#whimsyverse

[jukebox-arts]

So I guess I should consider one of those “master posts” for the sake of organization?

Main Project(s)

Free Runner:

See the blog here! @jenn-the-butterfly

(Sometimes there’s smut!)

Master post

Star Hearts (coming soon)

Magic & Machines (concept artist/artist)

@magickandmachines (written by @quilandscroll)

Mal'car (concept artist)

@mal-car (writte by @quilandscroll

The Hedgerow House

@the-hedgerow-house

People I Think Are Neat:

8um8le / Cyber Crew ; Stellar City

Ayy-imma-ninja / Fairy!AU

Venomous Quill / GITM

Imagine Creative / Bird in a Cage

Satoga Crank / Mantus Celestia

Spadillelicious / Love, Death & Robots

Quil&Scroll / Magic & Machines ; Mal'car

FNAF RELATED

Legacy AU: #legacy #legacy au #jenny_jukebox #jenny jukebox #jennifer raster #BAFIA

Legacy playlist (playlists might have some overlap in songs because I like them)

Lookinglass/Shatterverse AU: #shattered #shatterverse #lookingglass #viiaraa #dimensionjumping

Shatterverse playlist

Free Runner/Task Manager AU: #freerunnerAU #freerunner #taskmanager #azil #A2-i1 #cyberpunk #dystopia #jenn&co #toast

Free Runner playlist

Wonder Mall/Wonder Garden AU: [coming soon???] co-op with Lotus #wondersolarus #wondernocturne # wondertwilight #wonderequinox #wondergardenAU #vucub #zotz #solarion

Whimsyverse AU: [coming later???] co-op with Quil&Scroll

Deeply Dreaming AU: [unconfirmed concept]; possibly recycled into "In the Garden"

In the Garden: [Free Runner sub-story] ooky spooky, thanks Quil

Cruel Hearts AU: an excuse to draw DCA-styled spooky bois [notes being taken] #cruel hearts AU #ch #shadow work AU

Forest of Stars AU: [unconfirmed concept] mythological creature AU inspired by the Fairy!AU

Other Content (may or may not overlap with DCA AUs)

Draco Project: Synth's story, still buffing the dents out

Shatterverse: looking to move this project away from the DCA-centric group

Hedgerow House: [Cruel Hearts AU being moved here] #cruel hearts #ch au #shadow work au #hedgerow house #hhh au

Viu: :) y'all aren't ready for this one; co-developed with Quil&Scroll

Mal'car: assistant artist to the writing project belonging to Quil&Scroll

Phoenix Heart: not ready to share this one yet

Crystal Capture Creatures: concept and design artist for the project that's written and directed by Quil&Scroll

By OC/project

Legacy:

Jenny/Jennifer: #legacy #jenny_jukebox #jennifer #thejens

Jackson Dingo (Quil&Scroll): #jackson #dingo #roxyraceway

Jeanie Spider (Quil&Scroll): #jeanie #spider #wishspider

Legacy Sun/Moon: #dca #daycare3.0 #legacy_moon #legacy_sun

Legacy Eclipses: #eclipse #blacksun #bloodmoon #solareclipse #lunareclipse #totaleclipse

Phil Mercer: #phil #mercer #headIT #smelly #techsupport

The Hedgerow House:

Vinnie: #ch vinnie #vindicare #bitter feelings

Chess: #ch chess #chaine #regrets

Noir: #ch noir #ch umbra #painful past

Vex: #ch vex #bathorus #wrath

Ion: #ch ion #sisiphus #self-indulgence

Coffin: #ch coffin #cacophony #intrusive thoughts

Meat: #ch cairn #carneades #survival instinct

Shatterverse/other:

Synth: #draco #dracoproject #synthbabies #dracoraptor

Viiaraa: #viiaraa #shatterverse #technowitch

Peliand’r: #peli #peliand’r #tamaran #shatterverse #bluefire

Firewall (and Nan0): #firewall #nan0 #apeturescience (Nan0 belongs to Quil&Scroll)

Ylixir (and family): #ylixir #trixx #hex #helix #jsab #bossfight (Trixx belongs to Quil&Scroll)

Smoke: #smokeandshadow #smoke

Centre: #centre #shatterverse

Greer: #stellar objects #universal constants #demi-god

StarEater: #stellar objects #universal constants #asterofis #stareater #high god

Projects

Legacy AU: hiatus

Free Runner AU: FULL STEAM AHEAD, BABY

My stuff :

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Prices:

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I’ll make this page pretty later, if I remember.

[whimsyverse]

Family #1: The Dolans

(this is a re-upload as I made some major changes to my mod situation, specifically the CC traits I'm using...nearly all of the traits from here on out will be from Chingyu's trait pack, just for simplicity's sake)

After a long delay of straightening out my many (many, many) mods and just generally fighting with my lack of motivation to do...things...I've finally placed my first family: the Dolans! Pictures above (left to right) are: Vincent, Donovan, Lucinda, and Lillian.

You may recognize Vincent, at least, from my first Whimsyverse project...that'll be an ongoing theme, of course, since I'm remaking all of these characters again. This time, though, instead of making them all adults, I'll be defaulting most of my major characters to teenagers for no real specific reason besides that it feels like I'm starting at the beginning of their stories. Also it's more work for me to make all of their families and I

am nothing if not a masochist...

