You’re all invited to advise me on who Allison should make babies with! I have a sort-of favorite, but we’ll see what you think!
Remember, we are looking for INTERESTING faces. I find that perfectly beautiful faces are often not interesting. But this is also not an uglacy. I’m only going to include sims I think fit the criteria.
In the order Allison met them:
Marigold Maldano
Marigold is the only fairy Allison has met so far. Her face didn’t immediately interest me, but the more I look at it, the more distinctive it seems. I’m pretty tired of that old hairstyle. If she wins, I’ll give her a new one. But she’s a a very fierce, determined face.
Hetal Anjali
Hetal is a witch.
If this were an Uglacy, Hetal’s mother Jin Anjali would win hands down. She’s the most amazingly ugly EA sim I’ve ever seen. Jin was assigned to be a (heh) Stylist in my town, and when I saw her on the street, I just had to pause the game and stare. She’s more impressive in the game — more like ugly as an art form.
Hetal, on the other hand, grows on me the longer I look at her. She’s really rather exotically attractive. She’s a teen, but I am more than happy to age her up.
I’m taking Param Singh out of the running because his face doesn’t interest me. Also, he’s the only supernatural Allison met who was already married. OTOH, he has a brother and sister-in-law in Starlight Shores who look MUCH more interesting. They may show up in Moonlight Falls at a later date.
Rick Lugosi
Rick is a vampire. As we mentioned in comments, he’s an EA sim inspired by Bela Lugosi, the original 1930s Count Dracula. Despite the age lines, he’s an Adult. It looks like he has a subtly off-green skintone, I assume using the new color sliders.
Chris Whoovian
Chris is an Adult werewolf. He’s a celebrity sim of the 9th Doctor Who. I dropped him into the game for genetic diversity, and also because I like Doctor Who :).
He’s the only sim I don’t have a terribly good picture of. Also, the game inexplicably changed his hair — his original hair is an EA hair. I didn’t notice immediately, but I think the one he was designed with looks better on him.
Here are his promo shots from ModtheSims, which should give you a better idea of what he looks like.
I do have to say that if this were the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant, there would be no poll. He’s in the game, but Allison didn’t meet him. I reserve the right to drop him back in the game later to pair off with some future heir.
And last but certainly not least, William Pierce.
William is, as you might expect, a vampire. He’s a sim of Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is by far the hottest sim in the poll, but Spike’s always had an incredibly interesting face, and I think this is one of the best sim look-alikes I’ve ever seen. He should be thinner. Spike always seemed to have about -10% body fat. Whether or not he wins the heir poll, I may tweak his weight and see if I can’t get a thin sim with all those lovely muscles.
On the negative side, he’s currently engaged to Buffy’s sim, Beatrice Saunders. Breaking them up might be a little rough on us Spuffy ‘shippers.
One thing that WordPress really seems to have going for it is the ability to put the poll IN THE POST. As far as I can tell, Blogger only lets you put one on the sidebar. I think I’ll edit this post when the poll is closed to put in the results for posterity.
You can vote for more than one option in the poll. Just don’t vote for EVERYONE :).
Also, to my deep annoyance, I don’t seem to be able to change the text color on the choices. Sorry. You can always drag-select over them to read them :-p.
This is really tough… I already know that I won't vote for Chris Whoovian, I really don't like him at all. The other ones look fairly interesting, especially Hetal and William. (Spike <3) Probably my choice will be one of those two. There are six days left; I should be able to decide by then.
Well…. I'll point out that poll takes multiple votes. I always do it that way, just so long as nobody votes for EVERYONE, it's OK :).
Oh, right, I didn't see that. This is good 😀
(You're right. If every voter takes everyone, the result is not that clear 😉 )
I am totally biased in favor of Hetal, and not just because we have the same haircut. (It's because I love her nose.) Also, purely for plot reasons- not that I know anything about the Sims, but you are making me want to learn!- it seems like the story would be more interesting if partners don't work together.
Whee! What a surprise to see you here! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
If you don't tell a sim what to do when it's a part of your household, the game chooses some autonomous action based on the sim's traits, needs (e.g. hunger and fun), and whatever is available on the lot. The point of the "I'm Surrounded by Idiots" challenge is to control only one sim per generation and leave the others completely on autonomy. It's supposed to be a really goofy challenge — autonomous sims do wacky, irrational things. It's not possible to be a firefighter on game autonomy, so Chris or William would have to change jobs.
Oh, tough! Breaking up Spuffy might be tough, but having the opportunity to look at Spike for a whole generation is tempting! I'm also enjoying Hetal and Chris (I enjoy a good werewolf!). I can see the Dr Who resemblance a lot more in the promo pictures. I've never watched that show, but Hubby is obsessed with it.
I have a lot of common interests with your hubby. 🙂 Doctor Who is a lot of fun. The scripts are really smart, the acting is good, and the production values are high. Episode themes run the gamut from social issues to far-future hard sci fi. There's a lot you can do with the time-traveling future cowboys premise.
