Sims 4 players defy Disney to make Kylo Ren and Rey "woohoo"

It's been only a day since The Sims 4 Star Wars expansion pack Journey to Batuu was released in full, but it sure didn't take long for players to find their way around the DLC's restrictions - and now we have Reylo in the Sims. It's the happy ending we never got in The Rise of Skywalker.

If you're a little outside the Star Wars fandom loop, Reylo is a popular romance theory shipping Kylo Ren and Rey that ended up becoming slightly more official by the end of The Rise of Skywalker. When a Star Wars expansion for the Sims 4 was announced, many players immediately wondered if NPCs like Rey and Kylo would be romanceable in the game, but soon discovered that EA had placed plenty of restrictions on romantic interactions with the characters. Players couldn't flirt with the Star Wars NPCs, while the special Batuu areas to which they are restricted are deliberately devoid of beds. Clearly, Disney didn't want any of its trademark-protected characters rolling around in the galactic hay.

Not to be deterred, players on The Sims' forum immediately started looking for ways around the problem, and found a couple of different solutions. While Rey and Kylo are prevented from romancing each other as NPCs, players uploaded the official EA models to The Sims 4's gallery, meaning anyone can now download the pair as a household and make them move in together, with everything that entails. I had a go at this, and making the pair play-fight was surprisingly wholesome.

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