A Place to put my Harvest Moon stuff

“You’re my rival, but I love you”

I love that when she introduces you to Fritz she’s all…

You guys should become friends…

Let it be known that Eda ships MinoriXFritz

Go play with in the river with Fritz for a while

Have fun Minori…

i’m done with this all meme.

“Mama, guess what! Grandpa gave me new toys and a great big dessert the other day! Oh. Wait. Grandpa said I was supposed to keep that a secret from you. Oops!!”

Apparently it’s canon that Daryl is a big softie grandpa (˵◕ ɔ ◕˵)

“Oh! Papa! Mama! Look! There’s a river of stars in the sky! Is that the river where the prince and the princess in that one story meet tonight?”

It’s a shame that you can’t bring your whole family to another villages’ Star Festival, but I can at least count on sweet @inkodoodles for always granting my wish🎋

One of the guidebook articles about Ford’s backstory was even explicitely titled as Ford’s Sad Childhood (フォード、悲しみの子ども時代).

Ford’s parents were stated by the game developer himself as a pair of good for nothings who apparently couldn’t comprehend the basic hygienic principles, so little Ford had no choice but to clean after his parents (aside of also studying to be a doctor). Then they got divorced and Ford lived with his messy Mother for a while, whom messiness and hoarding habit later caused their house to be engulfed in fire and left him in trauma, making him to be anxious when he’s in a messy room and becomes OCD about cleanliness (although his job as a doctor also plays role here as the article says that he feels a strong sense of responsibility to keep himself healthy and tidy, since it couldn’t be good if the doctor himself is sick). He then had to move back to his Father’s place for whatever reason, probably because his Mother has lost the custody or died in the fire accident. Not only that his parents didn’t really behave well, Ford even says in the game itself how his family has never really talked much with each other to begin with, so there is that part of emotional abandoment too.

Anyway, aside of those officials canon commentaries from the developers, there are also some interesting lines in the game itself which probably hinting to his own family’s situation. Like how he was the only bachelor who wish to build a loving family when his child is born (which is changed in the english version for whatever reason) and he was very opposite to the ideas of marriage/living with others, as much as he is baffled with learning that marriage does CAN lead to happiness too as he saw Male MC, Brad and later he himself, if you marry him.

So, gathering pieces from both in game lines and extra materials, I think it’s quite hinted that both Yuzuki AND Ford deserved better parents and childhood…But then again, Yuzuki does already have someone…or two whom love him dearly (even though not romantically)…His grandparents, and Yuzuki loves them so much too, that he actually thinks of them as his only family, and his own as strangers. Yuzuki also had Komari and other Tsuyukusa children who came to play with him and brought him sweets when he’s bedridden.

And if we want to see from another perspective, his parents tried to justify their action for abandoning him by saying that it was for the poor boy’s health…which was proven to be right, despite it still doesn’t justify their later decision to cut the contact and made a new baby as if Yuzuki didn’t even exist.

Extra material tidbits for Ford, Lisette, Kasumi, Wayne, Yuzuki, Daryl, Hector, Omiyo, Tigre, Haulani and Mithra below!

he protecc he can attacc but most importantly, he bring my stamina bacc

“There are so many things I never would have known if it weren’t for you. The passion of love. The joy of sharing my life with another. It was you who opened my eyes to such wonders. I hope that you’ll stay with me and continue to share such discoveries with me…for the rest of our lives. In exchange, I will give you all the love a man can possible give, for as long as we live.”

This is a tragedy. He asks you to love him. No, he begs you to. If you reject him, he’s all like

ahhh for sure, I love this stuff

they are collectively referred to as the Blondes by Westown folks, Wayne and Lisette love it and Ford hates it

so Wayne and Lisette will sometime tease him by calling him Captain Blonde, Leader of the Blondes

it has devolved into just calling him CB sometimes and the rest of Westown doesn’t get it but they DO know that if you go into the clinic and ask to speak to “Dr. CB” you’ll hear a scream from wherever Ford is

Lisette and Ford collaborating on new herbal medicines; at first Ford wasn’t sure about the whole thing but then he started to track the science at work and now he’s regularly commissioning certain herbs and flowers from Lisette

on Lisette’s birthday Wayne and Ford make her breakfast in bed and borrow the farmer’s horse so they can gallop up as her Knights – they all three try to fit on the horse but someone keeps sliding off the back (plus, poor horse, the farmer scolded them) so now there’s Lisette on the horse and Wayne and Ford take turns either leading the horse or riding with her

Lisette doesn’t always realize when other men are flirting with her, so Wayne will be in charge of escorting someone out of the flower shop for being too pushy before Ford starts Squashing Insects

speaking of, Ford uses Science™ to make a specialized organic insect repellant for Lisette that’s more effective than anything else she’s ever used, the farmer keeps hinting about getting some but Ford says “no, that’s Lisette’s blend only”

Wayne loves calling Ford his hubby and Lisette his wifey, everyone who comes into the post office has to look at the million pictures of them that he keeps in his wallet

Lisette makes special bouquets inspired by her boys and when she shows them, Wayne thinks they’re adorable and Ford just straight up cries

while he’s at work, between patients, Ford will sometimes daydream and accidentally doodle “FLW” and “Ford Loves Wayne” and “Ford Loves Lisette” without realizing it and it always embarrasses him

Wayne brings back little presents and souveniers from the towns where he delivers mail and leaves them hidden through the house for his hubby and wifey to find

Ford still calls Lisette and Wayne by their regular names, mostly, but now and then he’ll use ridiculously adorable pet names like “cutie pie” or “pumpkin” or “sugarpea” and even as Lisette and Wayne tease him relentlessly they love it

at the Goddess Festival, the Blondes form the first, innovative, three-person Dancing Team