As documented elsewhere, Sally Raptor was the second Sim that I created, and I made her Romance pretty much without knowing what I was getting into. Since she's just recently attained a significant milestone toward her life's ambition I thought this would be a good time for a bit of a retrospective on her life (and particularly on her loves).
She showed her Romance colors at once, by wanting to kiss and make out and fall in love and all like that there. The fact that her female neighbors were about eighty-leven times as attractive as her male neighbors (in my completely unbiased opinion) meant that she ended up with some very close lady friends to start with.
Sally's first love: Ivy Copur
The adult Ivy Copur, of course;
not the teenager by the same name.
And her second love: Christy Stratton
I hadn't discovered the snapshot
size and quality settings yet, sadly; and it took me awhile to
get in the habit of taking pictures with walls up and a
little thought for composition.
Sally burned dinner badly enough to start a fire one night, and the fireman turned out to be a very nice man.
Third time lucky: Mitch Lawson
Eleanor and Gina's father, eventually.
(Eight thousand Aspiration points for that "Woohoo with
three different Sims" want, I think.)
Andrea Hogan, another sweet local woman, completed the quadrumvirate that kept Sally happy for a nice long stretch of Sim time, as her daughters grew up and she reached the top of her profession.
Sally's fourth love: Andrea Hogan
Andrea eventually fell in love with Sally's
daughter Gina also; we like Andrea.
Time passed. Sally's daughter Eleanor fell in love with Kaylynn the maid, who moved in and then later moved out. Sally and Kaylynn were good friends while Kaylynn was living in the house; after she moved out she came back often to visit, and they became more than friends.
Love number five: Kaylynn Langerak
All this sharing of lovers has of
course led to some interesting Sim-management puzzles for me; I've
generally succeeded pretty well, knock wood.
Somewhere in here (when I installed University) Sally realized that her real ambition in life revolved, not around her family or her career, but around love. She wanted lovers by the handful, by the score. (Exactly a score, in fact.) Five was nice, but ten would be better, and twenty would be heaven.
Some longtime casual acquaintances began to become less casual.
Love number six: Melissa Fancey
This is why my weblog readers
tease me about Hot Girl On Girl Action. What can I say?
Love number seven: Goopy GilsCarbo
I think it was seeing him in his
work clothes rather than those awful shorts that got her interested
in the good Dr. G.
Sally was running short on adult neighbors; fortunately her daughter Gina had made many good friends in college, and introduced her to some fascinating young people.
Love number eight: Forrest Jones
A little Mrs. Robinson cradle-robbing
going on here. Doesn't she look happy, though?
Love number nine: Allegra Gorey
Normally I try to keep Raptors away
from people who are in other relationships, and Allegra has
Castor Nova back at SSU. But somehow a lesbian affair with
an older woman seemed in character for her; she's edgy.
And finally, or at least most recently, pretty blonde Jan Telleman, who has been wandering in and out of lots in Neighborhood One since the beginning without really touching anyone's life, dropped in one afternoon.
Reminiscing about school.
They actually didn't get along
at first, but no one can resist Sally for long.
Within a day or two, Sally was halfway to her life's ambition.
And love number ten: Jan Telleman
Half way home.
So there's Sally, my second and still my favorite Sim. Will she manage to find ten more loves before her supply of Elixir runs out? (As if I'd ever let that happen.)