Picaso Family Bios

 

Jessica was half-out of her stage makeup, Matthew was half into his, and they walked into each other because they were running on caffeine, rehearsals, and finals week. Fate intervened and a coffee date soon followed where it came out that drama wasn’t exactly related to their ideal career. Who could have guessed? Though they’re not exactly thrilled to be assigned to an R&D focused base in the middle of nowhere, the Picasos are grateful for the house and job. They’re trying to look at it as an extended honeymoon.
 

Jessica Picaso

Personality: Aries, 4/4/5/5/7, Nature Hobby

Aspiration / Secondary: Family / Fortune

LTW: Reach Golden Anniversary

Degree: Drama

Jessica likes animals and plants and the desert is lacking both. But it’s okay, really! She’s fine! After all, this is what she’s always wanted to do. She gets to serve under General Buzz who just saved Sim Nation and probably the entire world from destruction. Okay so maybe the Strangetown Base is a shadow of it’s former-self now and nothing like how she always imagined it, but she’s not going to let that keep her down. You can’t give up on a dream. You wait for the dream to play out, because surely everything will fall into place soon. For now she’s got a loving husband and a roof over her head, that should be enough.

 

Matthew Picaso

Personality: Aquarius, 1/6/7/6/5, Arts and Crafts Hobby

Aspiration/Secondary: Popularity / Family

LTW: Become Hall of Famer

Degree: Drama

Drama started as the first major Matthew saw on the list, but after a while he kind of started to like the costumes, painting the sets, and messing about with make-up. There’s no room for any of that on the base. General Buzz is weirdly insecure about anything that seems ‘un-masculine’. Worse than that though, the base is R&D focused and very into science. Matthew doesn’t care for it at all. Lately he’s been watching the sports games the base puts on for entertainment with slight envy… no. This is the beginning of everything he and Jessica have worked for, and she seems so happy here. There’s no way he could get cold feet here.

 

Smith Family Bios

 

The Smiths are your average Sim Nation family. Your totally normal. Average. Sim Nation. Family. And if you say otherwise you can just ask Doctor Curious, Doctor Curious, Doctor Curious, and Nurse Smith (nee Curious) who totally do not have a conflict of interest. Jill Smith would like you to know your face is a conflict of interest. (Off the record… when PT9 settled on Earth, he detonated his escape shuttle in a remote location, buried the wreckage, and stumbled his way to Strangetown, the only landmark well known to aliens. On a rusting magazine rack of The Strangetown Motel he found an old, worn, and faded Better Homes And Gardens magazine. He’s done his best to model his home after this and other early cherished relics of Strangetown.) 
 

Pollination Technician #9 Mr Smith

Personality: Pisces, 7/4/2/7/5, Film and Literature Hobby

Aspiration / Secondary: Family / Knowledge

LTW: Graduate 3 Children From College ( :/ )

Degree: Pollination

Despite his appearance, PT9 might have the most normal, boring interests of any sim in Strangetown. This contradiction only serves to make him all the odder. He is a loving father and husband who just wants to fit in, be left alone, and not gawked at. He devotes the free time of his retirement to childcare, the best grocery store deals, lawn maintenance, and the occasional sewing project. He worries a lot about his… situation making life hard or strange for his family, and feels incredibly guilty about potentially taking a normal life away from them. He is also very ashamed that he wasn’t around when his eldest children needed him, and is trying to make up for that somehow. He tries to give his family a lifestyle he imagines to be the picture of idyllic, everyday family life, straight from the yellowed pages of retro magazines, to make up for the things he fears he cannot give them. Normal, Totally Not An Alien Dad included.

 

Jenny Smith

Personality: Taurus, 5/4/4/3/9, Arts and Crafts hobby

Aspiration / Secondary: Family / Knowledge

LTW: Graduate 3 Children From College (SERIOUSLY?!?!)

Degree: Biology

Jenny likes green. She really likes green. She also loves biology, cooking, and her family, but not in that order. Just like any Curious she was raised surrounded by science and all sorts of high-tech gadgets, and she excelled in school. In fact, she was accepted to a serious medical school whilst her brothers went on to develop mad scientist style projects in college. Unlike her brothers however, she prefers science to be one part of her life rather than all of it. She takes a greater interest in biology than they do, because it's a field of science where she can help people directly. Whether at work or at home, Jenny constantly tries her best and will put anyone ahead of herself. She looks out for anybody in the community who needs her help. All of this keeps her very busy, but with such a stable, loving family who will do anything for each other, she has the support to get it all done.

 

Johnny Smith

Personality: Gemini, 3/7/5/4/6, Music and Dance Hobby

Aspiration: Popularity

LTW: Become Captain Hero

Johnny dreams of one day being a hero and saving other sims. That’ll prove the anti-alien llamaspitters wrong, aliens AREN’T evil. Let’s see them hate him when he takes up the mantle of Captain Hero! He’ll change everyone’s minds. He’s been bullied himself and seen his friends suffer without anything to help them but each other. He wants to help other people so that nobody else is as sad as they’ve been. Until that day, he busies himself reading comics, leaving his action figures all over his room, trying to convince his uncles to find some toxic waste or a radioactive spider, asking his dad if he’s SURE aliens don’t have superpowers, and bickering with Ripp and Ophelia about who the best superhero is. It might sound silly, but he’s taking the hypothetical responsibility very seriously.

