#ts4 bachelor challenge entry

[none-of-these-days]

Interviewer: Mr. Landgrab, what are some of your favorite activities outside of work?

Johnny: As a business owner there is barely any time for hobbies. But I enjoy a good match of tennis or golf. When in Mt. Komorebi I always try to get at least a few hours to enjoy the snowy mountains and go skiing.

Interviewer: Sounds tough! You probably don't have time for any pets, do you?

Johnny: My family owns a prestigious horse stable in the countryside of Brindelton Bay. I started horse riding at the age of 5 and still do so when time allows. Other than that, my mother owns three poodles. But I consider myself a cat person rather than a dog person.

Interviewer: Holiday season is coming upon us! Where is your favorite travel destination?

Johnny: I travel a lot due to work. I'd say my favorite destination is Tartosa. It's known for it's magnificent sun downers and exquisite cuisine. There is nothing better than enjoying a high class meal and some good wine while watching the sun down.

Interviewer: Rumors have it you're invited to Mr. Straud's Halloween party. What will your costume look like?

Johnny: I'll keep it traditional and simple. I enjoy high fashion - wearing silly costumes however is not something I'm especially keen of. I decided to go as a vampire. The suit was tailored by one of my favorite designers. It did cost quite the money but I say it's worth the price.

Part 1 out of 2 of CEO Johnny's introduction for @cawthorntales bachelor challenge. I hope you like this little interview Johnny did. I was figuring out how to offer as much info about CEO Johnny without it reading weird in his actual video tape (which will be posted tomorrow). So I decided to split things up. I think it's very fitting for succesfull business owner Johnny to do these kind of interviews.

I've also included the Halloween screenshots in this post! :D

(Also sorry if anything sounds off. English is not my native language and I'm running out of brain juice atm. I heavily relied on DeepL and hope everything makes sense.)

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Aarini Siddiqui reporting for Travelogue Journey with Shawn Takahashi a Bachelorette Challenge hosted by @bloomingkyras

Aarini Siddiqui, is an only child, raised by her military father. Born in India, they moved to Tomorang, not long after her mother passed away and father was promoted with in the Embassy. Other than her time away at Uni, which she just graduated and is a Certified Gemologist and registered with the International Gem Society, she has lived in Tomorang. Aarini already had a job lined up to consult with a Gem Appraiser company thats main office is located in Tomorang but will allow for her to travel. Aarini will be spending the next several months before she is to start her job working on some of the jewelry pieces that she has commissions for.

A creative, who pulls her inspiration from nature for her pieces, specializes in custom made statement pieces for her clients. She has been making custom jewelry since she was about 12 and selling locally. Uni was draining and she is looking forward to this break she is taking before she moves fully into the work force. Her best friend told her about the BC for Shawn and she was instantly intrigued as she has not had much time for a social, romantic life during these last few years of school.

Fun Facts: 🌸Aarini is quick to get a temper but will sizzle out fast 🌸Loves Bollywood dance and will occasionally dance with a local group 🌸Has been known to be a touch cringy in the best way 🌸Loves chocolate covered raspberries 🌸Finds being outdoors and with nature to be her place of zen 🌸Secretly longs to be swept off her feet in an ultimate romance adventure.

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Hendrix Lothario for @cawthorntales Landgraab BC

Hendrix Lothario Young Adult Gay Aspiration: Successful lineage Traits: Unethical, Family Oriented, Hot headed

Yes, Lothario, as in THE Lothario family. Hendrix is Don Lotharios cousin and where Don might be known for his prowess and noncommittal lover boy mentality. Hendrix, took more after Dons uncle, his father {redacted} Lothario , who though a bit of a rake is known more for his darker dealings. From the desert of Oasis springs to the back alleys of San My Hendrix has been working his way up in family business. Hendrix doesnt mind getting his hands dirty but he works on keeping a low profile. Something he has learned over the years is sometime the thing that is seen the least is the one that is sitting right out in the open. Crazily enough its being out in the open that has him signing up for this BC. What better way to throw the sent off of some of his more recent activities than to be blatantly preoccupied with tempting a one very uptight looking golden boy. And secretly this may give Hendrix the chance to get to know someone he could possibly have a romantic interest in for more than a fleeting moment

