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Aaron and Ghost are still in their honeymoon period—they've started leaving the house again, but they are still contentedly and sweetly in love and enraptured by one another.
Aaron is still buddies with Marcel.
And they're keeping themselves, er, entertained.
As lovers will.
There may be trouble to come, if they're not careful—but for now, they're doing just fine.
While the happy days tick by for them, I've been spending time with Nika's household. I'm not abandoning Aaron and Ghost, I'm just entertaining myself and waiting for the next bit of Important Story. Not sure how much of it I'll be blogging but, well, I'm in the habit of pictures now—so we shall see. Anywho! Nika's household...
Nika hanging out with Aaron and Ghost. (She and Ghost are getting to be friends.)
Was it a fangirl moment? YOU'LL NEVER KNOW.
I am enamored with Nika beyond reckoning. She's part wish-fulfillment (in her semi-self-sim nature) and part simply adorable, from her big head/teeny body to her high voice and random freakouts. I used Awesomemod to load her up with me-traits, so she has quite the personality. (I can remember bookworm, neurotic, hydrophobic, vegetarian, dislikes children, loner, and loser off the top of my head; there are a few more I can't recall right now.) She's wonderful and I want to borrow her clothes and put her in my pocket all at the same time.
Nika at work on her first novel.
Self-sim what now?
But all is not well for poor Nika and the girls she lives with...
Because there are children to care for, now.
No, it's not hers!
The backstory: Nika Sarto (red hair), Dakota Reed (brown hair), and Nevera Moore (purple hair) are roommates and not quite friends—but living together they can afford a pretty decent place with more than enough room to keep themselves from stepping on one another's toes. Nika is a bookworm and a would-be-author, slowly producing her first novels. Dakota is studying to be a chef, and Nevera, with dreams of being a rocker, just joined a band—which is how Nevera met Billy, a local rock legend. (Remember Billy?) Billy and Nevera had a fling, but Billy isn't much known for caution and forethought and Nevera wound up pregnant. Meanwhile, visiting Nevera at home, Billy met Dakota—and couldn't help but bark up that tree, too, with similar consequences.
The love triangle.
Nevera is not pleased.
Nevera probably couldn't tell you why she kept the child. She has no interest in being a mother and she's come to hate Billy with a passion, but she carried her son Manson (Moore) to term anyway—and now, for the most part, he's on his own. Dakota didn't expect a baby at this point in her life, but she figures a good parent never feels prepared—they just try their best regardless. Dakota is wrapped up in her career and Billy is nearly out of the picture, but she's raising her daughter Matson (Reed) as best she can. But Nevera and Dakota are politely not talking to one another and Billy is on everyone's shit list; and in the middle is Nika, a quiet loner who's not fond of kids but now finds herself alone each day with two needy children.
(I wanted to play with genetics—what can I say? Also: the similarity in the kids's names was originally unintentional—I was listening to Marylin Manson and Matson Jones about the time that each was born. But it works.)
Nevera has no idea what to do with her own infant.
I think Dakota feels almost sorry for Manson...
but she still doesn't care for him beyond his most basic needs.
The real surprise is that Nika has stepped up to the plate to care for Manson...
And more than that, she's become quite fond of him.
Nika isn't the ideal foster-mother. She doesn't like children, and her sympathy for Manson doesn't change that. She looks after his basic needs but takes a laissez-faire approach to the rest, teaching what she cares to teach but letting him work out most things for himself. As a result, Manson's infanthood was unideal, and though he's taken swiftly to the arts and communicates well with erudite Nika, spending so much time alone hasn't been healthy: forced to grow up on his own, he's become introverted and slow to mature. And when he aged up to a child:
his first few acts were to clean a toilet...
...and empty the training potty, and put away leftovers, and clean the upstairs toilet. The kid has a bit of Cinderella complex, it seems.
So, yes, I'm quite fond of cowardly maladjusted Manson.
Meanwhile, Dakota's daughter...
Manson (xylophone) and his half-sister Matson (blocks).
Dakota and Matson.
