I was tagged by @m0n0lithical, who is passionate and creative about her OCs and shares her excellent edits from different games. I'm not one bit surprised she came up with this color-centered tag game because she's a master at the contrasts. Her colors pop and her images are gorgeous. I was also tagged by the fabulous @thebramblewood, whose Zhaoverse is visually rich and has fascinating lore/storytelling (and features my favorite sibling hot messes). Thank you for tagging me, friends! I enjoyed the deep dives into your edits. We are united in our love of community the sims storytelling editing VAMPIRES! 🦇
COLOR THEORY IS MY PASSION TAG GAME
✮ Pick existing OC(s) that you always have a consistent color scheme for.✮ Take a screen (or a few! or a lot as many as you want tbh) of them in those colors.✮ Optional [PART 1]: be a nerd and talk about your reasoning behind their specific palette if there is one. If you’re doing multiple and their reasoning is linked, absolutely be even nerdier about that (see: my own characters I’m using for this starter, who were my initial inspiration for this).✮ Optional [PART 2]: color theory memes.
I'm primarily a character creator/storyteller here, so I am going to focus on OCs rather than builds/environments. I chose Sasha and Gideon (again...surprise) for this because they are the only characters whose wardrobe I very intentionally thought about.
Gideon is a worldly and sophisticated man who appreciates art in all its forms. He is a vampire who has seen the world change enormously and that passing of time is starting to weigh on him. He is icy—everything about him evokes this sense of coldness and aloofness—from his hair, to his eyes, to his unnaturally pale skin. His wardrobe reflects that, with a palette that is filled with formal clothes in classic colors: blacks, grays, navy blues, and occasionally muted browns. It makes sense: he's a vampire, no longer "alive" in the human way, and somewhat frozen—frozen in time, in a certain formality in how he conducts his affairs, and in his beliefs (he's above mortal laws, and even his coven's laws, which doesn't go over too well with the Strauds... Oopsie)
Sasha is the opposite. His colors skew to warmer, even when more muted. Also, Sasha is perennially broke, so he does not really care about following fashion trends and has created his own look. While he is usually a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy, he has been seen in more colorful outfits such as this . Sasha is very comfortable with his body...and apparently with Gideon's, too... Being a chaos gremlin, he has tried to style poor Gideon in outfits that are anathema to his very essence (lololol) but that Sasha kinda not-so-secretly digs.
My favorite trope is opposites attract, so I think I have that in mind when I create my couples. They're either opposites physically or personality-wise. It's just where I go to pretty naturally. With Sasha and Gideon, however, it was deliberate. Everything, from Sasha's t-shirt featuring the Grim Reaper in the first chapter, to Gideon's wardrobe in blacks and blues in their first meeting, was done for symbolic effect. As they grow closer and fall in love, Gideon begins to "thaw" out a little and begins finding more color in his life...in many ways.
Someday I WILL finish that story.
OKAY! Tagging these peeps who have unique styles: @naginatah, @sims4sanity, @melok-a-verse, @dandylion240, @disastermage, @likelyamused, @cockatoocc, @changingplumbob, @soultreesims and @aurorangen. Feel free to ignore and I will hunt you down and find you. (Kidding, kidding...my lawyer begs you...)
