User blog:Olimar McCain/I have figured out a solution to the Animal Crossing "problem"

Let me explain: Animal Crossing is a very popular series for good reason, it's charming, the characters are very well-designed and lovable and naturally, people will get attached to them and ship them in various combinations.

However, the series is... weird for shipping. Because, barring random character interactions and the character's function in gameplay, there's no real "canon" to speak of (The anime movie and the manga series do have a canon, but I haven't seen or read either). The little bits we know about the character backstories and how they are connected are something, but they're very sparse. I could make a page for some of them, but I don't want to risk them being moved to "Animal Crossing/Ships" (btw, I'm so glad that "/Ships" pages are allowed to exist before the fandom pages do, it takes a lot of unnecessary stress away, thank you), meaning that all of my effort was for naught.

As I said in the title, I've figured out a solution to this "problem": Instead of listing every conceivable Villager ship separately, how about we just summarize any canon interactions we could find between them per game and put their variations in the Fanon sections (since Villagers with the same personality only differ in terms of name, character design and interior design)? So, instead of listing "Raymond x Ankha" (or "Marketable Cats") and "Raymond x Olivia" (or "Distinguished Cattery") separately, we could just make a page for "Smug x Snooty" and differentiate between variations of that on the same page? Paraphrased interactions between them should be enough content and any headcanons for individual variations could round the page out.

I'm not as active in the Animal Crossing community as some other people, so all I can do is: 1. Organize the Animal Crossing section to separate regular Villager ships from ships between characters with unique personalities. And 2. Try to find any canon interaction between them I can, to make at least a few pages, so that we can finally get a fandom page and then discuss how we're going to try and make pages for the other ships.

This is really just because Animal Crossing is so... unique in its story (if you could call it a "story"). I don't want to dismiss Animal Crossing or its characters, all I'm saying is that trying to categorize every single one of these characters would be a nightmare. So, I hope people would be happy with that idea, we just need to figure out a way to make it look good.