Oh unreliable narrator! I like this very much even if I'm dying to know everything. The unstable trait looks interesting and you make Oasis Landing look so nice - I'm never in it long enough to appreciate it.
Have fun with two toddlers!
Unfortunately and Awesomely the second son looks very much like his father. I was kind of hoping he wouldn't gain so much color from his dad (making it obvious) but once I saw he had it I couldn't even bear to take it away it was just too adorable. If ANYONE is just dying to know who the father is, I did put it up in the Family Tree - both of them. However, if you can hold off and wait until it's revealed then good on you. I know I was never good at waiting though. It is up for anyone to see, I just hope that those who already know will keep quieter on who they are for the rest.
Yeah, in most of my games I usually only stop in to grab the lottery ticket thing before heading back to the past. It's very beautiful, but it's lacking quite a bit that a normal town would have - now that I'm living in it. Emrin actually wanted a girl the second time around but there was no grocery store to grab watermelons and the only way I could ensure it was a girl was if I changed all of Atrox's notable features (eyes, hair) to something more normal.
Atrox's dad has become more apparent to everyone if you read through past chapters on Oasis Landing. I'm ok with his dad not being a huge mystery because the shock was more to Emrin that she was Pregnant. However I'm also not going to outright say who that is either... Heh.
Anyways, sorry for the rant, the two toddlers are absolutely adorable. I adore having them around even moreso with Glitch who never seems to tire of running over and autonomously doing things with them EXCEPT when their asleep. I seriously gained some great respect for Glitch as he never wakes a toddler up like normal sims do that always seem to want to spam play with their toddler. I mean, it's adorable. Glitch will go nonstop action after action after action and then just start teaching them their skills. No direction needed.
I loved how realistic that your story is. Bravo for Livvie! The way that you described there is true.
And your story become more interesting when there's a mystery father who is revealed as someone that I know in the previous chapter. I really want to know what people think of her is when she’s in unstable state. Is she still the same Emrin or she’s really a different person?
Thank you so much! And you're probably right if you're referring to Atrox's father (green hair, piercing green eyes like that, adorable but a dead give-away). I think I can work a chapter in for you where people can see her in her instability. She's very much a different person. I did it that way because with the Unstable trait some traits of your sim get replaced by random other traits. I've been playing it out that the first sign of her instability sets her over, but it really takes several hours for the replacement to occur and it's always fixable if you don't want it to be permanent. I just used that as the premise for her becoming something she wasn't which is ultimately very scary for her. The amnesia was just the icing on the cake for her as it just makes her more conflicted and afraid of herself. I won't give too much away but she does get better eventually.
If I may ask, do genetically engineering really featuring genetic from the past generation? Or what the new option did just create a new child with bland generated townies? Oh, because I don’t have Into the Future yet, may I ask if that can be applied to same-sex couples to have kids? It seems so disappointing when there’s a store item that can makes even males to have kids but what they did just created random thing. If I know I’ll never ask my sister. I’m not truly disappointed though because there’s a new animation and that’s good for a storytelling purpose.
I also loved how much details that you put in your story, this story not only enjoyable to read but has some education value. It seems there a lot of option that can be installed for Glitch isn’t it? I loved Back to the Future movies, so what make me excited from this expansion is the kind of future that our Sims would create. I would like to have my copy soon, but knowing there’s opportunity glitch that hasn’t been fixed, I have my second thought and it also would be nice to have a discount later ^^
Do you have any background stories for the children names? Noten and Atrox kinda unusual in my eyes, would you mind to tell me for that? I also want to know about Emrin, is she a different person when she collapsed? It would be a nice idea to consider about that Livvie. I hope Emrin would be alright and nothing scary happen!
Genetically Engineering a child is very simple. You just need to be friends with the person (male OR female - same sex couples now have a very easy way to have a great genetic combo for their children) for them to Engineer the child with you. I'm positive if you're romantic with them they'll agree, but I've noticed the threshold for a person to show up on the drop down list is friendship/good friends. As far as I can tell, Noten is a perfectly even mixture of Emrin and Mystery Man - if that's what your first question was, and two people from the past can come and genetically engineer a child together, it doesn't have to be one future/one past person.
