Fortune & Romance is a Machinomic made with The Sims 2. It is a prequel to the game's storyline, focusing on the lives of the premade Maxis sisters Dina and Nina Caliente.The story can be found here.
Tropes in this work:
Ambiguously Evil: There are many hints to Olive's reputation, but it's never outright confirmed and Dina and Nina are completely unaware, viewing her as a maternal mentor figure.
Author Appeal: The author admits that the story makes her come off as a robot fetishist.
Different as Night and Day: Nina [redhead] and Dina [blonde] are fraternal twin sisters and complete opposites. Nina is shy, energetic, neat and serious, while Dina is outgoing, lazy, sloppy and playful.
Disposable Fiancé: Ocean is vain, condescending, insensitive, and inappropriate, but he averts expectations by being neither jealous or unfaithful. The method of disposal in this case ends up being quite a spectacle.
Doomed by Canon: We all know what happens to Bella several years later, not to mention the Tricou family and Rainelle.
Entertainingly Wrong: Mortimer picks up on all the clues to Dina's alien background to the point of figuring out she's a green supernatural creature who accidentally caused Mr. Big's disappearance, yet he still comes up with an entirely wrong conclusion.
Fantastic Racism: Dina and Nina get a lot of grief for their alien heritage. Brigit is shown to hate anyone even remotely non-human.
Hidden Depths: Don, who is set up in canon as a typical Casanova, is shown to be very bright with a secret nerdy side.
Ho Yay: Mike and Mortimer's contentiousness could be read this way. Dina actually assumes they're a couple when she first meets them. And for that matter, Mortimer calling Servo "beautiful".
Les Yay: Dina's admiration for Bella Goth could definitely be seen as this (she even has a notice board full of Bella's photos in her room!) Bella, however, seems to be more interested in Nina. There's a bit between Dina and Brigit as well, with Foe Yay mixed in.
Loveable Rogue: Dina is manipulative and prone to stretching the truth and skirting the law, but she makes up for it by being compassionate and free of malice.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There are moments in the story that are clearly a result of magic, however there are also times where it is left ambigious as to whether or not something has a supernatural explanation.
Robosexual: Nina seduces Servo, and it later becomes apparent that was not his first time. The mechanics are not explained, but it's implied they had a very good time.
Running Gag: Brigit repeatedly running away from things is quite literally this.
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