The hardest decision

"Karababy52;c-18179862" wrote:
Hardest for me is letting my Sims die or making them die for story purposes. My challenge Sim, Essa, was supposed to die of old age last year, but I just couldn't do it. So I made she and her husband vampires instead. The last time I let any of my Sims die was 4 years ago in the Apocalypse Challenge. For story purposes, I made my current Sim's wife die by Pufferfish Nigiri. I'm having a hard time dealing with it since the couple had just gotten married and have been together almost all this year. So, yeah...that's the toughest for me. :/

@Karababy52 This! So much this. While I might not have as heavy storytelling (I often let my sims autonomy to direct me) the overall idea is still there. Ever since TS2 I have been bad letting go of sims I grow attached to and this sudden attachment may come totally unexpected too. Abigail is a good example in TS4. I didn't really care that much for her when she was an YA/Adult (thanks to me failing forming a good roleplay) and was actually fully planning and wanting for her to go through the life stages (first one to show me the death by old age) but when she became an Elder something really endeared her to me and I just couldn't let her die. She still isn't "the favorite" but for some reason it's still really hard for me to let her die.

I have always had this tendency to preserve favorites by turning them vampires (or other immortal occults) because they are an immersive way for me to do so. BUT at the same time I roleplay heavily and also don't want vampires or other occults to become too common because they'd then lose what makes them fun/special for me in the first place. Sometimes it just doesn't fit the character at all. Like Abigail. Her husband is a vampire and could turn her whenever without problems but I just don't see that happening considering her character and the way I like to play her (and while her husband might have the evil trait he isn't enough of a jerk to force something like this on his loved ones).
So I guess for now Abigail will just hang around till I'm ready.