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18th Mar 2024 at 2:37 AM
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I've mostly played Strangetown, and three of the bin families have moved in there (plus the Strangetown-specific ones).
The Ottomas family moved in next door to the Grunt family, after Samantha Ottomas, heavily pregnant, kept coming home from work with Erin Grunt, just before each of Erin's pregnancies started showing. I adjusted the ages of the three older Ottomas children to make them the same age or slightly older than Erin's three, and also changed their names so they are now Daniel, Sheila and Joseph. The twins are Benjamin and Emma, and just before going grey Samantha had a sudden baby fever and a sixth child, Zoe.
Dora has now died, and never lived to see her sixth grandchild so didn't achieve her LTW. Samantha is making great progress with her career and is now a High School Principal. Peter was demoted all the way back to Level 1 with his career after a bad chance card, but is now back to his old job as a sports journalist and there I think he will stay. He had a brief affair with Bella Goth that Samantha never found out about, but is now a fairly devoted husband. Daniel went to university and has now graduated and is living with his long-time girlfriend Gabriella Newson-Loner. He's got a job in the Music career, and for the moment feels that everything is going the way he wants. Sheila never went to uni, and instead married her boyfriend Edward Forest. They are both Family sims, so children are no doubt coming, but they've been happy with just the two of them for the moment. Joe is a Knowledge sim and just about to start at university. He's been on a date with Lucy Dowling that went well, but his turn ons suggest he really wants to date Beatrice Nigmos-Smith, so he'll have to see if he's got the courage to ask her out when they're both students. Ben (Pleasure) and Emma (Fortune) are both teens, and Emma has a boyfriend (Kenneth Picaso) but Ben doesn't yet. Zoe is only just a child.
The Picasos moved in and had two sons (Kenneth and Albert, not twins) and Jessica was pregnant with their third child when Matthew died by satellite (in story terms, died in an accident at work, he was a fighter pilot). Jessica had a daughter, Matilda, and then Matthew's ghost promptly scared her to death. After a panicked summons of an adult, any adult, by me, I made a sister for Jessica, Pleasure sim Sarah Thane, who moved in to look after the children. She did a good job of putting her life on hold to bring up the kids, and now they are all at school she has a job in acting and has just married Richard Atkinson (aka Mr Big) and they've all moved into a big house in Downtown.
Finally, the Newsons. I aged Ginger and Gavin back down to the end of their childhoods, and all six were adopted by Mortimer Thanasia (aka Nervous Subject) and his husband Ajay Loner. All of them had the surname Thanasia-Loner as children/teens, and then chose a surname once they were adults/ young adults (though I think Garrett and Georgia will stick with Thanasia-Loner). Ginger Thanasia-Newson married her childhood sweetheart David Gibson, and they have two sons Michael Gibson and Timothy Gibson. Ginger and David have a farm, and David is working as an artist. Gavin Loner went to university, is now working in the Business career and dating DJ Verse. Gabriella Newson-Loner went to university, joined the sorority and is now living with her boyfriend Daniel Ottomas and working in Education until she can find a job in film. Gallagher Newson is currently a student and the twins are teens.
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I do have a backstory for the Newson family, though some of it isn't really possible in the game, but anyway:
Greg and Gloria Newson were a married couple who always wanted a baby, but it didn't happen. Eventually they were delighted when Gloria fell pregnant, but tragically the baby, a girl they called Grace, was stillborn. Both parents were devastated.
A couple of years later, Greg was called to the hospital where he worked to identify the body of a young woman who had claimed he was her next-of-kin - and was astonished to discover his niece Anna Newson who had run away from home, and even more astonished to be presented with her baby boy. The baby didn't seem to have a father, and Anna's parents didn't want to raise him, but Greg and Gloria offered to adopt him. As Greg, Gloria, and Grace all start with G they named him Gallagher.
A year or so later, Gloria was at the local orphanage to sort out some paperwork, and found a boy of about 5 sat outside on the stairs. She started talking to him, and discovered his name was Gavin and he'd been told he'd never have a family, because people only wanted to adopt babies or maybe toddlers. They talked, and Gloria found him a lovely, kind child - and he noticed that all the names began with G like his. Eventually Gloria and Greg ended up having a discussion about adopting a brother for Gallagher, and Gavin joined the family.
They remained a family of four for a few years, and Gavin and Gallagher grew (and Greg and Gloria grew older). Gloria was usually the parent taking the boys to school and back, and she would always notice the girls in the year two behind Gavin and two ahead of Gallagher - the class that would have been Grace's. One of those girls came from the orphanage, and one day she saw some older children bullying this little girl for being an orphan. Gloria started to try and intervene, but before she got there an older girl charged in to rescue her fellow orphan. Gallagher was playing with his friends and Gavin had an after school club, so Gloria had time to talk to the girls, and discovered they were Virginia and Gabriella. Virginia had heard about Gavin's adoption, and told Gloria that she ought to adopt Gabi - because Gabi needed a family, and her name began with G. Gloria was initially dismissive - she thought her family was complete - but over the next few days both faces kept coming into her mind, with that earnest voice telling her that Gabriella needed protecting, while not caring about herself. Eventually she and Greg discussed the girls, and invited them both to visit - and ultimately adopted both of them. Virginia didn't like being the only one not to be "G Newson", and so Greg suggested that Ginger was a nickname for Virginia. So Ginger Newson she became.
The next event in the Newson family, however, was a tragic one. Greg got sick. At first they hoped he would recover, but then he got worse and in the end he died. Everyone was devastated. It did at least prompt Gloria that life is unpredictable, and she talked to Ginger and Gavin about what they would need to do if anything happened to her.
Gloria never thought she would get any more children, but one day she was approached by a distant relative about twins whose parents couldn't care for them. She knew how awful the local orphanage was, and she didn't want the twins to end up there, so she agreed to take them on. The family had a group discussion to decide on names, always starting with the letter G, and eventually settled on Garrett for the boy and Georgia for the girl (Greg was dismissed as too painful).
Then one day Gloria was killed in a tragic accident. Ginger and Gavin, desperate to avoid the orphanage, collected the family together and set off...