#Siew

[guessimate]

For the purposes of this post I had to play 2 houses - the Tia and the Siew.

I rolled the Out with you, child scenario, but I already wanted to marry off the female teen in this family so I got an additional ROS, and naturally, it was a death roll. Jonah, the patriarch of the Tia family unfortunately wouldn't get to die a peaceful death of old age. He instead passes away because of shock and heartbreak.

Solely for story purposes and some drama, I temporarily added the pregnancy relationship mod. Zet lost his temper when he found out his daughter got pregnant by her acquaintance from Sim Asia instead of marrying into the emperor's family (or another patrician family).

Zet is a serious man and he honors the rules - no weddings shall take place on the grounds of the Sim Empire this season. People are mourning the dead, not celebrating, and his daughter was clearly not mourning enough.

The Tias gave Lovi a dowry of 6000$ and a maid servant. Should anything bad happen to Lovi in the Far East, the servant will come back home to let the Tia family know. The servant maid's name is Peregrina Flori. She's a shy popularity sim.

However, before any pregnancy of Lovi's is carried, one sadly is meant to end. The next 2 babies have blessed perfect rolls though. Unfortunately that's where her fortune ends.

~*~

Because Yong Siew was never meant to survive his teenage years, I'm going to say that there was something bigger that happened there, not a childbirth death... Lovi was not well accustomed to the local water and food, so she wasn't having a great time there in faraway lands, but what really got her spirits down was her husband's fate. He was attacked by a wild animal in a forest. I imagine his cat lead him somewhere in the forest and there was a lair of wild animals.

I realized that neither Lovi's mother-in-law nor her sister-in-law liked her very much. So I can see how her servant didn't feel comfortable leaving her kids there... Would that have happened in real life? I don't think so, but I'm taking kids home because I want to play them. It would have probably made more sense to move Lovi's ashes. Her relics staying in the Asian part of town could become a problem later on.

Side note: Sampsa Imago [Lovi's uncle] wants to make another zombie, naturally, this time he'd like to zombify Lovi's husband.

~*~

Before Lovi passed away, she had one outing with her friend, Tasuku Tian (who has an unrequited crush on her). He brought her a piano for their awesome outing. I sold it and replaced it with a Chinese instrument. I did roll a ROS for the Siews as well, but they were just supposed to get a kaching, so Lovi's 'dowry' and the instrument gift more than made up for it.

The Siews earned ~1900$. The business ranked up to level 4. I made them pay the tax on the money they earned so they are broke again. They had to pay 1450$. Overall I think the Siews have the best house because they have an instrument, a tea set... They have proper rooms now as well.

~*~

Rana Tia, the youngest daughter of Zet Tia, is a Libra. She's 1 Sloppy, max Outgoing, 7 Active (like dad), 5 Playful (like dad), and max Nice (like dad).

Lovi and Yong's firstborn is a baby boy, Tane. He's a brown-eyed brunette, like his aunt Yune, but he inherited his mom's darker skin tone. Tane is a Taurus. He's 6 Neat (like both parents), 6 Outgoing (like both parents), 6 Active (like mom), max Playful (like dad), and 4 Grouchy. He has the same zodiac sign as his grandfather Yutaka Siew. And he's into Games, just like his mom.

Their second child is a baby girl, Sen. She fully takes after her grandmother - she has brown eyes and brown hair, but she has her mom's skin tone as well. She's a Cancer: 7 Neat, 6 Outgoing, 6 Active, 5 Playful, and 8 Nice. For some reason Zet wants to teach her all the toddler skills. I guess he prefers his granddaughter, or he preferred his firstborn daughter, so he loves her offspring like his own. He was not interested at all in his youngest daughter Rana.

Yong's younger sister, Yune, also aged up and she's now a teen. She was rolled to be a Fortune sim. I love it because that's her dad's aspiration. So both siblings took their parents' aspirations. She got the Silver Gardening Badge, so she should be doing great at the Siews' business.

~*~

I know moving sims in together out of sync like this doesn't make sense to a lot of simmers, but I'm fine with that. I decided to add some days to Tane's toddlerhood, because Rana should age up before him. Rana is a special baby anyway because she was born only because I had to revive her mom.

I expected all of the toddlers to go into aspiration failure, but it's actually only Rana, Jonah's granddaughter, who cared. I guess great-grandkids really have no relation to their great-grandparents.

