Do you have a backstory for your Sims?
ItsMeThatGuy
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Tell you what: I've always been interested in a person's backstory of their childhood, young adulthood, etc. Where were they from? Their traits as a child? etc. Tell me!
(I AM NOT INTENDING TO COPY ANOTHER PERSON'S THREAD. IF THERE IS A NEWER, ACTIVE THREAD THEN PLEASE TELL ME!)
(I AM NOT INTENDING TO COPY ANOTHER PERSON'S THREAD. IF THERE IS A NEWER, ACTIVE THREAD THEN PLEASE TELL ME!)
I am NOT part of anything in EA and I'm just a player. I try my best to answer questions in the Sims forums, and showing info about the Sims, even posting answers and thoughts of feedback! I have been playing the Sims 4 for 2 years.
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I have too many ideas bouncing around in my head. So, if there is a backstory for my Sims, that's usually where it will be.
through toddlerhood.
Children:
Teenagers
to when they come to a realization that thsy love each other:
To “popping the question”:
…to aging up and going to university…😁
I don’t think anyone recognizes her as…
But the canon EA backstory for her follows my RL wife’s so closely it seemed natural to use River as a surrogate.
Ah, this is probably why I should start a blog so I can put things there, and to make for a better organization of contents then what I could do with posting things on this forum.
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The first two sims I made for the sims 3 are Lucie and Asgeir. When I first made them, though, they didn't have a backstory because I was still relatively new to playing a "The Sims" game, so I wasn't really thinking about the story telling aspect of it. It took me a while to get the feeling that I was actually telling a story and even longer for their backstory to come about.
Their family tree on plumtreeapp.com:
https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/public/5ffb5d8826f005000929f276
I have started a save to play through their backstory to incorporate into my "People of Simbria" story hopefully once before they die of old age..
This is where it's currently at. Keep in mind that this is an incomplete version that I wasn't really intending to post.. yet?
The people of Pamtere: Asgeir and Lucie.
Pamtere*, April 1952.
* Pamtere is just switching around the letters of the Finnish town of Tampere, and as you may notice, there are some Finnish names in here. :P
The small community of Pamtere is located far to the north on the western shores of Simbria. Here it lies, relatively isolated and surrounded by tall mountains, with meltwater from the Moonlight glacier flowing through town in the Blackwater River... And perhaps it is due to Pamteres remote and isolated location in combination with its long, dark and cold winters that have given the population an increased belief in the supernatural, compared to people from the rest of the country...
In a small wooden house in this town lives a struggling family of four. Bjarne Karlsen (age: 30), the father of the family, works on a cargo ship transporting goods across the Westphalian Sea, which meant that he would be away for months at a time, leaving the mother, Gunvor Karlsen, alone to care for their two children, Magne and Frank.
Gunvor Karlsen (age: 28) taking the youngest son, Frank (2 years, 1 month) out for a stroll. In between caring for the children, Gunvor did her best to make a living from selling her paintings. Being stuck in this town on what appeared to her as "the edge of the world" she would often escape her mundane life by travelling to the far away places she found in the writings of others.. so when she wasn't at home, or out doing the necessary shopping, she was usually found in a quiet corner of the library, nose down in a book...
In this small town, there lived another family of three. This was the Lehtoranta family, Tahvo, Kerttu and their son Jaska. Jaska was about the same age as Frank, and they would sometimes play together whenever their parents brought them to the library.
Frank and Jaska at the library.
Tahvo Lehtoranta (age 26) was an ambitious man with a strong work ethic. His job was at the local business office, where he would often work overtime. He was very dedicated to his job and had hopes that one day, he would rise to the top and take over the entire business.
His wife, Kerttu Lehtoranta (age: 21), was equally ambitious and hard working, but her main interest for the time being was gardening. She had a dream that one day, she would have the most perfect garden in the entire country, so she would often spend long hours in her little greenhouse tending to the plants or at the library studying the books from the gardening section.
The Lehtoranta family home. Kerttus' greenhouse was very small now, money was scarce, so this was all the young family could afford to build for the time being, but she had dreams of a much larger one, eventually.
The cold spring in Pamtere transitioned into a cool summer, and one day in June Gunvor Karlsen gave birth to a little boy. The couple had already agreed on a name, and so he was given the name Asgeir.
The newborn Asgeir Karlsen in his crib. June 1952.
Summer passed and Bjarne had just arrived home on leave from his job at the cargo ship. It was september, and temperatures were already dropping, and it probably wasn't long until the first snow would lay its white blanket over the town.
