strangetomato | Strangetown: What if?

Every now and then, I get to thinking about alternative ways of approaching the Strangetown story, like that version where Ophelia follows in Olive's black widow footsteps, and I've recently been thinking about a good one: what if alien pregnancies were fatal for the men who carried them to term? That would really change the story, wouldn't it? I think I'm going to toy with the idea, and maybe it will develop into a short stand-alone story at some point. I think it could play out into something interesting.

Pretty awful, right? It would raise questions of why the Curious Brothers were allowing themselves to get pregnant, and they probably wouldn't be willing participants in this breeding experiment (though with Glarn's involvement, you'd have to wonder... and why they'd be willing to do it despite the consequences). The whole connection with PT would be a lot more grim too, but that could also be interesting.

I'm really not sure how I would attempt to answer these questions, but I'm enjoying this darker "what if?" scenario.

I got to thinking about this after reading an article by Katura Reynolds called "Birthing the Monster: What if a Bug-Eyed Alien Was Your Baby Daddy?" in the Genesis Issue of Bitch magazine. It was a great read. The Sims 2 wasn't mentioned as a pop culture example of this alien birthing trend in science fiction, but it's definitely following in this tradition.

So, what do you think of the idea? I'll bet there are also plenty of other ways to approach it, if one was well-versed in sci-fi.

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Very interesting idea. It made think about Mel's old story at first as well. That was great one! :)

I'm sure none of the bin-sims that come with Stown actually are on the beginning of their adult stage. All of them have different ages, including Loner.
Lola is much older than Chloe too, and if you check on their memories it looks like she has always been, therefore they couldn't be technically twins. lol

I've always think Glabe was Glarn's sister too. There's too many details that imo can say that, starting for the similarity of their names, but she doesn't show on the family tree :P

Long time ago i wrote a story (never finished) about all that. About many of the town's families in the past, including the Curious of course. For it i made a big effort to make the best of the storielines as shown on memories and such.
It was .... impossible! lol but a fun project to attempt.

I don't even remember the plot in full, but my take with Glarn was that Glabe was in fact his first wife, and had to endure a horrid period on Glran's life in which he was abducted several times, only to loose all the babies and way or another (either they died or were taken away few hour later or something).
Then over time they divorced and he married Kitty, but on the side he was still friends with Gable who was the one who always suffered the most with every lost.

Then while he was married with Kitty, got abducted a couple of more times, once after Jenny was born, then again at some point between Vidcund and Lazlo, (there was an explanation for that too), but every time the only one who knew about was Kitty, not his children, and as soon as the pregnancy started showing he would move out for a while (with work excuses or something) back with Gable who ended raising the alien offsprings <3

Anyways, i love scifi. It my first hobby, and what brought me to St in the first place. I love that concept you're working here, tho its kind of shocking to think about it! Just that picture with Pas is sad enough *sobs*

Strangetown: What if?

(about the idea and few comments...)