Thoughts on making your Simself?

"GlacierSnow;c-17769011" wrote:
Ever since I was a little kid, my main way of having fun was to make up characters and make up stories about the characters I made up. Regardless of whether I was playing with toys, dressing up and playing make-believe, writing the stories down, or just daydreaming, it was always all about making up lots of different characters and making up stories about who they are, what they do, and why they do it.

So, I suppose it's not surprising that when I found out about the sims games (I started with Sims 3) I just automatically did what I've always done. I made up characters and made up stories about them.

I've never made a sim (or a story character) that is meant to be me, but when I write novels and other creative writing, to really make the characters come to life I usually have to draw from my own feelings and experiences or aspects of myself. When I turn my sims playing into written stories, this is true as well.

So I suppose it depends on how deeply you want to look at it.

As writer's we are told we should write what we know. So, drawing upon our own experiences and feelings, would be writing what we know. I do the very same thing. My Trek Mini-series is published, too. :)

"MasonGamer;c-17768990" wrote:
My simself, Mason King, is a Teenage Spell Caster (Rank Virtuoso). He's an Adventurer, Loner, Geek, Bookworm, Art Lover, a Bro and a Foodie
His favorite Hobbies are hanging out with his Best Friends, Playing Soccer, Playing REFUGE and Sketching, Taking Long walks in the Forest around sunset. His Best friend Tyrion Jordan, is a Werewolf, the youngest of 6 werewolves born to Celeb Jordan heir to the great aristocratic, Jordan Family Dynasty.

I tend to play my simself across multiple generations. Technically all my sims are all my different personalities + the personalities that I enjoy the company of. Mason King is My Escape and Aspiration in Life, to be happy and surrounded by love, no matter what Daemons attack me. Only difference My sim Mason has literal daemons attacking him tho. His life isn't Happy go Lucky all the time, at age 7 His father was "Killed"/abducted, In real life my parents Divorced when I was 7. Tyrion is actually a preserved memory of High school friend I had, The Bromance that I wish had lasted to this day. Aria, Mason's Lover, is of course What I'm looking for in real life. Garrett, is Mason's Bully, (Sort of a cliche on how I am my own worst enemy) Garrett Is another copy of my simself designed to torment Mason, Although Garrett is more of the seemingly confident, outgoing, Headstrong, driven version, takes what he wants, and Mason is the most reserved keeps to himself version. (Don't worry the story ends with Mason and Garrett Becoming great friends (Love yourself cliche))

On another level, Mason is the Grandson of the most Powerful Spell casters to ever walk the earth. Archmage Lord Kaegan Charmont, his Grandfather, An Astronomer & Enchanter, Dreamer Bookworm. Have overthrown the Monarchy in the Kingdom of Briarheart in order to preserve what's left of the Kingdom, after the last Queen (Tyrion's Maternal grandmother) threw it into utter chaos. For the Queen's Treason, Kaegan Banished her into Oblivion (The Realm of Magic).
(Kaegan Charmont is my good side).

Long Ago, Kaegan's older twin brother, and previous Archmage Lord Daerick Charmont, was the most revered Spell Caster in the whole Kingdom He was a realist, a Doctor to most, He was interested in Psychology, and a very good Scientist. What happened? He succumbed to Dark Magic, when one of his experiments went to far, and he broke the barrier so that Daemons and spirits could roam the earth under his command. for His Treason, King Henry (Tyrion's Maternal Grandfather) commanded Kaegan banished Daerick into Oblivion, the realm where daemons came from. Kaegan spent most of his life, Fixing his Brother's mistakes, with the Help of King Henry.
(Kaegan and Henry were Best friends much like Mason and Tyrion are, and their Mothers, and grandfathers before them) (Daerick Charmont is my Deviant side.)

but those are just a few copies of my simself, There area couple of More, but their stories are a bit more complex.

I would call what you're doing as living vicariously through your SimSelf — nothing wrong with that at all. I have a tendency to 'live' through my Sim, Erik Cantrell, who is a Rock Star, Global Superstar in this iteration.

With my Ancestral game save, I guess it's more that I want to be close to them, which is impossible since my sixth great-grandmother deceased in 1780, and my sixth great-grandfather deceased in 1815. I have written an historical novel, based on their lives, since I have a timeline of events to follow, but that's nearly done, so I turn to playing them in the Sims. Hope it's not disrespectful :open_mouth: