Fun fact: Coco's name in the Japanese version of the AC games is "Yayoi", which is derived from the Yayoi period of Japanese history (1000 BC-300 AD). Haniwa statues are theorized to have first been made in the Late Yayoi period before they rose to prominence in the Kofun period. And the Gyroids themselves (Loid included) are referred to as haniwa in the JP version of the games. If she really is a living haniwa/gyroid, then it's plausible she may contain the spirit of someone from ancient times.
its not just Coco, i have a theory that all of the rabbits are weird. Big examples are Coco, Zipper, Chrisy and Francine (they allude to their hoods being costumes and not real ears), Hopkins has an air valve, Ruby is the Jade Rabbit, etc. Theres a lot of strange rabbits.
Hopkins is most likely based on a squeaky toy, which are traditionally given to dogs, who (in my case) rip them to shreds. Moral of the story : Don't let a wolf/dog villager near Hopkins.
I feel like a lot of these things are way less weird if you know about Japanese culture/mythology, when I first ever saw her I just thought "cool, a bunny haniwa". still creepy tho! I also really like her ♡
I was talking about this exact subject with a friend and we also got on the topic of the whole theory that the villagers aren't real animals, and she suggested that the animals are just gyroids in animal suits/skins (like some sort of disguised robot), that they all look like Coco underneath, but Coco is just missing her skin, and now I'm terrified.
Let me make it worse for you, Stitches is a stuffed bear, Hopkins is a balloon. Ribbot, Del, Sprocket, Nindori, and Cephalobot are all robots. Maybe Coco is missing her skin, or maybe villagers are toys.
I just think they're comically-themed animals in a game where humans can live with even more 5 foot tall animals that stand on two feet. And speak. Yikes.
Another possibilty is that Coco was never origionally a living being before this form. The Gyroids are hinted to be fairly old when you dig them up. She could be a tsukumogami of q gyroid. A tsukumogami in Japanese mythology is an inatimate man made object that has aged to 100 years and as a result gained its own life. Being a gyroid come to life, Coco's house and choice in decor would sinply be a reflection of this. The style she lives in reflects her existance and purpose before gaining her own consiousness since it would still be a big part of her base identity. These mythological creatures tend to show up in media a lot, often depicted steriotypically as common housbold objects that may get limited use and thus last a long time. Parasols and brooms are some of the most depicted with the larer often shown cyclopian, hopping around. There is no limit yo the object as far as im aware of though, and something like a gyroid makes sense since it would be built to last a long time. It also has a bit of a poetic spin on it. It would have been made to commenorate a knce living being but after a hundred years, there would almost undoybtedly be nothing PHYSICALLY left of them, even burried. Thus the marker having served its purpose and gained its own life almost replaces what it was serving. It goes on to live itself for what had passed.
"after a hundred years, there would almost undoybtedly be nothing PHYSICALLY left of them, even burried" surely you must know that we humans have routinely been digging up hundreds of thousands year old skeletons for a very long time... right?
@ecozy_ -No we have not. What you are referring to are fossils. That is when the skeletal structures create a mold in the mineral matrix around them and a cast is then made. The sediment hardens around. The remaining hard tissue of a body. That then finishes decomposition as well and leaves empty holes in the shape of those harder parts. Minerals slowly seep in, usually as a result of defending rain water and fill the empty holes. These then solidify over time separately creating natural replicas. They are NOT the original tissue however. This is a rare occurrence in the big picture of however. If you are referring to mummies then still wrong. Natural mummies like found in bogs and snowdrifts are EXTREMLY rare. They are cases of natural preservation by complete coincidence, require the conditions to be just right for preservation and (most importantly) NOT part of typical burial processes. While some very specific and complex ancient cultural funerary practices did involve forms of embalming that lead to unnatural mummification, this was expensive, limited to the culture/status of the individual and hinged on tampering/accident not occuring. If buried in a typical manner, natural decomposition may be slightly delayed by mortuary chemical preserving fluids and the coffin but that is also mostly organic and the whole things would become victim to decomposition. You have no idea what you are talking about about but thought you could sound smart and come off big by being a know it all bully. You are wrong. Learn to be less of a Trollish piece of rude garbage so you don't get smacked down like the mutt you are by people much smarter/more educated than your sorry but.