Family Bio: Donovan Dolan is a dangerous and brilliant criminal for hire, performing everything from high-profile heists to hitman-style assassinations dispassionately for the highest bidder. However, this was not the case when he first met Lillian, an aspiring model, and their whirlwind romance ended with them married and Lillian pregnant with twins. While establishing himself as one of the most dangerous men alive, the twins Vincent and Lillian were growing up with their gentle and loving mother, who all but gave up her own aspirations to raise them. Vincent and Lillian resent their absentee and dangerous father for how he neglects his family, and for his part, it is clear that Donovan expects at least one of them to continue in his footsteps...though which one has yet to be decided.

Vincent Dolan

Meta Bio: Vincent is my version of that character we all make around high school/early college - the hyper-competent badass that’s just there to be awesome and to let us write super cool scenes. He was super cool and good at everything and had a tragic backstory and was super emo and edgy and graargh! However, as I grew, Vincent stuck with me and became a character I reused many, many times over, and as I became more competent of a storyteller (I said more competent!), he grew too. He remained the hyper-competent badass he started as (a bit of self-indulgence on my part, perhaps), but the tragedy of his backstory and the psychology of him wrestling with his trauma became more pronounced in how I wrote him. He was no longer just a bad-ass, he was a more complex character who, despite appearing to be unaffected by everything around him, was really hyper-repressed to a dangerous degree. I started writing him less as that hyper-competent Gary Stu and more as a normal man (or boy) who simply didn’t know how to express himself or process the trauma of his past - in which he watches his father kill his mother and threaten to kill his twin sister - without letting the pain that comes naturally to that trauma overwhelm him. So he simply shuts it all out. At the same time, he has drilled into his head (thanks, again, to his father) that he simply isn’t good enough. This no longer manifests as a sort of infantile, impotent angst, but rather a silent drive to always do better at everything he does - an intense focus that earned him the very fitting title “a model of intense apathy” from my friend. But one of the most fun parts of the character isn’t writing him being exceptional at everything (I actually enjoy emphasizing that he is not good at everything...anything that requires a modicum of creativity or personal expression is utterly beyond him), it’s watching him, with the help of people around him, discover the young man that he could have been. I recently wrote him smiling for the first time and it was very sweet.

Age: Teenager Gender: Cis Male Sexuality: Asexual Aspiration: Renaissance Sim Lifestyle: Energetic Walk Style: Tough Style: Basic

Degree: N/A Career: N/A Skills: Fitness (4); Logic (3)

Likes: Color Purple, Color Black Dislikes: Comedy; Mischief

Traits: Reserved; Alexithymia; Scary; Unfunny; Over-Achiever; Mentally Gifted; Shameless; Unique Appearance; Slower Romance Gain; Physically Gifted; Brave; Needs No One; Carefree; Heat Acclimation; Slower Friendship Gain; Seldom Sleepy; Cold Acclimation; Quick Learner

Donovan Dolan

Meta Bio: Donovan has never been especially well-defined, and as such, this will be a pretty short bio. He only ever really existed as a vessel to drive Vincent’s trauma. He’s gone from being a petty thug to a master criminal to a dangerous madman. But I tend to enjoy playing him more as a sort of mirror into what Vincent could become - a hyper-competent, dangerous psychopath - a term I use more or less literally here, to emphasize his utter lack of empathy/sympathy. Like many psychopaths, he appears, outwardly, to be extremely well-adjusted, even charming and charismatic, but without the ability to relate to others. He is highly focused on his job, whatever that may be at the time.

Age: Adult Gender: Cis Male Sexuality: Straight Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy Lifestyle: Workaholic Walk Style: Tough Style: Basic

Career: Criminal (The Boss) Skills: Charisma (8); Fitness (8); Handiness (6); Logic (8); Mischief (10); Persuasion (4); Rock Climbing (5); Skiing (5)

Likes: Retro Music; Fitness; Rock Climbing; Dislikes: Video Games; Comedy; Backyard Music; Winter Holiday Music; New Age Music; Summer Strut Music; Tween Pop Music; Lullabies Radio Music

Traits: (*deep breath*) Abusive, Bad-Natured, Brilliant, Psychopath, Well-Balanced, Mentally Gifted, Argumentative, Emotional Control, Good Manners, Insensitive, Faster Relationship Gain, Physically Gifted, Socially Gifted, In the Know, Influential Individual, Mastermind, Natural Leader, Faster Friendship Gain, Over-Achiever, Connections, Brave, Carefree, Fortune Sim, Cold Acclimation, Savant, Great Kisser, Entrepreneurial, Shameless, Needs No One, Heat Acclimation, Hardly Hungry, Business Savvy, Alluring, Career-Minded, Dastardly, High Metabolism,

Lucinda Dolan

Meta Bio: Lucinda is even less defined than Donovan, usually. Once again, she exists simply to die and provide fuel for Vincent’s tragedy. She is usually described as being exceptionally kind and gentle, the opposite of her husband, and having made a strong impression on Vincent and Lillian during their childhoods. For the Sims version, I liked to imagine her as being full of life and energy and happiness. She leans a bit more into creative endeavors, which neither of her children took after. She still lives for her children, though, and the decision to give up her dreams as a model was her own...she wanted to be a parent more than she wanted anything else.