Zephaniah wanted to max out Arts&Crafts enthusiasm, so he painted his grandpa before he'd perish. He apparently played an instrument at school and got some pocket money for it. It makes sense with his 9 creativity points. Sadly, he totally neglected his schoolwork and got a D. Only after that did he and his dad want him to get good grades and get him some homework help.

Zet knows Zephaniah needs to do better at school to go into a good career. Zet will look for a job as well. I think this family could become knights [either athletic or military career].

[franklynduvalanalyst]

Siew Pui Yi showing her G string! #shorts

[lukaszrygalo]

Wytryska promień lepszego życia

Powiat Radzymiński dotychczas organizacyjnie był zaniedbany. O ile starsi wykazali dużo energji i zdobyli się na wysiłek założenia 38-iu Kółek Rolniczych, o tyle młode siły zupełnie spadły. Dziś te siły się przebudziły. Wszędzie zapał i energja łączą się we wspólnym wysiłku, by wykuć w skale życia nowe formy bytu. I tak — w ciągu krótkiego czasu — zdołano pobudzić istniejące Koła do silniejszej…

[genevereyoyo]

Pumpkin Bao with Char Siew filling

[applekissis]

Pumpkin Bao with Char Siew filling

[hurrlurrimsami]

Pumpkin Bao with Char Siew filling

[myxomycota]

Hemitrichia serpula by mymyxos

[buffetlicious]

Mum packed home from Chong Pang this box of Fatty Char Siu (叉烧) to add to the dishes for dinner tonight. This is my Economy Rice (菜饭) brunch with leafy cabbage stir-fry, steamed minced pork patty, curry chicken and steamed egg over white rice.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

Spy in the House of Eth and Automating Exploitation

My latest essay is on @zedecksiew 's "Spy in the House of Eth!" A bit of a weird one, I talk about the module's use of undead labor, and compare it to generative AI programs' abuse of the public domain.

I also go on a little rant about ai in journalism because holy shit has it gotten bad, why is it so hard to just let real people do their jobs

Transcript here.

[colourme-feral]

The less glamorous siblings of the cable stayed bridges of the Chao Phraya River as seen in Thai qls, specifically in Bangkok and slightly north of Bangkok.

(I have left out bridges that have not made any appearances thus far)

Nonthaburi Bridge (in Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi Provinces) My Ride, Siew Sum Noi

Maha Chesadabodindranusorn Bridge (in Nonthaburi Province) The Luminous Solution, Not Me, Enigma, Be Mine Superstar

Krung Thon Bridge Absolute Zero, My Dear Gangster Oppa, You and My Stars, Moments of Love

Memorial Bridge Low Frequency Pilot Trailer, 'Cause You're My Boy / My Tee, Last Twilight

Phra Pok Klao Bridge (and Chao Phraya Sky Park) Low Frequency Pilot Trailer, 'Cause You're My Boy / My Tee, Last Twilight, Cherry Magic Thailand

Taksin Bridge (King Taksin the Great Bridge) Our Skyy x Dark Blue Kiss

Rama III Bridge and Krungthep Bridge (all appearances have included both bridges together) KinnPorsche, Cutie Pie, He's Coming to Me, Tell the World I Love You

References:

@absolutebl's BL Visual Trope Du Jour: Boys on bridges post

@virtualtadpole's The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok post

5 cable-stayed bridges that cross the Chao Phraya River

[guessimate]

Hello everyone... We are starting round VIII today and Sims 2 is turning 20 this week. Happy birthday, TS2! I'm really glad we still have so many active mod creators who make my gameplay possible. Thank you everyone. I'm going to be honest, without mods I prefer TS3.

~*~

Sadly, the ROS for the Tia family was quite unfortunate and not a reason to celebrate at all. I even wanted to delay this scenario till next round, but decided against this idea in the end. I really don't want my sims to die in every post, but this death also led me to add new sims and a new 'region' to my game, so something good did come out of it...

I started the round by adding the Garas family to my town (you can see them in the previous post). It is quite funny, but when I rolled the ROS for the new family, the scenario I got was to add sims, so fate clearly wanted me to add some new blood too. The first part of this post describes me playing the Garas family. There really isn't much, but you can get to know them a little bit.

