Fairies!

"kwanzaabot;15509022" wrote:
I'm honestly not a fan of fairies, especially the pink, sugary-sweet, glowy-winged fairies that Supernatural had.

I get that The Sims has a predominantly young, female audience nowadays, and as a 30-year old man I'm no longer the target audience, and that's fine, but TS3's fairies were just too girly. Same with mermaids and unicorns, tbh.

I'd prefer if they kept the supernatural content to stuff everybody can enjoy. Like with Vampires, we have Vampire Diaries and Twilight vamps if that's your cup of tea, or you can have monstrous, evil, bloodsucking fiends.

If TS4 had fairies that were more like elves, and we could choose between high fantasy, Peter Jackson prettyboys, or creepy Faire Folk that abduct Sims that step into their mushroom rings, and replace children with soulless doppelgangers, I think I could get behind fairies.

But the way they were implemented in TS3 is too polarizing, as it only appeals to one subset of the playerbase, large though it may be.

I understand what you mean though I think Twilight and Vampire Diaries are also mainly targeted to a female audience...I think the whole "adorable male vampire thingy" is actually what caused the vampire hype of the last years.

At first glance fairies seem to be a girly thing too. But as vampires they leave a lot of room for personal story telling.
I also would love sims 4 fairies to have an elvish touch. There could be some sort of dark fairies too.

And talking about fairies most people may think of Tinker Bell first. But fairies don't have to be little girls or a girl thing by default.
Breathtaking beautiful women and men with elvish ears and imposing gorgeous wings are targeting all fantasy fans of all ages and not just the girly audience. Fairies have inspired artists for centuries and it's mostly not about girlish fairies, it's about majestic beauty, pure perfection, timeless elegance and the aesthetic, artistic possibilities these mythical creatures offer.

The design of the wings also doesn't have to be "super colourful pinkish girly like" only by default. There would be room for dark themed wings, neutral transparent wings and so on. And like vampires, fairies could be able to completely hide their fairy aspects (wings/ ears) if they wish so, allowing even more possibilities for story telling.

Oh and btw I am a male player too and I'm also over 30 years old and I would love to see fairies coming to The Sims 4 as a fantasy theme.