Mod The Sims - The families you play

Lollipop_Girl

31st Oct 2007, 10:07 PM

This will kill some time for me, I have soo many families in my Randweird. Randweird is supposed to be a small town located in the South of England. Warning, this will be looooong :p and may have hints to the plot of a new story I *may* post here.

Raiden: Couple Leon and Eva with two now grown up YA twins Serene (an unwilling vampire awaiting an official cure that doesn't give her allergic reactions like the gypsy stuff does) and Mervin (Aka Pervin Mervin, contending for campus manslut).

Anderson: Herman is a single father after his wife Larissa died "suspiciously", also, pretty much every single woman he dates ends up dying "suspiciously". Herman and his YA son Victor are on non-speaking terms after Herman tried to frame his girlfriend for his murders after Victor discovers the body of the maid when returning home one night in their bathroom. Victor and Serene date.

Peel: Super intimidating uber-religious fanatic Prudence and her Ned-Flanders-esque hustabd Abel live here. Their YA vampire wannabee Serene stalking daughter Martha recently moved out and they have adopted twin boys Joshua and Caleb. The twins' biological parents were porn stars.

Clervel. After graduating in Medicine, Charlotte moved to Randweird with her French former Uni professor, now Husband, Joseph Clervel. As the only local doctor Charlotte gets alot of patients, it seems many of her non-human minority patients end up dying from their illnesses "suspiciously". Charlotte strictly denies that she has anything to do with their deaths She also strictly denies that her father was a non-human himself. Their son Damian has just left for uni and daughter Gabrielle is a teen with a crush on an alien boy.

Schwarzenberg: Originally from the Netherlands, Persephone has been alive as a vampire for centuries. Despite this she tries to live as normally as possible and throws herself into working at her beloved nightclub "EDEN" and trying to find a decent guy. Despite being named after the wife of Hades, Persephone is far from hellish and rather likes to dress in summery floral dresses.

RW reaserch Centre Household: Three scientists, Vincent Freeman, Medeia Xanthopolous and (Frenchie's) Sg'glu Neebtadrizk are working on the discovery of "Vampirocillen-E", a small and underfunded project to find an official cure for vampirism. Despire help from local vamps Persephone and Serene, Vincent is the only one to take it all seriously as Medeia becomes pessemistic and Sg'glu just wants to have her own lab and conduct her own experiments rather than be stuck working with those "losers".

RW Creation Lab Household:. Japanese scientists Sadako Yamomoto and Yoshirou Isuchi are lucky enough to have a top of the range lab to create their strange hybrid creatures out of the public eye. But when a failed experiment (only known as "Unknown") escapes somewhere into Randweird the two must either track her down and exterminate her...or else lose their jobs permanently. Yoshirou also has to let his super-geeky arcade owner brother Hideaki live with them temporarily...because his mum said so.

"Unknown" household: The escaped Hybrid who is only known as "Unknown" is on the run from her creators who wish to assasinate her. She is totally mute and takes up residence in an old lot where the residents died off a long time ago. Her only method of communication with the outside world is via an old barely working computer. She befriends Herman Anderson and they decide to meet in person, however when he sees her face he gets freaked out by it and runs of. Unknown doesn't know that this was a blessing rather than a curse.

Lagounov: Russian siblings Aleksandr and Katerina moved here together in order to escape their control-freak parents back home. Katerina works as a dominatrix ;) and has a very...interesting home, Alek just rents the second bedroom and is very disturbed by some of his sister's "decorations". Katerina has her eye on the shy scientist Vincent, Alek has met Syrinx, a friend off the internet, and hopes they can become more than friends.

"Syrinx" household: After being the sole survivor of the brutal Matchmaker killer, Syrinx (taking a false name) is relocated under the witness protection program to Randweird, left with both physical and mental scars. But the reason she was targeted in the first place remains a mystery as she doesn't mak it public knowledge that she has the spirit of a destructive supernatural being trapped in her head, causing her to be known as "The Host". When the being tries to gain control over Syrinx's body she will face a tough time trying to stop it from destroying the entire town.

Sterling-Thurston:. After the death of his wife Brenda "Bitsey", the aged American millionaire Milbank searches for a new alien bride (as they seem pretty exotic to him"). When a desperate Sg'glu's planet visa runs out, she sets out to seduce him in order to remain working on Earth. Daughter Geneva sets out to be the Paris Hilton of randweird, is dating the hottest new Rapper and is shortly going to star in her very own reality show. Emo-tastic son Lars has recently moved to uni where he can irritate his girlfriend Martha with his depressing poetry and My Chemical Romance album.

X: From the great and "superior" planet of Xyliriax, Kiyoa has been sent to research the "rustic" little planet armed with fantastic Xyliriaxon technology but no language skills except for a very untrustworthy phrasebook called "earthling languages for dummies". Just when she was likely to give up she befriends (Frenchie's) 1011001, another alien from the geek planet. They now live together as a couple in an entirely blue house to remind Kiyoa of her home planet.

Mason: A hectic life working for Persephone's club can sometimes get too much for Bijou. So when she had the oppertunity to purchase an idealic little cabin on a secluded road of randweird she was delighted. Yet now she often has the eerie feeling of being watched, something about that cabin is just not right. And after the discovery of a grave hidden in the back garden can Bijou discover who her ghostly spy really is?

Lewis: Spanish writer and club employee Isabel rushed into a marriage with nerdy doctor Wesley, and is now lacking in inspiration for her saucy novels. Being a true romance sim, Isabel flung herself into several affairs but her fun was haulted by her unplanned pregnancy. Now she has to decide whether she can live a lie with Wesley or break out on her own for the first time in her life.

Neebtadrizk: These are Frenchie's creations not mine, but fun in the neigbourhood :). Earth sets out to university to study politics and bring equality to non-humans. Her mother Ymn'ixxu is a crazy grilled cheese sim who after befriending the only other grilled cheese sim in the neigbourhood earnt a job working for a fancy oriental resteraunt that now only serves...grilled cheese. Her father, Orflad, still has one of the most uninteresting jobs of washing dishes at French seafood resteraunt "Fruits de Mer!". Ymn'ixxu's parents Oztal and Wegla are retired and spend their time harassing their new son-in-law Milbank and clubbing. Yes, clubbing.

There are more but I may write them later :p

rome_raven

31st Oct 2007, 10:29 PM

Wow...you really want to know?

Nott-Ross House
Damien, Breanna and the quads, Persia, Golden, Shemar and Morris. Damien is the current head of the Ross Family Holdings...yeah, not that legit of a "company"

Andrews-Schlel House
Venkat (Ven), Sandy and their children, Andrea (teen), Andrew (child), Anthea (toddler-twin) and Angela (toddler-twin). This is the baby making factory household. both parents are family sims who seem to want a house full of children. Sandy has never worked a day in her life, due to the fact that she left university pregnant and hasn't had any time to rest in between as it is. She spends majority of her time meditating. Ven works like crazy to keep the family funds up, making meals and leaving them as left-overs for the kids to eat when he's not home. Andrea became a fortune sim who plans never to have as many kids as her parents.

Wilson House
Kendra Wilson is one of first sims in the town of Truth. A university graduate romance sim, who wants to have woohoo with 20 different sims...she's up to 8 and has 3 kids, Tyrone (who's currently at university), Tyrell (child-twin) and Tanya (child-twin).

Hernandez House
Roberto and Felicia Hernandez moved to Truth after winning the Sim City Million Dollar Lottery with their 2 children, Pedro (who has moved out and married) and Miguela (who is at university with Tyrone Wilson...highschool sweethearts). Roberto and Felicia didn't stop at the 2 kids. They now also have Miguel (teen), Jose (teen), Luis and Antonio (both babies-twins). Miguel is a romance sim intent on out doing Kendra.

James-Bruty
Hayden and Lisa have been married since just out of University and have 2 children together, Me'Shell (who's married to Pedro and is away at university) and Nirobe who is still a baby. Lisa was one of the original sims in my game. Between Lisa and Kendra Wilson, they started Kenisa Sorority at Truth University. Hayden was acutally an NPC bartender. I fiddled around with the game a bit and gave him a sister, a townie with the same last name, Melissa who is currently having a feud with her sister in law Lisa and is also away at university, a Kenisa Sister.

Ross-Copur
Nicole Ross-Copur is the matriarch of the Ross family (aka: Damien's mom). She has recently married to a much younger man, Professor William Copur. Before marrying him, she had 2 other children (not including Damien), Teneesha (moved out( and Derek (currently at university). With William, they wasted no time and quickly had a child named Rupert

Goldman-Amin
Felica (not to be confused with Felicia) was a uni townie inducted into Kenisa who has since graduated and bought her own house. She married the streaker, Amin who despite the fact of moving in, hasn't changed his opinion on mode of dressing. He can quite often be found fishing in the backyard pond, naked as the day he was born. They have a set of twins named Ragid and Regina.

Legacy House
That's just what I call the household because if I ever stuck close to their names, it would be Vane-Seavey-Ajjanagadde...and that's only to generation 2. Stevie Vane moved into her over sized, married a uni townie named Brian Seavey. They had a set of very ugly twins named Keely-Ann and Drucilla (Keely and Dru). It was soon decided that Dru would carry on the Legacy and Keely would be the spare. Dru married the newspaper delivery boy, Jace Ajjanagadde who apparently has a skin condtion where the skin color on his head is a VERY different shade of brown from his body. Let's just say he's a big fan of long sleeved shirts. Dru and Jace have 2 sets of twins, Max & Matt (children) and Nathan and Natasha (babies). Max will be the one carrying on the Legacy. Stevie has recently died. They family is still in mourning.

Seavey-Hamilton
This is Keely's house. She got a face lift while in University and I made it permanant. She married a CAS sim named Davnus Hamilton and together they also have a set of teen twins name Blake (boy) and Blaise (girl). Apparently, twins really run in this family. Blake is dating Andrea Schlel, Blaise's best friend. Blaise is on Miguel Hernandez's hit list.

There is still more families that I would love to tell you about. (shameless plug). You can read more about them from the link in my signature.

Lollipop_Girl

31st Oct 2007, 10:39 PM

Woot! I am not the only one who posted a long description of their families :D nice plots there rome_raven.

crazyfoolgaf_SC

31st Oct 2007, 11:41 PM

Having recently obliterated my favorite ( and only used neighbourhood ), I only have three families worth mentioning.

Landgraab (or what ever way you spell it): Malcolm Landgraab met Barenziah O' Hara at a welcoming party.They spent the night talking and felt like they made a great connection.Then in a tragic accident, Malcolm was killed by a Cow Plant that same night.An astonished Barenziaha was told that he had left her his entire fortune on a mad impulse.Also Impulsive, Barenziaha discovered a way to resurect Malcolm.They are now married and have a son (also called Malcolm).

Decendant:Massive family living in a massive house.........Can't remember any of their names.Dad works hard at the hospital and tries to make time for the family.Mom is busy setting up her own boutique.Teen girl is thinking about leaving and heading for collage.Child girl has just turned teen and has a massive crush on her best friend who she met in school, Clint Sniggins.Aunty is a slacker and is going steady with Jason Larson.However, due to the recent evacuation of their original neighbourhood, she has completely lost contact with him and questions weather or not he is even alive.( Hes not by the way :( )Doggie Benji has....well the dogs life, loved by all the family.The whole family seeks advice of likable old Granny.

Sniggins: Clint (teen) Emilda (Mom) Dad (forgot name again (DAMN IT!!) )Dad works had as a police officer and protects his family well.Mom is laid back and enjoys the advantages of suberban living.Clint has a crush on his best friend (see above).Their lives are fullfilled yet uneventful.

bacon164

1st Nov 2007, 04:15 AM

Oh, yes! I forgot about...

Clooney
Famous Amos and George Clooney are lovers in a society not acceptant of homosexual relationships. At the present time, they are being held in a high security prison and awaiting execution. Hopefully, they will find a way to escape Alice's dominion and start a new life.

rome_raven

1st Nov 2007, 05:12 AM

I'm back and I can continue telling you about the rest of my families. YAY!

Umgabi-Fancey
This is the household of Andrew and Angelica Fancey. Angelica was a CAS created YA who spent all of her university career trying to find a man...didn't work...ever. She got rejected by Damien, Davnus, Dalhousie (he's a part of another family to write about), Ven, Marcel the Llama Mascot and even the evil Cow Mascot. I was thinking she was gonna end up being at old cat lady but luckily for her, as soon as she graduated and reached the top of the Slacker career, therefore becoming platinum, she called the gypsy, paid her an arm and a leg and prayed for the best. Luckily for her, the gypsy did good and she met Andrew Fancey, a fairly good looking sim who's quickly became head over heels in love with her. They recently got married and had a set of triplets, Aubrey, Amelia and Amanda.

Hamilton-Moore
This is the household of Dalhousie and Trisha Moore. Trisha is Davnus' twin sister. Trisha started a little bakery in their house. It was going okay for selling Christmas cookies in the middle of summer however, people started admiring the furniture she had, and she has since switched to selling coffee tables, lamps, mirrors and various decorative items. Dalhousie (Dal) and Trisha have one son named Terrence, who apparently is single-handedly bringing his family together. Since he was born, his cousins, Blaise and Blake visit all the time. Before that, I don't even think they were ever at their aunt's house.

Ross-Fancey
This is the household of Corey Fancey and Teneesha Ross who are engaged but not yet married and have Jaliq and Jaanai, a set of twins as well (what is in the water in this neighbourhood?). Teneesha is Nicole's daughter and Damien's little sister. She has the same ambition to be a crimminal mastermind which will happen but on a different side than Damien. Corey was a uni townie/secret society member (despite the fact it's a custom university and there's no secret society...) He joined Roschlel (which was started by Damien Ross and Venkat Schlel...hence the name) and through that, met Teneesha. He thought she was joking when she said she wanted to be a crimminal...well she was not. They also have 3 dogs, Bibi, Black and Burp, the puppy.

Moore-Watson
This is the household of Moorehouse Moore (who prefers to be called Em because her parents were idiots to name her Moorehouse when her last name is Moore) and Olivia Watson. Em gave me struggles while she was in university. Angelica had trouble attracting the guys...well Em had the exact opposit trouble. The guys were attracted but she wasn't interested in any of them. While on a visit to her new friend's house, Olivia, she flirted on her own...I didn't set Olivia's preference but apparently she liked it and it solved Em's loneliness problem. Em tried to be a foster mother to a townie teen named Emmy Kosmokos...Emmy ran away by the next morning...so apparently foster parenting is not for her. Em and Olivia decided they wanted to start for a family right away and got a "donation" and had each a baby, Turner Moore-Watson and Jadzia Moore-Watson (Oliva is a DS9 fan...Jadzia is probably lucky she didn't get called Worf or Odo). They have decided the name of the biological father under close wraps.

O'Reilly House and Vicarage
The O'Reilly's have recently moved into Truth. Michael (the oldest brother) is a fortune sim who has his live in girl-friend Elle. Patrick (the vicar and 2nd born) doesn't live in the family home and has taken up residence in the newly opened Vicarage. Quentin (youngest brother) is a romance sim who has made it in and out of Kendra's bed or the photobooth at the XXX House. He is still debating whether or not he will be going after his potential sister-in-law. Quentin is also a good judge of style with him giving make-overs to random townies. in his effort to beautify Truth. Meghan (the baby and only girl) is very quiet and reserved. She spends majority of her time, tending to her orange tabby cat, Miko and her tomato plants, which are not faring to well.

Bruty-Hernandez
This is Pedro (Roberto and Felicia's oldest) and Me'Shell's (Lisa and Hayden's oldest) home. Me'Shell is currently away at University but is wanting to get home as soon as possible to be with her and Pedro's 3 daughters, Pilar (toddler-twin), Paloma (toddler-twin) and Mya (baby). Pedro and Me'Shell also have an...enemy. Pedro used to date a townie named Kimberly Knight. She went to University with him. They sort of broke-up and he started dating Me'Shell...Kimberly was not happy and has done her best to break of Pedro and Me'Shell's relationship, knocking over their garbage can and is currently picking fights with her new dorm mate, Me'Shell. Me'Shell is hoping this will all stop, fearing it will affect her GPA since Kimberly has now met Marcel Vi (the Llama Mascot).

