Bella has some down-time with the music box 
The Goths’ profiles are up on their page under ‘characters’ now. The whole Goth storyline probably needs some explanation – and yes, I gave Bella some plastic surgery (hate the TS3 Bella). Still not sure I like how she looks even now but they’re rich and she’s bored so more plastic surgery in the future wouldn’t be out of character!
You’ll notice I changed their traits as well as I didn’t think the game ones suited them – although I kept the teen trait the game rolled for Cass (Hopeless Romantic). The story ‘proper’ starts three years after this prologue. I’m not intending to do profiles for everyone, just the Goths and the next household I’ll be writing about. Everyone else will probably just start from where they are.
The original idea for this hood came way back when TS3 first came out and I wanted to recreate my TS1 families and take them further. In the end, only five of those households have made the cut (so far): the Goths were one, and Cassandra’s little friend Rima Kline belongs to another – but more on her family when you meet them properly.
They live in this old TS1 house, which you can get from Kate’s Kreations in her recreation of Simsville. I don’t think it’s where the Goths start out in that game, but it’s where I moved them to, so in my mind it’s the Goth house. There’s a tour of the house under ‘Neighbourhood’. In my TS1 game, their second child was Thursday – Alexander never existed, and won’t exist unless Bella and Morty really spam the baby wants.
Mortimer was all sciencey, and Bella and he had some rough times (some of which may be repeated in this hood so I won’t spoiler them). When Superstar came out, she was the sim I had try to get famous. She kind of sucked at it, hence me giving her the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous LTW. I may not pursue it with her – not sure what I want to do with celebrities in this hood yet but probably not much.
Poor Bella, destined for a life of frustration.
See what I mean?
I’m not doing supernaturals (although I won’t stop kids playing with the IF dolls) but Cassandra is definitely the kind of kid who would have an imaginary friend.
The Goths would have help in the house, so I thought I’d get them a butler, but they still seem to be glitched. He just cooked non-stop and left all the food out so the kitchen was disgusting.
He never attended to Thursday, and then he fell asleep whilst cooking yet AGAIN (he did have a bed assigned, he just didn’t use it) and the house got set on fire.
I would say this was useful of him, but he started the fire!
We soon got rid of him. Babysitters and maids from now on for this family!
By the way, we haven’t seen much of Mortimer yet, but here are some clues about his character. He wants to progress at work, he wants Cassandra to do well, and he wants to flirt… not necessarily with Bella.
Hmmm…they are definitely intriguing! Can’t wait to read more about them and everyone else in the ‘hood!
Your take on the Goths is so interesting. I can imagine Bella how you describe her, though – feeling sort of trapped in her life. I wonder what will come of this…
I wonder where they’ll go as well! I have ideas what Mortimer will do, but Bella and the girls are more unknown quantities…
Interesting post, can’t wait to see what you do with them
I like how Bella wants to send Cassandra to a boarding school, that’s where I also always sent her (military school) when I got sick taking care of her in TS1.
Lol at the glitchy butler
There is a mod at MTS that stops butlers from making food. Otherwise my butlers have been ok, except for food. They make too much of it, any time one sim in the house is a bit peckish.
Cassandra in my TS1 was always funny – I liked her, but she was rarely happy and didn’t really get on with Thursday or [spoiler] or her parents. I wanted to see how she would be as a teen, so that’s where we’ll be starting from in the story ‘proper’. I had one kid in TS1 who ended up at military school – her adult died and she was alone on the lot. I played her for a while living independently but in the end her school performance suffered so much that she went away to military school. If TS3 didn’t get the social workers in, I’d totally play her again. Although, thinking about it, I might recreate that character as a YA, fresh out of military school *strokes chin thoughtfully*.
Bob and Betty died once, leaving their child son behind, he pretty much survived on the chocolates guests would bring over. I miss that chocolate box.
Kingsfield looks amazing so far! Would you ever consider uploading the world/save when you finish up?
Maybe, but it’s some way off that right now…