Strangetown extras: Preview of "next generation" LFT student

[strangetomato]

It might be a while before another Strangetown chapter surfaces, but I am working on it, just so you know. I'm thinking of doing a shorter "extra" chapter 23.5, but even that might not show up before the weekend. It's a busy time for me, and we have family coming to stay with us for the weekend, so there is plenty of tidying up to do in preparation for that. That darn housework cuts into my simming time. If only maids were as cheap and easy to obtain in real life as they are for sims, I'd have Remmington Harris doing my chores instead.

I just wanted to share one photo with you, mostly just to get excited about the Free Time Skirt & Stockings outfit converted for adults by cloudlessnights on MTS2. I love that Free Time outfit to bits. BITS! Fair isle, argyle, sweater vests, knee socks, and skirts... these are a few of my favourite things!

She's pretty happy for someone caught in the rain, don't you think? It must be the fabulous outfit.

And who is this pretty gal? Why, she's one of the "next gen" of LFT students that will be starting their studies when Buck and Jill go to university. I figured that I would work some new characters in, and these may seem familiar to some of you. I decided that sims from any neighbourhood might go to LFT to study. That makes sense, right? I don't intend to go crazy with crossovers, exactly, but I do want to expand on the little bit of dabbling in that area that I've been doing. You can never have too many characters, right? (We'll see about that one.)

If you know her, feel free to call out her name. She's not shy.

ETA: I found some more Free Time conversions on the Sims Resource by aikea guinea: teen male and teen female Free Time "Tech" outfits converted for adults (same as above, but includes the male versions too... and your guess is as good as mine about why they are called "tech." outfits) and Teen female "Bohemian" outfit converted for adult females. Hooray!

Comments

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

*perks* Ooo, this'll be fun! You'll be using Alexander then, right? Right? I love how creepy he looks, especially combined with his little bio blurb. Can't wait to see him as a young adult.

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

Alex is a Goopy clone appearance wise.

Alex and Bottom just got married in my game, they are adorable.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I suppose he does look like Goopy, doesn't he? (Though, I must admit that I have never played Goopy. Does that make me a bad/weird simmer?)

Do you have a combined 'hood? Or did you clone one of them?

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

For my legacy I extracted all of the Maxis playables from everywhere and put them into a custom hood as townies to be the legal gene pool for the family.

My generation five heir (David) is the son of Cassandra Goth and he married Titania Summerdream. When I sent my generation sixes to University their half siblings Puck and Bottom went with them. I also sent Alex and a few other straggling distant relations with the generation as well and so Bottom ended up marrying her step-great-uncle (scandalous!). Bo's half sister Emma, the current heiress, is about to marry LFT bin sim Aldric Davis.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool. That's a great idea for a legacy. Do you have it posted anywhere?

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

It's on the exchange the links are in my bio :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll take a look.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I have considered using Alexander, but maybe only in a very peripheral way. I don't think he'll be going to LFT. It's too small and out in the middle of nowhere - I think that a Goth might go somewhere fancier, and Alexander probably had a full scholarship too (I swear the story writes me, not the other way around... this stuff just comes out of the ether sometimes). There will definitely be some students at LFT who know him, though.

I don't remember what his blurb said. I'll have to go check it out. He does have a very interesting look.

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

Ahh, good point. Yeah, he'd likely go to the Academie instead, especially since Mortimer's supposed to be from Europe.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that the Academie would be the way to go for Alexander (and yes, he "told" me that he always uses his full name too *snicker*). Yeah, Mortimer is "old world", right? I guess it is Sim Europe, or the equivalent of that.

Now, what Morty is doing tangled up with Dina Calliente, I'll never know. She's not very European, Mr. Goth.

[ownsimscorner.livejournal.com]

Well, she might be Spanish. Caliente, right? And in Nina`s bio there`s some talk about her "Mediterranean origins".

Plus, everyone knows Dina is an evil genius. ;)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's true, though the blond hair doesn't seem very Mediterranean... but what do I know about it? She could be. I get more of a Euro-trash sort of vibe from Dina, with the bleach blond hair (I'm just assuming, really), and the excessive tanning.

