Yes, I am aware. But I never said that they wont happen, I said they most likely will never happen, because I knew they have dog/cat specials and villagers.
However, the difference is that dogs and cats are a species within a species - you have dogs and cats then you have border collie/labrador/etc and siamese/persian/tabby etc. There aren't any dog villagers that are poodles/shih tzus, and whatever species copper/booker/kk are bcos i dont know and i cbf to research, and i don't know cats. Same with Joan, she's a pig and there are pig villagers in the game, but they made her into a boar so she'd still stand out. There aren't many other species within a species that have distinguishing features. Like you know, there's one species of giraffe, hedgehog, raccoon, etc, and the ones that do have more than one species - like sloths - are too similar to make them stand out on their own - and with that said, though not relevant, I'm pretty surprised they made a zebra villager and didn't decide to use zebra as a special NPC species.
There's a huge difference between giraffes and dogs, and I can't really explain why there are cat/dog villager/specials in the game, but not any other species, because it's that obvious and really can't be explained. Giraffes have a lot more uniqueness to them then dogs, hence why we have dog villagers and not giraffe villagers. having specials be cats and dogs is nothing out of the ordinary, because they're boring generic. Something like a giraffe, hedgehod, raccoon, and whatever else are nowhere near as generic/common as cats and dogs, so if they ever were to make villagers the same species and unique NPC's they'd become a lot less unique and probably fade into the background. Like, "omg Saharah is in my town I'm so excited to see a camel lol jk i have a camel villager in my town!!1!!" do you see how that just cuts down on Saharah's appearance completely? I just think it'd be a really bad move on Nintendo's behalf. The whole point of them being called "Special Characters" is that they're unique and for 99% of them, that's the only way to see that species in game. If they went around making villagers of every single unique special character, they'd no longer be special.
The only time I can see this happening again outside of cats and dogs is for lizards. They can make generic lizard villagers, but maintain Nat's and Frillard's uniqueness by not making chameleon/frill neck villagers, and by making sure all lizard villagers are generic and aren't anything like throny lizards, or whatever else I don't know lizard species LOL. I could see them making a gecko villager line since they could probably avoid the unique aspect with geckos.
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