Derek Ross and Emmy Kosmokos...worthy mentions
Derek is Nicole Ross-Copur's 2nd last son. Emmy is his girlfriend. Derek and Emmy will be setting up the Ross Homestead (the storage house for all of the Ross decendents). They are currently in university.

simsluver

1st Nov 2007, 05:13 AM

In My Fave Neighbourhood Are:

- The Hollister Family: Mum Emma ( An_nas Sim ) And dad Nathan ( Zoejs Sim) Live in their 8 bedroom house with their five kids , Haidee ( teen ) Symone ( Teen ) Emity ( Teen ) Twins Sahara & Jareth ( Kids ) And Emma's Preggies Again. Haidee & Symone are about to go to collage while Emity has Gotten herself pregnant so her and her mum are having their babys about the same time :blink:

- The Loner Family: Mum Circe & dad Ajaye live in their House with their 4 boys and a girl , Ajaye Is a Policeman and is cheatin on circe with Lola Singles And their Oldest Son Axcel his Pregnant Girlfriend Now lives with them.. Thats my Fave Family.. so Much Drama ! :smash:

- Singles Family: Lola Lives Alone with her cat Pudding and is Waiting to have her baby which Ajaye is the dad Of , Shes Also is kinda Dating Don.

- The McSkittles Family: Mum Chloe & dad Pirate live in a Cottage Kinda House with their three Kids , Lander , Pippa and Felix.

- The Starr Family: Mum Darlene ( Zaggyz Sim) & Dad Magnus ( Keelys Sim ) Live with their 5 Kids , Domenic , Colton , Elijah , Joel and Karah. Domenic is Dating Haidee While Colton is Dating Symone.

All These Simmies Live In Simona Hills. :anime:

ani_

1st Nov 2007, 06:08 AM

Cecillia - your sims have very pretty names
You people have so many families - and alot of interesting stories :)

---editeditedit---
I just remembered the name of one family I forgot.
Cross:
- A single woman who's first name has escaped me. She started off doing The Messie Messlot Challengebut the house was too uglly and not messy enough so I moved her out. She now lives with her cat Grudge and is trying to become a doctor. She will not get married, she'll just give me a kid or two, if one of them is a boy, I'm calling him Alex - and I'm making him a detective :lovestruc

oceanborn_SC

1st Nov 2007, 08:44 AM

Too many.... But right now I'm mostly playing Strangetown. The sims I have are mostly maxis sims or descendants of maxis sims but I do have some custom ones in Strangetown too.
All my sim families?
Some (in the neighborhoods Aridia and Rilla) are untouched and some others are just made for the purpose of storymaking, testing hacks, cheats etc.

kennyinbmore

1st Nov 2007, 03:02 PM

I play the O'Mackey's in Riverblossom. They're 7th generation now

linn_91

1st Nov 2007, 05:35 PM

Izabeth von Filth, who married NPC-vampire Count Jussi Eberling, who bit her and turned her into a vampire. The old gypsy woman died by hunger in their garden, so they ressurected her and turned her into their zombie slave. In their household there's also the Chloé-doll and her lover the American McGees' Alice. I love to play this family, cause they do the most unexpected and funny things. It's this Addams-feeling about it.

Lilith von Filth, Izabeth's and Count Jussi's human-daughter. Engaged with Criminal Mastermind Jack Verzilo. The only family I've ever played who earned more than 100 000 $ without cheating.

Tom Riddle. The one and only :lovestruc He's without a doubt the most evil sim in the neighbourhood. Best friend to Jack Verzilo, and of course he's having an affair with Lilith.

Joe Black. I have'nt had the time to play him, but he's based on Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black.

And then like 5 or 6 normal and nice families with five generations in each, which i play when I'm in that mood. But my evil sims is much more entertaining, so for most of the time, I play them.

Lemon&Lime

1st Nov 2007, 06:22 PM

Ashford - My living off the land family. Celosia lives with her boyfriend (who she has not slept with) Armando, and her 3 kids from her divorced husband Nicander. Her children's names are (in order of birth) Myron, Lewanna, and Jocelyn. She was forced to break up with him after Armando stupidly walked in and flirted with her in front of her husband, not long after Jocelyn was born. Armando was thus forced to divorce from his wife and child, to live with Celosia and her kids.

Goth - Alexander and his second wife Kendal live with only their youngest son (who they adopted as they were both elders when they married), Holden. Mortimer, Alexander's youngest son with his first wife, Brandice, who died, has just gone all the way through college with an Art degree and is living at Goth Manor to inherit the house, with his new wife Miyah Luna.

They're all I play at the moment, apart from a dorm at a Uni.

lemonboleyn

1st Nov 2007, 07:08 PM

Mm, nifty thread. :] Here's the households/families I play the most, from my custom 'hood, in no particular order...
Boleyn/Callahan/Rodriguez: Home to my sim-self, and Nita, Roshaun -insert the rest of a very very and I mean very long name here-, Ronan, Kit, and Carmela. Everyone (Except my sim-self, of course) is based off of characters in a book series, and this is prolly my favorite house to play, just because of the insanity. It's amusing to leave 'em all on free-will, and as a result, Ro' hates everyone, Nita wants to kill her sister (Who doesn't live there anymore)/ex-boyfriend, and my sim-self never leaves the computer alone. Actually, that one's kinda realistic. :lol:
Callahan: Dairine (Sister to the aforementioned Nita) lives downtown in a not-the-best neighborhood with her daughter, Deirdre, and occasionally sets her kitchen on fire in between school and work.
Cuilaith: Only Adine lives here; she's a character of mine who likes to play her piano eternally and goes out with Roshaun.
Greenwald: Legacy family, they're kind of boring but also amusing in their antics. For a while people kept catching fire randomly, but the glitch was fixed when they moved to a new house.
Vazomwolf: Experiment was the, well, experiment of Tate, who was dreaming of creating a vampire-zombie-werewolf. Alas, I don't have Pets installed anymore, so the wolf part had to be dropped. Experiment ran away, and then Tate ran after her in hopes of hiding with her from her insanely nice twin brother.
Rogue: Home to more characters. Mercy, Mercedes, Baby Celeste, Tangerine, Anne, Minako, Elsabeth, Elizabeth, Led, Maggie, Lindy, Toria, and Persephone all live there. It'd take too long to explain everything, so I'll leave it at that.
LaMer: One sim, Monique; she enjoys small children, gardening, and letting people run willy-nilly around her home. Seriously, sims are always there for some reason.
Hilton: Paris is not technically a sim of Paris Hilton, but of a doll/character belonging to my friend who happens to be, uh, Paris Hilton. XD I loves her. She runs around flirting with everyone and has various townie stalkers.
Queens: This family consists of Lady Anne Boleyn, Queen Jane Seymour, and Katheryn Howard. Make of it what you will. xD
Bei Fong: Mika spends her days yelling at everyone, and arguing/flirting with her husband, Chi. Suri, Chi's sister, spends her time accidentally killing people and then transporting their tombstones to the local graveyard. Meanwhile, her sister Yue runs around wreaking havoc/being harassed by all the elder sims in the town, for some reason.
And that's it. :D That list is shorter then it seems. Hmm.

crazyfoolgaf_SC

1st Nov 2007, 09:44 PM

Newer additions

Stiles/Thomson Derek and Angie (yes, based on the characters from Trauma Center, and proud of it.) They are new and I havent done much yet, but all signs point towards a romantic relationship and more pioneering work in the surgical feild.

BrookLiving off the Land family.Witchcraft practicing, nature loving Marie built herself a big house with money she .....created with her spells.She planed to spend her magically elogated days caring for the environment and in turn being looked out for by nature in the form of sweet, sweet natural produce.However she found the life lonley and the work long and hard.As a remedy, she used evil magic to turn the newspaper boy into her daughter,.But I'm planning on the spell being broken someday and the enraged paper boy/girl murdering his/her, captor/mother.......as you can see, he'll be confused for awhile after the effects ware off.

Rabid

1st Nov 2007, 11:44 PM

Auvergne:

Donahue: Ethan Donahue, my favorite sim, was once a philandering casanova whose life consisted of drinking, partying, and womanizing. Since his marriage to Cassidy Callahan, he has managed to tame himself, but his juvenile nature often annoys his beloved wife. Their two sons, Riley (who resembles Cassidy physically) and Adley (who resembles Ethan), both have their father's limitless charisma and their mother's social tolerance. Cassidy is pregnant with a third child, as well, but does Ethan want as many children as she does?

Delancey: Emma Allen couldn't remember why she married Rowan Delancey; he was kind and adorable if not socially awkward, but his interest in computer programming and his tendency to distance himself often pulled him away from his wife. Jaded and lonely, Emma fell into the arms of the neighborhood's notorious womanizer, Drake Vindiscar, and got knocked up with his daugher, a gorgeous girl named Isla. Emma convinced Rowan that Isla was his biological child and never told Isla of her real father, and she never plans to reveal her secret affair or Isla's true patronage. She had a child with Rowan, Callum, to appease her guilt, but can something as precious as a baby repair the distance between them?

Vindiscar: Drake Vindiscar has slept with half of the women in town and, if he had it his way, would easily sleep with the other half. He loves making out in the back of night clubs, wild parties, and getting drunk. Vienne Borghiese is currently pregnant with Drake's baby and living with him because of his guilt due to the child, but he's still in the dark about little Isla Delancey. However, when he's duped into marriage by the beautiful yet enigmatic Vienne, how will he be able to explain, much less enjoy, his newfound domestication?

Holander: Elodie and Casey Holander were madly in love at the time of their marriage, and that love has miraculously withstood the trials and tribulations that three children will bring. They strive to raise their three children (Amelie, Ian, and Blake) well, but life constantly throws a plethora of hits in their faces including Elodie's mother's prolonged illness and a series of broken housewares. Casey dreams of making it big as the chief of surgery, but can his small-town upbringing and lack of funds for medical school support his dreams as well as his family?

Benedict: After a bitter divorce, Charlotte Benedict wants nothing more than to keep her adventurous twins away from their alcoholic father and give them the proper upbringing they deserve. However, supporting twins on one's own has proven difficult for Charlotte as well as earning a sufficient salary to keep them comfortable. After their beach vacation and her series of promotions, Charlotte felt as though things were finally looking up, but when her ex-husband waltzes back into her life bidding for custody of Ethan and Elise, will she be able to win the suit or will the nefarious father take her children from her?

Evans: This is my simself's family. She's married to the oh-so gorgeous Chris Evans (Fantastic Four) and they have two children, Langley and Aislinn. Surprisingly, sim-Chris procreated well and the kids are gorgeous despite my original misgivings about sims with complex features having ugly babies. Unlike the rest of my families, my simself's family is perfectly suburban and there's no drama whatsoever.

Many of these storylines are all in my head because they can't be put into reality with TS2, but for me, that's part of what makes the game fun :).

AxelValentine

2nd Nov 2007, 02:24 AM

Oh my...
Way too many to name right about now - in either neighborhood.

gyrobot

2nd Nov 2007, 05:48 AM

I have decided to divided my family to two pools: The original cast families (aka, out of my own idea and such) and the Maxis cast families. Here they are

Sparda Paradiso and Neil Cameron: Sparda is whom they called "the lucky ass bum" from La Fiesta, dated Soriority sister Jessie Pilferson and became her first true fiance although he went on to date various bunches of women from his brother's wife and a pair of lesbians. Neil is a bookworm slacker who merely hanging out with Sparda because he is cool. They also got a dog named Huckbein who is Neil's.

Angelus and Liru Beolyc: The married bunch, Angelus has a few affairs like his brother, but they are not as serious as Sparda's situation. He works part time as an owner of an jewelry store. He also hired a stay at home maid named Tsubomi and both of them are Romantically involved with her (Yes, his wife is bi). His wife works as a Slacker Pro Party Guest

John Gatherer: A farmer, fisherman and Space Pirate, he has a southern style personality and is engaged to Jenna Hutchins who he plans on marrying soon and has a robot named Carl.

Maxis Cast

The Harlows: Married but without Children (their child was sent to an boarding school), they came here to start a new life at Pleasantview

Steve and Erin Loyal: Marrying the girl who gave him the cat. He and Erin just recently gotten married and is one of the many new families in Pleasantview

ani_

2nd Nov 2007, 06:44 AM

Oh my...
Way too many to name right about now - in either neighborhood.
Just give us a few juicy ones :)

John Gatherer: A farmer, fisherman and Space Pirate, he has a southern style personality and is engaged to Jenna Hutchins who he plans on marrying soon and has a robot named Carl.
How do you play the space pirate part?

Ghost sdoj

2nd Nov 2007, 01:41 PM

I have several scattered in various neighborhoods

Xavier Blood (a vampire)
Alpha and Minion Blood (servos who rebelled and moved out)
Vincent Storm and Sirena Grey (Sirena is a niece of Xavier's, although he doesn't know it yet. She also has unusual powers. Vincent is a half-elven Criminal mastermind who fell in love and got more than he bargained for.)
The Muertes family. (I used Xavier in a contest and needed a toddler version of him. Then I felt guilty and started playing the family.)
Margali Silver and her family (She was marrying sims than using their aspiration points to stock up on Elixir of life for herself until I got a backlog of 248 dispensers and decided to call a halt for a while.)
Damien Silver (Exported from a neighborhood I don't play as often. Margali and Vincent had been brother and sister knowledge sims and had a habit of using the suicide function of insim to save each other from death. After several times in one afternoon I got a game freeze and a while later Margali turned out to be pregnant. So I named him Damien. He turned out to be the son of the Grim Reaper. I don't know how that happened because I was using the mortality adjuster, not the pregnancy thing. And I know I used the right thing, because I had the whole "saved from death" event happen again.)
Lucy Hanby (ex maid, now newly fired Captain Hero) and the zombie vampire Benjamin Long (Criminal mastermind) with Lucy's son Eric (by Damien.) That family is on the verge of breaking up.
Morella Diablan (My Black Widow) and her family. She was the first sim in a new neighborhood, so she gets a baby every time she tries. And I make her try for a baby every time I roll a 6 when she woohoos.
Lucifer Diablan is in college now with Ivy Copur and will be joined soon by Bianca, Litasha, and Malik. (Julian is still in diapers, so he will need to wait a bit longer.)
Vargas and Felicia Phelps (vampires) Felicia was a dorm mate of Vargas and turned out to be Secret society friend number 3.) Along with the ghost of the cow mascot that Vargas got angry with and borrowed the cowplant from the secret society to deal with. They take that tombstone to every new house so they can keep kicking it.
Alexander Vulpin (The bodybuilder mesh works pretty nicely with the furry skins from Genesims. Alexander is a bodybuilder fox-man.)
Kylara Lyann (a fairy) and Count Quinten Dannaher (Grand Vampire)
Sean Cox and Amaya Fuchs (Two former dormies who I co-opted in a contest and felt sorry for.)

And I have been playing with the alien girl in Uni. (Stella Terrano) She's a lot of fun.

AxelValentine

3rd Nov 2007, 12:45 AM

Just give us a few juicy ones :)

*laugh*

Let's see here, my favourites then, since my game really has no controversy in it. My towns are boring. *laugh*

KINGLY:
Watanabe(1) - Taka and Eric with their boys Jules and Hideo. They've been together since they were teens and even lived in the same dorm at college together.

Watanabe(2) - Taka's older sister Sasha and her husband Henri (who lived with the above boys at college) and their double sets of twins. Victorine and Dylan (both girls) and Tsuzuki and Orlando. The girls were born when Sasha was a teen and the boys while Henri was still at college, just barely after they were married.
Vic's off to college now with a boyfriend and working on a degree in gaming, but Dylan was rejected for her grades.
While the boys are still children I get the distinct feeling that Orlando is going to be Kingly's first cross-dresser.

McLean - Big family. Still at home right now includes the parents Alex and Cain (my first custom sim). Cain just recently became an elder and I'm not sure whether to feel happy or sad that he's so old.
The kids still with them are Grey, Izaak, Sammy (only girl), Bryant and Benjamin (the only child aged one left).
Kent (their adopted), Blaise and Albert are out of the house by now, all with families of their own and college degrees.

