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

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, two new redhead aliens. I do love some redhead aliens.

Shame their father had to be crushed to death. He was quite attractive.

[simfulacts.livejournal.com]

Am I a bad person that I giggled when I saw the smooshing picture?

Those two little girls are SO cute!

Also, keeping what killed your dad is rather morbid. O_O

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I agree with madame_ugly, red headed aliens ftw. Wow, that sucks for them though. :)

[vega-pleiades.livejournal.com]

He died because Lysander < Demetrius. It's unfortunate but true.

What's the other redhead's name?

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. I wonder how this will fit into the Strangetown storyline.

Also: I really like the girls' hairs. May I ask where you got them?

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm completely stumped as to where these girls will fit into the story, but that's okay. :) I'll just wait for the reveal to come in its good time.

On a side note about "reveals" lol, I think I've decided what hair Ripp is going to have. (I've been trying to guess and then I'll see if I'm right... I know it's silly, but humor me, lol)

I hadn't ever noticed the hair before but today I was playing around with some of my binned sims and gave the Cooke guy a makeover and used it on him. It's from Nightlife, which means I've had it a while, but never noticed. If it is the one, it's quite a big change from his old look! ;)

Guess I'll wait on that one too, eh? :D

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Though I too am saddened by the death of such a pretty sim.

I wonder if one of the girls will fulfill her father's dream of building the amphitheater.

[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?)

[elaenabolton.livejournal.com]

Hey I'm new here and I just wanted to say your story ROCKS! :)

I hope things get better for Lazlo soon, he was always my favourite Strangetown sim...

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I love that he got squished to death by a satellite. :P

And YAY more aliens. :)

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen a satellite death before. Awesome! And very pretty alien girls, I never get alien twins.