My eldest child saved up their pocket money for a game that I snuck a turn on
I had snuck my turn when doing Mouse’s evening childcare, and Mouse became a tremendous fan of Tomodachi-version of Charlie. Charlie, coded by the game as an Energetic Charmer, won their entire heart.
This evening, Bear came home from school and went to play their game, but was stymied - Mouse wanted to watch them play, but screamed the house down because Bear’s island had a catastrophic lack of Charlie.
Because I was trying to make dinner, Bear kindly agreed to play my island with Mouse instead. As they were doing me a favour (removing the Mouse complication) I only asked one favour- that they not provoke any romances that did not already exist.
The only romance on the island was that Derek was smitten with Killie, who barely registered his existence in return.
Bear came screaming into the kitchen, stratospheric with excitement, over the resulting DEREK CONFESSING HIS FEELINGS SCENE.
Bear screamed like a GIBBON. Mouse leaped violently around the kitchen. I have never really talked about my Original Characters with people in my life, let alone my children.
Bear dropped to their knees in supplication. “IF WE ONLY SEE KILLIE SMILE,” they screamed of a fictional little man they’d known for ten minutes, “ILL SURVIVE.”
Bear screamed so much at this that Dr Glass came in from the garden, storming: “Billy (Bear’s lifelong friend who lives three houses down) can hear you screaming from his house!”
A drama that WRACKED THE NEIGHBOURHOOD!!
