Brewthers

Brewthers is the slash ship between Brewster and Blathers from the Animal Crossing fandom.

Canon
Generally, Brewster seems to be a bit of a loner, with Blathers being one of the few people he truly considers a friend. Their bond is so harmonious that in all but one game, Brewster opened up his coffee shop "The Roost" within Blathers' museum. Much like other "special" characters, Blathers can be seen at the Roost. Unlike most characters, Blathers is quite the coffeeholic, even his insomnia isn't enough to refuse a cup from his dear friend. Additionally, Blathers is a talker while Brewster generally doesn't talk, when he does, it's very brief.

Additionally, Blathers seems to be aware about Brewster adding offering "pigeon milk" to his coffee, happily accepting it.

Animal Crossing: City Folk
Though Brewster has been introduced in Wild World, most of their shared backstory comes from City Folk. Blathers will give an anecdote of how he met Brewster after the Roost is officially set up: When Blathers lived in a big city, where Brewster had just set up his first café (not the Roost). Blathers was stressing about writing his thesis, but Brewster walked up to him and compared his situation to "rushing a cup of coffee", saying that he should take his time to polish it. This helped Blathers tackle it from a different perspective and was the start of their long friendship.

When Blathers heard that Brewster was struggling financially due to "traditional" coffee shops lacking in interest compared to "gimmicky" ones, he reached out to his dear friend and offered a chance for him to open his new shop in Blathers' museum. If Blathers hadn't done this for him, Brewster seriously considered giving up on his passion as a barista, the chance of job security and being close to his dear friend is the motivation he needed to move from the big city.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Blathers is the one to suggest setting up the Roost as a town project if the second floor of the museum is already a week old and the museum itself has 50 exhibits. Though it is a separate building from the museum for the first time in the series, Blathers is still a regular.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
After the "2.0" Update, Blathers opens up to the player about how much he misses his dear friend Brewster, since he hasn't seen him for a long time. He sets up a quest for the player to find him, giving them a picture of Brewster as an identifier. He never elaborates on why he kept a picture of him in his pocket for what might have been years. The player finds Brewster as soon as they set out, being on vacation on a deserted island. Brewster only shows interest in moving to the player's island when they mention Blathers. Once the Roost is opened, Blathers will happily tell the player that Brewster is an old friend of his and that his coffee was "indespensible" for Blathers' work.

Moments

 * In New Horizons, when the ceremony for the opening of the Roost is held, many noticed Blathers blushing when Brewster gives his short speech about how they can always come by for some coffee.

Fanon
Though their relationship might actually be one of the oldest ones in the series, it took until New Horizons for the ship to get mainstream attention. It is currently the sixth most popular ship in the "Animal Crossing Series" tag on AO3 (not counting duplicates, self-inserts or crossovers), as well as the most popular ship for both characters. Much like CJFlick, most of the popularity comes from how incredibly easy it is to read them as gay. Many joke how Blathers is "that old, sweet professor who is totally seeing the cute barista from the coffee shop around the corner". Naturally, the ship lends itself well to Coffee Shop AUs, since barely anything has to be changed.

It was common to depict Blathers as dark-skinned in pre-New Horizons art (due to his brown plumage), but nowadays fans often joke that human Blathers would be played by Jack Black, since a number of Black's roles happen to greatly resemble Blathers. As a compromise, Brewster is often depicted as having darker skin than Blathers in Brewthers fanwork, which many comment makes a lot more sense.

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