#also I made the main 4 + Virgil in the sims 4

[luna-the-cretar]

I’m sorry, but I physically cannot see this outfit without thinking “hey, it’s Clayton!”

[kaileah-kat]

‘Tis me with part three

I’m only doing the mains because I’m lazy :’)

Here are some backstories that ended up being way more in depth than planned... oops. Logan also has the most basic background because I didn’t know what else to do. In short; I tried :,) I hope you all enjoy it regardless!

HERE’S PART ONE

HERE’S PART TWO

HERE’S PART FOUR

HERE’S A FLOOR PLAN

(Also some warnings: Angst, Deceit, Death mentions, One mention of a panic attack{not detailed}, bad explanations of things) Please let me know if I missed anything!

Logan:

He wants to do something with his life; preferably something with astronomy. The kid loves space damnit.

But what? Teaching? Be a freaking famous scientist? He doesn’t know.

He used to pretend he was teaching about stars to his stuffed animals (and Emile, against his will) but he was like 8, things change. 

When he was 17/18 he was still trying to figure it out and college was just slowly inching closer.

You would think he would have himself together by then, but nope!

His parents were kind of pushing him to get his act together.

Emile was also on his ass about it. He’s 24 and has his shit together already, time to help his baby bro out. 

They have a lovely discussion and figure a couple years at community college would be best until he figures his life out and then he can transfer to another school if he wanted to.

Emile also plops an application on his desk. 

 “What’s this?” “Step one to getting your life together.”

“Why?” “Do you want some money during your college years or not?”

He applied, was hired, and he hasn’t left yet.

Probably won’t any time soon.

... He’s still figuring it out.

Roman:

Roman was adopted when he was 5.

Romans parents were too young and they couldn’t support him so after he was born he was put with a foster family. (*cough* they end up adopting Roman later.)

But hey, Roman’s a naive 5 year old, he doesn’t really know wtf is going on. He just wants to play with his dinosaur toys.

His now parents explain more when he’s around 8/9 and from that point on he decides he’s going to be the best freaking kid in the universe.

He’s what we like to call an overachiever.

He joins any sport, any club. He acts, sings, paints, creates. He can play the flute. He needs to relax. 

He doesn’t admit it, but he secretly wants to gain some sort of approval from the people who weren’t in his life, even when he doesn’t know who they are. He knows they exist and it kind of pains him that he was “given up”. 

He knows the people that raised him will always be proud of him, but would they be proud if they knew him?

Fast-forward to when he’s 16 and decides to add one more thing to the list of things he has done in his life thus far. He applies for a job at Rainbow Mart. 

He nails the interview and is hired. He’s saving his money for college. He also doesn’t truly know what he wants to do either, but he’ll figure it out when he needs to. He’s thinking about something creative because that’s his true passion. The creative aspect of life :)

Patton:

Patton was the most adorable child, okay, let me tell you s o m e t h i n g.

He basically went up to his parents when he was 5 and said: “I want a brother!”

His parents were a little shocked at first but then basically go “Hey, why not?” They make like Sims and go for the “Try for baby” option. (I’m so sorry for wording it like that. My comedy is awful.)

But hey kids, this isn’t an angst-free zone. In short, they couldn’t have another baby. They kept trying over the course of a year and it just wasn’t happening. 

But sweet Patton, an optimistic little bean, doesn’t lose hope! He will get a baby brother or sister soon!

Fast-forward through a bunch of legal things and Pattons parents refusing to quit; after Patton turns 7 his parents bring home small (and silent) 4 year old Virgil.

“Mommy, why is he so quiet?” “He’s probably a little nervous sweetie, he needs time to adjust.” “...Okay but how long will that take?” “Patton...”

Patton has extreme determination to befriend his new brother. He has tried everything, but he still won’t speak. He offered a chance to play with his rubber ducks damnit, what else does Patton need to do?!

Patton thinks for a long time, and also becomes a bit dramatic by going into his moms' room and jumping onto the bed with a sigh.

