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5 years ago

Being neighbours changed their lives

Originally, I intended these families to be townies. I enjoy silly looking randomised townies sometimes, but I want my main family to interact with more realistic looking sims. At some point, I got very invested in their story and now I find myself playing them just as much as I play my main family, the Aguilars (I have a thread about them, there's a link in my signature :smile:). I enjoy how their story is progressing so much that I want to give it some structure and have it here to look back at it.
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These are Trey and Kenya Smith (and some random ghost that visits them sometimes). They recently moved out of their parents home into a flat in San Myshuno together, chasing their dreams. Their neighbors kindly welcomed them (you might hear a lot more from them soon!)
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Kenya is the little sister. She is very kind-hearted, mature and hard-working. She loves crafts and has been making candles for a long time and makes a living selling them on Plopsy. She is saving money to open her own candle shop in the future, although right now she's barely making enough money to pay the bills. Recently she started making her own furniture and has been replacing and selling the furniture in the flat to save money for the candle shop.
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Trey is a self-employed photographer, so neither of the siblings has a stable income at the moment. I guess one could not say that he is 100% a bad person, but you will see he makes questionable decisions sometimes, mostly when it comes to women (as you might be able to tell already from the second picture).
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Recently he messed around with a neighbour and the next day with his landlady (why not? what could go wrong?). He is rather emotionally immature, but he is responsible with money. He loves his little sister and always finds time to help her out. He puts some money aside when he's able to and gives it to Kenya for her savings for the shop.
  • Trey and Kenya are neighbours with the Lewis', Luciana, Marcell and Erica. They used to live with their single mom, but she sadly passed away and now they have been on their own for years now.
    https://i.imgur.com/aRTnpT2.png
    Luciana is the older sister. She has been taking care of parenting Erica after her mom passed and it has been difficult. She has always been hot-headed and never had much patience to begin with, but right now it has become very bad. She works a part time job and takes care of the flat and makes sure that Erica isn't up to something too reckless.
    https://i.imgur.com/Y1tzXHJ.png
    Marcell is the complete opposite to Luciana. He has always been sensitive, patient and kind. He also works a part time job and writes poetry in his free time. He dreams of having it published some day. Erica usually goes to him when she's overwhelmed with life and with Luciana's temper. Marcell loves Erica so much, almost to a fault, and he enables Erica's sometimes bad behaviour. Luciana doesn't like this, because it questions her authority and ruins her attempts at parenting, but she doesn't have the heart to confront sweet Marcell about it. Instead, she lets out that frustration on Erica.

    What else is there to say about Erica... She is quite the rebel, as you might have already imagined. She is an impulsive teen, somewhere in the middle between Marcell and Luciana, in terms of character. She is an average student, although she has the brains to do much better, she's just not interested, much to Luciana's dismay. Her best friend is her neighbour, Raquel Gomez, they met in a yoga and meditation club and they bonded because they both are very spiritual.
    https://i.imgur.com/YNDasE1.png
    Raquel is way more calm than Erica and she does a better job than Luciana at keeping Erica with her feet on the ground, but that doesn't mean that Luciana likes her... Raquel also has a troubled home life, but with her it's because her parents are very conservative and don't approve of her interests in spirituality and her company.
  • In the Smith household, Kenya has been very busy making furniture, she has now replaced most of the furniture that they previously had. She still makes candles and sells them on Plopsy.
    https://i.imgur.com/aEqfxN6.png
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    She even made friends with other makers.
    https://i.imgur.com/NtorXws.png
    But eversince she met the neighbours, she couldn't stop thinking about sweet Marcell and finally gathered the courage to ask him to go to the cinema with her.
    https://i.imgur.com/Q0T3ybT.png
    After the movie ended she decided to go for it. She told Marcell she likes him a lot and Marcell reciprocated!
    https://i.imgur.com/7t52wEa.png
    Sometimes she feels very sick when she wakes up but she doesn't know why. Indeed, a vampire has been breaking into the apartment at night to bite her!
    https://i.imgur.com/WUDGhQC.png
    As for Trey, he has been productive with his photography gigs. He invited Raquel to the cliffs, not realising that Raquel is not on the same page as him, she is so young she probably believes/hopes Trey will settle with her and stop being the way that he is right now.
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    Raquel spends most of her time at Erica's and even sleeps there most nights... She can't stand how her parents judge her actions based on rigid and, in her eyes, ridiculous beliefs. On the other hand, her parents think they are employing the "tough love" parenting "technique" where they kick her out as a punishment.
  • In the Lewis household, a disaster is brewing. Luciana was already on her last nerve with Erica, who had been skipping school in secret. At the beginning of fall Erica had gotten a back tattoo, fully knowing she was not allowed. She did it, thinking that she would be able to hide it very easily throughout the cold months by wearing the warm clothes she was going to wear anyway, basically being reckless and postponing the problem until winter was over, or so she thought... Two weeks later she slipped up and wore a dress at home!
    https://i.imgur.com/rfmskZC.png
    Luciana, as was to be expected, lost her mind. She was fuming. And this time, it somehow felt worse than any other past conflict. Even Raquel got involved, which had never happened before...
    https://i.imgur.com/A3iMmWS.png
    Luciana had to leave for the weekend, it was a trip she had planned in advance and couldn't cancel. But, as she was leaving, she screamed at the top of her lungs that when she came back, she was taking Erica to get the tattoo removed. Either that or Erica (and, by extension, Raquel) was going to be kicked out.

    As soon as Luciana left, Erica went to Marcell, like she always did. But this time it was different. Marcell didn't have anything against the tattoo, but he also was able to sense that this time he could not change anything, Luciana was angrier than ever and he didn't feel like a compromise could be achieved. So he told Erica he couldn't do anything.
  • Raquel had been keeping a secret for a while now. Well, as it turns out, going to the cliffs with Trey was a bigger mistake than she initially thought...
    https://i.imgur.com/ub6JgAH.png
  • Thank you for your comment, @mercuryfoam :blush:
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    Those are all hairs from Ebonix, they make great hair, also for kids and toddlers :) this is Marcell's, for some reason I couldn't find Kenya's.

    Raquel was saying that Luciana was being too strict, Luciana didn't like that comment :smiley: The only people who know about Trey and Raquel are Kenya (because she saw them at home - but she is used to Trey being like that and she doesn't know much about Raquel, so she didn't think anything of it) and Erica.
  • Omg the drama! And poor Raquel! I'm dreading Trey's response. :s
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    Kenya is soo pretty. I'm so glad you have her and Marcell be together. They're such a hot couple! Totally on board the MK ship! <3
    (Do you know where I can find Kenya and Marcell's hair? I've been looking for male hair like this and his is perfect. And they're maxis match too.)

    Ha ha. I identify with Erica there. I accidentally slipped up and showed my tattoo and my mom flipped too. :joy: Why was Luciana mad at Raquel? Does she know about Raquel and Trey?
  • @mingusssss Ahh... Okay yikes. So that's what happened. :lol: Thanks for the link. I can't wait to try it out. :)