#barold

[cicadatree]

barold’s house

[screamindemon0]

Barold is literally animal crossing Jacob, but not even Jacob likes Barold whenever he plays acnh! Dawn sensed this immediately as a Barold defender so they made something more cute and dog-adjacent. XD

(yes, that is a webkinz golden retriever Jacob)

I was gonna change his surname but bears live in dens :3

[animalcrossingtournament]

Round 1 — 150 / 278 — Barold vs. Beardo

Which design do you prefer?

Barold

Beardo

Voting ended onMar 29

[thunderheadfred]

some kissy kitties for you

[pelman]

a series of f/o doodles i did for my sheezyart pinboard; please click to view in full size!

[littlestwetspecimen]

Uh I selfship with him♡

[mercicrossing]

Theory: Barold is a self-insert

A lot of ac players dislike Barold because he's an uggo and don't want anything to do with him, but I had a special fascination with him largely because I couldn't understand the reason why he exists. I refused to believe that barold was just a poor design and tried to understand his deal, until one day I noticed something.

In New Leaf, every villager had some trivia about them that was used for an in-game event - how many siblings they have, what their hobby is and what their current goal is. Many villagers seem to have randomly-chosen goals and hobbies that do not make obvious sense, but Barold was one of the villagers that had an interesting combo - his skill is computing and his goal is being a programmer.

I thought that it was so specific that it would make perfect sense for someone at the dev team to add him as their own self-insert, and it would explain how in both games he lives in something that looks like an office, and he's so lazy that he sleeps in the same place he works!

The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to test my theory - his Japanese name, Nisshi, does not have any obvious connection to bears or eating, so I assumed that it was a nickname of someone working on the dev team. I looked through New Leaf's credits and found that there were 5 people on the team who had "Nishi" in their surnames, with two of them being women.

If they had their birthdays publicly revealed, we probably could have linked Barold to one of them. However, it's impolite to pry into personal life of these people so we may never know lol

[onderdonkisland]

Barold