Octopia DLC - ENDGAME SPOILERS, at 99% (need help)

[XerxesLeFan]

Hello. If you're reading this, full warning, I will be discussing or lightly brushing over many facets of the Octopia DLC. I am having a wonderful, delightful time. I have every tool upgraded to its max, the fishing rod to its second upgrade, the watering can to its third. I have fished every fish available, and obtained the requisite statue. I have encountered every individual available, and gotten the 40/40 'friends' cactus statue. I have finished the 'main plot'. But.

So. I feel like I may have done things wrong. Or, perhaps, simply done too many things right. Standing where I am now, I finished a good 70% of the content available before I even encountered the starting point for the 'main plot' event. It got to be such a problem that I would have excess of every ingredient currently available to me, and have made every recipe I currently had unlocked. And, unfortunately for that, the game has a very lovely progression system of slow changes over multiple days, and you only meet/find new individuals every couple of days as well. But I found myself with more than enough reason to speed through what was available, maxxing the Rocket Punk minigame for money and resources, and the same for farming, and everything else. And it was lovely, and I micromanaged many things.

This is all a very, very roundabout way to say that I finished the final 'main plot' event on day 72. I remember this specifically because i had to do it a second time when I loaded my save again to see if there were different options. It is now day 162. And I feel tired, frustrated, and exhausted. It's reached a point where I am starting the day and immediately heading to bed in desperate hope of new individuals to show up. I start the day, press esc and check the map for the hat question marks. Upon finding none, I go to bed, press left click to skip the 'things you did today' screen, space to skip the sleep to day screen, and c to speed up sam eating breakfast. I then check the map again. Nothing. It's so unbelievably frustrating, that such an experience I should have comfortably finished and been satisfied with long ago has dragged on to the point where I need to essentially send John into a depression coma hoping for, and this is the kicker- The last item, and the last group of people to show up. I can see in my 'friends' menu that one of the three children that only show up post 'main story' has another request to make for a food item. And equally, I have one more grown food item left, one more recipe, and one more of the 'misc' food items left in the game before I have 100%. Only, I have skipped at least 40 days in search of these items alone. Just, something. Something at all. And, extra, the three fishermen now show up on a 2 day rotational basis, which! Great! I have beaten all of them! And they only give me bait now. Fantastic. And I'm afraid these guys are making it so that the three kids don't re-show up and give me what I want. Or something. I've been stagnating for so long and I just need someone to tell me what's going on, or if I actually have to restart the entire dlc in the hopes of specifically skipping out on finishing much of the final content before I get all of this, in case I've hit some sort of. Loop? I've given the funny man his timetable, I have made delicious drinks for Isabelle and Alva, I have obtained corn and mango's from the random passerby's, and yet, where there should be a satisfying feeling of completion, I am left bereft and decidedly, incredibly frustrated. Please help. Thank you.

[NS_OwwwO]

Don't know if it can help, but the three kids show up at the sea on the second time, not the train station, I almost missed them thinking it was just a fisherman when skipping days looking only at the map !