Sims 3

The Sims 3, at least thus far, does not feature aliens. I didn't have a particular fondness for aliens in my previous games, but of course, when they were missing, I wanted them. The sims 3, does, however, let you customize skin color in a wide array of fascination options-many of them not within the normal human range.

So, I created an Alien couple. They had blue skin, instead of the green consistent with the previous sim aliens. I know that within the sims game there are places where you can type family descriptions, or bios for individual sims, but i've never used them. Oddly enough, with this family, I found myself creating a story in my head: something I never take time to do.

My blue-skinned alien couple were from some far away planet, sent to research life on earth. They would be the first of many alien envoys, as the alien culture needed viable worlds to expand to. Thus, my blue-skinned alien couple moved into a small house in sim land. They tried their best to fit in, despite their very blue skin. They took the names Marina and Kyle Small. They had some advance knowledge of life on earth, but common names, modes of dress and hairstyles were not among the priority information. Thus: Kyle had a mohawk until the day he died, and Marina a short boy cut. Not bad, but not the easiest to overlook, either.

Marina became a doctor, to better understand the insides of humans, and Kyle became a best-selling science fiction author. His books appeared to be science fiction to the humans, but to the aliens who were arriving every day, his books were guide books-the instruction manual to life as a human he never had.

Kyle and Marina became pregnant, and Marina gave birth to a baby girl, Lizbeth (by now they had a better handle on human names). Around this time, a newly arrived alien family (of the more traditional, green skinned variety) moved in next store, with three green skinned sons. Lizbeth and the middle boy, Connor, became best friends, and as they grew and matured, their relationship became romantic. By this, I mean that the day Lizbeth became a teenager, a second birthday cake mysteriously appeared at the party Connor was invited to, and he was compelled to blow out a second set of candles, and ta-da! He was also a teenager. They kissed, and were boyfriend/girlfriend.

The day they both became young adults, they got engaged, and had a private ceremony (I didn't want to throw another party). Connor aspired to be a best-selling author like his father-in-law. Lizbeth aspired to be a chess grand master. But see, Lizbeth and Connor were of another generation. Kyle and Marina had spent many years traveling to earth, and many more adapting to life with humans. Lizbeth and Connor had grown up, for the most part, as humans with human ways and rites of passage. They were excited to hold on to their heritage as proud aliens, but they were more comfortable on earth than their parents had been.

Lizbeth and Connor vacationed in France, something Kyle and Marina would never have done, and brought back a nectar making machine and samples of many fine grapes. Since Lizbeth is a genius, and had been working on her life goal from her early teenage years, she finished it a few days after their honeymoon, and set out to make nectar. Their little house is expanding, and the intelligent Lizbeth continues her father's precedent of buying human property throughout the town. Lizbeth and Connor have a daughter, Pashina, (a traditional name from their parent's home planet) (in case you were wndering (I was) when a blue woman and a green man have a baby, it has blue skin and green hair. FYI) and another child on the way. They are both hoping for another daughter.

I am having way to much fun with this.