strangetomato | Simstoryteller drabbles: Perfect and Carelessly

And now for something completely different... these drabbles introduce some new original characters (well, one is recycled - thank you for sharing her,

simgaroop. I hope you don't mind that I retained her name. It was appropriate and I've always really liked it). This will be relevant to Strangtown, Here We Come, and you may be able to guess the connection, based on the names. I've been playing with Veronaville, to get it up to the same point in time as Strangetown. Most of this stuff will be very much in the background, but it will have an impact on Strangetown in several ways.

The prompts were taken from the list at

simstorytellers.

Characters: Lysander Winterpoem, Hippolyta and Helena Summerdream
Prompts: Perfect and Carelessly
Word count: 200 (100 each)
Pic count: 4 (2 each)
Warning: It's a little violent.

Perfect

Lysander Winterpoem was finally content with his life.

He had just arrived in Veronaville, with his life savings and a dream. He was going to build an open-air amphitheatre, and people would come from miles away to watch plays there, under the vast and endless sky.

He lay there and watched the clouds move overheard. Clouds by day and stars by night; the sky was wondrous. It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining, and butterflies fluttering about. His daughters played nearby. Everything was perfect.

It was a perfect day, but, unfortunately, also a perfect day to die.

Carelessly

I learned a very important lesson that day.

It's best to be mindful of your life, since you never know when it might be carelessly taken from you.

Our father died in an instant.

Helena said that I didn't even cry, but I did. The difference between us was that I quickly accepted it, and stopped crying.

My sadness quickly turned to purpose. When Death arrived, I was transfixed. Since then, I have dedicated myself to solving the riddle of death.

I still have the satellite that killed him. I keep it as a reminder to make every day count.

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A dye job had occurred to me too, but I've never heard of a playable character that was like that. It's usually just the townies and NPCs, and lots of them dye their hair.

I should have opened him up in SimPE, but I just assumed he was red/red, like most CAS sims. Few premades seem to even have recessives. Oh well.

Yeah, I dunno. I think EAxis just likes to screw with us. Gilbert Jacquet also has dyed black hair (genetic blonde), but his eyebrows are still blonde so at least you can tell, with him.

Really? I didn't notice his blond eyebrows. *snicker* For shame. I have to take a closer look.

I don't mind the loss of the black hair as much. It seems like everyone fights a non-stop genetic battle against black hair, and brown too. I like them, but I always like to have a recessive in there too, if possible.

I knew about Gilbert, but not about Chester! Of course I've never made him have any bio kids in my games except aliens and I don't have a replacement PT hack (yet) lol!

I'm totally moving away from the "must have perfect looking sims" phase now though... so I think I might have to indulge and let Chester be a family man... after his seven aliens grow up of course. ;)

With all the times you've bred Vidcund, I think you owe it to Chester. It's not like Vidcund makes perfect kids (well, perfect is in the eye of the beholder, because some of them are perfectly awesome... just not pretty).

Are you going to get that PT hack? I'm really thinking about making one, since everyone seems to be stealing that idea from simgaroop. (Okay, that's the THIRD time I mentioned her name in this post. Is she talking about me, somewhere? *snicker* Sorry for the random superstitious rambling.)

I'm thinking of designing some PTs from scratch, using some characteristics that I like, while keeping them alien enough too. Maybe a mix of mangled eyes and pointy ears too. Maybe I'll whip some out and get people to vote for the best ones to use.

It's not like Vidcund makes perfect kids (well, perfect is in the eye of the beholder, because some of them are perfectly awesome... just not pretty).

Pixel is not amused!

*wink*

Well, obviously, I wasn't referring to Pixel. She's very pretty.

(Sorry, Pixel! Don't be angry...)

I was thinking more about Bean and his type, who have an interesting look that wouldn't be considered "pretty".

Pixel wasn't offended (with 10 nice? Are you kidding? hee) :)

Yeah, the dominant genes can be rather annoying. The trick is to breed them with recessive haired sims and then have every offspring carry some recessive blond or red hair. :D

That's what I try to do, unless I really want it to run in the family. I go in and give recessives to the premades in SimPE too, where appropriate (based on the family tree).

Yeah, I went ahead and looked at the (usually dead) parentage of every single EAxis sim in every neighbourhood, and then gave them the appropriate recessive genes (unless the parents' genes didn't match up at all, which often was the case). Jennifer Burb now has recessive red hair, for example, so it makes more sense that Daniel is her brother.

Man, I never wanna do a big cleanup like that again. But it did give me a painfully good insight into Maxis/EA's many, many small and rather huge mistakes and oversights, as well as getting to know all the characters pretty well.

Oh, good call on the recessive red for Jennifer Burb. I will do the same, if I breed the Burbs (and I probably will). I have to "play up" Pleasantview too for this story.

Yeah, some of those premade families make no genetic sense, like the Curious family. Even factoring recessives in there, it doesn't make sense.

Simstoryteller drabbles: Perfect and Carelessly

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