#astrowanderers

Okay, I am aware that this deviates A LOT form the movie (and YES, I watched it to see what I had to work on there). But I also had the freedom for artistic liberties, so... Here are a bit of my thought processes:

Firstly, starting with the original Love Interests... the Princess Legacy challenge says that the heirs should fall in love with their counterpart's best friend. Which is relatively fine to adjust with King Dominic as the pauper's LI, but a version of Julian as the princess' LI is significantly harder to adhere to that stipulation because he is Anneliese's best friend in the movie. And also, they look the same, that's no fun! They have good personalities, but I really saw them as pratically the same person thorought the movie, so it was more of a natural process to condense them both in a single sim, and give the princess a different LI

And that LI is my recreation of Bertie <3 She has like... five lines in the entire movie and captivated me more than any other character. She's cute, she's kind, and the movie does NOT make her justice because all of those five lines went completely ignored by the protagonists. Outrageous. So, naturally, I gave the story a spin to fit her into the role of the princess' LI and pauper's best friend (the latter she already was).

Some other fun facts:

-> The Gen is supposed to live in Tomarang, so I made Ekkarat inspired by ASEAN men - I thought it would be both boring and kind of tasteless to make Tomarang be ruled (or have the princess married to) a bland white boy lol.

-> That being said, he does not follow closely any nationality both because Tomarang by itself is a bit of a mix, and because I didn't have all that much time to go deep into research about it.

-> But he's hot and he wears eyeliner and I kind of drooled at the finished result

-> Also, from what I managed to read, his name means Emperor in sanskrit. And his surname means "wheels rolling", also in sanskrit, but from what I read it is associated a bit with royalty. (then again, I might just be guillible)

-> Bertie did not have a surname in the movie for me to borrow it, so I gave her the surname of her original voice actor (Katherine Barr), and I quite liked the alliteration with my attempt to modernize her name a little bit.

-> She baby. I'd die for Ekkarat, but I'd kill for her. Cutie patootie, just like her movie version.

Addie was born on Magnolia Promenade to a couple of high-end storeowners, but it was in the bustling streets of SanMy that she met her first love: the skateboard.

It all started on a business trip with her parents, where Addie had stayed over on an older cousin's apartment while they immersed themselves on some profit-increasing workshop led by a honey-lipped bigshot coach. The chaos and the fast pace of the city quickly swept her off of her feet, and she started returning to SanMy over and over, until one day, she had never left again.

Truth is, her parents didn't approve of prim and proper slacks replaced by gritty denim, polished shoes exchanged for asphalt-worn sneakers. Said that the city "stole away" their precious boy. That Addie had been corrupted.

But she found herself on her first successful kickflip (after falling on her butt and her face thousands of times). If that feeling wasn't transcendental, she didn't know what was. Her cousin fostered her - detached, not entirely understanding her, but not shunning her either. Peaceful. A place to land, until she could get both her feet on the floor and walk on her own.

She blossomed on the hustle and bustle of the sport. Learned a lot, innovated a lot. Developed her styles, her confidences. Made friends, and became somewhat of a reference in SanMy as she not only revitalized the Gal's Skateboarding League of the city, but also started making her way up competitions.

So far, Addie had won a gold, three silvers and four bronzes on National competitions, and places consistently enough to take part of the Mundial Championships - didn't place on her first, won a silver the next one, and bronze last time. Right now, she's gunning for the gold.

But how do people say it... Luck in the game, bad luck in love? Addie has many friends, but not that many deep connections when it comes to romance. She can woo people left and right, but beyond her first boyfriend - who broke up with her when her dreams of Mundials started to pick up and she had to travel around - nobody really stays. (She doesn't, either.)

Maybe the Beach of Hearts is the place to find someone who will?

Or, at least, charm some new faces and refine her flirting game. That also could work.

Messy, messy girl. Not even she’s exactly sure on why she decided to give this a shot in the first place. Marrying isn’t even on her plans, per se! In fact, it is the last thing in her mind after… that. But well, her siblings keep insisting she should stop being so bitter over it all already and move on, and worst comes to worst, at least she’ll have had some fun, and met a kindred spirit or two in the process. (The bit in the introductory segment, the one talking about the bachelorette’s high school sweetheart and falling too hard, falling, falling, falling endlessly into a hopeless abyss of feelings that will never be reciprocated-) (No. It wasn’t quite like that, was it? At least one of them had been lucky before) (Not her. Why couldn’t it have been her?) …It felt like a familiar enough story.

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Apolline is a fancy gal, fresh from Champs Les Sims, willing to try to princess her way into Deanna's heart.

Is being squeamish, self-absorbed and a snob rather counterproductive to that? Shhh, we don't comment about it.

Because I like to keep everyone on their toes, I won't be publicly declaring any of her preferences or backstory :) Kirsty is receiving a google doc with the rest of her info. This post is merely for you to gawk at her <3

A teenager sim with more ambition than she has common sense, Moxie is always with her head in the clouds. High-energy, with an endless optimism, she's always the one to design wild adventures (and drag her friends along for the ride)

[Song - Lindo Balão Azul]

I tried to keep it as base game as possible, with minimal cc.

Don't mind the lack of lashes. I still need to fix my game lol

Here's a link for individual descriptions

• Name: Gabriel Oliver Magnus

• Age: 29

• Location: San Myshuno

• Occupation: Myshuno’s Event Coordinator / Freelance Programmer

• Traits: Ambitious | Non-committal | Genius

• Aspiration: Leader of the pack

• Skills:

5 - Debate

5 - Handiness 

4 - Programming

3- Charisma 

3 - Logic

• Hobbies: Chess, Interior and exterior designing, Parties (of course)

• Briefly describe yourself and your life: Until college, my life has always been... complicated. Nothing that worthy of mention, since today I do have a steady job in something I love doing. Personality-wise, I would describe myself as a go-getter, I’m not afraid to risk anything to get what I want - be it material things or even relationships. I grew up to not care about those, specially after years of having everyone’s problems dumped upon me. I’m not boring at all though, even if it takes some drinks for me to first loosen up...

• How long have you been single? From my last oficial relationship, around 7 months or so, I really didn’t count it

• Why did your last relationship end? It was... quite overwhelming. We were falling into a boring routine and I really didn’t feel the spark anymore and my ex was becoming more and more clingy on me, without actually trying to mend our relation. I was fed up.

• What are you looking for in a relationship? Somebody who can satisfy me emotionally and intellectually. One of the things I value the most is the call for adventure, the feeling of having somebody who is up to anything with you. I  quickly become bored if the things aren’t interesting. We don’t need to do new things everyday, but a bit of variety isn’t asking much.

• What are you trying to avoid in a relationship? Imaturity. I really want a girlfriend who can deal with her own things, and doesn’t depend that much on me. Its annoying honestly.

> Druid / Half-Elf

> 20 years old

> Born and raised on the secluded woods of Granite Falls

> Healer apprentice

>> Wears few, light clothes, usually in natural tones - yellows, browns and greens.

>> Nature related accessories, such as leaves and flowers

• Gardening is a Passion

• The quiet but hella cute type

• Social Anxiety™

• Like, really, I don’t know how she will survive being surrounded by strangers

• Naive baby that still believes in love at first sight

• “Gifted Child” who has evolved to an extremely perfeccionist and afraid of failure adult

• Almost always overwhelmed with something

• Used the wrong voice tone on her? Oh no, now she is reduced to an huge insecure mess bc of trauma 

• Troubled childhood. Please don’t ask anything. She is trying to leave it behind

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I really hope you (and also Markus) like her!