Age: Adult Gender: Cis Female Sexuality: Bisexual Aspiration: Super Parent Lifestyle: Close-Knit Walk Style: Feminine Style: Basic

Degree: Drama Career: N/A Skills: Acting (3); Charisma (4); Comedy (2); Dancing (4); Fitness (2); Painting (2); Parenting (6); Piano (4); Singing (5); Wellness (2)

Likes: Alternative Music; Singer Songwriter Music; Pop Music; Easy Listening Music; Americana Music; Color Black; Color Purple; Dancing; Painting; Piano; Singing Dislikes: Baking; Cooking; Mischief

Traits: Emotional; High-Spirited; Tender; Light-Hearted; Family Oriented; Role Model; Mediator; Kindness Ambassador; Responsible; Beloved; Incredibly Friendly; Good Manners; Emotional Control; Compassionate; Family Sim; Domestic; Gregarious

Lillian Dolan

Meta Bio: Unsurprisingly, Lillian, like her parents, has never been extremely well-defined, but I have had her appear occasionally in stories - I just never really cemented what kind of character she was. In the past, she was the polar opposite of Vincent: energetic, cheerful, impetuous. Other times she took more after their mother and was more quietly calm and confident. In this case, I decided to make her sort of a high-strung workaholic who doesn’t really know how to relate to people, mostly because that’s how she was in one of her more recent appearances. So hey, maybe that’s now her canon personality!

Age: Teenager Gender: Cis Female Sexuality: Bisexual Aspiration: Figuring it Out Lifestyle: Coffee Fanatic; Workaholic Walk Style: Normal Style: Preppy

Degree: N/A Career: Lifeguard Skills: Logic (4); Persuasion (2); Research and Debate (5); Rock Climbing (2); Writing (3)

Likes: Wellness; Research and Debate; Rock Climbing; Fitness; Writing; Color Black; Color Purple Dislikes: Video Gaming; Comedy; Mischief; Cooking; Baking; Dancing; Color Pink

Traits: Serious; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Smart; Avoidant; Knowledge Sim; Top Notch Toddler; Physically Gifted; Mentally Gifted; Over-Achiever; Seldom Sleepy; Speed Reader; Independent; Learning about Life; Career-Minded; Quick Learner

[deelitefulsimmer]

Ok, how about this one? Is there a "no autonomous video games" mod anywhere? It bugs me how literally EVERY SIM plays video games at such a high autonomy.

Hmmmm...I’m not sure if it’s an option on it, but have you tried the mc command center? Other than that I don’t know of one. Anyone?

[whimsyverseproject-blog]

WoW!

http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=570399 And here’s a bunch of World of Warcraft characters...

(Holy shit this is long...)

On the outskirts of Whimsy Oasis lies the Proud-Hoof Ranch, owned for generations by the Proud Family, the current matron of which is Ashea Proud. Ashea grew up living on the land, but she’d always had a passion for learning and science. Over time, she gave up much of the family’s ranch land and agricultural trade, deciding to turn the property over to science, which she now practices with exuberance. Ashea is a brash but well-meaning, matronly woman who is stern but fair with those who live under her house, which includes her wayward sister, Lumia, and Lumia’s husband, Varley.

Like Ashea, Lumia Brown chafed under her agricultural upbringing, but she didn’t have the strength of character that her sister had, and eventually ran away as a young woman. She endured a difficult life attempting to eke out whatever living she could and, while brilliant, she had a difficult time finding an outlet for her wits and intelligence. Eventually, she met Varley Brown, a struggling author, actor, fisherman, chef, and “””””legitimate businessman”””” who was also struggling just to get by. The two complemented each other perfectly, with Varley helping Lumia overcome severe depression and emotional imbalance so she could finish her education and find direction in life, while Lumia kept the flighty Varley grounded and focused on his work. Eventually, Varley convinced Lumia to return home, where she was welcomed sternly...but with open arms. She now works with Ashea, developing ground breaking (and some might say slightly mad) science. Lumia returned with a baby boy, Varley Junior, on her hip...and a little girl, Illuvia, in her belly. She named the latter for a Proud Family ancestor, one of the first women to run the ranch alone.

Ashea had formed a bit of a family as well during Lumia’s absence. The Proud Family Farm maintained cordial relationships with nearby native tribes, and Ashea continued that tradition, though she began trading agricultural supplements and useful machinery rather than produce. During her youth, she had a dalliance with a young tribal man she refuses to speak of, and gave birth to her daughter, Malaika, a serious and devoted girl who tends to what is left of the Proud Farm, letting her mother focus on her work.

After her disastrous relationship with the tribal man, Ashea met and courted Chelody Smallwing, a native girl with a flighty attention span and big dreams about how to save the world. The two eventually married and Chelody began a charity called the Order of the Rose. She remains the Director of the charity to this day, but doesn’t make a dime off of it, with Ashea’s blessing. The couple subsides on money made from Ashea and Lumia’s inventions and the small amount of profit made from the continued operation of the Proud Family Ranch. The Order of the Rose collects donations in order to distribute money, food, and clothing to the needy, particularly those who are displaced by war, violence, or abuse.

Recently, Ashea and Chelody adopted Lokandra, a troubled youth that they discovered during Chelody’s work with the Order of the Rose, bbound for prison, or worse. While they may have spared her that fate, Lokandra’s boiling rage remains a problem. She was recently courted by the “No Future” gang, and currently runs with them, though she has taken an appreciation of the leader, Allen’s message of positive change rather than Cross’ obsession with chaos and violence...

Baby steps...

