Scooter 2.1 - Crapshooter
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Hello what's this? Does that say Gen. 2? Is that a new icon? Is that a dog?
Yes, yes, and yes. Welcome to the 2nd generation of the Scooter Legacy! Let's recap: new heiress Josie struck out on her own to reclaim her Brindleton Bae: former next-door neighbour Mat. We pick up in a whole new world...
Thanks for joining me so far. Hope you continue to enjoy the Scooters, friends.
Sable Square - Brindleton Bay...
Josie: ...this is excellent, Swati. Thanks so much.
Swati: Of course, Josie dear. Though I hope you don't mind that it's leftovers. We had a lot left over from our guests the other night....
Josie: No, not at all! God, I must've waited seven years to tell you how much I missed Tamil food. Nothing like it back home.
Jay: (chuckling) But you didn't come all this way just to tell us that, did you, Miss Scooter?
Josie: Er...haha...no, I guess I did not.
Swati: We're very glad to see you, love, don't get us wrong. But what on earth brought you all the way here?
Josie: It's...gonna sound so dumb when I say it out loud, but here goes. (inhale, exhale) It's about...Matangi. We lost contact five years ago, and I just saw him online again, and now he's a fully-licensed vet, and...and...heck, I dunno. I guess I thought we have unfinished business.
Jay/Swati: (chuckling)
Swati: I knew it.
Josie: Come again?
Swati: Josie, what you and Mat had was different. It was special. But it was immature and it ended so suddenly. Through no fault of anyone's of course--that's just life sometimes, hon.
Josie: You...saw it too?
Jay: Josie, we might as well have all been living in the same house during your high school years. Don't you know, parents see all?
Swati: (laughing) I remember, Jyoti loved having another girl around. But not as much as Mat did.
Josie: Does he...still talk about me?
Swati: He doesn't need to. Poor boy's been holding a torch for you forever. I haven't seen him go on one date in seven years.
Josie: That you know of!
Jay: Trust us. He wouldn't even cheat on his favourite poutine place. The point is, Josie...it's great that you're here. This really is a good thing. Now, you're going to go to your hotel, check out, and bring your things here. Tonight.
Josie: Jay...! I never--
Jay: No ifs ands or buts, miss. I owe a favour to Percy and Sebastian. Now go on!
Swati: You can have Harsha's old room upstairs. We're glad you're here, dear.
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Brindleton Bay Animal Hospital ...
Matangi: (humming to himself) ...okay. Negative for frozen mange. That's good. Katarina's going to be so relieved about that.
Man, am I talking to myself? Sheesh, it really do be time to go home.
Matangi: Amma, appa? I'm ho...me...
Josie: (nervously) H--hi, Mat....
Matangi: Josie? Josie Scooter?!
Josie: Yeah, it's me--
Matangi: Jojo!! Holy shit! I mean--oh my god. Oh my god, you're really here? But how? Why? When did you get here?
Josie: Mat! Calm down! (laughing) Let's sit down and talk about it, okay? I think we've got a lot to discuss...
Matangi: Yeah! Yeah. We do.
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Generation 2's power couple and their goals:
Josefine Amy Scooter
Soulmate ~ Geek, outgoing, dog lover, alluring
Josie's goal: Score gold at the obstacle course with a Companion-level dog, and master pet training
Matangi Jayaratnam Silva
Friend of the Animals ~ Good, dog lover, vegetarian, animal affection
Mat's goal: Master veterinary and treat 100 animals at the vet clinic
The first time you met him was in an afterthought sometime last generation, so let me reintroduce my sweet beautiful baby boy.
Cashew Silva
Alaskan Malamute ~ Active, affectionate, adventurous
Brindleton Bay is home to a lot of animals. Some of them cute, and some of them...this.
Skeletal cat: (I am the metric by which the world shall be ｊｕｄｇｅｄ.)
Josie: Okay, Cashew--sit!
Cashew: (confused boof)
Josie: Sit! ... Okay. It seems I have much to teach you, fluffy one.
Josie and Mat spend a lot of evenings in the hot tub, whiling the night away. They'd talk about their lives in the intermediate years between 18 and now. Their dreams, their fears, their hopes--what they wanted to put out into the world.
And sometimes they'd just make fart sounds and seal clap. Take what you can, honestly.
This little guy keeps visiting the Silva house. Presumably in search of human blood to drink.
Creepy cat: (Just a little drink...hehe...then I'll go...for now...)
Josie: Cashew, sit!
Cashew: (sad boof!)
Josie: Come on, buddy! Look, I'll let you play with that guy over there if you give me just one sit!
Other dog: (???? Don't you bring me into this, lady.)
Christ above. Look at these Sims 2-era, 3 polygons max, no-alpha all-painted goddamn pigeons.
Sometimes I really :) love :) having spend money on this game.
Cashew: (loud barking)
Jay: Aaauuugh, Cashew, you big oaf! Go back to sleep! It's 4!
Cashew: (sad whine)
Jay: Yeah, well, you get back to me when you have an 8 AM job.
