Bare Your Fangs! Vampire Pictures, Stories and Gameplay Advice Please

@Kita5399 First off. Thank you so much for joining the discussion and sharing your vamps and your story with us. We can be a motley lot, but we actually don’t bite ;) , and we love to hear about vamps (and other stuff from time to time). Welcome to the world of vamps (meaning, grats on getting the gamepack).

It’s a shame such a beautiful wedding (Caleb and Aurelia) is so doomed. :'( , but I guess sometimes that’s how the cookie crumbles. It makes sense that Aurelia (pretty name, btw) would be more interested in the Count than her gardener boy with a heart of gold since she seems somewhat ambitious, but I am a bit surprised, since Anastasia is a vampire child that she would have left her with Caleb if she suspected he might be considering restoring Anastasia’s humanity. I wonder if raising Ehren will inspire her to try to kidnap Anastasia back. She is, after all, trying to grow a big vampire family. That would be a huge move against Caleb and his little coalition trying to stop those events from happening.

What a fabulous beginning to a potentially long-lasting feud between some really big family names in this universe. With Caleb (in a moment of poor judgement) beginning a coven of his own (Cassandra will after all need training and guidance) and thereby allying himself with the Goth family (not too shabby in the power structure of the sims world) and now “catching the attention” of Morgan as well? What an epic feud that could grow into, huh? Like Lilith Vatore backed by the Strauds and Forgotten Hollow Vamps VS Caleb Vatore backed by the Goths and Fyres. I don’t know – your story is compelling and I’m just going nuts with crazy ideas. This is also the first story I've read (and I know I am not that widely read, guys) where Lilith and Caleb were set up to be against each other. Sorry. :blush: your story is leading me into wild musings. Thanks for the Inspiration.

Regardless of the direction your story takes (and I really can’t wait to hear more about it!). I must say your vampires are gorgeous. Little Anastasia is like a porcelain doll, so pretty and Aurelia OMG! That invite into the coffin. :dizzy: could almost tempt a fanboi (well maybe not - cute bois still own it) but it’s definitely HOT! >:) . Then Cassandra and Lilith’s makeovers...Very nice. And finally Morgan and Wolfgang. Eye Candy All Around! Thanks so much for sharing.

Until now I have only encountered one other who is such a great fan of Vlad. @MaggieMarley has an awesome family with Vlad as the patriarch and although we probably place different weight on substance and power vs. sheer hot boi-ness the other branch of the vamp community in that story has Caleb and Lilith as the progenitors, so I may be wrong again (that happens a lot :) ) Plus, I have been given some of those vamp boys to play with, so very generous and brave too. I promise to try to behave with your boys @MaggieMarley.

Thanks btw for the compliments on the sparring shoots. I was actually given permission by the creator of Dakota and Ezra (thanks again to @Shinzen) to upload those images after I had made over those sims in CAS. I love playing with vamp bois (any bois actually :love:) so a couple of folk here on the board gave me permission to make over their chars and upload some pics when I was done. It's nice to know folk like them.

Once again, @Kita5399 Thanks so much for sharing and please keep us updated!

@kirivian Daniel was actually created in CAS as a toddler first, then his mother after, during a time when I knew little to nothing in playing the game. Back then I just played as my simself all alone and with the default game settings, so on Normal and active aging on all sims. I made Daniel and Loretta to test out toddlers and rotation play, with the backstory that she had him when she was a teenager and is now a starving artist trying to get by as a single mom. In this save they started in Oasis Springs (their first house is now a bowling alley) and then moved in with my simself (who was a renowned chef) and that's how the house eventually came onto the care of Loretta. I have the original version of their household here, but there's a Seasons-updated version elsewhere on my profile. (along with lots of kyute bois I made as well)

I also only had the basegame back then too, so Daniel never grew up with the values initially, and the game auto-gave him the Evil trait when he grew up from a toddler to a child when I wasn't playing them, but I went along with it. I like to think in my head that Loretta feels that she "failed" as a parent for not instilling all the good values onto him as well as doting on him too much, making him the quirky momma's boy he became. But that doesn't mean she didn't teach him any good manners nor responsibility, so I applied these two values onto him after I got Parenthood, to simulate the fact that she didn't quite "fail" at parenting entirely. I of course amended the settings after the game decided what to do with my Sims for me. (I like to have a lot of control over my own creations, you understand)

As for Zynthia, it's hard to have him continue being involved in his alien abduction baby's life with Caleb, in the fact he may end up catching Caleb in romantic embrace with one of his other lovers should he visit the Vatore manor to see his daughter. I do believe that Daniel actually has genuinely fallen for him after all; why else would I not have gone ahead and made them officially a couple? ;) As for those steamy screenshots, it all happened so suddenly so I never took any pics of it! But one can always imagine... His story involving vampires truly is the only one so far where the vampire stories start to bleed into my other non-vampire Sim stories, so it'll be interesting to see where I take this going forward.