Name: Ashea Proud

Aspiration: Successful Lineage

Career: Science (Laboratory Leader)

Skills: Charisma (3), Fitness (5), Handiness (7), Logic (7), Programming (4), Rocket Science (7), Video Gaming (6), Writing (5)

Traits: Outgoing, Tech Genius, Family-Oriented, Sarcastic (custom trait)

Bonus Traits: Quick Learner

Name: Chelody Smallwing

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Career: Politician (Non-Profit Director)

Skills:  Charisma (8), Cooking (4), Fitness (4), Gardening (8), Gourmet Cooking (2), Herbalism (8), Painting (5), Video Gaming (2), Wellness (4)

Traits: Cheerful, Loves Outdoors, Good, Vegetarian, Outgoing, Childish

Bonus Trait: Sincere, Gregarious

Name: Lumia Brown

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Career: Science (Apprentice Inventor)

Skills: Fitness (2), Logic (5), Mischief (2), Programming (3), Rocket Science (5), Video Gaming (3), Writing (4)

Traits: Paranoid (custom trait), Introvert (custom trait), Socially Awkward (custom trait), Family-Oriented, Genius

Bonus Traits: Quick Learner

Name: Varley Brown

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Career: Culinary (Line Cook)

Skills: Baking (3), Charisma (2), Cooking (6), Fishing (5), Fitness (3), Gardening (2), Gourmet Cooking (6), Mischief (4), Singing (3), Video Gaming (4), Writing (5)

Traits: Self-Assured, Kleptomania, Silly (custom trait), Foodie, Ambitious, Goofball

Bonus Traits: Domestic

Name: Malaika Proud

Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast

Career: Self Employed (Farmhand)

Skills: Charisma (3), Cooking (5), Fitness (6), Gardening (6), Handiness (5)

Traits: Unemotional, Unflirty, Good, Family-Oriented, Loner

Bonus Traits; Collector

Name: Lokandra Proud

Aspiration: Public Enemy

Career: Manual Laborer

Skills: Fitness (4), Mischief (4)

Traits: Socially Awkward (custom trait), Hot-Headed, Goth (custom trait), Loner

Bonus Traits: Dastardly

Name: Varley Brown Jr. “VJ”

Aspiration: Whiz Kid

Age: Child

Skills: Fishing (2), Logic (4), Mental (10)

Traits: Socially Awkward (custom trait), Bookworm, Genius

Name: Illuvia Brown

Age: Toddler

Trait: Wild

Fun Facts:

Every character here existed first in World of Warcraft as a character I RPed or someone RPed with me

Ashea Proudhoof was a tauren hunter

She was my first character to 60 (back when that was the level cap in vanilla)

Her pet was Mazzranache, the pink plainstrider in Mulgore.

They did not seem to get along very well, but they were really good friends

Ashea was nearly blind from an accident as a child. She invented a pair of goggles that corrected her vision.

She wore those goggles constantly in a time before vanity gear, meaning she was at a disadvantage gear-wise.

Malaika was Lumia’s daughter, a tauren warrior

She didn’t have much of a personality, she was just sort of a quiet Proudhoof enforcer.

Lumia was a draenei. She was originally a paladin but became a hunter eventually.

She studied survival techniques with Ashea when she became a hunter, eventually even adopting Mazzranache after Ashea retired.

Ashea and Lumia were similar characters, both brash inventor/science types. Lumia evolved into more of a general scientist and her personality took a major shift into being more fragile and awkward after the cataclysm. 

Varley was Lumia’s boyfriend, a human rogue who was more of an inept conman / “”””””””legitimate businessman “””””””” turned straight than an actual thief.

Varley was a complete goofball, well known in RPing circles for his charming, silly demeanor and amazingly horrible puns.

He was almost always top DPS in whatever raid he was in.

He was an accomplished chef and fisherman, and also an “accomplished” writer who churned out cheesy romance novels.

He fancied himself a hero and loved drama and acting.

He believed that all mages were inherently dastardly.

While they married in the Whimsyverse, Lumia and Varley never became officially married during their RP career.

They did eventually settle down on a farm outside of Goldshire.

They had two children, Varley Junior and Illuvia (who was named after Lumia’s deceased sister)

VJ would grow up to become a wizard, studying with Varley’s sister, despite Varley’s inherent distrust of mages.

Illuvia would eventually grow up to study shamanism with Ultari, another WoW character (see her entry later).

Lokandra was an orc rogue that was taken in by Ashea.

She was extremely subservient, raised as a slave and assassin by a rogue band of mercenaries.

After Garrosh took over the horde, she became highly nationalistic, believing orcs were inherently superior to the rest of the horde (and, of course, the alliance, whom she hated with more passion than she felt for anything)

She would eventually come to odds with Ashea and kill her, though she hadn’t intended to do so. 

The guilt of the act haunted her for the rest of her life.

Chelody was another friend’s character, and a very popular character on the Feathermoon. She was (and still is, I suppose!) a night elf druid that ran the Order of the Rose for many years.

None of my characters ever romanced Chelody, to my great, great disappointment :-P

She was a silly creature, basically a dream spirit that inhabited a fallen night elf warrior. So while she looked like a fully-grown kaldorei, she was really only a few years old.

Whimsyverse’s Chelody runs a charity called Order of the Rose (named after the WoW Guild) that distributes money, food, and clothing to the needy, particularly those who are displaced by war or violence. She does not make any money off of her work with the charity.

I played on the Feathermoon server

Sarcastic Trait by chingyu1023: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=586853

Paranoid Trait by conka2000: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=569298

Socially Awkward Trait by conka2000: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=569044

Silly Trait by Peterskywalker!: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=571091

Goth Trait by Staarchild http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=570399

[riftsocial]

heya! its kris here with some sick drops. mikejima madara (ensemble stars), addison (whimsyverse oc), tsurugi kyousuke (inazuma eleven), and bae sungjoon (make me bark)! im letting them all take a nap. thank you!

All four have been tucked in!

━━━《  Mod: Gale

[jukebox-arts]

I'll start off strong with a few ref sheets from my personal AUs

Hopefully I'll get to share more projects but essentially there are about... 5 AUs I'm jumping between.

Firewall (left) is a sona and is part of her own independent SAMS AU.

Viiaraa (right) is a totally separate SAMS AU I refer to as "Shattered" short for "Shattered Looking glass" which is the fic I'm writing on my AO3 (link included).

