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Full Name: Alice Martin

Age: 23

Hometown: StrangerVille

Current Location: University of Britechester, MFA program

Traits: Creative, Hot-Headed, Ambitious, Clubber

In my former story, Alice Martin (yes, that Alice Martin) was the God of Death. Well, she was the God of Death and personification of death, but she only got that after the actual God of Death that was living side her head finally obtained a corporeal form and—

You know what? Uh, Never mind. 

In this universe, Alice Martin is just a sim. She lives in StrangerVille with her mother and grandmother (who you’ll meet later) but is currently finishing up her final year in the MFA program at the University of Britechester. She’s a decently talented painter, but her preferred medium is photography. 

One thing to know about Alice is that her enrollment in this MFA program is on a “need-to-know” basis. As in, her parents are paying for graduate school, but Alice feels like they don’t really need to know.

—Which will probably work out fine, right?

Alice is a child of divorce with a short temper and a Swiss-cheese brain. She’s impulsive, a poor loser, and deeply empathetic. Her greatest fear is not living up to her mother’s exacting standards, so she is always trying to find ways to quell her anxiety and feelings of inadequacy. Alice wouldn’t describe herself as an addict, but she loves a party and all the mind-numbing things that come along with it. 

Alice's last relationship exploded and left her with a lot of scars, metaphorically and physically, too. Does she know what she wants to do when she graduates? No. But it for sure involves getting the hell out of StrangerVille and proving she is not a total hot mess.

i love them so much it's probably not healthy.

Chapter 1.1 - Bad Dreams Are for the Birds

[POV: ALICE]

Alice isn’t late, exactly. She’s just operating on a slightly different schedule than the syllabus demands. 

And this running she’s doing down the university’s cobblestone walks? That’s for cardio—which she could probably improve if she smoked just a little less Purple Haze. But the Purple Haze was medicinal for all her non-cardio-related problems, so, see, it’s impossible not to have it. 

Besides, a little panic is good for the spirit. It gets the heart pumping and the blood flowing, and if you ignore all the ways the cortisol getting pushed through your veins makes you want to throw up, it sort of feels refreshing.

Yes, refreshed—that’s what Alice is—not sweaty and overwhelmed and wishing she hadn’t left registration to the last minute because now she was stuck with an 8 am class.

Or what would be an 8 am class if she could’ve gotten herself out of bed instead of sleeping through her six alarms. But that wasn’t her fault because her dreams were weird as fuck and kept her up all night. She can deal with nightmares, but sad dreams are for the birds. And she can’t even remember what was so devastating, only that she feels like she lost something.

Shaking off the melancholy, she turns to the entrance of Psyded Hall and freezes when the doors fling open and students begin pouring out.

Motherfucker.

This is not how the final year of her MFA is supposed to go. She’s supposed to have her shit together for reasons she can’t even begin to enumerate until she’s had some coffee. 

Trying not to let her inner turmoil show on her face, Alice marches across the quad to The Bean Stand and asks the barista to hit her with a to-go cup of mocha-caffeinated goodness. It’s a splurge—10 simoleons—but after this stressful morning? She’s more than earned it.

And it's not like she was paying for it. That was all courtesy of Cyrus Martin and the credit card he gave her, which her mother didn’t know about because money led to her parent’s divorce. 

—that and her father’s now-wife, the former Alice Spencer-Kim-Lewis. Or, as Alice liked to call her, the “Homewrecking step-monster who deserved to slip on some ice.”

Technically, her father deserved to slip on some ice, too. Who the hell had an affair and named his daughter after the other woman? But her feelings about him were more complicated. 

To be honest, her feelings about both her parents were complicated. Her mother, Valeria Pierce, is driven, ornery, and smart, and Alice is just like her.

Except in all the ways she isn’t.

Like how she dreams too much, hates being pinned down, and often feels like a grouchy little gremlin who doesn’t want to do anything except enjoy excess and faff around. Alice likes art and photography and loses track of time trying to pinpoint the right angle for a shot. She doesn't have reasonable interests or practical skills. Her grandmother once described her as “all-heart,” and it was not a compliment. 

Frankly, save for being hot-headed and stubborn, Alice isn’t like her mother at all. But musing about her jacked-up relationship with her parents and all the jacked-up decisions she’s made because of it isn’t on her to-do list this morning. 

Heading into the Britechester Commons, she searches for a good spot to hunker down. A flash of red hair makes her panic—

But it’s not her ex, so she takes a deep breath, tries to slow her heart rate, and curls into one of the armchairs. 

She tells herself that it’s only September, and there are still plenty of opportunities to turn this hot mess train around. Tomorrow, she’ll start getting up early. And today, she’ll make her first step toward putting herself out there again. Jeffery—yes, that’s how he actually spelled his name—was not going to define her relationships. 

Sex life. 

Relationship?

Shit. She still hasn’t decided if she’s just looking for a hook-up to get her back in the mix or a sim who’s worthy of a long-term commitment. 

Maybe both? Alice tends to make decisions based on deadlines and vibes, and this one won’t be different; she’ll just slap a profile together and see what happens.

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Eclectic Arts Household

Alice Martin

Leslie Holland

Mark Eggleston

Only a quick makeover for these three. I just had trouble finding their personalities. Alice and Mark are budding artist, they spend their days painting and bouncing ideas off each other. Leslie is a writer, although she doesn't have a lot of energy for it these days. She's very sick with some mystery illness, it's caused her to lose a lot of weight and energy.

townie makeover wips - strangerville edition

With High School Years out, sounds like a good time to reintroduce the families originally remade for an aged-down save! The save itself never quite eventuated, but the households would be great for sending off to high school!

Households include:

Lilith and Caleb Vatore, and their parents

Jonathan ‘Johnny Zest’ Langraab, and his parents and brother Malcolm

Nina and Dina Caliente, and their father

Eva Capricciosa, and her father

Marcus Flex, and his parents and dog

Paolo Rocca, and his parents, grandmother, and three sisters

Miko Ojo, and her father and two cats

Akira Kibo, and his parents, brother, and two sisters

Leslie Holland, and her parents and two sisters

Alice Martin, and her mother

Mark Eggleston, and his parents and sister

Lia Hauata, and her adoptive grandmother

Grace Anansi, and her parents and sisters

Tomax Colette, and his mother and brother

(Made for the same save, but with no teenage premades: child Darling Walsh and their family, and young adult Judith Ward.)

Enjoy!

Artsy Farsty

Oooh we’ve had some good cc lately - especially summery 70s-ish stuff - so who better to model than the ecclectic arts household from Strangerville?

mark wears / hair / facial hair (n33 luke) / shirt & jeans / gauges / camera

 @weepingsimmer​ (original hallowsims) / @pralinesims / @greenllamas / @redheadsims-cc / liliili-sims

alice wears / hair, headscarf & earrings / blouse / shorts / rings / necklace

 @simstrouble / @pixelette-cc / @arethabee / salemc / toksik

leslie wears / hair / jacket / crochet bra / jeans / glasses (ovex head) / earrings / necklace

 @aloeislandsims / @clumsyalienn / @aharris00britney / blacklily / @pralinesims / @simstrouble / @blahberry-pancake