I was so excited to see that genetically engineered kids can be taken from two people of the same gender however I haven't messed around enough with genetic engineering to really give you reliable answers as I believe when Emrin became Romantic Interests with Atrox's father (which was on the same day she went to create Noten with another guy) he suddenly didn't show up on the list anymore to engineer a child with. Obviously there's a lot of things that could factor in to that, the fact that Emrin was already pregnant with his child could be one thing, the fact that he was probably at work is another... so I don't have answers that are absolutely right, I just have a few answers that I've dealt with. On the list for Emrin was also another woman she became friends with so I know it's possible to do two girls so it's very likely that two men can as well.
Thank you so much, the compliments are always awesome - it gives me confidence in my writing! I would suggest waiting on Into the Future. I got mine on sale on Cyber Monday here in the US (it was only $20 instead of $30) and while everything is really cool in it and it's worth getting, it's not worth full price yet in my opinion. If there's ever a sale I would grab it then, because the price they ask for is a lot for the few glitches that come with it. However if I were to compare it to other expansion packs... it's more like Island Paradise (lots of content) rather than Generations (which felt more like a stuff pack with a few interactions involved) if that helps your decision at all.
I do and I don't have a background story for the children. I wanted a gothic-style sort of legacy, so in the end I went to a name generator and picked my favorite ones out. When I was through searching through those I dug out my old Latin dictionary and picked out some darker, evil definitions because those names always sound cool. Atrox actually means terrible, cruel, horror. Noten was a generated name. My overall theme was supposed to be darker, evil names (they are the Reapers), but that doesn't reflect on their personality, obviously. I just like having a theme for the names, I suppose. Man I'm very long winded today. I'm sorry for such a long response!
My brain continues to reject this thought, though I cant help but feel it's very possible for it to be true: Glitch seems just a little bit in love with Emrin. Can the bots fall in love with humans? If they can, I both reject and accept the idea of Glitch being in love with Emrin.
Noten is precious. Those eyes! Both of the boy's eyes are ridiculous! Are they natural or CC, they're so glimmery. I know who Atrox's father is =3 I don't know his name, but I remember him from earlier. Hehehe. But once again, your story telling blows me away Livs! It's this story that's doing a great deal to help me get through the stress of studying for finals this week. If not for you, I would have lost it and thrown myself out a window from stress by now.
*Claps* Bravo. You're the first to pick that up. Plumbots have a traitchip called: Compacity to Love. When put in a plumbot it opens romantic interactions for other plumbots and normal sims, so yes, they can. Glitch did it basically on his own. I was having him hang around to be her caretaker and watch the children but when he started to roll wishes for her it just felt right.
Aww, I feel honored! I saved a life! Haha, I'm half tempted to do the same, I woke up this morning to a nasty draft in my Chicago apartment (12 floors up) and now the radiators don't appear to be turning on. I'm about to go switch on the gas stove to keep me a little warm this morning! Typing keeps my fingers from falling off so maybe that's why I'm so long winded this morning! Noten is absolutely adorable, though I have to say Atrox is more striking in his features than Noten. I'm sure they'll both grow into it. I actually broke my rule this time and aged them up in Create a Sim, both are absolutely stunning as they age. Atrox's father is unfortunately very easy to spot. I was hoping he would gain less of his father's look but after seeing that adorable cutie with his father's hair and eyes I just couldn't help it. I contemplated making it a little harder by changing the haircolor but I just fell in love.
Poor Emrin. I didn't play around with the Unstable trait so it's great to see someone making use of it. The boys are beautiful!
Thank you so much! Yeah the unstable trait has earned it's spot as one of my favorites. It's quite a challenge and makes life interesting. The boys are just adorable - just wait until they grow up!
Anyways, mini announcement - Atrox and Noten will be aging up together even though Noten was technically born - er - engineered first. These will be the only children of the generation and thus the only ones competing for heir. I feel like when I have so many children that there's always one that ages up and develops their personality long before the others so I'm going to try to combat it this time. It's not out of favoritism or pushing Atrox to win, but just putting them on a level ground for heir. 
