Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
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YOU ARE HYPERREAL - TS3 Normal Map Replacement
I edited Buhudain’s "You Are Real" face and body default replacement normal maps to make the details pop even more on the skin. First, can we talk about the impact these mods made? When I discovered them I was blown away, they immediately became an essential. Buhudain truly changed the game with these.
What I tweaked:
I edited Buhudain's 2048 px sized textures
More visible pores and skin texture
More defined muscles and veins (intensity controlled by the muscle definition slider in CAS)
More light-reflective, shinier skin (intensity changes with the muscle definition slider in CAS)
Sims with no muscle definition will still have slightly more glow to the skin and more detailed pores/texture up close
No bump map on the male body’s nipples so they won't conflict with nipple placements on any skins (female body has them though)
Includes naughty bits
The effect looks stronger on darker skin, I'm not sure why
I think you’ll be able to appreciate the texture if you use a HQ mod and you take a lot of closeup photos of your sims like I do. I think it still looks normal enough for regular gameplay, although you’ll have to decide that for yourself after you try it out.
Photos were taken with bright lights, the effect is subtler in normal lighting.
If you already use Buhudain’s You Are Real mods, you must remove them from your Mods folder first before installing mine.
You can put these files in your Overrides or Packages folder.
What’s in the zip:
My edits of You Are Real for the male and female body (young adults to elders)
My edits of You Are Real for the male and female face (young adults to elders)
If you only install the body files, your sim’s faces will not be affected.
If you want to install the face files to look consistent with the bodies, you can choose between the version which has EA’s wrinkles on the adult face, or the version which does not have EA’s wrinkles on the adult face. Only install one, not both!
Download: simfileshare / mega
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wei qian's expression here is so delicious please yuan, kiss him hard! kiss him until he cries!
unlike in ep 8 where he's backing off cautiously when yuan steps into his personal space, this time he's looking deep into yuan's eyes, expecting something to happen 😭
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Road Trip to Manhattan 🗽
With Rafi's dog in tow, the couple decided to take a little vacation away from the beachside bliss of the Hamptons to Manhattan. As spring was in full bloom, the couple opted to take Rafi's 1955 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider & it was safe to say Bowie loved it.
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