- There was Queenie, who I hated. I thought the hairs on her head were weird but she was purple so I was going to let it slide. However, then I realized she was a snooty and would be all snobby to me. I could usually handle it but I always wanted to fire back at her like "yoooo girl, look at the top of your head!1!" basically i'm blaming Queenie for making me a petty person
- There was Derwin who I thought was funny and stuff. But like, the lazies in Wild World, from what I remember, would have these little dialogues that would pop up, insinuating they had a crush on you. So Derwin become the young me's "friend who everyone knew had a crush on her." I really tried to worldbuild, obvs LMA9ONVFVBFK //shot
- Tabby was one of my character's best friends. She scared me a little at first, but her house was really far on the map from mine and Tom Nook's. Yet she was always getting sick, like I mean always, and I would do a ton of running to bring her medicine every few days, it felt like. lol
- Tangy was cute, but young me could NEVER STOP LAUGHING when I saw her. I would just lose it like, "SHE'S AN ORANGE. MOM LOOK. SHE'S A CAT, BUT SHE'S AN ORANGE" and couldn't get over it. I thought she was the funniest thing ever and my mom was so done with me.
- Lucy was so sweet and she was the start of my love for Normal villagers. She was always planting and watering flowers in her yard and she just seemed so precious and domestic?? Like she perfect little villager that I just wanted to put in my pocket and protect.
- Kiki was also a cutie of mine and now that I'm writing this out, I realize I had 3 cats and that they all lived in the sae corner on my map?? HMMMMMMMMMMM???
- I have a bit of a sad memory concerning Whitney. I still love her, but I don't think I could have her in my New Leaf town without thinking about my experience with her in Wild World. Basically, Whitney was one of my obsessions. I loved her so so so much. She was so confident and beautiful and I wanted to do everything for her. I remember telling my mom that she was the villager my character had crush on. And, instead of being concerned that I was in love with a digital wolf, like I maybe expected her to be, she asked me point blank "but that's a girl wolf, isn't it honey?" And I was so thrown. Like, I knew she was but I never thought about it?? Like?? And when I told her yeah, she was like "that's not how it works, honey. your character is a girl too, see?" So, because of that, I was really sad and made a second boy character in my house so I could still "date Whitney." But I never wanted to play him. I wanted to play my character. So I eventually would get a little sad when I saw Whitney, "knowing" that my character that I liked couldn't be with her. So I started to avoid her a bit and she eventually moved and I cried lmao. So when I see her now, I'm reminded of the fact that when I was like 8, my mom was less concerned with me being romantically attracted to animated wolves than she was about me being in a fictional queer relationship. ha
Those are the only ones I can really remember. I had Chief at some point but I'm almost positive that he was a move-in that came after I had stopped playing for months one time so I don't really count him as a "first villager," per se.