Beyond that I have 2 Security Breach AUs, "Legacy" (which I hope to post about more) and "Wonder Mall" which is being co-written by my best friend, Lotus!

The last is a general FNAF AU we're currently calling "Fazzworld" or "Whimsyverse" but doesn't have an official title. Lotus is also writing this one and I'm drawing!

Thanks for stopping by!

I only get worse from here.

[jukebox-arts]

Did a QnA on the discord with my girls and 2 of my friend's OCs. Jackson and Jeanie belong to Lotus and feature in "Legacy", "Wonder Mall" and "Whimsyverse" in some capacity or another.

Thank god her hair isn't actually fire--

They never said to fight fair

Jackson is fully aware of the oil stains. It was on purpose

Jeanie is such a sweetie, she works so hard 🥺

Viiaraa can and will go on for hours about various things. She's very wordy because she likes to be technical and accurate...

-Megalovania music increases-

[whimsyverse]

Yeah, I'm starting over again

Ok, so...obviously I lost momentum again, but I'm still on this kick, so I decided to shift gears and change focus a bit, and I'm starting fresh - not from scratch, but with a shifted focus.

I'd realized that the way I had set things up had created a lot more work than I'd anticipated. While I enjoy being thorough, I realized it was killing my motivation to actually do the project. So I decided to focus on the most important characters - at least, where full families were involved. The biggest example is that characters like Vincent Dolan and Renard Bordeaux will no longer be teenagers but rather young adults. That way I don't have to spend so much time creating entire families. It wasn't such a big ask for these two characters in particular, since Renard had no family and Vincent's parents were both pretty important to his story and, as such, had been pretty well-defined, but for other characters, it was forcing me to actually create new people from scratch - and as I've described before, the process of making a sim involves a lot of extraneous work on my part with giving them skills, traits, jobs, etc. This allows me to focus on the important characters only and has greatly improved my ability to actually do the thing.

That being said, I've actually created most of the Sims already, so it's mostly about placing them at this point...so hopefully I can just ride this momentum and actually finish the darned thing finally.

The other major change is that I greatly reduced the amount of mods I was using. I won't create a new list, since I think all the mods I'm still using were on those lists, but they were creating a lot of extra consideration on my part. I removed some of the mods that were creating additional gameplay elements and many of the traits, opting to grab a few trait packs rather than individual traits, since they seemed to cover a broader range that I figured I could make work, even if they wouldn't necessarily be 100% accurate. But I realized that so many of the traits were almost synonymous with one another that it was just forcing me to keep that many more mods updated with each patch.

These are the trait packs I'm using:

6 Traits; Optimistic, Bossy, Vulgar, Extreme, Hypochondriac, and Learning Difficulty and 6 Traits: Pessimistic, Sarcastic, Cryptozoologist, Contemplative, Spiritual, Queen by jessienebulous

10 More Traits! by SpaceAce (I liked a lot of his "15 More Traits!" mod too, but there were a lot of duplicates, so I decided to pass on that one)

New Hobby Traits and New Emotional Traits by kutto (their emotional traits especially has been a wonderful addition, plugging up a lot of the gaps left by EA)

I am also using a few miscellaneous trait mods that I won't link to here since I linked them before, so you may see some mentioned in the individual character posts.

Finally, I had to decide which "override" mods I was going to use to breathe life into the game world, since the number I'd selected was...pretty optimistic. I decided to stick with Deaderpool's MC Command Center and Wonderful Whims by TURBODRIVER. MCCC does most of what I want, but I liked WW's ability to give your sims attractiveness likes and dislikes. It's also what I've been using to set sexual preference.

Anyways...time to start this again...and, y'know, hopefully finish this time...

[whimsyverse]

ugh...I’m doing this again...

So...yeah, it’s been a long couple month--huh? What’s that? THREE YEARS?!

...oof...

So I’ve been getting back into the Sims 4 again despite my best intentions (really hoping Paralives takes off so EA is no longer the only game in town for life sims) and as it turns out, I am utterly incapable of just enjoying this game without making it tons of work for myself...so here we are again.

(don’t be like that, baby, you know you love it)

I was just gonna go ahead and do it without the Tumblr, but last night I wanted to go back and check a few things to see how I’d done them before and I realized that A) it was super useful for when I inevitably failed and came back to the project fresh THREE YEARS later, and B) it’s kinda fun for me to read through how much the characters have changed. If nothing else, it’s a fun little archive for myself, and now all of you have to suffer along with me!

So...here we go again! ;^_^

Like before, I’ve separated this into three phases (even if I do tend to do them simultaneously in a lot of ways). Phase 1 is prep, wherein I gather up all of the copious complex and unnecessary mods needed to actually enjoy the game (seriously, the characters are so boring and devoid of character without mods); Phase 2 is where I design the characters - though in a way, they end up being sort of rough drafts in this phase because in Phase 3, I place them in the world and add the traits, rewards, jobs, and relationships that I couldn’t set in the first place.

I’ve already done a large chunk of Phase 1 (though I’m always finding new mods to break the game and make it unplayable, so I’ll probably add more as I go), and I intend to write up a post following this one with the mods I’ve settled on (as much for my benefit as anyone else’s, though I’ll link to the sources for download, so maybe it’ll help the creators). 

I’ve also got a lot of Phase 2 done with probably about half of the cast created (though like with Phase 1, I’m always remembering more people I forgot to add). This time, though, I’m sticking with my own OCs predominantly over characters from other canons. I may change my mind later, but...eh, gotta limit myself somehow or I’ll be here until the heat death of the universe, especially since I have a lot more characters than last time around (thanks Masks: the Next Generation)

Anyways...this is the last sentence!