It turned out very quickly that Sosen's one true hobby was Cuisine and she was really obsessed with it. She wanted to skill up all the way to level 4 and she liked serving bread and grandma's comfort soup to everyone all the time. Also, for some reason Sosen really didn't like her little brother, even after she taught him the nursery rhyme.

Her father Phaesi wanted to work in the Business career (which I have default replaced now so it's more like a career for merchants). But the career didn't appear in the paper, and he really wasn't merchant class (probably yeoman at most?). He also rolled a want to get a robot station as well as a toy station, so he will probably end up becoming a blacksmith of sorts. I think having something to do with metal makes sense for people whose surname means bell ringer.

I am not taxing the Garases because they just moved in and they needed a dowry immediately. By MCC rules it would be 800$ for yeoman dowry, but since it's ToT it's going to be 1000$ dowry for a plebeian marrying into a patrician family.

~*~

Sosen and Zephaniah met at the bathhouse (they met through a 'changing screen' and I thought it looked hilarious, as if it was some blind date).

Peregrina, Tias' servant, was part of the welcome wagon, so I used it as a pretext to summon Zephaniah over to Sosen's temporary home. {Yes, I placed down the Garas family in a pyramid for now, even though I knew that it made no sense, but I liked using the pyramid as a decoration}.

Sosen's dad Phaesi met her beloved and his dad Zet and he made friends with both of them so that the young lovers' union would be blessed. I played the Garases for ~3 days, after which Sosen was moved in with the Tias. I know the time isn't perfectly synced for all of them, but at least it was Wednesday on both lots when I left 'Sim Egypt'.

~*~

Sosen got pregnant and her baby will be totally healthy. Hooray because Zephaniah doesn't have much time left... He was unwell last round, but this time a really deadly ROS got him. Zephaniah was originally supposed to live till his elderly years and I really wanted him to at least pass on his genes.

The baby is a girl, and unfortunately, Sosen dies due to complications really bad birth rolls. Because Zephaniah also dies, the newlyweds are dying together, and I'm going to say it's because their organisms couldn't stand the journey between the two 'countries' (or Sosen's body couldn't accommodate fast enough).

While I don't care it's a baby girl, and not a baby boy, what it means is there is noone left to pass on the Tia last name. Tane's surname is not Tia, but Siew. So technically this family (name) will 'die down'. It didn't survive the test of time. To be honest I don't really mind it, because I have another family with a very similar name (Tian), even if they are not related at all yet.

~*~

I named the baby Demiana. She's a Sagittarius: 4 Sloppy (like mom), 2 Shy (less outgoing than both parents), 7 Active (like dad), 9 Playful (like dad), and 6 Nice (like mom). She has blue eyes and blond hair like her grandfather Zet. I believe she inherited her mother's cheekbones and she's not going to be the most beautiful sim ever but that's fine.

Rana aged up and she's a Popularity sim. She aged up when she was already on her period, but I think something went wrong because she didn't get the memory, so I guess that didn't count, which is fine. She is in no rush to get married.

Tane is a Pleasure sim (like his mom was).

His younger sister Sen is a Knowledge sim. She aged up at the very end of the round. Sen has 9 Creativity points (she wants to max it out) and only 1 Charisma. She's supposed to max both these skills out before she is allowed to marry the emperor, so it might take a while...

Rana and Tane got a joint birthday party again, but Sen (and baby Demiana) didn't, partly because it was a workday and Zet was not home.

On the night when Rana and Tane aged up Jonah's ghost showed himself. He claimed 2 lives before I sent him to the graveyard (technically only Sosen died instantly, of fright, and Zephaniah died of starvation).

I really need to play the Siews again because the siblings have caught up to their aunt Yune's age...

I didn't mention it before, but I needed to move Peregrina and her baby out when I moved Sosen in so she could have her baby. After the newlyweds sadly passed away, I moved the servant back in, so that she would take care of the babies, and help the family take care of the mess Jonah's ghost left. Sims who died of drowning really are the worst.

~*~

Zet Tia got promoted and he wanted to learn a skill, so I had him work on what he needed for his last promotion (before I would give him the job stopinator). On the very next day he got promoted again, for the final time, and now he's Gentleman of the Bedchamber, earning 1008$ a day. I know by the rules 1000$ is the salary cap for them, but that's good enough for me.

