for some reason in my (cursed? blessed?) sims game i am able to invite the grim reaper to parties, and now he regularly shows up even if i donβt invite him. he often brings ceviche. normal quality. heβs a decent party guest except for the fact that the only interaction you can have with him is to slow dance. naturally i made one of my sims slow dance with him, which gave him the notification βwe have a lot in common! id love to get to know you betterβ. so anyway, a couple of days and parties later, itβs 6 am and my sim gets a phone call. itβs death. he wants to know if i want to go on a date.Β
naturally my sim accepts. death takes him to the school stadium in the rain and stands outside, unable to be interacted with, while a thought bubble containing my simβs face pops up over his head for a simlish hour, over and over again, carrying a rainbow umbrella while my sim sits on the ground and considers the hollowness of life.Β
remembering that all i can do is slow dance with him, i drive him to moonlight point, where thereβs a couch and a record player, and i slow dance with him for about 5 hours. every 2 seconds he steps on my simsβ foot, to the point where it was hard to get decent pictures of them actually slow dancing.Β
after a while my sim got hungry so i let him go drink some juice, and death went and started reading a book on a couch. i went and sat next to him, wondering if there would be any new interactions since you get different ones when you sit on a couch or bench, and lo and behold i discovered, not only can you slow dance with death, you can also cuddle with him. naturally i did so because the quality of dates is determined by the number of positive social interactions you have with someone, and slow dancing unfortunately doesnβt give you any of those, but cuddling does. anyway, once you start the cuddling animation, you get fancy new options like kiss and make out, so my sim spent the next six hours making out with death on a shitty couch at the beach in a thunderstorm while listening to sim!bastille.Β
after a couple dozen make out sessions, a single option appeared under the Romanticβ¦ heading: βtake a romantic photo togetherβ. this only shows up once youβre a romantic interest of someone. i have now successfully wooed death. knowing that selecting this option would make death stand up from the couch and i likely wouldnβt be able to get him to sit again, i decided to end the date at the tender hour of 3 am (i guess death doesnβt sleep) with a kiss. it takes a while- death canβt seem to figure out where to stand or how to walk around a foosball table- but eventually i get my picture.
but apparently death doesnt like having his picture taken.Β
i try to slow dance again with him, but the option has disappeared. i have committed an irreparable social faux pas. i sit on the couch again in the hopes that death will resume reading his book and i can cuddle with him again, but instead he stands in front of the bookshelf for an hour. i take a break, leaving my sim to his own devices for a while while i check in on my other sims, since one of them just went into labour. i deal with that. when i return, i find my sim drinking juice in silence with death still standing in front of the bookshelf, but heβs changed into this sick new outfit in the interim.Β
beekeeper chic. finally, at 6 am, death decides heβs had enough. he will never forgive me for my social blunder of taking a selfie while lipping at his shadowy veil. he opens up his rainbow umbrella and leaves.Β
the date doesnβt end until i get home. i receive no date notification. death doesnβt even deign to let me know how badly i fucked up. all i have to remember my 24 hour gay liaison with one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is a single selfie. i hang it over my sims bed, a constant reminder to him that he has achieved ultimate goth status, and a warning to the others he dates: i have kissed death, and he never called me back.
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