Anatomy of a failed experiment

The idea I was generally playing with was seeing how odd couples interacted. So I picked 6 Sims. The six and their original traits: Anya (mmmcheezy225) - flirty, excitable, clumsy, good, light sleeper; Antonio (MJ_Rose) - slob, great kisser, daredevil, hopeless romantic, charismatic; Tatianna (Kaleeko) - perfectionist, dislikes children, snob, athletic, mean spirited; Theodore (Dee) - Brave, Insane, Absent-minded, loves the outdoors, charismatic; Shannon (Chrysame) - Bookworm, clumsy, excitable, natural cook, lucky; Malcolm (mine) - slob, grumpy, charismatic, athletic, ambitious


New pairs and traits
Highlighted traits are the ones that are opposite for the Sims.

Antonio - slob, party animal, hopeless romantic, charismatic, family-oriented
Tatianna - perfectionist, dislikes children, loner, mean spirited, commitment issues

Theodore - Brave, Insane, Absent-minded, loves the outdoors, grumpy
Shannon - Bookworm, coward, excitable, natural cook, hates the outdoors

Malcolm - slob, evil, charismatic, athletic, unflirty
Anya - flirty, excitable, clumsy, good, neat

It took virtually no time for Tatianna to show her normal lovable self. Insulting and generally being unpleasant to everyone else in the house.

The house had plenty of things for them to do. Chess, shuffleboard, hot tub and more.

BTW - I take no responsibility for Theo's clothes. He is insane and might wear anything at any time.

The first day, I encouraged them to play together, just to get to know each other.

Then I decided that was all too slow and just made them friends so we could speed up events a bit.

It didn't take long for Tat to start losing her new friends.

The guys were also playing gnubb with the girls.

So what are Malcolm and Anya looking a bit distressed about?

Antonio with his new trait of party animal skinny dips in the hot tub. His housemates definitely do not approve.  And he never thinks to invite them to join him for a skinny dip so they stay dressed and disapproving.

Shannon cooked a nice meal for the group.

Then I tried to leave them alone to see if they'd socialise well by themselves.

Definitely mixed success, they would do a bit.

And it could even be interesting.

But I found myself trying to push them together time and time again.

Malcolm tried to tell Anya his new evil plan but good definitely does not approve of that much evil.

Some of the Sims seemed a bit more inclined to be interesting then others.

There was a bit of chatting between all of them.

The call of the hot tub was too much for Antonio. He just had to keep getting in. Sans clothes every time.

Tat hide his clothes before they started the foosball game.

Anya was having a blast being the flirty Sim with three guys to play with.

Malcolm, being evil, was having his own version of fun.

Finally I had the three males flirt with the three females.  

Tatianna was still being her normal charming self.

So Shannon and Antonio wanted to kiss each other. Anya and Theo wanted to kiss.

That left Malcolm with Tat.

Which left him rejected. I think that Tat even *wanted* to kiss him but she wanted to make him work for it.

The other Sims had no such problems but none of the original opposite couples I set up actually made it to the romantic interest stage.

Theo almost immediately started talking to himself, which freaked Anya out.

Anya started hitting on Antonio which made both Shannon and Theo very unhappy.

Anya's behaviour even made Theo think twice about the relationship.

So here is where I ended the experiment. Too many Sims, a bit too much chaos and they weren't going to pair off as the original odd couples. I have yet to decide if I'll try again with just an odd couple and see if that works out or just find a new thing to experiment with.

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