Creating Sims for Offbeat Reasons

Evidently, Warlokk had watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a few times when he was inspired to create the Toongal bodyshape (...and if you don't remember that movie because of the oddly sultry and quotable Jessica Rabbit, then you remember it because of either the very British Bob Hoskins doing a flawless East Coast American accent or the crazy-scary archvillain, right?).

But for me, the Toongal bodyshape is one of those things which makes me ask myself, "Why in blue blazes did I download and install this?" I've had that bodyshape in TS2 for about four or five years now, and — until now — I've never created a single Sim with it. Why not? Because look at it! Look at that horridly thin midsection! Where do her vital organs go? How do you cram twenty feet of small intestine into that abdomen? Sure, real women have curves, but not like this!

Yes, I have oodles of bodyshapes and skin colors for Simmy men and Simmy women alike. Only one or two of them are Toongal, though. I didn't even bother downloading any clothes for the bodyshape! I took one look at Toongal and immediately figured that I'd never want to create a Toongal Sim. And then, years later, I did.

But for want of Toongal clothes, I had to dress my new Toongal Sim in the next closest thing: Clothes for the Classic Pin-Up bodyshape. Toongal and Classic Pin-Up share a similar bust size and a similar hip size, although they most certainly don't share the same waist size!

"So Pizzatron," you might ask, "if you despise Toongal so much, then why did you eventually create a Sim with that bodyshape?"

The answer? "A random fit of curiosity. I wanted to see how a Toongal Sim would look when pregnant. Did Warlokk even bother giving Toongal a pregmorph? How would a baby bump fit into a spindly abdomen like that?"

So that's the entire reason for Notta Rabbit's existence: Just so I could see what she looks like with a bun in the oven. And that's not the only frivolous reason for creating a Sim; how many of us haven't created a small army of Sims just so we could immediately kill them off and populate a cemetery with their ghosts? And surely there are other frivolous, bizarre or senseless reasons for creating Sims out there.

So what are some of the weird, lacking-in-gravitas reasons that you've ever had for creating a Sim?