What do you refer yourself as to your sims?

I'm following the TS canon, so I'm the Watcher

Clearly by the fact that my Sims are doing much better than.....most people in life every generation I'd say I'm their Inferior.

Goddess or Watcher usually. And I'm a good one usually!

Storyteller. I've never viewed being a simmer as anything like playing as a godly being, master, creator...maybe because I'm religious so I just intuitively steered clear of that, just so that I would not cross a line of mockery (not a judgment, just an explanation). I'm attached to them in that I find it difficult to kill Sims and have only done it a handful of times, for storytelling purposes. Like writing, but with Sims. But I'm not attached in a deeply personal way, I guess you could say.

I never view myself as their whatever you want to call it, but rather living through their lives, but only when my own gets either dull or those time I just want to get through whatever is being a big stink at the moment. Don't have time or money in real life to head off to some foreign land - just send my sim off to do it. Winter and it's nearly 30 below, in real life - just send my sims out to enjoy their summertime fun. I still can't believe it got that cold.

"luxsylvan;c-16955506" wrote:
Storyteller. I've never viewed being a simmer as anything like playing as a godly being, master, creator...maybe because I'm religious so I just intuitively steered clear of that, just so that I would not cross a line of mockery (not a judgment, just an explanation). I'm attached to them in that I find it difficult to kill Sims and have only done it a handful of times, for storytelling purposes. Like writing, but with Sims. But I'm not attached in a deeply personal way, I guess you could say.

I agree with everything you said here except that I haven't really thought of myself as a Storyteller either. I mean I do but I've never given myself the title hahaha! I haven't really thought about it before I guess. Before reading your posts and when I first saw the question though I was going to say narrator haha! But since I'm not really just reading it out I'm creating the story I think your term of Storyteller would work better.

I never really thought about it, but... I guess a fitting term for me would be something along the lines of "parent". I look after my sims, try to help them become successful in life, and when they don't do what I tell them or get on my nerves too much, I punish them.

I guess I see myself as their "good fortune" because they do a lot better with my interference than they would do without.

I'm just a benevolent presence.

Probably the writer. I tend to refer to them as my characters and think about them the same way I do the characters in my novels and short stories.

Under no circumstances will I let their lives be easy. ^_^