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“Alright, I’m starting up The Sims right now… It’s loadingg~” Bad sings along the words as he taps his desk, booting up The Sims 4 on his screen. While he wasn’t expecting himself to ever play this game on stream, he was getting a lot of requests for it lately and thought he could give his viewers something other than Minecraft.
Bad admits, he’s always wanted to play The Sims, even off stream. But doing so would require a lot of time creating the sim itself, building a house, and all that other process before even starting the actual gameplay. He peers at the chatters, spotting a lot of memers complaining about the wait.
“Patience you muffinheads!” He exclaims, smiling. “Oh, so I was thinking.. would you guys like me to make myself and have Skeppy live with me?”
Just the name being brought up makes Bad’s smile widen. It was an obvious idea to add Skeppy into his little world of The Sims, but he wasn’t sure what chaos that would entail. Would his sim and Skeppy’s sim autonomously do actions that were inaccurate? Probably. They could argue and hate each other, start fights even.
Or they could be… well, flirty with each other. That’s an idea Bad has thought about embarrassingly enough. But no one has to know of course.
The chat blows up at the name mention of Skeppy, and Bad grins early reading through it.
LifeInNoisyPeace: YESS SKEPPY :Heartthrob:
skephaloluverx0: skeppy and u in the same room would cause chaos xD
BananaKiller117: This makes me think you will make you both romance each other
Bad tries to not audibly scoff at the last message. He rolls his eyes playfully, giggling to himself.
“You guys are being so weird, it’s just a suggestion okay! Gosh,” He acts annoyed, but there’s an obvious tint of joyness in his tone.
After about an hour of playing, Bad’s finally settled with his Sim and the house was built. The game is fun at first, Bad makes his Simself cook macaroni for the first time, and of course it catches on fire. He exclaims angrily how inaccurate the game was and how he would never mess up such a simple food dish. Then he greets a few other NPC sims, which doesn’t go anywhere exciting. He taps his finger on his desk thoughtlessly, his mind falling back to the idea of adding Skeppy to his household. Just to make things a little more interesting, of course.
“Ok chat, I’m thinking of adding Skeppy to our place, just to spice things up a little. Oh my goodness, act normal!” He says, smiling.
He clicks on the Make a Sim option and types in the name ‘Skeppy’. Multiple minutes are spent working on the perfect Sim Skeppy. He was curiously surprised at the idea of so many options included for him, and got a little off task and admired the designs and time put into the Sims making.
He gawks a little at the muscle’s option, of course. Making Skeppy way more muscular than he actually is, but puts it down back to an average body type. He argues that Skeppy should have biceps because he plays tennis, so of course he’d have toned arms.
After a while, he creates a Sim that resembles Skeppy dangerously well. He clicks the Add to Household option and loads his new save.
Finally , his brain chants as he admires the way Sim Skeppy is in their household, looking around pleasantly.
“Oh my goodness! Guys look!” Bad exclaims happily, he peers the camera around to get a better look at Sim Skeppy. “We have The Skeppy here!”
The chat cheers happily, mostly sending BBH Emotes with hearts. Everyone seemingly loved the idea of Skeppy being anywhere, it was always a little joke that Bad was obsessed with the diamond man. Although, most of them wondered if it was more than just a joke.
Sim Skeppy is walking around the house, and eventually he goes to greet Sim Bad. Their interactions are short but sweet, they simply wave at each other and make those Simlish noises of delight. Their friendship bar goes up instantly.
“Aww,” Bad gushes at the way the two sims interact. “Look guys, they’re already best friends. Just like in real life. What else can we do..” He talks to himself as he clicks on Sim Skeppy, going to the friendly category. Bad smiles widely to himself, a little too excited about the power he has to make the sims do what he wants.
Bad clicks on his Simself and makes him friendly hug Sim Skeppy.
The chat awes in unison, but some give questioning suggestions about what the two sims should do next.
“Stop it you muffinheads, no weird messages or you’re banned.” Bad grumbles, but quickly goes back to his little world of him and Skeppy.
He clicks on a few other options, such as telling funny jokes, and makes his Simself prank Skeppy with a joybuzzer. Sim Skeppy gets shocked immediately. Their friendship bar goes down.
Bad giggles to himself. “Hehe, that’ll learn ya. I’m trolling you back, Skeppy!” Even his Simself starts to mischievously laugh after the prank.
Sim Skeppy starts to cry after the prank was made, and it makes Bad frown. “Aw no.. wait, I’m sorry Skeppy that was mean.” Bad says to himself, seemingly like he was talking to the real Skeppy. “Here, how do I make you better?”
He tries finding an option that will make Sim Skeppy happier, and clicks on stuff without giving it a second thought.
