Playing Together: Finding Love after a Breakup Scenario.
Starting this thread for our shared gameplay. {Improvements will be made as appropriate.} We are starting the Finding Love after a Breakup Scenario. List of the participating Couples: @...
I created Mia Valpolicella and Sarah Stern for this scenario some time ago, got frustrated that I couldn't include their parents in the same save without either being ineligible for the scenario or destroying the relationships with the parents, and gave up on it. You guys have inspired me to pick them up again. It's been long enough that I can move on with my life, and this scenario, without their parents in it!
What brought these two together in the first place? Well, they both love dancing, and they both had a dream to move to Tartosa, so they did! Mia wanted to become a singer, and Sarah wanted to get a job and save up to go to university, in a program where she could nerd out about Tartosa history and architecture. Part of the dream was their perfect puppy, a little border collie named Brook, whom they both adore. https://i.postimg.cc/6QcQTwm0/12-13-23-10-21-29-PM.png
And sometimes another person's opposite traits can be quite attractive and inspirational! Until they aren't. (The game already had its own ideas about this, not two seconds into the scenario)
Sarah is beginning to understand that she's probably not romantically interested in anyone, that her feelings for Mia were really more friendly, combined with excitement about shared interests and shared dreams for the future. You could still build a great relationship on that foundation, but, not with Mia. Mia requires a certain amount of romantic attention. Both from real and imaginary sources. Mia, for her part, always had doubts about whether Sarah was really into her or not, and now that those doubts have been confirmed she's feeling really sad and resentful after the fact.
Well, we need them to stay in the same household for the scenario ;) but... getting that place in Tartosa was a dream for both of them, they can't afford separate places in Tartosa yet, nobody wants to lose custody of the puppy, only Sarah has a real job, and deep down Sarah has concerns about Mia's basic ability to take care of herself.
Mia wants to become a singer but her idea of disciplined practice consists of random vocalizations outside in the sun when she feels like it. She also enjoys cooking, but she often is distracted by arguments with the people in the fridge https://i.postimg.cc/0NPQ8rcj/12-13-23-10-36-44-PM.png Consequently the food turns out poorly, or doesn't get made at all.
Sarah's job as a salaryperson is mind-numbing and stressful. Meanwhile hanging out with their married friends is becoming stressful too. Were their married friends always this coupley all the time?? She's starting to alienate them with her reprimands about public displays of affection
The easiest way to complete the scenario would obviously be to give Mia a new romantic interest, but we can't have it be that easy, so instead Mia is going to distract herself from her problems by making a million friends and trying to improve everyone else's lives!
