#ib: boris brightly

[pixelroach]

ISLA BRISA // YEAR ONE, WEEK THREE // VAMSI HOUSEHOLD

Warnings: Tasteful male sim nudity.

So for this week, the ROS is:

Minor events:

* Local lottery winner: Your sims win a small prize on the lottery. Add d10 * 100 to their family funds.  * 500

Major events:

* Nothing major. Life goes on as normal. *

* 12. Lost a Dare! Sim must walk around in a mascot or other silly outfit for (d4) days. Sim must also go on at least one date/outing while wearing outfit.  * 3

The teaser image might give you a clue as to how I fulfilled #12 there.

With Bruno moved in as of last round, I decided to redo the house. We’re aiming for an eventual, anachronistic dark vampire castle, but right now it’s...this.

Boris is happy to man the shop while Philippe sleeps in the day.

Aww, delivering his date flowers ♥

Befriending a new pup whose name I cannot recall. I think they do adopt her, but I forgot to check the genders so she can’t breed with Tiffany.

Tiffany: I do not like this.

They play some chess together...

And then time for canoodling. 

Philippe: strut strut strut strut so sexy strut strut strut strut

Must. Befriend. New. Pup.

Hmmm Philippe maybe you should GO TO BED

Philippe: Life is pain and misery. At least my drink matches this ridiculous suit.

BORIS NO

Boris: I just find the pink gorilla suit so, so irresistible, dear Philippe.

TERRIFYING

Very quick and private engagement + marriage. I don’t know why they were sad about it :(

When they’re both awake, they do pretty much everything together.

And another pup to befriend! This one is an Australian Cattle Dog, also known as a blue heeler! I had one of those in real life, but she unfortunately passed a few years ago. So you KNOW I had to get this one.

This maaaaay be the reason for the shotgun wedding up there.

Tiffany keeps the bed warm for Boris.

Pregnant man belly!

Tiffany: Let’s get something straight here. I am the Top Dog, even if you are going to be the inseminator.

Pregnancy outfit! Let’s assume Boris bought these clothes for him, because they are not his style.

Look. When you don’t have TV, you make do.

And that ends the round! Uneventful, but next time we’ll have a little Vamsi baby! They pay $200 in tax, and we head on over to the Plum/Fire house.

[queenofcats17]

A Lily And A Lotus

@sun-flowerkid made an Ib AU and it’s amazing and I wanted to write something for it.

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Kamal had stepped away from his parents for five minutes. Five minutes! That shouldn’t have been enough time for everything to go wrong! Still, here he was, stuck in some hellscape of the art gallery he’d been visiting, chased by weird paper doll creatures and multiple blue portrait ladies who dragged themselves after him. Kamal had always wanted to go on an adventure, but this really wasn’t what he’d wanted.

“This is stupid!” He screamed as he ran away from another one of the crawling women. The woman offered no reply, save for a rasping laugh. He managed to get to the door at the back of the gallery room, slamming it closed behind him. Doors seemed an effective deterrent to the women since they couldn’t reach the doorknobs. The weird paper people couldn’t open doors either. Which seemed weird. But as long as they couldn’t get him, Kamal wasn’t complaining. 

“Okay.” He turned away from the door, hands on his hips. “There’s gotta be someone else here.” He didn’t entirely understand the danger of the situation he was currently in, being 7. 

“Oh! Gotta make sure I have my flower!” He reached into his pocket to make sure his lotus was still there. He’d woken up with it in his pocket, and when he got hurt petals fell off of it. He’d found vases filled with water that healed the flower and him, which was nice since he’d gotten hurt a few times. Not majorly, but one of the painting ladies had scratched the back of his leg a couple times.

Thankfully, his lotus was still in his pocket and he hadn’t lost any petals since the last vase. For a moment, Kamal just admired the lotus. It was the most beautiful flower he’d ever seen. It almost didn’t look real. 

“Okay.” He tucked the flower back in. “Gotta keep going.” The door he’d just gone through opened up into a hallway, with a path on either side of him. He peeked down each path curiously before deciding to go to the left. The path to the left was a dead end, with a room jutting out from the wall on the right. Kamal tried the door, only to find it locked. 

“I gotta find another key?” He groaned. He kept having to look for keys around here. He stepped away from the door, pouting. 