The arrival of autumn also meant it was time for Kerttu to reap the benefits of her work. She got a pretty good price for her harvest at the local grocery store, as fruit and vegetables were already pretty expensive in this small town, due to high costs of transport. Due to the short growing season, there weren't to many farmers in this region, so all crops and fruit had to be brought in from the warmer parts of the country.
Kerttu and Tahvo had high ambitions not only for themselves, but also their child, Jaska, so they would often sit down with him to practice the proper pronounciation of words, as well as continuosly expanding his vocabulary.
Because Tahvo was often exhausted from work, it was usually Kerttu that took the responsibility to teach Jaska the necessary skills.
Winters in Pamtere are long and cold, but that didn't stop Kerttu from taking her son Jaska out for a stroll.
Spring eventually came to the small town, and with Bjarne away working on the cargo ships, Gunvor was left alone to care for their three children. Magne, the oldest son of the Karlsen household, missed his father when he was out, and would often get in trouble at home from skipping school.
Luckily when summer came around, Bjarne was home to celebrate his youngest son, Asgeirs first birthday on this otherwise rainy day in june.
Whenever he was home from his work travels, Bjarne made sure to spend as much time as possible with his son. Here he is giving the newly aged up Asgeir a tickle.
That's as far as I have gotten on it. I should work more on this one and finish it one day....
Blog: The people of Simbria where I repost chapters from the beginning.
I generally work with what Blogger offers to organize my games so that I can make it easily navigable. That’s the main thing. You might want several different blogs; one for each story branching off your main blog. And keep your main blog as the navigation hub.
Blog: The people of Simbria where I repost chapters from the beginning.
I'm actually playing out my own version of a friend's legacy, without writing about it because I stink at writing, and they've had their first date, which ended in their first kiss!!
I made both sims, but can only control Gillian
Since her intended boyfriend is a spellcaster, Gilly's taken up Alchemy!
HillyPlays
P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
I use Plum Tree App to profile all of my townie legacies. I write their bios according to how they act in game when I meet them and the game's mechanics and embellish where I feel creative enough to do so. For example, in Sims 4 I said Summer Holiday was going through diet restriction and exercise addiction and it was only after Mortimer Goth helped her to hospital (she fainted, he woke her up, and I sent her to hospital) that she went through a rehabilitation program and went on to be a baker in my game.
Here is the link to the backgroundstory of my blog: Family Tree
> @highfiveshannah I love backgroundstories, they make the characters more "real". So, becoming a baker after rehab is a success story! :)
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> Here is the link to the backgroundstory of my blog: Family Tree
Thank you!
I haven't read very far into yours but I'm already obsessed. You're a fantastic storyteller. Are you a creative writer outside of The Sims? You definitely have the skills to be.
Do that @Nikkei_Simmer - but don't feel obligated! Stupid of me to say, of course you won't read if you're not interested enough to keep turning the pages!
That's amazing. Maybe a small publishing house like Parliament House Press would work for you. Just an idea. I hope whatever route you decide that it goes well for you.
Will absolutely keep reading your story and if you do publish your book I hope you will let me know so I can purchase and by that too :-)
Or in Midnight Hollow, the reference to The Nightmare before Christmas in Jack Limb wanting to rescue Sarah Holden from the clutches of evil bald dude the mad scientist. Sarah looks just a bit like Sally too.
And the Goths of course, all that.
There is far less backstory given in sims4, and sometimes I like coming up with some of my own, like imagining that Diego Lobo is actually Wolfgang Munch's father because they so resemble each other. I also thought Candy Behr looks a lot like Wolfgang in the face, but if wouldn't be surprising if they're related, both being from old Windenburg families.
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I'm assuming you used Create A World hm?
And the fridge-horror story of Chunyu family. Chunyu siblings is from a new poor (I don't know what's the antonym of new rich in English) family, one day the younger brother, a shock rocker, Yin suddenly turned into vampire, the older sister Ye took him to Bridgeport. In TS4 Yin married to a female vampire Ellen Sharma, and have two kids Yingzi (Shadow) and Hanguang (Cold-light).
But
There's an ancient-looking ghost, Shuixian (Daffodil) Chunyu. He was a wizard (or "internal power" user, according to his Wuxia background), he likes bullying certain type of people because he thinks he's uphold justice, then he being wanted and escaped to an outcast group (allusion to the Villains Valley from many of Wuxia works). But people in this group also afraid to him,
Daffodil's surname is also Chunyu, it's a very rare Chinese surname. Although have same very rare surname doesn't mean they're certainly Kindred, but who knows. 😊
I also have some true crime inspiration. The three villain ghost, Ashley Ramirez, Theodora Roseland, Dederick Dahmer. Their names are hint at their real life reference, and
Sometimes it's not me who talks to you, it's machine translation