Parents

In all three Animal Crossing games, the player will frequently receive in-game letters from "Mom", purportedly the character's mother. Letters from Mom usually contain a small anecdote about life in the character's home prior to moving into the village; these anecdotes usually concern certain memories of the player that she has, a tale relating to "Dad", or a few words of wisdom or guidance.

Mom will also occasionally send gifts in the mail, on the player's birthday and on New Year's Day. Mom also sends non-native fruit, acorns, and mushrooms in the mail as gifts as well on random occasions, always with a relevant story attached.

Mom is never actually seen, nor is it known how/why the player came to move away from home in the first place. Outside of the letters, the player's mother is never brought up in conversation by any of the animals.

A popular cartoon on YouTube and YTMND revolves around the character of "Mom". The story goes that the narrator purchased Animal Crossing some years ago, and his real-life mother - who had polio and was wheelchair-bound - started a character in his village. Although he quit Animal Crossing after some time, his mother continued playing it and enjoying it for many years, up until she passed away. When the narrator booted up the game some months later, he found that his mailbox was full of letters from "his mother", many with containing presents. It is unclear as to whether there was some confusion as to the identity of the sender of the letters - if it was the narrator's actual mother who passed away, or if it was the in-game "Mom".

External link

 * Animal Crossing Tragic Story