Big Damn Author's Note for Chapter 2
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sevenskellingtonThis is an Author's Note for Chapter 2, so you should probably read that for this to make any sense!
This chapter is set a year before TS1. In the original game, Michael Bachelor was a young man just out of college. 25 years later he died of "old age" at about 50, but that was Maxis's error when they decided to make him Bella's dead older brother. (Though really, there are no actual errors with the premade character's ages, everyone was just chugging the Elixir of Life. ^_~) TS3 really confused things up by making him a teenager 25 years before TS1, but I'm favoring the original, because it's nearly impossible to reconcile TS3 with the rest of canon, anyway.
So what about Dina? She's supposed to be waaayyy younger than him, and if this is 26 years before, shouldn't she be a little kid? Or if she's a teen, shouldn't he be middle-aged? Well, here's the thing: I don't have a problem with large age gaps if both people are adults, but it's a very different situation when teenagers are involved, even when the teenager is above the age of consent (I chose to put Dina at the age of consent for my state). Here's a screencap from the original Dina's memories (Labelled correctly, I promise. You can check it yourself.):
Here we see it is totally canon that Michael Bachelor macks on teenage girls. The only liberty I took was to make him do it in his twenties instead of his forties.
Since age is very weird and flexible in the Sims universe, I decided that Dina of Pleasantview is a little older than she looks, closer to Jenny Smith's age than Cassandra Goth's. (I know her lifetime bar says different, but this is a world of magic, cowplants, and age-altering drugs.) This way I could write about her canon first kiss in a way that didn't carry so many unfortunate implications.
So, in the future, why is Dina still young and hot when Michael is old and dead? You could ask the same thing about Bella and Mortimer. I have an explanation for both. I'm not throwing canon out the window, just working with its contradictions. I will try to make sure this prequel is building up to the Pleasantview of TS2; it just may not be in a way you'd expect.
As for The Sims 3, I'm not ignoring it (Hello, Parker Langerak.) I just think things would make a lot more sense if it was 10 years prior to TS1 instead of 25.
Yes, I have thought about this all way too much. But I'm sure some other people have too, so feel free to let your geekiness run rampant in the comments!
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Date: 2011-02-05 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-05 11:55 am (UTC)*Plots*
Anyway, the four of them somehow got their hands on this alien technology and eventually, when Bella pushed for something or other too much she got removed from the picture, taken by the aliens. Her quest for eternal youth could have been triggered by one of Cassie's psychic drawings :)
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Date: 2012-02-26 07:08 pm (UTC)Yup, the whole teleporter Riverwiew thingy stuff...
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Date: 2011-02-05 09:55 pm (UTC)I portrayed him as younger because of "doesn't know what to do with his life" thing, kind of like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Of course that makes me wonder who his Mrs. Robinson was.
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Date: 2011-02-06 05:04 pm (UTC)http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Dina_Caliente/theories
Michael B.:
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Bachelor/theories
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Date: 2011-08-25 12:08 am (UTC)-Fikcija
Ah, simswikia...
Date: 2012-01-05 06:38 pm (UTC)Apparently it's not all right to write that Dina might've actually loved her husband, but it's okay to say that Mrs Crumplebottom's looks may be based on Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. Beautiful.
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Date: 2012-01-06 06:56 pm (UTC)Re: Ah, simswikia...
Date: 2012-02-26 07:13 pm (UTC)...
I have always pronounced it [g-VAH-doh-in], hardly saying the G at all.
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Date: 2012-03-06 01:32 am (UTC)Tralala...
Date: 2014-05-26 02:55 pm (UTC)P.S. I know you made Michael looks like he does in TS1, but are people like the Altos, Gunther's friend Boyd Wainwright with his wife Susan and daughter Blair, and possibly even Blair's own roommates... will they appear? Or do they not exist in this story?
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Date: 2014-05-26 10:23 pm (UTC)I'm not that into TS3, so most of them will not appear unless I have a specific use for them. The Alto daughter and two more of Michael's peers have made some wordless cameos though.
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Date: 2014-05-29 04:05 pm (UTC)Also, i think Sunset Valley AKA Pleasantwiew, Appaloosa Plains, Twinbrook + Barnacle Bay (they're nearby), Bridgeport AKA Downtown, Riverwiew AKA Riverblossom Hills, Starlight Shores AKA Strangetown, Veronaville AKA Melbourne, Champs Les Sims, Al Simhara, Shang Sim La, Bluewater Village, Desiderata Valley, the various Universities, Twikkii Islands, Takemizu Village, Three Lakes, Isla Paradiso, Belladonna Cove AKA Hidden Springs, Moonlight Falls, Monte Vista, Aurora Skies, Sunlit Tides, Roaring Heights, and Lucky Palms are the only naturally occurring, real places that Sim inhabit in. Together they form SimCity, even tho some of them are far away from each other.
Dragon Valley and Midnight Hollow were magically created. Midnight Hollow was created by a long-lost witch aunt of the Goth Family quite a few generations above Victor and Gretle. She actually was known as "Lady Ravendancer Goth". But her real name was Minerva. She's (was) this gal: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Minerva_Goth
Dragon Valley, instead, was made by the very first elf, who was born in medieval times from two humans. He\she used his\her powers to make a magical land from the willpower within his heart, cuz he\she predicted the main TSM kingdom's king and queen (ancestors of the Goth family & founders of SimCity) would go on conquering the elf kingdom, b\c the first elf OFC went on be the king of the elves. When his kingdom was conquered by the ancestral Goths and Landgraabs (Lande-Graabe, whatevs.) the current line of elven royalty (the Mithrilen) & their most loyal servants\knights, moved into the magical land, and they brought in the last dragons. Also, the elves' skin became mutticolored as a result of entering the magical land that was now called Dragon Valley.
Lunar Lakes, Oasis Landing, and the custom TS2 neighboorhoods, are instead biotech. Technically "made in a bubble" you could say. Lunar Lakes tho was actually made by adapting terraforming "biotech bubble-like" technology to the moon (or one of the moons) of the planet where SimCity is. (unless it's actually an artificial moon... Or maybe OL is on the abduction aliens' home planet?)
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Date: 2014-07-30 06:21 pm (UTC)I only started to play mostly as premade households when my game crashed during a savefile with Time Lord twins. It said there was no space anymore in the hard-drive. (It was not even a full household: twins Laakhateea and Toorehiki Sweptlifar, their companion Nancy Landgraab, Nancy's ex-husband Geoffrey Chesterton, there kid Malcolm Landgraab, Malcolm's girlfriend Kaylinn Langerak, and Geoffrey's new lover Tamara Donner)
Before that, the only families i knew were, like, Goths, Altos, Landgraabs, Wainwrights + Roomies, Langeraks, Bachelors, Crumplebottom, Clavell, and Bunches?
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Date: 2017-09-20 09:09 pm (UTC)While in TS4 all main characters are close in age, TS1, TS2, and TS3 tend to have huge age differences between them. This is the reason why I think Gunther and Lolita should have a daughter together named Eleonora, so she can be close in hage to Blair and Holly since Mortimer is'nt.