They spend their days swimming, getting massages, relaxing, and woohooing. It’s like a second honeymoon. Of course, they miss the triplets, but they love spending this time together without all the pressures that come with raising a family.
After sharing an intimate moment, they finally come up for air.
Merlin: I love you so much, Jalisa. Sharing my life with you is a pleasure.
Jalisa: Aww, Merlin. I love you, too!
The End?
This concludes the 28 Blind Dates and After the Costumes Challenges. Special thanks to all who participated and made this whole thing possible. An extra special thanks to @wabadebadooblr for creating Merlin - the winner of the challenge and Jalisa’s lifelong partner.
New to the challenge? Catch up here - (links takes you to my WordPress website)
28 Blind Dates Challenge - Date Summaries | Beginning
28 Blind Dates: After the Costumes - Part Summaries | Beginning
Please list 5 facts about your favorite sim, and send this to 10 people whose sims you adore! ❤
Thank you Lovely! I will choose Martin.
1) Martin is the delicious creation of @caterpillarsims. He is the grandson of Darren and Darlene Dreamer. He can be downloaded here.
2) He was once featured in a very pervy advertising billboard, the product of a lot of banter on my blog at the time around the word ‘cocksure’ ;=). Tumblr removed the Billboard post from both of our blogs and sent it to titty jail, but you can still view it in all its original glory here on my Wordpress. Needless to say it is N*S*F*W.
3) In my game and story, Martin is a stoner who is a little bit of a simpleton, or at least that’s how he presents himself. Joël is always taking advantage of him, especially when it comes to breaks.
4) Martin has a few female friends with whom he will occasionally have sex, but he has not had a steady girlfriend for four or five years.
5) Martin loves skateboarding. It’s his preferred mode of transport, and also how he maintains his awesome physique.
I forgot I had this in my drafts. It was unfinished and now I don’t know where I was going to go with it haha. But I’ll try to get back to it. I used to criticize myself for her storyline a lot, but now I’ve kinda forgiven myself for that, it helped me deal with some things and I didn’t know any better. However, if I ever get the chance to “reboot” her story, I’ve got a few ideas for changes. I’m not saying all of them will make it there in the end, but they might.
It’s under the cut (I hope; tumblr likes to mess this up) because it got quite long haha.
First off, I think Miracle was homeschooled for a long time. Obviously Caleb loved her, but he also knew that kids are mean and they’d point out her differences and he wanted to shelter her from that for as long as possible. Was that a good decision? I mean, I guess, although it definitely did some harm at the same time. But I think he knew that and he took the risk. It was a difficult choice and there were some discussions with other family members.
Well, homeschooled probably isn’t the right word, because Miracle often went to the library with her dad and Rachel and just learned from there (instead of staying at home all the time). It was also pretty much the only place where she got to see other children her age aside from her cousins, but she was shy, she didn’t really talk to them. Usually, she just sat in the office.
So there comes the point where Miracle *has* to go to a real school because she’s too old to be homeschooled, right? It was, as you’d probably expect, bit of a hell. She didn’t have problems adjusting to classes, she quickly became a good student, but her classmates were...not nice. Most of them just ignored her and/or made mean comments about her behind her back.
One point from the original story I would like to keep is her encounter with another alien and learning that she can, in fact, change her appearance to look more alien or human as she pleases. She spends all summer before uni trying to learn that. She realizes it depends a lot on her emotions. The happier she is, the more likely she’ll successfully use this ability, whereas negative emotions either block this ability or make it very unstable.
Enter Adam. Miracle randomly meets him by the pond, just like she did in the original story. She’s wearing her sunglasses, he doesn’t know she’s an alien, they quickly get close and almost kiss, very quick love at first sight, but, just like in the original, that doesn’t happen. Still, the happiness and love Miracle feels from meeting him makes her powers finally work better. She achieves her goal - for now.
As for how I would reimagine the most important part of her storyline, the part where she’s in uni - I’ll keep that to myself for now as this is already getting long. But what I’d definitely do is giving Esme, Miracle’s “evil roommate” more personality. She was a one-dimensional mean girl originally, only existing to make Miracle’s life hell. Esme could be more than a close-minded pretty rich girl. I think that she could be nicer to Miracle (genuinely nicer), they could even be friends on some level, but she would nope right out of there when she finds the truth. Because it’s Esme.
In the end, Miracle’s story would again be about accepting yourself, about not hiding behind a mask, being proud of who you are, but not in the same way I did it originally (it resonated with me when I was 17, it doesn’t resonate with me now and I wouldn’t tell it the same way to a 17 year old now). Additionally, I think I’d also portray this situation where you finally get what you’ve always wanted, a group of amazing friends, and you’re so afraid of losing them that you adjust yourself for them but start losing yourself, your true you, at the same time, if that makes sense. That’s something I wish I didn’t have experience with... I can see that happening to her, considering Esme’s popularity and all that...you just wouldn’t want to get on her bad side.
The first character I first fell in love with: Magnus
The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Clary (I always liked her but I didn’t expect her to remain firmly in my top 3 until the end skfjahdf)
The character everyone else loves that I don’t: I like both Alec and Jace but I don’t love them the way most of the fandom seems to love one or the other
The character I love that everyone else hates: Maia and Clary are perfect and have done nothing wrong ever in their lives!!! also maybe Dot
The character I used to love but don’t any longer: Simon
The character I would totally smooch: all the women + Magnus
The character I’d want to be like: Izzy
The character I’d slap: Underhill
A pairing that I love: malec
A pairing that I despise: clace
teen wolf
The first character I first fell in love with: SCOTT
The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Chris Argent
The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Allison?
The character I love that everyone else hates: Scott
The character I used to love but don’t any longer: Allison. I still like her but I lost pretty much all my respect for her after season 2
The character I would totally smooch: Melissa McCall
The character I’d want to be like: Melissa McCall
The character I’d slap: Jackson
A pairing that I love: there are so many! scira, sciles, scydia, malira...
I absolutely love that you’re doing The Royal Romance in sims! It’s one of my favorite stories on Choices. I noticed your icon on something, and was like wait that looks like one of The Royal Heir covers, so had to investigate. I’m loving how your bringing it to life!
Thank you!!! So glad you like it! It’s definitely my guilty pleasure lol
