Love and Marriage
Oh I love chattering about my Sim neighbourhood, don't I? Well you're in for another one! This time I've had a couple of marriages!
After having Riona get a second lover (Irvine - which is kind of an irony as my Sim-Riona is in love with Sim-Selphie whereas canon!Sephie is - according to what little I know about FF8 - involved with Irvine) via the magic lamp and while exploring the options of what Riona could do to Irvine in that state I noticed that at that level - once a romance has been declared - proposals are available.
Later reading of the manual revealed that proposals are only available between opposite gender couples and are the only way to get a sim of the opposite gender to move in and join the proposor's family.
So, armed with this knowledge I quite deliberately fostered a friendship between Cloud and Aeris (on virtue that he already was 'warm' with her - had the highest friendship rating with her) and now Aeris is a new member of the Valentine household.
This of course left Zack all alone the "The House That Aeris Decorated" (though I did him a bit of a favour and rebuilt the house smaller and less pink) so I had him throw a killer party which managed at one point to have every person in the neighbourhood plus Drew Carey there (it one of those things, like the Mime and some weird hair-coloured gatecrasher, that Drew Carey turns up at lively parties).
All in all the party actually didn't help a great deal (though he's probably aquainted with more people now) and for a few days after I was struggling to improve his flagging social score. I managed however to fix the social score AND gain my goal of getting him a housemate in one so now the Gainsborough Household (Zack kept Aeris' name after she left) consists of Zack and Maia (ne Pleiades - Atlas ain't going to really miss her, one less daughter to buy a bed for when I get around to building his house).
It'll be interesting to see how mixed-up I can get this neighbourhood in the future!
After having Riona get a second lover (Irvine - which is kind of an irony as my Sim-Riona is in love with Sim-Selphie whereas canon!Sephie is - according to what little I know about FF8 - involved with Irvine) via the magic lamp and while exploring the options of what Riona could do to Irvine in that state I noticed that at that level - once a romance has been declared - proposals are available.
Later reading of the manual revealed that proposals are only available between opposite gender couples and are the only way to get a sim of the opposite gender to move in and join the proposor's family.
So, armed with this knowledge I quite deliberately fostered a friendship between Cloud and Aeris (on virtue that he already was 'warm' with her - had the highest friendship rating with her) and now Aeris is a new member of the Valentine household.
This of course left Zack all alone the "The House That Aeris Decorated" (though I did him a bit of a favour and rebuilt the house smaller and less pink) so I had him throw a killer party which managed at one point to have every person in the neighbourhood plus Drew Carey there (it one of those things, like the Mime and some weird hair-coloured gatecrasher, that Drew Carey turns up at lively parties).
All in all the party actually didn't help a great deal (though he's probably aquainted with more people now) and for a few days after I was struggling to improve his flagging social score. I managed however to fix the social score AND gain my goal of getting him a housemate in one so now the Gainsborough Household (Zack kept Aeris' name after she left) consists of Zack and Maia (ne Pleiades - Atlas ain't going to really miss her, one less daughter to buy a bed for when I get around to building his house).
It'll be interesting to see how mixed-up I can get this neighbourhood in the future!