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Whimsyverse mod list (2/2)

I did not know that there was a character limit on Tumblr posts. Oh well. Live and learn. Here's the second part of my mods list - specifically the aspirations (there's a few) and traits (there's a lot). With traits in particular I feel like EA has been pretty negligent. As I mentioned in my previous post, I tried to play the game without mods, and the traits in particular felt so lacking...the sims have so little personality. So...yeah. Here's a bunch of aspirations and traits.

New Aspirations:

Quiet Life Aspiration (Daleko)

Perfectly Balanced Aspiration (IlkaVelle)

Lifetime Aspirations v.04 (ky-e)

Herbalist Aspiration (Marlyn Sims)

Photography Aspiration (endermbind)

Self Sufficient Aspiration (MissBee)

Pleasure Aspiration (sarahlin)

Whimsical Aspiration (PurpleThistles)

New Traits:

Misery Traits:

Afraid of Animals

Afraid of Cats

Afraid of Dogs

Allergic to Fur

Allergic to Cats

Allergic to Dogs

Allergic to Magic

Always Happy

Hates Animals

Hates Cats

Hates Dogs

Hates Heat

Hates Vampires

Alien Hater

Hay Fever

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Fame Jealous

Can’t Stand Cold

Asthmatic

Chronic Headaches

Dry Skin

Emotionless (Anlamveg)

Arrogant (Just Kizzy)

Adventurous Trait (Alifya)

Cute (Alifya)

Pretentious (blic_block)

Dissociative Identity Disorder Trait (DirkWasAlwaysHere)

Borderline Personality Disorder (StormyWarrior8)

Argumentative and Caring (Mariab2)

Gentle (Lazurite)

Sleepy (Narcolepsy) (Quigleythecrow)

Nurturing (MissBee)

Bot Fanatic (MissBee)

Robot Traits (captainkyoko)

Prototype AI (sweetrolls)

Dunce (Conka2000)

Socially Awkward (Conka2000)

Antisocial (Daleko)

Deaf (DaleRune)

Pensive (ashleychou113)

Depressed (saphryn)

Mystic (MissBee)

Charismatic (Twilightsims)

Daredevil (Twilightsims)

Sense of Humor Trait (Twilightsims)

Chronically Ill (jessienebulous)

High-Strung (Lazurite)

Shyness (MissBee)

Silly (Peterskywalker!)

Super Keener (Simmiller)

Anxiety (Sklyinn, updated by Simsbunny19)

Overachiever (sinus)

Juiceoholic (TheLovelyGamer)

Mischievous (TheLovelyGamer)

Absent Minded (TwilightSims)

Schmoozer (Twilightsims)

Brave (TwilightSims)

Coward (TwilightSims)

Misanthrope (TwilightSims)

Pleasure Seeker (Zerbu)

Proper (ProfessorDerfeyLayton)

Hobby Traits (kutto)

Natural Celebrity (GalaxyVic)

Imaginative (GalaxyVic)

New Emotional Traits (kutto)

Over Emotional (NekoMimi)

Sweet (CatMuto)

Neurotic (The Muse Sway)

Vain (Twilight Sims)

Natural Talent (Amayka)

Spiritual (SubmarineSims)

Gamer (Twilightsims)

Party Animal Trait (Twilightsims)

Hyper (Twilightsims)

Historian (fabulousfabulous)

Three Traits for Servos (Amber Lokisdotter)

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My second family, like before, is Renard Bordeaux - not technically a family, but whatever.

Family Bio: Everyone knows Renard! ...or thinks they do. He’s a friendly, disarming young man who always has a smile on his face...though there’s an entire encyclopedia of meanings behind each of those smiles. Renard seems, on the surface, to be well-meaning, if not a bit bungling, but there is almost always something going on beneath the surface as he dispassionately plots and schemes for unknown purposes. Anyone who says they know Renard is either flat-out lying or deluded...as no one knows what truly lies beneath those multitudinous smiles.

Renard Bordeaux

Meta Bio: Renard was the second Sim I placed in my first pass of the Whimsyverse project, and he’s generally pretty similar to what he was then: a mysterious, often duplicitous, crafty individual who comes across as a well-meaning but mostly bungling doofus. Even I don’t remember his origins - I think he was just a random character I created in an early Sims game simply because I liked the name, but he has evolved over the years into a sort of Xanatos-ian trickster with machinations upon machinations. He usually ends up working towards the best interests of the heroes, but often in a roundabout way that puts him at odds with them until the very end. But no matter what he does, he always wears a multitude of smiles on his omnipresent mask hiding his true intentions. One of his defining characteristics is that he generally blends in wherever he goes, and he had a very forgettable demeanor, which is just how he likes it.

Age: Teenager Gender: Cis Male Sexuality: Pansexual; Polyamorous Aspiration: Chief of Mischief Lifestyle: People Person Walk Style: Normal Style: Normal

Degree: N/A Career: Drama Club Skills: Acting (5); Baking (2); Charisma (6); Cooking (2); Fitness (3); Guitar (4); Logic (3); Persuasion (4); Piano (6); Pipe Organ (3); Research and Debate (4)

Likes: Comedy; Mischief; Guitar; Piano; Acting; Red; Brown; Alternative Music; Blues Music; Singer Songwriter Music; Classical Music; Pop Music; Retro Music; Romance Music; Easy Listening Music; Jazz Music Dislikes: Green

Traits: Pleased; Psychopath; Light-Hearted; Optimistic; Relaxed; Popularity Sim; Carefree; Mastermind; Charismatic; Incredibly Friendly; Savant; Faster Friendship Loss; Sincere; Great Storyteller; Laid-Back; Professional Slacker; Slower Romance Gain; Connections; Observant; Shameless; Socially Gifted; Pleasure Sim; Personality Reader; Worldly Knowledge; Independent; Always Welcome; Seldom Sleepy; Gregarious; Attractiveness Ambivalent; Polyamorous

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Phil? His first name is “Agent.”

