Simstoryteller drabbles: Tenderly and Condom

[strange_tomato]

To get myself into working on the next chapter, I decided to do a couple of the weekly drabbles from the list at Sim Storytellers.

Comments

[meetme2theriver]

Yay. I like these. :) Ripp and Ophelia are so cute together. And after reading the others' comments, I really wanna see Ripp's hair now. Did he let Jaxy at him with the scissors after all?

[strange_tomato]

Thanks. :) I like the easy-going rapport these two have with each other. Phi has a very taming effect on Ripp.

I can't say anything more about the hair. You'll have to wait and see. I've said too much already... I have to keep SOME things to myself (but spoiling is so much fun too).

[simfulacts]

Heh, that last line is just so Ripp. I can't see these characters as different than the way you've imagined them anymore.

[strange_tomato]

Thanks. I have to temper Ripp's sentimentality with his preoccupation with sex. That line became even more Ripp-like after I went back and elaborated on it:

"Still, he kept a condom in his pocket, just in case, waiting for that moment when he could finally become her lover. You could never be too ready, right? He could, and would, do it anytime, and in any place. She just had to say the word. If she told him she wanted to fuck him right there in the street, in front of Florence Delarosa's flower shop, he'd just smile and start taking off his clothes."

The last part amuses me, because I could so see him doing that, for real. :P

That's nice to hear you say. ^_^ I find it hard to imagine them much differently than that, though I have seen many other interesting and convincing versions of them. It's nice to see what others can bring to the them too (and as long as they're halfways sympathetic to the characters, I can enjoy all sorts of different characterizations). That's what's fun about it.

[simfulacts]

I will admit for a looooong time I saw Johnny as gay.

[strange_tomato]

You're not the only one. *snicker* That's never really made sense to me, since he starts the game with a girlfriend. I think it's the alien thing, or the fruity haircut (or the plucked brows? *snort*). I'm as guilty of that as anyone, really, since I have definitely enjoyed my share of Johnny/Tank and Johnny/Ripp stories over the years. I can buy Johnny going either way, really, but he does have a girlfriend, and I've always disliked when people just ignore that.

To tell you the truth, I actually wrote a humourous "letter to the simmers" from Johnny Smith on this exact subject, but I'm not sure if I'll actually have the balls to post it. :P

[strange_tomato]

Yeah, I agree, and it's nice to be able to take them out of that familiar setting, by going to Sims City or Bluewater Village. I could also send them to other neighbourhoods, through the use of clones. I like how that allows us to "connect" the different hoods.

[madame_ugly]

Hmm, I notice you don't show us Mr. Grunt's HEAD. Could there be a makeover hiding there? (Ophelia's words make me think so--that and Ripp wanting to change to make daddy Johnny approve of him and hopefully "allow" him to bone Ophelia).

(sorry, I just grossed myself out with that part in the parenthesis--I still see the mommy Ophelia and daddy Johnny thing with Ripp and "daddy" allowing "son" to bone "mommy" is. . .yeah. . .too freaky even for me)

[strange_tomato]

You never give them a break, do you?

They aren't actually his parents, you know, and it's not a perfectly parental relationship either. And just because someone is nurturing to someone, it doesn't mean they literally relate to them as parents. I don't really see those things as being so either/or, and I think you can see that in a lot of friendships and romantic relationships anyway (like how many wives are a sort of a mother replacement for the guy, on many levels, but they don't really want to actually sleep with their mothers). It doesn't seem so creepy and unnatural to me as you are always making it out to be.

What makes you think he cut it for Johnny, anyway? (Well, if it is cut at all, that is... and I'm not saying it is.)

[madame_ugly]

Whoa. Ok, I think I need to just step away from this. . .

*mental note: avoid any incest jokes in conjunction with ROJ*

[strange_tomato]

Sorry. I guess I don't have a sense of humour, but I wasn't reading that as a joke.

[indigoleo]

:)

Ripp must have been a boy scout. He's always prepared.

[strange_tomato]

Yeah, it's like the one area where he has a military-like discipline. His troops are always really to go into battle. :P