“Huh?” He stopped as a flash of white caught his attention. On the ground were what appeared to be lily petals, as well as drops of blood.

“Flower petals?” Kamal picked one up. They felt pretty real, not like some of the other fake flowers he’d seen here. 

“That means someone else is here!” He gasped, starting to jump up and down and clap his hands together. Without another thought, he charged back down the hallway. The other person must have gone that way! He didn’t even stop to notice the sign on the wall behind the flower petals. The sign that had been under each of the blue woman portraits before they’d jumped off the wall. 

Martha.

.

Just past the area Kamal had come out in he found what he was looking for. Another person. The other person was tall, much taller than him, and lay in a bit of a crumpled pile on the ground between two paintings. One of them had a stupid smile with its tongue lolling out. That one had poisonous spit. Kamal remembered that. He was going to stay away from that. So, he crouched down beside the person pile. 

“Hey, are you okay?” He asked, poking their head repeatedly. Whoever they were, they had really pretty hair. It was so long and curly. And those ribbons were really cute. He received a groan in response. 

“Did one of those scary art thingies hurt you?” Kamal tried to roll the person over. Unfortunately, they turned out to be rather heavy, so he ended up just lifting their torso a few centimeters off the ground before losing his grip and toppling onto the person.

“Aw, fudge!” Kamal huffed. This was harder than he’d thought. But he could do it! He got up, rolling up his sweater sleeves, and tried once more. 

It took a few tries, but he did manage to flip them over, revealing his new companion to be a boy a bit older than him. He looked pretty awful. Like someone had beat him up. There were scratches on his face and leg and a few bruises forming. 

“Oh geez!” Kamal started to look for the other boy’s flower. If he had a flower, this boy should too. He needed to get it into water so the boy would feel better. But Kamal couldn’t find the flower. The only thing he found of note was the small key clutched in the other boy’s freckled green hand. 

“Hmm...” Kamal turned the key over in his hand. “Maybe this goes to that door back there. Maybe the flower’s in there!” He didn’t stop to think why the door might have been locked by the other boy or what the blood drops amidst the petals might mean. 

Kamal made his way back to the locked door, happily fitting the key in and opening it. He fully expected to find the flower on the ground in the open. Instead, he found a strange statue on one side of the room and one of the painting ladies on the other. The woman was gleeful as her slender fingers plucked petal upon petal from the flower, her red smile wide. Her teeth were so unnaturally white. Kamal let out an involuntary squeak, drawing the woman’s attention to him. Her smile widened, her single visible red eye fixing upon him. She began to swiftly drag herself toward him, nails digging into the floor and leaving deep gouges.

“Stay away from me!” Kamal screamed, immediately running out and shutting the door behind him. As soon as he shut the door, though, he remembered the flower inside. The other boy needed that flower. But the lady was in there...

He didn’t have to ponder this quandary for long because a moment or two later the woman came bursting through a window Kamal hadn’t even noticed was there. Kamal screamed again, darting back into the door. He looked around for a place to hide only to find nothing. As he heard the woman’s shriek outside, he snatched up the flower, threw open the door, then ran as fast as he could back to the main area. 

He slammed the door behind him, sinking to the ground and gasping for breath. He could hear the woman pounding on the door. She wasn’t getting through, though. The doors seemed to stop them. He sat there for a bit, waiting for his heart to stop beating so fast. Once he felt better, he got up and put the flower in the vase. Upon touching the water, the petals regrew and the flower instantly perked up. It was a lily, cream in color with little brown freckles. 

“Whoa,” Kamal whispered. “So pretty.” 

To the right, he could hear someone stirring. Oh! The other boy was probably awake now that his flower had been fixed. He snatched up the flower and bolted to where the other boy was. The boy was sitting up, looking timidly around. He was mumbling to himself in a language Kamal didn’t know. He looked better now. His freckles were really cute. 

“Hi!” Kamal bounded in, waving excitedly. The boy made a small squeak, scrambling back. 

“Oh, sorry.” Kamal stopped, his smile growing sheepish. “I probably scared you.”

“Did you...heal me?” The boy asked. He had a pretty thick accent. 

“Yeah!” Kamal held out the lily. “That blue lady was tearing this up, but when I put it in water you got better!” The boy took the lily, cradling it in his hands as one would something fragile and treasured.

