Current mood:	bored
Current music:	"Stand" - REM

Sims2 Project: YnM
Just as an experiment of sorts, I have illustrated scenes in chapters 7-9 in my third Yami no Matsuei story, The Imaginary World, using sims. It's more or less something I worked on for my own amusement, in case I want to use the medium for a whole story sometime, but I'm leaving it unlocked in case anyone who enjoyed the story might want to look. ^u^

I've seen other sim stories on LJ with nice, clear screenshots, but these turned out really crappy. If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd appreciate it.

The strangest Warning I've ever felt compelled to add: One visual representation of a kiss between two male sims of consenting age. ^o^

It's been nearly a year since I finished this story, so here's a refresher (it's not nearly as bad as it sounds out of context here, I hope!):
The Imaginary World, Chapter 7

“Hello,” a cheerful voice from somewhere above them spoke, startling them greatly. They turned and looked up to see the man from before sitting casually on a high branch, his pink eyes sparkling. He seemed to glide down from his perch as he landed before them, revealing his diminutive height. He looked up at them with a smile, and bowed deeply.

“Greetings! I am Kokopelli, and I welcome you most graciously to my kingdom!”






Several small figures timidly emerged from behind the trees.

“There's nothing to fear children. They're just mortals, silly,” Kokopelli said invitingly to the child-like little people who each seemed to have different animal characteristics and wore elaborate head dresses fashioned from plants and twigs.

“See? I told you they were cute,” Byakko said defensively to no one in particular. The god at the table's head sighed impatiently.

“Get on with it! I'm hungry!” Kokopelli demanded. The wood fairies scrambled to the table nervously






This time it was Tsuzuki that went a bit pale. Hisoka bolted upright.

“That's completely ridiculous!” Hisoka yelped. “I don't have an oven in the first place! What kind of scientist are you? He can't do that!”






Kokopelli glided towards them from across the clearing, where the little people had set up torches, luxuriously piled pillows and woven blankets.

“Come! Sit! Let us entertain you!” Kokopelli cried merrily, leading them to the setting they'd prepared. The men seemed greatful for the distraction, as they were each feeling more than a little agitated at this point, and made their way to settle on the provided cushions.






The mouse fae led them to the largest hut in the village, which seemed to rest a little too precariously in its tree.

“You like it?” Kokopelli asked, swooping in from nowhere and nearly making the drunken men fall over the railing. “I just had it built! There's a room for each of you -- that is -- if you really need three of them!” Kokopelli flew off again with a giggle.






“Tsuzuki!” Hisoka gave a startled cry as the older shinigami scooped him up and threw him on the bed. His shyness was short lived however, as Tsuzuki stepped within his reach and found himself pulled down next to his partner with an urgency that knocked the breath out of him.

I couldn't resist:





“Because you were standing under our window, you perverted asshole!” Hisoka growled.

“Well, there is that,” Watari said shamelessly

Two random shots:











“See? I told you they were cute,” Byakko said defensively to no one in particular.

The clothes have meshes and textures from both Maxis and artists mostly found on modthesims2, edited, recolored and modified by myself (for purely personal use). As for hair, I recolored Hisoka's, but everything else is as-is from MTS2 or PeggySims or SimsCribbling. Jarrett's outfit is from aikea guienea, unmodified.