Madrugada – What's on your mind? (Song lyrics inside spoiler)
You were at my door I heard you knocking but I didn't care at all I had been in all night just staring at the wall I didn't really want to see you anymore
Coming from the road You took your coat off and you threw it on the floor You said "I can't believe you wanna hurt me so" I said "I'm not supposed to be like this, you know" Well, I just had to let you go
What's on your mind? When you're lost in time What's on your mind? Tell me why Why does it have to be this way?
You were in that dream that I was dreaming I was dreaming in a dream Your nylon dress and I was floating back downstream I wanted love to come and swallow everything
Everything gets real Sooner or later, doesn't matter how you feel You slammed that door shut on the night of glass and steel I cannot blame you for believing what you believe
Well, I just had to let you go What's on your mind? When you're lost in time What's on your mind? Tell me why Why does it have to be this way?
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This story begins with a burglar outside the small Goth-Asli family's house. The family at this point consisted only of the mother, Natalie Goth-Asli and her son, Isaac Goth-Pammy. She had recently split with her partner and father of Isaac, Ragnar Pammy-Vasquez after both of them ended up in a heated debate on the sidewalk outside the convenience store, with the result that neither party were left amused...
And that was only what could be seen with the eyes of the outside world. Who knows what happened behind the walls of their home. So one night, she had decided enough was enough, took the kid and left.
Anyway, back to the burglar situation.
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Emergency Operator: 311 operator. What is your emergency?
Natalie: There is someone else in the house. There is a burglar. I'm alone with my baby. Please come, quickly!
Emergency Operator: What's your address?
Natalie: Purgamentum road 9. Please hurry!
Emergency Operator: Ok, we'll send an officer over. Just stay with me. Where are you at right now?
Natalie: I'm in the bed room..
A clanking noise is heard through the door.
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Natalie: Oh God! Emergency Operator: Just stay with me. Officer should be there shortly.
Natalie: He's getting away!
Emergency Operator: Ma'am, just stay wi...
*click*
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Emergency Operator: Hello?
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Natalie ran out into the hallway, but was to late. A few minutes later the sound of a police siren can be heard from outside.
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Natalie: I was just ready to fight him! But he got away!
https://i.imgur.com/1gbhMBo.jpg Police officer: You got unlucky, it looks like the burglar stole your bath tub. Unfortunately he managed to escape, but we will catch him next time!
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Natalie: "We will catch him next time!" Bah, useless good-for-nothing police officer!
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The next morning it was off to work as usual. Natalie works at the Dreamland Parliament Assembly building at the bottom rank of the political career.
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Natalies home is located on the east side off the Corbo Gleb river that divides the town into two parts (view facing north), next to one of the poorer areas of town where only humans live. (Purgamentum road 9.)
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She had wanted to take a course to improve her skills in charisma, but figured that now after the burglary she would instead need to spend her money on buying a new shower to replace the stolen bath tub.
(Only in the sim world will a burglar steal a bath tub...)
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The following morning she woke up feeling nauseous from the burglary that happened just last night, or maybe some other unknown reason.
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When she came home from work that day, she wanted to invite Friederich, her grandfather, over for a visit.
Then she had to throw up again..
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They understand each other perfectly, since they both share the childish trait. Yes, that's grandpa over there playing with the doll house...
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While he was still there, she found the cause of her nausea as she became aware that she was pregnant. Though it was not something she had planned for, she was still happy about the pregnancy. Since she already had a son, she was wishing it would be a girl this time.
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But sometimes her grandfathers childish behaviour could be an annoyance, so she had learned to counter and deflect his shivering teeth trick...
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Natalie: Ha! You didn't get me this time!
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Friederich wasn't to happy about that, though..
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..and he's actually stupid enough to try the same trick again!
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And a third time, and then it actually worked.. and they were both amused.
https://i.imgur.com/yX9G5Tf.jpg And then they went for a pillow fight.
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And while she was busy playing around with her grandfather, she had completely ignored Isaac upstairs crying because he was hungry. ---
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"Here you go nooboo! Here is your food!"
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And after she has fed him, she does what every good mother would do, of course.. neglects her kid by leaving him in the chair to go to bed.. Looks like grandpa is there still as well.... maybe he will wake up and take care of the kid..
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Nah, grandpa doesn't care, he just leaves... time to go, see you later!
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Isaac was literally left in his chair alone all night while mother was sleeping..
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Next morning she spent a little time playing with him, before she wanted to head to the spa to get a massage.
https://i.imgur.com/aL8cqcM.jpg Picture: Outside the spa.
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And then she spent the rest of the day at home, playing with Isaac's toys and ignoring him until he fell asleep on the floor.
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She found that to be very enjoyable, of course.
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The following day she went to the bookstore, to buy a book about pregnancy, which she read inside the spa's reception and waiting room.
https://i.imgur.com/xeuXStc.jpg Picture: Inside the spa reception. Eva Goth-Asli, her grandmother, sitting in the sofa to the left. I don't know where the receptionist went off to...
And so the days went, and approximately 9 months later during the fullmoons phase...
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Late one night, she went into labor. The baby was finally coming, and it was time to head to the hospital.
https://i.imgur.com/TROoFXX.jpg Picture: Natalie entering the hospital. I wish this could have been a daytime shot, but I can't decide the hour at which babies are born...
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The freshly baked mother holding her newborn son at the hospital the morning after. She got a baby boy and not the girl she had hoped for. Nonetheless, she decided to name him Aaron, as she felt it was a name with great strength to it.
