Chapter 5.1 - January 2022 - Agathi and Baturney Flansbarne

Last year (in sim time..), I followed the Chitrakaar-Bråheim family around (Leya, Gaute, Bodil, Orinder), but to keep things interesting (or confusing....), I want to switch to another household this year, atleast for a while, and then see how it goes... Hmm, lets see.. eenie meenie minie moe.. I think I will start with someone I have already mentioned once before, Baturney and Agathi Flansbarne.

This is their humble home at Mitchell 6.

When Agathi Jiggens moved to Sprottenham almost 9 years ago now, she was a single, young aspiring crime novel writer. At about the same time, another young man moved to Sprottenham, after having to take the heavy decision to give up on his family business, The Flansbarne Circus. The travelling circus business had seen a decline in recent years with new and more modern forms of entertainment taking over and it had become harder and harder to make it stay afloat. A certain pandemic that happened around that time was the final nail in the coffin....

Baturney had to face the heavy decision of declaring the circus that his great grandfather, Blatzloy Flansbarne, had devoted his lifetime to build up bankrupt...
It was a rainy and sad day for the former circus director Flansbarne when he first set foot in Sprottenham.. but the sun eventually shined on him, after he got a new job at the town hall and found love with his new sweetheart Agathi some years later...

Baturney and Agathi have two children together. Ruben Jiggens (3 years, 4 months) and Iselin Flansbarne (6 months).

Baturney has always been a very popular and charismatic man, almost effortlessly making friends everywhere he goes. That's probably why his phone seems to almost constantly be ringing...

After Baturney had gone off to work, Agathi sat down to start on her new project, a horror crime novel she decided to call "The Zombie Kitchen", inspired by this dream she had a few months ago. The idea had been stuck in her head for quite some time, continuously growing larger in scope, until she just had to start writing on it. She named the main characters Natalie and Ingun, and she gave all the characters in the story wings, as if they were angels. She was hoping to strike gold with this one, and finally get to write her first best seller.

Its not that easy being a writer, though, when you have two young ones at home that constantly need your care and attention...

Like the characters in most of her stories and novels, Agathi has the evil personality trait, but unlike them, she is not a bad mother...

Agathi isn't only a writer, she also works in the music career, which means that she is a colleague of both Leya and Solvej.

When Baturney gets home from work, he decides to throw a party. His lifetime wish is to be super popular, which he has already achieved, but popularity must be maintained!

Solvej Rasmussen wasn't invited to his party, but decided to show up anyway.
Solvej is an entertainer by nature, and immediately goes into one of the unused bedrooms to play guitar...

It turns into a mini jam session when Christoffer Vaddelmyr brings out his bass to join her.

Solvej gives flowers to Baturney, but he rejects. "Thanks, but.. no thanks. I am happily married to Agathi" he says. Solvej is disheartened, but takes it in stride. The colours in the bathroom is Agathis choice. She has a strong affinity towards black and red. "The red reminds me of blood splatter, and the black represents the darkness of my soul.." she tells me. Ummm... right.. yeah, uhhh.. that's... that's cool.... I guess....

Gaute is at the party too. Since he is a party animal, of course, that should be expected. Gaute loves the outdoors and talks about the park. Baturney doesn't share that interest though.

Gunn-Rita Bergersen wants to hold hands with Baturney, but again he rejects. He is a very popular man that has to constantly remind the women, young and old, that he is happily married...

Baturney then goes to bed, because he wants to be well rested before going to work tomorrow. And blocks the bed for this couple, Ramger and Gabriela Vanderfjert.. not sure what plans they had in here....

Agathi is home from work with her laptop already in hand. Then Christoffer Vaddelmyr walks over to give her flowers...

"No no no" she says "I can't accept those! I am faithful to my man, Baturney!" That's very good of her. She has the "attractive company" moodlet, so there is someone in the room she finds attractive. Of course, I don't know who it is, as there are several people in the room.

Christoffer doesn't give up though, and runs pick up lines on her. Agathi is disgusted with his behaviour.

Agathi complains to him about her job. She is not really a musician at heart. She only has the job to sustain herself while waiting to make enough money from her books. Being an aspiring author is hard work..

 Gabriela and Gaute notices that Christoffer is flirting with Agathi, and thinks he is a fool for doing so. They know that he is married to Jorunn..

Gaute, what the...? Where did you get that megaphone? Why are you so angry all of a sudden?

Gaute: We need to stand up and stand together in the fight against mean people! There are way to many mean people in this world!

Is there now?

Gaute: Mean and grumpy people! They are a dark stain on our society! We must stand united! Together we can stop this!

 Hmm, its not only Baturney that is attractive. Agathi is also popular it seems. "Your darkness is so hot, it turns me on" Ramger tells her.

Agathi does not appreciate all the people trying to flirt with her, though. It looks like she has found her man and wants to stick with him.

Agathi isn't only interested in the darker things and writing crime and horror novels. She is also a very intelligent person with strong interests in science, so she runs and inkblot test on Ramger. Maybe she can uncover why people think its ok to flirt with others when they are already married.. Learning to understand people is always good if you want inspiration for creating characters to use in a novel at a later time...

 Agathi tucks in Ruben. She does not need to see her children suffer. Writing novels and stories is her outlet for the evil and darkness within, and helps her to be a more loving and caring person to the people around her.

Agathi discusses her book ideas with Baturney. The woman still there playing computer games is Frigg Ås. The Ås family is the richest family in Sprottenham.

Agathi is a little concerned about money and wants to know when Baturney will get his next promotion.

And finally the last two party guests, Frigg and Ramger, also decide to leave the party at 3:30 in the night.. and I think that ends it for january. ;)

Other news around town:

Maiken Strøm has moved in with Glenn Hoddelås (Bodils father).

 

Maiken and Glenns home at Mitchell 3.

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