I’m not totally sold on Fugue and Envy being on there where they are (I don’t really think of Envy as being “evil” - just sort of a shit-stirrer), but -- this is the best I could come up with!
I’m going to pass this on to @gayberrysims, @socialbunnies, @frost-rainbowcy, @bugsims, and @nikasimming!
Edit - #1 Jefferson fangirl @bugsims pointed out my error in labeling Jefferson as neutral good and he’s been replaced with his better half, Nat.
He was! It happened off-screen and was never stated – but after all the mess with Adi and Jacob, Avarice determined that Nate was a liability to the company and had him taken out.
Headcanon Dira and Mel are raising their kids in lovely domestic bliss and married each other. -Joe
You’re not wrong.
I don’t know if “bliss” is the word I’d use, but I do imagine them living together and raising their children together and trying to make it work but goddamnit, Caramel, we are NOT having another kid, and if you drunk dial Prelude one more time this relationship is OVER, Yadira -- but they do love each other (and their kids) and make it work the best they can.
(That isn’t to say they’re always fighting -- I imagine them having some very happy moments as a family, particularly with their kids! I like to think that despite not seeing quite eye-to-eye when it comes to almost everything else, they are an intimidatingly unified force when it comes to their kids’ wellbeing.)
I also imagine the two of them terrifying all the other moms at PTA meetings and being aggressively invested in their kids’ hobbies and extracurriculars, so there’s that. (Yadira and Caramel are the intense parents on the sidelines of the soccer game yelling at the coaches and the other parents and making sure the kids are hydrated, Prelude is the Soccer Dad(TM) tailgating the kids’ soccer game with a cooler full of definitely-not-beer in the parking lot with an absurd amount of snacks in the back of his minivan hitting on all the single Soccer Moms(TM).)
another for the AMA: immortality...... will you ever go into an arc focused on Why they’re SO immortal?? you’ve touched on it before but will you ever try and create a nitty gritty lore?
I’m not sure what you mean by “an arc focused on why they’re SO immortal” -- they just kind of... are? I don’t really have a reason for their immortality other than they, as daemons, just are immortal.
I would absolutely love to sit down and hash out a nitty-gritty lore about daemon culture, life cycles, how they interact with humans (or why they don’t interact with humans), and all of that -- and I think this current plot arc with Forgotten Hollow is kind of the beginning stages of that.
I had some lore written out for previous iterations of the story -- back when daemons were called demons and angels were involved and humans were just trying to stay afloat in the middle of all this supernatural chaos going on around them -- but most of that is irrelevant now.
But I guess, to directly answer your question: I’d like to revisit it someday and ultimately develop it more, but I don’t have any plans for a plot arc that’s heavy on the mythos/lore of all of it.
This is probably an odd question, but have you ever thought of how things would have turned out in the story if certain events hadn't happened? Just any in general - big or small?
Hey! I don’t think it’s an odd question at all -- this is actually something I think about a lot! Just the other day I was having a conversation along these lines with @pixiegarden. :)
I’m getting to explore a few of those small changes you’re talking about in the rewrite I’m working on -- the basic structure and the Big Events(TM) are there, but some little details are changing along the way, and it’s interesting to see how dynamics are shifting just with a few minor tweaks.
There are so many things that could have changed and could have made big differences in the story, but a few of the “key points” for each generation and how I think they might have made things turn out a little differently are below the cut!
What if Taz hadn’t cheated on Gretta, or at least been honest about his affair with Adia and they’d been able to work things out?For one -- they would have raised Cadence together, and had Nocturne and Prelude a lot sooner. Taz and Gretta probably would have bought a house together, and Nick would have never been Taz’s next door neighbor -- potentially meaning Cadence would never have kissed him (she probably wouldn’t have been bold enough to do it during a lesson in her own house, especially with a younger brother and sister likely in the next room). And on the note of Cadence and Nick...
What if Cadence hadn’t kissed Nick in his apartment?It’s likely that Nick would never have known about Cadence’s crush. His reaction following the kiss suggests that he had feelings for Cadence before she kissed him -- but that he had never planned on acting on them. It’s possible that without the kiss, neither of them would have voiced their feelings, and their their mutual attraction would have eventually fizzled out, leading them to go their separate ways and both meet other people.
