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.

Shadowbane Clan

Now to one of my most favorite characters, Rae Shadowbane. As mentioned earlier in the post about Nero and Adrian Delacroix, while searching for new bodyshapes and skins, I discovered this cute furry Lycan/Werewolf skin by SynapticSim. Rae was the first Sim created with that skin.

 

Rae moved into this old castle which was quite depressing in the beginning.

Rae is a knowledge Sim in the medical career. He was studying very hard and spent most of his evenings quite lonely. He eventually made friends with Adrian, who had been part of the welcome party.

They got along really well, became engaged and were ready to marry when Rae all of a sudden decided he wanted to procreate. Adrian was already used to a lot by being with Nero, and he agreed.

Swiftly a female Lycan/werewolf lady got created, sweet Sheena, a Party aspiration Sim:



Sassy and fresh, isn´t she?? :-) She had a few dates, then one day Raeburn passed by her house, and it did not take these two long to get along well with each other.



She enjoyed the luxurious and spacious house, and she willingly agreed to be the mother of Raeburn´s children.



 
 




She had met Edward earlier while still living alone, and the closer the end of her first pregnancy came, the more she longed for Edward, so Rae and Adrian agreed to let Edward move in with them.

It was quite a wild househould by that time :-)

I had never played a household that large before, and things did not improve when the first baby Akira was born.

 Akira grew up to a cute little girl, with a Lycan skin, too.

The two couples Rae/Adrian and Sheena/Edward got along well with each other, and there was always somebody there to take care of the kid´s needs. According to Adrian, all could have been well until Rae and Sheena decided to have another baby. This was somehow the straw that broke the camel´s back, and as soon as Antonius was born, Adrian moved out and back in with his former love Nero. Edward wasn´t too crazed about it, either.

 

 
 

Oh, these ugly children :( I hardly have any toddler pictures of my kids, because they are so terribly ugly. Glad they grow out of it eventually :-)

Akira, their first child, grew into a teenager and had her first love with Nureon. I noticed the absolute lack ingame of appropriate teenage boys who would qualify for a first kiss, so I created Nureon and his father Oreeon Darknight to remedy that. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could create your dream mate like this? :-) It is the same Nureon who later fell in love with Adrian (see this post).

They looked like the perfect couple, but sometimes your Sims have a mind of their own. At least mine have :-) Akira had recently grown up into an adult and her parents threw a birthday party for her brother Antonius. Akira spotted Tony, and this was the end of her relationship with Nureon. Poor Nureon!! But he was still a teenager at that time, and there was nothing from stopping Akira getting what she wanted, and this was just TONY! She did not care that he was already in a long-term relationship with Richard. She hung on the phone for hours, trying to build up a relationship with him.

Here you see Akira, hidden behind the flash of Antonius growing up, with a love bubble about red-haired Tony over her head, who just speaks with Nureon. This was also the party where Nureon met Adrian (the guy in grey on the left) and began to notice Antonius.

See the determined look on her face? :-)

How it did continue with those two? Continue reading here.

Antonius had grown up into a cute teenager, and instead of looking for a nice girl to fall in love with, he fell in love with Nureon. I do not know why 2/3 of my neighborhood is gay or at least bi, but hey, that is the way it is :-)

Here they are on their first date in the Deepest Purple.

More about these two in a separate post! (which has yet to be written)

Shortly before Antonius moved out, Raeburn became a little tired of living in such a lively household. He had been a very reliable and caring father who really took care of his responsibilities, but when Sheena decided she wanted to have a baby with Edward, this was too much, and he kindly asked them to move out. At first they were quite upset, Sheena the Pleasure Sim had thoroughly enjoyed the amenities of the Shadowbane household, while Edward had been struggling to become a chef, lost his job, then got it back. But after they had found their dream home, they were happy to stand on their own four feet, had their baby Dorian on the day of the wedding, and all was well.

See more about them here.

Back to Raeburn!

One of my most favorite images of him. I do not know why he glowed like that, I had that happen only one other time with another character, Ontario. At first I thought it was because he had repaired the broken fitness machine :-), but Ontario had just played his bass. No idea what it is, but I love it.

Rae had a family burn-out. He was so happy when everybody, including all the pets that had accumulated over time, had finally moved out. He is not particularly outgoing, so he enjoyed the solitude, looked at the stars, studied, invited some friends over once in a while. And then of course he got bored :-) Or rather, I got bored with him. But since he showed up in every single welcome party for each new character I created, I got to see him once in a while :-)

This is how he met Jeremiah.

They had a very loving relationship for a while, with Jeremiah supporting him in setting up Rae´s restaurant "Di Lorenzo", but, alas, fate works in strange ways, and when Rae was in yet another welcome party, he met Matt. Meet Matt, the Mad Hatter:

He is the guy on the sofa, a little hard to spot, channeling Harold Lloyd :-)

Matt, would you mind coming over here, so the people can see you a bit better?

Here is Matt, having tea in Wonderland, his amusement park:

This was when I started to learn how to use OMSPs :-)

But I am jumping ahead. Head over to this post for more infos!