“Mommy, he still won’t talk to me. It’s been ten y e a r s!” “Patton, it’s been two months.” “But that’s so l o n g!” “Patton...” 

All of a sudden you see him jump from the bed and excitedly talk about this kid named Timmy who speaks with his hands.

“Patton that’s sign language-” “Do you think he’ll talk to me if we learn that?!” “I don’t see why we can’t try.” (spoiler: it works)

Fast-forward nine years, he heard his friends from school were applying for jobs. To save for college, just to have some money, etc. He decides to apply to Rainbow Mart simply because he thinks the experience will be fun. He doesn’t really care about the money part.

Now a quick ending because his piece is long: He enjoys doing what he currently does so much. He thinks he wants to work his way up to a front end manager, he’s not really sure. As for college, he likes the sound of elementary teaching (maybe? possibly?), but he’s honestly comfortable with where he is. So he’s just at community college until he makes a final decision on where he wants to head in life.

Virgil:

Unfortunately, Virgils parents were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They got into a car accident when they were on the way home from work and didn’t make it. (Virgil was about 1)

Now a tale of two unfortunate circumstances: All of his grandparents passed away before he was born and both of his parents were only children. In short, he’s put into the foster system.

Unlike Roman, he hops around a bit. And after he turned 4 he was adopted. 

Virgil has a hard time talking to his new family, but hey, he’ll get used to it. It’ll be fine. 

But if this older boy doesn’t relax his 4 year old self might scream. 

After two months, Patton practically runs into his room with a book and goes “I know you don’t want to speak to me with your words, but how do you feel about speaking to me with your hands?!”

Virgil just shrugs and lets Patton teach him. 

When Virgil was around 5/6, he hugged Patton and Patton heard the audible words “You’re a great brother.” Patton cried, just a little bit.

Virgil grew more comfortable with audibly speaking to Patton, but school and making friends was a whole different story. 

When he was in fourth grade, a boy named Kyle sat next to him and wouldn’t stop talking. 

Virgil stayed silent. Kyle thought he couldn’t hear him so he starts signing everything because he has an older brother named Timmy who’s deaf. (Don’t we love connections?)

Virgil eventually grows comfortable with being audible and they’ve been best friends ever since. 

Fast-forward to 15 year old Virgil: Patton and Kyle are both simultaneously trying to convince Virgil to apply for a job at Rainbow Mart. (Kyle’s been there for about a year because of where their birthdays fall.) 

“C’mon man! It’ll be so much fun!” “I don’t know...”

“Yeah, Virge! Maybe it’ll break you out of your shell a little bit!” “Maybe...”

After about an hour of a mini-debate, he decides to apply. Patton makes cookies to celebrate. 

Virgil nearly had a panic attack during his interview, but Thomas made easier and said he could use sign language. They just had to find an interpreter and he was all set. 

Virgil's piece is also very long. Here’s another brief ending: Virgil is hired. He meets Belial and it’s not very pleasant. Virgil’s also planning on going to college but he doesn’t know what to do yet. He’s still in high school, he has a little more time.

Belial (Deceit):

I’m going to keep his short and to the point, I’m getting really lazy.

He’s evil for a reason, the reason being his parents. 

In short, they f-ed up the kids' emotional state. 

He’s that one kid on the playground with a little squad that walks around and kicks kids sand castles down.

All because he has anger management issues and takes his hatred towards his parents and places it onto others. 

When he turned 17, his parents said he was to either get a job or get out.

I’m pretty sure it’s obvious which choice he made. 

He wasn’t saving for college though, he was saving to get tf out when he was old enough to do so.

He worked his ass off, got an apartment at 19, decided to work full time at Rainbow Mart and was able to move his way up to a front end manager position.

Tune in next time where I possibly feel comfortable with writing some fluffy ship-posting. ;)

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[wickedwitchwc]

Ever had a mental break and you just needed to take some time off from your main project, and work on something else for a bit?

