Drabble+: Pascal discovers the secret of the Tricou family

[strange_tomato]

Prompt: Pascal discovers the secret of the Tricou family
Character: Pascal Curious (and mentions of other members of the Smith/Curious family)
Wordcount: 616
Imagecount: 0
Warnings: none

This is one of those prompts that I didn't think I would ever write a drabble for, mostly because it seemed to impose a whole other story on top of S,HWC that didn't

Comments

[samethana]

Ooh, this sounds so promising! I've been waiting for someone to tell the story of the Tricous and explain the mysteries that surround them. I can't wait to find out what happened in your version.

[strange_tomato]

Thank you. I won't be going into too much detail on this in S,HWC, since it really is a story in itself, but you never know what could happen. ;) I won't say too much more than that for now.

[will_o_whisper]

I think I might have some ideas as to what the Tricous were if Titania was involved. But it's still bizarre; why does Glabe think Jon did anything? Why did Jenny carry that photo around? (...unless she just thought he was cute, which is always a possibility. :P). Lots of questions, and even more when you wonder how they tie into the main story.

It sounds like Kitty left Glarn for keeping Chloe and Lola. That makes me sad. :(

I love getting little glimpses into the lives of the characters we don't see as much in S,HWC, and you do the drabble very well. ^.^

[strange_tomato]

So many mysteries, so little time. ;)

I will answer the question of the Jon photo, though. It was just a childish crush, but it was significant enough that she quite possibly named her firstborn after him.

Or maybe it's just an everyname and there's no connection at all. Take your pic.

Yeah, that's the idea. I've hinted at that before (that Kitty was unhappy about the alien children), and I probably will go into a little further detail on that situation at some point. Keeping consistent with the Maxis photos, Glarn kept it all a secret from Kitty and hid out with Glabe until he gave birth, and she raised them until they were children. (I may have to retcon it, but that way, the twins wouldn't even have to be older than Jenny.)

Thank you. ^_^ I do love touching on a lot of the Maxis folks that way, so I try to include them in these little sidestories, or just as backdrop to the main story. I think I'd really enjoy doing a series of unrelated short stories on Maxis characters, though finding ways to connect them is half the fun.

[smjoshsims]

This was great. I don't even know who the Tricous are or what they're about- they're all dead, right? Or something?

[will_o_whisper]

They're the dead family in Downtown. They're buried in the cemetery and, apparently, haunt one of the houses.

(I didn't know either. I had to Google them. :x)

[strange_tomato]

I don't always trust the wiki (they called Ripp a hippy, afterall, when he's clear just a cut-and-dry teenage rebel), but they seem to have everything more ot less in order on the Tricous.

Glabe, on the other hand, is listed as Glarn's wife when there is no evidence that this is true. They even mentioned them divorcing (based on game logic, as a reason he left and she kept them), though Glarn has no memories if you ressurect him. Sister works just as well (better, if you ask me), even though she isn't in the family tree.

[will_o_whisper]

I don't entirely trust it either, but it was the closet thing I could find to a brief summary; it seemed pretty harmless. :p Mostly, there were just a lot of explanations on how to resurrect them. And a story that didn't seem to have gone anywhere, which was a shame.

I gathered that there seems to be a lot of that, taking assumptions and naming them as facts.

[penelopethefox]

As a House of Fallen Trees aficionado, I salute any and all who do this prompt. :D

[strange_tomato]

Thanks. In that case, you might be happy to know what my plans for this are. I won't say anything just yet, though...

The House of Fallen Trees is a great little mystery, isn't it? It's up there with the stories they included in Strangetown, like Nervous and Olive.

[penelopethefox]

Absolutely! 90% of the fun of this game is in the storytelling for me. Trying to reconcile the many open-ended Maxis plots is a fantastic exercise that has thus far provided me with *gulp* 81,398 words worth of story (and counting).

I can't wait to see where you go with this! It amazes me just how many possible interpretations can be had here.

*points to avatar* Kvornan Tricou!

[ikichi]

Very nice. I also like that you made Glabe his sister- Maxis' timing seemed wonky for her to be the first wife to me. :D

[strange_tomato]

Thanks. ^_^

I couldn't agree more on Glabe. The wife thing did not sit well with me at all. If they were married, why did they split up, and why on Sim Earth did she keep the babies, especially since Garn continued to be obsessed with aliens (he's shown at the telescope again in another photo).

It makes better sense to me that his sister would raise his secret alien children in an attempt to keep peace with his wife. There's no evidence of Kitty taking off, but there's nothing to say she didn't either.

[ikichi]

Well, I think the game implies that Glarn ditched her with the twins after they were born. But in my head, Jenny shows up WAY too soon for that. I was playing around with Glabe still being an ex-wife, but the marriage being btw best friends (like say she's an immigrant or something). Your explanation is way neater.