I've been waiting for Flora to ask to move out because her hot pink color doesn't match my town's naturalistic aesthetic. Today she finally asked and I told her to go, but to my surprise I kind of regretted it!
Flora has been in my town since day 1 and I guess she grew on me. I'm going to get another one of my villagers to ask her not to move because I think I want her to stay after all, lol.
Have you ever had an experience like this? I was surprised by how much I wanted her to stay after it was all said and done!
I definitely got attached! I played my town naturally for a year and just dealt with the villagers that had been in my town or visited my campsite. After a year I decided I wanted to make a cat-town, and started allowing villagers to leave. Some villagers i were definitely happy to get rid of, but a few I realized I really would miss and one actually made me cry I got really attached to Leonardo, Mira, and Quillson, and they were the last ones I made move out. It?s funny because I actually really hated Quillson when he moved in, and I couldn?t wait for him to leave, but I realized he was the sweetest villager ever. Leonardo got mad at me when I allowed him to leave (he had been there since my town started) and said ?you?re not even going to try to make me stay?? How dare you!? Mira was also mad at me when I allowed her to leave and I felt sad.
To be fair, I grew attachments to all my new cat villagers and I love them just as much, but I got a second town to get my old villagers back with a new crew
Yeah. For me, it happened to Hugh. I let him move out because i didn't really like him. But on a second thought, i decided to stop him from moving out the day after because he's one of my first 10 villagers in my town so he's special. This applies to the other 9
But in the end, i'll probably let few of them move out after i progressed more on my town
Most recent would probably be Al. I initially, for years, thought he had a really unappealing design. He ended up being one of the starting villagers in the fourth/last town I made, my hybrid circus/magic show town. While hanging out with him more to get his happiness up so he would move out, I guess he sort of grew on me because by the time it was time for him to go I found that I appreciated him a lot more. Still not one of my favorites or anything, but better than a bunch of others.
A situation similar to Al's had also previously happened with Jambette. She was worse because, while I don't think I ever really disliked her design or anything, she moved into my main town randomly and her house totally obliterated an entire patch of hybrid roses I had growing. I was really annoyed with her for that and couldn't wait to get rid of her, but while I knew I was definitely getting rid of her because she didn't fit the town's theme at all, I came to appreciate her more by the time she left.
The most significant, however, would have to be Mott. He lived in one of my towns and I initially wasn't all that interested in him, so I decided to let him move out when he requested to do so so that I could invite someone else into the town. Then, in the days afterward, I came to find that I really liked him and wanted him to change his mind, but he didn't and proceeded to move out. I was a bit bummed out about that, and a combination of wanting to reacquire him and collect some spare villagers I liked but who didn't fit the themes of my other towns led me to decide to create that circus/magic-show town that I mentioned previously. I'm glad that the forums' villager trading section allowed me to reunite with him and he is now one of the "stars" of that town.
I definitely have attachments. In my town I would be devastated if Phoebe, Opal, or Vesta moved out. Ed is a neighbor that's also hung around for a very long time; I always tell myself I'll let him go, but whenever it comes up I suddenly feel like "No, no, you have to stay!" and he's still here. I recently stopped Hugh from leaving as well, he may also be a permanent resident now!
One neighbor I absolutely regret letting go is Octavian. I always had an odd relationship with him since he's a cranky villager (not usually my taste), but for some reason I always found myself drawn to him and he'd make me laugh unexpectedly. When he eventually said he was going to leave my first impulse was to say no, but I talked myself out if it because as I said crankies aren't usually my thing. I've regretted it ever since he's left and I hate that I didn't listen to my gut instinct!! Whenever I see him on my mainstreet while shopping I stop and talk to him. I'm glad I get to see him there at least, but I'd much rather have him back in my town.
Yeah, I really do. Even if I had originally been planning to move the villager out, if I spend time doing their requests I cannot help but want to keep them around.
