Mercury

For my last sim of the month I chose the prompt Mercury.

I love sci-fi and fantasy and I used to play DnD. In the game there were metallic dragons and a type of dragon was the Mercury Dragon. Mercury Dragons are impish, curious, talk really fast and are a trifle chaotic. Like all dragons, being creatures of magic, they can take humanoid shape. So, I asked myself, what would a Mercury Dragon look like in human(ish) form?

Meet Mercury:

She is what she is so I couldn't see changing her name.

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Lord Rupert

For my next sim I chose the prompt Duke, and >gasp< I made a guy!

Meet Lord Rupert:

My inspiration for his look was Rupert Friend in the role of Prince Albert in the Young Victoria movie. I wanted my Lord Rupert to be a little more steampunky though. I have to be really inspired to make male sims, I find them more difficult for some reason. But I'm pretty happy with how he came out.

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The Little Match Girl

For my next sim I chose the prompt Greed.

Meet The Little Match Girl.

The Little Match Girl was sent out into the cold to sell matches on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, she didn't sell any and even though she was freezing and had lost her slippers, she was afraid to go home because her greedy father would beat her for not bringing him any money. Don't cry little girl!

Trying to warm herself, she starts lighting her matches and sees wonderful visions in the flames, including that of her Grandmother who had passed away.

"But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death on the last evening of the old year. Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt. "She wanted to warm herself," people said. No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year." - The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

Ratri

For my second December sim I chose the prompt Night. I thought of the Vedic Goddess of Night, Ratri. She is a kind Goddess who protects people from that which prowls the night. Her eyes are the stars and she brings light to the darkness.
As I was thinking about how I wanted to sim her, the stars for eyes made me think about Dream from The Sandman, and so I thought it would be cool to make her look like she was hangin' with Death and Dream.

Meet Ratri:

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Tien

I learned from last month not to wait to post my sims, but to put them up as soon as I finish one so I won't be doing a mad dash at the end of the month!

So here goes. First sim uses the prompt Ariel. What came to mind was Ariel from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Ariel is an air spirit, and though the current vogue is to have a male play the part, Ariel has been played by both men and women throughout the ages. So this is my sim version of an air spirit.

Meet Tien. Tien is a Vietnamese name that means angel, spirit or fairy.

"Where the bee sups, there sup I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough." William Shakespeare - The Tempest

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December Challenge

Ok here are the prompts I chose for the December Gos Challenge. Again I chose to make 5 sims.
Here's the Link to the thread if you'd like to check it out yourself. Here
My prompts:
Ariel
Night
Greed
Duke
Mercury

Lexie

My last sim used Bee
This one gave me the hardest time. I had the others completed weeks ago, but my muse seemed to run out with this one. All I could think about was the black and yellow aspect of bees, so I decided to just run with that.

Meet Lexie:

As I was playing with her hair, when I tried this one on for size, I couldn't help but notice that she sort of reminded me of a femmy version of Kai from Lexx. Aha! I thought- there's my insect connection, and so she kept this hair...and got her name. hehe

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Sigrún

My fourth sim used the prompt Odin.
Odin rules over the Hall of Valhalla, where heroes who die in battle are brought by fierce women-warriers called the Valkyrie. It is said that the Valkyrie are angels of death as they decide who is worthy to enter Odin's great Hall, and therefore die. The name Valkyrie literally means "chooser of the slain".

Meet Sigrún:

"Then glittered light from Logafjoll,
And from the light the flashes leaped;
He saw there mighty maidens riding
High under helms on heaven's field;
Their chainmails all with blood were red,
And from their spears the sparks flew forth."
- from the Helgakviða Hundingsbana I

Nefertiri

For my 3rd sim of the challenge, I used the prompt Horus.
Of course that brought me to ancient Egypt and I drew inspiration from the bust of Nefertiti, who was wife to Pharoah Akhenaten.

Meet Nefertiri:

The famous sculpture of Nefertiti:

It's hard being Queen. One must keep up One's appearance.

Scarlett

For the prompt Vermilion:

Meet Scarlett.
Fiery and temperamental, Scarlett is an avid painter...

...who paints as bright and vividly as her personality.

Anise

For my first sim for the November Challenge I chose the prompt Fennel. Fennel is a green and white plant with lacey yellow flowers and the taste of licorice.
Meet Anise.

Like her namesake, Anise is crunchy and sweet, and just a hint maddening...

...after all, Fennel is a major flavor component of absinthe.

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November 2011 Challenge Sims

I've discovered the TS2 Sim Challenges over at GoS.
I LOVE it! :) So fun. Anyway, for November I chose poison C, which is to pick 5 word prompts and create 5 original sims from the prompts.
From the random selection of words I chose:
Fennel
Vermillion
Horus
Odin
Bee

Check out the thread Here if you want to see it!