#QOM Fidelia Meryweather

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Fidelia Meryweather

Fidelia likes everything tidy and in its place, so I carefully arranged her room before I moved her in, and the first thing her father did was to steal her unused journal off her desk. LOL, okay. I guess he really needed one, too. I’ll buy her another one.

Teenager Fidelia (right) and her best friend, Heidi. I wanted to make Fidelia one of those hetero girls that doesn’t like frilly things, hence the tie and basic hat. Heidi, on the other hand, is all about the frills.

To give her more personality, Fidelia has a (non-girly) hobby. She goes around the neighborhood looking for rock specimens to collect and study. Her mother has a fit when she comes back home with dirt on her dress; why can't Fidelia stay home and read like normal girls?

Fidelia studying her new specimen back in her room. Well, at least there’s plenty of room on the desk now for rocks since the journal got swiped, haha.

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Day in the Life, Fidelia Meryweather

You might be inclined to think, given Fidelia’s strong personality and active disposition, that she’s the type to jump out of bed at the break of dawn, invigorated and ready to face the world head on. I assure you this is not the case. On this very morning, as on most mornings, she is lying in bed and gazing out her window at the grey dawn, thinking about the activities and obligations of the day to come. Fidelia has been looking forward to this particular day for over a week now. 

The day starts with the usual family breakfast and the usual breakfast conversations. Mother shares the latest gossip about who is marrying, who is courting, who will most likely be marrying or courting soon, and who really should be marrying or courting but isn’t. Today, Fidelia and Victor collectively breathe a sigh of relief when their names are not included in the “who should be courting whom” list, but Harland, the younger brother, is not so lucky. Harland quickly changes the subject to banking, his favorite topic of conversation.

Victor, the eldest, also has his usual breakfast topics. He either enthuses about a musical piece he’s working on or about some serendipitous meeting with a cat, whether it be a client’s cat or a street cat. Fidelia has no idea where her brother got such a keen and intense interest in cats as the family doesn’t even own one and mother will not allow animals in the house. Of course, Victor’s musical talk is prone to launch father into a tirade about the irrationality of choosing a career in music over banking, especially given the fact that one’s father is a banker and it would be so easy to learn the business. This speech always ends in the phrase, “It’s not too late to change your mind, son,” which results in Victor appearing to be intensely interested in his plate.

After breakfast, father and Harland retire to their respective offices to work. Even though the bank is closed today, their work is never done. Victor prepares for his piano students, and Fidelia heads to the parlor with mother. Because, as Fidelia is often reminded, she will need to run a house of her own one day (mother is always quick to add the phrase ”hopefully soon”), Fidelia often sits in on mother’s meetings with house staff to discuss shopping needs, meal planning, and things of that nature.

Later in the morning, Miss Heidi Prescott arrives for her lesson. Heidi is not only a pupil of Victor’s, but also Fidelia’s best friend. Fidelia and Heidi have an outing planned after her lesson, which is why Fidelia is excited about today.

Mrs. Prescott visits in the parlor for a bit after delivering Heidi. The Meryweathers are very well connected, with many families visiting the residence, due to Victor’s music lessons, a fact that mother enjoys greatly, given her outgoing and socially inquisitive nature. 

At last, the morning’s obligations have been attended to, and Heidi and Fidelia can take their leave to visit the ruins where FIdelia hopes to find some good rock or fossil specimens. Since it would not be proper or safe for two young women to visit such a place unattended, Harland accompanies them.

The three of them are good friends and have been since childhood, so Harland doesn’t mind. He and Heidi get along very well, which is good since Fidelia’s head is usually someplace else on trips like these as she scrutinizes the surroundings for places to dig.   

After about 45 minutes of looking, Fidelia finds something promising. There are samples here she cannot get around her home, so she’s hoping to add something to her collection that she doesn’t already have.  Despite more looking, Fidelia doesn’t find any more viable samples, but she’s happy because the one she did find looks promising.

The three stop to relax, have a snack, and converse before heading back home, as is their custom on trips such as these. Harland and Fidelia tell Heidi that her name came up this morning at breakfast, which it occasionally does. Specifically, Mrs. Meryweather said to Harland “Miss Prescott seems like she’d make a fine match for any young man. You are fond of her, are you not?” The three of them laugh about this, as Heidi and Harland, although fond of one another, do not harbor any romantic feelings between them. Indeed, their feelings for each other are more akin to siblings or cousins.

Back home, Fidelia breaks open her sample to find an arrowhead fossilized into the rock. She is thrilled about this discovery, checking reference books for any clue as to the arrow’s origin and making notes in her geology journal.

She starts to feel bad, though, as Heidi is clearly bored with the procedure, so she puts the sample aside for now.

Instead, she and Heidi talk. They talk about everything...boys, family, friends, fashion, and their dreams. Heidi’s dream is to marry a man who is handsome and kind. Fidelia isn’t sure what her dream is. She only knows that marriage and running a house don’t seem all that exciting, and she desperately wants something exciting to happen in her life. If she were a man, she would probably join the crew of some ship and sail off to the farthest corners of The Simpire, but alas, she is not a man. 

Soon the Prescott family servant, Amersham, arrives to escort Heidi home. He’s greeted by the the Meryweather’s butler, Mr. Hastings.

Heidi leaves and Fidelia is called to dinner. Today was such an interesting day, and she regales the family with tales of her arrowhead find. 

The family gathers in the parlor after dinner, and Victor entertains them for a bit by playing the piano. Fidelia’s favorite song is “Funiculi Funicula,” and the family attempts to sing it, but since it’s in another language, they mess it up, as they always do. This is cause for much laughter, even from father.

(Note: You can hear a rendition of “Funiculi Funicula” on YouTube.)

Then it’s time to get ready for bed.

Before bed, Fidelia cannot resist reviewing her notes on the fossil she found one last time. She then goes to bed and snuggles down into the covers, happy that something a little exciting happend in her life today.

(Note: If you’d like to see a “Day in the Life” for Heidi, go here.)

Pose cc:

Bored in Bed by Katverse

Female Clothing cc:

Fidelia’s nightgown by Sifix2 at TSR

Fidelia’s dress by Elfdor at TSR

Mrs. Meryweather’s (mother) dress by Elfdor at TSR

Maid’s Uniform by Linzlu on Tumblr

Heidi’s dress by Peebs Plays on Tumblr

Mrs. Prescott’s dress by retro-pixels on Tumblr

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New Best Friend

Heidi (right) got a new best friend today--Fidelia. I’m still creating all the starting lots and families for this save, so the newly created Fidelia Meryweather is the only teenage girl in the game that’s in Heidi’s social class. Heidi has no choice but to be her BFF, haha.