Scooter 3.9 - Teenage Dream

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Baby put your hands on me in my skin-tight jeans be my teenage dream ta-niiiiiiite.
Welcome back to the Scooters.

 

As the title suggests, we are seeing the kids age up into teenagers this time around. And it seems I've forgotten to take a picture of Willow having her birthday. So, here she is, suddenly a teenager.

Willow: It's like I don't even get noticed around here.

Raquel Hekekia: That is a very adolescent thing for you to say, Scooter.

Landon and Toro are becoming fast friends. Landon goes over almost all the time because quite honestly, Toro's house "is waaaaayyyy cooler" than his.

Him going over to Toro's is like the only reason I ever go to this part of Sulani lol.

Toro: Do you think if I push you really hard and high, you'd fly away?

Landon: I don't know. Why don't you try?

Toro: I don't wanna do that. I don't want you to go flying, because then I wouldn't be able to find you again.

Landon: You could just grow wings and come after me.

Toro: That's a pretty good idea, actually. And you could grow wings too and we'd both be flying.

Landon: That sounds like a plan. Okay, lemme push you now!

Toro: Okay. But not too hard!

Why are you so sad, Collin?

Collin: (sigh) Everyone's getting older. My babies are growing up right before my eyes. I'm not young and youthful anymore. My bones are old as shit. My eyesight is awful now. (deeper sigh) This patch update sucks.

Well, sorry to say it, Collin, but this legacy's gotta go on. It's a birthday today for the kids whose birthdays I actually took pictures of lol. Happy birthday, Landon and Xander!

Xander: Can we be told apart now? Is it finally time?

Landon: Meh. Don't care. Cake good. Cake is all.

Xander started taking up painting. Well, why not?

...Ah. Well he's got a long way to go.

Xander: Well, I think my art is WONDERFUL and everyone should say so.

Not really sure what the hell Randy's work is supposed to entail. I think EA is literally going at from a "Bond girl" stance. Yeah... no.

Randy: Do you think if I started signing things as "Randall Bond" I could get a halfway decent work outfit or nah?

Oh yeah, I guess Toro had to age up too. So here's him with new green hair.

Toro: I'm just quirky and fun like that, y'know? Haha. I have bleach burns.

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Who is Toro Katalunan? Like Matangi before him, he came from the Chane legacy, a story-based Sims 3 save I used to have focused on different demons/spirits/etc. The OG Toro's story was based around him rejecting his family's conditioning of him to reject being gay, and falling in love with a childhood friend. There were some aspects of his story that I wanted to keep, so I kept a lot of things similar--just without the implied conversion therapy. Cause...that's...dark and honestly, just not what I like to talk about anymore.

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Not super important really but here are Toro's parents. His mother is Iro Katalunan, and his father, who looks...EXACTLY like him, is Takeo Nishimura. They were gonna have more of a point to them but eh. 2 much story 4 me.

Landon: This is cool. I've never been here before.

Toro: I dunno. I just thought I'd take you somewhere different for once.

Landon: Aw, thanks T-Katz. Am I allowed to drink?

Iro, who is the bartender for some reason: Your mothers would never forgive me, Landon. Sorry.

Landon: Awww.

Toro: Thanks for coming out, Landon.

Landon: Toro, you don't need to start getting all formal on me--we've been hanging out since we were like 7.

Toro: I know, I know, it's just...I just want you to know I appreciate you, man.

Landon: Okay, okaaaayyyy. Don't get emo. Thank you for inviting me.

Another night, on her end, I thought it'd be nice to give Willow a little something something. A little romancey-mancey. I put down a lovely restaurant and she asked out a school friend.

Said ~school friend~ is a boy named Simon Munch, who is apparently the son of Gunther Munch and Venessa Jeong. He looks just like his dad.

Willow: I like the view.

Simon: You do? You're my best view.

Willow: ...heh.

And, well, I could've waited for like a couple more dates but Iiiiiii didn't want to. She's not even the heir anyway and so any attempt at story would just be for naught.

What I'm saying is, go get'em, Willow.

After frantically tearing apart the TS4 world for collectibles and boiling them down into their constituent elements, only to receive the same piece of Woohooium 102983 times...Collin's element table is complete!

And that means, so is her aspiration!

✓ Collect all available elements and assemble into a periodic table display

Bruh Collin, you just completed your life's goals. What the hell is the matter?

Collin: My life's goals aren't gonna fix the fact that my sink breaks every time I look at it wrong!!!!

Xander, whispering: Did you hear? Willow's got a boyfriend!

Landon, whispering: No waaaaaay. When she gonna tell moms?

Xander: I don't know, but she better do it before I do.

Landon: Xan, you wouldn't.

Willow, at normal volume: Shut up, dweebs. They already know. God, you two are unbelievably uncool.

Xander: Fine. Well, Lando, I hear you've been hanging out a lot with Toro too.

Landon: Well, yeah, that isn't new--we've been hanging since we were kids.

Xander: I'm just saying, I know something about Toro you don't.

Landon: W--what? What? What do you know? Xander! Don't hold out on me!!!

Apparently ole boy Simon lives in Del Sol Valley with his two older siblings and mother Venessa. Whatever, fuck it. Willow visited him one time.

Willow: You're so soft. You're like a pat of golden, delicious butter.

Simon: I'm just sweaty :)

Willow: Please let me compliment you.

When I first saw this going on I thought he was YELLING at my best girl and I was about to be so punt this little nerd off the surface of the planet. Turns out they're just...making weird faces at each other??? Some kind of mating ritual? idk man

Going through these screenshots I was so confused as to why I had a bunch of just Landon fishing at all hours of the day, when I remembered that was the aspiration I decided he'd have growing up. Anyway here's a gigantic fish.

Well, Landon didn't catch many fish, but he did catch a passerby best friend on his way home.

Toro: Hey man. Nice tits.

Landon: Thanks, bro. Yours too, if you didn't cover them up, prude.

This has...serial killer energy and I don't know why.

Xander: (humming nervously to himself) Please someone come home soooooooooon.

Couple things I love about this shot. Cute Randy and Collin, for starters. Cute Willow recognising the cuteness of her moms. And also how Willow is basically baby Collin with Randy's hair. I just love that idk

Xander's got the Childish trait, I think, which is great, cause now I don't have to spend that much money keeping him happy.

Xander: Haha serotonin machine go bbrrrrr

Okay, Miss Collin! I see you've upped your cooking game and your Tofurkey is no longer coming out ugly and bad!

Collin: That's called character development, ladies.

Just a nice, lovely dinner with the family. And not a burnt Tofurkey leg or an angry alien (remember those days?) in sight. That's nice.

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Can you believe we're at the end of this generation, almost? One more to go and then we get to, what I think is, the most fun generation thus far. Can't wait. See y'all then!