The Frios Part 3: Let's get married!

Mar 09, 2013 20:36

Having done the unthinkable, and disrespected the set premise for how to play a premade household, it was time for me to add insult to injury.



BTW, this was Miley's first catch: A Western Painted Turtle imaginatively named Mike.





Over at the Ursine house, Angie and her best friend Jaime were exchanging juicy playground gossip about that time Arlo ate a bug, and Malcolm who had boy-cooties.



Jared: Claire, I know I haven't been the world's best boyfriend in the past, and you've got legitimate reasons to hate my arse. @_@ Buuuuuuuut... I really like you, and I want to try again.



Jared: So if you can find it at the darkest bottom of your heart to forgive me...



...I really want to show you that I'm serious about this, and I would be the happiest man alive if you felt the same way. Claire, will you marry me?

Claire: !!!!!!!!alsdkjaljdslkjdalkjsdlkas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Claire: Oh, wow... This is against everything I stand for... but my sanity has gone on strike, and I can't come up with any of the millions of reasons why this is probably a bad idea.



Claire: So... yes! YES! I will marry you!



She wasn't too impressed by his "heavy metal" undies, though.



Jared spent the night. Claire preferred to sleep in Angies bed, though. I wonder where Angie was all night. The parenting quality had to be adjusted somewhat.



Then this happened. Just as they were about to have their wedding, and had asked for their days off work, Claire came running after Jared.

Claire: You DIRTY cheater!!! D:<

Jared: Huh? What are you talking about?

Claire: You've been seeing Madison Van Watson!

Jared: WUT? But that was before we got together!

Claire: And did you ever break up with her? DID YOU???

Jared: Uh, not formally? But I mean... it was nothing. Just a Story Progression thing.

Claire: So you did get engaged to me while your save-files were still listing you as being Madison's bae????????

Jared: Yes.

So their relationship went down to zero, and TigerAnne did the only honourable thing and reloaded the game. Thankfully I had just saved, in case the wedding turned out to be a disaster.



Let's try this again, eh?



Jared: I - Jared Algernon Frio, take thee - Claire Beauregarde* Ursine, to be my lawfully wedded wife.

*I wrote this before I read alittlestrange's Duckling Prettacy, so it wasn't name stealing.



Jared: *~*Oh, Claiiirre... I love the sun in your haiiirr...e*~*

Claire: You can sing me all the serenades you want to in a minute. I'm not a patient woman, let's do this thing!

Leighton: This is soooooo beautiful! *sniff*



I almost couldn't believe neither of them got cold feet at the last second!



I don't have Sims get married all that often in Sims 3, so I haven't built a proper church with a Vicar. I should totally do that for my planned "English village", as English villages need to have a Vicar in a local church to be complete. And also a postman, a local Bobby and a farmer named Ted who drives a red tractor he calls Martha. Stereotypes? But it's true! Anyway, I guess you may now kiss your wife.



I was half-way expecting Connor to spazz out and stop the wedding. When Claire could react the way she did to finding out that Jared was - technically - cheating on another girl with her, then I figured there was a good chance that Connor (who the game still recognized as romantically interested in Claire) would flip his shit when she married his brother.

Yolanda and Ian weren't invited to the wedding, they just gate-crashed. I was happy a certain ginger-haired pug-face didn't show up with Yolanda. OK, so I made him for drama potential, but this was one of those times when I preferred less of that.



I think Artie was there as a guest, since he was listed as Connor's friend. Judging by the "effort" he put into dressing up, I'd say he wasn't expecting much from this wedding. Oh, and Natalie's very polite and classy Sims 3 incarnation was there.

Natalie: Yesssh, I've been to a wedding! It doesn't even matter that it's outside, everyone's hungry and there's no music. I'm the first in my family to have attended one! ...apart from Mom and Dad when they got married.



This is what the blissful couple's mutual daughter did during the ceremony. Kids will be kids.



What a posh wedding it was!

Jared: But these are quality sausages!



While Jared was cooking his own wedding buffet, Connor made the moves on Anne. Natalie apparently thought it was a little narmy, because she doesn't do the romance stuff.

Natalie: TigerAnne, can you blame me for that? My first serious BF suffered a catastrophic brain injury, became violent and dangerous, and had to spend the rest of his life in a secure ward. I spent my college years trying not to fall in love with a guy who would have hated me if he actually got to know me. Then you hooked me up with someone who's basically asexual, and although he's the one I want, he doesn't do the romance either.

Fair point. Except her Sim is a teenager, and none of that has happened.



Connor: Ahem... Anne Song, you are - inside and out - the most beautiful woman I know.



