Original Plot to CMW Generation 1

I thought this would be an interesting extra look into the development of CMW for you all. This was the first structuring of the story I did when I got the idea into my head- long before I created the Sims or did anything else in that regard. These few paragraphs were mostly just me putting the idea onto digital paper so I had a general sense of direction to work with when I did begin working with everything in greater detail. You'll find that things are pretty similar starting out, but towards the ending everything really begins to go in different directions.

It's copied directly from Word.

Enjoy :D

Generation One: Ethereal (“Meadow Yonder”)

Color: White

Other Main Characters: Eden Yonder (Green), Blaze Vivid (Red), Amaranth Vivid (Red)

Plot: In a world full of colorful Sims, those born pure white are considered treasures. They instantly get ahead in life due to their lack of color. There are many parents who desire to have a white child, and one company who focuses on science and medicine has found a way to make a profit off this desire. They send out a request for sperm and egg donations using the false pretense of using the donations for study. Their true intention is to find out which sperm and which eggs have the genetic mutation for albinism. They will then artificially conceive a child, and use their technology to modify the genetics so the child is born an albino. The children are placed inside surrogate mothers already working for the company.

In one rare case, the samples that come from a married couple both have the mutation. The scientists use the material from this couple to create what will become an albino girl called Ethereal. She goes on to become the crucial child for the project. Many of the other children born have problems caused by the albinism or the genetic manipulation. Ethereal, however, is incredibly healthy and suffers from no medical problems. Instead of being sold to a couple through the black market, she is kept at one of the facilities. She grows up knowing nothing but the white bedroom that is her cage and the bit of the outside world tall walls confine her in. Ethereal never questions her world as she knows nothing else.

The scientists plan to keep Ethereal in her prison her entire life. As she is albino, the mutation is more dominant in her than it is in normal Sims. They know it will be much easier to manipulate strong, albino children from her. Thus, they plan to have her bear child after child when she gets old enough so they can have plenty of albino children to sell to couples who are willing to pay the price for a pure white child. Knowing Ethereal forming connections with her children will be counter-productive, the scientists do what they can to stop her from forming emotional connections to anyone while growing up.

A worker named Eden goes against their plans. Though he is heavily trained in science and math, Eden prefers the more emotional science of Psychology. His job is to keep track of and monitor Ethereal’s mental health. Rejecting fully what the scientists are doing to her and the other children, Eden purposely makes a strong emotional connection with Ethereal. It is thanks to him she learns how to connect with another person. However, she still never desires to escape from her prison. That’s why Eden knows she has to force her out of it. He uses his connections with a different underground group dedicated to stopping the inhumane and unethical practices of the company to put everything in place that will allow him to give Ethereal a chance at a real life.

Ethereal is surprised one day during her session with Eden when he tells her that she has to sleep for a while. He sedates her, and the next thing she knows is that she has woken up in a small, run-down house. Eden won’t let her go outside, but he reveals what the scientists had planned for her and how he intends to bring them to justice. Before this though, he injects her with a strange substance― not clarifying what it is. Eden tells her they will move on to better living conditions once the substance does its work. After three days of feeling increasingly strange and hot, Ethereal has a fit when her skin begins to feel as if it’s on fire. Eden sedates her for the night so the shifting process won’t be painful. Ethereal wakes up to find out that her skin, hair, and eyes are the same shade of green as Eden’s. The substance is another top-secret development made by the company. Eden would have never been able to hide Ethereal in plain sight if she retained her white coloring, so she had to change. The shift is not permanent though. Eden must inject her twice a year to keep up the appearance.

He becomes her “big brother”, and Ethereal takes on the name “Meadow Yonder.” She and Eden move to a large city where she is home-schooled while Eden earns money working online. He says their part in bringing down the company is, for the most part, done. He is leaving the others to expose and bring the criminals to justice. The two of them just have to not be caught until that can happen. Ethereal slowly adjusts to living a normal life, and eventually goes to a public school.

However, the company does not go down easily. Those trying to bring it down struggle, and the horrible deeds are allowed to continue. Eden also begins to run out of the substance keeping Ethereal’s coloring green. An earthquake then shatters what he has left. He goes into an independent science facility to steal the materials needed to make more, but is caught and arrested. The group helping him is sure they can keep him from going to jail. In the meantime, Ethereal is sent to stay with Blaze and Amaranth Vivid. They are an uncle and nephew whom Ethereal had known ever since Eden moved her to the city, but she had no idea they were part of the good group. The two of them had been keeping it a secret from her so they could more easily protect her. While staying with them, Ethereal’s soft crush for Amaranth turns into real love. The two become a couple.

Ethereal is shocked when he and Blaze reveal a massive truth to her though. Eden is actually her biological brother. Her father, Jungle, had never wanted children, and this created a huge rift between him and their mother, Field. She had an affair with another green Sim. For whatever reason, Field was more desperate to stay with Jungle than she was to keep her baby boy. Jungle convinced her to give Eden up for adoption. He ended up being placed in foster care instead, and remained in it his entire time growing up. Field had been willing to meet with him after he became an adult though. When he got the job working for the bad company, he had been allowed to see the list of the donators for the albino children. That’s when he saw that Jungle’s and Field’s donations had been used, and he had a younger sister being kept prisoner at the facility.

When Eden is freed, he and Ethereal share a true reunion. Things do not remain peaceful for long as a member of the bad company finally finds Ethereal. He kidnaps her. Eden, Blaze, Amaranth, and other members of the good group follow in pursuit. Ethereal manages to rescue herself. She captures with a sound recorder she found the kidnapper talking about all the company’s secrets and what they were doing. After that, she escapes from his clutches. At long last, there is evidence to bring the bad company down. All the albino children that have been born are placed into loving homes, Ethereal can be her true color, and she and Amaranth marry and start a family.

Other Plot Points:

1)     A normal pure white girl transfers to the school the same year Ethereal starts public school. Her name is Purity Waters, and nearly everyone begins to fawn over her almost instantly. Ethereal doesn’t get why everyone treats her as if she’s some sort of higher being. After school, some of the students remark how lucky Purity will be when she gets to have pure white children of her own someday. Ethereal then explains how albinism works as well as how Purity’s children will end up being blue, the color she is supposed to be. This makes the other children think less of Purity, and Purity takes a dislike to Ethereal for revealing the truth. She begins to be mean towards her, saying she’s just envious of her as Ethereal is green― the color of envy. Ethereal’s time at school becomes more difficult, but she is able to ignore Purity for the most part. Purity, though arrogant, never really bullies her or really tries to make her life miserable.