The Isle Of Caochan Eit - Blog Posts

Oh, Filbert....💙🐿🩵

My favorite grandpa🐺

Some pictures of Teddy and Plucky🐻🐔

Things are never dull with Chrissy around

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Lionel is such an icon 🦁

Oh no, you've caught them performing a seance without the filter on!🔮🕯🪞

Here's an impromptu photodump about life on Caochan Eit from our very own island representative, Lynx!🪐🏝🐾🎣

Plucky moved out! She was one of my starter villagers, so it was kinda sad, but she doesn't fit my theme and isn't really my favorite anyway, so I'm not too mad about it. I went villager hunting today and found Leopold, who's definitely one of my favorites, and while he's not one of my dreamies for this island he really fits my theme and I don't have more nook mile tickets to use currently so I'm just really happy that he matches the themes I have planned and part of my vision for the island! 🏝

I think honesty if I struggle to find one of my dreamies, I might just let Leopold take their place until I can find them. Same with Papi and Lionel, they're all great villagers of a similar color scheme, so it kinda works for me. The only other issue here is that if I see Ed, Julian, or Ione, I might have to keep Filbert and change my theme to celestial or just make my island more blue because they're some of my very favorite villagers

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I just got two birds with one stone: I got my 10th villager, Papi (who is one of my favorites and a dreamie of mine for literally any island) AND because he's moving onto my island I finally had enough points to get KK Slider to visit my island! Considering I've majorly slacked off with this island and started it on Valentine's Day, I'm honestly really happy with the results! My only issue so far is that I had an autofill, and it was Claudia... she's like the opposite of the aesthetic of my island theme. Normally, on a casual island, I'd be much more chill about things, but currently, I'm just a tad disappointed. I really just let time get away from me long enough to get an autofill...

I had two empty plots I set up last night, and I'm curious. I filled one because I had only one Nook Miles Ticket and happened to find a villager I really enjoy (Piper) that I'm at least okay with being on my island for now and I think I might actually allow the other plot to give me a dreaded autofill villager! I do rarely have good luck with this feature, but Leopold was my last autofill, and that gives me hope that maybe I'll be seeing one of my dream cuties like Roswell, Petri, or Vesta.

I love that my fiancé and I kinda have matching islands but in different directions! Mine is a kinda cottagecore village with a welsh name and a tune from Lord Of The Rings/ The Hobbit, and my fiancé's island is a kinda cottagecore town with a Japanese name and a Studio Ghibli island tune! I love seeing that Lark is visiting from Komorebi with the title "Aspiring Pet" just as much as I'm sure xe loves seeing that Lynx is visiting from Caochan Eit with the title "Festive Pet". My energy is matched SO well down to every little detail🥰

Even our island names are kinda matching cottagecore vibes with xyr island name meaning "Light dappling through the trees" and mine meaning "A river hidden by vegetation" and "The act of leaving quartz crystals in riverbeds by moonlight to attract fish". Just very cottagecore vibes🌲🌟🪻

My partner bought a new pack of amiibo cards for Animal Crossing and got some pretty stellar characters (including Sasha, Quinn, Reneigh, and Raymond) and while none of them are my dreamies, I'm really thinking about inviting several of them despite none of them fitting my theme (aside from maybe Reneigh). It's really hard finding villagers that aren't ducks for a mystical fishing village island...

IT WAS LIONEL, I'M SO GENUINELY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED💕

He reminds me of a gingerbread prince! Genuinely, he's one of my favorite lions!!

Oh my gods, oh my gods, my first smug villager on my Valentine's Day island is heeeeere!! I'm so scared, most smug villagers REALLY aren't my cup of tea, wish me luck!🍀

(I promise you I'm going to clean up those weeds, I'm just so focused on story mode currently, so once that's completed, I'll clean up and genuinely decorate)

Oh my gods, oh my gods, my first smug villager on my Valentine's Day island is heeeeere!! I'm so scared, most smug villagers REALLY aren't my cup of tea, wish me luck!🍀

(I promise you I'm going to clean up those weeds, I'm just so focused on story mode currently, so once that's completed, I'll clean up and genuinely decorate)

So I started a new island on Valentine's Day (which I'll be sticking with at least for a year, if not forever) because I forgot how great it feels to restart my island and have been thinking about it since January, all thanks to my lovely New Years island known as Cocoa Cove of course, so welcome to my new island Caochan Eit! If you're thinking, "Hey, that's too many characters!", you'd be correct lol, the way I wrote it in the game is simply Caochaneit.

Caochan and Eit are both Gaelic words (as I'm currently learning Gaelic) that are nature themed with "Caochan" meaning 'a small river hidden from view by vegetation' and "Eit" meaning 'quartz stones placed in a river by moonlight in hopes of catching fish'. I think they're great ways to describe my plans for my island, so I'm taking this very literally. I want to create a mystical rural town that specializes in fishing and farming vegetation. Maybe a farm to table even? Kinda dark fantasy vibes, but toned down in most areas... just not in my pine tree forest! That should remain pretty spooky and fantastical! I want it to have very big "they secretly pray, by moonlight, to a giant scary fish deity who is unfathomable and eats people but also blesses their harvests and fishing boats" vibes. It just feels pretty neat

It's going to be mainly practical with elements of the fantastical, and I'm still deciding on dreamies, but Kiki and Vesta seem like a great fit so far! Both have more earthy vibes, both could fit the mystical side of things, and both of them are fairly cottagecore. I also think that Vesta has a distinct "haunted scarecrow" vibe, and Kiki would be great for this village since she has that cute Halloween cat vibe but also seems like just an all around autumnal gal, and I have her amibo card too, so she might be the first villager I invite to stay with me!

I've already gotten all the way to having Isabelle on my island and just created my campsite, so I'm really hopeful that the story mode will pass by pretty quickly so I can simply enjoy villager hunting and decorating my island!