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I better not catch you making goo-goo eyes at my wife, or I’ll make you see in the fourth dimension!
― Cyrus, New Leaf


Cyrus (カイゾー, Kaizō?) is an alpaca who appears in New Leaf. He works at Re-Tail with Reese, his wife and his business partner. He is the upholsterer and is in charge of altering furniture, but his services are not accessible right from the start. He is first seen sleeping, and any attempts to wake him up will result in scolding from Reese. Cyrus remains asleep until certain conditions are met, but he is always asleep while the train station gate is open and/or there are other players in town.

Appearance[]

Cyrus is an alpaca with blue-colored fur, black eyes, tan skin, and a very serious look on his face. His "hairstyle" is very similar to the Regent Wig item (similar to that of a pompadour), and he wears a blue apron with red stitches with a pink heart on the left side, designed in similar fashion to his wife's apron. He has 3 freckles on each of his cheeks, has buck teeth, and his hooves are black.

In New Leaf[]

Cyrus works at Re-Tail with Reese. However, he will always be asleep until four specific in-game conditions are met. Once he's awake, he'll provide a new service to the player where they can customize specific furniture items.

In amiibo Festival[]

Cyrus is a playable character in amiibo Festival, available when the Cyrus amiibo is scanned on the Wii U. Sometimes when the player playing as Cyrus lands on an event square in the Amiibo Festival Board Game mode, a random event specifically related to Cyrus may appear.

Cyrus has 6 unlockable costumes for the game, unlocked through leveling up the Cyrus amiibo:

  • Re-Tail work apron (Level 1)
  • Heart logo sweatshirt with red pants (Level 2)
  • Blue sweater with the design (Level 3)
  • Re-Tail logo jacket (Level 4)
  • Light blue jacket (Level 5)
  • White tuxedo/groom (Level 6)

In Pocket Camp[]

Cyrus, alongside Reese, crafts items for the player in exchange for bells or leaf tickets. When a craft is ordered, a pop-up appears onscreen with Cyrus' face stating, "crafting request initiated!"

In New Horizons[]

He appears again in New Horizons as a part of the Wedding Season event, along with Reese. If you choose, you may take wedding-themed photos with Cyrus and Reese in exchange for Heart Crystals, which can be used to buy wedding-themed furniture from Cyrus.

Cyrus comes back as a permanent fixture in the 2.0 update, where he can now customize items a'la his role in New Leaf. He can be found along with Reese on Harv's island after donating 100,000 bells to Lloid in his respective "co-op" space.

Personality[]

Cyrus is a talented builder who likes reworking furniture. He is fairly aggressive in his speech, and warns male characters about interacting with his wife, showing his jealous streak. He uses the catchphrase "squirt", implying that he sees the player as a child. Cyrus is also very proud of his abilities, striking a pose when asked to rework furniture. He can be rather humorous, though.

Services[]

Cyrus will awaken and provide his services only with the gate closed and no visitors. To use his service, four conditions must be met:

  1. 100,000 Bells worth of items have been sold to Reese.
  2. 100 pieces of furniture have been cataloged (found at the Nookling Stores).
  3. 50 pieces of clothing cataloged (from the Able Sisters).
  4. The player has played for seven days.
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Cyrus crafts a golden toilet from gold ore.

Customizing furniture[]

Cyrus is a talented craftsman with an array of refurnishing skills and crafting. He can re-customize most furniture items the player brings to him, but only certain furniture such as chairs, sofas, and TVs are acceptable customized furniture. Cyrus can change a furniture's color, pattern, or fabric design, giving suggestions to the player for customization. For the fabric design (If it's available for that item), Cyrus will ask if you want to use a clothing pattern (which he will take and not return, as he needs the material for the pattern), custom design, or some of his suggestions. If available, the player can use ore to crystallize certain furniture items.

Once a customization has begun, it will take 30 minutes before Cyrus is finished with the customization of the piece of furniture. He can accept unlimited requests per day. Bear in mind that he will not take requests if the store closing time is exceeded.

