The Land of Squee

Today I geeked out harder than ever over the Sims, but was lonelier than usual because no one else understood my geekery.  That's right; today I began my Les Mis empire on the Sims 2.

The first family I moved in were the Thenardiers: Monsieur, Madame, Eponine, Azelma, and Gavroche.  Sorry, nameless boys.  I decided to make them look generically trashy since I didn't have appropriate clothes, though I did find some swell hair for Madame.  Monsieur is in a dirty wifebeater and long pants.  He has shoulder-length brown hair.  Madame has this awful pink dress on and her face is suitably terrifying.  I love them.  Sort of.  I made Eponine in a sort of musicalverse because I can.  She has strangely voluminous long, black hair, a white tank top, and a khaki skirt.   She's uglyish, though, so it's all good.  As for Azelma, I decided she was too cool for her crappy family and had started dressing like a hip (slightly slutty) teenager, plus I gave her two long braided pigtails because I thought it worked.  Then I gave Gavroche khaki overalls.  I also used a cheat and now Madame is FURIOUS with Gavroche, whatever that means.

Then I stuck in the Fauchelevant family I made some time ago, giving them a house with a huge yard.  I geeked out some more over Cosette's overgrown garden and was disappointed that I couldn't find a stone bench to place just inside the wall (I went with a wooden one in the end).  I even gave Cosette this huge, airy room and gave Valjean a tiny one (I considered building him a little place out back just for the lulz, but the house was so big I couldn't bear to).  I think I sort of want to move Fantine out and replace her with a Toussaint, but oh well.  Screw accuracy.  And then I grew Cosette up and gave her a pretty dress.  And, you know how when you move new Sims into a house, how three Sims from nearby houses come to visit?  Well, a few minutes later Eponine, Monsieur, and Madame showed up.  I almost cried with laughter as I watched them assemble by the big barred gate... then Monsieur and Madame immediately managed to get in a fight with Fantine and Eponine followed Cosette around.  It was INSANELY BRILLIANT.  Valjean was upstairs playing with an exercise machine.

THEN I MADE THE PATRON-MINETTE.  You guys nothing can help you understand the awesomeness that ensued.  I made a big, chunky dude with no hair and stubble as Gueulemer, and thin Luigi Largo-esque guy in a top hat as Babet, and an attractive young pale guy with gorgeous hair and a suit as Montparnasse.  HERE COMES THE EPIC WIN.  I got to Claquesous and was like "Ohhhh no this will be fail."  BUT!  I found under "makeup" this little Robin-esque eye mask.  That would have been good enough for me, but omigosh one of my expansion packs came with some kind of ninja hood that covered everything but the eyes!  So my Claquesous's face... IS HIDDEN.  You guys I almost peed my pants I was so excited (except I'm wearing a dress today, so that wouldn't really work out).  Then I got them a house and painted it all green to make it blend with the grass and took out all the windows and stuck in those bare lightbulbs.  It looked wonderfully eerie and sketch in there.  And then Cosette came over and I almost fainted when Montparnasse started talking to her.  And then I made them become friends.  ALSO!  Claquesous made Montparnasse cry and I didn't even do it!  You see?  I've known all along about their mutual hate!    Claquesous and Montparnasse are now ENEMIES.  Ooh.  Anyway, then the welcome party arrived and it was George, Sophie, and Richmond from my novel The Twin Sunsets.  And you guys.  Suddenly, when they were all in the same room, I was like "Oh God Sophie looks just like Cosette and oh no Richmond looks a lot like Montparnasse."  As if I didn't know it all along, but still.  They're not identical by any means, but the similarities were REALLY clear.  Then George randomly started rocking out on the electric guitar (this is funny because George is a dotty old man) and Claquesous made Cosette cry.  Tsk.

THEN I moved in the Pontmercys.  And their welcome party was George again, Fantine, and Sophie again.  I made Marius chat with Fantine and then, just to amuse myself, I decided George and Gillenormand should be friends.  But they kind of didn't like each other.  Meanwhile Aunt Gillenormand never even came downstairs to see the visitors.  She sat up in her room and read a book, no lie.

THEN.  This was my favourite part except for the Patron-Minette.  I went back to Cosette's house and had Fantine invite Marius over.  I sent Cosette out to greet him and while she was waiting IN THE GARDEN FOR MARIUS night fell.  So it's dark and Cosette lets Marius into her overgrown garden through the barred gate.  I was internally FREAKING OUT at this point.  And I got them chatting and appreciating and entertaining and finally I saw the little pink hearts of crush.  No first kiss, but that's fine.  We'll get there.

Anyway, my amazing town lacks Javert and the barricade boys.  And SOMEONE needs to become a vampire.  I'd do it to Montparnasse, but nah, I don't want to ruin any of his awesomeness.