Phan Oneshots

Lungs Filled With Flowers

Summary: Whenever Dan has a bad day, he always knows that Animal Crossing will be there for him no matter what. When he finds a friend code written on his desk, he immediately adds it into his DS, despite not knowing who it could be.
Word Count: 5570
Warnings: none
A/N: This fic was written for my dear friend, Kayla (phillybops) , for our secret santa on the phanfiction catalogue! When I got Kayla, I had absolutely NO IDEA what to write. But then I was thinking about things that meant a lot to her and realized that she loves Animal Crossing more than anybody I know. So I hope you like this Kayla and I love you so much! Merry Christmas and happy new year xoxo

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Dan loved Animal Crossing more than he loved himself. And that's a fact, not just a matter of opinion.

He loves how soothing it is, how he can just get on the game and spend hours doing practically nothing. He loves the soundtrack and how the music is so calm that is makes his heart slow down, even when his anxiety is so high that it feels as though he's absolutely wired. He loves that he can talk to animals and befriend them and build his own dream house. He loves that it's basically just a game about life, except in Animal Crossing, he had animals who loved him and the town was near perfect and devoid of stress, compared to how life usually was.

Whenever Dan had a particularly rough day at school, he knew that Animal Crossing was there for him. He knew he could just crawl under his covers and turn on his DS and immediately get drawn into the blissful peacefulness of the game. He would make himself some hot chocolate, crawl under the covers, and talk to his animal friends.

There was Chevre, his favourite, who was a goat and whom he considered his best friend in the game. Of course he loved Bluebear and Rosie and Apollo too. Everyone in his village was absolutely wonderful. Except for Cobb, who had decided to move right next to Dan's house, effectively destroying the flowers Dan had just planted the night before.

Hell, Dan even loved Queenie more than he liked Cobb, and that was saying a lot considering Queenie's such a bitch.

But that's what ignoring is for, Dan supposed. His hope was that he could drive Cobb out of his town successfully if he just didn't talk to him, so that's what his current mission was. Even if Cobb needed him, Dan would simply walk away until the dumb green pig left him alone.

Maybe that was a bit harsh, but Dan gave absolutely zero fucks. He was a savage.

There was also the problem that Dan might just be a little bit obsessed with the game. But he supposed that was going to happen when he didn't exactly have many friends in real life. Sure, he had a couple, but only one that he was comfortable enough to actually sit with at the lunch table. Lucky enough for him, Louise was just as obsessed with Animal Crossing as he was, to the point where they both brought their games to school and had their noses stuck in the consoles during the entire lunch break, visiting each others towns and commenting on what they liked versus what they disliked about their towns.

One of the things Dan loved about Louise's village is that she had flowers everywhere. Once he saw just how many flowers she had, Dan started to adopt her ways and began to plant as many flowers as he could, even going on trips to the Island just so that he could steal flowers from there to plant in his town. He even had a whole rainbow flower display in the middle of town because yes, he was that gay. Hell, it wasn't just Dan's town (and self) that was gay. It was his entire Animal Crossing wardrobe that was as well. In the game, Dan had rosy pink cheeks and white hair that was in what seemed kind of like a fringe. He had downloaded some QR outfit codes to make his character wear what looked like overalls with a pastel pink sweater and white boots. It was a bit over the top, but Dan was happy with it so he didn't care.