@@ecozy_ Its mostly a legend/myth in regards to this. Japan has a huge plethora of legends or myths where 'modern known time and ideas' were not considered 'real' then by the larger population. Japan also was rather meticulous about writing history on things that may not be 'permanent' either way myths dont generally make sense like fae or the loch ness monster. this video has a very interesting way of explaining it. we dont literally believe these things most days like old wives tales used to scare children into not clipping their toenails at night or in the dark because they will hurt themselves etc.
No in-game lore or official at least, I'm afraid that's a bit too much of programming work 😅 The only other lore I can think of is the GOAT villagers Chevre and Nan having each other's photo in their houses as a nod to a japanese fairytale about two pen pal goats
On the subject of Japanese myths, I always thought that Shino was not a normal deer, but a Kirin, likely with her own dark backstory that is unknown. This is because of her face with her horns and fangs resembling a Hannya mask. Hannya masks in Noh theatre represented women who turned Oni because of negative emotions like jealousy and anger. This is because of the Kirin's own righteous fury. They may be pacifists and very big on respecting nature, but they have been said to be used in Chinese trials as they can sense intentions, and will not hesitate to reduce an evil person to ash. This makes sense because peppy villagers are very friendly, but are pretty easy to upset, and thus she could very realistically be a very sweet girl, but "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Her description may say that she "will probably tell her whole life's story," but the whole description appears to be from an "outside-looking-in" perspective; people always tend to judge extroverts as leaving no mystery about themselves, but that may not necessarily be true. Even extroverts can be capable of hiding depression, self-hatred, or an abusive past behind a friendly and happy-go-lucky mask and try to distract and distance themselves from their anxieties.
Im a Extrovert. Enfj, to be exact. And u are right. We only show and share what we wish to share. We do seem like a open book to most who dont know us personally. We do hold back alot of emotions, opinions and thoughts to not worry others and also it helps us to not think about the things that bother us as well. I used to hide the abuse i endured as a child from my parents by always appearing happy go lucky around my friends and anyone outside my home. I ddint want to share what was going on behind closed doors because i was afraid. For me and others. Everyone would always say in school "Brittany always has a smile on her face and is always so happy." But inside i was the most depressed person hiding in a mask of who i wanted to be. And all i could think was "you dont know me. I make it appear like im happy. Im not."
@@XxBrittany20xX I hope you're doing ok in your life now. As someone whose mother was abused for 10 years by her ex-husband; thank goodness the imbecile was not my father; I certainly know that any fools who would dare harm their own family deserve no family. There are many hotlines out there if you need them, and many people who unfortunately very much know your pain. About my mother, while she can't escape from the consequences of her abuse, having been severely injured by it all, she is living a much better life, herself. The man who eventually would be my father helped her and my brother escape, and he's nowhere close to being as problematic as that fool. Our lives aren't "perfect," by any means, but, we're doing our best.
@@Daniel_Coffman I'm 33 now, a Caregiver fulltime, and I am in a no contact relationship with my narcissistic parents and rest of my blood fam. So I'm doing way better now. Still have trauma nightmares from time to time and depression and anxeity from the abuse I endured. I also live with my bff and her mom. So they are my family now. ❤️
Thinking about this, im liking the idea that maybe she was a rabbit that died and made this gyroid rabbit husk afterwards so she could still approach people and talk
My first ever animal crossing game was new leaf on the 3ds and she was one of my first villagers, I was scared of her at first but when I talked to her she was so sweet I just grew to love her so much and now she's one of my top five favourites
I wish Nintendo could let different villagers share their own (especially Coco) lore before they came to our island once they become closer to us. This will make befriending a lot more meaningful.
Aaah, I have her! She is such a cool character, love her. Also I found this very interesting article once: someone had mentioned getting Coco on their Island, and when they went to talk to her, she said that she came from an island called "Heaven". This sparked a lot of attention because of Coco's dark backstory and her peculiar appearance. 😅😅😅
honestly, now that i know her connection to the traditions surrounding funerals and the dead, not only does she make a lot more sense, but i also find her a lot less creepy. its actually pretty sweet, shes honoring those who have passed and telling us to appreciate our lives ;--;
I had her in my town for like 4 years, I kicked her out a month ago and replaced her with Étoile. She’s a cool and pretty chill villager though, I wish they made more unique villagers that ACTUALLY LOOK GOOD.
Tsukumogami. It is possible that she could be a Haniwa Tsukumogami, and since Tsukumogami appear to be possessed after having been around for 100 years, that wouldn't be too far off from the thought of her being a possessed Haniwa.
