Omg yes I have Fang as well, found him on an island tour I absolutely love him!!Oh, good, I'm glad you knew about that. Would have been very sad if it had locked onto a villager you didn't want to move.
And I know about wanting to cry from finding a villager you love. I wasn't sure I was really liking New Horizons at first, but sometime during my first week, I was going around to mystery islands looking for just any new villager to invite, and I found Fang, who was my buddy in New Leaf for years, and it felt like I was home again. It brought tears to my eyes.