Zet earned 861$ + 1722$, then 1008$ + 2016$ promotion bonus. And on the last day of the round he got a regular paycheck of 1008$, bringing him to the total of 6615$. This is definitely the most he will ever earn per season. From now on he will only be getting his daily pay of 1008$.

They are paying:

3000$ - rent

662$ - tax (10%)

662$ - tithe

= 4323$ total, rounded down to 4300$. There is 30,280$ in town's funds now. And I have actually already added a new community lot I really shouldn't have, but it's just a beach lot with a pier... I should really build a temple instead.

They also got a 1000$ dowry, but I don't tax that. I could maybe make them pay a wedding fee, but it's not like they had a ceremony on a community lot or anything. I will probably make them pay a big burial fee when I move Sosen and Zephaniah's graves to the cemetery, because I had to make the Tias' part of the graveyard bigger...

[king-for-a-weekend]

Polaris - Masochist

[luverofralts]

Arkhelios Adventures

When Maura opened her eyes, she didn't recognize the room she was standing in. It wasn't in the cottage or the palace. She was somewhere completely unknown to her. Where had she just been? Her brain scrambled, trying to piece together the last thing she remembered. She had been at the cottage, wasn't she? She had been talking to Adrian about parenting his strange little girl and laughing at how frustrated he felt. If one of her children could predict the future, Maura would be ecstatic instead of worried. Still, Rien was an unsettling child, even Maura could admit it. Honestly, she blamed that on Roman being her father. The poor girl was a Bellamy and even the Siew family genetics couldn't change that. There were Siews whose behaviour belonged in a horror movie, but they were never the haunted little girl that Adrianne appeared to be.

Speaking of horror movies, the decor of wherever Maura was seemed to fit right in a creepy movie. Skeletal figures and cloaked, robed beings were scattered across the room, making Maura feel like she was in some kind of evil cult building. Strangetown's coven had once worshiped and attempted to murder Death. Was this their second try? Had Edana lost her mind and followed her brother's path or was this the work of someone new? Why would Strangetown even care about the queen of Twikkii Island? This had better not be Claudia's idea of a joke. It would be just like Claudia to try to teach her cousin some misguided lesson about security or covens or whatever else Claudia had on her mind.

"Claudia? This isn't funny. You're not going to creep me out with some Gothic Halloween decorations. How did you even get me here? We promised to never use our security teams against each other, remember? Come on."

"I'm glad to hear that you and your cousin are still close. Our lives are lonely, and we need to keep our family near."

Maura spun around to face the voice coming from the next room. It was impossible. It couldn't be. It would have to be either a miracle or a tragedy for the owner of that voice to be standing behind her.

"M-Mom? Is that you?"

Impossibly, Cherry Siew, former queen of Twikkii Island, was standing in the same room as Maura for the first time in years. This wouldn't ordinarily be impossible, except for the fact that Cherry had died, leaving the throne to her daughter.

"Maura, I'm so sorry to see you here," the dead queen began. "It's so good to see you, though. I've missed you."

"Mom?"

Maura launched herself at her mother, wrapping her arms around the woman she missed every single day. She hadn't realized how much her mother had meant to her until she had been taken from her.

"You look so grown up and mature," Cherry said, holding her daughter just as tightly. "The crown hasn't crushed your spirit as I feared it might. You are carrying our family legacy well and making us all so happy."

Maura froze at these words, once again concerned about her location.

"Is this a dream? It has to be. I'm dreaming. You can't say things like this outside of dreams, you're gone. This is just me trying to rationalize the stress I've been under and fantasizing about parental acceptance. This is a weird dream though. I don't think I've ever dreamt of this place before."

"Honey, you're not dreaming. I know you're stubborn and strong-willed, but you need to accept this. You're not dreaming. You're between realms. You're dying."

Maura pulled away from her mother in an instant, suddenly taking notice of her surroundings and trying to guess where she was really being held.

"This is a trick! Who put you up to this? How did you find someone who looks so much like my mom? Tell me where I am!"

"Honey, you need to calm down. This is real and you need to listen to me. I'm here on behalf of our family. When someone dies, their soul is brought here to the office of the Grim Reaper, where they are greeted by their loved ones and introduced to eternity. Your grandmother wanted to come as well, but I overruled her. I know how you two always struggled to get along, and perhaps selfishly, I wanted you all to myself. I wanted to see the woman you've become in my absence."

