ㅤㅤㅤ- послушай мальчик по имени антон. этот лес большое и страшное место. и я не единственный его обитатель. другие звери уже знают о тебе. берегись нас! этой ночью мы опять придём. пока ты со своей семьёй будешь спать, подкрадёмся близко-близко и станцуем... макарену!
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Одноклассница Антона. У неё много видеокассет, в том числе и ужастиков. Она спит в зале перед телевизором, при этом даже самые страшные фильмы отчего-то успокаивают её. Полина чувствует, что в посёлке творится что-то плохое, но не знает, как и кому рассказать о том, что чудится ей иногда в темноте за окнами.
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I love the idea Brandi Broke and Dina Caliente dating, because this relationship is also a way for them to heal from fucked-up relationships they had with men before.
Brandi starts dating Skip as a teen. But according to TS3 Skip is only 7 days younger than Brandi's parents. In the game Bob and Betty are teens and Skip is a child. And Brandi is obviously not even planned at this point. So you can interpret this information as an adult Skip getting in the relationship with much younger Brandi (or at least kissing her from what we can see in her memories).
Even if we consider TS3 as an alternative timeline, Brandi is only 7 days into her adult life stage and Dustin is already a teen. Was he born when she still was a teenager? Maybe Brandi and Skip were just two stupid teenagers, but the situation is still not ideal.
Michael Bachelor being creepy with Dina is not even a headcanon. We know that he is much older than Dina. At the beginning of the game, he's already died of old age! And Dina is 28 days away from being an elder, she's really young. According to Dina's memories, she had her first kiss with Michael when she was a teen.
It makes sense to me how quickly Dina and Brandi became best friends. They've experienced similar traumatic events in their lives.
But that's just my interpretation of the pieces of data EAxis left us with. Definitely not trying to start drama because of pixel people :)
"Dina married Michael to become rich or to get closer to the Goth family. Dina arranged Bella's abduction in order to marry Mortimer."
Honestly, I don't believe it.
It looks like the game initially wants us to believe this "conspiracy of the Caliente sisters with Don Lothario," where everything seems to fit together. Dina was married to Bella's brother, Michael, and his grave is kept at her house. Don tried to seduce Bella, she was last seen at his house, and Bella disappeared. The Caliente sisters both have a relationship with Don Lothario. The Caliente sisters have alien genes, Bella was abducted by aliens. Dina and Don want to tie the knot with Mortimer and Cassandra.
But when we delve deeper into how the characters work, their interests, personalities, and memories, this whole facade collapses and looks like a deception, which game want us to believe so that we can feel during the game how much it doesn't work in the game itself with what the characters are.
Perhaps this is the whole irony of the Pleasantview plot. Like when the description says whether Mortimer will be able to recover after the disappearance of his wife Bella, but at the start of the game he always has the urge to flirt with both Caliente sisters, even though Nina is not even interested in him.
We can be sure that Dina didn't kill Michael. He died of old age, not an accident. If Dina had had a hand in his demise, there were many ways to show it. But instead, we are shown that Michael's death was natural and caused by his age.
"Dina married Michael for money," but returning to the Sims 1, Bella did not sponsor her brother, and he himself did not possess wealth. Dina's memories say that she is happy with marriage as a marriage with her partner, not as a "rich marriage." Well, it looks like Michael really wasn't rich, and money wasn't Dina's motive.
But the most interesting thing about this is that Dina began a love relationship with Michael when he was an adult man, close to old age, and she herself was an underage teenage girl. The "predator" in this relationship was Michael, not Dina.
Returning to the family album, Dina was rejected by her own family, at least by her mother. Her mother preferred Nina. After the death of their mother at a young age (the death of a parent looks like a trauma to a child), the father could also give preference to Nina because of her more similarity to his wife. A background that more than explains why Dina could be interested in an adult man and how her relationship with an adult man could become possible.
We have:
Dina was a teenager when she began an affair with Michael. Michael was close to old age. They got married when Dina reached the age that allowed them to marry, but their relationship began even before Dina reached that age. (maybe at 16, as the age of consent)
The memories speak of a "happy love marriage" on Dina's part, not a "marriage to a rich man" or a marriage for money.