Now for the Council...you'll have to wait longer on that one I'm afraid! It's a busy weekend for me at work and will have much more free-time to finally get back into divulging into that more afterwards. So not even a please on a milkshake with a cherry topper will persuade me to write more about them so soon yet! :D

@paradiseplanet Thanks for the background info. I almost think it's a good thing Daniel grew up without some of those values (I mean values can sometimes be over-rated :flushed: j/k). And you must now realize, I hope, that I am in the process of "procuring" Loretta and Daniel. Not that I plan on doing anything to..with them, but, I mean, you do have to wonder what he'll be like..he might have been like if he were raised post-parenthood.

Also, I understand that I will have to use my imagination when it comes to that closet encounter at the Narwhal Arms(?). As long as all y'all remember that I have a pretty wild imagination :love: when it comes to cute bois.

And that leads us to you teasing me again :/ . I make a mean milkshake and you'll have to use your imagination when it comes to what I can top it with. But I understand - RL, work, the grind of daily living. I'm good. I'll wait (like I have a choice). I'll be Patient (okay, even I know that was too far-fetched to believe.) :joy: But, seriously, when you are ready, I am on the edge waiting.

So, I was going through my submissions folder and I happened across this cut of Sylvie and Silas. They are both CAS shots, but I think it's a neat picture because I think you can see the genetic connection in it. Plus, after finding this I looked through my stuff and couldn't find any shots of Sylvie with just Silas. Weird right? Anyway, thought I'd share. This is Sylvie (on the left) who is not a vampire (yet), but she is dating Lilith and part of Kissed by Cain. And. Silas (on the right). Who is Sylvie's son by birth. He was raised by Sylvie and Lilith and turned into a vampire by Jaiden. He is part of Circle of Love.
https://i.imgur.com/e789zpH.jpg

"kirivian;c-16708505" wrote:
@squirrelwithacup Hiya! Thanks for joining the discussion. Onyx looks like quite the dapper little guy. :) I can’t wait to see what he looks like all grown up . I have been pretty bogged down with game stuff in my free time and RL taking up all my Game Time :confounded:, so I didn’t have a chance to check out your simLit yet, sorry, but I do think that some of your vamps are yummy :yum:. Starting with Korey (of the mysterious last name - I'm a beggie when it comes to trying to get this kind of info as @paradiseplanet can attest to). I’m also loving the name Vane. I am actually working with a descendent of Vlad’s right now in CAS which is fun ‘cause as I told his creator @MaggieMarley, I love playing with cute bois. If you have stories you’d be willing to share with us about some of these characters that don’t have a significant role in your simLit, I think we’d all love to hear them. I know I would. Thanks for sharing!

@kirivian Hey, it's totally fine! I wasn't asking you to read my simlit, just clarifying that the reason why I wasn't giving a whole lot of info was spoiler reasons. :D I'll be able to show more in about seven chapters when Onyx grows up to be a teen. Of course I already know what he looks like and knew that a long time ago, but I just didn't want to spoil it for everyone else. However, if you do some digging, I do have a thread that pretty much is nothing but a huge spoiler for my simlit that I posted before I began my simlit... okay, fine, you can see it here. I seriously should have temporarily taken this thread down but whatever. I'm sure all of my readers have went to spoiler-ville anyway. :D You can see grown-up Onyx here, as well as a ton of other cute vamps, so have fun!

I thought Vane would be a fitting name for one of Vlad's kids. Vane, vein. :D I was actually surprised at how decent looking he turned out considering most of Vlad's children are... interesting looking. I'll admit I did edit him slightly. I pushed his lips up on his face and off of his chin. But that's all I did, I swear! The rest of it was some kind of miracle. His mother is actually Lilith Vatore.

Haha, who doesn't love playing with cute boys? ;) I'm not usually into alpha CC but your sims are gorgeous. Seriously. I think some of mine are quite attractive but now I wonder how they'd look with an alpha CC makeover...

