So I share this around the boards a lot, but, in a twist of fate mine has, somehow, become Lyman.
Boy howdy get ready for a story folks.
In real life, I just really don't like Koalas. I watched a documentary on them and their biology and evolution frustrated me to no end, they have little spots on themselves that purposely smell horrendous but not to protect themselves from predators but rather to attract other koalas who actually like the putrid scent, they don't keep growing their teeth like other marsupials despite their diet consisting of the very thing that wears them down more than any other plant they could've possibly evolved to eat instead would, they're brains are minuscule (not that a small brain ever accounted for anything but in their case it just, wrecks their survival rates greatly on top of everything else) and generally, I think up close, they're just not as cute as people think they are, I just, am personally eternally frustrated by Koalas. (Not that this means I want them gone, I donated to several foundations looking to save them during the difficult time they had this year, they annoy me but they still deserve a fighting chance for sharing our world; I digress)
When I showed up on my island and he was the first thing I saw standing next to Reneigh I threw my head back and laughed aloud to myself, I thought it was hilarious that the one person who does not like koalas or find them adorable in any way got the koala villager, and I told myself that first thing I was going to find a way to get him out of there.
... but then...
He was the first villager ever to naruto run through the plaza, the first villager I've ever witnessed doing this thing I'd never seen happen up until that point.
Then he gave me my first reaction, and then offered me medicine when I was stung by the wasps I somehow stupidly forgot existed in this world, and then me shouting "Lymaaaaan," became a meme between my friends and I every time after I saw him doing something unique or silly I'd never seen any other villager do up until that point.
I put his house at the edge of the beach as far from mine as I could at the time to spite him, and now, he's the only villager that still remains where I first put him, but not because I still intend to keep him at bay, but because it keeps him the closest to my house, and keeps him as the one villager with the prettiest view.
He has become so ridiculously dear to me, it makes me mad, just yesterday Midge told me he wasn't feeling well and I rushed, not to my house to grab weeds and make him a remedy, but to Timmy and Tommy's to BUY him a remedy.
I love this little idiot, I don't know what I'd be feeling if he ever moved out.
Recently I returned to this site and my old signature was still present from New Leaf, and, under secondary dreamies was Lyman's name.
I can't imagine what I was thinking back then to have him as a part of it, I have no idea what it was that made me like him back then, but, I guess you could say, maybe him being one of the first villagers on my island was somehow destiny, maybe he knew somehow that I was searching for him long ago, and wanted to remind me that I could still find it in myself to love him as much as I apparently did back then when I added him to a list that had very few on it.
Maybe.
All I am certain of currently, is that he was just the light I needed in these somewhat dark times.
I definitely couldn't picture my island without him.
I couldn't function.