Matson by contrast hasn't developed a clear personality for me just yet—but she's getting there. Dakota is outgoing but socially manipulative; Billy likewise, especially when it comes to sex and romance. Matson's had a fairly healthy infanthood but as Dakota earns promotions she's around less and less, and over time I suspect Matson's outgoing personality will be twisted by a need for affection and recognition. (Behind the scenes, Manson's traits are largely random and Matson's I'm choosing, both due to the quality of their various age states.)
But now that she's grown to a child, I'm growing increasingly fond of her.
Playing another household has not decreased my passion for Ghost and Aaron. Indeed, I have their whole story panning out in my head—from their family history to how they became friends to how their relationship functions now. This is the first time that I've felt like a conduit for a story—I know it's a common, perhaps even true, cliché to feel like not a story builder but a story teller, but (rabid plotbunnies aside) I've never really felt like my stories or characters were independent entities. With these two, though: given their autonomous origins they've always felt independent—and as their personalities and pasts come alive in my head, that sense of independence continues.
I'm fighting the urge to write fic for them, because it seems silly and out of place (given that their story is told primarily via images), but the urge is there and the story keeps unfolding, unfolding, in my head. So to find a happy medium between the urge to scribble it down and the sense not to, I offer:
Five things you didn't know about Ghost:
Five things you didn't know about Aaron:
Ghost and Aaron: Master List | Next Update
Aaron and Ghost are still in their honeymoon period—they've started leaving the house again, but they are still contentedly and sweetly in love and enraptured by one another.
Aaron is still buddies with Marcel.
And they're keeping themselves, er, entertained.
As lovers will.
There may be trouble to come, if they're not careful—but for now, they're doing just fine.
While the happy days tick by for them, I've been spending time with Nika's household. I'm not abandoning Aaron and Ghost, I'm just entertaining myself and waiting for the next bit of Important Story. Not sure how much of it I'll be blogging but, well, I'm in the habit of pictures now—so we shall see. Anywho! Nika's household...
Nika hanging out with Aaron and Ghost. (She and Ghost are getting to be friends.)
Was it a fangirl moment? YOU'LL NEVER KNOW.
I am enamored with Nika beyond reckoning. She's part wish-fulfillment (in her semi-self-sim nature) and part simply adorable, from her big head/teeny body to her high voice and random freakouts. I used Awesomemod to load her up with me-traits, so she has quite the personality. (I can remember bookworm, neurotic, hydrophobic, vegetarian, dislikes children, loner, and loser off the top of my head; there are a few more I can't recall right now.) She's wonderful and I want to borrow her clothes and put her in my pocket all at the same time.
Nika at work on her first novel.
Self-sim what now?
But all is not well for poor Nika and the girls she lives with...
Because there are children to care for, now.
No, it's not hers!
The backstory: Nika Sarto (red hair), Dakota Reed (brown hair), and Nevera Moore (purple hair) are roommates and not quite friends—but living together they can afford a pretty decent place with more than enough room to keep themselves from stepping on one another's toes. Nika is a bookworm and a would-be-author, slowly producing her first novels. Dakota is studying to be a chef, and Nevera, with dreams of being a rocker, just joined a band—which is how Nevera met Billy, a local rock legend. (Remember Billy?) Billy and Nevera had a fling, but Billy isn't much known for caution and forethought and Nevera wound up pregnant. Meanwhile, visiting Nevera at home, Billy met Dakota—and couldn't help but bark up that tree, too, with similar consequences.
The love triangle.
Nevera is not pleased.
Nevera probably couldn't tell you why she kept the child. She has no interest in being a mother and she's come to hate Billy with a passion, but she carried her son Manson (Moore) to term anyway—and now, for the most part, he's on his own. Dakota didn't expect a baby at this point in her life, but she figures a good parent never feels prepared—they just try their best regardless. Dakota is wrapped up in her career and Billy is nearly out of the picture, but she's raising her daughter Matson (Reed) as best she can. But Nevera and Dakota are politely not talking to one another and Billy is on everyone's shit list; and in the middle is Nika, a quiet loner who's not fond of kids but now finds herself alone each day with two needy children.
(I wanted to play with genetics—what can I say? Also: the similarity in the kids's names was originally unintentional—I was listening to Marylin Manson and Matson Jones about the time that each was born. But it works.)
Nevera has no idea what to do with her own infant.
I think Dakota feels almost sorry for Manson...
but she still doesn't care for him beyond his most basic needs.
