Author's Note: Whelp, we have arrived at that point this is going to be less of a story and more of a report on the family, their goings-on, etc- real life has, unfortunately, intervened on that end. So, without further adieu, let us begin again.
Founder/Gen 1Malik has few pictures, mostly because the road to completing his requirements was long and uneventful. I believe I spent most of his time on Speed 3. He was a very easy founder. He went to work, befriended his coworkers, came home, cooked some meals, and on his ever-increasing number of days off, he gardened. A green dragon named Delphi kept both of us from tearing our hair out over waiting for those pesky plants to grow. I set the seasons to be three weeks long, which means before the end we had move all of the plants into a greenhouse, which still stands on the property today.
Early in Malik's stay in Moonlight Falls, he was invited to visit the neighbors just down street. There he met and promptly fell for both Violet the ghost and Argus the werewolf (he and Dante would later become friends).
Fortunately, the attraction was a) mutual and b) went beyond just the physical. After having so many heirs who were indifferent or had outright hostile relationships with their significant others, it's a lot easier to appreciate the solid team these two made.
They were always playing games,
spawning adorable romantic interactions,
and, most importantly,
they were one of two couples who wished to marry each other. Many of the other heirs would spawn the generic 'Get Married' but only after their first children had been conceived or were born altogether. Their engagement was a long one but well worth the wait.
In the meantime, Violet quit the Criminal career and began climbing the ladder towards a level 10 scientist. I don't have any pictures of it but she regularly helped Malik in the garden when it got too big for one sim to handle. Additionally, she also reached the top of the logic skill before Malik was done and discovered all of the potions. Her Young Again potions were used for a long time by the family, though her tutoring skills, in the end, proved more valuable.
The evening Malik topped his cooking career, he completed his requirements by marrying Violet.
Malik took the longest out of all of the heirs, he was about five days to elder, to complete his requirements and it wasn't due to his lack of a head start, none of the heirs began working on their adult requirements until they were young adults. In universe, I'd say it was adjusting to such a fundamentally different place and to the whole 'I am no longer dead' thing. Out of universe, I started him a bit late in the cooking career because I wanted to get all of the gardening challenges done before fall and winter came.
SparesOh, boy. A running theme in this dynasty that, unless the mother is a female heir, it will take multiple pregnancies and children for the next heir to appear. All of the pregnancies are what really slowed the whole thing down and having ghost after ghost tossed into the loving arms of story progression seemed to increase the bugs and lag that would ultimately force the family to leave Moonlight Falls.
But, enough of that, it's spare spam time! And what lovely children too.
Violet endured two pregnancies and six children to obtain the heir.
Batch Number 1:
Magnolia, an excellent blend of her parents' looks if not traits
Mazus, a dull, vapid loser who had one job, make colorful babies with Emelie Van Gould, and failed utterly (but in this picture, he's at least adorable)
And Maple, a little troublemaker who, I personally believe, became the most successful used car salesman in the history of Moonlight Falls.
The eagle-eyed among you will notice that all of their noses are identical and, in fact, all of Violet and Malik's kids inherited this nose. This nose? Looks like this on a normal, not-ghost face:
Yep, Violet Slymer has a very large nose and while ghost overlay can mask it, there's no denying it exists. If I seem a little harsh/short with this set of triplets, it's only because they caused me heart attack after heart attack. None of their traits stuck after childhood. None of them. No matter how many times I replaced them, the game would drop them. Naturally, I was very concerned about the littles who came later, but it thankfully seems to have been a Batch 1 only problem. We also had a ton of problems getting them all to the cake and aged to adults before the heir became a child. With the huge time restraints on the child requirements, I knew the heir couldn't afford any distractions.
Magnolia and Maple got jobs and promptly left the house, leaving Mazus to the growing chaos. He would father five beautiful children with Emelie, produce only one vampire and two daughters with unusual coloring (Malik's green hair and Violet's blue), before the Watcher had enough of him and kicked him out. Fortunately, Emelie took him in and he had a quiet, successful life with her and his kids. His one vampire daughter, Graciela, befriended the family and was close to them until the end of Moonlight Falls.
A wild Maple spotted! Dude, your pops is happy you're honoring your heritage but those shoes? Really?
The boys at, I think, Dante's Spooky Day party when Gen 2 was finishing up their stuff.
Batch 2:
The aging of little Mircranthes
and Myrtle
was more than a little strange. They quickly became toddlers, children, and teens but afterwards, I left them alone to age naturally. I was hoping that they could grow up, at least a little, with their little sibling. Somehow Violet found the time to tutor them as children so that they could get decent traits. Merry would drop his teen trait once but it fortunately stuck when I replaced it. They actually got to know all of their older siblings and while their leaving saddened them, at least they had each other.
And Mazus.
These two were pretty quiet, they spent most of their time off in their own little worlds, though that didn't stop their father from spending as much time with them as he could. Merry could often be found brooding in the jungle gym while Myrtle preferred the sandbox.
The heir eventually joined the duo in teen-dom and the siblings who came into the world together would become adults together.
After getting their own jobs (I believe Myrtle became a cop and Merry a journalist), they moved out to give the heir the space he needed to complete his tasks. Myrtle would eventually hook up with someone who'd become important to the rest of the family later on and Merry sent the heir's spouse lots of stuff in the mail.
