The Extraordinary Childhood of Miss Maxine Landgraab.In this exciting episode: Alistair does parenting by telepathy, Maxine talks to a child, and Maxine writes her name on a piece of paper.
His haircut was chosen as a teen, but I really need to get dad to CAS. Alistair, I'm very sorry. We'll definitely get to that. Absolutely.
Mum is already baking the birthday cake. One does not delay.
And note my triumph below: we've got through Max's entire toddlerhood without going to CAS. Obviously this level of simming technique is rare and to be Cherished. Brielle really does go all-in on the orange / white colour scheme. I probably won't do that for Maxine. (I can hear the witticisms in reply, "yeah, you probably wont, no kidding", heavy with meaning and many eye rolls.) (And it's totally fair, Alistair is on your side too no doubt. My sim turns against me!)
Dad reads to darling daughter in the library, which we're all quite fond of. Maxine jumped headlong into the child aspirations.
It's a small thing that sparks joy, but for many years -- real and pixelated -- the chess table didn't match the chairs, and now it does. That's Maxine's everyday wear. The red bomber jacket. In Oasis Springs. I know.
10 days left to teen. Trait count: 6
In keeping with hyper-parenting in the child stage, dad attempts coolness and his daughter thinks he's being strange / has crawled out of cheese. No red jacket?! Ah. Yes. Well. No, we
still haven't gone to CAS, that's Max's randomly generated hot weather outfit, because she lives in a desert. It would be very sneaky to remind me that Max's youth was put in Peril by my... *scrolls up* ... Simming Technique. That's what we're going with.
Here we dispel the injurious, defamatory, spurious rumour that Maxine never interacted with another child.
That's a child. No comments from the back, please. If you ask with wide eyes "but is that the only child? are there more?!", that's the only picture I took of her with another child. Not even kidding. High School will be different!
8 days to teen. Trait count: 9
7 days to teen. The last child aspiration is complete.
6 days to teen. Trait count: 11
I eventually signed Max up for drama club in case there's a chance she gets a trophy. She might as well. Both her parents have reached level 10 parenting, and both are now global superstars. Max is a 2-star celeb as a child, and her fame either won't go higher than that for now, or is only increasing very slowly. I absolutely want her to be a global superstar as soon as possible for the easy street perk.
Live streaming her drama practice therefore ticks a few boxes. It's easy to miss the drone hovering on the right.
She's also been doing her school projects with the help of mum and dad, though how useful they've actually been seems doubtful.
Brielle looks happily clueless. Thanks mum. Still, both parents have "helped" for 4 hours. They're both going through the parenting aspiration.
Signing autographs at GeekCon isn't going to get to her head, is it?
At this point, with most of her childhood behind her, we finally made it to CAS. This is the completely unaltered sim as the game made her.
I'm not sure if I'll use the teen version of this hair. Obviously pre-made Molly has this hair. I don't want Max to steal the iconic look of another sim (even though Molly is surely no longer in high school).
Max streams a lot and makes videos too. I think I've had a child sim nominated for an award, but not seen one actually win. (Would the animations even work properly?)
Brielle has been nominated for a video already, so we will be taking the fam to the awards on Sunday. Brielle has level 5 media production skill, and when Max makes a poor quality video, her mother edits it into something great. I can definitely do all the things to get Max a nomination, but the question is whether I age up Max before or not -- given that children probably can't win. Her teen birthday is on Monday.
On Thursday, 4 days to teen, Max got a promotion in drama club while dad frolicked in the fountain.
That evening, there was a sports day at the high school where Alistair and Brielle want to send Maxine, so they all went to check it out.
Hi!
Being a Landgraab, Maxine doesn't recognise some of the food on offer, and asked the nice man for salmon. Her mother says he looks like a discount Mortimer Goth in that red jacket. --A famous sim from long ago. Or was he just famous for being Bella's husband? Did he have his own personality?
That brings Maxine to Friday evening. At the Spice Festival, she made it through the spiciest of spicy foods! She can now brag about being curry champion! But she didn't get a trait for that yet. Obviously we're pursuing chopstick savvy and spice hound. She's a supersim, she's gotta know these things.
On a side note, dad Alistair got a 3rd autonomous selfie for the fame aspiration. He had a bit of a makeover too.
That's the bulk of Maxine's childhood. On this final weekend she'll spend a lot of time raising character values. Starlight Accolades are on Sunday 6pm, and if character building has gone well enough, she might get aged up to teen before that and maybe win something (I've had teen winners before) and start high school on Monday. But it might be more interesting to try get her nominated as a child, and in keeping with the child prodigy vibe she has going. I'm entirely on the fence.