Yes, she is an evil genius, no doubt. Working her way into the Goth family like that. I wonder how she'd get along with Circe? *planning evil things*

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

Well, Maxis sort of dropped the ball on the Caliente sister's DNA. Dina's blonde/blonde, Nina's red/red but their ancestors appear brown or black haired. I'm sure it was supposed to be dyes, though, that's usually what I change 'em to.
Funny thing? Dina has a high Nice quota! And if you look at their background, there's one picture that hints at them having been abused by their mom. It's subtle enough that I've rarely seen players refer to it, but that's what it looks like to me: Dina is walking away from mom crying and rubbing her arm, while Nina is scowling and putting her arms up like she has to defend herself.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I always thought that they were meant to have dyed hair, and it's not like they couldn't have set it up to be like that, since that has been available as an option since the base game.

The Caliente's also have alien ancestors, don't they? They have an interesting backstory, and I really haven't given it much consideration. I do recall that photo with their mother that you're talking about... that might be worth looking into.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have never played Dina Caliente, not even once, even though I've played with Pleasantview a couple of times. She just rubs me the wrong way. If she makes her way into this story, even in an indirect way (you might see her child with Mortimer, for example, at some point in the future), I'll try to give her a fair chance.

[ownsimscorner.livejournal.com]

The Caliente's also have alien ancestors, don't they?
Yes, they do. I think an alien grandfather. Maybe we can blame the whole medium skintone and blonde/red hair on that?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Nothing really explains the dark skin tone and red hair thing (blond with dark hair does happen in real life, but it's rare... I have doubts about the red). It's just a sim thing. Any real reference to race seems to have been left out of the game.

It would be fun to use SimPE to give the Calientes some dormant alien genetics.

[ownsimscorner.livejournal.com]

Funny, I`ve always interpreted that pic as the outcome of a fight. Nina has won and their Mom is praising her but then in the next pic Dina is marrying Michael Bachelor and Nina`s crying. It`s obviously a contrast to the first pic.

I`ve always wondered why since Nina is a Romance sim and it would make no sense for her to be so heartbroken over her sister`s wedding. But then, because I actually play the Calientes quite a bit (and dislike the way they are bashed and called sluts/skanks all over the comm while everyone loves sleazy Don) have noticed that Dina has no reaction whatsoever when told to mourn the urn of her ex-husband while Nina actually cries! Hidden love triangle there, perhaps?

Anyway, I guess the sisters always competed with eaxh other over the years.

[ownsimscorner.livejournal.com]

"each"

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That makes sense too, and it probably does represent the rivalry of the sisters, rather than parental abuse.

I dislike things like that too. The old double standard for sluts of the male and female variety. I think, if anything, Nina is a far more sympathetic character than Don, since he's stringing poor Cassandra along, and Nina is just doing her thing.

My dislike of Dina isn't so much about her appearance as her gold digging of poor old Morty, who I really like, and I hate to see him being taken advantage of. I also get fairly bent out of shape when I hear people say that their children end up being ugly because of Mortimer's bad genes, when he has far better genes than Dina. Mortimer is a good looking guy... he's just old.

Oooh, a love triangle? I do love those.

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

*boggles* That makes absolutely no sense. Mortimer's got face #2 with like 0.1 percent tweaking along the jawline. It's the classic Barbie/Ken face!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Is it the second template? I never noticed that. I thought he had his own thing going on. Oh well. He's still hot. *hearts Mortimer*

I like the second template much better than the first. I don't like how males look with the first template at all, with the tiny little faces, and no chins. Not for me at all.

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

Yeah the second template and .. the 25th or the 27th? Whichever it is that Marsha has. I think those two are the most handsome, very good chins and noses. I love aqualine/patrician noses, especially since I've got a button one iRL. I'm also fond of #3 (broken nose, Jay Leno jaw) and the two somewhat goofier long ones with big noses.