So, I opened up Sims 3. (Yes, I know, but I don’t like Sims 4 as much as Sims 3) and decided I was going to build Cersa’s house, which if you managed to get through my fucking novel Hurricane Year, is the house Mark was quarantined *cough* at for at least 8 months. 

So, some of the objects and patterns are not exactly what I’m imagining, and the game isn’t perfect at aligning particular things the way I would want, but this is as close as I could get to a recreation.

So.... who would like a tour of Cersa’s house in Phoenix... from Cersa? (If you haven’t Read Dragging You Down and Hurricane Year, than thar be spoliers ahead.)

Here is Cersa’s living room. This is the very same living room where Cersa and her brother Milo held Mark down on the couch in order to give him a Pusheen tattoo (for his own good.) The thing that I like best about this room is the subtle nods to Cersa’s heritage. There’s a Nautilus fossil on the wall, a mermaid statue on the coffee table, and the game said that that statue in the back is actually the remains of a Medusa victim. Which is appropriate, because Medusa is a distant cousin of both Milo and Cersa’s. 

Here Cersa sits at the island that separates the kitchen from the living room. Cersa is enjoying a home-made frappuccino in the spot where Damien sat Mark down to talk to him about his terrible life-choices. I love the idea of the kitchen and living room being one big open area. 

And looking at this place now it’s become obvious to me that Cersa has a lot more money than I thought she had. It’s not that she doesn’t have money... She spent centuries conning stupid men for their pocket change, she has money. She’s just a lot more irresponsible with it than her brother.

Now this bedroom is a little bit tougher. This is the room that Cersa placed her brother in for the duration of his coma. You can see the chairs still there that Cersa and Virgil occupied to keep watch over them.

...and here is the chair that Mark occupied. In his somewhat more delicate condition, he got the comfy chair. Here’s Cersa in it, now, admiring the lovely lady in the poster. (She would.) 

Oh. Okay. We’re just gonna pretend we didn’t see this picture.

This next image is the library, that because of the objects in this room, it’s impossible to get a good shot off. But man I tried. 

This is the room Milo gleefully booby-trapped in Dragging you Down, as well as the same room that Damien occupied, when he was attempting to hunt down a cure for Milo’s coma. When Damien was in this room, he pushed the shelves in the middle to the side of the room, and used a the sofa (which you can’t see because of the angle, but believe me, it’s there) and it’s pull out, for a bed. Damien has a lot of unnerving party tricks he can perform, and Mark uncomfortably watched him perform one of them in this room.

And this pink monstrosity is obviously Cersa’s room, as she too is a pink monstrosity. In one corner she has her mess of a magic station, with magical spells akimbo. 

And here is Cersa being super excited to show you her bed. She spent an inordinate amount of time making Mark be the little spoon here, while they both waited for Milo to wake up. Also in the corner, which we won’t be looking at, is the bathroom where they absolutely did not hide a dismembered body for a full week. Moving on.

Here in Cersa’s front yard we get a flash of the dirt road leading up to her house, and her prized baby, the Girl Power truck parked on it. Yes, it’s lavendar. She had to pay a ton for that. Like I said, she’s fiercely irresponsible with money.

And here we have the campfire where Damien, Mark, and Virgil hunted rattlesnakes. It was here, when Virgil deftly saved Mark from getting bitten, that Mark began to feel the first, fleeting symptoms of attraction for the other man. Cersa is playing in the sand. (I don’t know why she’s playing in the sand. I did not tell her to play in the sand. I did not even know a sim could play in the sand. Color me surprised.)

And that’s about it for our tour. I’m actually very happy with how this all came out. If you would like to play with Cersa and her house, drop me a message in my inbox, maybe. Cersa, for the two days I’ve had her, has actually been a pretty interesting sim. Here she is making out with some vampire she randomly invited into her house.

That’s... actually very in character for Cersa. 

I don’t think the house was built with any mods, but Cersa has a few, so my disclaimer is she may not look the same on your game. If you’d like the mods I used, I’ll try and make a solid effort to find them for you. 

If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading, and please give my collection of stories a chance. ;)