Brewster was a bird of few words; Blathers, too many. Yet their improbable love carried them through the darkest times of Tom Nook’s Reign of Terror.
Blathers may have been a blow hard, but he was wiser than the average owl. He knew when Nook came to power that he would soon become a social outcast. He made a measured decision to hide his lifestyle and make himself useful to the regime.
He was an Entomologist by trade. He knew that Nook made plans to hop from island to island, pillaging resources to sell for profits in order to fund his war machine back on the mainland. One of the most profitable industries was underground fossil sales. He approached Nook and made a proposal. He would assess and collect fossils under the guise of running a museum, and funnel all the fossils through Nook’s company store, Nook’s Cranny, where it could then be sold onto the Black Market.
The scheme was an enormous success and Blathers soon rose in notoriety as Nook’s right hand man.
Yet he held onto his secret, fearful that this delicate arrangement could come crashing down at any moment were he discovered.