Phil Coulson

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Secret Agent (Shadow Agent)

Skills: Charisma (4), Fitness (6), Handiness (3), Logic (8)

Traits: Super Keener (custom trait), Geek, Unemotional (custom trait), Good, Sarcastic (custom trait)

Bonus Traits: Never Weary, Quick Learner

I wasn’t really going to add any comic book characters to the Whimsyverse despite being a huge comic book geek, but I unashamedly love Phil - as a character, not just as a “superhero” or whatever - and I figured he’d be a good fit for the secret agent career. When I logged into the game to get his information and take his family portrait, this is what greeted me:

Spot. On.

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“Diversity for diversity’s sake”

 are So I’ve been thinking a lot about diversity since I started this Whimsyverse Project. As those of you who follow me know, (one of) my goal(s) with this project was to create all of my old RP characters (or as many of them as I could remember/salvage enough information to create). The obvious reason is the silly desire to see all of these characters I dreamed up running around, out of context, and interacting with each other. The less obvious reason is...a bit more obscure. It’s my desire to “salvage” these characters, to preserve them, in a way, so they don’t fade away. So they can exist in a world safely and, for the most part, happily. A lot of my RP characters come from a dark place in my life - or rather, a place that has become retroactively dark. Many of them are in relationships that, now, no longer exist, and almost all of them exist in that ambiguous headspace ether without any closure. I wanted to give them a place where they could exist peacefully and happily. In a weird way, it assuages some guilt on my part for never finishing the RPs, or never doing anything more with the characters.

Another reason I’m doing this, though, is to see my characters realized in an actual, 3D space. However, as I was populating my world, I realized something very troubling: my cast was not very diverse at all.

There’s been a lot of buzz around the idea of “diversity” in a creative space lately. With creative decisions like making Sam Wilson Captain America, Jane Foster Thor, casting a black man for Heimdahl, there’s been a lot of praise and blowback related to this idea. And there’s been a lot of people that have been complaining, I think, about “diversity for diversity’s sake.” It seems like a lot of people (without wanting to point too many fingers, a lot of white, male people) are angry because creative people aren’t making new characters to fill these “quotas,” that old characters that people once loved (”like Heimdahl!” she said sarcastically) are being changed to cater to a demographic that, frankly, these people are not. “Let them get their own iconic characters!”

I don’t really want to get into a discussion about the merits of this point and counterpoint (my short take on it: people are stupid, diversity is good no matter how we get it), I did want to discuss it in regards to my own creations because a little voice inside me (the remnants of the unenlightened cis, white male that I was growing up in the suburbs) often wonders if I am being diverse for diversity's sake.

And then I slap myself and tell that voice to shut up.

Even if these weren’t my creations (with which I am free to do with what I will), they came from a place in my life when I basically created what was familiar to me. I’m not trying to be self-depricating, just stating a fact. I made white people, and the female characters tended to be more cliché wallflower types, made solely to be acquired in some way by the male lead. That’s sloppy storytelling, and if I’d made the characters today, I’d never have made them so shallow.

If I can be encouraged to flesh out these characters (as I’m sure I would be with characters like Rei Hitaki and Ellen Beland), why can’t I also be encouraged to examine their race, gender (or lack thereof), and sexuality?

One of the best things about this project is how it’s made me rethink characters that I’ve not thought about in years - decades even - and give them some more personality and nuance. Sure, some of them are still flat and will always remain minor characters because of it, but some of them are made infinitely more interesting as a result. Of course, this is a personal project (just because I’m sharing it with the world doesn’t make it anything more than that), so whatever I choose to do is fair game, and whatever makes it more interesting, deeper, is almost certainly a good thing.

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The end of Phase 2

So I think, from a combination of completeness and laziness, I’m going to call the end of Phase 2 here. Part of me is sick of making characters and the other part of me is sick of writing about them, and I think all of me just wants to play the Sims, 

That being said, without plumbing the depths of my mind for more characters to make, I have hit the end of my list...for the most part. There’s a few other families - some of my OCs and a few from other canons - that I have thought fleetingly about creating, but I think I’ll leave those for later and maybe just create them as “homeless” NPCs in the Whimsyverse. Some of the characters are simply threatening to me a bit more work than I want to put into them...for instance, I kind of want to create Marty McFly and “Doc” Emmett Brown and while I wouldn’t mind creating Clara, I wouldn’t want to go through the trouble of making his children, and I definitely wouldn’t want to waste time creating Jennifer (Marty’s girlfriend/wife). I could just make them as lone characters in the world, but...I dunno. With most characters, I don’t feel comfortable creating them without their significant others (most characters...)

So I might make a few more characters down the line, but for now, I think I’m going to move onto Phase 2.5, which is to put all of these families into the world, which will take some planning. I want to try and fill every single lot so I can freely create NPCs without the computer moving them into the remaining lots. We’ll see how well that works.

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The Van der Maars

Exeon Van der Maar is a well-known philanthropist and charity director that offers his services to charitable organizations across the world, working closely with them to ensure that they are able to best help the most people. He is kind and gentle and well-known as a charitable and giving individual.

He’s also an alien.

