#ac keaton

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Over-analyzing Animal Crossing villagers out of pure curiosity and fixation #2 !!

Or just… over-analyzing villagers.

the NEXT villager i want to yap about is keaton!

if you don't know who keaton is, this is him

first off, what we know and what we can learn.

okay before the analysis and stuff lets start with some useless information about him! he has the music hobby and his 'goal' is to be a musician. he likes tropical stuff, like beaches and the sea and stuff. he likes pure black blend coffee. he's the fifth of 6 kids, and he's good at tongue twisters!

okay now analysis

im actually gonna START with his pocket camp description this time - "He's quite the fashion maven. It helps that if he's not feeling a particular look, he can get by on his dazzling plumage alone." - revealing that he's canonically 'attractive'. implying people see his looks. "get by" means to manage, to survive. keaton "gets by" with his looks. this reveals he uses his conventionally attractive looks to his advantage—he's a charmer.

but what does HE think about this? is his charm accidental? is it intentional? well, we might get to know this too.

first off, keaton is a smug villager. smug villagers are characterized as egotistical and/or self-centered. even nookipedia states "Smug villagers are portrayed as arrogant and egotistical, acting sophisticated and thinking highly of themselves." and they "commonly act arrogant, boastful, and egotistical" - so it's pretty obvious that in keaton's case, he is most likely aware of his charm. he definitely sees himself in a good light, maybe TOO good.

his favorite saying is "Even in a room full of fools, someone is the smartest.". this saying signifies a hierarchy of intellect. someone will always be the 'smartest' one in a room of 'fools'. obviously. but this could also mean something strategically - the 'wise man playing the fool', if you will - someone might feign idiocy or unawareness while actually outsmarting everyone else in the room. tying this in with our already known information about keaton, it's safe to assume he knows EXACTLY what he's doing. he feigns being a 'fool' to charm his way through his life. with his looks, he makes sure everything is in his favor. and it's pretty clearly shown that it WORKS - he appears at least moderately wealthy. and this also reveals / confirms that he sees himself above everyone else. this and his smug personality really imply the fact that keaton, being as 'charming' as he is, sees everyone else as below him. 'fools'. easy to trick. i have reason to believe all this information suggests keaton has a superiority complex.

"bbbbbbut that saying could just be that first reason you said!!!" okay well i present to you: his spanish name, Lucho. nookipedia defines this name as "Affectionate diminutive of the masculine given name Luis, and from aguilucho (Spanish for harrier)". a harrier is a bird of prey. and a bird of prey is described as a keen bird that feeds and hunts its opponents.

keaton is a playboy.

now, theories. or just yaps that aren't confirmed or implied, i guess.

what led keaton to think this way? how did he realize how he could utilize his looks?

someone utilizing charm to their advantage would lead to them getting used to charming. maybe this started with a few little instances, and then became a habit. maybe he was raised like that. maybe his mindset is that THIS is how to live and if you don't live like this you're FAILING because this is FUN AS HELL

but also, i don’t think keaton is like awful evil manipulative grrr bad. refer back to nookipedia’s smug description, and you’ll see “Beneath the surface, however, they are kind-hearted villagers that act very polite, sometimes gentlemanly, and may flirt with female villagers and the player, regardless of gender, when befriended.”. being charming to get by doesn’t necessarily mean put up a cartoony rizzler facade. what i personally think is keaton DOES have a superiority complex, and he can and does charm, however coming WITH that charm is, as described, ‘gentlemanly politeness’—his true, good side maybe? also, when putting up the charm, how many GENUINE connections has he made that weren’t just for his benefit? does he want to make connections? does he accidentally make connections with people and end up being confused but liking it and feeling what it feels to have a friend that doesn’t only see him for his looks? maybe he makes genuine connections on the town / island in-game and shows more of his good side? after all, THIS segment of the analyses i make are all up to interpretation. the games gave us information, and then it is up to us to decide how we want to characterize these villagers further. so take everything i say in this section as theory and possibility and interpretation for what kind of character keaton may be. the info we get from games is enough to hint at it, but not enough to know for sure.

anyways TL;DR keaton is cool as fuck /silly

also, shoutout to @yeiratan for correctly guessing the villager i’m analyzing WAS IT THAT OBVIOUS IT WAS KEATON. HAVE I MENTIONED HIM TOO MUCH. anyways uhm. have a cookie and some crumbs.

and @curewishdoesalot had a hunch as well so you get half a cookie cause you made TWO guesses

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also some notes:

diva and puddles got into a fight on diva’s first day on my island

i would often see keaton and pierce hanging out together in the plaza and i made them a shared home in hhp (moe also has a room in that home bc he is their little blue son 😊)

celia and annalisa are neighbors who share a flower garden and i gave them a bunch of matching clothes including those ones