However, he will not wake up until the player has met each of the four criteria listed above.

Shrinking fossils[]

FossilModels

Triceratops Fossil Model.

Cyrus also has the ability to turn any fossil into a miniature provided the player has a complete collection of that fossil set. Fossil models are a new type of furniture available in New Leaf. They are miniaturized versions of the full fossil sets. While they are not real fossils, regular fossils can be used to make them. These models-sized creatures take up significantly less space than their museum counterparts. Cyrus will offer to make fossil models if the player speaks to him with the completed set in their pocket. Each model costs ten percent of the original set's price to create. Once they are finished, you will be able to display them in your home without having any mass-space losses.

Music[]

With 3,000 Bells, a K.K. Slider's song of choice and a Giant Clam shell, the player can request Cyrus to make a shell Music Box. The Music Box will be ready for pickup after 30 minutes have passed. When placed down and interacted with, it plays a music box version of the featured song.

New Horizons[]

Cyrus returns along with Reese for the Wedding Season event in June on Harv's Island. After receiving the Heart Crystals from Reese for the photos, the player can trade him the crystals for limited wedding items, such as the wedding bench, the wedding decoration, and other wedding-based items. At a certain amount of days of taking anniversary pictures, all approved by Reese, Cyrus gives the player two DIY recipes: the Wedding Fence and the wedding wand, which requires a wedding flower stand and 3x star fragments.

Once the player fulfills the requirements to unlock a plaza in Harv’s Island, they can donate 100k bells to build a permanent co-op for Cyrus’ customization service. Unlike the customization kits which can only customize a limited amount of items, Cyrus can customize any item with other color selections, including items that can be purchased with Nook Miles. As well, unlike in New Leaf, Cyrus’ customizations are immediate, meaning the player can collect them right after choosing. Whenever Cyrus has completed the customization, he would strike a pose, causing Reese to gush happily (with a heart appearing above her head) or applaud excitedly.

The number of items that can be customized by Cyrus per day is unlimited.

Quotes[]

New Horizons[]

Should the player attempt to invite Cyrus to the campsite by scanning his amiibo, he will have the following to say:

"Yello! This is Cyrus. Well, hey there, Player. What can I do ya for?
Your campsite? Wow, that sounds like that'd be just the thing.
Sorry. Can't. I got my hands full right at the moment. Thanks for the invite though! You take care."

amiibo Card[]

amiibo Card[1]
Back
Amiibo card back
#210 Cyrus
Type Special
Star sign Aquarius
Birthday 1/26
Roll value 1
Hand sign Paper
Request I'll leave it up to you!
Amiibo 210 Cyrus
SpecialSpeciesIconSilhouette
209 Wendell #210 Cyrus 211 Grams
SpecialSpeciesIconSilhouette

Trivia[]