Like most Who fans who are interested in guys, I'm carrying a torch for the 10th Doctor. David Tennant doesn't have James Marsters (Spike)'s body, but he was charming as heck, and he had that character nailed.
Hubby has a favorite companion (can't remember which one, probably a red head though) but seems to like all of the Doctors. He likes to try talking to me about the episodes and they do seem interesting. It'd be hard for me to watch it with him, though, since he'd feel the need to explain every little historical detail to a newbie like me and that would drive me nuts!
So, I used my vote to record my friend Gina's, who is reading on her iPhone and can't get into the poll (hmmm — must find a better way to do this). I will include my actual vote when I announce the tally.
I'm also shortening the poll a lot. I didn't mean to leave it up for 6 days. I think we may already have most of the votes we're going to get. I'm kind of thrilled that we've actually gotten as many votes as we have!
I have to say that for a control freak like me, a poll on a major game event has been interesting. Heh.
Ok, I'm totally voting for Hetal just because I know what you mean about her mom…she was so spectacular that I had to save her to my bin for…I have no idea what, but I couldn't let her get away. I was so excited that she had a daughter and had hopes that she and Spike 2.1 (the only male in my Mylipones so far) would glean some interest, but so far, no dice…like everyone else in the family, he's only into married women. -_-
I may also vote for Chris, though…I hate to admit that my husband got me into Doctor Who, after much resistance on my part, and it took me all of about five minutes to become fascinated with the Doctor….so much so that I still haven't accepted the Tenth, even though everyone I know has told me he's amazing. We're only on his second episode, so we'll see…
Ha! Jin would actually be a pretty good founder for a prettacy. Though honestly, you can you extreme sliders to make something far more distorted. Part of what makes Jin so captivating is that she's more believable. I kind of do want to keep her around for…. something. I'm certainly going to track her offspring if she has any more.
Why on EARTH would you hate to admit to liking Doctor Who??? I know you have geek taste in media. That show is incredibly awesome.
My heart belongs to the 10th Doctor, but it does appear that whoever you started with is the one you love best. We started with the 10th and went back to watch the 9th piecemeal, and I just never got attached to him. You gotta give Christopher Eccleston credit for rebuilding an iconic character and making it work. He must have been captivating. I just watched him wrong, I think.
But the 10th is amazing. I'm sure you need more than two eps to fall in love. I didn't start liking the 11th until a good 6 or 7 episodes. He seemed like he was trying to kinda be like the 10th but not too much. Then somewhere in there he just clicked and became his own guy.
I know I'm too late for this one, but I would have voted for either Marigold or Spike … although, I feel sorry for Beatrice/Buffy, but she can take one for the team 🙂
I resisted for so long partly because it's British, and I have a hard time with British stuff…I'm not sure why; I love Harry Potter (sidenote: did you know that David Tennant actually played Barty Crouch, Jr. in Goblet of Fire? The hubs found out and pointed it out to me quite gleefully the other night.)…I think I had a different idea of what Doctor Who is about; you're right, it *is* actually kind of awesome…it's just really hard for me to admit that I really am that much of a geek. :-
I also think you're right about people becoming attached to their "first" doctor; I was actually talking to one of my coworkers about that. He didn't care for Chris at all, BUT he had also grown up with the series, so he's familiar with the older doctors. I'm actually really interested in trying to see the original series at some point…
Omg, I'm using the Anjali's in one of my stories, too (which has yet to be published because of my Percectionist trait- seriously I've been working on chapter 1 for 3 months and I'm only half-way through!)! I'm also going to use them in another story but, at the rate I'm going, that might be another 5 years lol. Both Jin and Hetal would be great for an uglacy, like you said. I wrote an uglacy a year ago and, unfortunately, I couldn't use either one of them but I did use Chase Bayless from Twinbrook! Whenever you get bored, check it out at my blog: legendsofthesims3.blogspot.ca. I think you'd get a kick out of it! 🙂
I think the Anjalis are awesome. I'm seriously considering moving this family to Twinbrook if I get tired of Moonlight Falls. It seems like it has the wackiest faces. Though there are some good ones in Starlight Shores, too. I'm not sure I'm going to get tired of Moonlight Falls, though :).
I added your blog to my reading list.
Where did you get the Spike and Buffy inspired sims? My game needs them!
Hi there! I picked them up from different designers.
Spike: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=312899 (that headshot isn't that flattering, but you see him in my game)
Angel: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=104422
Here's Buffy: http://whedonsims.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/buffy-by-summersong86/
I'm also using this Dawn: http://whedonsims.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/dawn-by-edejan/
I changed all their traits to make them more closely match the characters to me — nobody who creates a simalike seems willing to give them negative traits. Spike's include Hopeless Romantic, Hotheaded, and Mean Spirited. Angel is Perceptive (in the Private Eye sense) with Commitment Issues. Buffy is Workaholic.