All of the well reasoned arguments Maura tried to raise died under the withering glare of her mother. There was no denying that this was the same woman who could silence Maura’s childish antics while fidgeting during a royal speech with a single look. Too much evidence was piling up and it all appeared to be confirming Maura’s worst fears. If this wasn't a dream, Maura should still have a baby bump. She should be at the cottage. She wouldn't be seeing the very real ghost of her mother.

"I-I don't want to be dead," Maura whimpered. "I have so much to do still. I have a family. This has to be a mistake."

"None of that matters when it's your time," Cherry said softly. "We all had plans for how our lives would be, and being queen doesn't mean much against eternity. But honey, your life is still being written. You're dying, yes, but there is hope. You're not bound to this place yet. I'm speaking with you as a courtesy of the Grim Reaper."

"I...I'm not dead?"

Cherry shook her head. Maura had always struggled to pay attention growing up; it seemed like it was something she still struggled with.

"No, not yet at least. Your name hasn't been written in the lists of the Grim Reaper, but your body is damaged enough for your spirit to drift here. I was asked to greet you because your spirit wasn't the only one to travel here. Maura, I know this will come as an unwelcome shock, but there were casualties at the event where you were attacked. Alysiara and Spencer came to me earlier. Unlike you, their names are on the list of the lost. They wanted to say their goodbyes before joining our family in eternity."

"What? No. No, that's impossible. Those are my children. Children aren't supposed to die! Tell the Grim Reaper to fix it!"

"Mommy!"

Two familiar voices rang through the hall, breaking Maura’s heart. Those were undeniably her children, here in the realm of the dead. Her children were dead. How was she supposed to process this? How were her other children? Was Ulyssa safe? Were they at war in the living realm? She had to get back there and save her people, but she couldn't leave her children here.

"Spencer! You look so big! I love you so much." Maura wrapped her arms around her son, hugging him tightly. Behind him, Alysiara waited to do the same.

"You can look however you want here!" Spencer exclaimed. "I can look like a grown-up, but Grandma said it might be too much for you to see right now. Grandma's really nice."

"I know," Maura said numbly. "She's my mommy. She took great care of me, just like I'm sure she'll do for you."

It was all too surreal to process. Her mother, standing in front of her and two of her children, waiting to return to Cherry's side in what was apparently the world between life and death. She still half believed that this was all some kind of nightmare.

"Alysiara!" Maura hugged her oldest daughter fiercely. Alysiara remained the same as Maura remembered, with no sudden growth spouts like her brother. "Oh, honey, I'm so sorry. I couldn't protect you and-and that's the very first thing I promised to do as soon as I held both of you for the first time. This can't be happening! I...I just can't."

"We'll be okay," Alysiara promised her distraught mother. "Grandma has a lot of things to show us while we wait for you and Mommy to join us. I have a million people to meet, and they do parties here too. I can have a ball every day if I want and I don't even have to make a dress for it. You just think about what you want really hard, and it shows up. Spencer’s eaten a tub of ice cream already because he could. I'm going to ride a horse when you leave. No, actually, I think I'll ride a unicorn. I'm going to have my own castle now, filled with anything I want. You and Mommy can visit when you join us."

Cherry looked apologetically at her daughter.

"When children die, they assume an ageless consciousness, just like the rest of us," she explained, wrapping an arm around her grandson to keep him from running off. "It doesn't always kick in automatically. They'll be more mature once they get settled, but until then, there's no harm in unicorn racing. I promise that I'll take good care of them for you. I'll make sure that they're happy."

Maura wept for what felt like an eternity. She couldn't leave her children or accept their deaths. She also couldn't leave her living children and Ulyssa. She was torn between two realms, even if she knew where she truly belonged. She needed to guide her nation, at least until Adrion was able to succeed her, and she couldn't face a life without her remaining family that needed her in the living world. From the sound of it, the Grim Reaper didn't seem to expect her to die any time soon, so Maura prepared herself to leave her two children and her mother behind. She didn't want to, but it didn't seem like she was being given many options.

Maura thought of all the good times that she had shared with her mother and how often she longed to just sit down and chat with her about all the difficult things about being a queen and a mother. She hadn't realized how much she'd missed having her mother to bounce ideas off of until it was too late.

But wait. While Maura thought about losing her mother, she couldn't help but remember the difficulty of losing another parent.