CORRIN COUNTY (where the Dissociative Imaginative Characterization Disorder really kicks in)
Malchik - The founders of this household are Jareth and Clarence from Consequences of Consequences, and their triplets Toni, Jaslyn and Aleck.
Aleck is the smallest kid in the neighborhood (probably 5'4" at fifteen-years-old) but star on the baseball team at school. Jaslyn recently brought home Lyndon, my self-sim's eldest son, and things got ugly. I'm not sure what exactly didn't mesh between them but it escalated to a full-blown -100/-100 relationship and a fight in the living room the first day they met.

Chedoce - Zax and (my one manly sim) Devin with their triplets - Nissa - the good girl, Aylin - the pseudo-rebel, and Kam - the rebel/pervert. Seriously, the first shirt he changed into as a teen says "I *heart* Hentai".
Despite Devin and Zax being married they have no chemistry bolts while Zax has a triple with Arkady Copley. For a while I thought about the two having an affair, but neither are the type to do something like that. If anything they're too shy to approach each other and too afraid their spouses would find out, in addition to abslutely adoring their respective partners.

Copley - Arkady and Amato. Two of my first sims, possibly the third and fourth ones actually.
These two are the most life-like in my mind, especially Ark. The pair have six children - twins Lili and Reza, single Haydrien, and triplets Antonine, Matthieu and Marleen. Lil and Reza are at college together while Hay is a teen and the trips are toddlers.
Reza is currently engaged to Lyndon but another dormmate - Izaak Karachi - has triple chemistry with him and Lyn has none.
There's already a story-line developing in my head between the three, including the wonderful cliches of jealousy, lust and love for when Lyndon arrives at college.
When last I played them Arkady was pining to have more than one child in the house and was practically in tears every time 'Try for baby' didn't work. Finally after about five or six tries it did and he was ecstatic until the news of triplets came. Then he was just horrified for a while before getting hapy again. *laugh*

Purplepaws

17th Nov 2007, 07:26 PM

Interesting thread! I just discovered it.

Right now, my neighborhood consists of five households (and counting).

Hudson- The original inhabitants of my neighborhood. Single father Cole and his daughter Aileen moved to the quiet town of Seneca Hills for a fresh start after their beloved wife and mother died in an accident. After several months on their own, Cole met a charming townie named Brynne, who he soon married. Just before Aileen went off to college, they had a set of twins, Josh and Jenna, and soon after, another set of twins, but one boy died in infancy (long story), so they were left with a son named Blake. Somewhere along the line, they moved into a spacious new home and are currently living typical family-oriented suburban lives.

Ashford- In her Senior year of college, Aileen Hudson fell madly in love with a young man named Dalton Ashford. Needless to say, she soon married him after graduation and went on to pursue a career in education. Dalton, whose dream was to become a doctor, couldn't find the training or job opportunities he needed, so for the first several months of their marriage, his wife was the sole provider. Eventually the two decided they wanted children and had a son, Galen, followed shortly after by a daughter name Piper. By this time, Dalton had given up on the idea of becoming a doctor and took a job with a law firm. This created enough income to get a better house, and left them so comfortable financially that Aileen decided to quit her job to spend more time raising her children. She gave birth to a third child, Logan, and is currently pregnant with a fourth.

Hudson (II)- After learning to fire dance on Twikii Island as a teen, Josh Hudson decided to pursue an adventure-based career path, and he's having the time of his life. He moved into a little house near Northshore Beach and just married a beautiful woman named Ava. They're currently on their honeymoon in the Far East and have big plans for children.

Hudson (III)- Jenna Hudson blossomed into a gorgeous young woman and is currently living in a teeny little starter house downtown without a penny to her name.

Sands- Mallory Sands moved to downtown Riverside Center with high hopes, but after a few nights of dancing the night away at the local nightclub, she soon fell prey to a suave smooth-talker who got her pregnant. She's been in and out of a few different jobs and can't seem to keep a steady pay, so life has not been going so well for her and her daughter, Brenna, who's now a child. Desperate for some love and support, Mallory found a new boyfriend to move in with her, but he's unemployed as well... And got her pregnant again. Looks like things won't be picking up for her anytime soon.

So those are my families. Not all that interesting so far, but they keep me entertained. :)

strangerous

17th Nov 2007, 08:03 PM

I only just started up my neighbourhood (Little Bonnywick) and haven't even begun to play my Sims yet, but here goes:

Delaney: Teenager Brandon and toddler Thomas, orphan brothers. (I guess technically not even orphans as their father still lives but is not included in the neighbourhood in any way.)

Navarra: Luis and his twin sons, Antonio and Alberto. The wife/mother is... gone.

Kirkwood: Married couple Anne and Craig, their two teenage daughters Megan and Dawn and two children Lynne and Jeremy.

Clifton: Married couple Sidell and Jamila, plus Sidell's sister Tamara and their retired father Evander.

Finney: Teenager Samuel and his younger sisters Alison and Shelley. Living on their own after their father was arrested and charged with several counts of robbery and carrying of illegal arms.

Carrington: Single Douglas, on the search for a wife and family.

qtpie3552

20th Nov 2007, 07:45 PM

I play in Pleasantview. Here are the families I play:

Yano: This is my self sim's family. The parents are Alexa and Logan and they currently have a son, a daughter, and a baby on the way. Their son is a chid and his name is Ryder. Their daughter is a toddler and her name is Tempali. They used to have triplets: Tempali, Lydia, and Melina. But two of them died of disease leaving Tempali. Ryder is Logan's son with Brittany Colwell.

Colwell: The colwell is a teenager family because their parents died in a fire. There is JT, Amanda, and Brittany. Brittany has a son named Ryder, but he lives with his father, Logan Yano. Amanda has a baby on the way. Jt doesn't even have a girlfriend so no kids for him.

ani_

21st Nov 2007, 07:04 PM

after their father was arrested and charged with several counts of robbery and carrying of illegal arms.

OMG - how did you end up with this? was he using the monney machine or what? I don't even know what kind of trouble you get in with the monney machine - but still - interesting storyline :)

Banzai_Kitten

28th Dec 2007, 03:26 PM

I play mostly in my custom neighborhood, Eastopolis.

Doe- This is my legacy family I guess. It has elders John Doe and his wife Marisa with their two teenage children, May and Jill, and their cat, Sammy.

Long- The eldest daughter of the Doe family got married to townie, Benjamin Long and they have one kid, a toddler, Jack.

Nueva- Lola Nueva has had 3 kids, each from a different father. Her sons, Alejandro and Esteban, have townie fathers while her youngest daughter's father is Lucas Perrol.

Stone- Lily Stone is Lola's sister. She got married to Cleveland Stone. They had two kids, Maya and Cleveland Jr.

Perrol- This is my most unique family. It has loner Lucas Perrol. He lives with his pack of 3 dogs: Buck, Princess, and Buck Jr.

hel0rz

29th Dec 2007, 03:56 AM

I mainly play in my custom neighbourhood Challenge City (very inventive, I know!). <-- this name being I'm trying to actually finish a challenge that I start.

(My legacy family may seem a little strange, but that's because I started with two sims, instead of one; my self-sim and my mom-sim!)

L'Angelier (1): The start of the Legacy and my self-sims' family. At the moment there is Sarah (my daughter-in-law) and Nicoline, Sarah's second-born and her Fiancee, Casper Spectre (no relation to Olive Spectre). Nicoline is 4th Generation in the legacy, with pet wolves Carme and Eos. My lycanthropic son, Sebastian died from a rogue satellite a few days ago, myself and hubby are dead from old age. Nicoline inherited lycanthropy from Sebastian, and after living with it through teenagehood, university and a little through adulthood, she made a deal with her own devil and sought out the gypsy for a cure. Oh and Servo lives there too - he loves his vegetable garden!

L'Angelier (2): Sarah and Sebastian's first-born, Jack and his wife Malaika, who are expecting. They live with pet wolf Baron, who is the father of Eos and Carme. Zoe died recently from old age. Zoe and Baron had to be separated from Carme and Eos because they wouldn't get along, and they had both ran away, but got returned - well done policewoman sim! :gjob:

Landgraab: Now here is where it gets complicated! Malcolm Landgraab IV is my self-sims step-father, so Malcolm Landgraab V (original Malcolm's son) is my half-brother. He lives with his wife Nancy, and their second-born daughter, Melanie. Melanie has just gotten married to Roger Mellon, but as a fortune sim, has her eye on Mr. Big who is a very good friend of her husband. She is also carrying on the Electronic Superstore that used to belong to her grandfather, which is a thriving business and just won the Number 1 award.

Strange: Eliza Landgraab (Malcolm and Nancy's firstborn daughter) is living with her Fiancee, Harry Strange. (Harry Strange started out as a sim who lives with strange things, i.e. alien, zombie, werewolf etc., but I decided he was too good-looking so I included him in the legacy). Eliza and Harry have a daughter, Lissa who just grew into a child, and they all live with Colin Bigfoot, who has just been promoted to surgeon (yeah, I know).

De Lioncourt: Azrael De Lioncourt is my black-widower challenge. So far he's managed to seduce and kill Ivy Copur and Dagmar Bertino. But he has a daughter with Dagmar called Alexandra, who is a toddler. (I had to use De Lioncourt, I ran out of good names!)

Loony: Adam Loony live with seven other inmates at the asylum challenge. But I haven't really done anything with them.

Not the most interesting of neighbourhoods, but I like my sims! They keep my entertained :king:

DarkestBlu

29th Dec 2007, 04:25 PM

Interesting families everyone. I've got one family, in particular one BRANCH of a family that I've played down to the fourth, fifth, or sixth generation. The problem? If I don't do something quick they'll be marrying each other!

It started with Hong-Mei and Ashitaka Yu, who had six children (let's see if I can remember them all): Koichi, Tang Mie, Kimora, Shinji, Rah and Tah. I did a story with Kimora (who had four kids), so her branch is the longest. Her children are Lucien, Arin, Dias and Lordes.

Koichi has two, and one on the way: Honor and Maddox. Yes, I realized after I named her that her name was Honor Yu.

Tang Mie is pregnant, so no word on what her kid will be.

Shinji had three: Vaughn, Sol, and Moira. Sol and Moira are twins. Shinji died after drinking too much.

Rah has one child: Constantin. I don't plan any more for him.

Tah has four: Westa, Kaime, Reine, and...I forgot the son's name. They were quads, born in college. You should have seen the dorm!

I could continue to go on down the line with Kimora's kids and their kids and so on, but that'll take up this entire board. I find myself playing six degrees of separation quite often. I can trace nearly every family in my neighborhood (pleasantview, I was too lazy to make my own, but I've deleted most maxis sims) back to this one family. They've also produced some of my favorite and weirdest looking sims. Sometime I'll have to tell you about "bubble jaw."

VeryAlliegh

29th Dec 2007, 05:27 PM

Hmm, lets see if I can remember it all...
The Cartell family is an elderly couple with 3 kids, Their eldest son Ashton fell in love with Amy Bission, daughter of Amelia Bisson and Don Lothorio, and when they were teenagers they got married and had 2 children, but the marriage fell apart and Ashton took the kids to his parents house so he could go to college and Amy could persue a career in the Music track. Amy in now living with her boyfriend (cant remember his name, the one that came with pets and has that little dog.) Ashton met his wife in college, (cant remember her name either) and heir to the (cant remember) fortune, along with her sister, they also had two brothers that their father had with Sunny Bisson, but they both, along with the father, died from deases. Sunny moved out shortly after with her youngest daughter and I havnt played with them since. After Ashton graduated from college, he took his children to live with him, and the Cartell elders decided to adopt, and adopted 2 daughters who are now teenagers. Ashton and his wife had 2 daughters together and, along with his children from his first marriage, live in a big house in Bluewater village. The sister married Jim Reeves, but left him for Donald Bisson shortly after she bacame pregnant with what she thought was Donalds baby, but was actually Jims baby. Donald had been married to Brandi Broke, and as a lawyer, was supporting her and her three children. But he and Dustin could not get along and shortly after the birth of Donald son from Brandi, they broke up and Brandi moved back into a trailer which was all she could afford alone. Donald is one of five children his parents had, and he was raised in the small house they had inheirited from his grandmother. His brother married Sunny shortly after she gave birth to their second child, but after 4 kids, Sunny got sick of living in their cramped little house with her husband who couldnt hold a job and moved out, taking their 2 daughters. She had been cheating on her husband for sometime with her boss, Dmitri, who himself was married with 2 daughters. She and him had had a 2 sons before Dmitris wife died in a elevater accident, and Sunny moved in shortly after, with her youngest daughter. Her older daughter had 3 kids with different men when she met a widow with 3 children, and they quickly got married and moved into his little house in the woods.
The now single Bisson lived and tried to support his 2 sons on his own but I wasnt paying attention to the game and the boys died in a kitchen fire while their father was at work. He ended up marrying Ms. Hallman, a woman who left her husband after having three children with him. He took their boys and and their daughter Hannah stayed with her mother. Ms Hallman was a money sims who dreaded work and soon died of deases from panhandling all night and caught a cold. The now teen Hannah hated living with her step mother and moved in with her boyfriends family, the Rosenburgs. Ms Rosenburg was a nurse and a widow with 3 children, and she lived with her boyfriend who didnt want to get married and had had a son with Amelia Bisson. The oldest Rosenburg child was a daughter who had 2 children with Dirk Dreamer, before he married her and they moved in together. Broden, Hannahs boyfriend, married her when she got pregnant with their first child, and they moved into a house down the street. The youngest Rosenburg child married Lilith Pleasant who had been living with her grandparents because she could not get along with her parents or twin sister, Angela. She and her husband have 1 daughter, and live in their own house on the same street and his sister and brother and Liliths sister, Angela. Angela married Dennis Hallman, Hannah Brother, and had 2 children with him, a son and a daughter.

I think thats all of it.

smellincoffee

29th Dec 2007, 07:07 PM

My main neighborhood these days is Umanità. Here are a few families from there.

The Mendozas:
- Two sisters who used to live in a trailer park together. Sara Mendoza was abducted one night while practicing her favorite hobby of astronomy, and moved to the alien colony.(The neighborhood has a mountain, and on top of the mountain I have several homes for people who have alien babies. That way the aliens can grow up knowing one another.) Ashlee Mendoza was a live-in housekeeper who moved from house to house taking care of wealthier sims' babies in exchange for free room and board. In her forties, she married sim-me, whose wife had left him. After having one child (Nana), she cheated on him and mysteriously vanished. The cow-plant didn't need feeding that day for some strange reason.

The Winslows:
- Began with sim-me ("Tobias Winslow") and his partner Abigail. They had three children (Blaire, Sara, and Jerry). Tobias was a novelist/ecological guru and Abigail was a novelist. Blaire didn't find her true love until middle age, and went through two engagements and one marriage on the way there. Blaire is a novelist, as is Sara. Sara and her partner had a couple of children (Tony and..er...oh my, her name escapes me.) Jerry and his partners (a three-sim marriage) had five children together, and their names are...Jonah, Constance, Winnie, Karen, and two others I don't recall.

The Salieris:
- Vincenzo Salieri was an aspiring criminal who thought being able to maintain three families was a sign of greatness. He was eventually sold out by his business partner Mark Cooper, and now both reside in the neighborhood jail. They were in the habit of attacking one another as soon as they are let out of their cells for their meals and exercise time. Vincenzo's wife Rosalie knew he was no good, but wanted children. After he was imprisoned, her best friend moved in with her to take care of the kiddies and they fell for one another. Vincenzo was later killed in a prison fire. No one mourned him.

The Wests:
- Jack and Felicia West married as teenagers and settled down in the trailer park. Jack was a recruit in the military and Felicia a restaurant cook. They had one child, Savannah. Felicia gradually began seeing other sims, and eventually so did Jack. They still live together, but have managed to leave the trailer park to buy a small home. Jack is still in the military at a slightly higher rank, and Felicia is now a short-order cook. Felicia's life has been full of romantic liasons, but Jack is starting to catch up. Jack likes to flirt with college girls, marking him as my neighborhood's creepy old guy.

