eulalia | Veridia Round 5: Midwife (Reply)

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Elmet: Does that feel any better?

Helenet: Much, thank you.

It feels like Helenet’s been pregnant for two years after watching her waddle around during everyone else’s round. I’m sure she’s ready to have that baby.

Also: wow, even the ROS die loves Netty.

Elmet hasn’t made any headway yet in convincing Arturo to come stay in their cottage, but he does spend a lot of time there anyway. Now that Arturo can leave the grove as much as he wants without consequence (aside from having to still charm himself invisible from nosy villagers), it’s simply more convenient for him to come here rather than the other way around.

Elmet: Well, you lost most of the fur, but you still have the antlers. Do you think they’ll fall out, like deer antlers?

Arturo: I do not know. They didn’t before, but the curse was unbroken then, so perhaps.

Arturo: Hello, little witch.

Elmet: *snickers* Uh, Netty?

Helenet: What?

Helenet: Oh, for goodness sake—I don’t care about the forest, but my house isn’t clothing optional!

Arturo: Does this include your bedroom or—

Helenet: Don’t smartass me. I don’t fancy explaining to one of Angus’s friends’ parents about why I’ve got some man lounging about naked in my kitchen. Got it?

Arturo: ...Yes, Helenet.

Helenet: *sigh* Should we have actually left him in the forest?

Elmet: Ha, probably.

Arturo: I am one room away, I can still hear you speaking.

Oh, NOW you’re shocked? Where have you been for the last four rounds???

Once everyone is appropriately attired, it’s time for Angus’s magic lesson. Arturo has announced that he will be bringing Angus what he calls a grimoire, which apparently also comes with reading lessons. It sounds overly complicated; Angus hasn’t needed to be able to read anything to learn the spells that he already knows. But once Arturo is set on an idea, he’s hard to dissuade.

You're very picky about table manners for a magical creature that lives in the woods.

Helenet: Elmet? Can you come here?

Elmet: What’s up?

Helenet: I’m in labor.

Elmet: What? Since when?!

Helenet: Oh, a while now.

Despite her attempts at calmness, for the first time since leaving home, Helenet is struck by a pang of longing for her own mother. She was the one who delivered Angus all those years ago.

Out of all the many things Arturo has experienced in his unnaturally long life, this certainly hasn’t been one of them.

is now really the time

Elmet: Hooray! Great job, Netty!

Arturo is swept up in the excitement of the moment!

Angus is foiled by routing in the crowded bedroom!

Angus: How am I supposed to see the baby from all the way over here?

Elmet: You don’t think the name is a little too on the nose?

Helenet: I think it’s very appropriately on the nose. Also, I did the hard work and that means you have to let me have this. :)

The new baby is a girl who inherited Elmet’s amber-colored eyes, and Helenet has decided to name her Lune.

Just for a moment, watching the two of them with the babe, Arturo feels as if he is some stranger watching from the outside. It’s just a moment that passes, though. (Breaking the old curse has stirred up a lot of strange emotions in him and it is extremely annoying.)

I’m not sure if those axes on the wall are baby-proofed.

Arturo: Here. I made this for your child.

Helenet: Oh, a mobile! It’s beautiful, thank you. How did you come up with such an idea? Between your memory loss and the life you’ve lived, I wouldn’t think you know much about babies.

Arturo: I know plenty of things, thank you, and I relearn more each day. Also… I may have asked your brother-by-law to tell me about infants.

Helenet: Eisu must’ve had a field day with that.

Hey, is the nursery theme also too on the nose?

Elmet: Here, want to hold her?

Arturo: Ah… perhaps another time. She is very small and looks rather squishy. I would rather not be the one to drop her.

Elmet: You’re not gonna drop her.

Arturo: Nevertheless.

Later, after the werewolves have gone out for the night, Gytha comes by to meet the new baby (and also because Gytha is just always here).

Helenet: Oh, you’ve got a bit of lint there—

Angus: Mum.

Helenet: Don’t you want to look nice for your girlfriend? There. My handsome boy, you’re getting so tall. You used to be such a wee thing.

Angus: Mummmm.

Helenet: Hush, let me be nostalgic. *sigh* You’re starting to look a lot like your father.

Angus: Oh. You don’t talk about him much.

Helenet: It’s not a bad thing. But there’s not a lot to say. We didn’t like each other much except for briefly. Go on now, no need to keep Gytha waiting! We both know patience isn’t her strong suit.

If you’re wondering, no, Helenet doesn’t mind being left with the baby at night while the wolves are running around the forest, since Elmet handles most of Lune’s care during the day. Plus she has twice as many hands around as she did with Angus (four times as many if you want to count Angus himself and Arturo), which makes things so much easier.

Helenet: Well, she is a girl, unless she tells us otherwise when she gets older. Go on, say it.

Elmet: I’m not gonna say it.

Helenet: Say it.

Elmet: No.

Helenet: Saaaaaaay it.

Elmet: Fine... I told you so.

Helenet: Thank you.

Helenet: Maybe Eisu is right and it’s some special werewolf sense; maybe you can smell it. I wonder what would happen if I had you record your guesses for each of my patients’ babies and then compare it after they’re born.

Elmet: I think you would probably stop having patients, because you kept asking if your weird husband could sniff them.

Helenet: Oooh, what about Jia and Xiuying? Could you tell with them before they were born?

Elmet: How much time do you think I spend smelling my brother?

Gytha: Does feeding a baby feel weird? It seems like it should.

Helenet: Uh, not to me. Thinking about babies, Gytha?

Gytha: Noooo. I make sure to drink that tea you gave me.

Helenet: That’s good. Wait, have you been here all night?

Gytha: ...Maybe.