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Gem Barrett for @rainymoodlet Rock of Love BC

Private Download if chosen

Back story:

Gem, born in Willow Creek County to the local Pastor and his wife, she was a precocious child and nothing like her older brother. No worries both her parents reminded her constantly of that shortcoming.  For a while the "wild child" curiosity was accepted as toddler antics but as Gem became older her outgoing way was frowned on especially by her mother. It was around the age of 8 when that shift occurred. Gems mom was pregnant with her baby sister, and she remembers everyone being so excited and her parents heading to the hospital so they could bring her little sister home, except only her parents came back. Her mother was never the same towards her again. She would hear her parents arguing and around the age of 12 is the first time she heard her mom utter the phrase "bayou bitch baby" It was not too long after that when she found out the woman that was raising her wasn't her mother at all. It did not make sense to Gem though because neither was her brother. Her older brother was from their fathers first marriage, his mom did not fancy being the pastor's wife or a mom so she left and divorced their dad.

The bomb was dropped when she was 14, her father the good pastor, had an affair early in her mom's marriage to him that resulted in her birth. Due to his standing in the community he didn't want his or his family name to be tarnished. His solution was to have his now wife fake a pregnancy (all while knowing she had fertility issues) until Gem was born. He went so far as to arrange for her birth mother to stay with them towards the end and had a home birth there in the room Gem called her own. That's how they were able to pass her off as her "mother's" child. They kept her birth mom around for the first month and then sent her on her way, no one the wiser.  When her mother lost her baby sister, she lost EVERYTHING that would allow for her to ever carry a child of her own, the only thing that she nurtured now was her bitterness and resentment of Gem. 

Thank god for Gems BFF Liza, or as she was affectionately known, Lying Liza. She was her rock through that toxic childhood, she was her escape.  It was Liza home that she felt loved and wanted, not her own, and she spent more time with them. But Lying Liza was called that for a reason as she was known for the extraordinary tales /Lies she would make up about the things she did and people she met, especially as they became teens. Gem wasn't allowed to listen to much music, especially none of that sinful stuff! With Liza, she was introduced to an eclectic array of music but both their favorite was rock. Iron revival, a rather new band at the time,  was Gems go to when she was needing to get lost in her emotions.

  Liza swore she was a groupie that got to meet some of the leads in their favorite rock groups over spring break and even shared a hot kiss with one though she refused to name( insert eye roll,) ok whatever you say Liza. But it was the summer of their 15th year that she and Liza got the chance to go to an indie rock group festival. The sights, the sounds, so much for Gem to absorb. Needless to say, at the end of that festival Gem came home with more than a T-shirt. 

Nine months later Gem gave birth to a daughter, with her mother staring her down and mumbling, "Bayou Bitch Baby just like HER". Forced to give her up, Gem got 24 hrs with a child she would never see again. They wouldn't even let her name her for the birth certificate. When she could no longer hear the small cries as her parents left with her daughter and when she could no longer finish screaming out her loss and pain because she was empty, she looked and there Liza was, her rock, the only person she confided in with her plan. Six Months later Gem left home and hasn't been back since. 

Fast forward, Gem made her way to the Pacific northwest and met up with some local bands in the Granite Falls area.  She realized she had a knack with people, planning, and an ear for music and how to best showcase it. Though she might have been the wild child her parents barely tolerated, one thing for sure that not even they could deny was how smart Gem was.  She spent the next several years building her business and brand. When it came to giving the smaller bands, the break needed to help boost them, you went to see her. She started to be known as the go to, Promotional Gems was a name those on the come up could trust. She was always about giving people a chance. Fairly sure it was to make up for all the chances her own family never extended to her. 