The Tolars:
-Widower Avery Tolar and his two daughters (Emma and Abigail) moved to Umanità in the beginning. The two daughters immediately went to college. Tolar settled down as a military physician, but soon transferred into the civilian scene. He remarried and had two more girls (Elena and...the other one. Why can I not remember names today?). He eventually became Chief of Staff at the hospital and retired after writing his memoirs. His partner Nora became the Mayor. Avery just passed away, and now Nora rents out her downstairs bedroom to young Sims just so the house won't seem to terribly empty.

The Nelsons:
- Perry Wilson and his daughter Annette moved to Umanità in the beginning. He was an elder. Annette became a patrol officer. She began bringing friends home, and Perry ended up marrying one of them -- Brandi LeTourneau. Annette became involved with the police chief, and she moved in as well. The two couples had one child each. Perry and Brandi had Perry Jr, while Annette and the police chief (whose name I cannot recall) adopted Donte. Perry Jr. became the neighborhood prison administrator (after the original one dropped dead in his upstairs apartment, leaving no one to call the police when a fire broke out. Everyone in the prison died, because the prisoners were in the common area eating.) and Donte is a slacker. He works to get money, then quits his job. He spends most of his time woo-hooing.

BetteBob

29th Dec 2007, 07:31 PM

Currently I'm only playing one family the Lykus (Fink) family.
It started with a single sim, Serena Fink who hooked up with her gardner Leo, they never got married but they had one daughter together, Serafina. Serafina recently married Booster Lykus. Booster however was not her high school sweetheart, he was the roommate/best friend of her sweetheart, Kodiak Carnigan. Needless to say Kodiak was a wee bit furious when Serafina fell for his roommate. Booster and Serafina both got slaps across the face when Kodiak caught them kissing and now Kodiak no longer speaks to either of them. The only presence Kodiak has in their lives is when he sneaks on to their property (nearly every day) to steal their newspaper. Even with the newspaper thief Serafina and Booster are leading an incredibly happy life. They just had a baby boy, Br'er and are happily expecting their second child any day now.

SSChan

29th Dec 2007, 07:52 PM

Ciano: Ethan and Evelyn are married and have three children: Corbin, Jocelyn, and Nicholas. Evey's about to turn elder but Nicholas just became a toddler... she probably won't even see him reach toonhood - sad. Corbin and Jocey are crazy teenagers in to that new music - Rock 'n' Roll. Evey hates it - Buahahahaha.

Ciano-LaCroix: This is my crazy-fun house. Sydney is married to Silas (who is now an elder - oh snap!). They have three children: the uninteresting Clara Bianca, the minion child known as Marek Germain, and the overlord master of all things diabolical - Casio Iago. Until just recently - Silas's birthday party, in fact - Paolo was... living - or rather unliving - there. He was the coolest zombie ever. He wore liederhosen and a viking helmet and was locked in a shed with only a mini fridge, a sink, and a chair. The house is crawling with the ghosts of all the people Casio has killed. Silas has finally gotten used to them and doesn't wake in the middle of the night.

LaCroix: Vlad and Tracy, of course, are married. They have two kids: Lilian Rose and Michael. Vlad used to have an affair with Syd... but since that stopped, I haven't played this house much. Oops. ^^;

LaCroix: Vlad and Silas's little sister, Blair, lives here. Ethan's having an affair with her. She is extremely behind in gameplay because I didn't put in the hood until late.

Shine: Ethan's best bud, Stephan, lives here with his wife, Celina. They have two kids - twins - named Amelia and Antone. Amelia is dating Casio and they'll probably get a house together. Though, Casio doesn't strike me as the marrying sort, so no marriage. >:3 Oh, and Stephan and Sydney are kinda-sorta in an affair. They went on holiday together but they haven't strayed since.

Heller: This is the home of Mordecai Heller and his wife, Sherry. Sherry is Ethan's ex-wife, by the way. They have a daughter named Hazel - which is ironic if you know anything about the Harry Potter versions of Ethan and Sherry. Ahahaha. XB

Lancaster: Thomas Lancaster and his fiancee, Stefani Ciano live here. Stefani is the only child of Sherry and Ethan from when they were married. They're my only college grads in my entire game... but I cheated. It was getting boring. ^^;

O'Donoghue: Patricia and her daughter, Delaney live here. Delaney was born out of wedlock and has no idea who her father is. Patricia knows, but won't tell her. It's only a matter of time before the secret is revealed to her... and to the father! XD

ExWhyZee

29th Dec 2007, 08:17 PM

Lollipop_Girl, your story made me laugh way too hard. XD

SofieAmalieN

7th Jan 2008, 03:50 PM

The Families of Hogsmeade
And sub hoods

Sims I'm going to play ...

Malfoy: Abraxas married late in life and is an elder. His wife is the pretty Isobel and they have two children; Lucius who's a YA and Lucretia who's a child. They have two pets a Great Dane and a Mini Poodle. They live at Malfoy Manor.

Black(1): There's a tradition in the Wizarding world for men to marry late in life. Orion (elder) is married to Walburga and they have two sons. Sirius is a YA and Regulus is a teen. The have two Labs a yellow and a brown one.

Black(2): Orion's brother Cygnus is also an elder and is married to Drusella. They have three daughters; Bellatrix (teen), Narcissa (Child) Andromeda (Toddler). Their pets are two cats (one black one white) and a mini bulldog.

Lestrange: The twin brothers Rodolphus and Rabastan are both YAs.

Weasley: Arthur is one of the 'younger' husbands. He's married to Molly and they have six sons and a daughter on the way. William (YA) Charlie (teen), Percy (Child) twins Fred and George (children) and Ronald (Toddler). They have a Tabby Cat.

Evans: Chad and Rosie have two daughters Petunia (Adult) who's engaged to Vernon Dursley and execting their first. The other daughter is Lily (YA). They have a black and white tabby cat.

Potter: James (YA) has a crush on Lily Evans.

Snape: Tobias is married to Eileen Prince. They had twin sons Severus Prince and Serenus Prince (YA). Then they adopted Serena (Now teen) and then Serenity (Child). Then they had Selena (Child) They have a Dalmation and a Greyhound.

Dumbledore: The two elder brother Aberforth and Albus Percival Wulfric Brian live together their two cats a red and a gray.

McGonagall: Minerva and her brother Mars (both elders) live here with their two cats.

Voldemort: Lord lives alone with his three dogs.

Lupin: The twin brothers Remus and Romulus (YA) are ready for UNI.

Pairings I hope to make:
Lucius Malfoy + Narcissa Black
Lilly Evans + James Potter
Petunia Evans + Vernon Dursley
Bellatrix Black + Rodolphus Lestrange
Sirius Black + Romulus Lupin
Regulus Black + Serenus Snape
Andromeda Black + Ted Tonks
Rabastan Lestrange + Serena Snape
Severus Snape + Remus Lupin
Albus Dumbledore + Mars McGonagall
Aberforth Dumbledore + Minerva McGonagall

1306

10th Jan 2008, 05:48 AM

DeSieppe: A family of five female roommates, this family is much like a Big Brother-esque household (as in one of the members of the house will be evicted--or more accurately, killed. But this won't happen until they're elders or I'm tired of them). But the evicted one will be replaced by a new female.

Prime: All my Transformers sims go here. And yes, they're all friends with each other.

Topple: John and Adelaine are married; Adelaine is pregnant. They live in a really unique house, in which their house is a few feet elevated, and from afar, looks like a bunch of skyscrapers connected by stairs.

LONGdress

12th Jan 2008, 10:24 AM

Dempsey: Jeffrey Dempsey met the love of his life Charlotte Dawson. They're now engaged and they are going to marry very soon.

McSkittles: Keely's Pirate McSkittles and Lithium Putney are married in my game, and have two daughters, child Kitty(adopted) and toddler Riley

Swindon: The most time I play with this family. Zac is married with Ashley. They three children, Mary-Ann(teen), Laura(Child) and Zac(child)

Warren: Tom is married with Miley. They have one son Matt(toddler)

Wilde:Bruce is engaged to Kelly Wan

clark72

16th Jan 2008, 10:40 PM

The families of LegoLand (haha, I'm so creative XD)

Dawson: There were no problems after Damon was born, however after having Terri, Drake and Tanis seem to be losing some of the flame... Tanis continues to want more children, however her husband isn't as enthusiastic as he used to be after he took care of Terri pretty much entirely by himself. Around when Terri became a teenager, Drake suddenly began enjoying the company of one of his male friends a great deal... things progressed, and he is now involved in an affair with Alex Stanford that may ruin his marriage. Both kids have since then grown up and moved out; Damon is living with his girlfriend, Sandy Taylor, and Terri just got married to Damien Stewart and had twins, Drew (male) and Tyler (female).

Stanford: Alex and Jonah were very much in love - and out to become disgustingly rich - when they first moved in. However ever since Jonah had an unfortunate experience with aliens and daughter Xandria joined the household, Alex's eyes have been wandering... it took a while for him to warm up to a baby being around that didn't belong to him. Drake Dawson has now caught his eye and captured his heart, and so, while Jonah is preoccupied getting to the top of his career, Alex has been sneaking around behind his back... however he was just recently caught. After quite a dramatic evening, the two are now separated, though Jonah can't seem to get his ex off of his mind... Xandria moved out before the drama and is living with her fiance, Zerus Kratos, a fellow alien and science geek who moved to town for a fresh new start.

Pan: Outgoing and mischevious, Gerbil (based off of an online friend) wanted nothing more than to make friends and have parties, however she got more than she bargained for upon meeting Karume Zeebee. Falling head over heels in love only to find out that he had no desire for any sort of commitment, she now struggles to raise their twins, Lee and Leanne, by herself. Having become teenagers recently, Lee seems to want nothing more than to spend time with his father, and is becoming somewhat of a playboy himself, while Leanne wants nothing to do with her father OR boys and instead is focusing on her studies.

Zeebee: Every town has to have a playboy, and Karume definitely fills the role well! With as many girlfriends as he has, it's amazing none of them have found out about each other yet... Gerbil Pan still holds a place in his heart, though after she had the twins he began paying more attention to his other lovers, not too enthusiastic about being a father. Recently he's begun wooing the maid, and the gardener has caught his eye, but he can't get away from his son - Lee Pan is determined to hang out with him and learn pointers on how to be a good ladies man.

Zappa: Frank and Kay (oh yes, it's Frank Zappa) are a couple of flower and peace loving good ol' fashioned hippies. Kay spends most of her time painting (when she's not having babies) and is the sole bringer in of the bacon; Frank tends to spend his time amusing himself around the house or playing with their children, Moonunit and Ahmet, who both are quite talented musically. Moonunit is currently on the search for the perfect boy, however she hasn't yet been successful.

Hansel/Hollis: Jordyn and her wife Adelaide were an adorable couple for the first, oh... day... that they were in the neighborhood, until Adelaide had a bit too close of an encounter with a satellite. Well, Jordyn pretty much went insane for a while afterwards; it took quite a while to get her to stop talking to herself. She eventually attempted to start a relationship with another girl, however Adelaide's lingering spirit made it VERY clear what she thought of that... so now Jordyn remains single and is focusing on becoming a doctor to keep her mind off of things. She's recently invited an albino friend, Beau Hollis, to become her roommate (the ghost of her wife should be okay with a man living with her) and he's settling in nicely and can't wait to see the ghost of the house.

Kohelet: He may be the most important man in town, but Ollen is rumored to be somewhat of a pedophile... and considering he lives with two teenage girls, it's really no surprise. Especially considering one of them is his wife. Mei just recently had twins, Jian (boy) and Shui (girl), however the family servant, Chou, is probably going to wind up taking care of them. Chou is perfectly happy to clean the entire house and loves the babies; Mei, on the other hand, wishes her husband would pay her a bit more attention instead of retreating up to his study as soon as he gets home from work.

Darian: Death couldn't even keep Reginald (aka Reggie) away from his beloved Jordan. He may be a ghost, but he still lives with his husband, and the two of them couldn't be happier, though Jordan does occasionally wish that Reggie wasn't transparent. They adopted a boy, Jason, but that wasn't enough for them so now they've adopted a little girl, Dido. When he's not playing with Jason or flirting with his husband, Reggie spends pretty much all of his time painting; not needing to sleep or eat or any of those other normal alive things certainly has it's good points!

Wilson: Bryan doesn't have much. He doesn't even have a house. He lives in a park and sleeps on an old dirty mattress, lives off of hot dogs, and is very thankful to have an outhouse and a dirty (broken) shower. He's working his way up the criminal ranks now and has been wooing the mail lady, Dagmar, who he recently proposed to and who he really hopes is filthy rich. She didn't seem to be too happy with the engagement, but hey, if she has some money, that's good enough for Bryan. Maybe he'll be able to afford a wall after the wedding.

And my latest -

Moralez: Edward Moralez the resident, well.... transvestite serial killer? Yes, he's quite a lovely lady and in fact you wouldn't be able to tell any different if you met him... IF you met him. He tends to not leave the house except when he has to work. If you do meet him, pray that you don't get on his bad side; one of the paper boys has been rumored to have gone missing, and there's a suspicious grave in his backyard.

I creat my own neighbourhood and I use members of my family

DNK_SC

19th Jan 2008, 05:00 PM

Wow, I am impressed with the amount of detail. I have not played any families into more than the second gen. I may swipe some of your ideas for story lines they sound like fun.

Daisy2007

21st Jan 2008, 11:25 PM

I just started a new neighborhood (Hegwig Hills) after a reinstall so not many families yet..

Coates Family: Todd and Mandy are the main family I play. Todd has 6 children, two of whom, Puck and Oberon are from an alien abduction (the rest are his and Mandy's obviously). Milo is a young adult, Puck and Oberon are teenagers, India is a child (will be a teen in 3 sim days), Haley is a child, and Nathan is an infant. Both Todd and Mandy are very good parents. Mandy is very sweet with Puck and Obi -- has very high relationship scores with both even though they aren't hers.

Bristol Family: Ruckus and Bayar (a Keely sim) have one son, Zoom. Ruckus runs a small robotics business. I haven't played them much yet.

Spanning Family: Henry and Melissa run a farm and little market...neither has a job. They have twin toddler sons, Douglas and Derrik. Melissa actually died while pregnant with the twins and I didn't realize it til it was too late for Henry to plead with Grim...yay for InSim though lol...she's back. Living off the land is quite a challenge with toddlers around...it's hard finding time to tend the crops and take care of them. Not sure if I'll let them have anymore since their house doesn't really have any room to expand. Maybe after the twins are teens and I move them off to college.

Lupin Family: Remus and Nymphadora (Tonks), currently have 3 children. Andromeda is a child and twins Sirius and Teddy are toddlers. I tried making Remus a werewolf, but it turned out to be too much of a nuisance as 'Dora kept having fears about Remus howling and such. Poor girl would have been in constant aspiration failure if I'd let him stay a werewolf.

Loveless: Damien. Damien is a vampire. A vampire who builds toys. Haven't really played him at all yet...still collecting vampire-ish furniture to decorate his house with.

Prolly gonna start a legacy or two as well here soon...

Testudo

25th Jan 2008, 01:00 AM

Too many to list...I did a count, and I have 57 households in my game, that I play, in semi-rotating fashion.
Rather than name them all, I can break them up into groups as they came about:
Group 1: all the Strangetown families. Their lives have interwoven with the families I added
Group 2: Initial created families, which included the Kapps, whom I fancied as distant relations to the Veronaville family, but down on their luck: the O'Riordans, Bob and Connie Dobbs plus children Jimmy and Clara, and Rupert Deal with teen daughter Anthea, and the very strange siblings Francis and Luisa Theremin. A bit later: the Fujiwara and Tagore families. A decent ethnically and culturally diverse base
Group 3: Six families with children: Lewis, Owens, Hennessy, TIchenor, Lu, and Horvath. Soon after: Gudrun Troldsen with her three sons to balance out the male-female ratio.
Group 4: What was I thinking: I created six more households. In part to add to the cultural richness of Strangetown (adding an Italian family, Jewish family, and blue-skinned alien couple) and in part because there were still too many females.
Group 5: I played many of the La Fiesta Tech students as my teens entered college, as well as drafting a few teen NPCs for college. At one time the campus population was 45.
Group 6: One more family, the highly dysfunctional Clarks, plus Beau and Jada Broke, the only family I ever downloaded and put into the game.
Population in Strangetown? 187, I think.