Connor: Before I met you, I never thought that I would want to spend all my life in someone else's company. I used to break out in hives when I had to go visit my grandparents. When Jared brought someone over, I would stuff my ears full of cotton wool and hide under the bed, so I could pretend I was alone. But all that has changed, because of you.

A/N: I'm pretty dang good at writing romantic dialogue, though? Ain't I? Okay, then... :(



Connor: Will you do me the great honour of becoming my wife?

Anne: ALSKJALKJDALSJDLAKSJD YES!



Anne: Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!



Natalie: Are we getting any food soon? We're dying here! BTW, Claire should have done her hair more stylishly.



Natalie: And is there going to be a band here, like at all? Hot-dogs? Seriously? I get itchy from those. Is there any booze? I'm never getting married, but my wedding's gonna be a lot better than this! Dammit, I'll get a burrito from the food van...



Suddenly realization hit like a ton of bricks.

Claire: You've gotten engaged to Anne?!

Connor: Um, uh... You just married my brother.

Claire: You've gotten engaged to Anne?

Connor: Well... yes.



*PUNCHHHH!!!*

Jared: Maybe we should have brought some knives and forks? It's our wedding, after all.



If Jared had higher cooking skill, I'd have had him make something better. Sadly, hot-dogs was all he could make on a grill at this point. He's been steadily working to improve his skills and become the celebrity chef he's always wanted to be, but it takes its time.

Angie: Yummmm! I LOVE hot-dogs! Thank you for being an awesome Daddy!



Ian: You need to apologize to her, man. It's not hard. Just do like you do at work when you've been caught photocopying your bum again.

Connor: Uh... That didn't actually ever happen.

Ian: Yes it did! x) x) x)



Ian: It wasn't me, though. It was Artie. Boo! Artie is a twerp!



Angie: Booo! Bad man!



Lovely. This was the start of a trend, too! You take one lousy picture of your bum, and you're a pariah forever! :(



Natalie: Whatevz, I'm just here for the booze. Hang on. This is water.

I'm thinking of building sort of a "tiki shack" at the beach, with a professional bar. But I don't really need another NPC clone, and the population doesn't really need to become more alcoholized.



Connor tried to sneak away from the crowd to have a quiet date with Anne. They barely got into the car before she started complaining about his "issues" and went home. That was all very promising, since they were supposed to get married the next day!



Instead, he went to Erin's party. Gunther was there.



And Tyler, in somewhat inappropriate attire.



Yumi was there...



...and Emma Hatch. The party was exactly as fun as these pictures suggest. New all-time low.

The old all-time low was a party the Rileys threw in Twinbrook, a loooong time ago. But that one at least had the amusing complication of Aaron peeing on the floor, making all the guests leave.



Back home, Claire had enough of the mature act, and blew off some steam playing catch with her daughter.



Angie looked happy, as if she knew that this was the start of an overall much better life for her.



Angie: Help! This tiny dog toy is blocking my way!

She has inherited her mother's brain, unfortunately.



Welcome to your new reality as a family man, Jared!



The guests started arriving for Anne and Connor's wedding. I'm not sure whether I invited Cycl0n3 or not, but he showed up anyway.

Anne: I can't believe I'll have to move into the same house as Jared! Why can't we live with my old friends? x(



Jaime: I hope they have codliver oil! :D

What a strange child! Also, VJ definitely wasn't invited. He doesn't know the family at all.



OK. Around this time it started dawning on me that the households you don't actively play, sort of turn into their own giant ISBI after a while.

Lynn: I hope Natalie behaves herself today.



That's better! What would we do without Master Controller, huh?

Ice Cream Truck: Ding ding! I hear you've got a wedding. Come and buy my ice cream. Best party food there is!

Darn! This makes me regret not going shopping today after all. Some ice cream would be yum!



Since they parted on somewhat questionable terms, Connor flirted up Anne to get on her good side again before they exchanged rings. And look! CC wedding dress! It's even white!



Anne: I - Anne Jessalyn Song, take thee - Connor Horatio Archibald Frio...



Connor: I - Connor Horatio Archibald...

No need to be embarrassed, Connor. You're named after guys who look great in uniform. Yes, I'm a fangirl. Busted.



And then they lived happily ever after! Maybe not yet.



Pauline, Claire and Lynn: Awwww, it's so beautiful! THE MIRACLE OF LOVE!

Jaime: This is just like when I'm gonna marry Justin! <3



Annie: But why is River crying?

Angie: Maybe she's peed herself? D:



River: Bawww hawww, I had to wear the dress I got for my birthday when I was 11! Mom loves Sandi more than meeee!

