Horizon

**Horizon** is a human who exists in the Animal Crossing fandom. She is the protagonist from Elleda's fancomic, and she was created by Elleda. Horizon is female uses she/her pronouns, and she is aromantic asexual.

## Appearance

Horizon is a teenage human of age 18. She has light red-orange wavy hair cut to shoulder length and pale skin with small freckles on her cheeks. She doesn't have a canon eye color since Elleda literally draws her eyes as vertical black lines.

Horizon wears primarily tee shirts with simple patterns and plain colors, switching to long-sleeved shirts during the colder months. She wears a lot of simple pants that are usually very loose around her legs. Despite not wearing some of the fancy or fashionable aesthetics that some of her peers wear, she always makes sure that her outfits are clean and the colors match.

During the events of the fancomic, she usually wears the Nook Inc. tee shirt.

When she needs to, Horizon wears a dark green coat with a fluffy gray hood and inside.

## Personality

Horizon is introverted, preferring to stay by herself and becoming awkward when she has to talk to people she doesn't know, like servers, strangers, and cashiers. She's friendly to her peers and teachers, but rarely goes out of her way to talk to them.

Horizon becomes easily stressed in unfamiliar situations, and likes things to make sense and be orderly and organized. She keeps planners for everything and becomes anxious when things don't go according to her plan.

Horizon is very hardworking, and she is good at getting her work done before doing fun things or relaxing.

*More information flying in soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

## Behind the Scenes

#### Naming

Horizon was (quite obviously) named after Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Before deciding on Horizon, Elleda considered naming her a synonym of Horizon so it would be cringe, but not too cringe... but when Thesaurus.com failed her she gave up because "forget it names hard I'll name her ✨HORIZON✨" .

History

##### **Early History**

When Elleda first got obsessed with Animal Crossing in October of 2022, they would often think of ways that Animal Crossing would actually be terrifying if you were living it. She began to think about all of the things that made it scary, and decided that it would be fun to write a short story about it in Creative Writing.

The story was supposed to follow a teenage girl who had just graduated high school and decided to go on a deserted island retreat. It was going to begin with the girl at the airport, and then her flying on the plane to the Deserted Island. She would have met the talking animals, realized that she was trapped, freaked out, and the story would have ended with her not knowing what to do.

As Elleda thought about it more and more, her mind began to expand on all of the sorts of things that could have possibly happened on the Deserted Island. Elleda wanted to write about the girl exploring the island, becoming more and more involved in the island, and getting a job at Paradise Planning, so they started a Google Doc of the girl's story, written in a first-person diary format.

##### **The Fancomic**

One evening, Elleda really wanted to keep working on the story longer, but they had to go to bed. Because of this, they decided they'd try bringing their sketchbook and a handy dandy perfectly sharp pencil (sharp enough to stab the eyes of her enemies) up to bed and try adapting it into a comic. She figured that the project would completely flop and she'd lose motivation before the exciting part of the story began, and they would soon tire of drawing so many images of humans. They started by writing a disclaimer on the first page and writing a few quick notes on the inside cover (the page that would eventually become the **Author's Notes**), and then they began drawing the girl in the airport, excited for her journey to the Great Unknown™.

Elleda quickly stopped working on the written version, and the comic quickly grew much longer than the original Google Doc. Surprisingly, Elleda had enough motivation to keep going to the exciting part.

##### **Lore and Plot**

In the original story, Elleda had planned on adding real-world logic to the story and only keeping the basic things about Animal Crossing the same-- the plot, the talking animals, the c u r r e n c y, and those iconic trees. They tried to create logical explanations or versions of illogical things-- Horizon would go to the Able Sisters to get a custom design sewn, she would carry things in her arms and backpack, she would move furniture the old-fashioned way...

But Elleda decided that logic was *boring,* and why not make the entire experience for Horizon even more jarring and traumatic?

So Elleda decided to add ✨Animal Crossing Logic™✨ to the comic, beginning with the furniture and things simply appearing out of nowhere, followed shortly by the ✨invisible wall✨ at the edge of the cliff. The rest of Animal Crossing Logic hasn't been introduced yet, but the idea of putting giant things into Horizon's pocket has been alluded to by a certain... raccoon.

1. ↑ Author's Notes (page -2): "I want to be cringey and name the protag "Horizon"

But im not that bad,,, so I'll name her a synonym of horizon >:)
2. ↑ Authors Notes (page -2): "Forget it names hard I'll name her ✨HORIZON✨"