OOH, LOOK! It's a Collab Submission for @honeysylvan's Ultimatum Challenge! ♡
So; after three repair attempts, two complete re-installs and one very long 12-hour mental break in regards to The Sims 4, I am FINALLY able to post this with all the intended material! (I'm sorry it took so long!)
My partner for this particular challenge is the wonderful and talented @pulletsimblr! Please be sure to send her some love and consider checking out a few of her other Sims projects! Spoiler: They're all amazing!
Since this is a collaborative submission, this post will be our official submission to the challenge - but I'm also linking our Sims' Basic Information and Lookbooks below because we put A LOT of tender, loving care into this couple! Feel free to take a little peek! ヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞
And lots of love to Pullet for partnering with me for this Challenge! It was so much fun getting to know more about you and your sense of humor while we worked on making these two the hottest couple this side of San Myshuno! If another Simblr Challenge ever comes up that requires a partner, I'd love to work with you again! ♡
Also here's a bonus image I've been using as this post's placeholder.
David made it to level 2 of the Art Appraiser career, which meant
--it was time to head over to the library so he could make a dating profile, yeah! How else is he going to meet elderly married women with bad dye jobs and unibrows, never mind all the other "sexy" "singles" in Riverview?
(I have been playing this save with David being unemployed for so long that maybe you forgot like I nearly did, but until David gets into an exclusive 💞 relationship, he can only interact with other Sims romantically while he's in an even-numbered level of a given career track.)
The one I originally wanted David to get with, Hannah Jones, is married. David turned up a profile for her regardless, of course.
The one most into David--well, the one most into him who is under 60--is Yvette Grisby, but... her ears stick out. David isn't shallow, but I am. I don't mind sprucing up a townie here and there, but I'm not trying to make it my life's work. Besides,
--this lady is cuter. And she has a lot of time on her hands, time that she would be happy to use romancing David, the Sims equivalent of a 40-year-old virgin.
Ruby Broke also doesn't mind David's lousy decor, tiny television, or leftover grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. In other words, she's a keeper.
David called in fake sick the day after his date with Ruby, because now his goal is not to get promoted too fast. Not before he gets some, at least.
Then he bicycled over to Chez Broke, where, after a little warmup, he asked Ruby to be his girlfriend, and she said yes.
I could have stopped there. Boyfriend/girlfriend is commitment enough. But then I noticed it was almost time for Ruby to go to her job at the day spa, and felt anxious.
Time to move this along, David! You two have been boyfriend and girlfriend for three Sim minutes already!
I know, seems hasty, but she's cute and they're compatible. Had David been able to return from university, I would have had him pursue Ayana Yuki, but this universe's David has never even met her. 😢
Good! Maybe now Dad can finally move on from talking about how Flo died.
Ruby Broke, Diphda. Daughter of Flo Broke, who died.
Highlights (well... marginally notable moments) from David and Ruby's Snowflake Day Gift-Giving Party:
Trigger Broke, Buck Broke, and Odin Crosby developing an unhealthy fixation on Eloise, Ruby and David's middle child, booing and heckling her whenever she appeared in their field of vision. It was hate at first sight for these freaks and the why of it remains a mystery.
Evan and his, er, nephew, Adrian Ivanov, befriending each other immediately and being inseparable throughout the party
Emmaline being such a PITA with respect to routing/being in everyone's way that I sent her out to rake leaves in the backyard (and I'd do it again, too), then, uh, sort of forgot about her? until she stormed back in to use the facilities. Once she was through, I sent her back out to the yard to dispose of all the leaf piles. On a positive note, the backyard looks so much better now. We're all ready for Spring!
David having to Ask Everyone to Leave in order to end the party at 1:30 in the morning because Snowflake Day occurred on a Wednesday/a school night; more importantly, because none of those assclowns would LEAVE without that kind of, ah, encouragement.
Mags Newbie refusing to die even though she's 1000 years old, but insisting on smelling the place up with her poor hygiene until I snapped and resetSim'd her tf out of there
Pics below.
Gross, guys! Leave her alone!
(Fortunately, Dimitri is in the backyard. Nonetheless, I had Ruby convince Diphda to go flirt with Dimitri, then had Ruby engage Odin in conversation. Crisis averted.)
Seriously, Odin, ENOUGH. She's a child!
Mags Newbie, shown at left in her heinous ITF "formalwear," is complaining that someone is in her way because she wants to go upstairs to leave a plate of shitty onion rings on one of the desks there, the available kitchen counters by now being covered in everyone else's shitty party foods that I really wish they would just not bring.
I didn't get a picture of it, but poor Evan wound up having to sleep in the treehouse in the backyard, because the other obsession Odin Crosby developed was with the music box in Evan's room, and Odin dragged his best buddy Trigger Broke into that room with him, in order to better block the door to Evan's room. 😠😡😠
Incidentally, this has been my Supernatural playstyle progression over the years:
Initially: All occults enabled
After every original townie dipshit in Sunset Valley was, through the dark magic of werewolfery and vampiredom, still alive while I was starting the fourth generation of my legacy family: "Fuck werewolves, fuck vampires, let's only have witches and fairies from now on."
After being constantly annoyed by the music obsession of the fairies, that is, currently: "Witches only, bitches."
Anyway, I have got to remember to lock everyone's bedroom doors before inviting these monsters over again... if I ever invite them over again.
Well now, what's this? Hmm. If David is in silly clothes, then... this must be his bachelor party!
My first bright idea was to have him rent the Port-a-Party Warehouse, but exclusive access would have cost him §2400 and, uh, David only has §3200 and change. That's all the family funds, and I still want to throw a bachelorette for Ruby, so David had to settle for renting the Watering Hole Juice Bar, which came in at a much more reasonable price of §320.
Probably because it sucks! But David managed to throw an epic party there nevertheless.
The party was pretty tame before the dancers showed up. I also tried to give it a boost by buying a keg for the party and getting some of the attendees (but mainly David) a bit juiced.
Because I'd never thrown a bacehlor party before, I didn't realize that what time the party ends is entirely up to the host. It began at 11:00 a.m. and didn't shut down until around midnight, when I finally grew impatient enough to send an exhausted-but-exhilarated David home.
