Wisp

"Tah-Dahh!"

- Wisp

Wisp (ゆうたろう,) is a spirit (Animal Crossing) /genie (City Folk) that appears in the in the early hours of the morning (usually between 12 AM to 4 AM). He is absent in, and initially , though he has been added to the game as of an update on November 2, 2016.

Role
The player can find him randomly between the times of 12:00 AM to 4:00 AM. They must catch spirits with their net or find his lamp.

As a reward he gets rid of all weeds in town, paints the player's roof, gives out an item, or in later versions of the game, kills all the roaches in the player's house.

In Animal Crossing
In Animal Crossing, the player will need to capture 5 spirits roaming around the town, and return them to Wisp (who stays in the same acre he is found in). His reward is one of three things:


 * 1) He will remove all the weeds in the player's town.
 * 2) He will give the player a randomly selected item (furniture, clothing, wallpaper, flooring, or gyroid) that  they don't  yet have in their catalog.
 * 3) He will re-color the roof of the player's house.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk
In, the player will have to find the Empty Lamp somewhere in the town. The rewards Wisp gives are essentially the same as in Animal Crossing, only the Roof painting was changed to the ability to smash roaches, as the roof paint could be bought from all of Tom Nook's Stores (apart from Nook's Cranny), and the random item reward has been updated to give the player  a chance to get a random accessory or hat, which they may not already have available in their catalogue. However, the item is usually not rare. Also, if the player doesn't have it in their catalog and they select hat then Wisp will give the player a turban instead.



In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
While Wisp was absent in the initial launch of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, an update was released on November 2, 2016, that added him to the game. He wears his genie-like outfit from City Folk. When wandering around town after 12:00am, players will occasionally be called to by an unknown voice. If they walk towards it, Wisp's lamp will appear. From inside of the lamp, Wisp will ask the player to take him somewhere without a lot of people around, like their house, because he doesn't like crowds. If the player picks up the lamp and displays it in their house, they can interact with it to have Wisp pop out. However, he cannot exist in the mortal plane due to his ghostly body unless he possesses another body, which can be done by scanning an amiibo into the game, causing him to possess that character and allowing him to grant one wish per day. The two wish options are to have the villager he is possessing come play (characters who own Mobile Homes will appear in Harvey's campsite, while others will move in immediately) or for him to give the player a free item. If the player changes their mind and does not wish for anything, Wisp will return to his lamp and can be summoned again later.

Trivia

 * It is possible to get Wisp more than once.
 * In, Wisp will mutter something about a master and what he will do if the spirits aren't recovered.
 * Ironically, in, Wisp says that he is scared of ghosts, even though he is one.
 * In, a weed-removing function can be accessed through Leif once Timmy and Tommy's store upgrades to T.I.Y., in which the player can pay him bells so that he will remove all of the town's weeds, essentially making Wisp's weed removing reward useless.
 * Wisp looks similar to Boos from the Super Mario series.
 * In New Leaf, Wisp has the voice of a lazy villager.

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