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Jobs / Careers / backstory for your were?
Beardedgeek
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This is just me trying to come up with a story for my new Simwolf? Weresim? whatever 
What would she work with? Freelance programmer? Just odd jobs? Justifying a newcomer that still fits in is hard, but "only child in the town not born as a werewolf" Is also weird...
What would she work with? Freelance programmer? Just odd jobs? Justifying a newcomer that still fits in is hard, but "only child in the town not born as a werewolf" Is also weird...
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I would be tempted to make her a freelance programmer ("Indie Game dev" fits with the vibe
For a local, I really want to go for a full freegan slacker, avoiding to pay for anything if they can and living without a job.
Also, for sure, I will make a Kitsune for Mt. Komorebi, it will fit in great.
Edit: Oh, and maybe for the meme, for a sim I won't actually play much, a werewolf of wall street in the business career.
I'm thinking of making a my own sim, called called Hope Treading Water. She's a troubled youth who comes to town to live with her older brother. She falls in with the Wildfangs, who want to induct her into the group because they think adding her to the pack would give her a supportive family. She ends up being turned into a werewolf against her will, but keeps her powers suppressed with substances. (I'm thinking of using apples or another fruit to represent this.) She'll grow up to work as a waitress who's saving up for college, so she can be a detective, a doctor, or the mayor.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
As for careers and such, photographer really stands out to me out of your options.
A few things i read opened up potential ideas, too. Things like this may give you an outsde the box type of idea for her...
The two that stick out to me currently are from a painful pun and someone's idea of turning a premade
Pun here: Hopefully, you can have a werewolf who is also a social media influencer, so you can ask all of your fans to lycansubscribe.
Which tempts me to make exactly that, and him or her also do media production as well
(This kind of thing is nonstandard enough that the rural area wouldn't hurt, and may actually be useful, esp if they were a wilderness photographer or survivalist blogger as well, or even something like a rock climber/instructor, despite that being stuff for another pack)
The other one was someone talking about turning diego lobo into a werewolf, which i likely won't do but i really want a hot-headed werewolf art critic now...
(Not sure how this could play out in the world there, though. Man, if we had scuplting as a skill having a wood sculptor there would be perfect)
As for traits... If there are no new traits I am toying with Dog Lover as my "quirky trait" (I tend to give all my Sims one "odd out" trait like clumsy, gloomy, cheerful, what have you). Just because it would make sense that someone who is instinctively good at reading body language of canines would instinctively get along with werewolves too.
I want to keep them from having a lot of money for as long as possible. So the grungy furniture makes sense.
I could also see a werewolf being drawn to nature and choose for a career as a conservationist or a gardener.
Another way would be earning money through crafting furniture and other objects or the freelance crafter from eco lifestyle
Also I'll turn my Not So Berry sim or one of her future clone into a werewolf, bc I recreate her in The Sims 2 and she had the want to become a werewolf, but I couldn't do that, and so I unblocked that want, and now she's an elder with her brand new servo.
A conservationist who during work ran into a werewolf and became one? That's one of my ideas free for taking.
But there is a third brother, Talon, that I haven't played nearly as much. He's just been single and my go to for mayhem or outright bad behaviour. I decided it's his time.
So he's cured himself of vampirism and moved to Henford on Bagley. He's living in a small cottage in the village while he figures out what happens next.
When the pack comes out he will move to the new world.
His traits are Freegan, Bro and Gloomy which I think are somewhat fitting.
As an ex-evil vampire he was in the criminal career but he's going to be doing oddjobs and trying his hand at writing or painting now.
Edit: Don't alt tab out of your game when you play with mods... I left Talon on a date and tabbed back in to find out he's engaged lol.
So what does all this have to do with werewolves? Well, I think it would be interesting to have your sim start off somewhere like, perhaps, Evergreen Harbor, a newly revitalized PNW city, working as an art critic for the local independent newspaper/alternative weekly. They use their income and flexible schedule to fulfill their love of travel in places like Selvadorada, where they pick up archaeology as a hobby.
Once they've developed that a bit, while writing an article for the Evergreen Scene, they come across a curious bit of local lore about a mysterious abandoned (or is it?) mill town in the region called Moonwood Mill. So they pack up their tent and head off for a long weekend exploring MM and questioning the locals. But then one bright night with a full moon, they have an... encounter... with an unfriendly local named Greg. After that, everything changes, and they pack up and move to MM full time; they keep their job at the Evergreen Scene, as they are conveniently able to work from home writing articles (another advantage to being an Art Critic), ostensibly to dig deeper into a long term research article about MM (or maybe even a book!), but really, they are learning more about themselves and their new pack.
Will try to be as much off the grid as possible and there will be chickens because I love having them around. The rest of the family will probably live in Evergreen harbor. Close enough to visit during the day but my sim can drive home to blessed solitude in an evening.
Those descended from zoo wolves, where wolves had to form the artificial packs they are known for now (instead of the family units that wolves live in in the wild) most likely have a strong sense of hierarchy. They'd make good Military (leading into Astronaut perhaps) or Detective sims, ironically also low tier office workers (from Snowy Escape, I forgot what the office drone career is called).
That's assuming there's no fantasy racism in play that forces the weres to keep a low profile.
It's a moot point in my game, where established sims will transform. The most likely candidates are a teacher, a civic architect (who also has a seat in the city council), a detective and the retired Chief of Police (married to a top level judge).
My sim of choice is going to be Knox Greenburg. I dont usually play him but he kinda fits as a werewolf I think. My current family is going to be a random spellcaster sim called Rosa I created who will live with knox and Paka a'Uha (plus the pitbull she adopted from Magnolia Park!). It will be an off the grid/simple living farm in Henford-on-Bagely. Rosa will run the farm and sell flowers, Paka will paint and run yoga classes and Knox is going to sell candles and juice from a farm stall...and run wild during the full moon!LOL
Most likely I won't be making a werewolf unless I can think of a cool were from a cartoon or something. What I will be doing is have specific sims grab a tent, cooler, and portable shower and stay somewhere in the woods of the new world. It may be fun watching werewolves do their thing on a full moon? Also a sim will marry into the wolfpack or change into one.....Can't wait to see how it all plays out in my game!
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Edit to say his wife is a spellcaster and rising actress!
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From left to right we have Topaz, Onyx, and Citrine! Most folks might think Onyx is the Alpha (and technically she is), but really there is only one they all answer to: Andromeda.
As you can see, she is an elderly chihuahua who 100% sounds like this when she howls:
And also here's a bonus screenie of the sisters at their favorite restaurant (which they never pay at), and Onyx needs to draw on placemats to stop her from being mean to everyone 😂
Even though I'm going to have to get them all bitten in-game (or cheat), my headcanon is that they were actually all bitten when they were kids. Andromeda saved them from this giant wolf that attacked them, and they've pledged their allegiance to her ever since 👍 So, basically, they harass the people of San Myshuno and steal whatever they can so they can get lots of money and buy Andromeda literally whatever she wants. Most recently she wanted a gigantic TV 👀
I cannot wait to finally create their werewolf forms, and I can't wait to see the awesome werewolves everyone around here comes up with! 🙌
must reach top level in astronaut career,
must be BFFs with Vlad!
He's gonna be a gluttonous, loner, erratic/angry fellow, and I'll have him live in the garden shed belonging to my main Sulani family. Hopefully, he won't howl around when he returns from the job, and I'm slightly worried for what he will do with the furniture. Hopefully, two Spellcasters, one Mermaid (with a freeze ray) and a Vampire will be able to keep him in check (a.k.a the nice people in my avatar).