“Thank you.” He murmured, looking up at Kamal. His eyes were really pretty but so sad.

“You’re welcome!” Kamal gave him a big smile. “You should keep that close, though. If it gets hurt, then you get hurt too.” The boy nodded, gingerly tucking his lily away in his pocket. 

“Anyway, I’m Kamal!” Kamal stuck his hand out. “And you’re really pretty!”

“P-Pretty?” The boy stammered, his face darkening with a blush. “No...No. Father says boys can’t be pretty. Is bad.”

“Well, your father’s a jerkface and wrong.” Kamal folded his arms in determination. “‘Cause you’re pretty.” The boy stared at Kamal for a moment or two, then smiled shyly. 

“Thank you.” He mumbled. “I am Boris. Still learning English. I am sorry.” He awkwardly took Kamal’s hand and shook it. 

“That’s okay,” Kamal replied brightly. “You don’t need to apologize. Learning a language is hard and you’re doing really good!” 

“Thank you.” Boris smiled a bit wider, although he tried to hide it behind his sweater sleeve. 

“You’re welcome.” Kamal rocked back and forth on his heels. “I’m glad I’m not alone down here. I mean, I was doing okay on my own, but I think I probably would’ve gotten lonely by myself.” 

“Yes.” Boris nodded, his lips twisting at the memory of the painting woman who’d stolen his lily. “Don’t like being alone here. Many scary monsters.”

“Those blue ladies are the worst.” Kamal stuck his tongue out. Boris nodded again, hunching his shoulders. 

“But!” Kamal grabbed Boris’ hand in his. “We’re not alone anymore! We can face them together!”

“To...gether...” Boris echoed, his eyes going wide. Kamal smiled again and a warm feeling developed in Boris’ stomach. Was this what it felt like to have a friend? 

“Yes. Together.” He smiled. He’d been rather scared, ending up here alone. But if he had someone like Kamal by his side, maybe he’d be okay. At least until he reunited with his family, that was. 

[pixelroach]

ISLA BRISA // YEAR ONE, WEEK TWO // FIRE/LOTT/BRIGHTLY HOUSEHOLD

Follow the cut~

Jannick! No, that’s not for you!

Check out the ROS rolled for this week:

Minor events: Tax refund: Turns out you paid too much tax, and you're getting a refund. Add d10 * 100 to the family funds. 

Major events: Alien abduction: It looks like you've been 'chosen'. Get abducted d12 times within one rotation -- if you end up with a little 'present' from your visits it's up to you to decide what you do with it.

They rolled a perfect 10 for the tax refund, giving them and extra thousand, and ELEVEN for the alien abduction! Caroline’s the lucky winner there, since Jannick already produced a child and Boris is a family sim.

Oooh, Marjorie sighting! I always get so excited for a mayor walkby.

Caroline’s fishery is going well!

Caroline: Ignore the unhappy customer behind me. You know how these tourists are.

seriously??????????

The Sims 2 businesses are a mystery to me.

With the tax refund, I decided to build a tiny little store on the lot. This is a preview of what Caroline’s actual community lot will look like, if we ever unlock it in her lifetime.

I always forget when my sims are playful!

YOUR STORE IS DOING WELL, STOP IT

And that night...

Boris passes the time while he waits for Caroline by playing fetch with Tiffany.

Splat! Accompanied by a funny little jingle.

This was a strong contender for the teaser pic, but the bulk of this update is Caroline’s alien abduction. Despite my immense love for Boris, it just wasn’t as relevant.

Caroline: I think that spaceship made me spacesick.

Oooh, hi Taylor! I’m not sure how I feel about this plantsim replacement. It’s a bit too Maxis-Matchy. But it definitely beats just the plain old Maxis one.

Fucking Yvette Zhang here is the local business reviewer, and she is FICKLE.

I love this cat! Its name is Sake! I want this cat!

Tiffany: Am I being replaced?

just Caroline’s daily breakdown nbd

The cash register animations are so cute, even if they do take forever.

Pregnant! Caroline doesn’t take to it well. 

While Caroline is out of commission, Jannick fills in at the shop. Boris is too shy and busy with Tiffany.

Caroline: The sun is good for Baby!

Jannick: You are Boris’s dog. Not mine. This is not my job.