I recently reset, and Astrid was one of my starting animals. I didn't like her much at first, but she's grown on me since then and now I don't want her to move out. She's like a sassy, middle-aged wine mom who loves taking care of others. She's very motherly to the other villagers but still has that sass and love of fashion and prune juice! Plus since she's a kangaroo, I like to imagine the baby in her pouch is her actual child. So she's a mother by day, mother by night kind of kangaroo.
Whenever some of my favorite villagers talk about moving and I say no, I aways feel kind of sad that they want to move like they don't like me or my town even though it is just programming.
So I reset my town a bit ago because my layout sucked/I didn't know what I was doing (first ACNL; I migrated from Pocket Camp), and I had Opal AND Phoebe in that town... No regret on the whole for doing the reset, but I miss them both so much! Especially Opal. Something about her face is so cheeky and fun. And I really want Vesta in my town.
For my own current villagers, I am going to have a really hard time getting Bob go (love him soooo much but he doesn't quite fit with my town's aesthetic). I also got really attached to Lopez, which surprised me! For now I am keeping them both because most of my villagers are... not great (Rocket )... so I'm keeping the bright spots I have while I focus on landscaping/development.
Yes, I find that I get attached to all of the villagers. I like to cycle through villagers to meet new faces every so often, but every time I let a villager go, even if I didn't love them at first, I always feel sad. I make friends with every villager that decides to plot in my town and keep their pictures in a room on the second floor of the museum so I can remember them all once they've left.
Maybe because I time travel a lot, I haven't gotten really attached to any of my villagers.
I did feel a bit sad when original characters left, but that faded when I saw one from my favorites list move in, but lately I've been kinda feeling meh even about my favorite villagers maybe because they tend to repeat the same dialogue and their personalities are all too similar and toned down.
When I played WW or forest I enjoyed reading what they had to say and seeing all the different reactions based on the different personalities, but now they're all the same nice cut out, so they bore me a bit. Occasionally the cranky villagers do make me laugh though, so for me they've always been a plus to any village.
I used to laugh so hard when they'd ask me "how do I smell?" and one of the options were "so stanky!" xD I'd click that just to read "that's it my friend! that is the smell of a man!" and then see them walk away happy and singing. xDD ?
Of course I do! I still have my five original villagers after four years since starting my town. A funny moment for me was that in my previous town before starting a new one, I had Buck in my town. Starting over, he moved in a couple of days later. Now I don't know if it was out of pure coincidence or luck since there are hundreds of existing villagers in this game. Back to the topic, I cherished my villagers and me and my sister came up with lots of drawings and comics interacting with each other. I still have some of them packed away safely and it's pretty nostalgic (and a bit cringy to be honest) to see them. I also noticed how my drawing skills have improved since then which helped kickstart my passion for drawing. Yes, we are talking about fictional animals composed of many polygons but it doesn't harm anyone.
Man, I mentioned earlier in this thread that I'd be crushed if Opal, Phoebe, or Vesta moved out, and over the last few days both Opal and Phoebe tried to move!! I'm glad I caught them in time, and now I'm super on-edge that Vesta will be next!
There are villagers I like for looks, like Melba or Tipper, and the ones I like because I got attached, like Bianca, or Gladys.
Gladys was in my City Folk town (so was Melba by the way, but I liked her before she came) and she was so nice with me, and I looooved her house! She grew on me kinda and when I got her back in New Leaf I was so so happy! It was in New Leaf that she gave her picture, it was the first picture I even got in an Animal Crossing game! I was so happy that day! She gave it to me as a realy gift, not because of the april fools event!
As for Bianca, I actually didn't know she existed before!
When I bought New Leaf for the second time (lost my first copy) she moved in my time right next to my house! I would use to visit her everyday, I loved her house soooo much. Alpine set + K.K. House really attracted me I guess. She was also very nice and funny so I fell in love with her!