It does make sense that Coco would be a spirit inhabiting a clay body (I wonder if the Gyrotoids are actually her room mates, or perhaps she makes them as well as spare bodies for herself), Animal Crossing has incorporated other being from Japanese folklore, such as Blanca being based on the Nopperabou, and Japan is in general more open to the supernatural. So it's possible that the other villagers know too are just OK with it, sort of, yes she died and has a clay body now, but she's still Coco; she might not even be the only undead villager, Ankha sometimes has what appear to be the bandages used in mummification as her default outfit and is said to be thousands of years old Though it does put a rather....interesting light on one line she can have in Pocket camp, granted a few different characters will also say the same thing, but this one line has the villager admiring your camper and saying that they'd like to have one, but the last time they drove a car in ended badly for the car; it's usually a silly throwaway line, but with Coco it feels like a possible bit of lore (^.^')
I love hearing about Animal Crossing even though I never played it more than 5 hours, it's so cool to know more about the characters since I can't play it without visiting a friend of mine. Also, ur voice is so soothing! I might use ur videos to help me sleep
Coco is my and my bff's favorite villager ever and i don't care what ANYONE says. She's been on ALL my islands and i ned her on EVERY single one. She was on Bayville, she was on Bruxelles and now she is on KuroNeko. Whatever theme im doing, even a theme that doesn't match her vibes she WILL be there. Okay bye
7:34 not to be that person, but a similar (but different) squirrel was called hazel in the original games before wild world onward where she was renamed sally. additionally, the "b" part of blazel was caroline's original name, bliss. hazel would then later on become a name used by a new squirrel villager in new leaf. because shaki was discovered before wild world, she was called blazel in combination of bliss and hazel from the original games. hope this helps :)
I spent my childhood/teens thinking she was a chocolate bunny. Hence her English name. Which is why her eyes are hollow and her ears don’t move. Either way, I still adore her
I think she was the first ever character to move into my town when I played Animal Crossing for the first time with New Leaf! I thought she was a biscuit cookie and thought she was soooo adorable and quickly became my favorite character 😂😂 I didn't know she wasn't a cookie and that people found her creepy until I went online like a year later. I still love her though! 💕💖💖
what is Coco was never really a person at all and at s Haniwa statue that was only given life to scare off bad spirits to protect the dead? I think that with this maybe Coco had been around the dead and people long enough that she just developed a normal personality. With this in mind I believe that Coco likely collects the statue as a form of nostalgia of her original purpose that she's not needed for anymore.
I was so scared of her when I got her in wild world as a kid. I didn’t know much about looking things up online so I couldn’t research her. I was just very confused and creeped out when she would come by aha. But now I kind of love her because of that memory. I almost wish newer animal crossing games embraced more of the eerie liminal side of the game that I used to oddly enjoy.
She’s a trapped soul and perhaps all gyroids are trapped souls maybe lesser souls without words, maybe just normal animals and that’s why she keeps them to protect them and care for them she’s a guardian to the fallen remembering the voiceless
around like 2021, I adored this game. I played it everyday😭 when I first got Coco, I loved her so much. She was my favorite on my island. I went to her house every time I played. Looking back at it, she’s got this eerie feeling to her. overtime I’ve grown, yes, which means that what I like has changed, I LOVE creepy stuff. I can’t watch horror movies though, nor can I play the creepy games. but I LOVE LOVE LOVESHAUHANIUHAUYHN indie horror games! especially mouthwashing, haha. I hope the video I’m about to watch will entertain me!!!!!‼️
I have a theory that she was once a plain old gyroid, not alive or anything. She was around for a lot of funerals before something happened… One day, a woman with the whole “ normal villager” personality died, and Coco was set above the grave. However, the woman’s soul came, and, longing to live once more, came to rest inside Coco. Coco keeps the gyroids and the fires in her house because she has a strange feeling that she was around those things all the time once before…
The fire and pots could also represent, y'know, pottery. I imagine someone made out of clay would have at least a passive interest in sculpting and curing it properly.
I just thought she was the sould of a rabbit villager, who was given a second life in the form of a clay figure. Maybe it's just me, but with how many stories I grew up hearing, about both figurines made out of clay that was mixed with the ash left from cremation, as well as those of the first humans having been shaped out of clay, before they were given breath, just made it easy for me to accept. Either way, Coco is one of my favorite villagers, along with Lucky, who may be a mummy, or maybe just an accident prone dog.
