Gilbert Jacquet

When Gilbert passed by Jonah Powers´ house and made friends with him, I was reminded how much I adore him, so I decided he will be the next person in my neighborhood I want to introduce.

He is another pre-made character from the game, he came with the Open for Business Expansion. He lived with his mother (sic!) Denise:

Source: Wiki

I completely ignored this pre-made town for quite a while because I was really having issues with the game crashing over and over again, especially when I tried to load the Universities or Bluewater Village. After lots and lots of researching I found out this is due to a Mac-specific problem of allowing only a certain amount of files loaded with any program, known as the File Limit Problem. Since I have 6 GB of custom content in my game, this was really causing the problem. I found this uber-cool tutorial on how to fix it, and since then my game has been running totally smoothly, except a crash here and there with a camera mod.

When I started opening businesses in Sims 2, after a while I noticed these annoying customers always dropping in and buying nothing, telling the shop-owner they did not have any money. When trying to make-over these characters, I could never find them under "Townies" or "Downtonies". I then suddenly realized these were existing characters, and went to check them out.

Yeah, Gilbert living with his terrible mother Denise. I found her incredibly annoying. She was always involved in fights in my shops, causing the customer happiness to drop. I don´t know who started it, probably my bad boy Ontario, but these two really kept picking at each other, and it was only getting worse over time.

I mean, look at him. Does he look like someone who causes trouble anywhere?

He sure does :-) After I started paying more attention to my Sim´s personalities, I realized he only has two nice points, so this might explain why he has so many enemies. When someone looked through the telescope during daytime, it was Ontario who came running after him to beat him up. Now I have a mod that prevents this, Ontario is married and has calmed down a bit :-)

This is the other Sim I mentioned earlier who on one day had this funny blue glow around him.

Anyway, Denise was really bugging me, and it didn´t help that she also was buggy for some reason, causing the jumping bug etc. And, come on, a grown-up man still living with his nagging old mother?

Source: Wiki

Gilbert quickly received a make-over, and Denise was thrown out of the house and deleted from the bin. A bad thing, because it still leaves a lot of character files dangling around in the background of the game, but I only learned that later.

Playing Gilbert became a bit boring, and I was ready to leave him until I caught him like this:

Wow, that puppy-eyed look surely touched my heart! There he was, sitting alone in this ugly old-fashioned kitchen, being all by himself after I had thrown out his mother, giving me THAT look. Yeah, my Sims still surprise me :-) Of course, I could not abandon him after that. Instead, I spent the good deal of a day redecorating his house and turning it into a little dollhouse :-)

I remember now why I thought he was shy and lonely :-) Just reading the Wiki, I realize he is just sloppy and lazy, but has seven points for outgoing. Duh! This explains a lot!

Here is the dollhouse:

Judging from the flower bouquets, I think he was a Romance Sim in the beginning. Not really sure.

He dated Carl "Carla" Richter, Richard Adams and Cissy Trussard, but no "coupling" felt really right. His latest crush is Jeremiah.

I tried to run the J´ Adore Bakery he owned, but found it very tedious. I thought a Servo might help with the cooking, and thus Kira got created. She is using Sherabim´s totally stunning Steampunk Robot Set, and there is a default replacement set by Amaryll on Garden of Shadows.



She looks as if to say: What have I gotten myself into? :-)

She is a true beauty:

She developed a crush on Aristides Richter, Carl "Carla" Richter´s Servo. But only after a long struggle to stop her from making out with Gilbert. Since the Sim who initiates the Servo transfers his personality onto him or her, Servos and their respective masters are the perfect match for each other and always share three bolts in chemistry. Which creates some funny situations if you don´t watch :-)

Latest addition to the household is Azrael Whatshislastnameagain:

All my Servos love pets, especially stray ones. In the long hours of the night, they have nothing else to do and start picking up stray pets and train them. At least mine do :-) Klinny has made these adorable wings for pets, and some more cute pet-related stuff.

Jeremiah (with the Bodybuilder mesh) feels a little out of place and too big for this small dollhouse. Well, sometimes a couple just does not work for me, and I am afraid Jeremiah/Gilbert fall into this category.

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 :-)