In all the games of the incredibly popular Nintendo franchise Animal Crossing, the animal villagers the player interacts with are one of eight personality types: Peppy, Normal, Sisterly, Snooty, Jock, Lazy, Smug and Cranky. Fans of the franchise will be very familiar with how these unique, exaggerated real-world stereotypes of personalities make each villager have very different dialogues and quirks from each other!

I thought it would be interesting and fun to have a reading challenge where the main character, subject or narrator of the book you're reading has to remind you of one of the eight Animal Crossing personality types! It can be fiction or nonfiction, of any genre or length.

In the real Animal Crossing games, the personality types are completely tied to gender (only female villagers can be Peppy, Normal, Sisterly or Snooty and only male ones can be Jock, Lazy, Smug or Cranky) but many modern fans are understandably critical of this system. So for this challenge, the gender of the main character/subject/narrator is irrelevant - as long as you think they have the qualities of the personality type, they count! :)

If you need more information about the different personality types, https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Villager#Personalities is a good place to start.