Colorful Animal Crossing Fan Art Captures Blathers' Love Of Fossils
A new piece of Animal Crossing fan art perfectly captures museum curator Blathers' love of fossils in colorful detail. The popular owl has been a regular character for the entirety of the franchise, alongside other popular personalities like Tom Nook and Isabelle. While the quirky owl tends to keep to himself in the local museum, his affection for knowledge, rocks, and interesting sea creatures have endeared him to many Animal Crossing fans.
Blathers is a familiar face for any Animal Crossing player, having made regular appearances since the original GameCube title. A keen intellectual and academic, Blathers runs the town museum, accepting donations from players to fill out the exhibits with all that the natural world has to offer. Wild World built upon this, introducing Celeste, Blathers' younger astronomy-loving sister, and his good friend Brewster, another fan favorite character. Of course, Blathers doesn't quite enjoy every part of his job; the poor curator has entomophobia, meaning he has a strong fear of insects. As a result, any player wanting to complete the museum's exhibits will have to terrorize Blathers with their collection of bugs in the process.
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Twitter's Kiana Mosser has recently posted a piece of fanart celebrating Blathers in all his intellectual glory. The colorful piece of art shows the long-time curator standing in the foyer of his museum as he examines a fossil. Although there is a look of extreme concentration on his face, Blathers is starry-eyed, potentially boding well for the donator who has asked for the appraisal. The night sky reflected in his eyes matches the purple tone of the classic round placeholder item, which every fossil
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