Natalie: Oh for goodness' snake! I hate weddings!






With some help from the Master Controller, they got their formal clothes back on for the rice throwing.



Even Jared behaved well.



Natelie did NOT! And she's got the bloody FRIENDLY trait, if I remember correctly. Too bad there isn't a *polite* trait in the game as well!



To be fair, she wasn't the only one who booed Cycl0n3. He ended up going home because everyone was bullying him. Nobody likes a hipster.

Cyclone: They hate me because I'm special and unique. They'll be sorry.



Claire seemed to be OK with Connor getting married. Maybe she wasn't really into him after all.



Or...?

Claire: BAWWHAWWWW!!! BOTH THE MEN I LOVE HAVE BETRAYED ME! STABBED ME IN THE BACK!



Jared: Sooo, Madison... I know we went out once, and I have no clue what happened because I was probably very drunk, but people seem to think we're a thing.

Madison: We are! You're my canonical love interest! I read that on the Wiki.

Jared: Well, thing is... I've kinda married Claire Ursine, who I had a floorbaby with. Maybe that was a bit out of character, but I don't want to be the ugly uncle in the family, who's actually the crappy bio-dad. Done to death, that story. I guess what I'm saying is that it's over between you and me.



Madison got pretty sour, but at least she got a new look because I felt a little sorry for her. The Evil Ampire has messed up the lives of so many innocent Sims.

They have suffered for eight years! :'(

Narrator...

Sorry. I'll go now.



Anne: Hey, Cooper? Wanna go for a walk? Wanna go for a WALK???!

Cooper: *BounceBounceBounce*



Isn't he very tiny for a GS? He looks like he can't be more than 6 months old! Did he shrink? Because I'm sure he was way bigger than that!



They live close enough to a community lot that they can walk their dogs there. :)



Hey! It's Ahmed and Riu, the explorers the Rileys met in France! And look, the beach now has a public toilet. :)



Since Gunther apparently doesn't go out in the sunshine, Sunny turned her attention upon the unsuspecting Hart family.

Sunny: I can't believe she wears a pair of pants with pink butterflies in combination with a red blouse!



I felt sorry for them, so I made them non-famous again. Gus got to tell about his fascinating new theory on the Loch Ness monster while Sunny slunk off to find a new subject.

At this point I removed all celebrity levels from "ordinary" Sims, such as the Harts and the Bunches. The Goths stay famous because they are the Goths. Same with the very rich families Alto and Landgraab, who would naturally be in the public eye. Of course, their fame will rub off again, but I'll just repeat the process.



This almost looks like a posed family portrait, but they were just waiting patiently on their turn to play Gnubb.



Cooper: Grrrrr, he's gonna make hot-dogs again, that CANNIBAL!



Claire may have a little hard of letting go.

Claire: STABBED IN THE BACK!



Connor tried to apologize. It helped a little. With emphasis on "little".



Meanwhile, around town... I noticed that Madison was listed as "Food Merchant". Then I discovered her manning the register at the Tavern. It had just been sitting there for weeks without anyone bothering to attend it. Madison had the job for a couple of days before Dustin Langerak took over.



Susan and Boyd: The guys in white lab coats can't hang with the guys in blue t-shirts!



Connor and Anne had a couple of days off, and spent them working on their original novels. Connor wrote a sci-fi novel titled Future Spy, probably the one he was telling Anne about when they met. Anne started a fiction novel called something along the lines of Two Thousand Glorious Moons.



Angie proved that she's her dad's child as well, and practiced her cooking on the easy bake.



The result was actually edible. :) In this family, it's probably a good idea to get the kid as self-reliant as possible.






A kid + a dog = <3



Sue Scotch - the lesser creeping 'razzi of Sunset Valley. She just spawned one day, as if there was a shortage of clone NPCs.



Nick: Tee hee hee! Look at that paparazzi stalking me!



Nick: Are you married?

Sue: No, but YOU are. To our major who drinks people's blood. I think I'll not want to get messed up in that...



In the evening, they all met up at the Bistro, which turned into a group outing. They were waiting for Annie to finish ordering. Hmm, frog legs? Isn't that a weird choice for a kid, when there is hamburger on the menu?



Angie: I'm practicing for when we go to France tomorrow!

Annie: Oh. I was in France once! I tried out the Empress' bed. A strange force compelled me to. Mom got really embarrassed.

*Whistles innocently*

And yes, next time the Frios go to Champs les Sims, to test out the wine and enjoy being newly wed.

anne, angie, lynn, sunny, nick a, artie, natalie, jared, connor, frio, sunset valley, yolanda, cycl0n3, ian b, river, claire, madison w

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