Myshuno: Hideki has doubts

[mzyra]

Prompt: Hideki has doubts
Rating: He swears like once. This is almost as tame as anything with Hideki will be... AKA: Everyone
Note: Spoilers. No, like seriously, this is almost exactly what’s going to happen. Oh whatever, you’ve read more spoilery stuff than this already…
Word Count: 926

Comments

[rosefyre]

*shakes head* Aliens are such a weird thing in sims - I mean, they impregnate adult men and then just...ignore them? If you use them for plot, it's something you almost have to deal with, but...yeah. I don't agree with either of them in this drabble, for sure - Hideki may feel alienated, but just leaving everyone isn't necessarily the right idea. And not interfering with abuse is definitely not the right idea either - which is one of those weird things about journalism in some ways, because they observe stuff like famines but can't fully help. The aliens seem to be much the same here. So I don't know, I just...don't really agree with either of them.

[mzyra]

Well Hideki wouldn't be leaving many people - his only family member is his father (and he gets scared to death by ghosts not long after Hideki graduates, though nobody sees that coming [least of all me before >.<]), though his father would be sad to lose him, regardless of how difficult he tends to be -.-'
I think Hideki's more in the right this time, and it's not often you can say that...
But I'd say the aliens are worse than the journalists, because the aliens actually caused the issue in question. Not to get political and stuff (I just can't help it >.<), but it reminds me a bit more of the kind of pro-lifers who would make people have babies they don't want/can't afford, but simultaneously hate paying welfare and support for the kind of poor families who maybe have too many kids. If you're going to make somebody have a child, you have to be willing to support them after the kid is born too :/

I preferred the BRRL Stella Terrano myself :P

[rosefyre]

Yeah, exactly - the aliens do cause it, which, you have to explain WHY they would! ...If you do anything more with it than just "and then he was abducted by aliens and had a baby," anyway.

And yes, exactly - force women to have children and then take away all support for them. What the heck?

I did have to deal with that issue with Stella in the RR, and so I made impregnation of humans a necessary part of alien reproduction - which doesn't make them abandoning the kids right, but makes things at least more understandable. I'm not sure the aliens as a whole ever totally realized how wrong they were, but I think that my sims made them THINK - and that Maddie and Stella and Nine would continue to do so after my section ended.

[mzyra]

Well, for all its flaws, it is at least a handy way for your single knowledge sim males to have babies, or for your females to have a break while their baby-wanting husbands take over the pregnancies for once :P

*Le sigh at illogical politics*

Hmm, I suppose that does work, although whether the aliens would give the offspring a /choice/ of where they live... I guess you could have benevolent aliens in that case :) But my aliens have a /bit/ more of a plan than has been explained here :P
Yup, Stella and Maddie and their family were all awesome ^_^

[scribal_goddess]

Well. That was a situation that was destined never to go over well with Hideki.
Sims aliens are weird. No matter what you do with them.

[mzyra]

Yeah, Hideki's had this kind of revelation coming to him for a while, but he'd been ignoring the flaws in his logic up until this point...
The alien kids are/can be pretty awesome, but yeah, it's hard not to imagine that the aliens aren't doing the whole abduction and impregnation thing FOR SCIENCE! And (unless you create your own aliens and stage it) they never show up at any other time, regardless of what's happening, so...

[amylu1988]

Stella at the end sounds so much like my lecturers used to. Stupid confounding variables... *mutters*

Aaanyway, she did have some good points. What makes Hideki feel he'd fit in better elsewhere? Why not embrace the human race.

Hideki is not liking the idea of observation but at least it makes him think someone is listening to his rants and watching his questionable actions.

Also loved the comparison of his alienation to teenagers, oh so true. Awesome stuff Jess, and can't wait to see all the plot pan out. :D

[mzyra]

I'm sure the aliens have a fairly large human psychology department compiling all this research :P

Yeah, it's just a shame nobody managed to point all this stuff out to him when he was like a child or something, because he's just a little set in his ways...!

Yes. Yes it does. But some people really shouldn't have an audience for that stuff... >.>

That really is the problem - so many of his differences from other people are self-constructed and (like most teenagers) could probably be quite easily overcome with a little mutual effort.

Thank you! ^_^ *hugs*

[katrisims]

Hmm hmm... It's quite surprising, but I'm sort of with Hideki in this one. Cause a hybrid child to exist and then leave it in a world that's hostile towards it? That's just not right.

And that's regardless of Hideki's personality, issues etc. In a way it could be good for him to realize that whereas on Earth he looks down on others and thinks he's superior (which could be a sign that in fact he's not), if he were to live with the aliens, he might actually be the one considered inferior. Regardless, he's more in the right in this one.

Actually, what Hideki was saying was quite alarming. Alien children being abused and murdered for what they are? Is he talking about himself somehow (well at least he's alive so hasn't been murdered so far...), or is this something that's happening on a larger scale? *worries* I wonder if this has something to do with... something that was mentioned kinda long ago but not so far explained... Don't want to say in case I'm right/wrong. :D

Very curious to see how this works out. :)

[mzyra]

So am I, in a way. Hideki's not right about much, but the aliens are worse in this case. And actually the world (or Simfield, at least) isn't generally hostile to aliens, but hypothetically it wouldn't matter either way to the aliens.

The only way Hideki could be considered to have been abused is that he's left out and a bit antagonised by Elliot (& co), but the reason he's left out is because he's so snobbish to everyone else, and the reason Elliot fights with him is because Hideki started it... But Hideki's family was downright doting on him, so he's not talking from personal experience, he's just trying to find a point at which he could get the aliens to care and get involved (and then stretch that to them helping him), but there really isn't one. Or not for his kind of hybrid... *zips mouth*

Hehehehehe! If you're remembering what I think you're remembering: no, it's nothing to do with that. But keep remembering it anyway! :D