SofieAmalieN

27th Jan 2008, 10:12 PM

The Families of Hogsmeade
And sub hoods

Sims I'm going to play ...
.... (list of my sims would be here) ...

ARGH! My sister just IM'ed me to say that she accidently deleted my 'hood... Hmm..

Maybe it's a good thing..? It'll definatly allow me to start over, once I get home.. (see signature - only 3 more weeks left!!)

Ghostwalker99

5th Feb 2008, 12:54 AM

My current families:

Rossini Amanda & Cote (married) with youngest child Alex

Grönros Liutenant and Priya (ex Ramasw...) they have 3 childs Ivanhoe (moved out), Linnea (child) and Greta (toddler). Lt. have reached the top of the criminal career.

Blom Captain, Ivanhoe Grönros and Alice Tomasson (Captains gf).
Captain used to live with the Grönros family but i moved him out with Ivanhoe when Captain met Alice.

Eyes Snake and Nina (ex Caliente) married, one child; Wilma

Ramaswami Sanjay, Divorced no children.

De Loach Eva and Greger married, 1 daughter each from before they met. The daughters are now adult and a re living together in there own house.

Fett Boba, single no children. working as a buissnessman.

Björkman Ture, single no children. Working in the Law enforcement career.

De Luna Rossa Maya, boyfriend (i think dont remember), no Children.

Wasa Joesfin, married with Nisse På Manpower, no children but a Border Collie (dog) named Isis.

David Ziva and Nikki, married, no children. Both work in the medicine career. Ziva is daughter of Greger de Loach and Nikki is Daughter of Eva de Loach.

Addams Gomez, single, adult daughter Wednesday and her Fiance Alex Rossini Sr.

Kruth Doris and Ruth. Doris is the soon to be wife of Harry Kruth and Ruth is a sister to Harry. no children. Ruth is the boss of Jönsson's Swing A Ling. Doris unemployed.

Jönsson Band Charles Ingvar Jönsson, Ragnar Vanheden and Harry Kruth. Friends and "Buissness" Partners. No Children.

Camelot My Biggest "family" consisting of
King Arthur and wife Queen Guinivere, SIr Bedevere, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Brave Sir Robin, Black Knight and Friar Tuck. They have no children (yet, Guinevere is pregnant). They live in my own home made medieval castle.

Kiddo/Swann ´Beatrix and Elizabeth, and their adult daughter Amy.

Blyger Marita pre made character. Boyfriend Chales Ingvar no children. CIJ will into Marita's new house when i have finished furnishing it.

Then there are additional 6 characters that just have Graduated from the University and doesnt have a house yet. They will form 3 households:

Becky Griswold & Remington Steele -engaged

Rufus Bäfvenhielm & Wilma Steen -engaged

Emil Svensson & Jelila Daala Dating.

Then there are 4-5 pre-made families but i will take them off the map and put them into the family basket since my neighbourhood is starting to get out of space for some reason ;)

KacoshiAjewl

5th Feb 2008, 05:13 PM

The main hood I play is called Mizu No Tsuki so far there are only three families there.

1. shinazaka
Shango is the residant black widow and a Fox demon. he has had two lovers already and married each of them kept them untill they gave birth then killed them. he is a family sim (not normaly used in black widow but I was bored) who is obsessed with populating the world with his kids. LOL
Shango's oldest is Ren Ren is a toddler with a high carisma he loves spending time with his papa.
Shango's second son is named Kai who is still a baby.
and his current lover is Kyalyyn(sp?) the maid.

2.Jaxsom
This is my self sims home. she is a knowlage sim with her daughter and husband (she's a bit of a black widow as well) her first lover was killed mysterously.

3. Osaka
Naru is a sweet and gentile vamprie who has a thing for his roommate Hiru but Hiru a romance sim with a love of women wont have anything to do with him.

allthatjazz272

6th Feb 2008, 02:44 AM

So I've got my own little neighborhood going here, and while there are only a few families starting out so far, I've grown attached to them. =) Here's what we got.

Delancey
Liam and Chelsea. I forgot how they met.
They raised two attractive twins named Lance and Carter, who are now in college. And at home, they're still taking care of a child named Cameron who looks very much like his older brothers I might add, and a little girl named Leslie.
Liam works as a police officer, Chelsea recently lost her job as a lawyer. The two planned on having more kids, but the stress was unbearable.

Logan/Juanes
My lovely sim Laci Logan. I totally fell in love with her, and let her live her life a little until she started seeing one of my other sims, Paris Juanes. The two took things slow, but Paris eventually moved in with Laci in their tiny little place. It might be tiny, but I couldn't bring myself to move them out of there.
They're both so easy-going, I love them!
They have a child named Carleigh, who is gorgeous! I can't wait until she grows up!
And they're expecting a little one, with plans to name her Raena.
Laci works as a nurse, but Paris got sick of his job as a mascot and eventually quit.

I forgot the other few families, will update later. =)

DancingSimmer

22nd Feb 2008, 11:06 PM

I am currently focusing on two families. The Blackwood & the Rogozarski. They are in my new modern, tropical neighborhood called "Goodland".

Rogozarski Family:
1st Generation: Francesca & Garrett (Married)
2nd Generation (from oldest to youngest): Natasha, Samantha, & Darek

Blackwood Family:
1st Generation: Hannah & Aaron (Married)
2nd Generation (from oldest to youngest): Victoria, Cory & Eric (Twins), & Mario

michaelajand

23rd Feb 2008, 05:00 AM

I play Pleasantview, mostly, and there are a ridiculous amount of Sims in that neighborhood, as I like big Sim families.

Dreamer:
Cassandra and Darren married and had nine children - all those plus Dirk and Cara, Cassandra and Don's daughter. Dirk is married to Lilith Pleasant and they have two children, Sean and Yessica, who are both in their early teens. Cara is married to Quincy Montmorency (the Montmorency family is enormous, as you will see) and they have three children - Ben and the twins Bella and Arianna. Daniel, the eldest of Cassandra and Darren's children, just aged to adult; I plan on marrying him to Rebekah Hale. Diana (the second-oldest) is on the verge of aging up, as is her immediate younger, Devon.

Pleasant:
Mary-Sue caught Daniel cheating and kicked him out. He moved in with Kaylynn and they had three children, Griffin, Daniela, and Anastasia, who are currently teens. After Daniel died, Angela and Dustin (and their daughter Susannah) moved in with Kaylynn and the half-sibs. I mentioned Lilith and Dirk earlier; they lived with Mary-Sue in the old Pleasant house, but then she (Mary-Sue) died.

Prior to Mary-Sue's death, I moved the Burbs in with the Pleasants. John died accidentally when he was struck by lightning. Jennifer did not remarry; she's on the verge of elderdom. I grew Lucy up and married her to Ben Broke. They have a child son, Sam, and a toddler daughter, Sarah.

Broke:
Brandi is an Elder. Her three biological sons have moved out, so she's left with Jack, the youngest. He's adopted. Beau and his wife, Victoria, have a toddler son, Brenden, and baby twins, Belle and Bobby.

Goth:
Mortimer married Dina shortly before his death. They had two children, Christabel and Damien (both in their mid-teens now). When Christabel was a child, Mortimer died. Dina additionally had Don's twins, Mariana and Fabian. Nina moved in with her son, Martin - also Don's. I smell a scandal brewing!

Alexander married Liliana Hale. He recently reached the top of the Science career track, and Liliana is well on the way to the top of Education. They have four children, William, Gwendolyn, Isabelle, and Edward.

Lothario: Don died, but not before he managed to produce lots and lots of Sim-spawn. Cara is the oldest of the bunch, and the James twins, Hattie and Lyra, are the youngest. Or maybe Jon Lovann is the youngest. I don't remember.

Montmorency: An original family of mine. William and Josephine were the couple's name; they had six children - Violet, Leopold, Quincy, Rowan, Charles, and Rhiannon. Violet married Travis Simmons and they have one son, Dean. Leopold married Natalia Willett and they have three children, Penny, Patrick, and Hector. Quincy married Cara Goth; I think I mentioned their children before. Rowan married Charity Llewellyn; one daughter, Rowena. Charles married Adelaide Hale and they have the largest family: a son and three daughters with another child on the way. I'm spacing out on their names right now. Rhiannon, the youngest (and my personal favorite), just aged up. I plan on putting her through the politics track. She married Adrian Hale and they already have twin sons, Adam and Evan. William, the father of the family, died, but Josephine lives on. She is particularly close to her granddaughter Penny.

Montgomery: The three Montgomery siblings, Faith, Hope, and Mitchell, were created as adults.

Faith married Josiah Hale. He already had two daughters, Adelaide and Liliana - they were CAS Sims. Faith and Josiah had three children - Adrian, Rebekah, and Brian.

Hope married Washington Llewellyn. They have, I think, eight children. All the girls are named for virtues (Charity, Joy, Patience, Felicity, and Chastity) and all the boys have random names, like Miles. All of the Montgomeries have weird noses that turn up at the end, but it's most pronounced in the Llewellyn branch.

Mitchell married Bridget Wooding, who already had a son (Joshua) by Don Lothario. Mitchell and Bridget had three more sons, Will, Charlie, and Christian, before finally having a daughter, whom they named Beatrice Ann. Bea is one of my favorite Sims; she's a tomboy and a lot of fun to play.

What else? Oh! The Great P&P Project!

Back in December, when I had too much time on my hands, I started a Regency-era neighborhood and set out to recreate 'Pride and Prejudice' in it - I was going through a fit of obsession with the novel at the moment. I downloaded practically the entire Regency section at All About Style and then set to it, making Sims and building houses.

The neighborhood that it's in, Meryton, is unbearably slow, so I don't play often. Currently, about all I have accomplished is making everyone hate Caroline Bingley. I left the Sims of her, her brother, Darcy, and all the Bennet sisters to their own devices at 'Netherfield', and the results were quite amusing: Lydia and Kitty started a pillow fight, Lizzy wandered off to play pool, Caroline harassed Darcy, Jane wandered off to paint a picture, Mary sulked, and Bingley tried to teach himself to play piano. Madness, I tell you. Ah, well, I now have lots of amusing pictures.

It really is rather odd to watch fictional characters as Sims got up in frock coats playing kicky bag.

Jadzia7667

25th Feb 2008, 01:36 PM

The Families of Hogsmeade
And sub hoods

Sims I'm going to play ...

*is in awe* You rock, so so hard.

cdglover13_SC

25th Feb 2008, 05:53 PM

I play mostly Riverblossom Hills - there's 15 families - and I'm trying to keep it that way by allowing each family to have 2 kids and then they just intermarry. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way - like when the second kid ends up being twins or there's an uneven ratio of males to females. Then they just end up being gay and adopting. :-). I haven't had much time to do anything much with some of these families, so I play:
O'Mackey - Gabe married Patricia and they had a little boy with really ugly cheeks. Jules went off and married her arch enemy's (Sandra's) little brother Xander Roth.
McGreggor - Sandra went off and married Leod McGreggor. They live together in their tiny little cottage/farm.
Kim - Justin Kim, the only son of Robert and Cynthia Kim has married Tara Kat. Cynthia, now retired is dabbling in hairstyling, experimenting on poor Tara after she got fired from her job as a teacher. Justin and Tara now have twin girls, Rachel and Serena.
Ruffian - Shania and Kevin have two dogs - a Great Dane named Hamlet and a little cockapoo named Titania. They live in the Old Farm House in Riverblossom Hills and now have two sons, Bailey and Beckett.
Martin - Catherine and Betty's days are limited. In the meantime, Andrew has married Daisy Greenman and reverted her from plantsim to human. A baby is on the way. Jacob has married a girl he went to college with, Ezra.
Those are the only families I've really been able to play so far - hopefully I'll be able to do more now that I'm done school.

kvsims2

3rd Mar 2008, 03:12 PM

I only have one neighbourhood with a few families in it right now, Maple Town :D

The Smith Family -
Single mother Riley moved into Maple Town with her teenage daughter Rose and her toddler son Abott. They had very little money and moved into a tiny townhouse where they had to convert a downstairs toilet to be Abott's room, and Rose shared a bed with her mother. Riley started working in the medical career track, and made it up to paramedic so they were atleast getting some money in. Rose flunked school completely and before long she became an adult and I had her move out (more on her later), so they had some extra space in the house. Abott worked hard in school and his afterschool job, and soon left for college (hes still there now). Now Riley lives in the tiny house alone, yet it feels a lot bigger to her with no company....

The Bear Family -
Rose from the family above married the burgular who robbed them when she was young, Russ Bear. She was furious with him, even when they got married, but they had very high chemistry and seemed to hit it off really well so I thought I'd have them marry, seeing as Rose was a family sim anyway. They now have two daughters, Stephanie and Holly. Riley doesn't approve of her son in law, Russ, seeing as he stole from them years ago and does not understand why Rose trusts him.

The Short Family -
This started off as just an experimental sim I made in CAS for fun. It was a sim called Crystal, who had bright blue hair, outrageous clothes and was a pleasure sim. I made her because I was bored with simming at the time, and wanted to spice things up a little :D So Crystal moved into one of my old neighbourhoods (Birch Lake). There, she had many lovers and affairs, and upset a lot of people. Things got tough for her, as many of her old lovers were furious with her and kept knocking over her trash can, leaving nasty things on her doorstep and insulting her in the street. Crystal got sick of this, and I moved her from Birch Lake to Maple Town, cutting all ties with anyone she knew before.
Crystal started her new life in Maple Town and only had a couple of flings, but ended up getting pregnant by a man called Marcel McCarthy. Well Crystal was pretty unhappy to be pregnant, but decided if Marcel was around she could cope. However, Marcel died mysteriously one day *heeheehee* and Crystal was left to raise her daughter Roxie alone.

The Kolinsky Family -
Borris and his wife Anna moved into Maple Town with their daughter Maria. They are a typical happy family I made, Borris works while Anna stays home to care for her children (she now has two sons aswell as Maria, Stefan and Josef).
Theres not much to say about this family, no scandal going on, they are just a plain little family :)

GreenTea

4th Mar 2008, 04:26 AM

I don't usually play Maxis families, I just make my own:

Prewitt/Long
Keeley Prewitt (CAS Sim), Annalise (Keeley and Benjamin Long's child), Vivienne (Keeley and Ben's other child), Benjamin Long (townie), Jenny Long (his new CAS trophy wife), Everett (Jenny and Benjamin's son)

Dugan/Bruenig
Annika Dugan-Bruenig (I think her parents were both CAS Sims but she was adopted by another CAS Sim, Lina Dugan who has passed away), Toby Bruenig (townie), Aurora and Dawn (Annika and Toby's daughters)

I just realized that most of my Sims have daughters...I hardly ever have sons born in game!

ani_

18th Mar 2008, 10:11 PM

Here's a short status update on all the families living in Basin city, Theres basically eight different family lines I play with. Not a very big city I suppose.

Ryan:
Tosha started out as a Freeman - she was married to her high-school sweetheart Antwone - but caught him cheating and the marriage ended there. Tosha was flat broke and pregnant when Antwone kicked her out of the house. Tosha started her own flower business and raised a delightfully adorable girl named Tamila. She later on married the headmaster BJ Ryan, got a boy with him, the marriage didn't work so BJ moved out. Both Tosha's kids have now moved out, Tamila is an adult, and Sean is a teenager. After the divorce, Antwone got into the athletic career, his dream job. He was building himself a mansion and trying to woohoo every woman in Basin City when he caught a cold and died from complications.

Ryan:
Sean is the son of BJ Ryan and Tosha, he lives on an empty lot with a mirror (so I could give him a make-over) and a phone (so his mother could call him). He currently works in his mother's flower shop.

Freeman:
Tamila: Is Antwone's and Tosha's daughter. Her dream is to become the cheaf of staff, she's just started to work in the medicine field and hopefully will achieve her goal one day.

