#ts2 jrpg

[kingdomofwildwood]

Athol invites Renna over to get to know her a little better and ask some questions. Questions about things like 'dowry prices' and 'her opinions on sheep'.

Unfortunately... while Renna is, technically, bisexual, she really doesn't seem to be all that interested in boys. She's happy to swoon over Athol from afar, but the second they start talking, she just gets this look on her face and starts to stare into the middle distance...

It might be that the only young men she knows are Athol and Pond Taverner, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[asimplevampire]

Gods bless @blueheavensims for the 9AM set he's been working on. I think having to individually recolour 83093890384 things in this style would actually Kill The Vampire.

[kingdomofwildwood]

Aimee decides to intervene. Unfortunately, she decides to do this in the most awkward way possible.

"You know, back when we were still orphan wanderers, Athol spent an entire day staring at a clam?"

"GAAAAAASSSSSSSP"

[kingdomofwildwood]

"...Oh, brother, is that awkwardness I hear?"

Athol: "You remind me of a sheep, standing in a field, who's just met another sheep..."

Renna: I swear to the Watcher I will end you if you say one more word about sheep.

[kingdomofwildwood]

Renna does not want to listen to Athol talk about the weather. Renna does not want to talk about shearing sheep, or the price of sheep, or the diseases of the sheep.

And Renna definitely does not want to listen to Athol's awkward, half-baked, sheep-centric compliments.

[kingdomofwildwood]

"Uh-oh. Why do I hear the random encounter music?"

A wild Treant appears!

Renna attacks with her Makeshift Longbow!

And with a Combo Attack from Renna and Athol...

the treant is destroyed!

[kingdomofwildwood]

Aimee knows full well that she's... competitive. Very, very competitive.

Brighton says that she's, perhaps, a bit too competitive, and that if she's not careful, someone's going to take her down a couple pegs one of these days. No one likes the noogie queen of the high seas, after all.

...Aimee, privately, thinks that she needs something to do about it. If she just had someone to compete with, about something that mattered- mayyybe she wouldn't need to pick fights with the other girls. But Brighton won't let her do anything interesting- not the archery or axe throwing competitions on the village green, not taking care of the sheep beyond bringing them hay every so often, and certainly not anything as crass as going into business. She's to be a lady someday, he says, and she needs to act like it.

It all leaves Aimee feeling very, very stuck.

[kingdomofwildwood]

It's dangerous to spend too much time on the beach- the coasts are infested with pirates- but there's an isolated cove that Aimee and Athol know pretty well, where they go to spend time alone together.

They call themselves twins, and no one really has the heart to challenge this.

After all, they're so much alike.