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hc: caleb's birthday portraits

When Caleb was born, Lilith received a box of crayons and a ream of paper from their father, who instructed her to draw the baby. He explained that they needed pictures to send to her grandparents so they’d know what her new brother looked like. It was a very important responsibility, one he urged her to take seriously, so she got to work.

Lilith was two and a half years old at the time. Those drawings didn’t clarify a thing for her grandparents, but they kept her occupied while her mother, exhausted after a difficult labor, got a bit of rest.

A year later, while Lilith’s mother was busy preparing Caleb’s birthday celebration, her father once again approached her, this time with even more crayons and paper, and told her to draw her brother so their grandparents could see how he'd grown. These ones were a little better, but the grandparents probably got a bit more out of the actual photographs mailed along with the drawings. It became a yearly tradition, and she kept it up even after Caleb stopped aging. She still has almost all of the portraits, except the ones from his 4th, 7th, 29th, and 56th birthdays. There are so many now that storing them is a logistical challenge.

Caleb thinks that the collection is a fascinating representation of the vampiric existence. He, the subject, does not meaningfully change portrait to portrait, year to year. He knows that he hasn’t, but there’s something about she sheer size of the collection - literally dozens of paintings, all with the same face - that really drives that point home. On the other hand, they’re a detailed record of Lilith’s evolution as an artist. Caleb looks the same in every painting, but no two paintings look alike. She has changed and grown, though she looks the same as she always has. He's grown too.

There’s something meaningful about that, so every year, he agrees to another portrait. Thankfully, Lilith paints quickly and vampires can hold a pose.

Also, March 23rd feels like a good birthday for Caleb. I think that'd be right around Spring 1, if we take the equinox to be the beginning of spring.

lilth's pose, easel, palette/brush accessory by @pandorassims4cc caleb's pose by @ratboysims

1890-1940 // portraits of caleb & lilith vatore

Third and final part of the series! A decade-by-decade view of the Vatore siblings covering 1890-1940. I hc them as having been born in the late 1930s/early 1940s, so to me this isn't actually a record of their life but rather just a photoshoot of the two of them playing dress-up. Sibling bonding!

I'm going to make these into wall art like I did with the Lilith portraits - I should have them up in a few days.

cc below the cut

clothing: caleb // lilith

poses:

jane austen poses by @atashi77 (both 1890)

model poses 32 (lilith 1900, 1920, 1930, 1940) and male poses 11 (caleb 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940) by @helgatisha

edwardian socialite by @funkyllama (lilith 1910)

Lilith Vatore

Vatore family

Caleb Vatore  Lilith Vatore

Caleb Vatore

The turning of Caleb Vatore on how he became a vampire visiting a Burlesque show late at night..

Lilith Vatore finds out on her honeymoon night that the person she married has kept a secret...

mah bby Lilith Vatore loves to wear some vintage stuff..