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As they both proved to be of good health, she was released from the hospital with Aaron later the same evening.
@Sprottenham Good start for the story. I like the name, The Red Winged Angels. She is certainly not a very good mother. I do feel for those poor kids. The social worker might come if that little one keeps the lonely icon too long. :cry:
@Sprottenham hehehe what a great story! Is this what you were telling me awhile back about the different winged beings have certain color of wing based on their good or evilness? I can't wait to learn more!
The town looks so cool, is it a desert town with sandy or dirt roads?
I must say, it was totally freaky to see the burglar next to the red spattered column! And he gets away with stealing the bathtub! LOL
Haha I love how they can blow back the prank on to the initiator!
Friederich is funny to keep trying the prank!
aw poor hungry baby!
Good mama to feed some mush! :) uhoh then goes to bed! :D
oh poor little baby! trapped in the prison chair!
''she spent the rest of the day at home, playing with Isaac's toys and ignoring him until he fell asleep on the floor.'' omg and she is going to have another one! I hope the social workers won't want to take away Isaac for neglect, I never had that happen but heard it can.
Did the father of the baby meet her at the hospital?
Aaron is a great name! I wonder how Isaac was fairing well the time Natalie was away from home!
Thank you so much for reading and the comments! It means alot, especially any and all feedback I can get, because this story can get a little dark and I don't want to push it to far with that.
I started this save in mid-february (or somewhere around there..) so I already have written out a good chunk of the story. I had an idea for where I wanted it to go, but at one point it started to live its own life, sort of.. so it hasn't excactly followed my plot... It ended up going into some.. more disturbing or uneasy territory..
And that's why feedback and reactions will be important, if I can get a sense of "ok, this is perhaps to far..", but the story is already written, so I don't think there is to much I can do to make it "less dark", maybe. But I will evaluate this chapter by chapter before posting (based on feedback)... Hopefully it will be ok by most readers.
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As for the wing colors.. the system is perhaps a little complicated. It's a colormap, with the scale going from white to black cut out. Angels with white wings are called "pure angels". They are just angels. On the other end of that, you have the angels with black wings.. and they are pure... something else...
Angels with red wings are half-breeds between angels and humans. And they can have more colours than just red, black or white, but anyone that has a colour that is not on the scale from white to black is a half-breed of some sort. There is a rank system too.
1) Angels with white wings. 2) Angel/magician = yellow 3) Angel/human = red 4) Angel/vampire = purple 5) Angel/werewolf = blue. 6) Angels with grey wings, or any combination of black/other color. 7) "Angels" with black wings.
Apart from the use of the word angel etc. this is not necessarily related to something religious or bibilical... I have completely made my own world and universe, just stealing these words and using them here.
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As for the town itself, I wanted to give it a kind of.. warm, mediterranean-ish look. It is an old historical town and civilization that has been there for ages and ages and somehow never got wiped out..
It is a little bit inspired by ancient Middle-Eastern civilizations, The Roman Empire and Ancient Greece.. all thrown into a blender and mixed with pieces from my own head (not directly! :P) and sprinkled with a little bit of magic and Dark Medieval Times on top and brought forward a few thousand years to a more modern day area.... Since they have things like cars, tv's and cellphones...
--- And uh, no, the father did not show up at the hospital with the mother. Their relationship went south just before I started playing with them, and this point in the story line, I did not know why or what happened.
I did not directly create Natalie or Isaac. I put some sims in town, and let them breed as they wanted for three generations, and then I chose to play with one of them. Of course, Natalie wasn't selected randomly. Why I chose them has something to do with her last name and the last name of what is now her ex-partner.
In the beginning Natalie is pretty much 100 % autonomous left to do as she wants, and as you see, she turned out to be a really poor mother....
I am happy you think it is a good start for the story, though!
@Sprottenham Yes that is what I remember you saying about the wing colors! Thank you for the spoiler, but you left out Green! ;) I enjoyed hearing you tell more of the background information, and the town. That is very brave of you! I hope I can, and I will try, to give you what you are looking for in comments, but usually I just enjoy, or accept things that the story tells. You have such an interesting, creative flow!
Oh boy I hope Natalie treats Isaac a bit better now that there's another sibling! I really like the idea of the wing colours having different meanings, it's very creative
@Sprottenham : Great start for a new story! And it is about fairies!!!! I know that you´ve said that it won´t be as fairiish as mine in my story but they played tricks on each other, which is very fairiish! ;) :p >:) I wonder where this playing with fairies will get you... B) :D I wonder where this story will lead to...
@DivaDoodle Oh, yeah, I would include green if it was possible for angels to breed with zombies, but I don't think it is? Green can also mean if an angel/magician breeds (yellow) breeds with an angel/werewolf (blue) to create an angel/magician/werewolf.. so it can get all sorts of complicated... @_@
@CarbonCoffee14 Thank you. ^_^ Yeah, one can only hope she treats her kids better...
@AlexaKry Oh, thanks, but don't call them fairies! They are not in this story line... :P Well, the tricks playing thing, ....they do it from time to time, but I won't show it from now on, because it really doesn't have anything to do with the story line. :P
@Sprottenham I really like how you developed the world and the meaning of the wing colors. I'm looking forward to reading more. I do read a few dark fantasy genre's that get quite gory and gross at times. I find myself skipping pages sometimes. :grin: But, I usually end up going back to figure out what I missed. :lol:
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