What if Sonata and Jacob hadn’t cheated on each other?Sonata sleeping with Buck, while a bad decision, was not necessarily a catalyst for anything other than the end of her relationship with Jacob (which, since he also cheated on her, still would likely have ended). Jacob and Adi’s relationship, however, was arguably the start of the events that led to Adi’s death -- Jacob’s involvement with the Vice-Korolyov case and investigation of Avarice led to his murder, which in turn led to Adi’s attempt to bring down her grandmother’s company and her death.Prior to Adi’s involvement with Jacob, she had a close (albeit manipulative) relationship with her grandmother. It’s likely that without her relationship with Jacob, Adi would have continued to be a leading figure in Korolyov Industries.
What if Ellie hadn’t gone to that party with Flan?Well, probably the most obvious change -- she would never have gotten pregnant with Toccata. She would have finished high school with her brothers and likely would have started dating Nat much sooner, as he had been working up the courage to ask her out at the party -- they would have settled down and started a family sooner; but since Ellie’s death wasn’t the result of anyone’s direct actions, she still would have left Nat a widower and single dad.The other side of Ellie going to the party is her involvement with Aidan. Since Toccata didn’t exist, he wouldn’t have attempted to pursue a relationship with his daughter. He may still have gotten a job with Korolyovs, and may still have had a relationship with Mina -- and that relationship is likely to have still been unhealthy -- but his aggressive insistence that Mina knew where Nat was hiding Toccata is what led to her killing him (and then fleeing to Jefferson’s).
What if Fugue had handed everything over to the Vices to begin with?Faspen wouldn’t exist. That’s it, that’s the most important thing that would have changed.
If there were any particular events (or anything else at all) you were wondering about, feel free to hit me up with more questions! :)
Does Toccata ever talk about her mom? Does she know about what happened with Aiden?
I’ve had this sitting in my inbox for a few days trying to decide if I wanted to answer it, or if I wanted to tie it into another (related) ask directed toward Toccata.
Toccata mentions her mom briefly here, while she’s talking to her brother. She only asks Fugue if he remembers Ellie, and doesn’t go into how much of what she remembers – more on that when Toccata answers her question in a few days. ;)
As far as what happened with Aidan – I’m assuming you’re talking about this. Toccata was only 9 when that happened, so Nat and her uncle wouldn’t have given her all of the nitty gritty (and gory) details of it – and just would have assured her that she was safe, and wouldn’t have to worry about Aidan trying to take her away from her family ever again.
As she grew older, Toccata probably would have investigated on her own what exactly happened to Aidan to try to find out why, exactly, she didn’t have to worry any more and would have discovered that he’d been murdered – but I don’t imagine her learning that her Aunt Mina was his killer, since that detail was covered up by the Vices.
He does. I touched on it a little when a while back, Merrin/@a-moral-grey asked what story Dax gave about his parents when people asked, since he’s a public figure. (The answer to that question is here.)
Even though he grew up calling Sonata and Buck “Mom and Dad,” he always knew they were his aunt and uncle – and that he was being raised by them because his parents were dead – but the exact cause of his parents’ deaths (i.e., that Avarice Vice-Korolyov was directly responsible for both of their murders) was something that he learned a bit later.
Compared to Taz, how much age difference has there been between him and Pixie and Gretta and Adia
In the current timeline, out of Taz, Pixie, Gretta, and Adia:
Gretta is the oldest; she’s 24 when the story starts
Taz is about six months younger than Gretta
Pixie is about a year younger than Taz
Adia is about two years younger than Pixie
HOWEVER -- with the beginning of MV having started as gameplay instead of story, the early parts were running on “sims time” instead of a timeline that actually made sense. I’m working on fixing a few things with the timeline in the rewrite I’m working on; to give you an idea of a few changes:
Gretta is still the oldest; she’s 22 when the story starts
Taz is still about six months younger than Gretta
Adia is about one year younger than Taz
Pixie is about two months younger than Adia
Since the updated timeline is still a work in progress, all the birth/death dates on my character page are based on the original timeline -- but once I get everything figured out, that’ll be updated with the new info. :)
