MagicalCat590
Hippie Witch
I decided to start a thread, so we could share our villager theories. They can be ones that you thought up yourself or ones that you just found on the internet or whatever. Please, feel free to post your villager theories or tell us whether or not you agree or disagree with a theory and why. Just please make sure to be polite about.
1) Pietro: You guys probably know about this already, but I theorize that Pietro was actually made to be an off-color joke character and was based off of John Wayne Gacey. Also, FYI, I'm not actually afraid of clowns IRL. It's just that the specific combination of a Smug, clown villager just feels really off to me, especially in a game like ACNL and because Nintendo actually has a history of putting creepy or off references in their games.
2) Graham: I actually really hate this one because it's really just a lot of hurtful stereotyping on Nintendo's part, but bear with me here. As you guys know, Graham is meant to be a playful, nerdy Smug villager. But if you go in his house then things kinda start to get weird. That's because Graham is not actually meant to come off as playful. He is supposed to be creepy and gross, at least to Japanese players. See, Graham represents all of the hurtful stereotypes that the Japanese associate with otaku, who are actually looked down upon in Japanese culture. They are stereotyped as forward, overweight men that are dirty, video game addicts and are obsessed with a certain character or pop idol. A lot of people even think that otaku are stalkers, looking for girls that resemble their favorite manga character. As if that weren't bad enough, there was actually a serial killer back in the 1980s known as the Otaku Killer, who is still widely celebrated in Japan today. Here is how Google defines the word otaku-
3) Beardo: It is my personal belief and theory that Beardo was based off the character John H. Watson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. There are several reasons for this. First of all, Watson was a writer and in the books, every story was told from his perspective. Beardo just so happens to have a typewriter and an editors' desk in his house. Second, past incarnations of Watson usually depicted him as a portly, English man with either sideburns and a mustache or a full-on beard, and well, we've all seen Beardo. Third, the character of Watson was also depicted as a -- for lack of a better word -- player, who dated lots of women before he finally settled down with his wife Mary Morstan, and Beardo is a Smug.
4) Stitches: A teddy bear that was Frankensteined together, for the most part. But I also believe that the bear is actually being possessed by the ghost of a small child. Perhaps the bear was the child's favorite toy growing up. Maybe the child isn't even aware that's he's passed on, and is living through a teddy.
1) Pietro: You guys probably know about this already, but I theorize that Pietro was actually made to be an off-color joke character and was based off of John Wayne Gacey. Also, FYI, I'm not actually afraid of clowns IRL. It's just that the specific combination of a Smug, clown villager just feels really off to me, especially in a game like ACNL and because Nintendo actually has a history of putting creepy or off references in their games.
2) Graham: I actually really hate this one because it's really just a lot of hurtful stereotyping on Nintendo's part, but bear with me here. As you guys know, Graham is meant to be a playful, nerdy Smug villager. But if you go in his house then things kinda start to get weird. That's because Graham is not actually meant to come off as playful. He is supposed to be creepy and gross, at least to Japanese players. See, Graham represents all of the hurtful stereotypes that the Japanese associate with otaku, who are actually looked down upon in Japanese culture. They are stereotyped as forward, overweight men that are dirty, video game addicts and are obsessed with a certain character or pop idol. A lot of people even think that otaku are stalkers, looking for girls that resemble their favorite manga character. As if that weren't bad enough, there was actually a serial killer back in the 1980s known as the Otaku Killer, who is still widely celebrated in Japan today. Here is how Google defines the word otaku-
o?ta?ku
ōˈt?ko͞o/
noun
plural noun: otaku
(in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
Origin
Japanese, literally ?your house,? alluding to the reluctance of such young people to leave the house.
ōˈt?ko͞o/
noun
plural noun: otaku
(in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
Origin
Japanese, literally ?your house,? alluding to the reluctance of such young people to leave the house.
3) Beardo: It is my personal belief and theory that Beardo was based off the character John H. Watson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. There are several reasons for this. First of all, Watson was a writer and in the books, every story was told from his perspective. Beardo just so happens to have a typewriter and an editors' desk in his house. Second, past incarnations of Watson usually depicted him as a portly, English man with either sideburns and a mustache or a full-on beard, and well, we've all seen Beardo. Third, the character of Watson was also depicted as a -- for lack of a better word -- player, who dated lots of women before he finally settled down with his wife Mary Morstan, and Beardo is a Smug.
4) Stitches: A teddy bear that was Frankensteined together, for the most part. But I also believe that the bear is actually being possessed by the ghost of a small child. Perhaps the bear was the child's favorite toy growing up. Maybe the child isn't even aware that's he's passed on, and is living through a teddy.
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