I feel like I haven’t given a good shot of Caroline’s face yet, so here she is. I created her based off a word prompt--I was going to do randomly generated word prompt sims for download, but decided against it, and instead I’m doing the NATO series. The word was “combination” or something to that effect; hence the neon and the multi-colored color scheme. She, Jana Plum and Philippe Vamsi were all sims I had lying around that fit into what I rolled for the challenge. The rest were all created for it.

Second trimester.

Jannick: Your pregnancy has me thinking, Caroline. I miss Jana and Maggie. I want to turn it from a fling to a relationship.

Caroline: What about Boris?

Jannick: The feeling, it is not the same. Why else would I have strayed?

Another strong contender for teaser pic.

lol dogs eat the snow

Random wolf fight!!!! The Alpha asserts his position once again.

Tiffany: I guard pregnant human. 

Caroline: Jannick, the baby! Wake Boris!

!!!

Boris: Hold her. I feel another one coming.

So here are the babies. Two girls. On the top is the secondborn, with alien skin and eyes, named Olivia. On the bottom is the firstborn, with Caroline’s skin and eyes is Sam.. Yeah, those gray eyes are supposed to be Caroline’s rainbow-colored eyes. Guess I’ll have to look into why that’s happening. I fix it later in SimPE.

Jannick: Boris, you are a beautiful, beautiful man, but I have a confession. I do not love you. I love Jana.

Boris: It is because I am demon, yes?

Jannick: No, not that! Never that! It’s just that when I think about my future, I think about Jana.

Boris: She is so mean to me, Jana. She only likes humans. It must be because I am demon.

2/11

Back at work! In her pajamas, but she’s a new mother, we can forgive her.

A puppy! Quick, Boris! 

Jana comes around, ostensibly to shop at Caroline’s store but really to visit Jannick. But when Jannick tries to kiss her, she denies him.

Jannick: Jana, I am crazy about you. I broke it off with Boris.

Jana: Did you really? You dumped that demon?

Jannick: Please, there is no reason to be mean to him. I have no hard feelings.

Drama! Drama all around! Caroline is less pleased about this pregnancy than the first, and having to break out the maternity dress Boris had so kindly sewn for her.

The twins’ birthdays come so quickly. A quiet affair, celebrated at home.

Olivia crawls off to the doghouse before I get a chance to do her makeover. Sam lagged behind in her aging, and I kept having problems with the cake.

Which led to this.

Jannick: Please, do not take her! She is like a sister to Boris and me! She has children, children she loves!

Success!!! I was on the edge of my seat, so afraid. As if I couldn’t love Jannick more, he saves Caroline from certain death ♥

We can finally geta round to Sam’s birthday!

Jannick: I hope you can both understand. This business with life and death in this house, it has helped me realize what matters most. And that is Jana and Maggie. I have decided to move in with Jana, so that we may  be a proper faily.

Caroline: But...the twins...and I’m pregnant again...Jannick, I think of you like a brother. I understand you love Jana, but...why can’t she move in here?

Jannick: Do not be silly. We all know this house is not big enough. You can use my room as a nursery, now.

Boris: You hurt me deeply.

Olivia is still bald and neglected while the adults sort out their problems.

But with the help of nanny Boris, here, I’m able to get the makeovers accomplished.

Sam Lott

Sloppy/Neat: 10 Shy/Outgoing: 0 Lazy/Active: 10 Serious/Playful: 5 Grouchy/Nice: 10

She looks more like Caroline than her sister. She does have the pointy alien ears, which you can see at some angles, but I thought this hair was too cute on her to pass up. Still with the gray eyes; they’re fixed two rounds from now.

Olivia Lott

Sloppy/Neat: 10 Shy/Outgoing: 6 Lazy/Active: 10 Serious/Playful: 1 Grouchy/Nice: 8

Olivia is the more serious yet outgoing twin, but otherwise her and Sam’s dispositions are pretty similar. She and Sam both grew up with custom hair--presumably from Caroline--but I let Sam’s be black and gave Olivia the custom hair.

Boris picks up the childcare slack while Caroline enters the later stages of her pregnancy.

Purely platonic, with incompatible orientations, they still find comfort in one another after Jannick’s departure. They understand that he loves Jana, but they cannot help but feel betrayed.

