#sim: sophos zan ku

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Previously on Kulo Seeri, Melchol gave birth to twin voidlings, revealed that the vengeful Beguiler had a mole in the village and died. His grave will be moved to the burial grounds next rotation - in KS, you don’t anger a spirit by turfing it out of its home straight away!

The rest of the rotation passed uneventfully, but here are some highlights of the last couple of days:

Immediately after Melchol’s death, ACR kicked back in with a first kiss between Zyulo and Wild Kiss. Is Sophos crying for his brother, or is it because his love interest has just got romantic with someone else?

The twins had to be adopted out, since there are only three nursing mothers in KS. Since one is Melchol’s ex and another is a Vedraloga, Lark zan-Ace was the only choice. She came by with her brother Caleb to take the babies back to her tents.

A litter of skuncoons are on the way...

...and Melchol is not taking kindly to the fact that the kitchen has become a mess in his absence.

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ACR continues unabated through the first day...

Game: *chimes*

YOU TWO. NOT AGAIN.

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I’m posting again, yay backups! Anyway...

After all the drama at the lake, Zyulo and Wild Kiss get back home a while after midnight to find Zyulo’s Uncle Sophos still awake, scrubbing away at a grungy water pitcher. He seems like he’s about to fall asleep, so Zyulo - sensitive young sim that he is - opts to shock Sophos awake with a minor elemental spell.

Sophos, who didn’t even know Zyulo was a mage, takes it hard. Luckily(?) Wild Kiss is more than happy to comfort him. I’d keep this quiet, you two... if Zyulo was already breaking out the elemental magic before Sophos kissed his love interest, nothing good can come of this... *heads off to make some popcorn*

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I don’t have many pictures from this outing, but here are a couple more from before Kira decides to get home and snooze.

It’s hard to tell through the chandelier thingy, but Melchol and Kira are talking about crowns here - probably relating to Etan and her recent actions. Which also involve troublesome arkal, so Kira can’t really criticise. Meanwhile, Sophos and Zera both seem to have ACR on their minds.

Nita’s not interested in Sophos though... something tells me Shazia is enjoying her break from serving in the Vedraloga!

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The first day in Zera’s household started the way it started last time: with way too much ACR for my tastes. Wild Kiss certainly lives up to her name, sharing a first kiss of the iteration with Sophos before heading over to flirt with walkby Caleb (who has, up to this point, only been interested in guys). I actually told her to, because she wanted to, but I wasn’t expecting him to accept the flirt!

Etan was also walking by (coincidence?) and Melchol greeted her, which again was followed by a lot of ACR.

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Back home, Zyulo is wondering... what could Wild Kiss be doing wandering over to the men’s tent? Ah, must be nothing, Time to nap.

Wild Kiss & Sophos: *ACR ACR ACR*

Game: *chimes*

Me: Wait, what? Didn’t you already chime with Zyulo?

Well, time to redo my RCC settings...

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The rest of Zera and Zyulo’s hunt passes uneventfully - mostly games of kicky bag, a popular activity for Nuidya hunters to practise their hand-eye coordination - and soon it’s time for the pair of them to return home. While they lug their two deer, a boar and a duck back to Kulo Seeri, have some pics of Sophos and Sela making very cute catch faces. 😊

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Back to posting Kulo Seeri gameplay! And after Kira’s done swooning over troublesome arkal, she makes her way to the tavern for the closest equivalent to a night on the town that Kulo Seeri can manage. Most of the night is spent hanging around with her northkin, the zan-Ku clan. (”Northkin” in KS means “related on the father’s side” - only matrilineal ancestry counts for family ties in Nuidya culture. The implication is that paternal relatives are a quirky custom of the northern cities.)

She discusses her recent transformation to and from a werewolf state with her cousin Zera, who double checks that Kira has in fact turned back while trying to act casual and joke about it. Kira has inherited the zan-Ku temper, and no one wants to get on her bad side when she doesn’t have fangs.

Kira’s uncle Sophos, a hunter who’s nearly sixty moons old and stubbornly refusing to hang up his spear, also comes over to talk with her. I think he might be trying to mooch something off her, going by the thought bubble. His brother Melchol, Kira’s father, is waiting in the background...

