Jonah Powers IV

This is a continuation of these three posts: Jonah Powers I, Jonah Powers II, Jonah Powers III

To sum it up, Jonah met Eldred while in college, fell in love with him and proposed. The two stayed in a Greek House. Jonah could not completely forget about his first love, Mitch Indie, though, so this is when the confusion started. When Jonah graduated, I thought I follow him along in this blog :-)

Winter has fallen:

Jonah is completely content to just work on his skills. He does surprisingly well in his Showbiz career and due to no distracting wishes to meet somebody, call somebody, juggle cups, jump on the sofa or go out, he gets promoted very quickly.

He is either sitting on the sofa studying, or working out. Very boring, I mostly run the game on very fast forward :-) As he earns more money, I re-decorate the lot here and there.

The only exciting thing that happens is a visit from a wolf:

Then Gilbert Jacquet passes by, and to end the tedium, I let Jonah greet him and makro becoming friends, which is accomplished in no time!! Wow, that was the fastest friends-making I have ever witnessed!

Gilbert is another beloved character of mine (which is an indicator of picspam to come!), and gets invited to lunch.

Then Jonah starts having thought bubbles of Gilbert with lots of hearts around them, and I think: "Oh, oh!" And, indeed, they share two bolts. This explains why the friend-making was so easy. In my imagination, Gilbert is a shy guy, a little lonely, longing for a committed relationship, but he has not found Mr. or Mrs. Right yet.

To my surprise, he has shown up in several night clubs around town flirting like crazy recently, so I have to rethink my assessment of him :-)

Maybe he is getting a little desperate as time passes and he finds no one he really loves. Currently, he has an affair with Jeremiah, but Jeremiah is one of the few Sims in town who does not appreciate the "outgoing" attitude which is present in the neighborhood, so I am afraid this relationship is already doomed.

So, I let Jonah and Gilbert just go on and watch what happens.

Seems I really have to re-evaluate Gilbert´s nature :-) He starts the conversation during lunch with speaking about Woohoo, which is a subject Jonah enjoys, you could have guessed that.

Then Jonah speaks about oil. Umm, I will rather not comment on that, but in my opinion the conversation is getting a bit slippery, pardon the pun :-). Then, before things can get completely out of control, Jonah has to leave for work. He works at the Broadway by now with very late hours.

After getting promoted to Broadway Star, it is time for some new clothes. He must have been freezing to death by now in his fancy but flimsy outfit. He walks over to Alice´s Amazing Clothes in Downtown to buy some outfit that are more appropriate for the season. I decide he likes blue, and blue he gets!

Some "scope the room" action shows Renee as the best match, but Jonah does not even roll the want to talk to him. Sheesh! I knew Knowledge Sims like to study, but Jonah seems completely self-contained. Oh well, I just let him go his way.

It is interesting though that when Knowledge Sims live with somebody, they constantly roll the wish to flirt, kiss, make-out, wohoo. They are even worse than Romance Sims :-) But this obviously does not apply when they live alone. I think I could as well let Jonah happily die of old age without ever speaking to anybody in person again. As long as he can study and use his mobile phone, he is perfectly content.

This is how his wants panel usually looks. Gain skill points, meet ghost, meet wolf, cheat death. Talking somebody into preparing a meal comes up very rarely. The fear of some of his close friends dying cycles through: Fear of Mitch dying, Fear of Wynona dying, Fear of Eldred dying. But his fear can not be so bad because he has no inclination to check in on his friends :-)

The next day, he calls Gilbert. I have the "autoyak" mod from MATY installed, which gives you the option to "call friends" when clicking on the Sim. Since I also have another hack in the game, I think from TheNinthWaveSims, which prevents the relationship from decaying, he usually calls the Sim friend with whom he has the lowest relationship score, which is Gilbert at present.

They amuse me some more with their choice of subjects:

Public Wohoo

Love

The next day is Jonah´s day off work, and I decide he is allowed to invite one of his love interests. I roll a die, and guess who is the lucky winner? Gilbert.

Gilbert loses absolutely no time, right after the welcome hug he starts flirting. Gilbert, stop being so desperate!!

The flirting is followed by some silly pillow-fighting, which I cancel before the two faint. Right after that, Gilbert heads to the bed to "relax". Umm, Gilbert!!