“Oh here, do you want some flowers, Skeppy?” He asks softly, making his Simself pull out a bouquet of flowers and bring them to Sim Skeppy. Sim Skeppy is pleased, and takes the flowers with a joyous smile. And suddenly, a pink bar appears below their friendship bar.
The chat goes noticeably quicker at this.
TannertheBee: OMFG HE DID NOT-
Moodling_1234: BAD WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID
pocketxii: ::bbhhaloRatstare::
“Huh,” Bad hums to himself. “What’s the pink bar mean?” He asks, feigning innocence. To this, his chat goes crazy once again.
Bad can’t help but smile to himself, he loved playing the role of innocence so much. He starts reading the chat messages.
“That means love. Bad, that's a romance action.. That’s crazy, how does giving flowers mean romance? What if I just wanted to be nice and give my best friend a nice gift?” Bad complaints, feeding into the idea that he and Skeppy were simply friends, even though a lot of what they do states otherwise.
“Here, let’s have them just chill.” Bad says, trying to steer the attention away from the pink bar incident. He has the two sitting on the couch, watching TV together. Surely nothing could go wrong watching TV.
The little pink bar digs into Bad’s eyes, he can’t help but want to push the boundaries a little further. He knows his chat would just judge him and laugh at the fact he made romance options with his best friend in a simulation game, but what’s the harm in a little more fun?
He clicks on Sim Skeppy, and the romance options are just too fun to be true.
Tickle Skeppy.
Massage Skeppy.
Make a Move on Skeppy.
Bad goes with the easiest option, and makes his Sim Self tickle Sim Skeppy. The romance goes up to ⅓ of the bar now, and there’s nobody to blame but Bad himself.
He giggles to himself at the way he so easily riles up his chat. Do they really think he’s that innocent? Surely not. He was just having some fun is all. And maybe even off stream he could continue their journey even further.
It was all fun and games, until Sim Bad decided to autonomously ask Sim Skeppy for a massage, to which Sim Skeppy obliged.
“What the fudge, I didn’t make him do that-“ Bad starts, but it was too late to cancel the action.
The sims continued doing their action until the romance bar was half way.
Now this made Bad’s face a little red with embarrassment. Did he just accidentally make his Simself and Sim Skeppy fall in love?
Yeah, accidentally , his brain chimes in.
The chat is filled with joy and all sorts of laughing emotes.
He groans annoyingly, but at least the chat seems to be having fun.
“Okay that wasn’t me, you guys can’t blame me for this now.” He grumbles, folding his arms. “See? Maybe the game just wants us to do these nice gestures because that’s what friends do.” He says in defense, convincing only himself.
It was always funny teetering on the edge between what’s platonic and romantic for him and Skeppy. Most of the fanart he liked on Twitter with him and Skeppy was fairly romantic. He really liked it, the idea of him and Skeppy like that. But that wasn’t something he needed to tell anyone.
Suddenly, he gets a notification from discord. Like a lot of notifications, almost flooding his inbox.
His body freezes at the name.
“Chat, Skeppy’s messaging me. Which one of you snitched?” He says nervously.
Skeppy: Baad
Skeppy: bad what are u doing on ur stream
Skeppy: can you call?
Sighing in his defeat, Bad types up his usual response.
Bad: O_o
Bad: Yes
Waiting, he taps his finger on his desk nervously. The Discord call pops up and he answers it.
“Hii Skeppy,” Bad chirps.
“Bad,” Skeppy calls back, his tone serious. “What’s going on? I keep getting messages that you made me in some game, can I see?”
“Oh yeah, I made us in The Sims! It’s actually really fun, here are you on my stream?” He says excitedly, trying to push away his nerves from before.
“Yeah,” Skeppy says quietly.
Bad gives the viewers a good look at the sims characters. “Look, do you see? I made you and me!”
“Aww,” Skeppy sighs happily.
“I know right? Don’t we look great?” Bad beams.
Skeppy hums curiously. “Well, my hair doesn’t look like that.” He puts it bluntly.
“Wait what? What do you mean?” Bad asks confused.
“It just… doesn’t look like that? I mean you did a good job. But I have a much shorter cut on the sides.” Skeppy says with a certain tone.
“Well I can’t exactly give you accurate hair, Skeppy. There’s not that many options in the game.” Bad declares, tone matching Skeppy’s.
“I’m just saying,” Skeppy says, half laughing. Clearly he was making a fuss just to start fighting. “It’s not me, but otherwise good job.”
“Wow, I spent all this time making you and that’s how you respond? No, you know what,” He starts clicking on Sim Skeppy and goes to the mean options.
Sim Bad begins to poke on Sim Skeppy rudely, getting in his face with a rude simlish voice.
“There, you like that?” Bad says.
“BAD Why did you do that to me?!” Skeppy cries dramatically. Their friendship bar starts to go down.
“Well that’s what you get!” He yells back.
The sims begin to autonomously do rude gestures towards each other. Both their romance and friendship bar go down.
