#sims 4 prothetics

[mylittleponyoh]

Meet Melvin - Kapands Corner Challenge !

The great Kapands challenged us to create sims for the new dating app Cupid's Corner. The challenge was all of august with a theme for each days. It was mostly about creating sims and a little backstory for your own game. Fill your map with PNJ you know the traits, personality and history can definitely be a game changer !

Find more about this challenge here !

For Melvin as my day 10 - Friend zone, I wanted to tackle a very taboo subject such as disability and all the impact it has on one's life. It can be challenging for people with a disability to be seen outside of it, and yet there is this ambiguous moment where nobody wants to talk about it. Ea has implemented few accessories in CAS to include PRM in game but yet there is no "in game fonctionality" with the new objects. Yes there are Cochlear Implants but yet no hearing disability in game. Thankfully sims 4 community has with mods and CC implemented some PRM fonctionalities which is great for representation.

For Melvin's story, and to have a realistic gameplay, the wheelchair option was not going to work out, unfortunately. Imagine this PNJ who is supposed to be in a wheelchair pop up on a lot standing. It's just not RP. So I found a consolation with prosthetics CC, I talked about it in my previous post ! I know it doesn't work if you want your sim to be paraplegic...but it worked for my storyline. Alright, enough rambling, read his backstory 👇🏼

Melvin Kastavros in his friends group has always been the good friend who to laugh with. But his friends were often embarrassed discussing their love life in front of him. Well, he was not like everyone else. With his wheelchair that no one could ignore, everybody dodged the subject of his disability. And mostly all of the social issues that came with it.

Yes with girls it was... complicated to be seen other than as a good friend. And he hated it. Because he wanted what others had. A normal life. Sentimental experiences, hook-ups, a girlfriend.

In his group of friends, he always liked Annika. She was bubbly, funny and really pretty . Actually, he always liked her more than a friend. But he was too shy or too self aware of his disability to confess his crush to her. He was convinced that she only saw him as a friend.

During his first uni semester, he met a new group of friends with whom he had dared to talk about all of this. His disability, his involuntary bachelorhood. Then his new friends spoke to him about this new app. Cupid's Corner. He absolutely had to subscribe ! He regained so much confidence with this simple talk, he created his profile that same evening ! If for his new friends there were no taboo, maybe girls on this app would see him other than a good friend ?