Luna Hatter

I just realized that Luna did not get a proper introduction.

She is the daughter of Matt Hatter and the the result of an alien abduction. Her stepfather is Reamur Shadowbane.

 

(I am using a multi-pollination technician mod from the Garden of Shadows called "Stolen by Fairies" from Hat. Isn´t Luna just gorgeous???)

Matt, Rae and the servo Nautilus made sure she received all the attention she needed.

Her brother, also the result of an alien abduction, is Flux Hatter.

 

When she grew up, she made friends with Sophie Black, adopted daughter of Malcolm Black (neé Landgraab) and Jonathan Black, and also with Elaine Adams, who became her best friend.

She has another brother, Reamur Shadowbane, who is Matt´s and Rae´s son.

(Despite his parents being great-looking, I am not too fond of his face and constantly try to get it right without losing the combined Shadowbane/Hatter look. I am still not content.)

Luna sadly rolled a Romance aspiration (her father and step-father are both Knowledge Sims, and this is how I picture her, but I thought I could always change that later).

She lived with Elaine and Eldred in the Greek House. It was a great trio, except for the fact that Eldred was heart-broken because his lover Jonah Powers completely forgot about him after graduation.

There was a short episode of infatuation with Ziggy, Elaine´s fiancé, which caused quite a bit of turmoil in the Greek House.



Both are aliens, and they were naturally drawn to each other, but after Ziggy had broken up with Elaine, they realized it was not about sex, but a deeper bonding due to their alien legacy, and decided to stay close friends, and not lovers. (Gosh, it broke my heart to separate Elaine from Ziggy. These two are just meant for each other!!)

Luna had a few other lovers, with Amir Thompson being the most remarkable.



She still has a crush on him and sees him regularly, but they have not decided to go really steady.



I managed to get her through most of Uni with that dreaded Romance aspiration, then gave in after it became too annoying. Now she is a Knowledge sim and enjoys life as a journalist.

A little blurb about her relationship with Eldred:


Eldred grew up in a children´s home without parents, and  invokes a lot of motherly feelings in Luna. When he was heart-broken in Uni, he would have been easy prey for Luna, but she tactfully refrained from dragging him into bed. They became best friends and moved in together after their graduation, while Eldred was waiting for Aeon to finish Uni.

Deep inside, Luna loves Eldred. She is touched by his shyness as well as his determination to make something out of his life. He studied extremely hard to become a doctor, and she admires his ambition (and bed-making qualites). She knows he is gay (I mean, it is hard to overlook :-) ), so she never really approached him.

When Eldred got pregnant with twins, he moved out and left a very sad Luna.

Cissy Trussard

I want to randomly introduce a few more Sims in my neighbourhood. This is Cissy Trussard, one of the few women in my town.

Cissy was randomly thrown in a household with Jonathan Black, fell in love with him, but he was not ready for a committed relationship with her, which left her devastated for a few years.

She showed up in every single welcome wagon, and is probably the one Sim with the most relationships and contacts in town. As a Pleasure/Romance Sim, she of course fell in love with everybody, but lost interest as quickly as well.

She owns two coiffeur salons in town and is a professional party guest. Her home was a nightmare dream in pink.

Just a few shots of crazy dating Cissy:

Cissy and Elizabeth Cuthbert

Cissy and Matt Hatter

 Cissy and Random Carrion

Cissy never looked like she wanted to get into a stable relationship, until, one day at the coiffeur shop ...

Count Maxim Davidov, the local vampire, showed up and got a quick makeover.  Gosh, I thought he looked cute, and Cissy agreed :-)

It took some more fiddling with the make-up and turn-ons ... 

until they finally hit it off. I never had a vampire in the game, so I was curious how it would be.

Cissy asked him to move in and bought him a coffin.

The Count entertained me with a great show of sinking into his purple-lined sarcophagus, dressed in red pyjamas and a scarf. What an eye-blinding color combo :-)

It did not take long, and Maxim decided to bite Cissy.

She did not wait long to plan her revenge.

Cissy, the Vampire.

They packed their stuff and bought a new house, a dark, castle-like estate without windows, appropriate for the new vampire couple. All went well, until they decided to hug, cuddle and kiss in bright daylight. Speak about burning passion :-)

 

This was the first time I realized having vampires might not be an easy task. All bars were drained, Maxim fell into his plate during lunch.

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse - even in death Cissy stays the fashion victim she always has been.

Then somebody rang the doorbell, and our heros jumped out of their coffins, complaining. Aaaargh!

 

Also, inviting friends over was quite a challenge, because Maxim kept scaring the visitors. I love the completely innocent look on his face. "Who, me? No, I did nothing!"

On the plus side, he obviously is a neat freak. I have never before or after seen somebody do this, cleaning the windows in a shop, since there is no Apartment Life for Macintosh.

  

Aaaand, doesn´t he look just too sexy?

And who can claim having a sexy man who is a sweet pet at the same time?

(I have always wondered what this tiny red zipper-like thing is that hangs around the bat´s neck. Any ideas?)

Cissy bought a bunch of anti-vampire medicine (Vamprocillin-D), because I felt one vampire was enough in the family, and Maxim kept rolling wants that Cissy becomes normal again. That didn´t stop him from biting her though, until I finally added a mod that stopped him from biting everyone around.

Life in the dark and gloomy castle made Cissy feel rather miserable quickly. The poor thing loved bright, pink colors, and living in a house with no windows was really depressing her. I threw out a larger sum of cash, and they renovated the pool room and turned it into a beautiful oriental hamam sort of thing.

Playing a bit with Photoshop:

Hugging and kissing thin air - take a look at the mirror.

But this didn´t help. I should have known that. She just withered away. So Count Maxim, not wanting to lose the love of his life, made the heavy decision to become a normal human again. Aah, the sacrifices you make for love ...

He made a great show out of it.

Nice tan :-) And I love that he still keeps doing his evil vampire show.

First thing I did was putting in windows and redecorating the castle in Cissy-colors: pink, white, magenta. And let them try for a baby. Which obviously worked.

Enjoy your quality time together while you still can :-)

I am so curious how their offspring will look like. Stay tuned! 

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I had a few pregnancies in my neighbourhood, and this was the last baby to come. It kind of dragged on and on. Count Maxim was trying to cook ...

They visited some Uni kids. Maxim sometimes feels like somebody is following him, but this might just be his imagination.

 

Then, finally it was time and Cissy went into labor.

 

As usual, the men freak out.

 

Then Jules Trussard was born. They had a quick and quiet marriage just before birth.

 

  

Instead of hugging his wife, congratulating her and telling her how much he loves her, the ex-vampire Maxim scares his wife to death :-) Great idea, Maxim.

 

Cissy pays him back with an evil prank.

 

They are really a cute couple.

The house finally received some windows, I love how the hammam looks now.