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Hello Internet! Animal Crossing Lore!
Hi, I'm starting my first ever blog to share my passion of Animal Crossing lore! My current blog name is Drink it Hot or Give it Up after Brewster's favourite saying. I haven't decided what to use for my pen name, so if anyone has suggestions, go ahead!
For my first post I thought I'd start by sharing what got me into Animal Crossing's lore in the first place. It all started in the Able Sister's shop. I saw this picture on the wall:
From the small sprite size in the game, I wasn't sure who the person next to Sable and Mabel was. I thought it looked like a cat at first. I couldn't think of any reason why that would be, and Sable didn't help. She talks about all the other pictures on the wall, but not that one. So, I looked into it and turns out, that's Tom Nook!
Many of you probably already know that Tom Nook and Sable were childhood friends, but for those that don't, I'm going to cover that story and many others as I continue to post! Thank you for reading!
The Able Sisters (part 1):
This will be a three-part post on the Able Sister's Tragic Backstory. Each one will focus on one of the sisters. We are going to start will Mabel. She is the youngest of the sisters and if not the favourite at least the most well known as the clerk of the clothing store the Able Sisters, that she runs with her oldest sister, Sable. She’s generally a very sweet person who just wants to help you find some clothes that make you feel like yourself. You’d never guess her "Tragic Backstory".
Turns out that her parents died when she was young enough that she doesn’t remember them at all. She was basically raised by Sable. If that wasn’t bad enough her sister Label ran away from home a while after, further breaking their home. She always kind of wanted her sister to come back, but Sable said she had made her choice and wasn’t welcome back. So, when Label started sending her letters trying to make amends and give them some money Mabel kept it secret from Sable. Luckily, Mabel does have a happy ending when she gets the courage to tell Sable what’s happening, and Label is allowed to come home. Label does leave again, but this time on good terms, promising Mabel and Sable to come home after she’s made a name for herself. Mabel gets a happy family.
And next time we will get into Label’s full side of the story.
The Able Sisters Story (part 2):
This is a three-part post about the Tragic Backstory of the Able Sisters series with one part on each of the sisters. Today we will be looking at Label, the middle sister. I said last time that the sister’s parents died when they were all quite young. We don’t know how old exactly, but Mabel doesn’t remember them at all which means she was likely under 4 years old. Sable is 10 years older than Mabel and Label is between them as the middle sister.
However old she was, she was now being raised by Sable who, as good as her intentions were, was a young teenager. She was not set up for success. Sable and Label had a disagreement like sisters do and it happened to be about how to run the family business they were now in charge of because of their parent’s death. Label decided to go off on her own, running away from home and cutting ties with her family. She went to the city and, despite not even being a teenager yet, managed to get an apprenticeship with the famous fashion designer Gracie Grace. Gracie gave her the name Labelle, which she later uses for her brand name. Labelle felt bad about how she left things with her sisters, but didn’t have the confidence to face Sable, so she started sending letters to Mabel with money in them and reacquainting herself with her baby sister who had grown up now. Eventually Mabel told Sable what was happening, and Labelle got permission from Gracie to go home and sort things out. They were able to make up and Labelle started going by Label again and worked with them in the shop for a while. She later left again to pursue her fashion career, this time with permission from her sisters. She ended up traveling all over the world and becoming quite famous, but she never forgot to visit her sisters.
Next time I’ll talk about the last sister, Sable. What’s her side of the story?