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Emotions are gestures used by both the player and non-playable characters, mainly villagers. The purpose of various emotions are to display or emphasize various moods or feelings of the user without the use of words or text.
Villagers' Emotions
Aside from expressing emotions when in conversation, villagers may also show an emotion when walking about town.
- A dark purple cloud with a swirl means the villager is either sad, or is sick (indoors only).
- An exclamation mark above a villager's head appears either when they are realizing something, or if not talking to anyone, wanting to talk to the player.
- If steam is coming out of a villager's head, they're angry.
- When they're singing, that means the villager is happy.
- Villagers may also clap when a Player catches a rare fish or insect, or sometimes when fireworks go off in Wild World and City Folk. They react in shock if the Player catches a piece of trash instead.
- Only in New Leaf sometimes villagers may show the 'thought' emotion and stop in place requesting they are not spoken to as they are too deep in thought.
- When hit with the Toy Hammer they react with a shocked emotion.
Conversations with villagers and players sometime cause a villager's emotion to change from normal to happy, sad, or angry. Conversations can't be started if a villager is angry or sad - they will tell the player they don't feel like talking. In Animal Crossing, Peppy villagers will sometimes cheer themselves up if they are feeling sad when you talk to them.
Learning Emotions
In Animal Crossing: Wild World
The player can get emotions from Dr. Shrunk in a random encounter with him when he is walking around their village.
In Animal Crossing: City Folk
Dr. Shrunk is found in the city's theater, where emotions can be learned for 800 Bells. He is sometimes replaced by Frillard, who teaches emotions unknown to Dr. Shrunk. A player can retain up to four emotions at a time. If a fifth emotion is to be learned, one of the previous four must be forgotten.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Dr. Shrunk can be found in Club LOL every day, however, if the player visits him before the club's opening at 8 PM, he will offer to perform for the player in exchange for a Food item. Being a former stage comedian, Dr. Shrunk's performances consist of him telling a joke and demonstrating the related emotion for the player to learn. Upon learning an emotion, the player can access it for use from their joke book, which is given to them by Dr. Shrunk after his first performance.
Emotions
This is a list of emotions that can be learned and what they look like in-game.
- Angerplayer.png
Aggravation The player's face turns red and 3 clouds blow from their heads.
Agreement The player/animal nods.
Approval
Bashfulness Learnable from Frillard.
Confusion
Contentment
- CuriosityplayerNL.jpg
Curiosity a question mark blows upward from the player's head.
Delight The player claps.
- DisagreementplayerNL.jpg
Disagreement The player shakes their head no. New Leaf
- Disbeleif.jpg
Disbelief A red shock mark comes above the player's head along with a piano crash sound.
Discontent
- Brown Leaf.jpg
Disinterest A brown leaf is blown past the player's head.
Distress Sweat drops fall around the player's head.
Exasperation
Fatigue
Flourish New Leaf
Fear The player shivers.
- Kiki Sings.jpg
Glee a musical note appears.
Greetings The player waves hello.
- Happinessplayer.png
Happiness Player smiles
Heartbreak A heart blows upward from the player's head and breaks in half.
- InspirationplayerNL.jpg
Inspiration A lightbulb appears.
- Irritation2.png
Irritation The player pulls an angry face.
Joy Flowers bloom around the villager.
- Laughter.gif
Laughter - AC: "Ha Ha" appears around the character.
- Gallery.jpg
Love A heart blows upward from the player's head.
- Mint mischief.jpg
Mischief A purple streak flashes as the player grins in an evil manner and uses one hand to cover their face.
Outrage/Rage A worse version of anger. Learnable from Frillard.
Pride The player puts both hands on his hips and sparkles pop up from the player's head.
- Realize2.png
Realisation An exclamation mark blows upward from the player's head.
Resignation The player puts their hands up horizontal to their face, like an 'I dunno' pose.
Sadness The player performs a sad face and a dark cloud appears over the character's head.
Scheming A piano plays as the player speaks to him/herself.
Shock The player takes a step back and shock marks appear above their head.
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Showmanship The player puts their right arm on their hip, swings their left arm out, and stars appear beside their head
Shrunk Funk Shuffle-NL The player does the dance that Dr.Shrunk does when he finishes telling a joke.Note: can be earned once every other emotion is earned & show's up as Dr. Shrunk's head for icon
- Shynessplayer.jpg
Shyness The character blushes. New Leaf
Sleepy The player yawns.
- Sneezing.JPG
Sneezing The character sneezes, then frowns. New Leaf
Sorrow The player/animal cries.
Sunniness New Leaf
Surprise The player has big eyes and an exclamation mark appears over the character's head.
Thought A thought bubble floats over the player's head.
Trivia
- In word origin and usage, the word aggravation as an emotion is incorrect. "To aggravate" is to worsen, and it should not used as a substitution for "to annoy".