Kreuger:
Freddy is the city's liquor store owner. A full time loozer with no clear direction in his life - just running his shop and substituting as many meals with beer that's possible. His at the time girlfriend and store assistant Sandy Brudy moved in with him, they started fighting almost immediately, she got pregnant, gave him a son and left. His son is now a child and is growing marijuana in their backyard shed.

Miguell:
Sophie started out life as a townie teen. She first met BJ Ryan through Tamila, who brought Sophie home one day from school. After BJ was kicked out of the house - he and Sophie became lovers. She moved in with him, they got engaged, and she got pregnant. On one eventful evening - Freddy Kreuger shot and killed BJ - which left poor Sophie very alone and very pregnant. She is a good friend with Tosha for some reason, not from Tosha's initiative but her owns. Being unemployed, pregnant and alone, Sophie had to take a job in a record store just to be able to pay off her bills.

Miller:
Arwen came to Basin City to take over an abandoned farm. Growing her crops and running an organic bakery. She's not rolling in money - on the contrary, she's just barely making it, but she loves her life and is quite happy running the farm. Even thou Arwen is a family oriented sim, she never married. She did how ever fall in love, got engaged and pregnant to Marv Sinclaire. Their son Glade is now a teen, Arwen is now elderly. Glade is helping his mother to run the farm and the bakery, and to extend the bakery to include a bookshop/cafe as well.

Sinclaire:
Marv. Well - the fact is - you can't have Basin City without Marv. He's a pleasure sim, working to maximize his body skill, win a few fights, drink beer and that's about it.

Lecter:
Hannibal. Hannibal is the newest addition to Basin City. He moved to a small house with his cat Clariece, his dream job would be to be a psychiatric, but until we get FT - that's so not going to happen. He's currently working in the journalism career, trying to save up for a green house so he could grow himself a cow plant.

Brudy:
Sandy started out life as a townie, she met Freddy Kreuger while working as a shop assistant in his liquor store. They eventually became lovers, she moved in with him and got pregnant. Sandy is however a romance sims, settling down with some moneyless shop owner and taking care of kids was just not what she had intended to do in life. She left Freddy with the baby the moment their son was born, she's currently living in the family bin, waiting to be relocated back to Basin City.

Curious:
Pascall moved to basin City some time a go. He's living in a very nice neighborhood. He only has one friend, and that's Tamila. The rest of the time he keeps to himself, working on his robots.

Ewing:
John Ross. He's an elderly sim I created in cas for the purpose to have some sim from whome my poor sims can borrow money from when in need. Everything borrowed needs to be payed back, with very high interest. I don't play this sim at all, he's just in the family bin being the bank of Basin City.

SofieAmalieN

24th Mar 2008, 11:36 AM

The inhabitants of my Magical Institude of Witchcraft & Wizardry (UNI)

Gryffindor: Lily Evans
Gryffindors: James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Isla Hitchens
Black Brothers: Sirius and Regulus Black
Lupin: Remus Lupin and Severus Snape
Muggle Girls: Petunia Evans and a bunch of NPC/townie girls

Lily an Petunia are sisters, their parents live in my main hood. Severus' parents and little sister (toddler) live next door to the Evans'.)

maeve.2.0

28th Mar 2008, 04:24 PM

I'm currently playing the following families:

Gopher, Desiderata Valley -- My "testing out the new EP by making a family with a bunch of kids and putting them all in FT outfits" family, consisting of grilled cheese obsessed bohemian mom Alexandra (who is really just a Natasha Una ripoff), likable trying-to-get-into-the-athletic-sector-but-too-incompetent-to-hold-even-a-job-as-a-mascot, jock dad Steve, neatfreak ballerina Laurie, tinkering, socially isolated hermit James and violin prodigy slash nerd Arthur. They are quite a diverse bunch. They live in a house I stole from the Tinker (sp?) family in Bluewater village.

Boddle, Desiderata Valley -- A single mother, like the fiftiest bohemian in Desiderata (what can I say, I love that clothing style, which is odd since I hate it in real life), named Sandy, who runs a shop, with her daughter Melanie, who keeps burning muffins in her little oven. They also live in a house I stole from Bluewater, this time Florence Delarosa's quaint little house. Poor Bluewater Village is looking very very bare.

Elanorea

9th May 2008, 08:30 PM

Hmm... where to start.

Norman (1)
Adele - a talented but somewhat antisocial artist. Elder.
Elisabeth - Adele's adoptive daughter, also an artist, also incapable of forming a long-term romantic relationship. Adult.
Rebecca - Elisabeth's and Stephen Gothier's daughter. Baby.

Norman (2)
Mireille - a doctor, ex-wife of Abhijeet. Twin sister to Adele. Elder.
Alexander - Mireille and Abhijeet's son, twin brother to Morgan. Aspires to be a doctor like his mother. Teen.

Norman (3)
Abhijeet - a slacker well on his way to becoming a professional party guest, has slept with most of the town. Elder.
Morgan - twin brother to Alexander, going to be a politician. Teen.

Bernsen (1)
Birgit - a professional athlete who has recently begun concentrating more on her family. One of Abhijeet's lovers. Elder.
George - a professional loser. Really a nice guy, just haven't done much with him. Elder.
Edward - Birgit and George's adoptive son, Elisabeth's younger brother. A seemingly-harmless nerd on his way to becoming a criminal mastermind. Adult.
Carol - Birgit and George's daughter. Toddler.

Bernsen (2)
Agnetta - Birgit's daughter, half-sister to Carol. Doesn't get along with her mother. Haven't moved her in yet. Adult.

Mallory
Dagni - One of Abhijeet's lovers, George's former roommate. Adult.

Jones
Netta - neat freak who got a nasty surprise (Messlot challenge). Adult.
Nora - Netta and Charles Benson's daughter. Child. (I had completely forgotten what their family name was when I named her, so the reference to Norah Jones isn't intentional.)

Elisabeth and Edward were created by my sister. I "adopted" them by moving them in with a cheat, so they kept their original family ties.

I'm considering pairing Edward and Morgan when she grows up, just so that Elisabeth can say: "My long-lost brother is dating my adoptive mother's twin sister's ex-husband's daughter!"

Fernweather

12th May 2008, 04:57 PM

I've just recently started a new neighborhood, so I don't have many families yet.

Auberon Fernweather, Titania Stormwatch, Robin Goodfellow, and Sorrow Ravenloft are all students at Enigma College. Auberon and Titania, and Robin and Sorrow, are, literally, made for one another, so they will hook up eventually. For the time being, they are just sowing their wild oats (which, as they are typical Sims, are pretty wild).

All four do fairly well in school, though Auberon and Robin in particular seem more interested in hanging out at the Plan 9 Lounge (an odd little bar on the Lost Highway) than actually studying.

Theo and Cleo Fink live in a run-down house in Faraway. Cleo is a plus-size romance Sim who is quite popular with the gents. Theo is sweet, but has some hygiene and personality issues. He is quite unhappy most of the time, and can sometimes be observed dancing around with a lampshade on his head and talking to invisible people.

Eric "The Moose" Strange is a bear (of the gay, not the ursine, variety) who lives in a small cabin in the woods at the edge of Faraway. He's been a bit unlucky in love, as he keeps hooking up with real players. He's recently begun spending more nights out on his deck with his new telescope. His life may take an interesting new direction soon....

I'm still toying around with ideas for a few more characters to fill out the mix.

charlie-chan_SC

17th May 2008, 10:04 PM

I've reverted to playing Pleasantview at the moment and I am playing the Broke Family.

Brandi Broke married Chester Gieke (the sim who came with OFB or FT) and they had twins (after eating cheesecake). I named them Bruce and Brett to keep with the B theme. Chester achieved a high enthusiasm in one area and he got the genie from the Gypsy. He resurrected his mother Lucy Gieske because they needed a nanny ;).

Lucy moved out with Beau and Brandon (the baby Brandi was carrying and I used Insim to make Chester the father) With her fiancee Julian Cooke, they look after Beau, Brandon and Angela Pleasant because Lucy can't have children.

Dustin is now an adult and is married to Dina Caliente. They haven't had any children yet and they are still living with Brandi/Chester.

All children are obsessed with music & dance and they have good skill levels (basically they are more than 1 point :P)

Beau has reached maximum enthusiasm for music & dance as well as the top of his science career.

Edit: Brandi/Chester have now given birth to Ethan and Beau is now an adult.

Also I discovered that Lucy is a man. *cue shocking music*

jingxia

17th May 2008, 10:48 PM

There's many families in my neighbourhood... but they're all completely neglected! Should get off my lazy butt and delete them really... u_u

Anyway, I'm currently only focusing on and playing these two:

The Tsar Family.
Consists out of Sergei (a funny, blue haired guy who's into Science), Nadine (Loves to do anything that revolves around Cuisine) and their adult son, Amadeus (a sportsy boy... totally different from his parents. He's Romance, and quite loved by the ladies).

The Solomon Family.
Consists out of Gin (Music & Dance, and the town's #1 loverboy. Every single sim adores him. Which is good, since his LTW is to woohoo with 20 sims), Tea (a quiet, nature-loving woman who knows nothing about her husband's escapades) and their child daughter, Wine (also into Music).

I'm only playing Solomon right now, since I'm waiting for Wine to grow up and marry Amadeus! :3 Then they can have a kid called Coffee or something. Hehe.

charlie-chan_SC

18th May 2008, 11:43 AM

jingxia

18th May 2008, 01:12 PM

Or you could name the child Malibu to keep with the alcoholic theme?

Oh, Malibu is a nice name indeed! xD Thanks! Will name it that!

LHSFlute88_SC

20th May 2008, 06:22 AM

I just started not too long ago and I've mostly been playing with the premade Uni characters so far, but here goes.

Holly River Valley:

Huffington: Heather Huffington used to be a member of the Tri-Var sorority, but is now living in a residential home. She is kind of the sluttiest girl on campus. She is six lovers toward her LTW of having WooHoo with 20 different people. Unfortunately, she also forgot to take her birth control until recently. She has three children now - Davis, her teenage son (fathered by Jimmy Phoenix); Tobias, who is a child (son of her creepy elderly drama professor); and April, an infant (who is living with her father Erik Swain). Davis has a townie girlfriend but I can't recall her name. He might not be with her long though because I'm not sure she's pretty enough for him.

Swain: Erik Swain, a family Sim, desperately wants to marry Heather Huffington, but she will have none of it. He just graduated from Sim State University and is raising his and Heather's daughter, April, alone in Holly River Valley.

Beare: Kevin Beare is a member of the Urele-Oresha-Cham fraternity. He is engaged to Tiffany Sampson, of the Tri-Var sorority.

Ruben: Joshua Ruben is a member of the Urele-Oresha-Cham fraternity. He had a crush on Tiffany Sampson and was furious when he walked in on her kissing his "brother" Kevin Beare. He is now not speaking to either of them. His brother Martin Ruben is currently living with his friend Allegra Gorey. Martin is engaged to Jane Stacks, who was living with the two until she graduated. She got a house in Holly River Valley and is waiting for Martin to graduate and move in with her so they can get married.

Nova: Castor Nova is yet another Urele-Oresha-Cham member. He is engaged to Allegra Gorey. He also had a short fling with cheerleader Claire Guthrie, but she died of a "mysterious cause," so she won't be causing any problems.

Pitts: Another Urele-Oresha-Cham member, Ashley Pitts is trying to get his mack on with girls but is failing miserably. He's managed to get Heather in bed (not hard) and is now chasing the maid, Amanda Lawrence.

Phoenix: James "Jimmy" Phoenix is the newest member of the Urele-Oresha-Cham fraternity. He has a son with Heather Huffington, named Davis. He is also dating Samantha "Sam" Thomas.

Starchild: Jared Starchild is currently living in a residence at SSU with his friend Samantha Thomas and his boyfriend Tyler "Ty" Bubbler. Was a one-time lover of Heather Huffington in her quest to reach her LTW.

Grant: Kester and his wife Miriam (maiden name Ryder) met at Academie Le Tour. They lived together on campus and got married as soon as they graduated. Right after graduation Kester came into a large inheritance from an obscure, rich relative and is now living in a huge house with Miriam. Despite his riches, Kester got a job as a police officer, wanting to work rather than lounging around at home all day. Miriam is a stay-at-home mom with their first daughter, Leah. (This family promises to get interesting, as it is the family I'm using for a polygamy challenge. XD Kester won't have a second wife, but his eldest son will.)

And... I think that's all of them right now. Lol.

EllieGirl.♥.

23rd May 2008, 01:06 AM

The Green Forrest My Custom Neighbourhood :)

I wanted a fresh start for all my favourite sims of Pleasantview and Strangetown, so I created a neighbourhood to bring them all together and give them new homes, new relationships, new ambitions..etc. There is a Student Housing Project which offers homes for teenage school students, wanting to leave home, share the daily costs of living with other students and have a comfortable, safe enviorment providing them with everything they need to study and prepare for their future life/career ambitions, its alot of fun having teen only households, 4 students maximum per house, and single apartments for teenagers looking to live independantly.

The teenagers currently living there...

Household 1 -
Topaz Caliente - daughter of Dina and Lazlo Curious
Marisol Mazza - newspaper girl from Strangetown
India Copur - teenage townie, previously called Ivy
and
Dirk Dreamer :)

Household 2 -
Russel Broke - son of Brandi Broke
Autumn Pleasant - previously known as Angela
Lilac Burb - renamed from Lucy
Meadow Thayer - One of my favourite townie teens :)

I moved Nevea and Dia Caliente (Dina and Nina renamed) to a Studio Flat, where they are both concerntrating on their newly found passions for art, music, literature and film. Dia has traded her trashy clothing for chilled out, bohemian chic and Nevea has decided she is going to wait to find true unconditional love before entering any new relationships.

Cassandra Goth packed up her belongings and relocated to Green Forrest after being so deeply hurt by Don Lothario. She has dediced its time for a new, colourful, happy self. Shes thrown out all her black clothes, grown her black hair and invested in a collection of colourful contact lenses. She has recently fallen in love with Pascal Curious and wants to move in with him as soon as possible :)

shaun056_SC

13th Jun 2008, 04:41 PM

Having just recently installed the game onto my new PC I have lost all the older families I use to play with. However I have created several new families and have started playing them.

The Spencer Family
After Ethen dropped out of college he sought sanctury with his sister Kendra. But unfortnate news met the siblings soon afterwards with the death of their parents in a tragic car crash. Now Kendra is trying to earn the money while Ethen, distraught with sadness, spends his days messing around town, partying til late and sleeping with sims whenever he can.

The Beckett Family
Maurice and Linda with the children Olivia and Richard are the richest people in Sedoma. Maurice recently took over his father's company and now the money is just rolling in. But with all this, there is a skeleton in Linda's closet. For surely, Olivia is not Maurice's daughter..

omgshsarah

14th Jun 2008, 04:44 AM

Hmm. I have quite a few families in my neighborhood. Most of the families are based off challenges.

The Anderson Family
Both the parents, Nicola and Matthew, rolled the 'Have 15 Children' want, so I decided to go with it. They have twin teenage boys, a little girl, a little boy who just became a child, and twin baby boys.. again. The poor girl is outnumbered. (:

The Foster Family
The Fosters fell in love and had a little girl. However, the wife died in a fire right after she gave birth. Now the husband is dealing with his little girl, who is now a child, his job, and his grief.

The Tidi Family
This is my Messy Messlot Challenge lot. (: it's a work in progress, but my sim, Emily, has mostly finished fixing up the house. Plus she recently adopted a kitten to keep her company.

The Miller Family
My legacy challenge! I just started it, so at the moment there are only 2 children, and they are both children. One's name is Emma, and the other Kayleb. I almost never stick with a family long enough to see grandkids, but i'm determined with this family.

I have a lot more families, but those are the only ones that I cam remember at the moment..

HelloClarice

14th Jun 2008, 10:17 PM

Oh, God. All of them? Well.

The Hills [I]

Elisa Hill: daughter of Jessica Hill, my original character and the first person to live on Dahlia Island.
Michael Hill: brother of Joanne Warde, husband of Elisa.
Unborn baby Hill: enough said, really.

