Blair and Her Men!

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For the sheer fun of combining Sims with my long lived viewing of One Life to Live and because it's fun to play out the fantasy we have a situation wherein Blair Cramer is sharing a house with three varied love interests she has had and is likely to have: Todd Manning, Elijah Clarke and Tomas Delgado.

Blair is brave, artistic, dramatic, a good kisser and over-emotional.
Todd is hot-headed, perceptive, childish, athletic and a computer whiz.
Elijah is charismatic, a natural cook, family-oriented, a schmoozer and frugal.
Tomas is artistic, disciplined, eccentric, has a good sense of humor and a virtuoso.

I decided to go with hot-headed over evil for Todd. I can always change that later. Getting them all designed took the longest amount of time. I had more success with some than others. Annoying bits? I can't give Eli his chin dimple and I'm not crazy about his hair. Tomas' hair is too light. Blair only looks vaguely like she should. And I think Todd is a little uncanny in his resemblance.

So I moved them all into a little house together and the first thing that happened was it got hit by an asteroid, leaving bits of rock and scorch marks everywhere. Also, save for cheap bathroom and kitchen implements they've got nothing in the house. We'll see how long it takes for me to crack and cheat them some money. (Sudden Lotto win! Yay!)



This is their little ranch house still being cleaned up. Plenty of room to add on! I let them run around and get to know each other and take care of themselves. Todd's childish trait actually allows him to make friends fairly easily. He plays tag with anyone who's willing and generally everyone is willing at one point or another. Also, Eli, the natural cook, didn't go near the kitchen except to mooch off the burnt waffles or subpar macaroni and cheese that Todd made. Tomas wanted to talk to everyone about art and Blair got complimented a lot.

I put three double beds and one single in the house. A bed for each person but who knew what would happen?

As it turned out, Blair grabbed the single for herself.


Eli and Tomas decided to bunk together and Todd got snippy at being left out. He went and slept in the great big green bed. All alone.

Not what I was expecting...

In the middle of the night, a burglar came... presumably to steal the one remaining bed. God knows there wasn't anything else there and it would have been downright cruel to steal the one toilet or shower in the place.

Blair, being a brave girl, took the bitch down.






And the robber, Julie, was okay with that. Even people getting their ass rightfully kicked by Blair kind of dig her.

The next morning, the guys all hung around together without shirts on. Todd is sneaking up behind Tomas hoping to scare him with his righteous yeti impersonation.



Seriously. Todd lives for this. Pretending to be a yeti and playing tag are, thus far, his great joys in life. As is cooking apparently. He's the first one in the house to get an actual skill point in cooking. To celebrate, he set the stove on fire.



As Sims are want to do, they all ran in to panic about it. Blair, the brave girl, whipped out the fire extinguisher.


The men screamed like children.


And then Eli and Tomas simultaneously caught fire themselves. The fire department arrived and basically said they couldn't do anything. What the hell?! Tomas and Eli burned for a few more minutes and then, miraculously, they were no longer aflame though well and truly scorched. And in foul moods to go along with it.


If I didn't know better, I'd say Todd did it on purpose. If he had been evil rather than just hot-headed, I'd have been certain about it. Better keep an eye on this one.

As if to confirm my suspicions, Todd then goes outside with Blair and macks on her with Tomas' lines about art...


unclogs the toilet as she waits to use it...


and then makes a phone call in the bathroom as she's trying to shoo him out.


See? He's happy about what he's doing.

The next day was spent in mostly fruitless job searches although Todd get a job as an investigator. He runs all over town, interviewing people and doing their dirty deeds... and getting paid for it. His first job require him to hack someone's computer and call them "foul names" on the forums. His second involved stolen mouthwash between a pair of twin ten year old girls. In order to get the goods, Todd was forced to a) hang around the elementary school in an all too creepy fashion while the girl was in school and b) play tag with her until she trusted him enough to tell him that yes, she did steal the mouthwash.

It was all quite unsettling, really.

But with the money (and selling two unnecessary beds) the Cramer harem bought a mirror for Elijah to practice speeches in (and Todd to make faces in), a desk and a computer, and an easel.

Poor bed placement stalled some cuddling but once that got fixed Blair turned into a cuddling whore. First Tomas...


Then Todd, who is wearing his investigator outfit (this shot was taken pre-cuddling)...


And while Eli opted to go to his first day of work before he got into cuddle position, he is the first guy in the house to share a bed with her all night. Although chastely...


Meanwhile, Todd and Tomas went to bed together...


Almost makes you want to ship them, doesn't it? And yes, that's Todd dreaming of Eli. A curious household indeed. By the end of this particular game session, Todd was best friends with Tomas and Eli, Blair had accidentally become an architectural designer, Eli got a job in politics and Tomas wanted to go to China and learn martial arts.

No romantic entanglements yet but, as you can see, it's all set to get messy.