Game Theory: Animal Crossing's Scary Bunny unZIPPED! (Animal Crossing New Horizons)

why hippity skippity hoppity ho now that you found me I will greet you cordially I know what you're thinking no, this is not a costume and don't go snooping I got it Zippity zappity that hippity ho what do you know

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day? It's April 12. I promise to return to this island on that wonderful day in the meantime, captain, don't tell anyone you stumbled upon an old zipper, it'll be a funny

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surprise, excuse me, but could you stop staring at me? Back off, it's rude, I won't find anything there anyway, stop looking back. I'm glad you think this is funny, kid, seriously, scratch that last warning.

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you. You have a funny bunny. Hello Internet, welcome. Zig

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. the show that's not afraid to unbutton the bunny suit and ruin the magic today we're dipping our toes into a new franchise for the channel the clear waters of

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as you probably know, this channel is no stranger to the properties of Nintendo, I mean the first act. of Nintendo representatives in the United States even calls himself our surrogate uncle, I love you for Uncle David, but I must admit that I am late to the Animal Crossing franchise, no, it's just something about a

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where your main objective is pay a home loan, it's a little too real to feel seen by this game, but I need a good way.

I'm already working in real life to try to get Chase Bank to stop looking over its shoulder and now you want a video game raccoon to do the same. I've got two shoulders, guys, if I could just get Chase Bank to accept sunfish as currency and be all set, but the most recent release, New Horizons, actually made me change my tune with a little more time on my hands, I decided to give it a chance and something about the cute aesthetic of the game, the island atmosphere, the chill music just struck a chord, it felt good to find routines and cross off items from a short to-do list instead of the endless set of tasks. thankless things that adulthood requires.

I have to do what the plumbing is again, why is there never a steady state when you own a home, there is always something that falls apart and apparently I wasn't the only one who had those feelings since its release was the same day in that Doom Eternal the Internet has been eager to unite? people like Isabel and Tom Nook along with the Doom Slayer, but the comparison may be truer than any of us realized, considering New Horizons has been breaking sales records like a well-armed marine tearing down beasts peacefully. or at least things were peaceful until Easter, suddenly everyone's islands were flooded with unwanted eggs clogging their streams, trees were even coming out of the rocks.

This marked the moment when all of us first time players were introduced and unfortunately all veteran players were reintroduced to the creepy mysterious zipper tea bunny, oh he sure could look like any other

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in this world of the game, but the zipper hides a secret. Well, I mean, he's not very good at keeping the secret considering he complains quietly all the time and literally gets named. After that secret, he's still hiding it, however, zip Bertie, our little Easter Bunny substitute, is someone hiding inside a bunny costume who's ever heard that before. Seriously, he should open an asylum for the furry criminals who knew half of this game's programming.

The related channel would be trying to expose people inside disturbing animal suits anyway, that's exactly our goal today despite the zippers' warnings that it ruins the magic. We're peeling back the mask to identify another creepy guy hiding inside a bunny costume and I swear. If his name ends up being William Afton, I'm out, I'm quitting, I'm done, let's start by looking at the history of zippers. Bunny's first appearance was a townspeople

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animals before making a return appearance in a new leaf and both appearances aroused many suspicions from fans of the series appearing around Bunny Day, which is the Animal Crossing's equivalent of the Easter zip, they're a bit of a trickster and always take the player on an egg hunt with the promise of a prize that's never as fabulous as you'd expect, and those eggs are a point. of discord of its own, as Nintendo was recently forced to update the game to make the ubiquitous eggs less annoying in people's game. my wood everywhere, he is a maniac, for my part, I am missing eggs, they are tasty, but today we are not focused on the game at the beginning of April, but on the man who is tormenting the city.

The zipper is not the cheerful pet you might be. expect from someone who pretends to be the Easter Bunny, in fact, spends a lot of time mumbling about how uncomfortable, hard and boring it is to be the bunny, okay, saying things about how hot and sweaty he is inside the costume or after a Particularly cheesy line. Look, I can't believe it. I just said that Zipper also likes to act like his disguise is real, even pushing it to the point of correcting the game developers. A new sheet where Zippers' camp description says quote amping gives Zipper the chance to finally take off that stuffy old costume, we'll be told in no uncertain terms that it's not a final costume quote if we try to look at the giant zipper. and obvious Mr.

Bunny is back, he doesn't enjoy saying things like sorry, can you stop looking at my back? It's rude, you won't find anything back there anyway, even his actions reflect how tired and bored he is with this whole thing if he thinks you're looking super, we'll jump up and act cheerful, but if he thinks you're out of sight, he'll stop acting completely and start shuffling around and sighing a lot, so that alone is pretty strange for what would otherwise be a very lighthearted and relaxing free mystery game. but what makes it stranger is the response Zipper receives in-universe from other characters.

