Chapter 10 Thoughts and Outtakes
Ready for my huge long rant about the latest chapter? No? Good.
Okay, so I don't know if you guys got the beginning or not, but in that box was supposedly Gearston, and when he was re-awakened, he lost his accent. Honestly, I never liked writing Gearston's accent because, like I told Jane, I'd never heard one before, so it was really hard for me to write.
Also, I have no idea why Chandler was snoozing during this scene, but it made me giggle, so I decided to incorporate it. Then he made the perfect angry face when I woke him up. I'd only ever seen that once before, you know.
"Bleh! We've come to steal your souls!"
This picture made me laugh so hard. Lee and his outgoing points and Cindy and her perma-smile.
I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this part of the plot to unravel. Since before gen. 2 went to college, if I remember correctly. That seems like so long ago. Wow. Probably when Lily was a teenager. I brainstormed about who she'd fall in love with and I imagined this guy, Chris, if you remember, who has a daughter already. He comes home after college and surprise surprise! In comes Vera. We never do find out who Vera's mom is because Eric enters the room and he's all teenified and adorable and OMG! Lily's such a bad person for forgetting his birthday. So that gave me a lot of flexibility with her character as opposed to giving her a set stereotype right there.
I have no idea what part of my brain spawned her unidentifiable accent, but it just came out as I wrote her, and the more I wrote in that accent, the more fun I had. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, but maybe one day I'll make a recording of what I imagined it would sound like and post it on here.
I don't know if anybody wonders/cares how I got these shots of Cindy closing the window and disarming the alarm, but I just downloaded an open windows hack that I thought was super cool and used one of the animations for the dorm doors. After configuring an angle where you could realize what she was doing, and get a vague idea of what Lee was about to do, I took the picture and placed it in the story.
I'll admit that the whole Esther portion of the story wasn't planned at all. I had Kevin introduce himself to Esther, and all the rest of the shots are autonomous. A little bit of creativity was required on my part when it came to the date. At that point, I didn't have a very good analysis of Esther's character and was just going to go with what she gave me on the date, but then Esther left as soon as she arrived on the lot. I didn't have enough time to call her back to the lot so I had to make do with what I had.
Funny little tidbit I thought you'd enjoy, this picture is actually a picture of Kevin throwing water in Jenny Smith's face.
Now to my least favorite part of the chapter, June's crush scene. Now I'm going to be honest with you all, I was completely uncomfortable with this scene. The thought of June having a crush on Andy was a little unbearable for me, just because his character is so nasty and obnoxious that a girl like June wouldn't fall for him. But, the more I thought about it, the more her character made sense. Yes she's arrogant and obnoxious, but at heart, she's really a good girl. Of course she'd fall for Andy, looking for the best in him. I think we've all heard of relationships where the girl just can't see her boyfriend's flaws? Yeah, that's the relationship I could picture June in.
Now, I know I said that Ezra and June were sharing an apartment, but I have a mac, and no AL for me! So I had to actually build a residential area on Twikkii Island and construct an apartment-esque building. To be honest, I think it looks quite nice.
Also, Ezra's favorite spot on the beach is the rock.
In case you guys were wondering, Chandler really does win every pool game he plays. Watch out, he'll hustle you.
"All I wanna do,
Pew, pew, pew, pew!
And a,
Ching!
And take ya money..."
Okay, so I don't know if you guys got the beginning or not, but in that box was supposedly Gearston, and when he was re-awakened, he lost his accent. Honestly, I never liked writing Gearston's accent because, like I told Jane, I'd never heard one before, so it was really hard for me to write.
Also, I have no idea why Chandler was snoozing during this scene, but it made me giggle, so I decided to incorporate it. Then he made the perfect angry face when I woke him up. I'd only ever seen that once before, you know.
"Bleh! We've come to steal your souls!"
This picture made me laugh so hard. Lee and his outgoing points and Cindy and her perma-smile.
I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this part of the plot to unravel. Since before gen. 2 went to college, if I remember correctly. That seems like so long ago. Wow. Probably when Lily was a teenager. I brainstormed about who she'd fall in love with and I imagined this guy, Chris, if you remember, who has a daughter already. He comes home after college and surprise surprise! In comes Vera. We never do find out who Vera's mom is because Eric enters the room and he's all teenified and adorable and OMG! Lily's such a bad person for forgetting his birthday. So that gave me a lot of flexibility with her character as opposed to giving her a set stereotype right there.
I have no idea what part of my brain spawned her unidentifiable accent, but it just came out as I wrote her, and the more I wrote in that accent, the more fun I had. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, but maybe one day I'll make a recording of what I imagined it would sound like and post it on here.
I don't know if anybody wonders/cares how I got these shots of Cindy closing the window and disarming the alarm, but I just downloaded an open windows hack that I thought was super cool and used one of the animations for the dorm doors. After configuring an angle where you could realize what she was doing, and get a vague idea of what Lee was about to do, I took the picture and placed it in the story.
I'll admit that the whole Esther portion of the story wasn't planned at all. I had Kevin introduce himself to Esther, and all the rest of the shots are autonomous. A little bit of creativity was required on my part when it came to the date. At that point, I didn't have a very good analysis of Esther's character and was just going to go with what she gave me on the date, but then Esther left as soon as she arrived on the lot. I didn't have enough time to call her back to the lot so I had to make do with what I had.
Funny little tidbit I thought you'd enjoy, this picture is actually a picture of Kevin throwing water in Jenny Smith's face.
Now to my least favorite part of the chapter, June's crush scene. Now I'm going to be honest with you all, I was completely uncomfortable with this scene. The thought of June having a crush on Andy was a little unbearable for me, just because his character is so nasty and obnoxious that a girl like June wouldn't fall for him. But, the more I thought about it, the more her character made sense. Yes she's arrogant and obnoxious, but at heart, she's really a good girl. Of course she'd fall for Andy, looking for the best in him. I think we've all heard of relationships where the girl just can't see her boyfriend's flaws? Yeah, that's the relationship I could picture June in.
Now, I know I said that Ezra and June were sharing an apartment, but I have a mac, and no AL for me! So I had to actually build a residential area on Twikkii Island and construct an apartment-esque building. To be honest, I think it looks quite nice.
Also, Ezra's favorite spot on the beach is the rock.
In case you guys were wondering, Chandler really does win every pool game he plays. Watch out, he'll hustle you.
"All I wanna do,
Pew, pew, pew, pew!
And a,
Ching!
And take ya money..."