 

Jill Smith

Personality: Virgo, 7 / 3 / 4 / 6 / 5, Film and Literature Hobby

While Johnny takes after their mom: nice but very serious about his plans and goals in life, Jill takes after their father. Nice and playful, chilled out about life as long as she enjoys it. She does have a dream of working in oceanography, but she’s also happy as long as she’s having fun. As the feistiest member of the family she also gets into more trouble than Johnny ever did. Though her intentions are usually good, her methods of teaching anybody who isn’t being nice a lesson leave… a little to be desired.

 

Kim Family Bios

 

The Kim Family were probably the last remaining claim to fame Strangetown had. They just can’t understand why their ratings dropped off! Surely it was because when real honest to watcher aliens started showing up, their show just seemed dated or tacky next to the real thing. It’s definitely not because their production crew were still using cardboard sets, flickering film-rolls for backdrops, and a camera handed down from the 60s, in an age of technology and innovation. They had been hoping for a move to the city, like any self-respecting washed up tv star. Finding that too pricey for their new salaries, they’ve remained in what’s left of the once expansive Kim Family sets that drew people into Strangetown to gawk at. (The non cardboard one, the actual family home.) They’ve also been obliged to keep the pets, introduced in the final season as a desperate ratings gimmick. 
 

Robert Kim

Personality: Gemini, 4 / 7 / 7 / 3 / 4, Sports Hobby

Aspiration/Secondary: Fortune / Popularity

LTW: Become The Law

Degree: Political Science

Robert bumbled into showbiz. He showed up to the wrong building for his interview and suddenly an eccentric dude was telling him he had the perfect face for his ‘next big project’. But hey, show business sounded fun, and when he met his co-star Cynthia he knew he had to stay. An on-set romance quickly became an off-set romance and, well, it’s never been easier for a show to incorporate a marriage and pregnancy into the story. That unexpected bonus let their show run twice as long as it really should have. Now it’s finally done though, he’s looking forward to pursuing his original dreams of Law.

 

Cynthia Kim

Personality: Aries, 4/7/6/4/4, Music and Dance Hobby

Aspiration/Secondary: Popularity / Pleasure

LTW: Have 20 Best Friends

Degree: Drama

Cynthia always knew she was destined for the stage. Now her career is basically over she’s determined not to remain out of work. That means a regular job, but she misses the performance, the adrenaline, the drama, the days when the robot maid broke down and everyone got the same feeling a class does when there’s a substitute teacher. She clawed her way into drama, not waltzing in like Robert did. It was her life. It consumed her. In fact, don’t tell Robert, but at first their relationship was a bit of a publicity stunt. Her hobbies include drinking wine, mocking other people to escape the cold feeling that her own life has already reached it’s peak, and generally doing her best imitation of an audition tape for celebrity big brother.

 

Justin Kim

Personality: Aries, 4/7/6/4/4, Fitness Hobby

Justin was born into showbiz. From the moment Cynthia knew she was pregnant, he was on TV. Now it’s gone he’s not sure how he’s supposed to live without it… or how normal people in general function. All he knows for sure is he’s going to get back on TV… some day.

 

 

 

Gabby is just glad she didn't lose the Kims in the transition.



Cheech is glad the tv crews and those stupid, ugly people with the treats on a stick are gone. Nobody tells this cat what to do.

Specter Family Bios

 

Losing your parents in a tragic accident and moving in with your mysterious, rich aunt, who lives beside a graveyard, sounds like the start of a great gothic novel. The graveyard is haunted and your aunt is hiding a secret sounds like a great middle for a gothic novel. Ophelia’s just grateful there’s no attic to find anything in, and she hopes she’ll be gone long before the tragic gothic ending catches up to the house. As for how Olive feels about her, who knows. Olive’s motives have always been a mystery.

 

Olive Specter

Personality: Scorpio, 10/5/5/3/2, Science Hobby

Aspiration / Secondary: Knowledge / pleasure

LTW: Become a Prestidigitator (lmao no)

Degree: Several. Some genuine.

 

“What changed you?” “I met someone” is the oldest cliche in the book. But while standing beside her first kill (entirely accidental) and watching the silent hooded figure, something did change in Olive. That first time there was no acknowledgment, the second time she was greeted with a shaking of that hood. And the third time… “Got a taste for it, huh?”

“Just curious about you,” She’d said with a shrug.

“Well isn’t that a coincidence,” Said Death, Destroyer Of Worlds, The Oldest One, Lord Of All That Is Mortal, Master Of The Eternal Burning Fires Of Damnation. “Same”

 

Life has been nothing but ever-growing power since that day. There’s something intoxicating about nobody else knowing you’re the most dangerous person in the room. But it’s lonely at the top of the food chain, especially when you have to go through so much effort to see your lover. It’s because of that loneliness that Olive would like to get closer to Ophelia. 

 

Ophelia Nigmos

Personality: Virgo, 4/6/5/4/6, Music Hobby

Aspiration: Family

LTW: Become Celebrity Chef

Ophelia hasn’t been able or even allowed to cope with her parents’ deaths. Strangetown doesn’t exactly have good therapists available and Aunt Olive isn’t good with emotions. So her anxiety has gone unchecked and she’s almost constantly worrying. Her hobbies include monitoring the air quality and scrubbing down kitchen surfaces until she’s sure they’ve been stripped of germs. If anybody ever needs a wipe, Ophelia or Ripp or Johnny usually carry at least one pack each. The fear that she might lose someone else in a preventable accident is overwhelming. So, if she hasn’t paid much attention to the graveyard it’s because it’s one of a million things that also scare her. It’s hard to know your gut is telling you to get the fuck out when it feels like it’s telling you that all the time.