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Beren: Happy Winterfest, Melon.

Melon: Happy Winterfest.

Melon: I hope that eggs and toast is an okay Winterfest breakfast.

Beren: I'm happy with anything you cook for me.

Beren: You don't have to cook for me at all.

Melon: I think it is only fair, I charge for two hours less than you sleep. And I enjoy cooking for you, you are always very appreciative.

Beren: What do you think about doing the same thing as last year? Unless that would make you feel left out from not being able to eat.

Melon: Cafes are cosy, no matter if you eat or not. I would love to go to a cafe.

Melon: You did your hair differently.

Beren: I just felt like dressing up for Winterfest, even though it's just the two of us.

Melon: It suits you.

Beren: Oh, thanks.

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Chapter 34: Beach Episode - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10 - Part 11 - Part 12 - Part 13

Chapter 35: A Short Introduction - Part 1

Chapter 36: She Jinxed It - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Chapter 37: Realisations - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Chapter 38: And a Slightly Longer Introduction - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5

Chapter 39: Thoughts and Feelings - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10 - Part 11

Chapter 40: Compatibility - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10 - Part 11 - Part 12

Chapter 41: The Resolution - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9

Chapter 42: A Spellcaster's Guide to the Universe - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10

Chapter 43: (Re)Connecting - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9

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Melon: Still programming?

Beren: Oh, hi, yes. Don't sneak up on me like that when you come home.

Melon: I have been in our doorless kitchen, 7.63 meters away from you, for the past 38 minutes, baking chocolate chip cookies. They are in the oven now.

Beren: You baked cookies?

Melon: Yes, I baked cookies. For you.

Beren: How come you decided to bake cookies for me? Is it a new hobby?

Melon: You have been feeling down for the past few weeks, and you have started to drown yourself in your studies and programming projects again. This is not much, but I wanted to try to cheer you up. It might be a new hobby too.

Eve: What kind of app is that? You can look at people and decide if you want to meet them?

Kodex: Basically, yes. It is a dating app.

Eve: That sounds useful. I will text Melon about their existence.

Kodex: I am quite sure that Melon knows about dating apps, but I guess it will not hurt.

Melon: Excuse me, Eve texted. I will just answer, and then I can be social.

Eve: Oh, she just wanted to find an artist who can paint her picture. I thought she was looking for someone to go on a date with.

Kodex: This is the date.

Eve: I thought sims eat at dates.

Kodex: I guess he is eating her with his eyes.

Eve: How would that work? Sims cannot eat with their eyes.

Kodex: I did not mean it literally. I meant that he checks her out. Watcher, this scene is awkward.

Eve: It looks like a normal painting session to me.

Melon: There is something I would like to bring up.

Beren: Mhm?

Eve: I do not think she likes her portrait.

Kodex: Neither would I have.

Melon: I know that I have been a bit prickly lately, and therefore probably not too fun to be around. So it might be my fault that we have not hanged out much, but I miss hanging out with you.

Melon: So, I was just wondering, can we do more fun things together again?

Beren: Of course we can! I haven't felt that you've been prickly, I've just had a lot of other things going on.

Eve: Oh, that was an unexpected resolution.

Kodex: But it does make sense. She seemed to be interested in a physical relationship at first, but what she really needed was one built on a strong romantic foundation before going into something more physical.

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Melon: Maybe they are robots.

Kodex: What?

Melon: They do have surprisingly sharp corners.

Eve: Robots? That is creepy.

Kodex: How is that creepy? We are bots too.

Eve: But what if they are placed here by the government, to spy on us.

Kodex: Eve, please do n-

Goldie: Wait, you are right! Other birds, such as ducks and swans, like to swim, but pigeons do not do that. Maybe they cannot be in water because they are machines. It all makes sense now!

Kodex and Melon: ...

Eve: Um… There is one sitting here listening to us right now. It makes me nervous.

Kodex: Goldie, did you have to put ideas into Eve's head?

Goldie: Sorry…

Melon: I am guilty too, I should not have brought it up to begin with.

Melon: Maybe we should go somewhere else, somewhere where there are not any birds.

Kodex: I will check the train timetables.

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Liberty: You know, if you ever decide on trying facial hair again, you should go for a goatee. I think it would suit you.

Beren: A goatee?

Liberty: Yes! Not joking!

Ned: But that would turn him into Evil Beren!

Liberty: Hah, you're right!

Beren: "Evil Beren"?

Ned: You know, like the trope, "beard of evil".

Beren: Can you even imagine me being evil?

Ahriman: Pardon my eavesdropping, but Pinkie is right. A goatee would suit you.

Beren: Huh?

Ahriman: Many people look good in a goatee, and I'm sure that you'd be one of them.

Beren: I doubt it would suit me, but it definitely suits you.

Ahriman: Oh?

Ahriman: I should probably leave before I say something stupid. I always end up hurting people's feelings without meaning to, and you're too cute to not feel bad about it.

Beren: He was flirting, wasn't he?

Liberty: Yes, and you flirted too.

Beren: That was the first time I didn't feel uncomfortable with someone flirting with me.

Melon: Oh, really?

Beren: And what's that supposed to mean?

Melon: Just a hunch, but I think you are wrong.

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Most of the pictures also have links to the posts they're from 🙂

From The Original Ahriman

Ahriman being photogenic. The picture for Arc 2.

These two being... questionable? 😅

(It's just self-woohoo with extra steps...)

Morgyn's training session

The "What do you mean I should treat others the way I want to be treated?" face

Cornelia Goth making her son nervous

Ahriman meeting Harold 🥰

From The Brights

Beren crying 🥺 Taking this screenshot broke my heart

Beren laughing 🥰 When he played Never Have I Ever with Jayden, Cameron, and Julia

Beren reacting to when Melon first started

New chassis colours! Kodex kept their original blue chassis colour, Eve changed to silver, and Melon changed to red

The first time Ahriman saw a bot

Cameron and Jayden breaking up 🥲

Selfie! The picture for Arc 2 😊 (Also, see if you can find something I hid in the background)

Beren and Melon going to a restaurant

Ahriman sitting by the broken portal

Beren "got distracted" 😅 (He started to think about woohoo because of Morgan's questions about love)

Melon being dramatic 😂

The Order of Enchantment when they were found by Julia. I just love how he squints with one eye 😆

Other

✨ Glimmerbrook ✨

And here are four pictures from a Dress Up / Alternate Universe Prompt game. People gave me prompts, and I dressed up my sims in a separate save file. All of these are just me playing around with the ideas from the prompts, so they're completely AU and not canon 😆

Beren as an engineer in the 1800s

Beren as a steampunk engineer

Beren and Andrew at a ball in the 1800s

Beren as a steampunk scientist and Ahriman as a vampire, in the 1800s