#while smiling and lying through his teeth to pt9's face

[tank-grunt]

follow my logic here - his parents have 5 and 7 nice points unlike his measly 2 nice points. i do not buy the idea that anything buzz became is something his parents forced on him, alright? but his bio says he used to enjoy barbershop quartet, but why he stopped is classified information. if it was just pressure from his parents to conform to some stupid ideal, it wouldn't really be classified information. like for the record i know the classified information is like, a joke on the part of the devs. but regardless.

and the extremes he goes to involving aliens in sims 2 psp, when no one else cares that much about aliens and the only discrimination or violence committed against aliens is textually on his orders... are a bit much, contextually? straight up, he had someone killed and he had an infant locked up in classified areas as soon as it was taken into custody. because they were aliens. kind of extreme from a guy who has no personal involvement with aliens beyond having beef with ONE (1) guy who he pretends to be chill with to his face, in a setting where no one actually cares that much about aliens. xenophobia against aliens and supernaturals is like an active gameplay aspect of sims 3 and 4 but it's not really in sims 2. and even once johnny escapes div47 literally no one cares or minds that some alien is among them now. so like, its super fucking extreme for the setting. this isn't just some kind of normalized bigotry he would have internalized based on societal norms. it's JUST him. not even tank is that bad, based on the fact johnny explicitly hates buzz but not tank.

however the catch is that he's legally allowed to shoot down aliens, but he's not legally allowed to hold pt9 and his family prisoner on the base without pt9's consent. he had to actively deceive pt9, and he's had to be cordial to pt9's face for countless years. that means that the setting is one where he would face repercussions for discriminating against aliens unless under specific circumstances and he knows it. it's not easily justified for holding the smith family or tycho in custody without permission from a guardian - in this case pt9 and vidcund respectively - but there is an avenue for him to be able to legally execute another alien. what gives him just cause? why is he able to legally get away with all that. why does he alone care so damn much.

but lets say that he had been personally abducted at some point, if being abducted in some way hindered his dreams and previous career... well, then, suddenly it all makes more sense, i think. it gives him internal and external justification for being an outlier of pure xenophobia in a setting that otherwise doesn't really have it, and gives him avenue to legally act against what he perceives as the alien menace....... and then the way he acts towards his kids also makes more sense, too, cuz i do not buy the idea buzz is just raising them the way he was raised! and i do not buy the idea lyla would have married buzz and had three kids with him if he wasn't, at some point, someone perfectly normal and fine to be with! theres so little that can so drastically change a person on this timescale...

so... an abduction. a traumatizing experience with extraterrestrial life. and possibly an unwanted pregnancy, maybe. that would change you quick and probably ruin any previous careers in one fell swoop. ruin your marriage. worsen your relationship with your kids. it can work as a pretty solid legal defense for, you know, authorizing the execution of ta-7 and all. and in works of fiction it's not uncommon for experiences with ufo being the catalysts for normal civilians to become involved with top secret alien-related military bullshit like the MIB and what not (all things that buzz is involved with in s2psp)

buzz's entire narrative in both the pc and psp versions of sims 2 would make more sense if he had been personally abducted even once

[amaltheafan]

 #anyways i know buzz aborted that mf thang #i mean i know abortion isnt a vanilla gameplay mechanic so realistically probably just given up for adoption or something but tbh. abortion #timeline-wise itd be after pete already settled on earth so it woulda been the next pol tech after him#butttt he's the kinda dude to hold it against pete as if he were personally responsible #hence why he goes out of his way to personally fuck over the curious-smith family in legal but still horrible + sadistic ways #while smiling and lying through his teeth to pt9's face #and pete is like. i cant call him naive because hes aware of the fact they killed ta-7. but he underestimates buzz for sure.

buzz's entire narrative in both the pc and psp versions of sims 2 would make more sense if he had been personally abducted even once