Matangi spends so many overnighters at the Vet Clinic. Meta: I'm doing this from a gameplay perspective until he hits level 4 of the Vet skill. I mean, he didn't go to 4 years of vet school in the Magical Exposition Void for nothing, right?
Matangi: No I most definitely did not, fellas.
The blow-up mattress is the farthest thing from comfortable. But it is the closest thing to convenient. You may have one but not both.
Of course, the next morning, a curious Miss Scooter went to go visit.
Cashew: (concerned barking)
Josie: Cashew, it's okay bub. You're not going in for a checkup. We're just gonna see Mat!
Cashew: (curious boof?)
Josie: Yeah, you like the sound of that? Let's go see Mat, boy!
Josie: Whoa, hey there studly. Do you greet all your patients like this?
Matangi: Heh, you wish! The general public can't handle all this man meat.
Josie: Pffftssh! Matangi Silva, you are skin and bones and chest hair. Re-lax!
Matangi: Aw, am I not actually hunky?
Josie: (chuckling) I didn't mean it like that. Come on! Get showered. I wanna go somewhere!
Josie: Ugh, eww...what is this awful feeling?
It is most definitely the menstrual cycle mod I installed, then uninstalled because it was The Worst.
Swati: Jay. Jay. Jay. Jayaratnam.
Jay: (wheezing and struggling) Y--yes?
Swati: Don't over-exert yourself! Your knees are gonna give out!
Jay: My knees will give out the day you stop giving out grief. I'm still young and hu--
Swati: Do NOT finish that sentence.
Speaking of weird mods I put in, I also put in a mod for acne. You can't see it, but they're on Mat's face right now. In fact, he gets them quite a lot! I don't think I ever once saw them on Josie.
Matangi: (deep sigh) It's cause I'm always on my damn phone.
Seven years without a dog is far too long, in my honest opinion.
Josie, singing: Sugar, sugar (muttering) oooh~ puppy, puppy~ You are my goodest boy!
Cashew: (satisfied panting)
{A/N: This is a real song I sing to my dog. I think he likes it.}
There's something nostalgic about the suburbs of Brindleton Bay, which is weird because I didn't grow up in a place like it. I don't know. Maybe it just really is that charming.
These dogs gathered around Josie and Cashew like it was some sort of seminar.
Josie: Hey. You guys gotta pay to get in the Josie Scooter Good Boy master class. The price...is one smooch apiece.
Strays: (cute whining)
Josie: Heh heh, payday.
The Silvas are so cute, it almost makes me forget that I separated the younger siblings from them to have a more streamlined household.
Remember them? Jay and Swati's two other kids?
Yeah.
Me either.
I'm not sure how important it is, but Saraswati is a teacher.
Swati, reading: ..."the plague of Justinian is called so because it was caused by the Emperor of Rome at the time: Justin Caesar Saladus Dressingus."
(sigh) You little turds with rocks for brains.
Sebastian baby, you know I love seeing you, but you're really fucking with my immersion here.
Cashew: (Go away! Lore error! Lore error!!!!)
Sebastian: Is this dog...yelling at me?
I don't know who this Sim is (never saw him again) but that hair? He really do be looking cute though.
Random man: Marry me into this legacy I BEG YOU, don't let me die in townie hell.
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Another night, Mat finally took Josie to his favourite spot in town: a fry place called Westerlies, right on the docks.
Matangi: ...you really gotta try the Newfie poutine! You won't regret it.
Josie: Will it give me that East Coast accent like it did you?
Matangi: Wait--I don't have an accent. Do I?
{A/N: This lot was originally uploaded as "La vent se leve" by Iamlolou. I had to do almost no redecorating. I love this place!}
They talked and talked and talked, had their food and talked some more. It was impressive, the ease at which they found themselves moulding back into each others' lives. Equally so, a touch bit embarrassing that they'd seemed to hold out for each other for so long. But their respective seven-year dry spells were becoming worth it.
Josie/Matangi: (laughing)
Josie: No, no--say it again. Please, I'm dying.
Matangi: What do you mean? What's wrong with the way I say "mountain"?
Josie: You really don't hear it? You don't hear "moontin"? You're soooo Canadian!
Matangi: Yeah, I was born here, Scooter!
Matangi: ...I'm glad appa convinced you to stay with us. I really am.
Josie: I'm surprised he did! Kept saying something about how he owes my dads...
Matangi: Ah man, the Dad Team. Percy, Sebastian, and appa.... I'm glad you're here, Josie.
Josie: (chuckling) Me too, Mat. Walk me home?
Matangi: Yep, let me walk you to my home.
Josie: Shut up, moontin boy.
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Couple of things I'm doing differently this time around is the editing. It's a bit less bright, a bit more contrasting. And I'm adding a slight red overlay on top, just to combat the blueness a little bit. Also, I'm writing more dialogue? But I mean, I've kiiiinda been building this ship since they were teenagers so I mean .... Sorry to Percy and Sebastian but Josie's different.
I'll see you next time, friends!
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Date: 2020-05-07 10:49 pm (UTC)I knooow they're so cute and pure, it's uncharacteristic of me