Yay, I've finished another rotation. Now let me just check my last post here to see where I've left off and - it's been HOW LONG since my last post??? Jeez! In my defense, I had to restart this rotation three times (the first - and worst - time was when I had actually almost completed the rotation. Drained my motivation for months.)
Anyway, no fancy pictures this time, because I'm kinda busy in RL these days and can't be bothered. Sorry. You can check my last post on the page before if you want to know what my Sims look like. Most of them haven't changed that much.
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WARNING : Despite only being in my first completely born in-game generation everyone is already hooking up with their second cousins. Or at least their cousin's second cousins or something like that. My rule of thumb is: If the game does not consider them family they are good to go, even if they are technically related. If this is something that bothers you I strongly advise you to skip the rest of my post.
Broke: Brandi and Skip are two of the very few premade adults (now elders) who are still around. Though technically they don't count since Skip already died once before and Brandi was actually supposed to die this rotation and only continues to live because she wished for the power to cheat death from the genie. I'm curious to see when her luck will run out but with the way my rotation schedule works she's at least bound to see her first great-grandchild being born. Living with them are their fourth/youngest child, Anthony, and his girlfriend Catrina Caliente (daughter of Nina and Daniel Pleasant). I was kinda hoping at least one of them would roll the want to get engaged/married since they are supposed to carry the Broke name forward but no luck so far. Catrina has the romance aspiration and Anthony is pleasure so it's doubtful if they ever will...
Then there is the second Broke household. Mia "unborn baby" Broke is a knowledge Sim, criminal mastermind, evil witch, secret lover of Alexander Goth (well, not so secret anymore since his wife caught the two of them in bed together this rotation) and new mother of baby Sally Broke. Who might or might not be Alexander's child, no one knows and Mia doesn't tell. (
I will tell though. Once we get to the Pleasants)
Burb: Lennart Burb (youngest child of John and Jennifer) graduated college and moved into his parents house again, together with his new fiancee Aurora Lothario (youngest daughter of Don and Cassandra Goth). Sadly both John and Jennifer died this rotation. Jennifer actually chose the moment everyone had gathered outside to watch Lennart's and Aurora's wedding to do so. John followed a few days later so Lennart and Aurora are living alone now. As fortune Sims they are both more focused on their careers than on having kids (although only Aurora actually has a job right now), so no babies, yet.
Lana Burb (middle child of John and Jennifer) is still living Downtown with her 3 boyfriends, Loren, Orion and Tiave Teens. She has reached her LTW of becoming a professional party guest this rotation. Her daughter with Tiave, Frida, is now a teenager (and a romance Sim, just like her mom). I am actually convinced that Frida has some kind of learning disability because she was constantly struggling with her grades - she always did her homework but her grades would just not go up (I have a harder grades hack but no one was affected as badly by it as Frida. I actually had to quit without saving at one point or I would have lost all the children to the social worker). Lucas, son of Lana and Loren, is a child now and this rotation baby Maia was born (daughter of Lana and Orion).
Caliente: Dina died this rotation. Her twins Ruben and Gonzalo both befriended their aunt Nina and asked her to move in when they left for college so the house would stay in the family. After they graduated Ruben moved back in but Gonzalo only stopped by to take the dogs (Dina had adopted three puppies when she was still alive and of all Sims in the household Gonzalo had the best relationship with them) before he moved into a tiny house downtown. I doubt he'll stay there for long though since his girlfriend Rose Oldie already rolled the want to marry him. Ruben and Nina will probably continue to live together for a while. Ruben's girlfriend Camilla Goth is still a teenager at the time so it's not like he needs the space for his own family anytime soon. Meanwhile Nina is slowly turning into the crazy cat lady: I once got her a kitten when her daughter was still living with her and since then I've been greeted with the "a member of the family has bought a pet"-notification every time I load her household.
Dreamer: Dirk and his wife Lilith (Pleasant) both grew old. Dirk reached his LTW by becoming a hall of famer. He then wanted to quit his job which is utterly stupid because he could've just retired instead, still earning a pretty penny every day. Whatever, they all have too much money anyway. Their son Damien graduated college summa cum laude and moved into an appartment downtown. Their daughter Daria has just become a teenager.
Goth: Bella Goth died. Lucy (Burb) got a job in oceanographie. When she was coming home one day she caught her husband Alexander in bed with Mia Broke. She took it remarkably well (I think she must have learned anger management at some point?) and they were able to patch things up. Their eldest daughter, Camilla, helped by performing couple's counseling. She is dating Ruben Caliente. Her twin brother Hector was...there. I honestly can't remember anything he did this rotation. Alexander's alien child, Berenike, grew up to be a teenager and the younger twins, Themis and Thetis, are now children.