"MaggieMarley;c-16708898" wrote:
@squirrelwithacup it’s so interesting that your Vlad had a normal looking child too! I can barely see the Vlad in him! And yes, Vane is a very appropriate name. In my game, MCCC married him to a human townie (who I subsequently turned into a vampire). They produced two daughters who I think are both very pretty, and are unedited by me (though I did give them new clothes, hair and makeup)

Svetlana Straud normal form (game called her Harper but I changed the name to Svetlana)
https://i.imgur.com/bz9NgY3.jpg

Svetlana’s dark form (I should really make this more exciting):
https://i.imgur.com/ZJyTtZW.jpg

Christina Straud normal form (game called her Christian so obviously I changed that to the feminine form!)
https://i.imgur.com/FA1Otww.jpg

Christina’s dark form:
https://i.imgur.com/YSUATJt.jpg

@MaggieMarley Wow! Svetlana is gorgeous! I can't believe she's Vlad's. Christina is pretty, too, although those eyes and eyebrows are an (un)dead giveaway that she's Vlad's child.

"kirivian;c-16708503" wrote:
(plus Caleb’s hot, who would kick him out of bed?...err.. I mean who would break up with him?)

@kirivian I'd welcome Caleb into my bed with open arms <3 Or we could make the coffin in his basement rock >:)
I updated my story too... you can read that here

"MaggieMarley;c-16708919" wrote:

"squirrelwithacup;c-16708903" wrote:

"MaggieMarley;c-16708898" wrote:
@squirrelwithacup it’s so interesting that your Vlad had a normal looking child too! I can barely see the Vlad in him! And yes, Vane is a very appropriate name. In my game, MCCC married him to a human townie (who I subsequently turned into a vampire). They produced two daughters who I think are both very pretty, and are unedited by me (though I did give them new clothes, hair and makeup)

Svetlana Straud normal form (game called her Harper but I changed the name to Svetlana)
https://i.imgur.com/bz9NgY3.jpg

Svetlana’s dark form (I should really make this more exciting):
https://i.imgur.com/ZJyTtZW.jpg

Christina Straud normal form (game called her Christian so obviously I changed that to the feminine form!)
https://i.imgur.com/FA1Otww.jpg

Christina’s dark form:
https://i.imgur.com/YSUATJt.jpg

@MaggieMarley Wow! Svetlana is gorgeous! I can't believe she's Vlad's. Christina is pretty, too, although those eyes and eyebrows are an (un)dead giveaway that she's Vlad's child.

Aww thank you. In fact, Svetlana also has the same eyes as Christina (and Vlad) it’s just harder to tell because I put thick eyeliner around them. I thought it was funny Christina got Vlad’s eyebrows!

@MaggieMarley Yeah, I just noticed that! She's still very pretty though. I think what throws off the Vlad eyes is the tiny pupils. Vlad's eyebrows are quite the interesting gene to inherit! :D

"NyteRose;c-16708930" wrote:

"kirivian;c-16708503" wrote:
(plus Caleb’s hot, who would kick him out of bed?...err.. I mean who would break up with him?)

@kirivian I'd welcome Caleb into my bed with open arms <3 Or we could make the coffin in his basement rock >:)
I updated my story too... you can read that here

@kirivian @NyteRose Man, I agree that Caleb is hot, but you guys are thirstier than vampires! :joy:

"MaggieMarley;c-16708757" wrote:

I’m excited to hear you are working with Alek and Mathilde. They’re not actually full aliens - they just inherited the purple skin tone but otherwise have human features (Mathilde inherited her purple skin from her father, Loki, who is a full alien but her mother is human. Alek inherited purple from Mathilde, his mother, but his father is non-alien). Because they are not pure aliens, I guess you could give them non-purple CC skin if you wanted? Although, I am used to seeing them as purple haha.

@MaggieMarley OMG Thank You SO MUCH!! I have been flipping out over this skin tone issue because I’m thinking I’ve enabled all this Alien CC and it’s not available. And I know you hate when I use this expression but – here’s my dumb shining through. When it finally sunk in that they aren’t aliens it was like getting godsmacked. Anyway, I have been working for the last couple of hours on Mathilde, and I have some prelims for you. I am so excited about this ‘cause I’ve been feeling like a real failure when it came to working with her and Alek. Thank you so much for helping get over this idiot block. Here are the CAS shots that I literally just finished up. I haven’t put her in game yet, so depending on how she translates there may be some minor adjustments later, but I was so excited that I couldn’t wait to put these up. Also these are just her normal and disguise edits, I haven't done her vampire form yet. I hope you like her. Here’s Mathilde:

Mathilde - Alien Skin Tone (unedited because it's not available in CAS for me)
https://i.imgur.com/tiqkfPq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L9i8x0O.jpg

Mathilde - Disguise
https://i.imgur.com/J8sQX7M.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dRDruyo.jpg