Exeon crashlanded on Earth many years and, for some time, lived among humans as a human. He “came out” eventually, however, hoping to prove that not only was there intelligent life in the Universe, but it was also not something that necessarily merited fear. His reveal was met with mixed results, but political support was strong, and Exeon was given rights and protections as a citizen of Earth. His charitable work has done much to overcome the prejudice leveled against him, but there are still those who would wish him harm or, worse yet, attempt to manipulate him to their own ends.

Things were made more...complicated when his son and daughter in law crashlanded on Earth. Refuges like Exeon, they were mortally wounded by the crash and passed away shortly thereafter...leaving Exeon to take care of their daughter, his granddaughter, Ultari. 

Now, Ultari struggles to find her place on Earth, which is made all the more difficult by the trauma of losing her parents...and the looming threat of whatever it was that they were running from...

Name: Exeon Van der Maar

Aspiration: Successful Lineage

Career: Political (Charity Icon)

Skills: Charisma (10), Cooking (5), FIshing (5), Fitness (8), Gardening (8), Gourmet Cooking (5), Herbalism (6), Logic (9), Mixology (5), Painting (6), Video Gaming (6), Wellness (8), Writing (6)

Traits: Lazy, Spiritual (custom trait), Cheerful, Good, Clumsy, At Peace (custom trait)

Bonus Traits: Mentor, Never Weary, Savant, Great Storyteller, Professional Slacker, Hardly Hungry, Shameless, Steel Bladder, Incredibly Friendly, Domestic

Name: Ultari Van der Maar

Aspiration: Soul Mate

Career: N/A

Skills: Baking (4), Charisma (5), Cooking (3), Fishing (3), Fitness (3), Gourmet Cooking (3), Logic (3), Painting (6)

Traits: Spiritual (custom trait), Introvert (custom trait), Socially Awkward (custom trait), Unflirty, Good

Bonus Traits: Domestic

Fun Facts:

Ultari and Exeon were both draenei shaman in World of Warcraft. 

Exeon only made it to the level cap as he was an RP character only.

Exeon was strongly based on Uncle Iroh from Avatar, an extremely wise and competent retired soldier that acted goofy to hide his competency. 

Ultari was a mute, traumatized by her family’s death (similar to her Whimsyverse incarnation)

I switched between Ultari and Lumia as my raiding characters and both were somewhat geared up for raiding.

While Lumia, Ultari, and Exeon were all draenei, I decided to make only Ultari and Exeon aliens in the Whimsyverse. Lumia seemed more down-to-Earth while it would have been awkward to transpose the Van der Maar story to the Whimsyverse without them being aliens.

Spiritual Trait by katieintheAM: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=584833

At Peace Trait by Thedarkgod: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=553267

Introvert Trait by theswarm: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=587429

Socially Awkward Trait by conka2000: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=569044

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Evil Steve Jobs

The third of my villainous “families” *no cackle*

Gabriel St. Amand, as the title of this post suggests, is basically my evil Steve Jobs. Gabriel has evolved a bit over the years, but like Michael Cooligan, he is basically an extremely wealthy, extremely resourceful businessman. Unlike Cooligan, however, Gabriel’s fame - and much of his “power” - comes from his own innovations and technologies. In a universe full of innovative and brilliant inventors and all-around geniuses, Gabriel is probably the most brilliant and dangerous. Unlike Cooligan, however, Gabriel tends to be a much simpler creature: he only wants money. Gabriel is essentially a brilliant child, innovating and inventing and using his innovations and inventions to get money, to get things, to please himself and only himself. Gabriel, for all of his brilliance, is pretty straight forward: he will do whatever he can to please Gabriel. This means that, at times, he can be convinced to do the “right thing”…but it won’t last.

Fun fact: 

Utopia is a shout-out to a .hack//-esque RP in which Gabriel first appeared. He was a hacker that dreamed of making the entire world his personal playground in which he would build a perfect world.

Gabriel’s original iteration assembled a team of skilled “players” in Utopia in order to realize his dream of shaping the virtual world to his will. Only one remains in the Whimsyverse to this day: Willow King.

Name: Gabriel St. Amand

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

Career: Tech (Start-Up Genius)

Skills: Charisma (7), DJ Mixing (6), Dancing (5), Handiness (10), Logic (10), Mischief (8), Photography (4), Programming (10), Rocket Science (8), Video Gaming (10), Writing (6)

Traits: Snob, Genius, Geek, Evil, Self-Assured, Materialistic

Bonus Traits: Webmaster, Mastermind

Eudane Moore is basically just a character I created to be Gabriel’s bodyguard. I’ve only ever really “used” her once before the Whimsyverse in which she was basically a robot he created when his other basically-a-robot forgot she was his basically-a-robot and left him. She was initially supposed to be a more combat-oriented model that was created only to win back the previous model that he was fixated on, but over time, in a strangely human move from Gabriel, he began to care for Eudane as much as the previous model and moved on.

Fun Facts:

Eudane basically had no character before the Whimsyverse. She exits only because I liked the sound of her name.

I played a Draenei hunter named Eudane for about 10 levels in World of Warcraft. As I never RPed her, that is the extent of her character.

Name: Eudane Moore

Aspiration: Soulmate

Career: Self-Employed (Gabriel’s Bodyguard)

Skills: Baking (7), Cooking (7), Dancing (5), Fitness (8), Gourmet Cooking (7), Handiness (5), Mixology (8), Piano (6), Programming (5), Rocket Science (4), Singing (4), Video Gaming (5), Violin (6)

Traits: Sleepless Robot (part of the robot trait “suite” by captainkyokyo), Jealous,  Perfectionist, Neat

Robot Trait Suite by captainkyokyo: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=549599