Picspam #2 - Spares 'n' Stuff
We interrupt my lame attempts at studying and revision to bring you some more picspam from around Simfield. The happenings go a bit into things that will be referenced in the next chapter (when I can finally start working on it, after my exams and holiday), but there's no real spoilers. But there is some cute!
Also, ages aren't really synchronised. I don't know what other people do, but I have a tendency to play houses ahead to the point where kids are about to become children so I can extract them for future use, but they don't start coming home from school days before they ought to be. This is Rich and his Mum Isabel. Rich... Rich will come up later in the story. He shouldn't even be born yet. And apparently this is the only picture I took in this house :/
BRAWLY! I believe I mentioned some cute? Well here it is. Wally and Sophie Miguel's son, born to cause trouble, I'm sure. *Gets broody*
Words cannot express how much I adore these two, with their identical personalities and awesomeness. 'Course Wally's fortune and Brawly's going to be family so they're not exactly alike, but squee nonetheless.
Also, behold the furiosity that is Wally's nose. Isabel (from the first picture) is a clone of Wally, but since neither Brawly nor Rich inherited their noses, said nose will be gone forever. We think we ought to be relieved.
Sophie's not bad either, but she's still not Wally. Though they do make a hot couple, let me tell you. And they've tried to try for another baby at least once. Sadly, I cannot indulge them.
Anyway, toddlerhood just doesn't last long enough. In case you need telling/reminding, Brawly (and his cousin Rich) is a second cousin of the main generation 4; Wally was a first cousin, and grandpa Calvin was the generation 2 heiress' brother.
Brawly even gets a fairly good outfit for fitting in with the house, but it's just not quite him...
There we go. In terms of objective appearance, it's all downhill for poor Brawly - he doesn't have the best combination of his parents' genetics, though he didn't have much to work with either. But he's cute for now ^_^
Sophie, we kind of like you, and we especially like your husband and child who love you, but you WILL NOT pick on Lyle. We WILL hurt you if we have to.
<3 Wally! <3 Srsly, love this guy.
And here's the epic bromance for the next generation!
Elliot and Brawly are pretty perfect best friends for each other, though Elliot's going to be romance to Brawly's family. But hey, guys need something to rib each other about, right?
Also, Elliot is surprisingly neat. And adorable.
Briney isn't acting as adorable, but then his life isn't going fantastically well, so presumably he's taking it out on people's trash cans.
I love my mean sims, I really do.
B: "Hey Elliot, look behind you! It's a space cowboy!"
E: "...A space cowboy?"
E: "What would a space cowboy be doing down here when he's meant to be in space?! That's a stupid distraction!"
B: "...He could be on leave?"
E: "What, you mean like that one over there?"
B: "What one over where?"
E: *Sigh* "Too easy..."
Brawly's not stupid, but Elliot is three days older than he is: that has to give him an advantage :P
Looooooove <3
With two fortune sim parents, there really was no escaping this for Brawly. I think he looks adorable, but I don't think Elliot'll see it that way...
But hey, at least he got a little better at chess cheating!
Brawly: "What's that over there?!"
Sally Mamuyac: "What? What?!" (She's another cute one too, but if I played her house I forgot to take pictures)
Talking about Elliot and Lyle - onto their house, and grilled cheese abounds! I'm not sure whether I love my mean sims or my grilled cheese sims more... Though they tend not to combine well: think Kimmy, Ivan (that cousin who tried to steal Roxanne from Lyle)...
And we also have epic grandparent times over here as Grandma May teaches Vivian to talk. Romance sims can make such good grandparents, I swear...
And all the grandparent-y help gives more time for the parents to enjoy themselves.
Also competing for 'cutest couple', neighbours Sally Mamuyac and Nolan Goldman (Sally from a few pictures ago's parents) came in the 'welcome wagon' and proceeded to be all sapppy.
Romance/Pleasure couple, natch. I half expect Janice, the third part of their threesome to come charging over to the house and demand in.
Roxanne appparently approves of their massive PDAs.
And Grandma Brandi teaches little Vivian to walk. Have I told you that toddlers are adorable lately?
The house got some other passersby - I think Salahuddin is craving some attention. I think the other villains have been leaving him out because he refuses to steal newspapers.
But this is quickly made up for by the normal mean residents.
Tom, your daughter's here, don't embarrass her with your stealing.
"Tell her to stop embarrassing me with all the PDAs!"
Touche.
This is probably the cutest family in all of Simfield at the minute. Especially with their red-headed babies ^_^
But, of course, stuff happens... We invited over May's other relatives, such as grandchild Jerry...
And there was much hugging...
Before Grim showed up to take her away :(
LOOK AT THE SADNESS ON HIS FACE! I CANNOT BEAR IT, I TELL YOU!
Elliot wasn't the only one to be upset either - Roxanne cried a lot...
As did Vivian, who naturally had a fear of a relative dying too...
Luckily, toddlers are easily distracted.
And Elliot had a swingset to play on.
Ned (I think) Aldrich: Come on - greeeet meeee!
Elliot was too distracted.
But not for this cuteness! ^_^ He will strenuously deny it when questioned later.
*Sigh* But the sadness wasn't over. Luckily for Elliot and Vivian, it's going to be a little while before we lose Mia, and a heck of a long time before we lose Juan.