Liza would come up and visit her over the years, bring news from home, it was a few years back, right before Lying Liza went and found love, picket fences and 2.5 kids that she brought word of Gems father. He was on Hospice and wanted his daughter to come home, Gem refused him the visit, but not the letter he sent her. There he told Gem about her biological mother, how she showed up one day a couple years back, told him of the letters she had been writing and that he knew nothing about. Seems Gems "mother" had been intercepting all those letters and had hid them. He promised he would have her brother mail them to her along with where she could find her if she desired. That day wasn't until after her father passed away when her brother showed up at her office with the all the letters her biological mom had written to her over the years.  It was too late though, when Gem went back to Willow Creek County (seems her mother hadn't gone too far as she wanted to be close to her daughter) she found her in a nursing home with late-stage Alzheimer.  

Gem spent her mother's last few months going back and forth between Granite falls and Willow Creek County.  During this time, she began to think more and more of family, specifically the daughter she was made to give up, the mother she never got to know and what she may want to do with her life.   

When one of her favorite bands from her youth has a member show back up in the spotlight and willing to do a BC.. the teen heart that played their CD's until even the walls of her room knew the lyrics, she melted at the chance to connect with someone whose music unknowingly was part of her healing during her darkest time, was a beacon and safe harbor whenever the headphones went on. So Yeah, Gem is signing up in hopes of...... 

Hope, love and even the nerve to try and find her the daughter lost to her 

Does she have what it takes to Rock it out long enough to be Jacksons Rock of Love 

*Gem is a townie remake from @cowplant-snacks Townie group C

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So I did a thing and I am so happy I did

Meet RIP aka Mortimer Goth for @cawthorntales Blake BC

Mortimer "RIP" Goth

Adult

Bisexual

Occupation: Free Lance Money Man

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Traits: Creative, Chased by Death, Macabre, Jealous, Dancing machine

You done staring yet?

Yes this is a Goth, Mortimer but you had better NEVER call him that. Mo or RIP is what he answers to. If you are part of the underground scene in Newcrest and Willowcreek then you may already know some bits and pieces. Polite society tends to try to stay away BUT again, GOTH and his money is long (as well as other things) and he is very good with numbers and for the right number RIP will handle the finances of individuals to keep their pockets deep or get them there. He only is willing to take on a few clients a year, the rest of the time he lives like a daredevil. Chasing death whenever he can and living off the high of those adrenaline rushes delivers.

The Graveyard, think country club for the alt lifestyle, is RIP's pride and joy, which he co-owns with his one-time lover Bella Bachelor. These 2 are thick as thieves and have a love that's beautiful, BUT these days is strictly platonic. They found they were too toxic as romantic partners, and Bella several years back found her person in the exquisite Penny Pizzaz. Seeing his best girl happy and glowing with love has made RIP want the same for himself. It was Bella that told him of Blakes BC and has RIP taking a chance to publicly see if he can find his true person too

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Paradise Bird

Contestant for @akitasimblr Mad about DoDo BC

Paradise Bird 25 Loves freely

Paradise is the only child of an abstract artist and a once upon a time jazz singer. Paradise is just about one of the happiest and cheerful individuals' one could meet making it her mission to sprinkle color on anything she touches, this is no beige girl! No really, her mom dealt with ALOT of depression when Paradise was a child and due to those lived experiences she vowed as a girl to keep the darkness at bay and in her sweet little head that meant to surround herself with so much color, she has lived it ever since.

She grew up on the motto (thanks dad) all the broken crayons still color and no matter what may be going on in life you can count on Paradise to find the silver lining. She loves the outdoors and is adventurous, though a bit clumsy so watch your feet and a tad cringy at times.. we just gonna pray for her yall.

When Paradise heard about Dodo, his past challenges and being open to a BC again, PLUS that it would be in the beautiful Sulani. She took that as a sign to enter and see if she could be just what Dodo needed and if he may be the one for her. If nothing else Paradise wants to just spread self love and remind everyone to intentionally have a good day.

