Every family with a history and some fame starts somewhere. And here is where the Gist family starts. Echo Gist, the family founder, came to the quite quiet town of Liberty Bay (custom world downloaded from here) with only a little money. She is a hopeless romantic, natural cook, vegetarian and she has a green thumb. She also wants to become a creature-robot-crossbreeder. Oh, and she’s shy. Excellent idea to move in a neighbourhood where you know no one and need to find yourself a husband to start a family. Right?

At first all she could afford was a little box, sized 4×4 squares. How nice is that? At least she has a roof over her head, and so the neighbours won’t see how poor she is! She does have a toilet and a cheap single bed inside, and she couldn’t afford to buy a lamp. But don’t tell the neighbours. They don’t need to know.

Of course the first thing she did after moving in was to get a job. Fortunately, there was a need for a new test subject, so she was able to get into the science career already. Yay!

Since it was Sunday, she decided to take a stroll on the courtyard. There she found a very elegant apple tree who she bonded with right away.

“I’m sorry I had to take your fruit. A girl needs to feed herself, after all. I knew you’d understand!”

Oh, but she’s not alone! Somebody else arrived at the park, and apparently it was a pizza delivery girl. Nice! Echo decided to be braver than ever before and talk to this stranger.

“There’s some very fine apple tree over there. It’s a very good listener.”

Oh, Echo… At least the pizza lady has the grace to put on a fake smile and pretend to be friendly.

Oops, I guess I was wrong. She decided to run for it when the first chance came. This isn’t going awfully well for Echo.

There’s some awfully creepy dude hanging out at the neihgbourhood pool at night…

Oh, it’s your first day at work, and you wish to speak on the phone wearing your sleepwear while your co-worker is sitting in the car IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE and WAITING FOR YOU so you could GET TO WORK? Echo, please!

Seems like this isn’t the safest part of the town since burglars are free to run around suspiciously during the day. Good thing Echo doesn’t have anything worth stealing!

I’m starting to think there’s something awfully wrong with the paparazzi in this town.

But wait! Looks like Echo found someone she’s interested in. Yikes! Care to tell who this is instead of holding your mouth open like an idiot, Echo?

Yup, it’s the creepy guy from earlier, smiling like he’s dead inside.

Well, Echo doesn’t seem to care. They stayed at the pool all night, just chatting. Looks like they’ve got lots in common, although some of their traits clash.

What are you up to, girl?

Yikes!

Just look at that! The creepy dude seems to like Echo back! Will this turn out to be the relationship Echo always dreamed of?

Their thing started to go well. After several great dates, Echo decided she was comfortable enough with this creepy dude (okay, his name is actually Hermann), and started thinking about their future.

She used all her seduction tactics, or at least she tried. It’s not like she’s some master of seduction.

And then she popped out the question! Seems like she got over her shyness for a moment, at least. Hermann the Creep seems to be pretty excited, too.

During the proposal it was Echo’s turn to have a creepy smile.

And now you are mine… Mwahaha!