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

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

These characters will have an impact in numerous ways. The death thing will surely be significant, but I have other plans too. The next time you see these girls in the story, they'll probably be adults (or youth adults, at least).

The hairs both come from Maxis Dream, which is a great Maxis-match cc site. Simgaroop posted about it recently. She's just all kinds of helpful, isn't she? Any post by her is almost guaranteed to bring a smile to my face.

Here the link:

http://maxistraum.de/index-eng.htm

There isn't a lot of content, but there are some very nice hairs there. Those two are recolours of a Raonsims and an XM Sims mesh. I love that straight bob. I had downloaded it anyway, even thought the Raon textures are way too shiny for me, and I'm planning to use it on the female Nervous clone. It's nice to see it in Maxis textures.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the link! Some very nice hair there. I love good Maxis match stuff, and especially hair. There really aren't many meshes that match the quality of the ingame hairs, most of them look weird when the sims, y'know, move or something. Besides, I hate all the shiny shiny black hair and the ridiculous shades of red.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I fully agree. I really do prefer the more cartoony textures, and the Maxis stuff is always so well painted.

The variety in shades of red bothers me too. I just want the red from the game, not some "natural" red, and especially not burgundy. I have liked some of the lighter reds, and used to use them once upon a time, but I want there to be a consistent red for the sims. I just like that ultra-simplified four haircolour thing that exists in their world. I don't mind a few different Lyran eyecolours, though, so that makes me a bit of a hypocrite. *snicker*

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed. I'm the same, I want the four hair colours to be consistent, but I don't mind extra Lyran eyes. I think that's got to do with all the eyes having different genetic properties of their own (and they all look so good!), while the hair is just in four colour bins, no matter what. So you can have a medium blond parent have a very light blonde child but the game doesn't distinguish between the two. I like order, dammit!

Maybe I just have OCD.

And I really should go to bed now, before I stay up all night babbling about sim genetics. :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I have obsessive tendencies, for sure. I get caught up in details like that.

Ah, our timezone differences are showing. It's still early in the evening here. Well, have a good night. You can move on to dreaming about sim genetics now. :P

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Morning here, now. You're somewhere on the American continent, right? *grins* I didn't dream about sim genetics, by the way. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured that you were on the other side of the "pond". I checked your profile, which confirms that you're in Norway. How cool. My SO went there as a young teen to participate in the Olympic ceremonies (he won a poster contest - one of five in Canada).

I'm just barely on the North American continent. Newfoundland is so far east into the Atlantic that we have our own time zone. No kidding - it's called Newfoundland Standard Time, and it's 1/2 hour ahead of Atlantic Time. So, I'm usually ahead of anyone in the the rest of the continent by at least half an hour. It's like living in the future.

I dream about sims sometimes, but not really as often as I'd expect.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would've been in 1994, right? That your SO was over here? That was all a very big deal over here, the Olympics. I was only 11 though. :p

I didn't know there was a separate time zone for Newfoundland. That's pretty cool. I suppose that means you're closer to Europe to everyone else too!

I've had sim dreams, I feel like a terrible geek when I wake up from those.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was 1994. He was 13 at the time. That was quite a big deal for him too, since it was the first time he'd ever left the country.

We're definitely closer to Europe than the rest of Canada, in more ways than one. Newfoundland still has one foot in Europe, especially England and Ireland, and it really shows in the culture and dialect. It's pretty varied, but where I come from, there are many expressions that seem to have gone unchanged since the 1600s. I guess the isolation of being on an island helps to preserve those things.

Sims dreams are geeky, for sure, but hey - at least it's not a nightmare. :)