PRIVATE DL IF CHOSEN

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Love on the Ranch entry

Here's my sim for #loveontheranch by @snderist

Eloise Coleman grew up traveling with her parents because of her dad's job as a food blogger. Her senior year of high school her father passed, and her mother moved them to Brindleton Bay. In her free time she enjoys photography, reading, and caring for the stray animals in her neighborhood. She shows her love for her friends and family through food, and her best friend would describe her as a golden retriever. Girly isn't afraid to get dirty and will try everything once. Her ideal date would be an outdoor activity like ice skating (or horseback riding) and then going back home for a meal she made just for them. Eloise is excited about the prospect of finding her forever person in Asher! (custom content used and gallery ID under the cut)

Custom content all outfits: skin tone skin detail (+ MsBlue skinset) eyebrows (thin) rings (couldn't find the link to the ones in the photos, replaced with these) eyes lip preset nose preset butt slider hip shape slider (I didn't even use the sliders, added them just in case though) teeth override (BGvampiresmore) tattoo everyday: eyeshadow (outfit 1) eyeshadow (outfit 2) lashes (NO1 glasses conflict) hair blush earrings necklace outfit 2 shoes 1 (same as formal) shoes 2 (daisy flower flat sandals) formal: eyeshadow lashes eyeliner blush hair (V3) earrings shoes (couldn't find the original ones, switched to the same as everyday 1) dress

Gallery ID: fruitysimsy

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Shea Butter for Jaxon Waters BC by @cawthorntales

Shea Butter Adult Aspirations: Master Actor Traits: Vegetarian, Hotheaded, Loyal, Foodie, Squeamish Sexuality: Gay

Shea born and raised in the south is the eldest of 8 and the only son, so growing up in a house full of women had advantages and disadvantages. Him and his father spent ALOT of time together doing what his pops called treehouse behaviors. From fishing, to roughhousing to camping under the stars his father made a point that 1 weekend a month was set aside for just him and his son. And even when it became clear to his father that his son was what the elders in the south called "sweet", he loved him harder, and like with all his children, supported them and loved them through whatever life set before them. Shea owes a great deal of his confidence to that man and makes sure to tell both his parents as often as possible how much he loves and appreciates them.

Something Shea found out as he entered his teen years was that he had not only an eye for fashion but also how to put it together in a complete package. Shea has spent the last 15 years working his way up to being one of the most sought after stylist to those hitting the red carpets. All that time in the industry has taught him about the mask that people are willing to wear and how hard it is to remove them when the cameras are off. Its why Shea stopped dating a few years back but all his passion that he puts into his work he wants to pour into a partner. As he gets older Shea would love to come home to someone who he can be a beacon in the dark for, best friend, lover and companion and vise versa. When his baby sister reached out to him, bless her teen heart she loves watching BC on TV , told him about a one Jaxon Waters and she showed him his picture those striking eyes reached in and tugged something inside him. So now this man is packing up and taking a chance not only on himself but on a stranger as well to see if love will find them both in their ever after

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Entering Sims BC/Challenges are where its at!

So I was going through my S4 folder and pics today and came across my cache of BC/Challenge entry pics that I have done over the last year. Mind you this doesnt include sim request or the rare CAS Challenge i may partake in.

Just a little over a year ago I entered my first BC. My entry was late and ultimately didn't make it through. Since then I have entered approx 20ish Challenges( Bachelor/ette or Tournament style challenges)

I've watched my sim style change over the year and entering these has done a few things

1 made me more comfortable with creating male sims - As they were not something I gave much credence to prior to starting this journey

2. enabled me to come up with some great storylines/backgrounds for not only the contest but to use in my own game

3. enjoy the game when its as problematic as it is.

4. its a great ease into engaging/interacting with your fellow simblr

BC's are not for everyone. Your sim may not always get chosen, make it far or end up in the finales let alone win. And sometimes BC get abandoned, start dates are pushed back or they don't get completed. So be ok with any of these things when you enter one. I personally love seeing the progression of another's story that has one of my pixels sprinkled in their storyline. As I don't play the game ( between crashes, crashes and more crashes - its a headache for me ) so CAS is my go to as I rarely have any problems there.

So the next time you see your fellow simblr putting a call out for contestant try your hand as you maybe pleasantly surprised.