Angus has to head to the market in the morning, and he makes a valiant attempt at conversation with both Enna and Glamaer, but he’s just... not good at it for some reason. Apparently most people don’t want to hear about the effects of different herbs on the body’s organs? Angus thinks it’s interesting.

This is part of the reason he likes Gytha so much; if he doesn’t feel like talking much, she’s perfectly happy to fill in the silence herself.

Elmet loves being a dad. :)

I’ve never seen a sim fail so much at casting spells.

Helenet is still awake after feeding Lune when Elmet gets home and gets swept into an impromptu dance. Her boys are such dorks, but they’re both her dorks.

She hasn’t entirely surrendered the task of herb harvesting to Angus. Helenet loves to be out in the garden and seeing how her plants are growing. Her magic skills may still be questionable, but she’s always had something of a green thumb.

At least with Arturo always hanging around I can now pretend he just left the books here.

Also, you’d think the wolves actually live here.

Occasionally Arturo drags one or the other of the little mortals on a daytime hike with him. Elmet thinks it’s probably because he’s still marveling at being able to roam as far as he wants without ill effects.

Without ill effects on Arturo, I mean. Not Elmet.

Elmet: You could’ve warned me that plant causes a rash.

Arturo: I did not think a grown man would go bumbling through a stand of vines he does not recognize. I’m going to warm up by the fire now.

Fun fact! Poison ivy is native to North America (there’s also a variety native to Asia). So I don’t know what he was actually bumbling through.

Elmet: Nettyyyy, do you know any cures for horrible, horrible itching?

Helenet: Oh, I think there’s a spell that may work...

Elmet: May?

Refreshing, but not exactly a cure-all.

Helenet: Hi, pup! Would you like a bit of bacon? Yes, I think you would.

Wolf: *gulp*

Angus and Gytha are on baby-sitting duty while Helenet and Elmet go out. ~~Maybe Helenet also thinks it’ll discourage any teen pregnancies.~~

Gytha: I was right, you are the cutest baby. Much cuter than Brigid’s baby. Definitely would’ve been worthy of being Gytha Junior, but I guess Lune is an okay name too.

Elmet suggested to Netty that they get a meal and spend some time together at the mead hall. A sim needs a little romancing in their life, after all!

Norweni: Elmet. Not getting into any mischief today, are we?

Elmet: Nah. Helenet’s even here to keep an eye on me, see?

Spotted: Enna cutting loose on her day off.

Eisu: Hey! I’m not interrupting anything, am I?

Elmet: Kinda.

Helenet: Oh, Eisu, it’s nice to see you!

Eisu: She looks just like you did as a baby.

Elmet: Really?

Eisu: Yup. Same nose. When do you think you’ll know if she also inherited your... lycanthropy?

Elmet: I have no idea. Some time between now and the next twenty years, I guess.

Angus loves to keep the house spic and span. At least there’s one neat sim here.

Illicit electronic!!! Also, girl, how did you afford that?

This from a Pleasure sim? I am so impressed, tbh. Sure, we’re gonna need to build some new houses in Veridia soon anyway.

(In my mind, Elmet is not as much as of a layabout as he might come across as/as Norweni sees him as, lmao. He helps get the sheep sheared in spring and the harvest in in the fall, as most able-bodied adults would've been expected to do. I think "pre-story" he also used to move around a bit and take random jobs, which is what he was doing when he got werewolf'd.)

Arturo is warming to Eisu after learning of his pie-making talents.

😐 😐 I guess these two came together from work.

Everyone is here for Lune’s first birthday. My god, she’s not a werewolf, she’s a werebear!

Oh, that’s definitely Elmet’s personality on steroids.

For the first time ever, Helenet actually showed her Family secondary. I was genuinely so shocked by seeing that thought bubble that I took a picture of it.

tbh I had no idea two sims could use this trampoline object.

It’s a nice spring day, so it just makes sense that the party moved outside. I see Norweni will put aside her feelings about Arturo to cheer for some really good jumping, lol.

So should I just sell everyone flu cures now? (Arturo started this plague, btw.)

Helenet: Drink this.

Arturo: ...Why?

Helenet: Because you’re obviously sick.

Arturo: I do not get sick, little witch.

Helenet: You do now! Congratulations.

Regret.

I fear none of their pillows are going to survive this relationship.

Helenet: Remember—

Arturo: Yes, yes, wear garments while in town, I remember.

Arturo: Hello, very small child. Ah... Helenet, what does she want from me, exactly?

Helenet: From what I remember of those years, probably to be picked up so she can yank on your antlers.

Arturo: Please do not yank on me. It would be uncomfortable.

Angus: How does this look?

Arturo: Very good. Your channeling is very strong; I recommend starting to focus more on fine details now.

Helenet: So...

Elmet: So?

Helenet: Should we get some practice in for conceiving the next baby?

Elmet: Definitely!

Teaching Lune to talk quickly turns into games of peek-a-boo instead.

Helenet: S'cuse me, coming through!

Well, this is a new experience for her; Helenet never got this sick with her first two pregnancies, just a little queasy.

Bottoms up!

Helenet: Shhh, Lune, s'okay, shhhh.

Angus: I’ll get her.

Helenet: No, no, I’m already up anyway.

These two are the wolves that spend the most time here.

I realized Elmet never fulfilled his promise to take Angus fishing from like three rounds ago, so I made them do it now even though Angus doesn’t really care about fishing anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They’ve gotta restock on fish anyway, they go through a lot with Arturo coming over to eat it now. Two werewolves can put away a lot of fish.

It starts raining, so they call it a day and bring their catch home for Elmet to prepare.

Arturo: You look poorly today, witch.

Helenet: Wow, thanks. Morning sickness isn’t very comfortable, that’s all.

Arturo: Hm. Perhaps a back rub would help?

Helenet: ...Yeah, actually, sure.