The Hills [II]

Jordan Hill: twin brother of Jessica
Deanna Hill: townie, wife of Jordan
Johnathan Hill: teenaged child of Jordan and Deanna
[two more children whose names I can't remember]

The Hills [III]

Andrew Hill: son of Michael and Jessica
Cassiopoeia Hill: daughter of Narcissa and Ross Thorpe
Chloe Hill: daughter of Michael and Jessica

The Hills [IV]

James Hill: son of Elisa and Michael

The Whites

Lily White: daughter of Elisa and Michael, twin sister of James Hill
Ryan White: husband of Lily
Rowan Hill: son of Lily with Charles Haye

The Hayes

Charles Haye: husband of ... someone, lover of Lily White, father of Rowan Hill
Someone Haye: wife of Charles, lesbian lover of Daisy Inkwelle

The Inkwelle/Wardes

Daisy Inkwelle: lover of Someone Haye, lover of Cordelia Warde
Cordelia Warde: daughter of Joanne Warde and Jacques Du Pont, niece of Michael and Elisa, cousin to the Hills

The Wardes

Joanne Warde: lover of Jacques Du Pont, mother of Cordelia, aunt to the third generation Hills, great aunt to the fourth
Jacques Du Pont: father of Cordelia

The Thorpes

Narcissa Thorpe: mother to Cassiopoeia, grandmother to Chloe, husband of Ross
Ross Thorpe: husband of Narcissa, lover of Adam Poole

The Pooles

Adam Poole: husband of Joey Poole, lover of Ross Thorpe
Joey Poole: husband of Adam Poole

The Vexilles

Castor Vexille: literature major, husband of Ellen Vexille
Ellen Vexille: physics major, wife of Castor Vexille

That's everyone! I think, anyway. The Hills are currently on generation five now, although Elisa's pregnant with a generation four member again. Generation six will be on its way soon, too.

JacobEdward

14th Jun 2008, 10:49 PM

Ooh...Well, right now I'm not playing many families, but here some of them are:

The Daniels':

Alyssa, my legacy founder, her husband Derek (Vijayaykar or whatnot), their two daughters Pippa and Aggie, and Alyssa's three other daughters, Nemea, Devyn, and Quincy. No boys...I think Alyssa's custom-colored hair proved to be dominant over gender as well...?????

The Lothario's:

Everybody's favorite neighborhood playa', Don Lothario lives with his girlfriend Kaylynn Langerak, their daughter Estelle...I think that's her name..., and Kaylynn's new son Daniel, who's father is Daniel Pleasant. Don also has daughters by his ex-wife Cassandra Goth, Bella and Artemesia by Nina Caliente.

The Srader-Cooms':

Emma and Collin have five children, twins Ann and Ron, son Gabriel, and twin daughters Thetis and Roxanne. As you can see, I got more creative with names as time went on...XD

The Darwen's:

I started out in CAS with Joshua Darwen, his teenage daughter Alexia, and her younger sister Calliope. Then he married Brandi Broke, who moved in with her sons. She then gave birth to Gabriel, her third son with Skip, and then had her fourth son (by Joshua), ehm...I forgot his name. =)

El-Tango

15th Jun 2008, 07:05 PM

Ooohhhh dear.
Let's see.

Currently we have the
Black-Lupin family: Sirius and Remus Black-Lupin (and you have no idea how tempted I am to put "Maturity" in there... for you Shoebox lovers). They're partners as of currently. They discovered their love for eachother conveniently when I accidently left the game open without pausing, oops.

Wells: The only one I play is Ilse, who's a female teen... who is currently pregnant with Sirius's child. She's friends with Rot and Andromeda.

Sacher: Andromeda and Rot. They're best friends and teens who live with eachother in a trailer house. I plan to eventually hook them up, but they both need to get jobs and a better house before I can expand them in any way.

Chen: I haven't played her in awhile, but I have Ella Chen in my game. She's goofy, loud, and fun but I think she has a son at the moment. I may re-make her just because I wasn't completely satisified with her.

I also have Severus Snape and his wife. Those are the ones that I've been playing religiously lately, though.

SofieAmalieN

15th Jun 2008, 08:25 PM

I started a new hood due to some Freetime glitches. I only have a few families that I play in my new hood, but it's also populated by the clones of the Strangetown and PLeasantview sims. They live there as a kind of townies. To fill my houses and make future wives and husbands for my sims. And for me to play and test out things, when I don't want to play the other families.

Lupin-Snape: Severus and Remus are married in my game. They're fresh out of uni and proud parents of a boy and a girl. Severus is currently expecting their third child. They have also adopted Severus' mother's cat Duchess after Mrs. Snape died.

Lupin: Remus' mom Daisy lives alone after Remus went to Uni. She might move into their house (just so I remember playing her) She lives with her two dogs.

hippecore

15th Jun 2008, 11:09 PM

Well,
I've started the 'Twin' family.
Started with a mom, a dad, and two twin little toddlers made on CAS.
Then, I had them have a baby, with them both being family aspiration, and...
they had another little girl. After that, they had another birth in the family , but this time they had twins again.
The toddlers on CAS are now teens, and every other little kid is a child.
The parents are on the verge of being elders.
I want them to go on for legacy's , btu we'll see how far it goes. =]
I also had another single male, who had married a wonderful townie, and had a baby with her. Then, he had cheated on her, and had a baby with that woman. The new woman lives with him, and the original mom accidentally got deleted.
Fun.

Remyohmy

15th Jun 2008, 11:16 PM

luminous

16th Jun 2008, 11:46 PM

I absolutely love some of the names in here. My game is about 50% populated with YAs, but I play a lot of families, too. My town is probably overcrowded, actually. This is just some of them:

Landgraab IV - Consists of medical expert Lord Voldemort and his fiancée, Valentine. Oh, and Malcolm, who was turned into an elf when his house was taken over.

Death Eaters - Slacker dementors Bill, Clancey and Willard, who were basically created to serve Voldey's most eeevil plans.

Malfoy - Consists of Lucius, Draco, Draco's chihuahua Perseus, as well as Harry Potter, the ghosts of his parents (I know, I'm cruel) and his terrier Albus Dumbledog (who is, um, female). They live on Privet Drive, where Harry is happily at home in his cupboard once more. OK, maybe not happily, but it is very entertaining.

Lex/Snape - Severus is posing as a muggle, rooming with pretty guitarist/military official Tristan. He has a secret lair (basement), which he can only access via teleportation. They have two often-haywire robots, Sir Vatron I and Miss Piggy-Bank.

Gjertsen/Crane - Consists of drumming adventurer Max, his alien child Sven, and their pierced punk gamer roommate Pixie.

Ellix - Consists of concert pianist Cyanide, his girlfriend Emma (also on the music career path), and their babies Theodore and Rosemarie.

Garver/Cartell - Probably my most interestingly situated families, lol. It's lawyer Alec, his son Adrian Mikul, his boyfriend Jaye, Jaye's daughter Cinnamon; and a teenage girl named Valerie, who moved in when her mother decided to marry the Dark Lord..

Weschester - Another fun one. Glam musician Liam, his girlfriend Welcome (a country singer), her teenage brother Dominic, and Cinnamon's half-brother, Julius. Most of my Sims were fic-muses first. So, Welcome was good friends with Julius's mom, Euhlia, and took him in when the muse bamf!ed.

Luciano - Consists of elderly Abuelito, his son Antonio (a bodybuilder SWAT member), his daughter Carmela (a hairdresser) and her son Dario. Also their two pets, Tortilla and Enchilada.

Mackenzie - My super-cute crossdresser Bon Bon runs a bakery from home with his teen sister, Hannah. One of my favorite families to play... overwhelmingly cute!

I also play several of the families in Pleasantview, Bluewater, etc.

tizerist_

17th Jun 2008, 01:28 AM

acording to simpe, i have something like 1456 people living in my Pine Lake hood (and its 6 sub-hoods) but I only play as my selfsim and my girlfriends.

so that makes like 1435 NPC's!

PuX- 80's

17th Jun 2008, 01:35 AM

oh boy, I make a new family like every day and then cease to play them again o_O

But I have stuck with The Greens for a while. They live in Welch Acres and are on Gen. 3. The oldest is about to turn into an adult.
Me too!
I don't know why.
For me it might just be downloading some many good looking sims that I can't wait to reproduce.

HelloClarice

17th Jun 2008, 07:45 PM

James Hill, a sim who I thought was straight, is apparently gay and has had a joined union with John Dorian, a CAS townie that I made. They have one child [though I forget its name - there are far too many Hills] and a live in maid named Carmen Addison. Also a dog, a Dorian Shorthair. [A breed I inserted into the Dorians' fictional past. Also, James Hill is now James Dorian. And he's pregnant with their second child.]

Johnathan Hill [generation three sim] went to university and met Ariana Hart, another CAS townie, and they're now married. I really want to kill off some of my Hills because I've got like six different families of Hills now. ; ;

mechaprincess

17th Jun 2008, 08:01 PM

The only family I've been playing lately is the Connoley/Mole/McCallums.

Mollie Connoley (my CAS sim (http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=1201332&postcount=407)) married John Mole (came with FreeTime). John subsequently dropped out of the SCIA and changed his name to Julian Connoley for privacy. They had two kids, Rook and Veronica, who are rather unfortunate in the looks department. Mollie was living happily with her family and expecting a third child when Julian died during an unexpected storm and was struck in the head by a renegade piece of hail. -cough- The shock was bad enough to cause Mollie to miscarry, leaving her a single mother with two kids and no source of income.

Around this time Aiden McCallum (another CAS sim (http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=1202138&postcount=450)) moved into Desiderata Valley. Mollie met him not long after Julian's death, and at first the two hated each other. Mollie went so far as to move into a new home to avoid him, and also escape the memories of her old house. As it turns out, Aiden's house was right next door, and the two eventually hit it off and moved in together, falling in love in the process. Unfortunately for Mollie, a Knowledge/Family sim who wants to marry off 6 kids, Aiden is a Romance/Knowledge sim who wants nothing more than to become a rock god. I wonder how long things will stay calm with ACR installed. >)

RabbitRoadkill

17th Jun 2008, 08:09 PM

luminous

18th Jun 2008, 10:18 PM

Thank you! Thieve away, hehe. It's surprisingly fun playing whilst imagining Snape as an undercover wizard. I've had to lock his door, though, because in Snape's absence, Tristan sneaks in and daydreams on his housemate's bed. When Apt Life releases it should get really interesting..

mechaprincess, your CAS sims are gorgeous! I've always relied on BodyShop, as my ventures in CAS were, er, not pretty. Love your twisted families. x)

mechaprincess

18th Jun 2008, 10:26 PM

Oh, I actually made them in Bodyshop- I just called them CAS sims because I made them. Even though I have face template replacements, if I used only CAS I would probably tear my hair out. XD I love your take on the Harry Potter-themed families, especially the Malfoys. LOL

TheBanzaiKitten

25th Jun 2008, 04:19 PM

Since my old file somehow screwed up (I have no idea how), I made a new neighborhood with new families.

Wolfe- My legacy family, 1st generation. Has husband and founder, Timber; wife, Marisa (townie); and their toddler, Timber Jr. I want them to have a lot of kids, but at the same time I don't want to have an overpopulated neighborhood.

Johnson- This one is going to be a little confusing.
-Margarita Johnson (previously, Moonshine). Her husband, Whiskey cheated on her and she broke up with him and booted him out. This all happened while she was pregnant. She then met this guy.
-Cedric Johnson- Your average Knowledge Sim. I'm planning on getting him abducted.
-Gin Moonshine- The child of Margarita and Whiskey.

Moonshine- Has Whiskey with his lover, Jan Tellerman (townie). Jan is pregnant with Joe Carr's baby but Whiskey doesn't know it.

Briej17

25th Jun 2008, 08:37 PM

I just started a new neighbourhood (coleville) and i havent played much with the families but here are a fue of the main familes i use

Handler:Barbie and Ken a married couple, and their child Kelly and Barbie is expecting a little bundle of joy any day now.

Besties: Sarah and Brieanna, They have grown up together and are best friends and love to party.

Seen- Shawn and Scarlett have been married for quite some time now.The cozy Family has two children Sam and Samantha both twin teens but what Scarlett doesn't know is that her husband has been cheating on her with the made. How nice

Bosten-Nana and Papa are Grandparents of their four Grandchildren Casey(being the eldest)Leo(being the second eldest)and the twin babies Ronnie and Rylee. The childrens parents got arrested on a count of not taking care of their children and not paying their bills.

Walker- Krista is a single parent working two jobs trying to keep up with her boyfriend Jack and trying not to show she is prego with Jacks baby but on top of that she is trying to raise her teenage daughter Kyla who is obsessed with boys and is practically failing school. Krista only wishes Kylas father never walked out on her.

Fontana & Reese- Michael Fontana and Brie Reese have been going out since they were teens but now that they are older and have moved in together things have been pretty rocky, Brie also just found out she is pregnat with Michaels baby but cant tell him because Michael doesn't want to be a dad period.

Pedochu_SC

25th Jun 2008, 09:10 PM

I play with the French family most of the time. Its kind of for the legacy challenge, but i broke a few rules. Jacques French, the founder is married to Komei Tellerman and adopted two kids with him. He wanted an heir so while Komei was at work he had Jan Tellerman move in and had a baby with her. The problem is, they fell in love and won't get out of it, so whenever Jan tries to kiss someone, Jacques gets furious and gets a memory of her cheating on him, haha!

eruwenfuin

26th Jun 2008, 02:28 PM

Uhm, I started this new neighbourhood, Simple Sims Isle, with a bachelor challenge. Afterwards I just paired some of them up with townies and eachother. I act as if they are being followed by this media company called Simple Sims Networks.

Currently I have:
The Devia Family
Quietus
Ludus
Robbert
Mary
Lydia

The Regency family
Regalis
Malcom landgraab
Gabriel
Gabrielle.

The Amor Family
Nox
Dilligio

The Viva/Felix family
Ditus
Paxum

The Gaudi family
Fabula

The Dux Duxis family
Dahlia
Dahks

For bio's click on link in my siggy, you'll find them under the white pages.

ACJgirl13

26th Jun 2008, 03:17 PM

I started a new ABC Legacy recently. I made a college sim with an Artist major, Adelle Lingual. I move dher into a house with a Maxis sim, Erik Swain, simply because I hate dorms. Erik and Adelle had three bolts for eachother though, and they promptly fell in love.

When they graduated from college with Honors, and both as Artists, I moved them into a small house in my new neighborhood, Kalewood. There, they promptly got married. That night they tried for a baby without me knowing :-/. They always want babies, despite the fact that Erik is a Knowledge sim. So they were pregnant and living off of Erik's income of a Comic Book Penciller and the occasional painting that Adelle would sell. Basically, they were poor.

Adelle gave birth to twins, one boy and one girl, name Beckett and Belle. After the birth, they promptly tried for a baby again! All of this was off of ACR, of course. And so while Erik was at work, Adelle was forced to take care of twins and her own pregnancy. The twins grew successfully into toddlers, however, and on their birthday Adelle gave birth to a third child, a baby boy named Baltimore.

The family is living off of a little more money since Erik got a promotion and Adelle's paintings sell for about 500. Hopefully they won't try for babies for a while ;-)

Mr Veronaville

13th Sep 2008, 08:21 AM

In the neigborhood i made called Pearl Island i created most of the familys in the sims that you get in neigborhood 1.

Goth:
I made Motimer (knowledge asperation) and Bella (romance asperation) as adults Cassandra (family asperation) as a teen and Alexander as a toddler. I made their house very similar to the one they have in the sims and Mortimer has a job in the science career track anyway

Mortimer began seeing Chris until they established a firm relationship. Alexander soon became a child and was best friends with Cassandra, Bella was often in the garden reading a book or resting. Soon Mortimer had fallen out of love with Bella so they broke up. Mortimer left the house and moved into Chris's home where they soon got married. Bella was left with Cassandra and Alexander in the goth house so she got a job in the politics career track. Mortimer and Chris had four kids Elizabeth and Lynn who were twins a son named Tom and a third daughter named Jamie.

As time passed Chris,Mortimer and Bella became elders. The children became adults and this is what i did with them:

Cassandra: Married a guy named Troy who was a knowledge sim they have one child named Amy currently a child.

