Yep. It was always a huge ensemble cast, I surely didn't need anyone else, but both their furious meters were still full, because the Mashugas were busy those few days I played them in Starrywood (priming them with their backstory instead of having it be just tacked on) and Goopy just would not stay away. And he wasn't the only surprise they threw at me while they were skilling up the custom career ladder, making and breaking friends, and just all-around living up to their decadence. Stella was an afterthought but I decided it had to be her before I realised it threw off even my own sense of the relative ages of my Tier 1 players. I then quickly decided that I didn't care because I still wanted it to be her, and simply wrote in some of the awkwardness.
Rem's not likely to notice his part in setting up the circumstances that led to that confrontation, he's not the one who blabbed (and Lew heard how they all talked, what he repeated was tame in comparison; it could, in theory, have gone over as a joke...in theory, but he didn't know how to deliver one of those, not with so many people to listen, and he's the only one who didn't know that nowadays Goopy made FM see red) but Rem did indeed have a little too much fun facing off with Stella. Those Romance Sim habits are hard to circumvent; even though she irked him, she got his attention. And because she irked him - and possibly reminded him of another stuck-up brat from his past - he wasn't as mature and about his business as he should've been.
There was also the sheer brazenness of her coming there with that bad a plan and being that bad an actress (from what he could tell) that tweaked him. Remington didn't first head out to Starrywood intent on being a gaffer. He went for the same reason most everybody else did, and found out like they did that being an actor is not as easy as it looks, let alone being a star. Although, I do think Valentine makes it look pretty damn easy. This is a mainly scandal-free Val, doing his thing in a pre-Internet, pre-'leaked sextapes', pre-'paparazzi stalker' era. Sure, they were around, the gossip mags liked to keep tabs on their favourites, but Val wasn't so high-profile that he couldn't still have a private life, so that folks may have had a pretty good impression of how he earned that rep as a ladies' man but not much in the way of details. 'Pics or it didn't happen' can cut both ways, and they didn't have the pics. Remington might not outright envy the man (yet) but he could definitely take a lesson in "Smooth" from him.
[okay, this is long and I don't have time to trim my rambling down to LJ's liking so I'm just going to split up the comment]
Rem's not likely to notice his part in setting up the circumstances that led to that confrontation, he's not the one who blabbed (and Lew heard how they all talked, what he repeated was tame in comparison; it could, in theory, have gone over as a joke...in theory, but he didn't know how to deliver one of those, not with so many people to listen, and he's the only one who didn't know that nowadays Goopy made FM see red) but Rem did indeed have a little too much fun facing off with Stella. Those Romance Sim habits are hard to circumvent; even though she irked him, she got his attention. And because she irked him - and possibly reminded him of another stuck-up brat from his past - he wasn't as mature and about his business as he should've been.
There was also the sheer brazenness of her coming there with that bad a plan and being that bad an actress (from what he could tell) that tweaked him. Remington didn't first head out to Starrywood intent on being a gaffer. He went for the same reason most everybody else did, and found out like they did that being an actor is not as easy as it looks, let alone being a star. Although, I do think Valentine makes it look pretty damn easy. This is a mainly scandal-free Val, doing his thing in a pre-Internet, pre-'leaked sextapes', pre-'paparazzi stalker' era. Sure, they were around, the gossip mags liked to keep tabs on their favourites, but Val wasn't so high-profile that he couldn't still have a private life, so that folks may have had a pretty good impression of how he earned that rep as a ladies' man but not much in the way of details. 'Pics or it didn't happen' can cut both ways, and they didn't have the pics. Remington might not outright envy the man (yet) but he could definitely take a lesson in "Smooth" from him.
[okay, this is long and I don't have time to trim my rambling down to LJ's liking so I'm just going to split up the comment]
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