Sims 4 Fairies Pack

"AzukiMochi;c-17773762" wrote:
@DaWaterRat Well I do agree with you. I actually like both kinds. The cliche "Pretty Pixies" ones and Brian Froud's. It would be nice to add elements of both, imo. But that's just me.
I just don't think they'd go 100% Brian Froud due to a lot of adult themes in the books. I like the idea of taking inspiration from powers and some looks though. It would be really fun to have faeries of all sorts of different varieties like the ones you just mentioned from the books.

Though if faeries do come out and it's the cliche type, there could be a chance the PC players will get/create some nice mods to perhaps make them look or behave closer to Brian Froud's? I mean that's pretty much what some people did with mermaids. We have so many custom tails, skin details, make up, and other things now, and a mermaid expansion mod that gives them several new abilities. That and the Sims community seems to have a thing for hybrids, so maybe we'll be able to have a mod to create faery/spellcaster hybrids, or faery/vampire, etc, etc, you know what I'm getting at lol. With being able to create faery hybrids, one could make them much closer to the books.

Basically, even if it is Pretty Pixies as you call it, there's still hope I believe.

Okay, um... The Faries in The Sims so far are Humanoids with Insect wings. These are a type of Fairy called Pixies. The ones that Froud wrote about aren't "his" they're from European (and other) Folklore. He didn't create them. Tiny Humanoids with Wings was a Victorian take on Faries to try to make them Palatable for Victorian Sensibilities and is really limited to Field Sprites. Froud's interpretation is just one way of drawing those Fae, but I'd be good with any visual interpretation of more kinds of Fae than just Pixies. I picked his book because it's a good compendium of several different kinds of Fae from European (mostly English, Scottish, Irish, and French) Folklore. I mean, I like his art style too, but that's really secondary to wanting other kinds of Fae from Folklore. And honestly, you could go with his work on Labyrinth too, since those are all Fairies by my book. But my wish isn't so much for a particular art style as the addition of more varieties of Fairy. So we could have Pixies, and Sidhe, and Brownies, and Nockers, and yes Goblins.

Now, I understand the limitations of the game, so I'm okay with getting Pixies as the only available Fairy type. But Pixies are just one of so many kinds of Fae from Folklore (and as I said, most of it sanitized by Victorian Society) and Modders can only do so much. I mean, I put together a Redcap with just a Spellcaster, using mostly the RPG Changeling: the Dreaming imagery for Redcaps. But she's not really a redcap from Changeling. She can't eat anything - including things that can't be eaten like baseball bats. And while I might manage the visuals, Brownies won't take care of domestic tasks any faster, Nockers won't have any better luck when digging for crystals, Goblins won't be any better at mischief, Redcaps won't be any better in a fight. They'll all just be Pixies with different skins. And Sidhe will still be Spellcasters with Pointy Ears rather than Faries because Sidhe should have magic.

Like I said, I'm okay with just getting Pixies. They're fine. My calling them Pixies isn't intended as an Insult. It's simply a classification of what they are. But I'm not going to get excited for Pixies. Even if they are a way to make Toot-Toot from the Dresden Files. Because I know that Faries are so, so much more than just Tiny Humanoids with Wings. And I didn't learn it from Froud, I learned it at my Irish great grandmother's knee.