I've played every AC game since GC, and have somehow managed to have Coco living or move it shortly thereafter in every game. Is she haunting me...? I hope so, because she is my favorite villager of all time and I love her. 🥰
See, I always thought Coco was conceptualized due to the "missing face" Easter egg/failsafe of the OG Animal Crossing for when you don't save while visiting another town. Or maybe they just use her face as a placeholder when you glitch your game that way. Either way, it's the same face.
Coco used to be just an ordinary rabbit. Until she died in a housefire, burning entirely, remains and all. The soil her home was on was peculiar, it had an abundance of clay. Her ashes mixed with the clay, and one night after a heavy rainstorm, Coco woke up.
if she were once inanimate and became sentient somehow, I theorize that the gyroids she has all over her house were like family members or friends from the past
My cat was cuddling me while I was watching this video. Then KK durge started playing… He sat up fully alert and moved off me to investigate where the sound was coming from😅
I assume the things in her house are not for cremation but for firing clay. I would say she likely makes the gyros you see. So being one that makes more has its own interesting imoplications
She reminds of of when I was younger and games had more backstory creep factor. Like majoras mask and link beind dead from the beginning and you're in purgatory. Or the old lore about mabel sabel sosters and tom nook having history in the wii version. Which i never ever got to the bottom of no matter how hard i played and looked in my game 😢 Also now I know it's based around death statues. My Coco is getting a house and outside house revamp.
Can you talk about my lore next?
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"Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today"
An appropriate motto for someone acquinted with the absolute randomness of death.
That phrase instantly reminded me of Ninjago
"Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today"
Coco is that one friend that never talks about her past, but when she does everybody gets depressed
Shes me thats why i never talk about it
Fun fact: Coco's name in the Japanese version of the AC games is "Yayoi", which is derived from the Yayoi period of Japanese history (1000 BC-300 AD). Haniwa statues are theorized to have first been made in the Late Yayoi period before they rose to prominence in the Kofun period. And the Gyroids themselves (Loid included) are referred to as haniwa in the JP version of the games.
If she really is a living haniwa/gyroid, then it's plausible she may contain the spirit of someone from ancient times.
yeah i was surprised he didn't bring up her japanese name in the video. the yayoi period is heavily associated with pottery.
Yep, and to make it even more obvious her motto in Japanese is 前方後円墳 which is just the word for the keyhole-shaped kofun mounds ("zenpokoenfun").
its not just Coco, i have a theory that all of the rabbits are weird. Big examples are Coco, Zipper, Chrisy and Francine (they allude to their hoods being costumes and not real ears), Hopkins has an air valve, Ruby is the Jade Rabbit, etc. Theres a lot of strange rabbits.
Could say you’re falling down the rabbit hole 😂
Oooh is that why Ruby’s house is space-themed?
Hopkins is most likely based on a squeaky toy, which are traditionally given to dogs, who (in my case) rip them to shreds.
Moral of the story : Don't let a wolf/dog villager near Hopkins.
My theory is...Coco is a good girl who deserves to live in peace. ❤
I think you mean.... rest in peace :P
@@thaumatomaneH A !
Art is an explosion!
I feel like a lot of these things are way less weird if you know about Japanese culture/mythology, when I first ever saw her I just thought "cool, a bunny haniwa". still creepy tho! I also really like her ♡
I was talking about this exact subject with a friend and we also got on the topic of the whole theory that the villagers aren't real animals, and she suggested that the animals are just gyroids in animal suits/skins (like some sort of disguised robot), that they all look like Coco underneath, but Coco is just missing her skin, and now I'm terrified.
Let me make it worse for you, Stitches is a stuffed bear, Hopkins is a balloon. Ribbot, Del, Sprocket, Nindori, and Cephalobot are all robots. Maybe Coco is missing her skin, or maybe villagers are toys.
And don't forget about Zucker, or any of the food villagers
Don't forget Zipper
Yikes
I just think they're comically-themed animals in a game where humans can live with even more 5 foot tall animals that stand on two feet. And speak. Yikes.
Another possibilty is that Coco was never origionally a living being before this form. The Gyroids are hinted to be fairly old when you dig them up. She could be a tsukumogami of q gyroid. A tsukumogami in Japanese mythology is an inatimate man made object that has aged to 100 years and as a result gained its own life. Being a gyroid come to life, Coco's house and choice in decor would sinply be a reflection of this. The style she lives in reflects her existance and purpose before gaining her own consiousness since it would still be a big part of her base identity. These mythological creatures tend to show up in media a lot, often depicted steriotypically as common housbold objects that may get limited use and thus last a long time. Parasols and brooms are some of the most depicted with the larer often shown cyclopian, hopping around. There is no limit yo the object as far as im aware of though, and something like a gyroid makes sense since it would be built to last a long time. It also has a bit of a poetic spin on it. It would have been made to commenorate a knce living being but after a hundred years, there would almost undoybtedly be nothing PHYSICALLY left of them, even burried. Thus the marker having served its purpose and gained its own life almost replaces what it was serving. It goes on to live itself for what had passed.