“Wait no! Our friendship bar!” Bad cries, trying to stop the two characters from fighting.
“Uh, Bad. What’s the pink bar mean?” Skeppy asks confusingly.
Bad goes numb at the question. He darts his eyes to his chat like they were going to save him. Instead they’re just emoting with popcorn.
“Uhh..” He starts, unsure how to handle this situation. Skeppy wasn’t stupid, he already figured out what it could mean. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Oh my god, Bad. You did not.” Skeppy starts, and suddenly he can’t stop laughing.
“What? Did what?” Bad shrieks with embarrassment, he was caught and there was no way to get himself out of this.
And then Skeppy starts speaking in such a tone, “Go on, do the action. I want to see what happens to make it pink.”
Bad has to rewire his brain to understand where he was going with that statement. Surely, they weren’t doing this live on stream?
“Uhh..” Bad doesn’t know what to do with himself. “Okay?”
He goes along with, whatever this is, and clicks on his Simself again and makes him do a romance option towards Sim Skeppy. An easy one, to not to break everyone’s minds at least.
Although, when Sim Bad tries to romance hug Sim Skeppy, he pushes him away angrily. Still mad from the previous encounters.
“What?!” Bad cries at the rudeness from the sim.
Skeppy just starts bawling out laughing, clearly enjoying the show.
“Oh my god, I’m so pissed at you-“ Skeppy giggles. “Bad, you need to apologize to my sim for being mean to me!”
“I don’t know how?!” Bad exclaims annoyingly, clearly the fun of their romance options was down the drain. “Chat help, please.”
It was as if the chat all sighed in unison. Together, they told Bad to just wait until Sim Skeppy was no longer in an angry mood, then after to keep doing friendly options.
They waited for awhile, and one chatter said to have Sim Skeppy calm himself in front of a mirror. It seemed to work, and they could finally do a friendly interaction together.
“There,” Bad sighs in relief. “Your sim is happy now, we have almost full green. Now are you happy?”
“Mm no,” Skeppy starts giggling. “What’s the pink bar Bad? Just do it.”
Bad squeaks at the request, clearly taken aback. “What? No!”
“Why nottt?” Skeppy whines, his microphone peaking.
“Because I just don’t want to!” Bad cries out, but obviously wasn’t really against the idea.
Skeppy groans, you could hear the sound of him falling back in his chair. “What do you mean? You literally already did, why would there be a pink bar then?”
Fudge , Bad bites his lip. Skeppy wasn’t dumb, surely he knew how this game works. Everyone does.
“I was… testing.” Bad says, immediately giggling to himself.
“Okay, haha. Very funny.” Skeppy tries sounding mad, but you could practically hear his smile on his face. “Bad c’mon, pleeeeease.”
Skeppy’s mic jumps again from the sudden pitch change, and Bad winces at it.
“Ugh, you’re so needy!”
“Pretty pretty please!”
“Oh my gosh, fine !” Bad groans, and sighs as he begins clicking on his Sim.
“Yay!” Skeppy chimes in the background as Bad makes their two sims hug romantically. It’s a little longer than the friendly hug, but not as exciting as he thought it’d be.
“Oh, that was pretty anti-climatic.” Skeppy says boredly.
“Oh my gosh..” Bad sighs, feeling his cheeks turn red. He knew that everyone was thinking it, everyone wanted it. Quickly, he selects the first kiss option on Sim Skeppy without a second thought.
Then finally, the two sims share a sweet yet simple kiss. A little jingle plays with hearts floating around them. It was more of a peck if you asked Bad, but he supposes this was a PG game. It’s not like anything crazy would happen.
The chat is a mixture of emotions, some are aweing, some are screaming in all caps, others are simply happy to enjoy the ride.
“Aww,” Skeppy hums, seemingly happy. “Still kinda boring, but that’s sweet.”
Bad can’t help but laugh at his friends’ absurdity.
“And chat is happy too, now can we all go back to normal please?” Bad groans as he’s used to playing into the annoyed role. Although secretly this calmed his brain’s excitement as well.
Skeppys voice is soft on the other end. “Yeah, I’m still calling you after this, okay Bad?”
Their usual banter was fun, but getting to see soft Skeppy again was nice. Bad had to admit.
“Okay, bye Skeppy!”
“Bye.”
The call ends, and Bad is left alone with his chat again. He tries to ignore the fact he made his and Skeppy’s sims kiss on stream, and go back to usual sim shenanigans. Getting stuck in pools, not walking over simple objects in the way, the usual.
He’s left to think about the implications when Skeppy asks to see the romance bar go up between their sims. Was that a sign of wanting something more? Was that just Skeppy playing it up for the memes? It was all too much to handle in one day, so Bad decided he would sit on the idea.
After he ends the stream Bad knows he’ll go back to the sims and continue their love story.