Fanon:Urban family: Difference between revisions

 

==Original MTS post==

My love for city living and disdain for all things suburbia spilled over into The Sims, and in my quest to create neighbourhoods that were more urban-like, I created the Urbans in a downtown subhood of my old, corrupted Pleasantview.

 

The Urbans live on the second floor apartment of Sentinel Apartments, one of the default apartment lots that shipped with the game. I made no structural changes to this lot, only modifying the furniture inside of these apartments as needed to suit the Sims living in them.

 

 

Sentinel Apartments does have one of the largest apartment playgrounds in the game, so I particularly like moving families with children into this one.

 

 

<u>'''A brief glimpse of life in the Urban family'''</u>

The Urbans are early risers. At 5AM, they're up and about.

 

 

 

Either Suzie or Johnny prepare a simple breakfast of cereal, and the four indulge in conversation topics along with their food.

 

 

 

Mealtimes are always great for siblings.

 

 

Today's a Friday, so all four of them need to go to work/school. They all conveniently have to leave at the same time too. Thank goodness Sims share the same carpool under these circumstances.

 

 

At around 10AM, the hired maid arrives. Yes, the Urbans need a maid due to their cleaning skills (or lack thereof).

And boy, does the maid have a lot of work to do.

 

 

 

 

The cereal bowls...

 

 

Johnny gets home by 2PM. He amuses himself on the swings, but sadly it would seem TS2 doesn't allow for Sims to jump off the swings.

 

 

Suzie and the twins get home by 3PM. Suzie is delighted to find the exercise machine vacant, so she fills in that vacancy and shuns the donuts her co-worker offered her today.

 

 

Jared and Tommy, meanwhile...

 

 

 

 

 

Now I'm no photographer (Although I've shown interest in it recently), but surely these images tell you an awful lot about these two brothers.

It's Friday, so Johnny prepares some hamburgers.

 

 

 

Unfortunately for the Urbans, the maid doesn't work overnight, so in order for there to be room for the breakfast dishes tomorrow they'll have to wash the dishes themselves.

 

 

Whoa guys... you don't have to look like prisoners breaking rocks in a chain gang.

 

 

5AM wakeup times means that the Urbans don't tend to stay up very late.

 

 

 

And so, another day of boring routine passes. For Johnny and Suzie, it's paradise; for Jared and Tommy, it's a prison. Why can't they just cut loose their chains and go have an adventure?

 

For many years, I did not actually think of a proper storyline for this family; however, now that I've come up with one, it only makes me feel more and more attached to these Sims. Yeah, I know they're just pixels on a screen, but the characters I create for my own novels and stories are just thoughts — or are they? A fictional character does not mean a "false" character, for even a work of fiction can make a huge difference in the real world. For the Urbans, perhaps it's a reflection of today's youth. Should we encourage them to explore and change the world or should we just shun them and force them through twelve long years of mandatory schooling to "kill" their inner spirit and replace it with boring, apathetic people that only think about their own comfort?

 

===Outtakes===