what do your sims look like

My sims are not based on people I know at all. They're all just different kind of characters that I've came up with. I wouldn't call them random though because I often have an idea what type of character I'm making and I'm following that idea.

They are not based on real people, they are either sims that I created when I played a certain pack or sims that I just designed to my personal taste when creating random sims in CAS. I get inspirations from looking at what other people have created on the gallery, I don't tend to design them for any sort of story anymore.

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When I'm not making a completely original Sim, I take inspiration from characters I see in television or other media, though I never have my Sim share the character's/actor's name as I still want them to be their own characters. And depending on whether I get extra ideas or not, I'll either stick to the theme that character has or mix it with something else. For example, I just recently made a Sim based on the appearance of Ariel Winter, who played Alex from Modern Family. I have another Sim whose appearance is inspired by Ymir from Attack on Titan, but I also made her a Werewolf and I made her while asking myself the question of what I think would be the kinds of outfits Ymir would wear if she lived in our modern society, but as a Werewolf.

However, my main Sim and the Sim that's the protagonist of my story is completely original in appearance. I also have a personal rule to avoid downloading other people's Sims, even if I like their design, and instead I try to replicate them with my own spin.

Definitely no replicas of "real life" people in my game (or any of the previous versions).

I've always thought that if I wanted to interact with people I know, I should be doing it in person and not through some video game so all of my sims are random ones I downloaded from the gallery or those I created in CAS myself.

I made a sim self when I first started the sims 4, but I was so interested in playing the game, that It really doesn’t look like me. In the sims 1 I made many family members that I played. Now, I kind of make up a story behind the people/families I make, but most all my sims/families are just interesting characters I want to play, not actually real people.

I rarely create Sims myself. I have given Vlad an extreme makeover so he looks less ridiculous, and I will give other sims minor makeovers (like fixing Christie Sigworth because she grows up looking a bit weird) but mostly clothes/hair and maybe adding a tattoo or other details if a character seems to become part of my legacy and I need them to look their best. But other than my Duchelli legacy founder, I haven't created a single sim from scratch in the entire save, they're all either born in game or generated by the game.

My founder married Don, their Gen 2 daughter married a son of Morgan Fyres/Wolfgang Munch, and they had my Gen 3 heir who then married a granddaughter of Angela Pleasant/Dustin Broke and Michael Bell/Kim Goldbloom. My Gen 4 heir is best friends/in love(?) with Samuel Ward, whose grandmother was the daughter of Judith Ward/Marcus Flex' daughter and Orange Bailey-Moon.

I'm probably going to run out of Sims that I can actually track the lineage of soon, since the original family trees tend to get deleted after a few generations, but it's still more fun for me if my characters get to meet other Sims who have a bit of backstory already, with parents, grandparents, and possible siblings.

When I create characters for my book(s) I get a mental image of what they should look like. I used to scan magazines until I found the look that matched my perception. Now, when I bring them into this game, I do my best to create the image in my head in CAS. It's just one of those things, that I know when I've got it 'right'. It's when you say, "Oh, hello Erik." ;)

I love creating characters, sometimes I have an idea in mind other times I take a random and see what I can mould from that. Also see what combining some of the characters produces.
One thing I've never done actually is create a simself...no thanks, had enough of myself, here for escapism lol

I create sims as characters for a story. I guess I could compare it to the moment when writer starts thinking about who the MC of this particular storyline could be. The looks are sometimes dictated by the idea I have, for example if I want to have an orphan lost on Sulani then I would go for Sulani native look. Same goes for traits. I think hard what traits should the hero of this journey have. Maybe he/she should fight their hot headed nature or just being simply mean or maybe they lost someone, and to give story an oomph, I would go for gloomy and uncontrolled emotions traits. Later on they work hard to have enough points to buy potion so they can change traits: they may advance and be better people or completely sink.

In terms of looks I go for less generic faces, although I don’t use CC only vanilla game. I put acne on them, give them crooked teeth. Now I also have woman with hairy legs and arms, scars. I don’t want them to be perfect and pretty, but to have a “soul” and proof they had some sort of life before I created them. Funny thing, those “scared” sims are among the best I made and I keep them always in my library even if their story reached the end.

I never create a sim self. I don’t see a point. I have enough of my RL and I don’t want to copy that to the game. For me Sims 4 is like interactive novel that I write. (And sometimes sims themselves when they rebel against what I decided ?)

I only play one sim based on a real person, and that's my simself. It's less ego (I promise!) and more that I want to give her/myself the happier life I wasn't able to have. Very rarely does anything bad happen to my simself or her family up until death. Oddly I don't have a problem with her dying in game, maybe because of my age I've made peace with death. Not that I'm ready to go quite yet, mind you! But I try to be sanguine about it.

As for all my other sims, I never play premades but I keep them around for background color. Made over, of course. I rarely change their genetics, but they get new hair and wardrobes, makeup etc. Except for Christie Sigworth. That poor child grows up to look ... strange. Very, very strange. I have a base save that I created to start new games. All the premades are madeover and all the awful EA buildings replaced with builds from the gallery. I rarely download sims from the gallery though because I do enjoy creating them myself. My games are about 2/3 premades and 1/3 my own sims. They aren't based on real people except for one of my favorite actor who doesn't remotely look like the real thing LOL. I just go in and play around in CAS until I have something that pleases my eye.