Strangetown extras: Wheezy the puppy

[strangetomato]

Remember Wheezy? He's Nervous Subject's puppy, and he's been stuck in a weird ageless state, like Peter Pan, refusing to grow up. I couldn't have him staying as a puppy in the story any longer, and I needed to show him in the next chapter, so I aged him up with InSIM.

I'm not sure what I was expecting, exactly. You can never tell with sim puppies and kittens. They all look the same.




I do know that poodle was probably the very last thing I expected.




It seems a little fancy for Nervous. Also, Wheezy is supposed to be a stray. But I suppose it does work on at least one level. Nervous would enjoy styling his hair, just like he did with the mohawk.

And clearly, Nervous loves the silly thing. I don't have the heart to switch him for a new dog now. I'll have to make it work.




And really, how could you not love this special little creature? He's so adorable.

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King of Strangetown

[ricamarcella.livejournal.com]

I came across an interesting forum that ran a game called King of Strangetown. All the Strangetown main characters from the five families appeared as a list, with 5 points beside each character name. People then logged in one by one to add 1 point to the character they liked best, and take away 1 point from the character they liked least. Whenever a character reached 0 he or she was eliminated.

Guess who's the most popular Strangetownie! Nervous! By far! He and Ophelia lasted the longest, and she trailed him by something like 70+ (Nervous) to 10-ish (Ophelia). That's a very far second. So I reckon a lot of people are going to be happy to see a Nervous + Wheezy update?

P.S. The General was the least popular character, followed by Loki, Circe, Jenny, and Olive... all the way up to Ophelia and the beloved Nervous. But I'm a bit puzzled by why people ascribe a good nature to Nervous. Given his biological parents AND his adoptive parents, how the heck did that guy turn out so sweet?!

Re: King of Strangetown

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I think I've seen that game before. It's pretty interesting, and I'm not surprised that Nervous won. I am, however, very surprised that Ophelia was second. She seems to get tossed aside all too often, so that Johnny can be free to pair up with someone else (most often a Grunt, and often a CAS sim too). Though I guess that there are plenty of people that keep her with Johnny too, and she does seem to have a lot of fans, at least from what I see here from readers of this story.

I would have guessed Johnny before Ophelia, though. Or maybe Tank or Ripp. Or the Curious brothers. They seem to have the most fans, next to Nervous.

The General's position does not surprise me. He's the most likely to get killed off too (and I have only added to that trend, though I swear I had a good reason for it).

I think that Nervous is such a victim that he gets that personality ascribed to him. I don't consider his completely sweet, though. He has a lot of social issues, for sure, and he can be closed off and even mean, but underneath it, he is a good person. At the same time, he could easily be characterized to grow up to become something even worse than Olive. That would be an interesting approach to take with him, and it would make sense.