"after a hundred years, there would almost undoybtedly be nothing PHYSICALLY left of them, even burried" surely you must know that we humans have routinely been digging up hundreds of thousands year old skeletons for a very long time... right?
@ecozy_ -No we have not. What you are referring to are fossils. That is when the skeletal structures create a mold in the mineral matrix around them and a cast is then made. The sediment hardens around. The remaining hard tissue of a body. That then finishes decomposition as well and leaves empty holes in the shape of those harder parts. Minerals slowly seep in, usually as a result of defending rain water and fill the empty holes. These then solidify over time separately creating natural replicas. They are NOT the original tissue however. This is a rare occurrence in the big picture of however. If you are referring to mummies then still wrong. Natural mummies like found in bogs and snowdrifts are EXTREMLY rare. They are cases of natural preservation by complete coincidence, require the conditions to be just right for preservation and (most importantly) NOT part of typical burial processes. While some very specific and complex ancient cultural funerary practices did involve forms of embalming that lead to unnatural mummification, this was expensive, limited to the culture/status of the individual and hinged on tampering/accident not occuring. If buried in a typical manner, natural decomposition may be slightly delayed by mortuary chemical preserving fluids and the coffin but that is also mostly organic and the whole things would become victim to decomposition. You have no idea what you are talking about about but thought you could sound smart and come off big by being a know it all bully. You are wrong. Learn to be less of a Trollish piece of rude garbage so you don't get smacked down like the mutt you are by people much smarter/more educated than your sorry but.
@@ecozy_ Its mostly a legend/myth in regards to this. Japan has a huge plethora of legends or myths where 'modern known time and ideas' were not considered 'real' then by the larger population. Japan also was rather meticulous about writing history on things that may not be 'permanent' either way myths dont generally make sense like fae or the loch ness monster. this video has a very interesting way of explaining it. we dont literally believe these things most days like old wives tales used to scare children into not clipping their toenails at night or in the dark because they will hurt themselves etc.
I didnt know animal crossing villagers had lore
Funny enough some just do have a bit of lore haha
Some do, though you have to get to know them, special villagers though have a lot of lore behind them
No in-game lore or official at least, I'm afraid that's a bit too much of programming work 😅
The only other lore I can think of is the GOAT villagers Chevre and Nan having each other's photo in their houses as a nod to a japanese fairytale about two pen pal goats
@@elli_senfsaat chevre and nan are penpals except nan gets so excited that she eats the letters before reading 😭
I didn't know animal crossing had any lore
For some reason Coco has always reminded me of Penny from The Amazing World of Gumball
This is why Penny always felt so familiar!!!!
Omg that makes so much sense! She was a gyroid all along!
It always felt like the other way around to me because Coco came first
Maybe Coco just needs to break out of her shell
For some reason? I wonder why.
On the subject of Japanese myths, I always thought that Shino was not a normal deer, but a Kirin, likely with her own dark backstory that is unknown. This is because of her face with her horns and fangs resembling a Hannya mask. Hannya masks in Noh theatre represented women who turned Oni because of negative emotions like jealousy and anger. This is because of the Kirin's own righteous fury. They may be pacifists and very big on respecting nature, but they have been said to be used in Chinese trials as they can sense intentions, and will not hesitate to reduce an evil person to ash.
This makes sense because peppy villagers are very friendly, but are pretty easy to upset, and thus she could very realistically be a very sweet girl, but "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Her description may say that she "will probably tell her whole life's story," but the whole description appears to be from an "outside-looking-in" perspective; people always tend to judge extroverts as leaving no mystery about themselves, but that may not necessarily be true. Even extroverts can be capable of hiding depression, self-hatred, or an abusive past behind a friendly and happy-go-lucky mask and try to distract and distance themselves from their anxieties.
