User:The Jacketed Terrapin

Hi! I'm known as Turtle Lover on most social media platforms, but I call myself TurtleCrossing here just for the heck of it. I'm also on MarioWiki, Bulbapedia, and SmashWiki, although I'm a lot more active on the lattermost.

My knowledge for Animal Crossing all started with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which heavily represented the series despite it not even having a playable character in that game. While I never intended to get into the series at the time, I did have some curiosity for it, and I even watched a English fandub of the Movie (can't remember who did the dub I watched, though).

Somewhere in 2012 or 2013, I gained this new interest in a little web series called "Happy Tree Friends", and I thought to myself "You know! It'd be pretty funny if I mixed this cute video game series with cute animal people with an internet cartoon that's kinda like it but way more gory. It's a genius plan!". Thinking back at the idea...I regret it. I regret ever coming up with the concept for that...thing. (Fun fact: The fanfic's equivalent to Flippy was a male Villager, and this was LONG before the meme that depicts the Villager in Smash Bros. as a psychopathic serial killer)

Anyway, my real first Animal Crossing experience was with New Leaf in 2013. Ever since I got this game, I instantly became hooked and I wanted to try out other games in the series. My first attempt to try the series' prior installments was by downloading an English patch for the Nintendo 64 game. It was fine at first, but then it started to crash once it hit I believe Day 3. I then downloaded another English patch from a different website, but the same problem occurred, and it even gave my laptop a virus. I have never attempted to download emulators ever again.

My first REAL pre-New Leaf game was City Folk in 2015 (which probably wasn't the best game to start with in hindsight). That same year, I got Happy Home Designer, which was honestly fine for what it was, although it admittedly shouldn't've been $20. In 2018, I got Wild World on the Wii U Virtual Console. I have considered getting the physical copy of the game back in maybe 2014, but apparently you couldn't unlock the final Tom Nook shop upgrade without a friend buying something from the 2nd-to-last upgrade, so I ultimately passed. Thankfully, the VC version removed that awful requirement, so I downloaded it with no problem. However, I haven't played since around early-to-mid 2019 since my Wii U GamePad charge no longer works, so I can't really play it anymore (unless I get a new charger).

Anyway, that's it for my introduction, so here's a little something.

Step 2: Order by species
I generally order species by a "theme". While I could've ordered them based on how biologically related a villager species is to another (such as horses and rhinos being next to each other), I felt it was best to go by much simpler themes. Anyway, here's the order:
 * Domesticated Carnivorans: Dogs -> Cats
 * Non-Domesticated Carnivorans: Bears -> Cubs -> Wolves -> Lions -> Tigers
 * Glires: Mice -> Squirrels -> Hamsters -> Rabbits
 * Domesticated Ungulates: Horses -> Cows/Bulls -> Pigs -> Sheep -> Goats
 * Non-Domesticated Ungulates: Deer
 * Pachyderms: Elephants -> Hippos -> Rhinos
 * Other Mammals: Anteaters
 * Marsupials: Kangaroos -> Koalas
 * Primates: Monkeys -> Gorillas
 * Avians: Birds -> Chickens -> Ducks -> Penguins -> Eagles -> Ostriches
 * Classes with only one Species: Alligators -> Frogs -> Octopi

Why I ordered the species this way:
 * Domesticated Carnivorans: These come first due to their very strong connection to humans. Dogs come first as they historically have a stronger bond with humans than Cats.
 * Non-Domesticated Carnivorans: These come after the above group due to being the closest related group of species. Bears and Cubs come first as they are represented in media more commonly than the other three species. Wolves come before the big cats to follow the "dogs before cats" rule, while Lions come before Tigers for the same reason as the Bears.
 * Glires: These come after the above group due to having a weaker connection to humans, but before the below groups as they are represented moreso than any of them. Rodents come first due to them being the largest of all Mammalian orders in terms of number of species. The rodents are ordered by how often they are represented in media.
 * Domesticated Ungulates: These are after the Glires due to not being as prominently represented in media, but are before the other Mammalian groups due to having a stronger connection to humans. Horses come first due to having the strongest bond with humans. Bovine and Pigs come next due to being the main sources of red meat for humans (with Bovine coming first due to the addition of the Cow's milk). Sheep come next due to their wool historically being used for human clothing. Goats come last due to having the weakest connection to humans.
 * Non-Domesticated Ungulates: These come after the above group for the same reason as the Non-Domesticated Carnivorans.
 * Pachyderms: While Hippos and Rhinos are technically true Ungulates, I ordered them here as it was the simplest way to order them. These are ordered by how often they are represented in media, with Elephants coming first and Rhinos coming last.
 * Other Mammals: These are the Mammalian species that don't fit into any of the above groups. This only includes placental mammals that are not Primates.
 * Marsupials: These are ordered as the second-to-last Mammalian species as they are only ones who are not placental mammals. Kangaroos come first as they are more represented in media than Koalas, as well as being Australia's national animal.
 * Primates: These are ordered as the last of the Mammalian species as they are the closest related species to humans. Monkeys come first as Gorillas are more closely related to humans than they are.
 * Avians: These come after the mammals due to having more similarities to them than the other animal classes. Birds come first due to acting as a "default" avian species. Chickens come next due to being the main source of poultry to humans. The rest of the avian species are ordered by how often they are represented in media.
 * Classes with only one Species: This is the last group in order as explained by the title. Alligators come first due to reptiles being closely related to birds, while Octopi come last due to being the only villager species not in the Chordata phylum.

Step 3: Order by the villager's game of debut.
The order goes:
 * Doubutsu no Mori -> Doubutsu no Mori+/Population Growing -> Doubutsu no Mori e+ -> Wild World -> City Folk -> New Leaf -> Happy Home Designer -> Welcome amiibo -> New Horizons.

Step 4: Order by whether a villager was in Wild World or not
Follows the same axioms as Step 3, but it goes like this:
 * Wild World Returnee -> Wild World Newcomer -> City Folk Returnee -> City Folk Newcomer -> New Leaf Returnee -> New Leaf Newcomer -> Happy Home Designer Returnee -> Happy Home Designer Newcomer -> Welcome amiibo Returnee -> Welcome amiibo Newcomer -> New Horizons Returnee -> New Horizons Newcomer -> Villagers that have yet to return after e+

Step 5: Order by the villager's gender
Females go before males.

Step 6: Order by the villager's (current) personality
The order goes:
 * Normal -> Peppy -> Snooty -> Uchi -> Lazy -> Jock -> Cranky -> Smug