Sims 4 gay sims
Lately, I’ve been really enamoured by The Sims 4. It’s far from entity as complete as The Sims 2 and even The Sims 3, but there’s still a lot to affection about it – especially with the modding community as active as it is. One thing that I didn’t even realize is that the series, but especially The Sims 4, has LGBTQIA Sims that you can face and interact with as you move around town!
I, for one, mind that the Sims you met throughout town were only attracted to the opposite sex. So, you can envision my surprise when I first met Brant and Brent Hecking and saw them Woohoo in a bush. At first I reflection it was mods because I had indeed added an Attraction meter mod, but nope. Brant and Brent are Hecking gay! That’s awesome!
So down the rabbit hole I went, researching everything I needed to know about the LGBTQIA characters that I could come across in The Sims 4. And I’ll be honest, I was shocked at just how many I found.
Brant and Brent Hecking
While I could possess included these two lovebirds separately, who am I to break up this loving – and not to bring up adorable – couple?
Brant and Brent were the first male same-sex coup
The Sims Knew I Was Lgbtq+ Before I Did
WORDS Megan Elliott
Before coming out a year ago aged 25, I appeared very straight to the outside earth. I had been in a long-term relationship with a dude and had exclusively dated boys at school. But behind closed doors, my teenage self was playing out my queerness on The Sims, long before I would admit it to myself.
The Sims was my escape from reality, a place where I could forget about my anxieties and immerse myself in a fantasy world. I started out playing SimCity with my dad as a kid, developing thriving towns and managing natural disasters. By the time I was a teen, I had graduated to The Sims 2, which is where I first started experimenting with same-sex couples.
In the Create-a-Sim stage of the game, I never made lesbian couples. Instead, I often made two ‘straight’ couples in one domestic and embarked on secret homosexual woman affairs during gameplay. When the women got together, I often got bored with the men and moved them out into a separate household so I could focus on the women. Chatting to my therapist about why I never made a lesbian couple from the outset, I concluded that this reflected my previously held ideas that
The Sims 4 has had a number of different things taken away from it that previous games had – some of which, like the inclusion of toddlers, acquire been added help, but some are still missing. However, does The Sims 4 take away the option of allowing you to be gay?
The reply is, simply, no. The Sims has included same-sex relationships (with varying openness) since the very first game, and has only turn into better at including people – no matter who they identify as. While The Sims 4 may lack in plenty of things, it’s hard to deny that it lacks in inclusivity. In fact, only a few days ago did Maxis add 100+ hairstyles, make-up and skin-tones suited for BAME groups.
In previous Sims games, gay relationships wouldn’t be able to obtain ‘married’ and only get a civil partnership. Thankfully that changed with The Sims 2, and The Sims 4 is not any different. Players are able to acquire married to their partners and, unless you download mods, there are no negative outcomes or changes from other Sims because of your sexuality. While that may be ‘unrealistic’ for some, for others it’s a nice alter of pace from real life.
LGBTQ Characters in The Sims
Some pre-made characters in The Sims series are gay, lesbian, or bisexual person, although those orientations are rarely implied beyond the mechanics of their gender preference and are largely up to players to interpret as they will.
In The Sims 2, Circe Beaker, Ariel Capp, and Titania Summerdream have the same level of attraction for males and females, so their characters begin out with bisexual preferences. Other characters with attracted to both genders preferences are Kent Capp who has a slight preference for males (still neutral for females) and Jason Cleveland (in The Sims 2: Apartment Life) who is married to Marissa Cleveland but also has a slight favor for males with neutral preference for females. Additionally, Nervous Subject has a slight disaste for females, so this could be interpreted as having male lover preferences initially.
In The Sims 2: University Life, Mitch Indie and Max Flexor (both playable characters), are college roommates whose bios point out they are ready to discover new things about their friendship now that they are living together.
In The Urbz: Sims in the City, Kiki Blunt-edged is intertextually implied to be a lesbian, as the