An Army Worth Mentioning
It didn't take long for the Glaises to get permanent solutions for ambrosia ingredients. As of writing this, Solitude takes care of cooking and mastered fishing into her immortal tenure. Wexler gardens, but I have more than enough deathflowers already to last me a dynasty. Potions of Youth...eh, you all know how much of a team effort those always are. :p
But no one starts out a master at any of that. Or do they?
Sanat Rupani did.
I wasn't exactly planning on Sanat. He was an adult fisherman that Solitude found, and although I was holding out for a third colorful elder, I decided that Sanat was enough of a deal to snatch. He was an expert fisherman, a lovely shade of green, and I didn't even have to mess with his face much! He came with the hooked nose already, and I just made it a little longer.
Plus, it allowed me to have what I want to call the "Uncle GladWood" character. He's an older man with a useful skill, a particular facial feature I like, and enormous pollinating potential. Like Harwood from...
literally any dynasty attempt from TS3 I have
under my belt (imagine there's a link to
Eight Cicadas there too). He's a fisher with a possible past with my founder (I imagined "lifelong family friend that's like an uncle"). Like Gladsten from
The Pearl of Great Price. I miss that story and now want a reboot.
Sanat was a character that I failed to really capture in pictures. He was a bit of a sleazy goof. Tried to get cozy with Bob Pancakes and failed. Had children with three different women, though Nina Caliente was the only one who didn't hate him by the end. And the one who gave him the best-looking kids.
But in the end, he was a fisher. And he died after a long day of it.
As a bonus, here is little Wexler with Sanat's only green kid: Casey Caliente.
I had two main "waves" of pollinators in Solitude's lifetime. In a twist from last time, I actually tried timing these!
The first wave were two elders who were generated on Day One. I honestly forget who the purple one was, though he's currently in the family's tree for...reasons. The green one was remodeled to be a delicate green Vietnamese man. I mentioned Trinh in the last update, but that's his face!
Purple Guy's main, maybe only squeeze was Zoe Patel. I ignored her last time, but she's rather pretty underneath her makeup. Trinh had two. The nerve of him! But while he got the friendliest with gardener Jamie (?), I only kept tabs on his children with Eva Capricciosa.
Full disclosure: both of them made some pretty ugly, if colorful kids.
The second wave chose from a rather similar pool: first-day adults. Two who were generated and colorful, and Marcus Flex.
Marcus is an interesting sim. So far, he's the only pre-made adult who doesn't have children. Not joking! Which is why, between attempts, he was moved from being Ulrike's babydaddy to
everyone's babydaddy!
Well, not everyone's. He had four kids with Yuki Behr and was quite faithful to her that way. I also remembered, this time around, that sims can get married without having to move their spouse in. So, perhaps a little late, I started on trying to complete Soulmate for pollinators who could limit themselves to a partner.
Marcus was pretty remarkable that way. He completed two aspirations (Soulmate + Leader of the Pack) and was halfway through Friend of the World. I think I might have gotten some Mansion Baron points from him too? Nice work, but there was a catch.
Marcus would not die.
Well, he didn't die on time. Poor Charlie and Mr. Chen, the other two, died the day of getting their second death notice, all while Marcus did pushups without a care.
And I waited. And waited. And he had a few more kids with Yuki while I waited. I was hoping for him to die before I got started on making an heir + spare kids, but I decided to go through with it anyways. Marcus' presence would prevent any surprise twins.
It was not long after Wexler and Co. was born that I had him and Solitude (and Ulrike, not in shot) visit the old buddies at Partihaus. I guess Marcus wasn't going to die in a secluded beach house. He wanted to traumatize his friends too!
"Yo, did I miss anything?"As for the other two...Charlie had some great kids with Jade Rosa. Mr. Chen chose Siobhan Fyres. They did their work, and with some much better-looking kids than the first wave gave me.
Love Interrupted
It was time for our heroines to grow old.
And I had some romantic loose threads to tie up.
Dorian spent a lot more of his life having the absolute worst luck with men. He and Gunther Munch actually had some time together in the last attempt, but this is just one of Dorian's many failed attempts in wooing his dorky love.
"Daaaaaaad, get a room!"It took until mere
days before Dorian's demise for them to get romantic. And all the while, it disgusted poor Henrik (Maaike and Gunther's kid).
Meanwhile, Ulrike and Joaquin planned on the first not-unsightly wedding in this dynasty's history.
They threw it at the Von Haunt estate and...boy is it lovely.
"Come on, mum! You're gonna miss the kiss!""Kiddo, they've done way more in front of me."
And Solitude ignored her new buddy, Mitchell Kalani, in favor of cooking herself her favorite meal.
She ate her ambrosia in front of...some of the reasons why she could. How many steaks and skewers did Solitude cook towards her goal? A lot. Most of the best fishing spots had grills, so she did a lot of grilling.
She didn't expect a guest, though.
"Steak is like ambrosia for humans, right?""Yeah, on some level. It's gonna do the opposite, though."
"To immortality!"
"To...enjoying you for as long as I can."
Immortality could be a hard decision for someone who loved her humans and not-so-humans. But the purple mailman who walked by, after delivering yet another insane bill to the household, maybe reminded her why she had to stay.
Like it or not, there were a lot of rainbow weirdos like her stuck on Earth. And they needed a Solitude.