Lothario: Don Lothario died. Cassandra (Goth) managed to get some promotions thanks to chance cards and is now close to the top of the science career (Level 9). Amelia went to live with her girlfriend, Victoria Pleasant (youngest daughter of Mary-Sue and Daniel), after graduation, while her twin sister Aurelia moved back in with her parents and married her boyfriend Patrick (Pleasant, middle child of Angela and Dustin Broke) once he graduated, too. She is now pregnant with their first child. Their younger sister Aurora also attended college and is now married to Lennart Burb.
Langerak/Oldie: Those are actually two households now but have been the same for the longest time, so I'm going to write about them together one last time. To recap: Coral Oldie had Plant babies Benjamin and Rose. Benjamin grew up from toddler to adult and married Kaylynn Langerak. When Coral died they cured toddler Rose of Plantsimism and raised her. Benjamin became an elder last rotation while Rose graduated college. She then moved back in with her brother and his family. In the meantime Benjamin and Kaylynn had twins Parker and Mae (children now) and when they became toddlers their parents decided it was time for the families to go their own ways, So Benjamin, Kaylynn and the twins moved out from the Oldie household and for the first time since I've started this challenge I now have a Langerak household. Only took me 7 rotations...Rose is living alone for now but already has plans to marry her boyfriend, Gonzalo Caliente (son of Dina and Michael Bachelor).
In the Langerak household Kaylynn has become an elder and Benjamin has spawned a plant baby of his own, Dahlia.
Pleasant: There are 4 different Pleasant households right now.
Pleasant I: The main household, consisting of Raphael Pleasant (middle child of Mary-Sue and Daniel), his husband Beau Broke, their daughter Gillian Broke (baby), Victoria Pleasant (youngest daughter of Daniel and Mary-Sue) and her girlfriend Amelia Lothario. Amelia and Raphael were actually dating as teenagers but now they are just BFFs and very happy with their respective partners. Oh, and Victoria is pregnant btw.
It is now time for me to answer the question: Where do all those babies come from? Specifically the the babies of the same sex couples as well as the child of Mia Broke I've mentioned earlier.
The child Victoria is pregnant with is actually Amelia's. I have a hack that allows same sex pregnancy if one of the partners has been abducted by aliens before - which Amelia was. The thought behind that is that the aliens altered the Sim's biology, enabling males to carry children (hence the alien pregnancies) and females to impregnate other females (or males that have been abducted).
It's more complicated with Raphael and Beau since neither one were abducted. I have decided that I will not allow adoptions in this challenge because that would feel too much like cheating to me - what's the point in trying to keep all the familiy names alive if you can just adopt a kid to keep the line going if it's in danger of dying out? So instead I made Beau's sister Mia pregnant with Raphael's baby via Sim blender (which now that I think of it is even cheatier...whatever, it made sense storywise) and declared her to be a surrogate for them. So technically Gillian is Raphael's daughter but Beau's niece, though I edited the family ties to make both of them her parents. What they don't know though is that Mia gave birth to twins and decided to keep one of the babies for herself.
Pleasant II: Angela Pleasant, Dustin (Broke) and their youngest son Paul. Angela und Dustin grew old this round. Dustin was promoted to chief of staff, completing his LTW. After many, many years together and 3 children Angela und Dustin finally got married, making Dustin Broke Dustin Pleasant. Paul is now a teenager and dreams of being chief of staff, just like his dad.
Pleasant III: Gregory Pleasant (youngest son of Mary-Sue and Daniel, twin brother of Victoria). Moved into an appartment downtown. He was mostly focussed on his career but managed to build a realtionship with Swan Teens while she was in college. He wants to get engaged to her now while she's less enthusiastic (romance Sim).
Pleasant IV: Priscilla Pleasant (eldest daughter of Angela and Dustin). After her graduation she bought a small house downtown. She dreams of becoming a city planner one day but for now works as a handywoman (custom NPC career) until she can find a job opening. She had a fling with Lennart Burb (youngest child of John and Jennifer) but then he went and married someone else. I thought that would be the end of it, but no, he autonomously came to visit her in her new house (entered the lot and rang the door bell. I didn't invite him over). I had her greet him and ACR decided that it would be a great idea for them to woohoo on the couch. It also decided that now would be the perfect time for her birth control to fail...yup, she's pregnant, and the father just married someone else.
And that's it for this round. If Catrina Caliente stops randomly turning into a teen the next update might even be up sooner. Who knows?