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Don't Starve characters: Sims 2 aspirations edition

(for the like 3 people who are into both games and anyone else I can drag along with my enthusiasm)

Wilson: Knowledge monotype; he exhibits the classic Knowledge Sim flaw of putting his curiosity above his self-preservation instinct. And his social life.

Knowledge Sim (fondly denigrating)

Willow: Fire is not an aspiration, unfortunately. I might pick Pleasure or Pleasure/Popularity instead? Pleasure is kind of the "screw around having fun with few long-term goals" aspiration.

Wolfgang: Popularity might be a good choice for his primary aspiration; I can't resist the urge to put Grilled Cheese as his secondary aspiration, although if it weren't for that, Popularity/Family would be a logical choice.

Wendy: Preteen, therefore Grow Up aspiration

WX-78: "World domination" doesn't fit very well into the aspiration system. Fortune is too materialistic, Popularity is too nice. (The Sims 2 GBA does have an "Intimidating" aspiration, and there's an unfinished, dummied-out "Power" aspiration in the main Sims 2 game that combines elements of Popularity and Fortune.) I suppose they could be an incredibly vindictive Popularity Sim if you reflavoured "friend" as "minion", since that aspiration already has a vindictive streak.

Wickerbottom: Knowledge monotype

Knowledge Sim (compliment)

Woodie: What DOES Woodie want out of life, besides trees? He doesn't want kids enough for Family aspiration, but Romance is about being a casanova, so his bond with Lucy isn't helpful here. He might be a friendly enough guy for the Popularity aspiration?

Wes: Popularity/Pleasure maybe, both to suit his artistic aspirations and because he likes both friendship and simple pleasures.

Maxwell: Probably Popularity/Fortune, although I could see a reversal of that; he's clearly not very good at being a Popularity Sim since the bread and butter of that aspiration is wanting to have lots of friends, but this could be explained by personality point distribution (he's on the former rather than the latter side of the Shy/Outgoing and Mean/Nice scales). He does fit the other foci of the Popularity aspiration with his desire to be famous and well-regarded, and his insistence on sticking with a performing arts career instead of taking a duller but more profitable job when he was having money problems.

I could make a case for Knowledge being his secondary aspiration instead given his history with delving into arcane secrets, but I don't think that takes precedence over his taste for the finer things in life.

Wagstaff: Knowledge/Fortune; scientific discovery is clearly important to him (and he has all the Knowledge Sim flaws Wilson does) but so is putting his discoveries to use, and even if it's just a means to fund his experiments he definitely cares about making money and can be unscrupulous about how he gets it, c.f. his line for Snake Oil.

Knowledge Sim (derogatory)

Winona: Family/Knowledge, possibly? Knowledge aspiration is the closest I can think of for her interest in machines and building things, although that conflicts with her disinterest in academics.

Wigfrid: Might be Popularity monotype since "Win a Fight" is a Popularity want.

Webber: Grow Up

Walani: Pleasure monotype, most likely. I could see Pleasure/Popularity with an outside chance of Pleasure/Family if you were keen to give her a secondary aspiration.

Warly: Family/Pleasure because the Pleasure aspiration has a lot of food-focused stuff in it (the only reason he's not Family monotype).

Woodlegs: Fortune/Pleasure, the most piratey aspiration combo

Wilbur: He would probably be modeled as a pet, which don't have aspirations.

Wilba: Pleasure monotype for now, as an adolescent; might pick up a secondary aspiration later.

Wormwood: Popularity monotype

Wheeler: Pleasure/Knowledge seems like the most adventurous aspiration combo

Wortox: I was 110% ready to say Pleasure monotype, but Popularity is the only aspiration with the Pull Prank want, so Pleasure/Popularity it is!

Wurt: Grow Up

Walter: Either Grow Up if he's still in the child age stage or Knowledge (no secondary aspiration *yet*, but he sure likes cryptids, a noted Knowledge Sim trait) if he's at the beginning of the teen age stage.

You may be noticing a lot of Popularity sims in this mix, but DST *is* a co-op game with like a PG rating, so I think it's just the power of friendship at work and not me being biased and/or using that aspiration as a catchall. Probably.