Fier Legacy (Hiatus)

It's really sweet seeing them both so romantic together like this, especially since quite often he usually makes a sort of social faux pas that puts Adelise off a bit, but I wonder if it'll last.

What a prophetic statement, but it makes me wish that this chapter was just sweet. At least the last real chapter before this was sweet without any faux pas, but given this one, that last one unfortunately doesn't count for much.

I assume the game threw that at you and you went with it?

Yes, and I was annoyed because they had been doing fairly well. Of all the things that could have been picked for him to say, that was what came up... Sometimes, I give Sims a nice edit where questionable things are shown in a positive light but this time I didn't feel like it because he completely killed the mood. I am/was okay with breaking them up if it came to that.

As much as I give credit to Asher for trying, IRL-speaking, it kind of reminds me of we are often inwardly excusing every thing that guys do as a 'mistake' or 'it's, okay, he's XYZ'. Like it feels like they're allowed to make all of these careless errors over and over again and not have to care because the women in his life will find a way to excuse it or push it to one side to ease the hurt, and it really does get annoying after a while. I'm wondering if Adelise will be tempted to just walk away at this point. Some people are beyond changeable and sometimes it's really good to just...get away. We'll see what the game throws at you in that regard...

You've mentioned this before and I agree and it's something I keep in mind. I always imagined Asher and Adelise coming from an incredibly patriarchal background, so it's hard for them to sort out acceptable vs. unacceptable behavior because in that environment all his behavior would have been acceptable/praiseworthy/mindblowingly progressive because the bar was set so low. And he's a vampire so ... there may be some lingering toxic attitudes of the "you're lucky he doesn't bite you or manipulate your emotions" variety because vampires are OP in this game and could easily run wild. Adelise has also only had this one relationship. It's going to be hard for her to compare it to anything. But she has been paying attention to others' romantic relationships and noticing that they can be a lot sweeter in some ways. Still, it might be a leap to see others having sweet things and realize that you too can have those same things on top of the good things you already have, especially if by your logic you're already unbelievably lucky.
What's worse? is that these two are in a relationship for a reason. People with a low tolerance for nonsense, like the brown-haired woman who inspired the latest incident, won't get too far into a relationship with Asher before they just walk away. On the other hand, Adelise married him but not because she thought he was kind – she valued hard work, ambition, non-EQ-related intelligence, and his physical appearance. So she feels a little ridiculous being upset about and focusing on things she hadn’t thought were important and that she hadn’t intended to care about. Ironically, Asher is raising spoiled, self-assertive people who have clear ideas about what is acceptable behavior, won’t tolerate excuses and don’t mind confrontations. If he's not careful their attitudes will eventually spread to his wife. I just think it's hard to walk away sometimes, especially when there's no illegal or malicious behavior involved.