Here is a look at my submissions over the last year

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London Clark for @simsdaughters Rich Romance BC

London Clark 24yo Trans Female Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire Traits:

London has always been a pecular girl, interested in the things her Grams would call Wicked wonders. So London would often back burner those interest. Though they never stayed tamped down for long as they would always come out in her Art. Known in the underground art world as the Raven brush, her seductive, dark meanderings covered any canvas she could get her hands on.

By day she was her Grams caregiver and by night she would go to her secret place aka the backroom in grams basement, and let all her self pour out into her art. Recently her grams passed away and as much as her art has been her solace for the last few years her grams was always her anchor. One of her patrons, Lilith V. passed her a card for a Romance BC. London, being intrigued by this especially since Lilith gave it to her cant pass up the chance to see what may be in store if she proceeds with entering and will she get the chance to explore what she hopes is delectable dark encounter with a tall dark stranger that could offer her more than she even knew she wanted.

Base sim by @cowplant-snacks from her C townies collection

Private DL if chosen

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Dejavu for @novapark Izan's ISBIBC

Dejavu Hypnos

26

Environmentalist

Strangerville

Straight

Traits: Freegan, Erratic, Cheerful, Music Lover, Family Oriented

Aspiration: Eco Innovator

Born and raised in Strangerville. Deja met, married, and became the mother to "Love of her life" child 8 years ago. Two years later, she was a single mother heading to court to file for divorce. Deja High School sweetheart enlisted in the military, 10 mths after reporting for extra assignments on base, Deja started noticing small changes with her husband. Those small changes became more and more until 1 month from their daughters 2nd birthday when he woke up and had no memory of his and Deja relationship past being high school classmates, meaning no memory of time dating, marrying or that he was a father to a small child. The more they attempted to help regain his memory, the more withdrawn and sometimes violent he became.

Dating as a single parent, especially one in a small town, is hard. Dating and you're the former wife of the towns infamous solider who now more often than not is known as Nervous Subject, is even harder.

Deja just wants the chance to love again and be able to share her life with someone willing to not only look past the rumor mill. small town chatter but also accepts she is a package deal with her sweet daughter, Lullaby.

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Season 4 THTH entrants

@havenroyals Single Parents you say.. I got you !

Hudson Sidestep 44 Exploring Recently Divorced 1 son just turned 3

Hudson was a no holds bar, going to my grave bachelor, that was until he met HER, She was 20 to his 40 and made him crazy in all the right ways. Now he is just crazy. Crazy still about her, in lust with her, maybe even still in love with her BUT they just keep exploding around each other and with a child in the mix he had to call it quits, So what's a 40ish man to do to re add the spice back in that no longer exists since his divorce.

A BC of course. Lets do this and see how Hudson comes out on the other side when its all said and done

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Anoushka Doll-Sidestep 24 Hudsonaholic Newly Single Parent

Anoushka may be a wee bit self absorbed and materialistic, chaser of whims and come across a lil like a Diva. That's cause she is and she wont make up a story to cover it up either but one thing she never thought she would be and LOVE, is a mother. Her saving/redeeming quality is how over the moon she is about her boy(s). She loves both her boys hard and since her Dunce of an ex cant see what they have - here she is playing the game and while he is trying to regain the spice he CHOSE to let go she is here to see if she can get her family back So if making him bat shit cray jealous as she gets hit on by the house is what it takes… she is all in because she knows something he doesn't ..🤰🏾

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Johnathon "Nat" Vazquez

Reporting for @cawthorntales Bloom BC

Johnathon "Nat" Vazquez

Young Adult

Pansexual

Aspirations: Outdoors Enthusiast

Traits: Loner, Loves outdoors, Creative, Recycle discipline, family oriented

Nat grew up in the remote area of the Granite Falls area. Both his parents were generational workers of the land and raised Nat off the grid. Due to that upbringing he is very much one with nature and has called home, tents, yurts, overhang of a tree and of course the hearth in his family home was always a favorite spot growing up. Nat is an only child but grew up around all of his cousins so he doesn't act /have the Only child vibe and if asked most times Nat will say that he has 10 siblings, which leave some gob smacked.

