Fridge Brilliance
- During the first year of the game, Madame Eda first starts out with seasonal crops in her fields and trecking down easily to town. But over the course of the first year, she first starts complaining about her ill health and pain. Then she stops taking part in any rival events — to the point she gives up any fields she might have possession of, so you can register them. Then she stops taking part in festivals. Then she stops going into town altogether. Then she stops leaving her house, period, and if you visit the farm all her fields are fallow and the livestock are all unfed. It's all foreshadowing for when Madame Eda passes on the first day of Winter. Marian says it was amazing she held on as long as she did. She was sick — too sick to care for her farm or her animals like she had, and she never bothered to set her fall crops because she perhaps knew she wouldn't be there for winter. This happens over the course of that first year, when many players are too busy running around town to notice if they don't go check in on her, but if you do, then... it all hits you like a sack of bricks as to why it's happening.
- The blue fenced plot of land by Eda's farm is for you to use freely after you first plant crops there, essentially giving you four more tiles to work with. It's a subtle hint that your farm will get bigger at one point in the game — expanding onto her land after she's no longer there to work it.
- Fritz always seems to be absolutely destitute, but there's no clear reason given as to why. However, in one episode of Oak Tree Times, Mistel relates the story of how Fritz once came into the shop, insisted on helping him clean, and ended up accidentally destroying a lot of valuable merchandise because he hit his head and became dizzy. Mistel said that after escorting the hapless Fritz to the clinic, he would be sending him an invoice for everything he ruined. One can't help but wonder if Fritz's perpetual poverty is caused by the fact that he's still trying to pay for all those antiques - a good part of the money he brings in must go straight to Mistel!
- Elise comes off as a rich snob with money to throw at field challenges for days — but she doesn't financially contribute to the yearly fireworks festivals, and doesn't seem to have any friends. Only when Nadi arrives does anyone stand near her during festivals, and he's her gardener. She is also the hardest bachelorette to court. She might be socially awkward due to years of only interacting with her servants and have difficulty getting close to others. It's heavily implied that her father is extremely neglectful towards her in favor of her older sister, so that's likely another part of why it's hard for her to deal with others. It may even be the case that she was sent out to the country with all her servants so she'd stop bothering her father so much, as The Unfavorite.
Fridge Horror
- Otmar's terrible memory is funny for the most part, but it takes on a different light when you consider that he and Eda were very good friends - but after her funeral, he never mentions her again. Neither does almost anyone else, granted, but one has to wonder... is it age-related dementia beginning to set in? Has he forgotten her?
- Another one regarding Eda's death. She talks about her family, and how she and her husband raised their grandson for a number of years because he didn't want to move to the city with the rest of the family. Yet she bequeaths the farm to you, whom she's only known for a matter of seasons, rather than to any of her children or grandchildren. Not only that, but no one in her family shows up for the funeral or seems to be at all aware that she has died. Where are these people? Has something happened to them? Or have they simply abandoned their mother/grandmother?
