Simstoryteller drabbles: Perfect and Carelessly

[strangetomato]

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.




 

Comments

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

This is so cool! Well, not Lysander's death, of course.

I smiled when I saw Helena's name in the character list ^^. Of course I don't mind that you kept her name!. After all, she was named after Shakespeare's play and you gotta keep the trend with the rest of her family, right?

Hmmm... so Hippolyta seems to be a teensy bit obsessed with death, right? I hope not like a certain evil woman who used to collect ghosts in her garden. And I wonder how far is she willing to go to bring her father back to life, though? (plus the satelite thing, I suspect this is an important detail).

And it seems these twins are also adopted, right? I can imagine who are they adoptive parents. And I can't wait to see how you'll develop this side of your story (which I guess will be related to Circe's evil plans... perhaps?)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I also wanted to keep her as Helena because I see this as more of an alternate reality version of your Helena than just using her genetics for a completely different character, like I did with Bruce Firewind (and even Bruce has Tim's exact stats). Helena is easily my favourite character from your story, and I'd love to try my own take on her (and she just needs more air time in my opinion, because she's great). I'll be kind to her, don't worry. I figured that you'd appreciate that as much as I would, since it's the same thing you do with the Maxis sims through the generations in your legacy. She's also the one I was interested in when I asked you about the character stats, and I grabbed Tim as a bonus. I wasn't going to show her for a while, but I couldn't resist this little drabble.

Let me tell you, I'm having a LOT of fun playing with her so far. Does she ever just randomly cheer for no reason in your game? She did that one day when I was playing her. She comes off as a real party animal. :P

You're right about the adoption. The Summerdreams have adopted all of their children, so I thought that would be a good way to work her in there (and keep her name intact and making sense). So, in this alternate reality for her, Puck is Helena's brother through adoption instead of her father.

I'm still working on Hippolyta's story, but she will be devoting her life to studying death and likely the occult too (the paranormal career track), seeking a way to resurrect the dead. So, she's more than a little different from Olive that way, but she might find herself getting noticed by the wrong people. It's a very sketchy area to get involved in.

I really like the satellite death, as an oddity, and it probably will be significant, yes. There are plenty of connections to the sky to exploit there.

I'm excited to work on this.