Michael died of old age. His death was natural. Grave grave is kept by Dina as a memorial to her deceased husband, just as Darren Dreamer keeps the grave of his wife.
I doubt very much that as a teenager, Dina could have come up with such a far-reaching plan in advance to seduce Michael in order to marry him after coming of age and approach the wealth of the Goths through Michael, as the brother of Bella, Mortimer's wife. Oh, yeah, and she also must wait for Michael's death to be able to take of Mortimer (repeat, canonically, Michael died of old age).
Anyway, this about her marriage with Michael. I'm not going to argue that, in theory, Dina could have wished for Mortimer's wealth after all (she did) and tried to get rid of Bella. But it's hard for me to imagine a scenario in which this would work. Even though the Caliente sisters have alien roots, this is a common pollination story, where their grandfather was given an alien embryo like many other men in different parts of the World. It doesn't seem likely that the Caliente sisters, after generations of forced pollination, could contact alien relatives and they decided to help them. In the game, the sisters are still ordinary young women who live their lives and don't look like anyone connected to an alien theme or science at all, except for the story of the "victim of alien pollination" in their family generation ago.
I don't believe that aliens even care. They literally kidnap people, put experiments on them that we don't see, but we can suspect that nothing good is happening, based on how needs jump and that it ends with forced pregnancy. It is doubtful that they would decide to help one of the descendants of pollination get rid of a random woman so that their descendant could seduce a rich old man, or that Dina could somehow contact the alien authorities.
Bella's disappearance really helped Dina in her desire to get rich quickly through marriage to someone rich. But the fact that the circumstances were in her favor does not mean that she is necessarily the one who set up these circumstances. Sometimes life develops in such a way that there is an opportunity that we can cling to. Dina took advantage of the opportunity, but it's not necessarily that she created the opportunity for herself.
I can't play as this woman and believe that she organized a clever kidnapping to clear her way. I want to joke that Dina is too lazy for this... it will even be true in some way, lmao. Dina is the kind of person who is constantly childish. This is a trait of her character that often manifests itself in gameplay, especially when she climbs into the tub and starts playing like a child. (she was a child who seemed to be neglected by her parent, who as a teenager was seduced by a man who looked older than even her father, just think about it in her "playful" personality contest) Dina can be a traumatized child, even if she doesn't realize it herself.
Dina is ready to marry a rich old man as a quick way to get rich, because she doesn't want to "earn money on her own," we understood that. But Mortimer is not a stupid boy who is "led by the nose." He is an adult man with a previous marriage, two children and the position of a successful scientist. Dina may need his money, but Mortimer wants her young and beautiful body. He's willing to pay to have it. People like to see this relationship as if Mortimer is some kind of victim in it, but it doesn't look like the truth. Mortimer is the man who wants to flirt with both of the Caliente sisters at the start of the game.
(Dina has zero interest in crime. I'm attaching this as another proof of why I think it's not in Dina's nature to organize all the things we're led to believe in when we're just starting to get to know the characters and the plot.)
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Of course, she "cheated" on Michael with Don... I have thoughts on that, too.
The sisters live together, they get along without apparent conflicts, unlike, for example, Lilith and Angela. But they're not friends. Nina and Dina don't even have a high relationship at the beginning of the game. Their family relationship looks normal from the outside, but it's actually broken, and it most likely has its roots in childhood, where parents (at least the mother) chose Nina. Dina wants to be in the first place, she is literally happy that "Nina Grew Up Badly".
Nina is having an affair with Don. Even if it's a "free relationship," for Dina, their relationship may seem close enough. Or the fact that her sister had a "partner" might interest her. Dina wasn't really interested in Don. But Dina might want to "win" against Nina. Dina doesn't need Don as person.
What If… The Sims 2 Was An Early 2000s Drama Movie?
I asked that to myself today and did some fake stills related to the lore with the help of Bing AI! Some of these turned out so good (IMO) that I couldn’t help but imagine how a real movie adaptation of The Sims lore would look like 😭
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