A Slice of (Un)Life
Parenting is hard work!
The Chen family lives in Detroit in 2038, in a time of economic hardship, that resulted in Daniel O'Malley, a young man who wished to be a stay a home father, being the household's sole breadwinner. Meanwhile his career-oriented fiance, Gavin Reed, is unemployed. They both try to not let their disappointment with the situation get the better of them and with the support of their friend Tina Chen, so far that has worked well.
That was the state of affairs in my rotational save until something happened that threw my plans for this household off the rails.
Simropa... London, I think. Not quite sure. It's called a "chalet", what sounds more French.
Anyway, I could do with something to bite!
And an inside space to shelter me from that dreadful heat. Must be close to sixty degree...
The building seems to be a museum. Everything is roped off. I can't cross the barrier...
...so I have to pass through the wall.
WAIT A MOMENT! I DID WHAT?!
And how did I end up here in the first place? i cannot remember us having booked a vacation at all, least of all on a faraway continent!
The irony! My cold-loving Gavin, who also has the Danger Child formative moment trait, that makes him resistant to extreme heat and cold, managed to die on a mild autumn day while I was playing a different family. I moved Gavin out of the Chen household to follow his journey through the afterlife and, hopefully, back to the world of the living.
By moving through the walls I can bypass the ropes the museum curator has put up and reach every object in this house.
A pity my new abilities don't confer any cooking skill. Plum, plum, plum! This looked so effortless when Danny did it!
I can probably live forever in this mansion with nobody being the wiser except for the other ghosts, and they are easily cowed. Not bad, I guess. I often wondered what it would be like to live in the luxury my ancestors enjoyed. Perhaps that's why I got pulled here after I... lost my body.
But I always wanted more. Still do. I want... I want not to go back home to Danny as a loser who never amounted to anything and now doesn't even have a body to cuddle with anymore.
I want to be someone!
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And so it started.
The technicalities:
GAVIN REED, formerly a MUNDANE HUMAN (now a GHOST, obviously), YOUNG ADULT (35 years old)
Traits: Dastardly, Competitive (currently miserable competitive spirit), Goofball, Cat Lover
Current Aspiration: Public Enemy
Current Soul Journey Goal: Spend a day in Windenburg
I use a mod that doesn't count aspiration progress for soul journey progress.
Many sims in this save are based on characters from Detroit: Become Human. Unlike in that game, everyone in my save is human, there are no androids in this setting.
