Tell me about your vampires.
Anyone else find vampires (at least the ones that choose to eat food) not going to the toilet weird? What about those with sickness mods (like Private Practice...) Are your vamps permanently heal...
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Okay hm. Where do I even begin- I pretty much have this whole vampire thing going on, doodled comics and all, that's really gone a bit beyond what I can do in The Sims at this point. Like I have my own lore set up that I like to follow for my story (although not all of it is exactly playable in TS4. yeah this means a lot of compromises). So let's start with that...
SOME LORE
- Everyone gets a unique bat form; this bat form will influence their ear shape. Because I like bats, and I like pointy ears. Gotta have pointy ears.
- Besides that, powers and weaknesses get quite varied!
- - For example, some are sun resistant, most are not.
- - Any powers and weaknesses on the vampire power tree are basically up for grabs this way.
- - Some also have powers that are just not available in TS4. Walking on walls, for example.
- Eye color implies cause of undeath. Similar to Sims 3 ghosts.
- - Eyes always glow, unless they're disguised.
- They are kept immortal by dark magic.
- The dark form is their true form; human form is simply their disguise to allow them to blend into society better by looking human. Some vampires have not bothered practicing maintenance of a human form, and thus only has a dark form.
- Generally, they all look tired as heck. Often they'll also have rather dead and cold-looking skintones, depending on how little effort they make to blend in. With age, their skin may even take on a more unnatural shade. For example, my thousand year old vampire is about as pale as snow, with a cold blue tint. It has slowly turned this shade over time. (note: not every vampire gets this pale - it depends on what the starting point was)
- Cannot eat normal food, more often than not.
- Normally cannot create children, unless they can.
- Dark Ley Line-born vampires are ones whose parents have been cursed by vampires in some way or another.
- To turn, one must die soon after being bit. While the bite is fresh. Yeah, accidents can happen this way.
- Can stay in bat form indefinitely; another thing I cannot do in-game.
- Hibernation is a thing and it can be truly indefinite if uninterrupted
- Cannot cure them. Once they're undead, they're dead. Removing the vampirism from their body would simply kill them for real.
Honestly I would share some of my vampire sims too, but I see this message is already rather long. Hah, oops.
I guess I'll just hide them under this spoiler.
Yeah it's those guys in my signature. I just like them a lot.
SOME LORE
- Everyone gets a unique bat form; this bat form will influence their ear shape. Because I like bats, and I like pointy ears. Gotta have pointy ears.
- Besides that, powers and weaknesses get quite varied!
- - For example, some are sun resistant, most are not.
- - Any powers and weaknesses on the vampire power tree are basically up for grabs this way.
- - Some also have powers that are just not available in TS4. Walking on walls, for example.
- Eye color implies cause of undeath. Similar to Sims 3 ghosts.
- - Eyes always glow, unless they're disguised.
- They are kept immortal by dark magic.
- The dark form is their true form; human form is simply their disguise to allow them to blend into society better by looking human. Some vampires have not bothered practicing maintenance of a human form, and thus only has a dark form.
- Generally, they all look tired as heck. Often they'll also have rather dead and cold-looking skintones, depending on how little effort they make to blend in. With age, their skin may even take on a more unnatural shade. For example, my thousand year old vampire is about as pale as snow, with a cold blue tint. It has slowly turned this shade over time. (note: not every vampire gets this pale - it depends on what the starting point was)
- Cannot eat normal food, more often than not.
- Normally cannot create children, unless they can.
- Dark Ley Line-born vampires are ones whose parents have been cursed by vampires in some way or another.
- To turn, one must die soon after being bit. While the bite is fresh. Yeah, accidents can happen this way.
- Can stay in bat form indefinitely; another thing I cannot do in-game.
- Hibernation is a thing and it can be truly indefinite if uninterrupted
- Cannot cure them. Once they're undead, they're dead. Removing the vampirism from their body would simply kill them for real.
Honestly I would share some of my vampire sims too, but I see this message is already rather long. Hah, oops.
I guess I'll just hide them under this spoiler.
Spoiler
SOME SIMS
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/26741111_Svi.png
Morten:
- 20 years old; youngest of the bunch, fledgling
- kind of an accidental vampire?? certainly didn't mean to be one anyway
- thought their bat friend was a wizard's familiar. but, well... he was wrong.
- totally wanted to be a spellcaster instead but hahaha no
- still got major issues with drinking blood from living creatures
- overall a bit too sweet and wholesome hahaha. sorry buddy there's no vampire cures here
- made in CAS. started this all
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/58457793_L79_8170214.jpg?1671055142
Bat:
- 290+ years old - raised as a pirate
- yeah this was the bat Morten mistook for a familiar and befriended too hard
- small chaos friend. he was like 14 upon turning
- probably caught feelings but he will deny it
- likes blood, actually.
- will hide in bat form quite often.
- definitely snacked on Mort's family for like a year before deciding to turn Morten.
- concepted as morten's sire; used CAS to figure out his look a bit more
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/38097947_bhT.png
Rune:
- 48 years old.
- slept through 23 of those years whoops
- born in-game to human parents. dark ley line lot trait.
- kind of been pressured by family to appear as normal as possible :(
- fairly skilled at the guitar
- was supposed to be a legacy sim, but clearly i got carried away playing these guys instead!
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/58753982_y3C.png
Einarr:
- 1035 years old
- yep that's right he was raised around the end of the viking age
- turned by some nasty old vampire in a castle his group of vikings attempted to raid
- still remembers most of the stuff he's been through over the centuries
- incapable of sleeping without being surrounded by complete darkness. straight up cannot hibernate. basically a vampire insomniac
- likes fish blood and lives in a houseboat. it looks like a viking ship because of course it does
- Bat's ancient sire. didn't really mean to turn him this young, but this kid died early and had been begging to turn, so. hm
SOME SIMS
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/26741111_Svi.png
Morten:
- 20 years old; youngest of the bunch, fledgling
- kind of an accidental vampire?? certainly didn't mean to be one anyway
- thought their bat friend was a wizard's familiar. but, well... he was wrong.
- totally wanted to be a spellcaster instead but hahaha no
- still got major issues with drinking blood from living creatures
- overall a bit too sweet and wholesome hahaha. sorry buddy there's no vampire cures here
- made in CAS. started this all
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/58457793_L79_8170214.jpg?1671055142
Bat:
- 290+ years old - raised as a pirate
- yeah this was the bat Morten mistook for a familiar and befriended too hard
- small chaos friend. he was like 14 upon turning
- probably caught feelings but he will deny it
- likes blood, actually.
- will hide in bat form quite often.
- definitely snacked on Mort's family for like a year before deciding to turn Morten.
- concepted as morten's sire; used CAS to figure out his look a bit more
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/38097947_bhT.png
Rune:
- 48 years old.
- slept through 23 of those years whoops
- born in-game to human parents. dark ley line lot trait.
- kind of been pressured by family to appear as normal as possible :(
- fairly skilled at the guitar
- was supposed to be a legacy sim, but clearly i got carried away playing these guys instead!
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/thumbnails/58753982_y3C.png
Einarr:
- 1035 years old
- yep that's right he was raised around the end of the viking age
- turned by some nasty old vampire in a castle his group of vikings attempted to raid
- still remembers most of the stuff he's been through over the centuries
- incapable of sleeping without being surrounded by complete darkness. straight up cannot hibernate. basically a vampire insomniac
- likes fish blood and lives in a houseboat. it looks like a viking ship because of course it does
- Bat's ancient sire. didn't really mean to turn him this young, but this kid died early and had been begging to turn, so. hm
Yeah it's those guys in my signature. I just like them a lot.