At some point, I was thinking of doing some sort of bachelor challenge with Jonah, throwing him in a household with Mitch Indie, Gilbert Jacquet and Eldred Rice. But if I really sense into Jonah (or rather my projection of him), I realize he misses Eldred. Really, really misses him. And I cave in, as usual :-) Instead of hopping into bed with Gilbert, who is not even a close friend (silly ACR!), Gilbert gets a hug, a breakdance show which now makes them close friends, and then is waved goodbye. Sorry Gilbert!

And then Eldred gets called, yeah! :-) And hugged passionately when he arrives.

Eldred pulls his act together and start some ACR-induced arm-kissing.

He receives a gift from Jonah (some old books for the fellow Knowledge Sim):

And then the fiancés get some quality time together :-)

*sigh* Don´t they just look adorable together?

And my desire for romance and happy endings is finally fulfilled. End of Story so far :-) Because Eldred is still in college, and I have some kids and teenagers waiting to grow older and join the Greek House where he lives, his moving in with Jonah will have to wait for a while. Hope you enjoyed my silly ramblings! At least I did :-)

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 Update: If you want to see how the story continued, read here.

Jeremiah Owens

Jeremiah

I am just realizing I try to put too much into one single post, so I will split it up according to the characters.

Despite his appearance, Jeremiah is a very gentle and shy guy, a Fortune Sim. He spent a lot of time with his cats, and did not make friends easily. He was rather appalled by the laissez-faire attitude of many other Sims in town. Poor guy, he did not really fit in. Over time, he developed some attraction to Rae and also to Joe Carr, but was hesitant to commit himself any further due to their reputation of being not so faithful lovers. 

He was the first Sim to go on vacation:

He met one of those cute Hula guys, for some odd reason named Carla :-)

I had forgotten how silly EA Sims look with their cartoonish eyes :-) (not to mention the hula thingie on his head). This is how Carla looks after a makeover:

But after Carla moved in with Jeremiah, both soon found out that it only had been a flash in the pan, and parted as friends. I think it was Jeremiah who kept calling Rae, probably because he was the first person he met and made friends with.

They frequently met with each other. Rae in his solitude enjoyed Jeremiah´s quiet company (after the whole clan had moved out, see this post for details).

Well, one thing lead to another, and I thought, what the heck, let them be with each other :-)

They had a good time together. Spending a beautiful moonlit evening at the Anatolian Ruins ...

Jeremiah helped Rae setting up his restaurant "Di Lorenzo" ...

But, oh well, you might have seen it coming, at least I did, and Jeremiah already knew it before he even started dating Raeburn Shadowbane - Rae is not the most stable person when it comes to love.

When life becomes too easy and mellow, Rae likes to create some more ... drama? Chaos? Let us just say excitement. He was faithful as long as he and Jeremiah were together, despite some attempts of teenage boys and girls that I will not name here to seduce him. *sigh* If I were still a teenage girl, I would try that, too :-) He is just a big daddy with a big heart. In his defense, I must say he really tried to stick with Jeremiah, but when the Matt Hatter came along, all was lost ... But this again is a different story.

So, we see Jeremiah heart-broken in his new apartment. He just took his souveniers and furniture and moved out :( Poor Jeremiah. (Actually, he just received a stupid chance card that cost him his job, to top it all off. When it rains, it poors ...)

I let him rest for a while and lick his wounds. When he was ready again, he started dating my made-over version of Gilbert Jacquet (I think he came with Open for Business). Here you see him in Gilbert´s dollhouse :-) Servo Kira is preparing dinner, throwing Hamburgers in the air :-)

Due to my inability to set up the Autonomous Casual Romance adjuster properly, Gilbert has been seen in the less reputable quarters of my Downtown more frequently these days. Jeremiah is not yet sure what he thinks about it, and until he has made up his mind, these two are taking a break :-)

Welcome and Jonah Powers I

Welcome to Rebellina´s Imaginary Friends, a site about my Sims 2-World!

I would like to share with you some of the adventures my little people go through ...

The neighbourhood has already been running for a few months, but I would like to jump right in with a character I fell in love with recently, Jonas Kraft in German, Jonah Powers in the English game. He was a premade character and so incredibly ugly, I had to give him a makeover. I stole this image from EA:

If you have played the premade household in University, you will recognize him as the guy on the right.

