Desperately Playing Catch-UpSo here's another update, as generation four is now a teenager in my game and if I leave it any longer to post these chapters I'll forget what they're even about.
One of the things that constantly frustrates me in The Sims is how, the moment somebody dies, everyone has to run over and look. That makes a lot of sense if it's a family member or friend, but a lot less sense if it's just some random paparazzi that only Dante in the entire household has in his relationship bar.
And that's only because he heckles the paparazzi constantly. This sim is about as antisocial as you can get.
And he's the only one not staring at the poor paparazzi dying too.
I'm not sure this is what they mean when they say grandmas like to play with their grandkids.
Oh look. It's another birthday! But whose?
I might stop taking screenies of birthdays soon. There's only so many times I can get excited about a shot of a sim blowing out some candles in the exact same kitchen.
And yes, I am too lazy to set up a table for cake elsewhere.
It was Copper. Here she is as a child with the grey eyebrows I now know come from her grandad Pappy.
And just to save us all some time, here she is as a teen.
Birthday three of the update is Orchid. We have a gorgeous pink-and-purple toddler. The lilac hair is my addition, just so I can quickly tell the difference between all the pink sims I have floating around the place.
I really really need to stop doing birthday updates. I'm aware this is number four now, and for that I'm truly sorry.
Orchid's not impressed about it, either.
But, luckily for her, she doesn't have grey eyebrows.
She's a pretty cute kid. Thanks to the vampirism she's much lighter in the wardrobe mode than she is in real sim-life. She's also quite clearly got those cheekbones...
Look how far her mouth opens.
I considered having the next generation be Imaginary Friends, seeing as Orchid has a doll and I don't want to leave it to the last generation and then them not get a doll. It's worth pointing out at this point that that's the extent of my strategy. But then I found a sort-of-original townie witch, so I'll be using them instead for Orchid's spouse. Nothing like an arranged marriage.
The traditional bit of tutoring for the heir. Though, she seems to know more than Cerise who's supposedly tutoring her.
Orchid showing her gran how to answer the question.
I like to bring back the older non-heirs from time to time, as I always feel slightly guilty about chucking them out without any kind of family or even caring that much about what they do next. Cerise meets up with her daughter Bittersweet from time to time. I may have lost her sister Almond. Oops.
Apricot and Sepia become Young Adults in the fifth and sixth birthdays of this update. Here's Sepia as an adult. I'll download her when I next go into the game, and make a swap shop thread for all the Crayolas so far.
