had already known the villagers had read the board and saw it. It was the biggest news in their town and would be talked about for a long time. Just as she stepped outside, she stopped and looked down. She had found that she had stepped on a bag of crap. She screamed in horror and kicked the bag away.
"Something wrong Cleo?" asked Brad.
"Yes!" she exclaimed. "Some dirty creep left poop on my doorstep."
"And someone left a jar of boogers on mine." said Brad. "How's that karma feel?"
"You...you did this!" she accused. Brad held up the jar. "You shouldn't have sent me that rude then! Ii should leave town!"
"Good-bye then!" said Brad waving at her.
"You piece of...! UGH!" she went back inside and slammed the door.
"That's karma for ya." commented Brad as he headed back to his home. As he stopped to shake a tree, a thought popped into his head. Who the heck sent her crap and him boogers?!
Next up sending a villager boxes. You'll understand what I mean once you read the next chapter.