"Where's Dad?" Maura blurted out. "I mean, if you're here and Grandma's here, then Dad has to be here too. Why didn't you invite him here? I want to see him too, even if it's only for a minute."

Cherry's posture immediately changed at the mention of her husband. She went from apologetic and soft to closed off.

"Your father's not here, Maura," Cherry said coldly.

"What? Where is he then? Is there anywhere else he could be? Could he be the in Void like Adrian was?"

"I don't know, and every reaper I've asked has refused to tell me. Dead people they can track, but living people? That's not their jurisdiction."

"Living people?" Maura repeated, horrified. "No, Grandma killed him. She didn't think he was right for a consort."

"My mother didn't kill my husband!" Cherry snapped. Her raised voice caused her grandchildren to flinch. "Your father was presumed dead and then declared dead so that I could remarry."

"Yeah, 'declared' dead so that you could find a new husband that Grandma approved of," Maura scoffed. "Convenient."

A darkness passed over Cherry's face that Maura had only seen when she was about to be grounded for a month as a child.

"Maura, I will not get into this while your children are here and still getting settled in. I have always told you the truth, whether you choose to believe it or not. Your father was declared dead after he left for a conference in Pleasantview and never arrived. We searched for months with the joined forces of Pleasantview and Twikkii Island. You were too young to remember that, but you can check the records yourself. My mother declared him dead after a year of searching to smooth things over with Pleasantview, seeing as he was en route there when he disappeared and some people were becoming suspicious. The Red Queen was also psychotic, Maura. We would have done anything to avoid a war with her, and you would have done the same. And yes, I wanted it to be over after months of searching. I wanted to marry the love of my life, and that wasn't your father. Iris and I were in love, and your father and I were planning to divorce. I'm sorry that I never told you that, Maura, but it's true. I never wanted to hurt you because you always spoke of your father like he was your hero and was special to you. You deserved closure and not the unhealable open wound of having a father who was missing. I tried to protect you. We all honestly thought that he was dead. The Red Queen wasn't known for keeping prisoners."

"Dad is still alive," Maura mumbled, her mind trying its hardest to piece together this new information but failing. "All these years. He could have come to my wedding and held my children when they were born. He could have walked me down the aisle. He could have called me up last week just to talk. Is he being held captive? He didn't abandon me if he's been a prisoner this whole time. I need to talk to Claudia. Maybe she has access to the Red Queen's secret diary where she confesses to kidnapping my dad!"

"Maura, don't pursue it," Cherry ordered. "Nothing good can come of this. Guide your people out of danger. Raise your children. Live your life. You can always talk to your father when you're both dead. He could be anywhere."

"How can I not?" Maura demanded. "He could be withering away in a prison cell somewhere. He could need my help. I'm sure he didn't leave us on purpose, even if you were going to divorce him. He wouldn't abandon me."

In a distant room, a large clock tolled, snapping Cherry's focus back to the matter she came to discuss.

"That's the end of your time here," she explained sadly. "I wish I could stay longer, but the kids need to get settled and you cannot stay forever in between realms. I love you. Never forget that. Don't worry about Alysiara and Spencer. They'll be happy with the family waiting for you here. I love you."

Within a blink of an eye, Maura’s mother and children vanished from sight, leaving Maura alone in this strange waiting room. She sobbed harder than she ever had in her life. For her two lost children. For the reminder of the hole in her life where her mother had been. For the cruel knowledge that her father was alive and yet absent from her life. Maura felt like curling up on the floor in the fetal position and never getting up again. Her entire life had been ruined over the course of an afternoon family barbecue, and there was no saving it. All she could do was what she always did in tough times: keep fighting until the painful knot in her stomach went away.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Char Siew Sauce (Recipe + Video)

[ryansjane]

no, actually my least favorite thing about watching thai dramas while speaking & understanding thai... is that the dialects never match up 😭😭😭 if a character is from a non-central province, they'll have their whole family speak in northern/southern/isaan dialect while the main character, who's played by an actor from bangkok, will unexplainably not have any remnants of his native dialect when he speaks even though he was born & raised in the area and often time never even left... that shit breaks the fourth wall to me, like... why even hire an actor who doesn't fit the role fully, I don't get it 😭

[arkhelios-gameplay]

Seemingly out of nowhere, a green hand stretched out to Roman. Roman looked up at the man the hand belonged to.