...and when he gets a chance to speak to Kira, their shared experiences of being pulled into the Spirit World and returning pregnant are the main focus of the conversation.

Melchol’s pregnancy is further along than Kira’s, and he remembers nothing about the experience except a vague warning that someone in the village was an agent of the Beguiler, which popped into his head midway through preparing a meal. He still doesn’t know who the warning referred to, and it’s making him feel anxious most of the time. (Kira, who’s done this before, reckons that’s just a pregnancy thing.)

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Soon enough, it’s morning, and time to collect wood and water from the Heart of the Village. Zyulo, Sophos and Wild Kiss are sleeping off the previous night’s shenanigans, so the task falls to Busuteta - the only quiet, scholarly and relatively drama-free member of the zan-Ku family. (Well, I say drama-free, but look at him in that first pic making eyes at his brother’s partner...)

Yoshan and Busuteta are paternal half-siblings, so under Nuidya tribal law they’re not related at all, but they’ve always been close. The relationship between Yoshan and his partner Dominick (who appears courtesy of @esotheria-sims) has been challenged a LOT in the time they’ve been together, mostly by Yoshan struggling to stick to the monogamous relationship he knows Dom needs. The two brothers discuss the rumours about Yoshan “just having a thing about elves” - given that both the other guys he’s had minor ACR flings with have been elves, village gossip may have a point - and Busuteta tries taking Yoshan’s mind off it with a story about his new werewolf roommate and her ACR flings.

Towards the end of the visit, though, he gets some ACR of his own in with Chase sho-Carmela.

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This marriage will self-destruct in 10 seconds...

Very very late to the party, but @retromaisie​ tagged me (over a month ago!) in the Improbable Couple Tag meme thingy thing.

This one was pretty easy, although I couldn’t take screenshots until I’d finished cutting downloads for new Kulo Seeri. If there’s one pair of Sims that scream “improbable couple” more than current pairing Kenda mi-Avira and Sophos zan-Ku... it’s got to be Kenda’s cousin, the late, great Vedrafe zan-Ave, and... Sophos zan-Ku. :P

Below the cut is a summary of what I imagine their life together would be like:

To start, I should mention that Vedrafe clearly had a thing for the zan-Ku brothers. She was very close to Melchol, and had a brief fling with Pollux, but her chemistry with Sophos was a massive three bolt attraction.

Sophos and Kenda have been semi-happily married for nearly ten moons in the canon timeline - a relationship that is built on fighting and making up, since both of them are extremely stubborn and take no nonsense. But Vedrafe wasn’t like Kenda... she was even more assertive. Like, the only Sim who ever talked back to the great ancestors kind of assertive. And that would have meant serious trouble.

Before I gave up on the idea of moving Kulo Seeri into an empty premade, I just had to see what their kids would have looked like. I rolled a d4 for the number of times I created offspring for them... here’s the result:

So, in this highly unlikely scenario, Vedrafe and Sophos would be parents of four - one daughter and three sons. (I forget what I named them.) I imagine that Sophos, who was not born and raised in traditionally-matriarchal Kulo Seeri, would spend most of his time with the boys - probably to prove some obscure point - while Vedrafe, equally stubbornly, would devote most of her attention to her daughter, the only heir to the zan-Ave name, just to annoy Sophos.

They’d keep going like that for as long as they could stand to - Sophos would not be allowed to instigate a divorce anyway, while Vedrafe could but it would mean admitting defeat as far as keeping her man in line went. (This is also the reason Kenda won’t divorce him... and the reason she was a rather unpopular headwoman.)

Eventually, things would come to a head - probably with Vedrafe accusing Sophos of tampering with her birth control. (A very likely possibility, and possibly achieved with the aid of Asken zan-Ace, who managed to do that with his wife... nothing else could reasonably explain Sophos knocking Vedrafe up at least three times, even with triple bolts.) He would face trial by something or other, and probably be punished somehow - I’m still working out the Nuidya justice system. However, Vedrafe would still refuse to divorce him, on the grounds that if she did, there’d be nothing to stop him getting together with someone else and starting the whole mess again. I imagine that she’d keep him on a tight leash from there on out.

[sarcasm] And, of course, they would live happily ever after. [/sarcasm]

I’m thanking you for the tag, Maisie... and the rest of Kulo Seeri is thanking the spirits that this never happened. :)