Um, it's not about family tree things. I've been avoided that and heed the warning that Trip provide.
It's more into readers comment Rosa. I accidentally read them 
So, no surprise for me then. Well, at least that I know that Sheila is happy, that was means a lot for me.
I love Sheila a lot you know...
Sorry to hear that things have been spoiled.
I think it's hard not to love Sheila.
Huh, somehow I missed several updates, but I just got caught up. And oh my gosh, Samhain is just so, so, so cute! I love him! I have a feeling that Vega and Screwtape have rather different ideas about who Sam's spouse should be. At least, I assume Screwtape would want Samhain to marry Shelia's kid, but who knows? Maybe that's for another generation? I also loved the picture of Clarissa shouting at her baby with a megaphone, haha! The picture of Samhain playing video games is also just beyond cute!
There's also the issue of Beck being the real life equivalent of 17 or 18 years older than Samhain. While there was a gap between Screwtape and Clarissa, the gap between Samhain and Rebecca is more than twice as wide. I have a feeling that it rubbed Screw and Clarissa the wrong way.
No matter what, someone has to marry a Drudge. That's a given.
The megaphone...for a bit, everyone was addicted to it. Generation two was the rebel generation due to Screwtape's street art supermax, and he spread the influence around. I also have an awesome screenshot of Screwtape ranting at the pyramids during a trip to Egypt. Gotta love the megaphones.
I just started on this and had to read it all the way through. I'll be looking for updates, Trip -- you definitely keep us guessing!
Wei Keane has pretty long-lasting genes. I used him in one of my earliest stories and started a project with his son or grandson. That was back in the days when story progression would provide a few infants, so his grand-daughter married Clarence Knack, another child of Pattina and Nick. Reading your story makes me want to play in Twinbrook again!
Hey there new reader! Glad I'm keeping you guessing.
Wei's genes in the main family started and ended with Screwtape, considering how much Samhain looks like his mum. His genes are certainly interesting regardless of their longevity.
Ouch, Clarissa...that was a stinging comment if ever I've seen one. 
Glad that Sheila is managing well enough. She has to be my favorite mortal so far as well (other than her mother). I can't wait to meet the new 'boo!
I bet she's full of them.
Sheila was such a joy to play, and she makes an excellent mother. I like her a little better than Eva, since I raised Sheila from birth and everything.
In current game news: I rebuilt the dynasty house. Hopefully things will run a bit smoother without an extra floor and other useless stuff.
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Heath. That was the name of Sheila's boyfriend.
He wasn't a pseudonym for Screwtape, nor was he a clone, nor was he anything but a very normal young man who lived up the road from the Ironstars.
Having a child wasn't a very instant thing for the two of them. Sheila had a bit until her adult birthday when she first shared a kiss with Heath right after his young adult birthday, ignoring his thinning hair and unusual clumsiness. They had to wait even longer for a nooboo; having a nooboo right near a birthday was too risky.
Screwtape thought that Heath looked quite striking, much different than the typical newcomer in Twinbrook. His wide jaw, the stern stare in his eyes, and the peculiar shape of his upper lip puzzled Screwtape, but even before he asked his mum about Heath's origins, he knew that he was the next best man for Sheila. He was unwaveringly friendly, a bit of a hopeless romantic, and he acted like a true gentleman.
And before Screwtape graduated from university, he gave then-teenaged Heath a call, saying that he knew of a kind woman who would accept him for who he was. Once he grew up, of course.
Though his origins had to be found out afterwards, just to ease Screwtape's curiosity. Vega always knew these things, and she knew all too much about how Heath came into the world.
“Remember Marc?” she asked Screwtape.
“Do you mean the old man with the blue hair who always sat in our rocking chair in his pajamas?”
“Come on, he completed his lifetime wish too.”
When Marc took his dying breath, he had no idea what Vega had in mind. Actually, Vega had little idea what she would do with her best friend, other than have him buy a teleporter and in a fit of good will on Vega's part, live comfortably in her mansion. He found her suggestions about irresponsible woohoo with Amy, his crush of twenty or so years, to be strange, but he fell under the watch of a master of persuasion, and he followed those orders.
Little did even Vega know that one of the results of those “visits” Marc had with Amy would end up saving Sheila from a life of total woe.
It took her months to finally catch up with Heath after a fateful night sleeping over at his place (writing was time-consuming stuff), but Sheila decided on a romantic dinner with him to break the news.
“And Dr. Knack says it's a boy. So, what do you say, Heathy-dear?”
Whatever he said, he was glowing with pride. He was a bit young to be an unmarried father, but for Sheila, the time was right and Heath quickly got ready for it.
The nervous smile he had whenever he was around Sheila never changed, though. He didn't have the smoothness of either of his parents when it came to romance, and the hair always haunted him.
“Don't worry, we'll dye his hair if it's your color,” said Sheila before kissing Heath good-bye.
Sheila's story could continue on a happy note. Heath was no Screwtape, but Sheila always had a good heart. As much as she and Clarissa disagreed on everything, she knew that Clarissa deserved the joy she clearly found in Screwtape, and that Screwtape completely deserved a great marriage to someone that he turned out to hold a deep love for.
As Screwtape slept in Clarissa's arms that night, confident that everything would turn out well for the two couples...
...Sheila held her son for the first time, thinking of how right everything seemed to turn out.
He was named Marco James Drudge, after both of his grandfathers, and Sheila could look into his eyes and see that they were the same deep grey of his grandma Eva's.
As for the fate of little Marco James in this strange family, Vega was the only one to know.
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Marc was originally captured because I was originally indecisive on what I'd do to get a spouse for Samhain, and who could make a baby with Sheila. So the obvious answer was "seed the town with pretty Brandtboos and sort them out later." That's what normal people do, right?
And yes, he bought a teleporter.
He also had two daughters, which were originally potential spouses for Samhain until I came to my senses and realized that getting Harwood's genes in is much more important.
So when Rosa guessed that Marc was Sheila's babydaddy, she was actually half-right. Not that it was a leap of logic to think that Sheila's baby would have some Brandt blood considering that
I'm at the helm of this dynasty. It would have been especially cruel to Sheila, though; having Marc father a child with her would also leave her as a young widow. And that's terrible. Hence Heath, who's about three weeks younger than her. Since Sheila can't marry anyways, she gets to have a younger partner as compensation.
As a final note...Marco James is supposed to be a first name; not Marco as his first name and James as his middle name. FamilyEcho begs to differ, and renders it as "Marco Drudge" under the belief that James is his middle name. Don't believe them for a second!
