Ever since the first Animal Crossing game was released, villagers have been found in weird locations, but one Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan may have run into Pietro in the most bizarre place yet. Pietro has become a fan-favorite Animal Crossing character since being introduced in New Leaf, and although he's strange on a regular occasion, one Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has seen him in an even more unusual light.
Animal Crossing has always been a unique franchise for a multitude of reasons, most notably the fact that the characters in their town will have their own lives whether the player is there or not. When the player is there to interact with the villagers, they often find that the characters had been interacting with each other while they were away and something that one borrowed must be retrieved from another. Going beyond such requests that often reward players with Animal Crossing: New Horizons items or clothes, this player may have even harder work to do in helping Pietro.
Reddit user Gage64_ has garnered 2,700 upvotes on a screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons showing two of the characters on their island, with Cherry sitting on the ground near the player and Pietro standing in a body of water. Holding a fishing rod as some Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters are known to do near the water, Pietro is instead two steps into the water and hasn't cast their line yet. What is likely attributable to an Animal Crossing: New Horizons glitch of some sort may instead be a consequence of removing a bridge or terrain manipulation as the player's attire suggests.
With most responses to Gage64_'s question of how Pietro ended up in the water speculating that it's a glitch, some players anticipate that there was a bridge there that the popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons villager happened to be standing on when it was removed. Because there's no fish in the pond that Pietro is standing in, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons character likely just stood there until the player left and returned. Some fans have compared Pietro to the clownfish because of his aesthetic, but the pond in Gage64_'s image would be insufficient for the ocean creature.
Though Pietro is known as the clown villager in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it's extremely rare that any of these characters hop into the water in the way that he has in Gage64_'s post. In most cases, the only Animal Crossing: New Horizons character that fans will encounter in the water is Pascal who can be found once players acquire the wetsuit for diving in the ocean.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.