*sigh* I hate losing generation 2. Generation 2 was awesome, even if you didn't get to meet many of them properly.
Elliot: "Muuum, why do people have to die all the time?"
Roxanne: *sniff* "I don't know, I just don't know..."
...At least they were platinum? Look at the pretty grave markers! :D
And, thanks to the rebuild, I have awesome portraits for them too ^_^
Cuuuuuu-(but-slightly-sad-given-the-context)-uuuute!
And meanwhile Lyle plays the good husband to make Roxanne feel better.
And almost gives me a heart attack, because this was ACR trying for a baby while I was distracted with Elliot. This was the exact moment of relief when I realised I'd lucked out and it had failed.
Don't get me wrong, I love their family and would kind of love them to have more kids, but I can only handle so many, and they're kind of perfect as they are.
Seth's reaper-twin-daughters' house! Also a difficult one for enforcing the YOU'VE-HAD-AS-MANY-KIDS-AS-YOU'RE-ALLOWED-ALREADY rule, even though both girls are pleasure.
Of course, they live right across the road from the Ryman main house, so the welcome wagon was made up of Jose, Mia and Juan. We can assume Tina's home babysitting Huey and suffering from morning sickness.
'Course, Karen and Laura are probably never going to get over their guilt over what their Dad did to the Ryman family (especially in order to conceive them), so it's always a little awkward...
Frankly, nice though the twins generally are, this so could not be canon. Who wants to go visit their murderer's old house? Nobody? Yeeeah.
But, on the other hand, look what a cute couple these two can make! They generally only have one bolt, but still...
Jose, being a (generally terrible) pleasure sim, goes straight for the bubble blower after eating. That's probably most of the reason he came, because they certainly don't have one at their house.
That or the huge-ass TV. Juan struggles not to try and turn Jerry and Amy against their grandfather. I don't think he's entirely succeeding, but Jerry and Amy wouldn't really know who or what he was talking about anyway.
Mia decides to take up pool late in life. It would be kind of awesome if she were to be a pool shark. Grandma's just tricked you out of all of your money! :P
Unable to win Mia away from the pool table again, Juan decides to join Jose at the bubble blower.
Juan: "Hehehe, I was murdered just outside the sliding doors behind me! Isn't that hilarious?! And your Dad was killed just over there Jose! It's amazing!"
Jose: "God, I love bubble-blowers!"
Yeah, sometimes I remember that I really shouldn't like Seth at all...
Meanwhile, with the regular residents of the house, Billy wonders if he's finally found his biological father. It is a possibility...
And maybe it's that that got the kids into private school. That, or the absolute stacks of cash they have. Whatever, Amy's very cute...
And Jerry possibly even moreso with his glasses ^_^
Though Amy ups the cute ante by hugging her Dad in her pajamas when he gets home from work. And not being at all suspicious about what he's wearing and why.
Turns out the military is a favoured career for our imported villains. Alfred Legacy is a general: not sure what to make of that. However...
LILIAN DEVEREAUX IS A GENERAL IN THE SIMFIELD MILITARY. PREPARE TO GET NUKED.
Can't imagine they approve of that hairstyle, but maybe they're too scared to complain. Just look at the look on her face! How can you not be a villain when you look like that?!
She even sticks around a while, gossiping about the other villains with the locals. I'd feel sorry for John Legacy, but... Meh.
Of course, the whole experience was rather alarming for Laura due to one thing and another.
Lilian: "And then my irritating brat of a son got in my way and stuck me in the dead realm for a whole generation! Reaper children, I swear, I could just destroy them all!"*
Laura: "Er, eh-heh, yeeeah..."
Just act normal until she leaves, Laura, and then lock all the doors and windows!
*(this is probably not an accurate representation of her motives and feelings, but this is just picspam - what do you expect?!)
On to downtown! I can't remember who I sent out here, but I apparently only took pictures of the other people, so let's just consider this general?
Aria Bohemian fears no cold; she MUST flaunt as much flesh as possible! ...and play chess?
While Marielle Legacy has apparently taken a shine to Myshuno :/ Hey, it's better than being in an insane asylum! :D
Gina walked by too - I don't have the grey version of her old hair (which I nabbed off a simself), so I figured she might cut it short and dye it. It's a display of her youth, because she's still young, dammit! If only she could dye her eyebrows properly...
Marielle is a romance sim! Can't imagine she and Salahuddin have much chemistry, but a man to flirt with is a man to flirt with!
And Billy settles down to a game of chess with Aria. Big mistake. Not least for the cheating...
Aria: "Oh my god - is that your wife? She looks rather angry..."
Billy: "What, where? I thought she was home looking after the kids..."
Billy: "Wait, she IS home looking after the kids! And why would she be angry?"
Aria: "Because you're out playing games with a beautiful woman dressed only in a bikini."
Billy: "That wouldn't bother Karen." (WRONG!)
Aria: "If you say so..."
Billy: "I don't think you're a very nice person!" (*facepalm*)
So that's all the picspam I have for now. I really want to play my game, but alas, revision calls. Also, could people stop putting out awesome updates? I'm trying to concentrate and you're being wonderfully distracting ;)