YES my thoughts EXACTLY. I am so glad to hear someone thinks this way as well!! I agree one hundred percent
@@ellorrda Good to see that I'm not the only one to make that connection. I always thought I was, myself. XD
Im a Extrovert. Enfj, to be exact. And u are right. We only show and share what we wish to share. We do seem like a open book to most who dont know us personally. We do hold back alot of emotions, opinions and thoughts to not worry others and also it helps us to not think about the things that bother us as well. I used to hide the abuse i endured as a child from my parents by always appearing happy go lucky around my friends and anyone outside my home. I ddint want to share what was going on behind closed doors because i was afraid. For me and others. Everyone would always say in school "Brittany always has a smile on her face and is always so happy." But inside i was the most depressed person hiding in a mask of who i wanted to be. And all i could think was "you dont know me. I make it appear like im happy. Im not."
@@XxBrittany20xX I hope you're doing ok in your life now. As someone whose mother was abused for 10 years by her ex-husband; thank goodness the imbecile was not my father; I certainly know that any fools who would dare harm their own family deserve no family. There are many hotlines out there if you need them, and many people who unfortunately very much know your pain.
About my mother, while she can't escape from the consequences of her abuse, having been severely injured by it all, she is living a much better life, herself. The man who eventually would be my father helped her and my brother escape, and he's nowhere close to being as problematic as that fool. Our lives aren't "perfect," by any means, but, we're doing our best.
@@Daniel_Coffman I'm 33 now, a Caregiver fulltime, and I am in a no contact relationship with my narcissistic parents and rest of my blood fam. So I'm doing way better now. Still have trauma nightmares from time to time and depression and anxeity from the abuse I endured. I also live with my bff and her mom. So they are my family now. ❤️
I’ve always thought of Coco as a custodian of sorts, not anything dark, but rather a guide of sorts to other spirits resting within Gyroids.
Thinking about this, im liking the idea that maybe she was a rabbit that died and made this gyroid rabbit husk afterwards so she could still approach people and talk
My first ever animal crossing game was new leaf on the 3ds and she was one of my first villagers, I was scared of her at first but when I talked to her she was so sweet I just grew to love her so much and now she's one of my top five favourites
I wish Nintendo could let different villagers share their own (especially Coco) lore before they came to our island once they become closer to us. This will make befriending a lot more meaningful.
Aaah, I have her! She is such a cool character, love her.
Also I found this very interesting article once: someone had mentioned getting Coco on their Island, and when they went to talk to her, she said that she came from an island called "Heaven". This sparked a lot of attention because of Coco's dark backstory and her peculiar appearance. 😅😅😅
I love coco idc about her backstory shes sweet and CUTE as heck
To the east, she’s a gyroid/haniwa. To the west, she’s a coconut. That’s it, nothing scary about it
Saying doyoing seems to be a nod to a gyroid tho because they make weird sounds 4:10
honestly, now that i know her connection to the traditions surrounding funerals and the dead, not only does she make a lot more sense, but i also find her a lot less creepy. its actually pretty sweet, shes honoring those who have passed and telling us to appreciate our lives ;--;
I had her in my town for like 4 years, I kicked her out a month ago and replaced her with Étoile. She’s a cool and pretty chill villager though, I wish they made more unique villagers that ACTUALLY LOOK GOOD.
She does look good, her design is very unique, she's just not cute, and that's okay
@@sporeham1674 when did I say coco didn’t look good? I’m saying she’s one of the few “unique looking” villagers that actually pull it off
i always thought she looked like she was made of cork because of her texture, like a carved doll or something
You thought she looked like she was made of cork? OK so.
„I think I should really put this energy into like I don‘t know, a career or something.“ So me 😂
japanese folklore has stories about inanimate objects that came to life i think coco is one of those (i can't spell the name
Tsukumogami. It is possible that she could be a Haniwa Tsukumogami, and since Tsukumogami appear to be possessed after having been around for 100 years, that wouldn't be too far off from the thought of her being a possessed Haniwa.
I like to think it was always a reference to the easter egg in the first AC where you can turn your face into a Gyroid
It does make sense that Coco would be a spirit inhabiting a clay body (I wonder if the Gyrotoids are actually her room mates, or perhaps she makes them as well as spare bodies for herself), Animal Crossing has incorporated other being from Japanese folklore, such as Blanca being based on the Nopperabou, and Japan is in general more open to the supernatural. So it's possible that the other villagers know too are just OK with it, sort of, yes she died and has a clay body now, but she's still Coco; she might not even be the only undead villager, Ankha sometimes has what appear to be the bandages used in mummification as her default outfit and is said to be thousands of years old
Though it does put a rather....interesting light on one line she can have in Pocket camp, granted a few different characters will also say the same thing, but this one line has the villager admiring your camper and saying that they'd like to have one, but the last time they drove a car in ended badly for the car; it's usually a silly throwaway line, but with Coco it feels like a possible bit of lore (^.^')
I love hearing about Animal Crossing even though I never played it more than 5 hours, it's so cool to know more about the characters since I can't play it without visiting a friend of mine.
