This game has genuinely given me warm fuzzies!!
I know there has been a lot of discussion about the pronouns and the romance/woohoo preferences updates, but those updates have just allowed a story to unfold in my game play that has warmed my little queer heart!
When the pronouns update came, I made Nic (they/them, AFAB). Nic is an archaeologist who went on all sorts of grand adventures and then met Romina and fell in love. Romina already had a son, Jesus, but Nic took Jesus in and loved him to bits.
Jesus moved over to the islands to clean things up and, when his mum called to ask if her and Nic should have another kid, he said they should. Along came Jayce.
I was playing Jesus' household when he went to meet his new sibling and I thought that Jayce was a girl's name. It's not. Jayce is a boy. When I switched back to the house with Nic, Romina, and Jayce, I just went with it. Jayce is a super effeminate boy who has grown to be a lovely teenage boy. His family moved from Willow Creek to Oasis Springs because he was getting bullied (just my head-canon, nothing that actually happened other than the curved walls update meaning I wanted to build them a new home!).
On the other side of Simland, two evil Sims got married. One became a spellcaster in his quest for power, the other a social influence. They had two daughters. The first was everything they could have wanted. She is athletic and popular, graduated early, sells lots of looks on Trendi.
The other daughter, Kirsten, doesn't fit with her family. She's socially awkward and eccentric. She keeps chickens in the back garden and, upon aging up, realised that she could do magic! At school she met this kid Jayce who just seems to get her.
Just now in my game, Jayce had Kirsten round to his house. He was embarrassed for some random reason and needed to journal through his feelings, so Romina, who was playing chess, invited Kirsten to play. The two of them got on well, so Nic invited Jesus round for dinner and the night ended with Nic telling everyone Salvadorian folktales.
Kirsten's family doesn't get her, but it was so sweet seeing her welcomed into a different family. I don't know if my heart has ever been touched like that whilst playing before!
My long-term plans is to have Kirsten move in with Jesus and cheat to have them have a kid together without any woohoo. I think they would raise it well. Jesus is busy saving the island and I think Kirsten would do well as a freelancer making candles, practising her spell casting, and raising babies who grow up in a more loving home than she did.
I know that I started this story with mentions of how the updates allowed this to happen and I also know that I could have done this same story line pre-updates with all the changes happening in my head. The updates felt like they freed me to make an explicitly non-binary player though and I don't think I fully realised how that story of acceptance meant to me until I played it out. Thank you Sims Team!! xx
When the pronouns update came, I made Nic (they/them, AFAB). Nic is an archaeologist who went on all sorts of grand adventures and then met Romina and fell in love. Romina already had a son, Jesus, but Nic took Jesus in and loved him to bits.
Jesus moved over to the islands to clean things up and, when his mum called to ask if her and Nic should have another kid, he said they should. Along came Jayce.
I was playing Jesus' household when he went to meet his new sibling and I thought that Jayce was a girl's name. It's not. Jayce is a boy. When I switched back to the house with Nic, Romina, and Jayce, I just went with it. Jayce is a super effeminate boy who has grown to be a lovely teenage boy. His family moved from Willow Creek to Oasis Springs because he was getting bullied (just my head-canon, nothing that actually happened other than the curved walls update meaning I wanted to build them a new home!).
On the other side of Simland, two evil Sims got married. One became a spellcaster in his quest for power, the other a social influence. They had two daughters. The first was everything they could have wanted. She is athletic and popular, graduated early, sells lots of looks on Trendi.
The other daughter, Kirsten, doesn't fit with her family. She's socially awkward and eccentric. She keeps chickens in the back garden and, upon aging up, realised that she could do magic! At school she met this kid Jayce who just seems to get her.
Just now in my game, Jayce had Kirsten round to his house. He was embarrassed for some random reason and needed to journal through his feelings, so Romina, who was playing chess, invited Kirsten to play. The two of them got on well, so Nic invited Jesus round for dinner and the night ended with Nic telling everyone Salvadorian folktales.
Kirsten's family doesn't get her, but it was so sweet seeing her welcomed into a different family. I don't know if my heart has ever been touched like that whilst playing before!
My long-term plans is to have Kirsten move in with Jesus and cheat to have them have a kid together without any woohoo. I think they would raise it well. Jesus is busy saving the island and I think Kirsten would do well as a freelancer making candles, practising her spell casting, and raising babies who grow up in a more loving home than she did.
I know that I started this story with mentions of how the updates allowed this to happen and I also know that I could have done this same story line pre-updates with all the changes happening in my head. The updates felt like they freed me to make an explicitly non-binary player though and I don't think I fully realised how that story of acceptance meant to me until I played it out. Thank you Sims Team!! xx