We end this update with shots of adorable Olivia and Sam (I favor Sam, ngl.) A very eventfual week for the Fire/Lott/Brightly household, which has been reduced to the Lott/Brightly household. Jannick moving out and alien babies! Boris fell back from the limelight, but not for long. You’ll see.

[pixelroach]

ISLA BRISA // WEEK ONE YEAR ONE // FIRE/LOTT/BRIGHTLY HOUSEHOLD

FOLLOW THE CUT:

Though I intended for this lot to be Jannick Fire’s house, I had Caroline Lott buy the business (for reasons you’re about to see.) So, it’s technically Caroline’s house. Anyway, I’ll give Jannick’s stats first. He’s a Family sim who wants to be Captain Hero, which methinks is fitting for an ex-explorer. He’s on the neat side (six points), outgoing (seven points) and active (eight points) but quite serious (two points) and grouchy (two points.) Jannick is bisexual, and he likes red hair and makeup, but isn’t a fan of underwear.

As for Caroline, she’s a Fortune sim who one day wants to reach the top of the Adventure career. She’s sloppy (two points), shy (three points), not very lazy or active (five points), pretty playful (eight points) and nice (seven points) as well. She’s straight, and she likes formal wear and custom hair (a rhyme!) but not the smooth talkers.

Boris Brightly is my personal favorite of the house--I’m allowed to admit I have biases, okay--and our half-incubus Russian boy is a Family sim who wants to raise twenty kittens or puppies! His personality is that of extremes: exceptionally neat (nine points), painfully shy (zero points), active enough (six points), very, very serious (zero points) but painfully nice (ten points.) He’s gay, and he likes highly employed blond men so long as they’re not wearing hats.

The Fire/Lott/Brightly house rolled a challenge wherein every one of their sinks  break for the week. I remember this at some point, and act accordingly.

First things first: Caroline goes fishing. Unlocking the marine scientist career is pretty easy, and it turns out her OTH is Nature! 

So Caroline decides to open up a store and sell the fish she catches to feed the neighborhood.

Jannick and Boris begin to get to know each other over a game of chess.

Of course, Boris becomes quickly distracted by the first dog he sees. Her name is Tiffany, and she becomes a member of the family soon enough.

This is ALL Tiffany does. Constantly. Ceaselessly. I swear to God.

The sun sets on their first day. Caroline will open her business tomorrow, Boris will work with Tiffany and Jannick gets to cook and clean.

Boris wanted to explore his creative side.

I really like how I decorated their rooms, so have some gratuitous first-night-sleeping shots. I don’t know what’s up with the pool thing in Jannick’s picture. It wouldn’t go away! I had to find increasingly creative angles to avoid it.

In the morning I remember to break the sinks, and in starting to repair them Boris learns his OTH is Tinkering! He’s not the sim I have planned to max the mechanical skill so we can unlock electricity, but that doesn’t mean we can’t put that skill to use in other ways.

Unsurprisingly, Boris and Jannick are attracted to each other. Let’s check out their relationship panesl:

Two bolts! Not bad. I’m not influencing their relationship in anyway, just letting ACR take control. Mostly because I don’t really see them ending up with each other, but sometimes the game has other plans.

First day of business! Notice the townies. It’s embarassing, but I only skimmed the instructions on creating a townie-less neighborhood, and I quite obviously failed. I tried to kill them all off, but I kept crashing my game in the process and fucking up, and I didn’t want to have to deal with the 300 or so graves. Luckily this works for Isla Brisa, because we can just assume that they’re vacationers/tourists/visitors. And, of course, Caroline’s going to try and sell them some fish.

Caroline: Fresh catch of the day! No preservatives, no nothing, just fish from the fresh, beautiful waters of Isla Brisa!

While Boris is otherwise preoccupied, Jannick takes up the slack of training Tiffany. Boris is hoping to find a nice male dog for Tiffany and start breeding her, and sell the puppies to the households of Isla Brisa.

Jannick: Hey. Boris.

Boris: What? This my room. What you doing here?

Jannick: I was thinking, maybe we could try sleeping together.

Boris: Sleeping together?

Jannick: Not like that. Just...sleeping together. In the same bed. It gets lonely at night, ja? Surprisingly cold?

Boris: I guess.

Jannick: I just want to be close to you.