I literally cannot stop myself from emotionally investing in inanimate/non-living things, lol (ask all of my badly-named Neopets from 1999, oops!). A recent example: I keep a log of how well villagers get along in each of my towns, and in Home, Mira and Bluebear have been the best of friends since 2015 or so. I ended up making an unfortunate time snafu the other day, though, and checked my mailbox to find a goodbye letter from Mira (along with her picture to remember her by, ouch). I was devastated - not so much for me, of course, but for Bluebear! I kept thinking about how she must feel, waking up to find that her best friend in the whole world had up and left town without a word.
Needless to say, I've decided to be much more careful with experimenting from now on, and will be rescuing Bluebear's bestie from the 16-villager cycle as soon as I'm able!
Lets say this..
I used to hate chief when he moved into one of my towns (this is in Wild World but whatever)
He had a cranky personality. then suddenly on my birthday, Chief gave me the birthday cake! I was shocked to see him give it. Then i kinda started liking him more..
I miss Rosie on one of my towns. She has been almost a year in town Kenma, then she left about 1- 2 months till the 1 yearanniversary, replacing her with pompom ( i hate pompom, she looks weird. well that is my opinion on her, don't get mad at me). What's worse, she gave me a valentines day chocolate on valentines day and her pic when she left. Rosie was a starter for Town Kenma too! I thought i had to reset so many times for Rosie but i got her first try. I cry everytime.
Have you heard of a youtuber called PeanutButterGamer? He likes Mitzi very very much. I kinda started to like Mitzi due to him.
it just so happen that moved into one of my towns.(well i kicked her in using her amiibo card) Now I scream the name "MITZI!" (internally and sometimes externally) everytime i see her (just like the youtuber)
I found Gabi at the campsite. I liked her cute jingle. She parked her house right next to Rosie's house. I was like "Peppy buddies~~!" Rosie had found another peppy person to talk to! But Gabi left, I was worried about rosie's feelings.
I got attached to certain villagers back then, even if they weren't my favorites, I still felt kinda sad when
they moved out, especially those who were my starters or lived for a while in my town. There were also
times where villagers wanted to move out and I was actually glad that they decided to do this, however,
tried to change their decision in the last second because they kinda grown on me and I didn't wanna to
lose them, as it felt like they became part of the town. For example, I wasn't the biggest fan of Beardo
when I had him in my town for the first time. But over the time, I started to like him and instead of
scare him out of my new town (which I used to do with villagers I didn't like), I let him stay. There
are also some other villagers with a similar situation like Beardo.
I really do get attached if the villager says things that reach me.
For example, Agnes recently asked me a question along the lines of, "how big of a space do you give others in your heart". I moved the slider down, close to the "Studio Apartment" selection, and she said "What? Someone could just move right in and take over!"
How can you not get attached to that? I didn't want to keep her because of her house placement but ... with sis lookin out I can't bring myself to move her.
When i started my current town, my friend was holding on to a bunch of villagers for me so i knew that i'd have to kick some of my original five out to make space for everyone that i wanted and one of those five was mathlida. I personally don't like the design of the girl kangaroos because the li'l joey doing the exact same facial expressions as them also unnerved me? So i thought i wouldn't mind letting her move out except she was really nice and very funny and i had never had a snooty villager before and she really grew on me. I still let her go but i love seeing her on main street and i kinda wish i let her stay longer? At the very least so i could try to use her for desert island escape just once )))) but yeah mathlida. Awesome lady bro 10/10 would have in town again if she decided she wanted to come back
I got really attached to Leonardo, Mira, and Quillson, and they were the last ones I made move out. It?s funny because I actually really hated Quillson when he moved in, and I couldn?t wait for him to leave, but I realized he was the sweetest villager ever. Leonardo got mad at me when I allowed him to leave (he had been there since my town started) and said ?you?re not even going to try to make me stay?? How dare you!? Mira was also mad at me when I allowed her to leave and I felt sad.
