op,, may i ask for some more,, tom nook content pls? 👉👈
This is kind of an au where Tom remembers the events of each game, but doesn't fully understand he's in a game series??
Tom fidgeted at his desk. He'd waited so long, so long to see you again. You had to return to him, of course. It was fate. Destiny. You always came back to him, eventually.
He remembered when you moved to the first town. How simply everything had been, back then. He hadn't known, at the time, how much you'd mean to him. It was a simple favor for Rover, an old friend of his.
By now, he'd say he's known you even longer than he has Rover. Longer than anyone, really...
He wasn't always the best of creatures. Not always the best to you, even. He was hurt, backstabbed, betrayed. His youthful optimism and naivety had died, and his heart grew cold and hard. He distanced himself from the people who meant a great deal to him, out of fear of being betrayed again. He was stern and pushy and… Just as cruel as those who had betrayed them.
He was unfair to his fellow villagers, then. Even you.
But, he hadn't known at the time, that you would be his redemption, that you would show him the error of his ways.
Time moved differently then, than it had before he met you. It seemed to stretch on into forever, long yet short, same but different, always changing but always the same.
And then, it was different. He can't remember how it happened, but it did. Either the memory leading up to moving was blurry, or… Or, the explanation was something Tom was too afraid to consider.
You appeared again. You always did, Tom knows that now, but he didn't, then. He didn't know how important you were, not just yet. But, even still, your presence was a comfort, a sense of familiarity far from the village he had grown up in. It was like taking a little piece of home with him.
But, you didn't seem to remember him. No matter how hard he pushed, you were completely clueless. If he hadn't spent, what, years? Living with you, he would have thought himself crazy.
He found himself growing more and more fond of you as you and he rebuilt the tentative friendship you once had. And this time, you both grew closer than you were the first time around. It was then that you had shown him that he was on the track to becoming just as morally corrupt as those who had backstabbed him.
He wanted to be better for you.
The city was the next big move, and you found him once again. Or, did he find you? Both of you inevitably separating, only to rejoin in an endless dance of "why's" and "what-if's". It was too convenient to be chance. This was preordained.
You didn't remember him this time, either. Tom felt his heart break. He had spent so long trying to gain your approval and affections, and now… You didn't even know his name. Again.
You always come back to him. But, you also always leave.
You're not far behind when Tom joins the Happy Home Academy, meeting him once again with no memory of him, of anyone you'd ever run into before. And then, just like that, Tom has to love his life without you in it, once again. He pulls some strings to get you to be mayor of the town he's moved to set up operations in, but eventually you leave and are replaced.
Nothing is permanent, Tom finds. Nothing but his love for you. Because… This is love, isn't it? Longing for the comfort of someone so dear to him, even if you don't remember it. Don't remember him. He's known you for yours, and each and every time it's always you. You.
His client. His friend. His coworker. His mayor.
He needed you. He loved you. And this way, you'll have no way to get out of his grasp. This way, you have no way of leaving. You'll never leave him again. Never forget him again. You'll finally be together, always.
An island getaway. This was the whole reason for this latest business. It was something big, and big and important things always sent you running to him. It was fate. You'd always come back to him.
You, him, his nephews, and a few nice folks living happily ever after on an island paradise.
Doesn't that sound just perfect?
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