~beautiful puppy watching the waves interlude~

Waking up the next morning, Boris can’t help but feel like he’s being tricked. What did his mother tell him, that one night she was too deep into the vodka--his father had crept into her room while she was asleep, and she’d barely known he was there. Jannick is nice, and cute, and funny, and smart--but Boris is tentative, beyond tentative. Still, it’s nice to feel him in his arms, the morning sun falling over them.

Caroline’s making good progress! She’s very skill and money-focused, and not too interested in relationships for now.

I bought Boris a toy-making bench. Loving children as he does, he wants to make toys for Caroline to sell to the vacationers and, eventually, the children of Isla Brisa.

I know the rules say no workbenches, but come on. What about carving bricks requires electricity???

Oooh, it’s Jana! Our first resident walkby! Figures she’d want to come scope out the business competition.

Caroline has a very bad habit of wandering off in the middle of sales to build sandcastles.

Being a family sim does not exclude you from being a flirt, and Jannick does like his redheads.

Jana decides she’s not impressed with Caroline’s small store. Is this the beginning of a fortune sim rivalry?

Jannick and Boris share their first kiss. They have a mutual, unspoken agreement to take it slow.

Jana: You’re selling fish. In front of your house. On the grass.

Caroline: So?

Jana: It’s unprofessional--

Caroline: Look, Jana. I don’t need your thoughts on how to run my business, okay? Because it’s just that. My business.

Jannick goes fishing. Sexily.

I din’t know that was a thing!

Unnecessary shot of my pretty baby boy Boris whom I love and adore very much bathing. Thinking about Jannick, mayhaps?

Jannick decides to spend the warm night in the hammock. Dreaming of Boris, mayhaps?

Caroline has a breakdown. I’m sorry!!! I’ve never played with businesses before! I don’t know how to do it!

Caroline: Maybe if I dress in my bikini, I’ll sell more! Sex sells. It’s like the most basic thing. And it’s thematically appropriate, you know. The ocean. The water.

Jannick: You do not have to resort to degrading yourself to make money.

I like that his beach towel is black.

Caroline: I knew the bikini would work, Mr. Brick.

Caroline, have you ever heard of not getting high off your own supply?

Oh sweet Jesus. Nobody tell Caroline.

Boris: Nice dog. No more eating flowers.

Tiffany: *will continue to eat the flowers*

Oh, thank God. Why is this so hard??

Boris: Jannick, I buy new clothes. I think...was much too hot in old clothes. I...Do you like?

Jannick: Let me show you just how much I like them.

MARJORIE!!! As you notice, she’s in outerwear. I tried fiddling around with the seasons so that there’d never be winter or fall, but when I did, aging stopped. Oh well.

Jannick takes over sales so Caroline can go and chat with Marjorie.

Nothing says “mayor-citizen bonding” like throwing around the pigskin!

Despite all of this, Caroline is still struggling.

A lot.

But hey, it’s Pontius!

And that’s the end of the first week for the Fire/Lott/Brightly house! Slow but persistent progress was made. They pay $100 in taxes, as everybody will the first week. Next week we’ll see if Boris and Jannick make a commitment, and if Caroline can dig herself out of the throes of finance sim depression.

[pixelroach]

An Introduction to the Settlers of Isla Brisa // Jannick Fire, Caroline Lott & Boris Brightly

An explorer originally from Sweden, Jannick Fire has decided to finally settle down somewhere tropical. And he wants to settle down: he wants a family. Fire’s not his given name, but his “celebrity” name, and in Isla Brisa he had it officially changed. Unfortunately, exploring doesn’t pay much, so for now he has to live with his two roommates, Caroline Lott and Boris Brightly.

Caroline Lott’s rare form of vitiligo (neon vitiligo) stands out like a sore thumb in the small, drab English town she’s from. While in University she did a semester abroad in South Simerica and fell in love with the place. Perhaps here, on this island filled with other misfits, she can find acceptance. And money. Lots of money.

Outcasted from his Simberian village due to being seen as a demon (he’s not; his father was an incubus, sure, but the devilish tendencies don’t pass down) Boris Brightly needed to find somewhere else to live, and Isla Brisa was far enough away from all things Russian. He doesn’t know how he’ll adjust to the weather, so used to keeping his “demon skin” covered, but he’ll try. More than anything, he wants to find love and a family—somebody who will love him unconditionally, unlike his previous village.