Bluewater Village + Pleasantview + Strangetown Megahood (fully resurrectable plus extras)

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Welcome to the NBPS Megahood!

For this Megahood, the main hood is Bluewater Village, while Pleasantview and Strangetown are suburbs. Specifically, the Pleasantview and Strangetown in this hood are carrit's Completely Resurrectable base-game hoods (with the optional extras for Strangetown). A downtown is also attached. Stealth hoods and university campuses are not attached. This hood is uploaded with carrit's permission!

In this neighborhood:

Modifications to premade Sims/families
- Since the three neighborhoods have all co-existed, I added some friendships to Sims across the hoods. For example, Dustin Broke and Ripp Grunt are friends!
- Altered faces for some Sims to be genetically related to their families (e.g., Alex Goth) or to have unique faces (e.g., John Burb, and thus Lucy Burb).
- Although there is no university attached to the this neighborhood, I added college degrees to many pre-made Sims who seem like they would have gone to college (e.g., the Curious brothers). The memories should be updated appropriately
- Since pets are a thing now, the Grunt, Pleasant, and Smith households have pets
- Changed Circe's last name back to her maiden name; she never struck me as the type of woman who would take her husband's name upon marriage
- Fixed some memories for some Sims such that real Nervous is there and not the fake one. I think I got them all, but I may have missed some.
- All premade Sims have a gender preference, for realism

Townies/NPCs
- Nearly all of the townies and NPCs from Pleasantview and Strangetown have the names they should have in the base game. I'm not sure what happened, but I couldn't find Cooper Rossi (Strangetown mail carrier), Paul Corsillo (Strangetown paper delivery), and blonde Trista Shaw (Strangetown townie), so they aren't there.
- For all of the townies and NPCs from Pleasantview and Strangetown, I slightly modified all of their faces so they aren't just the templates. I did self-Sim Surgery on them all in SimPE, so they are genetic!
- The Teens downtownies that recognize each other as siblings and Jon Smith Tricou as their dad (and his daughters as their sisters) no longer have any relationships in their family tree.
- I left all of the townies/NPCs/downtownies from Bluewater Village and Downtown untouched (because that'd be way too much).
- Strangetown Bella has had her appearance and name altered, so she just looks like a random custom townie!
- Kaylynn Langerak's family is here! You'll see Iliana, Dustin, and Parker in her family tree (and in the cemetery in Pleasantview). I updated Kaylynn's face to be genetically related to them (and I think she looks pretty similar to her original face!)
- Added some other lore to a few townies. I highly recommend you download the mod to not lose memories when they move in (specifically the fix here, as this worked when I tested it: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=678981)
- Added some custom toddlers and children to the adoption pool, just to make things interesting. No babies, though!
- To add a sense of realism, all (or nearly all) townies/NPCs should have a gender preference

Custom characters
- Since this uses carrit's Strangetown with extras, their Sims from the Sims 2 for PSP (Sinjin Balani and the Howell siblings) are in the family bin
- I added some playable Sims, loosely based on characters from The Sims 3 and 4: Cyclon3 Sw0rd, Blair Wainwright, Johnny Zest (as Malcolm IV's estranged brother), and the Pancakes (with toddler Iggy).
- I also added some OCs. Based on Ajay Loner's memories, it seems like his mom left. So, I've added the Frehndly household that explains where she went!
- I made some custom townies, loosely based on characters from The Sims 4: Judith Ward, Travis Scott, Liberty Lee, Mitchell Kalani, and Wolfgang Wilder

Custom content required:
- The cc linked in carrit's fully resurrectable hoods
--Irma's Hair
--Darleen's Hair
--Lost & Found Yellow and Green Cardigans
--The Black Leather Pants from this set
--Assorted Lost, Found, & Remade maxis clothing
--https://modthesims.info/d/159251/unlocked-maxis-mesh-female-afro-update-6-20-06.html


Custom content recommended, but not required:
- Squinge's Townie No Memory Loss] with Kestrellyn's fix (You'll miss out on some added lore without this!)
- Since there are two married couples with different last names, if you want them to have babies with the dad's last name, you'll want Midge the Tree's Baby Last Name Chooser

Note
- I somehow ended up with two copies of every Bluewater Village Sim. I deleted all of the copies of the playables and their ancestors (since April Black has shown this won't cause corruption), so they shouldn't show up in the game. That said, if you go to SimPE, you will see many of them in there!