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.

 

Nero and Adrian Delacroix

So, instead of doing more of this in medias res (jumping right in the middle) stuff, I decided to introduce my neighborhood family-wise.

One of the first families were Nero and Adrian which I created in CAS (Create a Sim) and just threw them into a household together. I had just started with downloading different bodyshapes, and these were the first to try the Slim Body Builder shape. I really like shape, but the skin has its flaws here and there, but as I can do nothing to correct that, I decided to just live with it.

Nero, on the left, is a Romance Sim, Adrian Popularity. That combo works quite well together, Adrian always wants to throw parties, and Nero has the chance to meet many people for his amorous affairs. It is always fun to play the household and invite all the other Sims over, and see how they interact. Adrian was a little in love with Nero, but he was absolutely not the kind of guy who enjoys an affair. He is way too serious for that. Evil Nero didn´t care much about that, though, and in an attempt to boost his aspiration meter, kept flirting with Adrian until the latter finally caved in.

Poor Adrian. For him, love is a serious business, but Nero, being too much absorbed with his pursuits, was already hunting for the next prey.

Adrian endured that for a while, but things changed when he was part of the welcome wagon for a newly made character, Raeburn. Don´t get me started on Raeburn ... :-) Please, do!!! Rae for me is the core of the whole neighborhood, the sun around which all other planets spin ... *deep sigh*

An idealized father/lover-figure, a father which I never had in real life, but the longing for such a figure still remains ... Gosh, I love that character to death :-) More about him and his ever growing clan later :-)

He looked a little different in the beginning:

Puppy-eyed, with spiky hair :-)

This was all way before I figured out how to take bigger screenshots on the Mac (cmd-doubleclick on the Sims program when you launch it, this will give you the option to play it in windowed mode or change the screen resolution. I set mine to 1280 x 800), so the quality of the earlier shots really isn´t that great.

Well, Rae was new in town, lonely, stuck in a medieval-looking kind of castle lot, and fell in love with Adrian instantly. And vice versa!

Adrian eventually left Nero and moved in with Rae, who due to a lucky stroke (me discovering motherlode, yeah!) got rich overnight and started rebuilding his moldy castle into a sort of Moroccan/oriental oasis. They spent a few years there, being a happy couple, until things started changing and Adrian finally left Rae and moved back in with Nero, who had been devastated when Adrian had moved out.

You would think now that everything is fine again in the Delacroix household, but the human psyche works quite differently :-)

While living with Rae, Adrian had met an older teenager, Nureon. The two really had developed a crush on each other, but since Nureon was quite a bit younger, the whole thing was guilt-laden on Adrian´s side.

Nero did not mind it, he is quite relaxed regarding an open relationship, but Adrian was torn between his own high standards of faithfulness and his desire for Nureon. Nureon eventually made up his mind when he grew up and lived with someone else, but the two still have a huge crush on each other.

During all this, Nero realized he really wanted to be with Adrian. For some reason (reinstalling etc.), their relationship had hit rock bottom, and Nero went to great pains to win Adrian´s heart back. He changed his aspiration from Romance to Fortune, took Adrian to the beach, then to a fancy restaurant and finally Adrian gave in, and they became engaged.

Adrian first had to break up the engagement with Rae though, which was quite a hassle and ended in a lot of fighting and tears :(

Well, everytime I play this household, I intend to finally let them marry, but for some reason can´t make up my mind :-) There is always another party to be thrown, another skill point to be gained ... I am not sure whether Adrian and Nureon finally want to take the jump to be with each other or not. Another one of those loose ends :-)

Besides, don´t these two just look adorable with each other?