  • Different meanings can be found in Cyrus' international names:
    • His English and Dutch names, Cyrus, is a masculine given name that is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Κῦρος Kȳros (root of the word κύριος kúrios "lord"), itself from the Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kuruš. The name of many of Persia's kings ever since the Achaemenid Empire, the name Cyrus (Persian: کوروش) is understood to mean "one who bestows care", or even simply "the sun".
      • His Russian name, Сайрус Sayrus, is a Slavic variant of Cyrus which is a transliteration of the above, as opposed to the traditional variant Кир Kir (of separate etymological lineage).
      • His and Reese's names collectively appear to a play on the English verb recycle, and by extension its Dutch and Russian translations (DUT: recycleren; RUS: рециркули́ровать recirkulírovatʹ).
    • His Japanese name, カイゾー (Kaizō?) is a katakana rendering of the noun (かい)(ぞう) (kaizō?), meaning "reconstruction" or "remodeling".
      • The given name Kaizou can also be spelled with the same kanji in kaizō, which mean the following:
        • kai means "to change; to modify; to reform" or the product of such. It is also in some spellings of other names like Kaikou, Kainoshin, or Sekai.
        • means "to create; to make" or "physique; structure". It is also in some spellings of other names like Akizou, Norizou, or Shinzou.
      • Due to the Japanese name of Re-Tail, her full name in the Japanese translation may be Kaizou Parker (JPN: パーカー カイゾー (Pākā Kaizō?)). The English surname Parker derives from Old French parquier "keeper of the park", ultimately from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz "enclosure, fence".
    • His French name, Serge, is a masculine given name from Latin Sergius. The origins of the name is uncertain, but is speculated to be of Etruscan origin meaning "servant". This is likely a pun on the name of French singer Serge Lama (born 1943), who himself was already the humorous namesake of Serge (born 2005), a llama performing in the circus Cirque Franco-Italien of John Beautour.
    • His Spanish name, Al, is a diminutive of the masculine given name Alberto (from L. Albertus), cognate to English Albert (from Old English Æþelbeorht), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht (a compound of *aþalaz "noble" and *berhtaz "bright, famous").
      • When combined with Reese's Spanish name, Paca, him and his wife's names recreate the word alpaca, their species.
    • His German name, Björn, is a Swedish masculine name from the Old Norse word bjǫrn "bear" (which itself is from Proto-Germanic *bernuz, a northern form of *berô).
    • His Italian name, Merino, is the name of a breed of domestic sheep famous for their very fine, soft wool. Bred in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages and monopolized by the country, export of the breed was punishable by death until it was gifted to foreign nobilities in the 18th century. The breed was supposedly named after the Spanish nobles (a merino) who ruled over county divisions (a merindad) and oversaw their pastures; the title most likely came from Late Latin maiōrīnus (root maior "major; great").
    • His Chinese name, 健兆 Jiànzhào, is phonetically and visually similar to the verb 建造 jiànzào "to build; to construct". Further meaning can be found in the individual Han characters:
      • jiàn can mean either "strong; robust; vigorous", "healthy; in good health", or "adeptly; energetically". It can also be a surname. This hanzi is both a simplified and traditional form, but can be further simplified as 伣, and is an alternate form of 建.
      • zhào can mean (as a verb) "to portend; to forsee", or (as a noun) "omen" or specifically the cracks in "oracle bones" (甲骨 jiǎgǔ), ox shoulder bones or turtle shells used in pyromantic scapulimancy to divinate the future from the cracks made in the bone by fire, a practice most common during the Shang dynasty.
    • His Korean name, 리포 Ripo is a clipping of the noun 리폼 ripom, a borrowing of the English noun reform (as in the change of something; a renovation).
      • Additionally, 리포 Ripo is alliterative with Reese's Korean name, 리사 Risa.
  • If the Japanese name of Reese and Re-Tail (R. Parkers' R・パーカーズ (R·Pākāzu?)) are taken into account, Reese and Cyrus may be one of the few characters to have surnames (Parker パーカー (Pākā?)) besides the Nooks and Ables.
  • He shares his birthday with Vivian. Both have their birthday on January 26th.
  • The Wedding Season event indicates that Cyrus married Reese in the month of June. As the anniversary celebrations last the entirety of the month, the exact date of their wedding is unknown.
  • He and Reese are Katrina's metaphor for love when telling a fortune.
    • In amiibo Festival, the Tarot Card, The Lovers, features both Cyrus and Reese.
  • In New Leaf, he has the voice of a smug villager, while in New Horizons, he has the voice of a jock villager. Reese's voice was similarly changed in the 2020 installment.

In other languages[]

Cyrus
Language Name Translation
Japan Japanese カイゾー Kaizō -
France French Serge -
Spain Spanish Al -
Germany German Björn -
Italy Italian Merino -
The Netherlands Dutch Cyrus -
Russia Russian Сайрус Sayrus -
China Chinese 健兆 Jiànzhào -
South Korea Korean 리포 Ripo -


References[]

  1. Species navigation icons from Nookipedia by Sunmarsh, CC BY-SA 3.0
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