Also, ur voice is so soothing! I might use ur videos to help me sleep
I love AC lore! I'm looking forward to seeing more videos on it from you! :)
ok i never thought of Coco as anything but a coconut and i'm very amused with this whole gyroid theory
Coco is my and my bff's favorite villager ever and i don't care what ANYONE says. She's been on ALL my islands and i ned her on EVERY single one. She was on Bayville, she was on Bruxelles and now she is on KuroNeko. Whatever theme im doing, even a theme that doesn't match her vibes she WILL be there. Okay bye
7:34 not to be that person, but a similar (but different) squirrel was called hazel in the original games before wild world onward where she was renamed sally. additionally, the "b" part of blazel was caroline's original name, bliss. hazel would then later on become a name used by a new squirrel villager in new leaf. because shaki was discovered before wild world, she was called blazel in combination of bliss and hazel from the original games. hope this helps :)
i always thought she was just a biscuit because of her texture 😭💔
I am glad she isn't a cookie because... Lazy villagers 💀
I honestly just thought she was a coconut themed character😭
when I clicked on this video I thought the title was probably a little bit clickbaity but man her lore is CREEPY
I never played Animal Crossing, but this is so unsettling, it's surprising this is a Nintendo game
She's a coconut...
0:10 the bear girl reminds me of gravity falls, and I think I know why.
Mabel :O
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Dipper?
Coco is one of my favorite villagers! i love the story of her design ankered in history and the bit of creepiness
I always thought she was a sand castle.
I spent my childhood/teens thinking she was a chocolate bunny. Hence her English name. Which is why her eyes are hollow and her ears don’t move. Either way, I still adore her
This is so interesting and cute! I’ve never heard this theory before but it totally makes sense :)
You went down that rabbit hole too deep.
coco’s ears not moving is actually a really interesting detail i never noticed omg
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Also, in Coco's house, the walls resemble the underground, possibly referencing a burial or death.
Maybe Coco is a mortician and wears a clay mask/costume?
I think she was the first ever character to move into my town when I played Animal Crossing for the first time with New Leaf! I thought she was a biscuit cookie and thought she was soooo adorable and quickly became my favorite character 😂😂 I didn't know she wasn't a cookie and that people found her creepy until I went online like a year later. I still love her though! 💕💖💖
she‘s been my favorite animal crossing character since 2015💗
what is Coco was never really a person at all and at s Haniwa statue that was only given life to scare off bad spirits to protect the dead? I think that with this maybe Coco had been around the dead and people long enough that she just developed a normal personality. With this in mind I believe that Coco likely collects the statue as a form of nostalgia of her original purpose that she's not needed for anymore.
I was so scared of her when I got her in wild world as a kid. I didn’t know much about looking things up online so I couldn’t research her. I was just very confused and creeped out when she would come by aha. But now I kind of love her because of that memory. I almost wish newer animal crossing games embraced more of the eerie liminal side of the game that I used to oddly enjoy.
She’s a trapped soul and perhaps all gyroids are trapped souls maybe lesser souls without words, maybe just normal animals and that’s why she keeps them to protect them and care for them she’s a guardian to the fallen remembering the voiceless
Coco was my first dreamie, i received her on my 3rd flight ever.
She's my lucky girl, and I'll never let her go. 🥥
My head canon is that she forgot to go back to her home town when at a friend’s town while resetting
around like 2021, I adored this game. I played it everyday😭
when I first got Coco, I loved her so much. She was my favorite on my island. I went to her house every time I played.
Looking back at it, she’s got this eerie feeling to her. overtime I’ve grown, yes, which means that what I like has changed, I LOVE creepy stuff. I can’t watch horror movies though, nor can I play the creepy games. but I LOVE LOVE LOVESHAUHANIUHAUYHN indie horror games! especially mouthwashing, haha.
