The Ultimate Michael Bachelor

[sevenskellington]

Bella Goth's brother, a Maxis character who appears in all three Sims games, but is practically a different person in each one. In TS1, he's a young guy just out of college with black hair and olive skin. 25 years before that, in TS3, he's a teenager with light skin and brown hair (Thus retconning TS1 Michael to being almost forty) In TS2 they slapped his name on a face 2 template. I decided to combine all three of them and create the Ultimate Michael Bachelor.

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sloppy/neat: 2
shy/outgoing: 8
lazy/active: 2
serious/playful: 6
grouchy/nice: 7

Zodiac: Leo
Aspiration: Popularity
Turn-ons: Blonde hair / Charisma

In TS1, Michael is a Libra, and in TS2 he's a Leo, so I made him a Leo with a Libra-ish personality. Dina Caliente is a Sagittarius, but she has the personality points of a Libra. Dina's zodiac/personality chemistry points tend to cancel each other out because Sims get chemistry points for having a similar personality, but Saggitarius has negative chemistry for Libra. Making Michael another mismatched sign gives them chemistry in both areas. However his original points are so crazy close to Dina's that they even as a Libra he can still get triple bolts with her if their turn-ons are compatible.


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Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Thank you for sharing.

I think you made a good call with his look. I lean more towards his Sim 1 looks as being accurate, because he has the same skintone as Bella there, the Sims 2 version seems like he was just phoned in with a generic Face 2, and Sims 3 is, well, Sims 3. :P I consider it an alternate timeline. I don't see how else to factor it in.

I really love your photos. They're gorgeous. The one on the bottom right looks like one of those official EA Sim illustrations. It's the lighting, I think. Very nicely done.

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

It's weird how TS1 Michael looks the most like Bella when I don't think they were even written to be siblings at that point. The TS3 timeline only works if you figure Michael went through a midlife crisis that inspired him to dye his hair, get a tan, chug ten gallons of the elixir of life, and head back to college...after which he still had no idea what to do with his life. Perhaps that's why he started going after younger women.

They didn't even try with TS2 Michael. I think all the dead Sims are face templates or exact copies of their descendants. I noticed that Flamenco is just Dina as a dude and Jocasta is Bella with blue eyes.

Thank you! I'm always concerned about lighting because I have a really old school monitor, so I'm never quite sure how it's going to look on other people's screens.