It would be one thing if only us players thought it was weird, but even the other animals in our village find Zipper a little out of place, we know that along the way. Other villagers react to Zipper by saying that he is not a normal part of the Animal Crossing world, they complain that he acts strangely and refuses to recognize his own Zipper, what's more, when Zipper appears, he brings with him this plague of eggs and that It's just not an impact on the game. other villagers actively point out how unusual everything is, so for everyone's sake who or what the Zipper Tea Bunny is, well, I think I have the answer.

Animal Crossing games tend to have a fairly small cast of characters, so all we have to do is eliminate all the potential suspects until we're left with a popular fan

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about the issue that has identified the old mayor. Tortimer as one of the main candidates due to the tea and the zippered tea bunny that can represent Tortimer and the whole tiredness theme within the suit angle. would work great for an old man, others say the tea and his name could represent Tom Nook and others think Phyllis the postman penguin could be behind the mask because she mutters under her breath and hates her job just like the zipper does. . um, hold up a postal worker who hates her job, guys, we could have other reasons to be afraid of this character, to be honest, it's a reference that anyone understands at this point.

Wow, I feel old. In the 1990s there were multiple incidents involving postal workers. crazy and lashing out with violence against other employees or the public, hence the term becomes postal, it even caused a series of video games classified as one of the most violent video games of all time, the more you know, the last big suspect in the fan theories is Hopkins because he's also a bunny who shares the same birthday as Zipper Tease, so that's a decent amount of options for us to go through, so I guess you'll have to tune in for part two.

Make sure you hit the subscribe button to get notified. of when that video hits your secondary inboxes, I'm not going to do it for you this time because honestly it's not necessary, so if you want to hit that subscribe button right now, this is a great opportunity anyway, it's actually pretty easy delete everything. Of those suspects right now in one go, they can all be seen near the zipper. You know, there's a theory floating around on the Internet that I'm secretly Scott Cawthon because you've never seen us in the same room together. The exact opposite works with the zipper during Bunny Day events.

Zipper can be found in the center of town and almost all the other characters can be seen near him or they are just working inside a building while the bunny is standing outside even in a world where you can wave a magic wand and change of clothes moving so fast just breaks reality, so if we throw some duplication or teleportation magic out the window, which feels right by the rules of this game universe, in short, that's it. Zipper isn't a villager like you, I know, but let me be clear, that doesn't mean we don't know Zipper T's true identity, quite the opposite, in fact, I think Zipper T Bunny is actually our father, which It might seem really random, but let's talk about why this is the only explanation that makes any kind of sense.

First, your father is actually a character in this game, albeit a minor one, while your mother will send you letters quite frequently throughout the Animal Crossing games, sometimes even including things like gifts (your father is a bit more distant originally would only send you a card on Father's Day, even admitting in those letters that he's not a great writer like your mother in his defense, it's actually you who should send him a card on Father's Day, but still, in Recent games have seen him sending more cards, but he's still a relative mystery. Oh, and by the way, here's a weird fact about all of this, along with his Father's Day letter from him, he tends to send a red carnation.

Now carnations are known as the. traditional flower for Mother's Day and, curiously, the rose is the official flower for Father's Day. Here's the creepy part, although internationally people wear roses on Father's Day, red if dad is alive and white if he's deceased, so it's basically animal crossing on Father's Day, dear old man. Dad is sending you a flower to remind you that yes, he is still alive just watch out for the day he sends you the white carnation, but hey, what does all this have to do with Zipper Bunny? Nothing at least in English except for the The real answer, again we have to look internationally obviously Zipper Bunny in English is just to plan for the fact that he is a man in disguise and this is true for many of his other international names as well since most of them are some version of Zipper or Bounce, but some of them really stand out as being particularly interesting in Germany, they completely abandon the bunny day pretense and simply call Zipper OST Hoss or a pun on the German translation of Easter Hare in Japanese, particularly the native language for the core development of Animal Crossing.

The name of the zipper team is peon Tarrou, which is a kind of suitcase peon, roughly the Japanese equivalent of Boeing, and taru, which is a suffix to a Japanese child's name reserved specifically for the first child, at least in ancient tradition, in other words, in Japanese its name. roughly translates to Boeing boy, this, along with the fact that the villagers are using male pronouns, may help us determine that Zipper is most likely a man, but hold on to that whole first son thing, we'll come back to that in one second, things start to work. it gets even more interesting when you get to its Italian translation Oh video in Italian the word wove Oh it's egg which is a bit close to OVD oh but still a pretty far deviation the video is also unusual considering it's the actual Italian name by Ovid an ancient Roman Poet known for his epic work Metamorpho, which is a bunch of myths that narrate the creation of the world until the death of Julius Caesar.

