#danielp

Daniel: Gods, this again? Please, just forget it and take these fruit snacks.

Nathalie: This is what I mean!

Daniel: So you don’t want the fruit snacks?

Nathalie: …

While being out of contract, Daniel took up a job as Malcolm Landgraab's personal trainer, assisting him in his workouts a couple times a week.

Daniel: There you go Malcolm, excellent work! You'll be lifting weights twice this heavy by next week for sure.

Malcolm: Thanks, Daniel. Oh by the way... About that football team we talked about the other day...

Daniel: Did you manage to buy them?

Malcolm: That's the thing... They backed out of the original offer, the bastards, and I won't go above my initial price, so the deal is off.

Daniel: I see... Well, I'll— I'll find another team to coach, surely.

Malcolm: I'm not sure I could have made you coach anyway, they seemed really adamant to keep their current one.

Daniel: It's okay. ... Now, let's get back to those legs!

The Pleasants

If two stubborn teenage daughters fighting each other all day wasn’t stressful enough to endure at home already, Mary-Sue discovered her husband has been sleeping with the maid behind her back while she was spending her days working hard to climb the career ladder better the lives of SimCity citizens through the political party she’s been a lifelong supporter of. Her “insane grindset” (as Lilith put it) only resulted in a couple of demotions and now her marriage was in shambles too. For the sake of her reputation and their monthly income, she decided not to kick Daniel out and to try to work things out with him, but years later Daniel is still trying his luck by flirting with women in fancy downtown bars (being a literal football superstar he doesn’t have to try too hard) and Mary-Sue prefers to spend her free time with her clay and pottery station instead of her husband, so their relationship has been stagnating at the cold stage for a while. Trying to control their daughters and keeping an eye on their boyfriends has served as a great bonding activity for a while, but now that Angela and Lilith are off to university and there are no more unannounced high school parties to come home to and rage about, Mary-Sue and Daniel will have to face just how hollow they have become.

Unlike Marcel, Sophia is doing well at her job. So well that she seems to have sparked the interest of the men’s team’s superstar, Daniel Pleasant...

Daniel: Congrats on your well-deserved promotion to All Star! That’s an impressive achievement, for a woman.

Sophia: Uh, thanks? Not sure that means anything in a women’s team though...

Daniel: Cheers, let’s drink to that!

Sophia: Cheers!

Daniel: Mmm, your husband’s nectar is top tier.

Mary-Sue: I find it weird you don't want to come home to your family for Christmas, but it's what I'm used to from you, Lilith. But Angela too? What's there to do on campus throughout the holidays? Will you at least come visit before Christmas? Just to see my daughters one last time this year.

Mary-Sue: I didn't get you a present, Lilith. I figured you wouldn't like anything I'd have bought you. But I want to give you something. Go buy yourself something nice from it. Something legal, if possible.

Daniel: So you're saying this will make her forgive me and fall in love with me again?

Melba: Oh, love, forgiveness... such big words. I cannot guarantee anything beyond desire.