As much as Nat loves his family he enjoys his time to himself, he makes a living in the area by acting as a guide to those wanting to explore areas of granite falls. He also teaches wilderness training and rock-climbing. A few times a year he travels back home, especially as his parents age, to help out on the family land.

Romance, he isn't for or against it, he has had lovers in the past and during the time that they were together he loved the connection but usually his need for solace was the deal breaker.

Nat has a 3 year old daughter but he hasn't seen her in person in about 2 years. Her mother wasn't too thrilled that she didn't get to be number 1 in his life at the time and kept his daughter from him and now has married into her "perfect family" and moved away limiting his access and recently has been working to get his parental rights revoked so her shiny new husband can adopt. As if that's gonna happen

Fun Facts:

A member of Simerica Ax throwing League and won 6 tournaments

Applied to and was on the reality show ALONE and lasted 88 days

Is not a big kisser, always felt that those were more intimate than sex and thus has not kissed very many of his past partners

Loves the feel of the earth beneath him and loves to moon bathe in the nude

Has never owned a TV

The sound of an intimate partners laugh is usually a big turn on for Nat

Please don't call him Johnathon, that's his Dad

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Remake of a @cowplant-snacks townie from group E

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Poetry Books for Sweet on Shaun BC

Poetry Books / Ode ( loyal purrrrfect companion) Oasis Springs 23 Traits Creative, Clumsy, Book-worm,Cat Lover, Hot headed Aspiration - Bestselling Author

Poetry wrote her first story at 6, by 13 she had published her first book and by 18 she was on the SimYork times Bestselling list. She has spent so many years telling the stories of the people living in her imagination and made a nice living doing so. As she has gotten older and is comfortable in the life her career has afforded her she has started looking to write her own story, a journey, one where she is living outside her head in he real world, one where the thrills her character writes about actually happens to her and most of all a chance at true romance, something worthy of putting down in her diary. Maybe just maybe she will get her chance at that with Shaun

PRIVATE DL IF CHOSEN

@blerdytrait another possible love interest for Shaun

Ahh being famous gets you perks and Pervs...oh Mr Peeping why ...

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Lotus Blossom for @blvckentropy Double Shot at Love

Lotus Blossom 27 yo Straight

Lotus is an entire vibe. With the looks of 50's pinup model a voice dipped in honey and sassy attitude to boot, she makes for one of San My most talked about food critics. The girl has an eclectic pallet in both what she puts on her tongue, in her belly and in her (wink).

Lotus is no shrinking violet and can definitely keep a man on his toes and intrigued. It was the oddity of 2 brothers BC that caught her eye and has her throwing her hat in to see if there is a possible love match or just a damn good time to be had. Either way she is down for the adventure. Not one to judge too quickly she will reserve what team she may be leaning towards until after a few meet ups with the boys.

PRIVATE DL IF CHOSEN

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Three days! Submit your simmies and/or rb to spread the call. Can't wait to start the shenanigans on Halloween 😈

This Halloween, Attica Riot presents 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝐴𝑀𝐼𝐿𝐼𝐴𝑅: a different kind of Bachelor Challenge. 

Vampire supercouple Atticus Winthorpe and Ryan Kato are looking for that special someone: the perfect mortal to join the Katowin household as their familiar. Do you live to serve? Would you die to serve? Do you perform well under immense pressure? Are you not the slightest bit squeamish? Then you might just be that one. Maybe. Atticus and Ryan are very particular.

RULES:

Submissions must be sent by October, Friday the 13th

Tag #katowinfamiliar and @mangosimoothie

One outfit per category and no alpha hair

CONTESTANTS:

8 will be chosen

Must be human and mortal - no occults

15 skill points spent however you please

Young Adults only

The winning sim will join the Katowin household and welcome a life of servitude (plus a cushy salary) under their two new caretakers.

Will they fall in love? Will they get turned? Will they die trying? Who's to say.

In your submission, please include some background on your sim, why they want to be a familiar, any special skills they might have, and their blood type (yes, really)

Can't wait to see your submissions! Happy Halloween and reblog instead of liking to spread the call 🖤

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