It was a hugely influential literary work that inspired famous authors like Dante Chaucer Shakespeare, my wife Stephanie, which was a classic. Major assures me this was funny because of grammar or something. I'm skeptical to say the least, as the name implies, it's all about transformation and Ovid specifically says that transformation in the world occurs through violence or love. he himself was eventually exiled from Rome by the Emperor for reasons still unclear, in Ovid's own words, it was a poem and a mistake, a crime worse than murder, more harmful than poetry, it seems like really random writing, butThe themes of exile as well as the themes of fathers and sons continue in other international translations of zippor derisive name specifically the Korean name looks like this and is translated as the word tobot.

I initially thought this might be a pun on the word rabbit or bunny in Korean, which sounds a lot like this notice in that the first character is exactly the same, but reads as taki. Now I may be barking up the wrong tree, but the English translation of hobbit is truly fascinating. You see, the book of Tobit is a Roman Catholic text that tells the story of an exile. a man called tobot and his son Tobias I was a two-time professional, analyst and therapist, the world's first analysis, not that Tobias Hobbit was exiled for his debt and it was up to his son Tobias to get money for his father to pay that debt.

Now I admit that a lot of this story doesn't match up with one thing: Tobot was blinded by bird poop and I'm pretty sure it doesn't go as far as Zippers' backstory, but it's still very interesting that the developers chose to go . with this name in Korean, well almost every other name is either a transparent pun or a fall in appeal, this is a very specific dark reference, it's about a man in exile due to debt and the son who goes out to the world to pay. what his father owes him in Animal Crossing, a story about a boy who goes out into the world and immediately falls into debt and has to earn a living out of that debt, it's a strange coincidence, wouldn't you say that you combine it with the Italian name Oh ?

You should know that Zipper is a father exiled because of his debt. I mean, think about this, you're the only human in this game. Your parents are presumably human too, but you never see them, so to blend in with a village of animals they would need a suit. of some kind, say a bunny suit and if you've just been exiled from a civilization for a debt that would increase your need to hide your true identity when you first meet Zipper in the desert, it seems like he just wants to talk to you first. , specifically asks you not to tell anyone else that you are talking to him as if he is afraid of being discovered or that his secret of hiding two eggs will be discovered.

No, I admit this sounds creepy and Kenz, if it's a man in a bunny suit asks you not to tell anyone about him, please tell someone you trust, but at least in the game, all efforts Zipper seem to be aimed at helping you, there is no one else collecting the eggs, so who is he hiding them for? you and the fact that the town thinks it's strange seems to indicate that this isn't something that happens regularly or an annual tradition that they were familiar with until you, it's because you're here now, he's here hiding eggs for you and Nobody else, I mean.

What character in the universe would care enough about you to show up on your island every year just to hide eggs, furniture, even money to keep you entertained on Bunny Day, plus your own parents? And here's what Animal Crossing is a Japanese game and in Japanese culture, parents are almost required to stay away from their children. Studies on parenting in Japan show that many parents feel like outsiders in their own homes because so much emphasis is placed on the household economy, how much that household earns and how much of its money. life you have to dedicate to the company the parents as a result are always away from home they are always working there leaving most of the upbringing to the mother there is even a phrase for this in the Japanese language chichi yo Fu's I roughly means that the the father is missing in action, it causes the relationship between father and son to atrophy in many families with fathers who struggle to express themselves, this is probably why your father and the game have so much trouble writing you letters, along with all the references to parents and exile and the fact that no other character we see in the game can be Zipper without the power of magical teleportation and I think Zipper T could just be your father trying to show his affection through other methods, not writing , but not doing it himself, but as a character sweating. away in a miserable bunny costume, who else would try so hard to keep the Easter Bunny illusion alive and hide gifts and trees specifically for you?

Who else would take those same worthless eggs you just found and trade them for more and more? recipes and gifts, I mean, he's not all that good at it, he's a little rude and a lot of times it seems like more work than it's worth, but he frequently refers to you as a child and wants to keep the magic alive for you, so The way I see it, the mystery of Zipper T Bunny is one of two things, either your dad is trying his best to express his love for you in the way only he can, or two, he's a really weird stalker. and dangerous one hiding in the woods and a brightly colored cartoon game for kids waiting to murder you, but hey, we're on the topic of the things you're using to pass the time while you're in quarantine.

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