This is how my Jonah looks after some heavy makeover:

Cute, isn´t he? :-)

I let him move in into my first Greek house, founded by Miranda and Carlotta:

Carlotta Ramirez, another made-over gal (on the left) just had a little accident while repairing the computer. Miranda is understandably worried. Due to a glitch in the Autonomous Casual Romance mod (ACR), Carlotta got pregnant while being in Uni, the first time she hopped in bed with somebody! Argh!

But that is a different story, which I might write up another time. Miranda helped Carlotta raise her son Nikolai. They asked Wynona to join the Greek House and move in, so the three of them could take turns caring for the baby.

 It worked quite well. When it was time for them to graduate, they needed someone to stay in the Greek house, and this is when Jonah joined the house.

Since I am a little bit obsessed by changing the totally ugly EA-Sims, I was delighted to find that the Sim Blender, an object with many possibilites, worked well in my Mac game. It gives you the option to change the appearance of people just being on a lot, among many other useful features. So, there was this Sim walking by Jonah´s house, I think Dietmar Dodo was his name (duh!). Sadly, I did not get a screenshot before I put my hands on him :-)

But this is how he looked afterwards:

I think the hair is an old Trish hair, sadly, I could not find a more modern retexture, but this guy is so cute :-) He got a new name, I fiddled some more with the lipstick, and this is the final result - meet Eldred Rice:

Ok, the hair is terrible, but still, it fits him so well, I squealed when I first saw him!! He is truly one of my favorite characters in game ATM. Very shy, so whenever he flirts he gets totally embarassed, a neat freak who gets excited when he can clean the toilet and shower, and still loves to pretend he is such a cool guy with his dark gothic clothes:

Eldred doing what he loves the most: Cleaning :-)

Bubbles and a cute little butt in pink underpants ...

Well, you can tell I am very fond of him, don´t you?

Jonah thought he was awesome, too. His first attempt to flirt was a failure, though:

But Jonah was persistant:

... and got Eldred intrigued:

And then they hit it off really well:

So well, in fact, that Jonah dropped his Romance aspiration and became a Knowledge Sim like Eldred. That turned them into Threebolters instantly! Jonah went so far to get engaged with Eldred.

Sadly, sometimes changing the aspiration seems to keep some of the older aspiration still in place, so after a while, Jonah became a tad bored and started making out with his old love Mitch Indie again.

I was not sure where this relationship was going. Jonah was in his last year, ready to take his finals. Eldred is in his 2nd or 3rd year. They had Luna move in, daughter of Matt Hatter and the the result of an alien abduction:

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

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 has been trying to flirt with Eldred (who wouldn´t?), but he has not been overly enthusiastic to get more deeply involved with her. He constantly rolls wants regarding Jonah, who in turn can´t make up his mind whether he wants to be with Mitch or Eldred.

So I thought I start a little story when Jonah leaves the Greek house after graduation. Wow, that was a longwinded introduction :-)

I had downloaded a few dark, gothic and haunted houses from Mod the Sims when another of my favorite characters, Cissy, fell in love with the Grand Vampire and decided to move to a new home with him (another story yet to be written ...)

One house seemed perfect for a new character starting out, and I redid it a bit to match the general gloomy atmosphere of the house:

First Floor:

Second Floor:

I managed to creep myself out while I was rebuilding this house!! But I felt a little punishment would be just right for Jonah :-) He started out with 410 Simoleons.

He wanted to get a job either as a scientist or in the medical career, so I tagged these and hoped for the best, but on the first day, the paper didn´t offer any jobs for him. So I sent him downtown to work as a DJ. Luckily, he did not drop the earphones or played silly music, and even enjoyed himself.

Usually, he is not very playful, "Hot Hands" is my quickest way of boosting fun, and he just hates it ;-) Also, telling jokes is not his favorite thing.

Then it was off to my remade version of the Café Romara. I liked it so much I opened a branch in my main town, too.  Free dinner, a game of chess and a cup of coffee seemed like a good way to start his new life.

 

Then he spent most of his earnings on an easel. His lifetime want is to max all seven skills, and I thought it was a good way to keep him busy during his unemployment time.

 

I tried to follow his wants instead of making him do something. No want to speak to Eldred, sniff!! But Mitch called and invited him Downtown.

The whole University gang joins, except - Eldred :(

On the left Delilah O´Keefe, another premade character I play once in a while, and Mitch Indie on the right.

Jonah decides on another round of DJing, to maybe afford some dinner. He is hungry and very tired. And I forgot there is no BBQ or coffee machine on the Downtown lot. Argh!

Continued here.