The real surprise is that Nika has stepped up to the plate to care for Manson...
And more than that, she's become quite fond of him.
Nika isn't the ideal foster-mother. She doesn't like children, and her sympathy for Manson doesn't change that. She looks after his basic needs but takes a laissez-faire approach to the rest, teaching what she cares to teach but letting him work out most things for himself. As a result, Manson's infanthood was unideal, and though he's taken swiftly to the arts and communicates well with erudite Nika, spending so much time alone hasn't been healthy: forced to grow up on his own, he's become introverted and slow to mature. And when he aged up to a child:
his first few acts were to clean a toilet...
...and empty the training potty, and put away leftovers, and clean the upstairs toilet. The kid has a bit of Cinderella complex, it seems.
So, yes, I'm quite fond of cowardly maladjusted Manson.
Meanwhile, Dakota's daughter...
Manson (xylophone) and his half-sister Matson (blocks).
Dakota and Matson.
Matson by contrast hasn't developed a clear personality for me just yet—but she's getting there. Dakota is outgoing but socially manipulative; Billy likewise, especially when it comes to sex and romance. Matson's had a fairly healthy infanthood but as Dakota earns promotions she's around less and less, and over time I suspect Matson's outgoing personality will be twisted by a need for affection and recognition. (Behind the scenes, Manson's traits are largely random and Matson's I'm choosing, both due to the quality of their various age states.)
But now that she's grown to a child, I'm growing increasingly fond of her.
Playing another household has not decreased my passion for Ghost and Aaron. Indeed, I have their whole story panning out in my head—from their family history to how they became friends to how their relationship functions now. This is the first time that I've felt like a conduit for a story—I know it's a common, perhaps even true, cliché to feel like not a story builder but a story teller, but (rabid plotbunnies aside) I've never really felt like my stories or characters were independent entities. With these two, though: given their autonomous origins they've always felt independent—and as their personalities and pasts come alive in my head, that sense of independence continues.
I'm fighting the urge to write fic for them, because it seems silly and out of place (given that their story is told primarily via images), but the urge is there and the story keeps unfolding, unfolding, in my head. So to find a happy medium between the urge to scribble it down and the sense not to, I offer:
Five things you didn't know about Ghost:
- Ghost's mother's name is Sylvia, and she goes by Sylvie. She's an sculptor of moderate skill and middling fame, and something of an odd child herself. Ghost and his mother have never been close (ironically, they're just too similar—there's not much that they have to say to one another), but they have a pretty good relationship. Ghost's father was never in the picture, but he doesn't really mind. All in all he'd say he had a decent family life—no parent of the year awards or anything, but he can't complain.
- Ghost is his birth name, and white is his natural hair color. One he can attribute to his mother's eccentricities, but the other is something more of a mystery.
- Ghost is almost two years older than Aaron.
- Ghost did fine in high school but never went to college, and his mother never expected him to. He lived with his mother after graduating high school, working odd jobs and just starting to paint. (Until then, he thought maybe he would sculpt like his mother, and he played the piano—he didn't pick up a guitar until he started living with Aaron.)
- Ghost has vivid dreams every night—long rambling complex dreams, often violent or disconcerting. He used to hate them and as a result used to hate sleep; he's more complacent now, but remains a restless sleeper.
Five things you didn't know about Aaron:
- Aaron's natural hair color is dark brown, but he started dying it flat black the same day he got his first piercing. (He started with his earlobes.) It may not look that different to others, but it makes a big difference to him.
- Aaron's father is corporate (Aaron stopped keeping track of which business and what level long ago); Aaron's mother is a family doctor. He would say that he hates them both, which is probably true. They don't hate him, but that doesn't make them any better as parents.
- Aaron called Ghost out of the blue on the same day that he was supposed to start college to say that he had a car but no home and ask if he could maybe he could drive up and crash at Ghost's place. He was only slightly exaggerating—he had a dorm room to his name, but had decided last minute not to go to school. He never told as much to college or his parents, but they both figured it out.
- It was a six hour trip, but he made it in almost four. Up until he arrived, Ghost and Aaron had been only distant friends.
- Aaron hasn't stolen anything since he and Ghost became lovers. He will again, no doubt, but right now he doesn't feel the urge.
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