I hope the video I’m about to watch will entertain me!!!!!‼️
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I have a theory that she was once a plain old gyroid, not alive or anything. She was around for a lot of funerals before something happened… One day, a woman with the whole “ normal villager” personality died, and Coco was set above the grave. However, the woman’s soul came, and, longing to live once more, came to rest inside Coco. Coco keeps the gyroids and the fires in her house because she has a strange feeling that she was around those things all the time once before…
Coco looks like a cookie
she's my favorite
always loved having her in my town because she's such a sweetheart
coco is a shinigami
The fire and pots could also represent, y'know, pottery. I imagine someone made out of clay would have at least a passive interest in sculpting and curing it properly.
Imagine if you woke up and you came out of your house, Coco appearing in front of you and saying, welcome, or “ I’m so sorry for your loss “
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The fact that they all connect to each other, and are so creepy, is just sending shivers down my spine.
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Omg I used to have Coco in my town when I was little with my little ds and she always creeped me out :’) I even used to have nightmares of her 😭
I just thought she was the sould of a rabbit villager, who was given a second life in the form of a clay figure.
Maybe it's just me, but with how many stories I grew up hearing, about both figurines made out of clay that was mixed with the ash left from cremation, as well as those of the first humans having been shaped out of clay, before they were given breath, just made it easy for me to accept.
Either way, Coco is one of my favorite villagers, along with Lucky, who may be a mummy, or maybe just an accident prone dog.
Coco never Animal Crossed over.
I have her and no matter what the backstory is I love her she’s one of my favorites
I've played every AC game since GC, and have somehow managed to have Coco living or move it shortly thereafter in every game. Is she haunting me...?
I hope so, because she is my favorite villager of all time and I love her. 🥰
See, I always thought Coco was conceptualized due to the "missing face" Easter egg/failsafe of the OG Animal Crossing for when you don't save while visiting another town. Or maybe they just use her face as a placeholder when you glitch your game that way. Either way, it's the same face.
Coco has always been my favorite neighbor and I always have her in my town when I have the chance.
Coco used to be just an ordinary rabbit. Until she died in a housefire, burning entirely, remains and all. The soil her home was on was peculiar, it had an abundance of clay. Her ashes mixed with the clay, and one night after a heavy rainstorm, Coco woke up.
when i was a kid coco reminded me of the kinder hippo candies so i used to really loved her
I found coco on my first island and she is so sweetttt, shes just a lonely book girlie but she thinks shes a burden its sad hahah
if she were once inanimate and became sentient somehow, I theorize that the gyroids she has all over her house were like family members or friends from the past
Coco has always been my favorite animal, crossing character
Coco is my favorite and this only makes me love her more. ❤
My cat was cuddling me while I was watching this video. Then KK durge started playing… He sat up fully alert and moved off me to investigate where the sound was coming from😅
Maybe she just feels a kinship to the gyroids in her home. Like she saw them and decided to take care of them instead of keepjng them in the dirt
I assume the things in her house are not for cremation but for firing clay. I would say she likely makes the gyros you see. So being one that makes more has its own interesting imoplications
5:27 there was no "online" - it was memory cards on the same GameCube console
I always had this theory myself throughout the years of playing the AC series
Can we talk about how Hopkins is like, an inflatable balloon?
i think, raymon and ankha stick out for different reasons too...
I'm surprised to see kk dirge, I always have it playing, I find it comforting
She reminds of of when I was younger and games had more backstory creep factor. Like majoras mask and link beind dead from the beginning and you're in purgatory. Or the old lore about mabel sabel sosters and tom nook having history in the wii version. Which i never ever got to the bottom of no matter how hard i played and looked in my game 😢
Also now I know it's based around death statues. My Coco is getting a house and outside house revamp.
I always assumed she was made of biscuits, hence the name
Coco is the only one in my town on my OG physical save
I have my Coco living next to a cemetery that I created in the game, because I had heard about her connection to the haniwa before
I feel like both making and watching this is peak procrastination activities
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bro this whole time I thought she was just a shortbread or gingerbread cookie
I love coco 😊
In reality she wears a giant gingerbread cookie mask that she eats every night lmfao.
I always thought she was supposed to look like a coconut, i feel dumb
She could be a spirit guardian!
thanks for the video. cool video!
Thank you for ruining my childhood 🙂
Theory: Coco is just a little goth cutie
I see it more like she's coming these souls so they're no longer outside or buried, taking care of them because she's animate unlike them ❤
Coco was one of my faves
Gaahhh I need her in my town so bad. She's so neat. (and cute)
I wonder if the cactuars in the final fantasy series are references to haniwa too? They have almost the same look as the gyroids do
i bet freckles will get lore next. trust me.