Alexander: Is single living with his mother in the goth house.

Elizabeth: Married a guy named jack, they have two kids laura currently a child and a son named victor currently a toddler.

Lynn: Married a guy named Charles and had three chidren named Lee currenty a child and twins Suzie and Kevin who are toddlers.

Im going to finish this later. Bye!

Couriervaughan

15th Mar 2010, 04:19 PM

Mine is dreamer family and smith family

aaries16

16th Mar 2010, 02:13 AM

I am playing 22 families (and a group in University) in rotation right now. I've been playing the neighborhood forever (summer of 2005). Some families are more interesting than others and there's a lot of duplicate names. Half of the sims in the neighborhood are descendants of a few "original" families:
Chan - my sim self and a fictional Chinese husband
Newbie - Bob and Betty Newbie remade Sims 1 versions
Caliente - Dina married and divorce several times; Nina married one guy, Zack, who took on her name
Freud - It started with an elderly man, his adult daughter, and her toddler son

Currently I'm at a point where the group in University right now are all 2nd cousins (all descendants of my sim self)

To run down the list last names: Newbie, Gilscarbo, Jake, Jacobs, Butler, Nova, Caliente-Henson, Freud, Wheeler, Huffington, Harris, Atteck, English-Chan, Daniels, Jackson

ForeverCamp

16th Mar 2010, 06:26 AM

*warning* This is going to be loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

I'm currently playing out Pleasantview. There's four generations currently alive in the neighbourhood, spread out amongst 25 households.

The Goth-Lothario-Sartor Family: (6 households)
Don Lothario and Cassandra Goth were married just before the untimely death of Mortimer Goth. As she was the only family her little brother had left, Don and Cassandra adopted Alexander Goth, who then became Alexander Lothario. Before Don's cheating brought about the end of their tumultuous marriage, they had three children together: Caspian Lothario, Tirian Lothario and Aravis Lothario.

After the divorce, Cassandra managed to raise the four children alone, and found the true love of her life in Chase Sartor. They were a late-in-life marriage, both elders at the time, and Chase became a sort of surrogate father to Tirian and Aravis. Chase recently died of old age.

Don continued to live a wild and rambunctious lifestyle, bedding any woman (and even a few men) that would have him. That was, until Kaylynn Langerak successfully corralled him into a family life again. Her adopted twins, Herb Langerak and Ellen Langerak, aren't fond of their stepfather, especially since he seduced Ellen as a young teen.

Don and Kaylynn have three children together, twins Tyler Lothario and Jessica Lothario, and youngest child Madison Lothario. While Herb still lives in the family house to help his frazzled mother with his rambunctious younger siblings, Ellen moved out as soon as she became of age with her twin sons by Don: Devin Langerak and Ryan Langerak.

Alexander has recently married Carolyn Burb, after her heartbreaking encounter with Matt Broke. Collectively, Alex and Carolyn have six children: Alex's two alien children, Navarrah Lothario and Calocero Lothario, and Carolyn's quadruplet sons by Matt: Jaden Burb, Lukas Burb, Pacey Burb and Tavian Burb.

Caspian went to university to study Physics, where he met his wife, Philosophy major Christa Simpson when they both became members of Sim State University's elite secret society. They married at the end of their freshman year, and as sophomores, became parents to triplets: Benjamin Lothario, Elizabeth Lothario and Joseph Lothario. Both Caspian and Christa have just finished their studies.

Tirian opted not to further his education. He moved out on his own and is currently engaged to Chelsey Gonzaga.

Aravis went to university, but dropped out not long into her first semester. After a terrifying attack by a dormmate, she was too frightened and traumatized to continue her studies. She has moved back to Pleasantview with her widowed, elderly mother, and hopes that the nausea is just a side-effect of her trauma...

The Caliente-Gonzaga Family: (3 households)
Mysterious Pleasantview sisters Dina Caliente and Nina Caliente went their separate ways shortly after Don Lothario's marriage and Mortimer Goth's death.

Dina, while she never married, nevertheless became a mother to four boys: twins Fabrizio Caliente and Rafael Caliente by Mortimer Goth, Giacomo Caliente by Don Lothario and Alessandro Caliente by Gordon King. She died of old age when Giacomo and Alessandro were still teens.

Nina, on the other hand, also never married. When she discovered she was pregnant by her teenage lover Skylar Gonzaga, he promptly moved in with Chloe Gonzaga, whom he believed to be his sister at the time but later discovered not to be (*long story short, ACR meets gamer-inattentiveness*). Once young Jody Gonzaga was born, Nina hightailed it out of town and hasn't been seen since. Skylar and Chloe later had two more daughters, Chelsey Gonzaga, fiancee of Tirian Lothario, and Sarah Gonzaga, before Chloe also went splitsville on Skylar. Poor guy just has no luck with the ladies. After Chloe's abandonment, he focused his energies on raising his three daughters.

Fabrizio married Solveig Kody. Though Fabrizio is unaware of this, Solveig had a brief affair with their neighbour, which resulted in the birth of their first child, Myron Caliente. Fabrizio and Solveig now have three additional children together: daughter Sawyer Caliente, and twins Aurek Caliente and Kent Caliente.

Rafael married Rose Dai. They had five children together before Rose's recent death from an unidentified illness: twins Alyssa Caliente and Zachary Caliente, middle child Ethan Caliente and twins Jacob Caliente and Sean Caliente. Since Rose's death, Rafael has struggled to stay on top of his children's needs. Their small mobile home is frequently littered with empty bottles, dirty dishes, discarded toys and flooded toilets. Thus far, he has succeeded, and hopefully their new home (provided by SimState after the epidemic of illness swept through Pleasantview, necessitating a complete levelling of the current dwellings *ie I'm completely redoing the town*) will be a little bigger, to better accomodate all six of them.

Giacomo and Alessandro's last gift from their deceased mother was a tiny puppy named Leroy. Giacomo has recently married Sophie Miguel. Now guardians of Alessandro, Giacomo and Sophie just welcomed a new addition: Sunday Caliente. And tiny little Leroy is now a huge, hulking monster of a dog. Alessandro is currently dating Afghana Broke.

Jody began dating Kyle Broke as a teenager, and later became pregnant with his child, a son named Callum Gonzaga-Broke. They have just married and welcomed a second son, Korydon Gonzaga-Broke.

The Burb-Broke-Livingston-Fairchild Family: (7 households)
John Burb and Jennifer Burb have both passed away, leaving behind seven children: Lucy Livingston (nee Burb), triplets Allison Broke (nee Burb), David Burb and Thomas Burb, and second triplets Carolyn Lothario (nee Burb), Madeline Fairchild (nee Burb) and Tianna Broke (nee Burb).

Lucy married Jerome Livingston. The marriage became too sedate and commonplace for her, however, and she began having an affair with Neil Trimble. This resulted in the birth of her twins, Alexandra Livingston and Samuel Livingston. Jerome, however, remains ignorant of Lucy's betrayal, as she and Neil broke it off when his dead wife and two sons were resurrected (strangely enough, by Lucy herself). When Lucy worried that she wouldn't be able to give Jerome a child of his own, and the twins a younger sibling, they adopted a dog named Cleo. However, Jerome and Lucy were blessed with a late-in-life daughter named Delilah Livingston.

Allison married Tuck Broke when she discovered that she was pregnant with his child. They lived in a cramped little apartment for many years as Tuck struggled to make ends meet while Allison took care of their first daughter, Afghana Broke (who is currently dating Alessandro Caliente), as well as their second daughter, Jaysefine Broke. Finally, Tuck managed to scrape together enough cash to put down a payment on the former Dreamer residence, just in time for the birth of their third daughter, Rhodey Broke.

David went to Sim State University to study Political Science along with his brother. He met his wife, Rose Macarevich, a Biology classmate of Thomas', in their freshman year, and married her their sophomore year, shortly before the birth of their son, Brehanu Burb. Both David and Rose have just completed their studies.

Thomas went to university at the same time as David. He met his fiancee, Robin Lind, there. They plan to marry in the near future, now that Thomas has completed his studies.

Carolyn was wooed by Matt Broke, but then viciously dumped for her sister. Ashamed of her actions, and too humiliated to face her happily-involved co-triplets, she ran to the safety and comfort of her older sister Lucy's old friend Alex Lothario, who was living alone with his daughter at the time. Alex and Carolyn had no idea that love in the midst of diapers could happen (both were shocked to discover that Carolyn was pregnant with quads, and that Alex was carrying another alien child), but sure enough, love blossomed and they've recently married - reciting their vows amongst the boys' scattered toys and the cramped space in the apartment. They plan to raise Jaden, Lukas, Pacey and Tavian as Alex's own sons.

Madeline fell in love with an elder by the name of Thomas Fairchild. A May-December marriage in the utmost sense of the term, it has nevertheless not stopped them from enjoying the fruits of Madeline's womb: a daughter named Solstice Fairchild and a new son named Canyon Fairchild.

Tianna started dating Matt Broke. Though their relationship went through a rough patch when the truth of his one-night stand with Carolyn came to light, she took him back when she found out that she was pregnant with his child as well. They quickly married and are now raising their son, Hurley Broke together.

The Pleasant-Trimble-Broke Family: (10 households)
Daniel Pleasant and Mary-Sue Pleasant died tragically after having alienated their two daughters from the entire family.

Brandi Broke recently died of old age. She had six sons: Dustin Broke, Beau Broke, twins Skip Broke and Tuck Broke, and twins Kyle Broke and Matt Broke.

Dustin moved in with Angela Pleasant following her departure from the Pleasant home, and they were soon engaged. Their following years were crazy, tragic and hopelessly entangled: Angela suffered a miscarriage soon after their engagement, and in her grief and anger, called off the wedding. She then miscarried a second and third time, and her alienation from Dustin caused him to spend more time than normal scanning the stars through his telescope. His abduction led to the birth of a son, Michael Broke, and all seemed well for a while when Angela took on Michael as a surrogate child. When her fourth miscarriage happened, all hope appeared lost for Dustin and Angela to ever have a normal child - or even the damn wedding. But finally, the wedding happened, and the baby finally happened on pregnancy #5: a little girl named Rachel Broke. However, their attempts to have a second child ended in misery again, with a fifth and sixth miscarriage, and finally, Angela succumbed to the ravages of a difficult pregnancy, dying while pregnant for the eighth time. She was later resurrected by Lucy, and returned to her delighted family, and gave birth to a second little girl, Leah Broke. But, of course, "there's always room for just one more", and Angela suffered yet another miscarriage as little Leah grew into a teenager. Finally, Angela gave birth to twins Esther Broke and Judith Broke.

Lilith Pleasant married Neil Trimble, a man she'd met on her frequent runaways. They lived a relatively uneventful home life with their three sons, Mitchell Trimble, Liam Trimble and Adam Trimble. Then one day, a raging fire claimed the lives of Lilith, Mitchell and Liam. Devastated by their deaths, Neil began a torrid affair with Lucy. But when his mistress resurrected his dead family, he happily returned to life as a family man. In later years, Neil's mind began to wander, and he would accuse Lilith of cheating on him, and often ignored his young daughter Melissa Trimble's desperate pleas for his attention. When Neil died of old age, Lilith was grief-stricken, and a mindless encounter with a coworker gave her a second daughter, Lindsay Trimble.

Beau Broke married Shelby McClennan. They currently have four children: two sets of twins, Jasper Broke and Rosalie Broke, and Cullen Broke and Hale Broke. (*Don't ask. I'd just finished watching New Moon for the third time in theatres.*)

Skip Broke moved in with his girlfriend Gretchen Chin. They were perfectly content to live a solitary life, with their Chihuahua Scout, but have recently married to order to give their new daughter Marcia Broke a proper family life.

Tuck Broke, as previously outlined, married Allison Burb and has three daughters: Afghana, Jaysefine and Rhodey.

Kyle Broke, as previously outlined, married Jody Gonzaga and has two sons: Callum and Korydon.

Matt Broke, as previously outlined, married Tianna Burb and has one legitimate son, Hurley and four illegitimate sons with Carolyn Lothario (nee Burb).

Michael Broke went to university to study Psychology. He met his wife, Naenae Pearson, in the dorms. Their love and marriage produced twin sons, Killian Broke and Xavier Broke. Sadly, Michael lost all three in a house fire his senior year.

Rachel Broke is still single, and has just moved out on her own.

Mitchell Trimble went to university at the same time as his cousin Michael, but he chose to drop out when he met his wife, Emmy Schell. Mitchell and Emmy have just had twins: Leverett Trimble and Vignette Trimble.

Liam and Adam Trimble are both still single, and have also just moved out on their own.
***
Whew! Do you realize that this took me nearly two hours to type up???

beeps

16th Mar 2010, 06:56 AM

Whew! Do you realize that this took me nearly two hours to type up???
I believe it!!! I love how all of your families are so intertwined... maybe too intertwined in some cases *cough*Don*cough* (LOL!) Awesome read though; I hope you'll share more in the future :)

KyleTheArtist

17th Mar 2010, 07:43 PM

I am only playing with the Capps at the moment. It is easier for me to concentrate on my family. I also have a young adult dorm, which consists of the left over teenagers from Veronaville.

ginlynn03

17th Mar 2010, 09:09 PM

Welllllllll......I'm playing with quite a few families in my hood, LaQuest Beach:

Brown: Christian Brown (Mayor) and his wife Alana and their young daughter Christa

Knowles: Keisha and Tanner with their daughters teenage Kayla and toddler Kali

Knowles: Keisha and Tanner's grown son Kevin and his new wife Kinsley

Johnson: Kinsley Knowles' mother Donna Johnson with her teenage son Brian Johnson and her boyfriend DeJuan Foster with is daughter Taesha Foster

White: Ariel White and her boyfriend Joe Carr and their son Kayden Carr

White: Ariel's brother Marshal White and his girlfriend Shamella Reeves

Pace: Small time hustler Derick

Gunner: Tessa Gunner

Coners: Tessa's sister Tabitha Coners and her husband Terrence with their twins Imani and Imara and Terrence's son from a previous marriage Kenny

Carlson: Amanda Carlson and her boyfriend Corbin Gray

Jacquet: Gilbert and his mother with his girlfriend Maddison Rider

Delorosa: Florence

Landgraab IV: Malcolm and his girlfriend Danna Griffen

Tinker: Wanda and her husband Stephen and their daughter Melody

Ramirez: Checo and his wife and daughter

I just added the Bluewater District which is why the families that came with it haven't changed much.....

AlexandraSpears

18th Mar 2010, 04:21 AM

I made my own. And I name them after old cartoon characters.

So--

I started off with the Llewellyn bunch--Rory and his triplet sisters Ingrid and Phoebe. (For those of you who know what I'm referencing, they are triplets in my saga.) And of course Rory's girlfriend Jerrica, whom he married the minute they got into college (safe WooHoo of course).

During their sophomore year, Ingrid invited her college professor, Quentin Benson, to move in with them, whereupon he asked her to marry him and married her right then and there.

Phoebe I'm keeping single. She's Knowledge/Fortune and wants to be Mad Scientist.

At the end of their senior year, I created another Sim, Charlene Thompson. I stopped her aging while she went on the hunt for Mr. Big, whose name here is Gary Komoskos. She finally landed him and married him. When she conceived his child I turned aging on and moved them into my custom neighborhood along with the Llewellyns.

Back to the Llewellyns...Quentin and Ingrid Benson live with Ingrid's sister Phoebe, while Rory and Jerrica have some nice oceanfront property. Gary and Charlene live across the street from the Bensons.

On the same "day" (Thursday), three babies were born--a daughter, Antonia, to Gary and Charlene; a son, Jonathan, to Quentin and Ingrid Benson (Jonathan's aunt had just stepped in the door coming home from work when his mother went into labor, haha); and a son, Ryan, to Rory and Jerrica.

I'm thinking about which cousin I want to pair Antonia off with in the future. I'm flip-flopping here. Both boys are green-eyed blonds, and Antonia, like her father, has black hair, blue eyes, and a darker skin tone (her mother Charlene is a green-eyed redhead).

So--which sounds better--Antonia Benson or Antonia Llewellyn?

amyandmia

18th Mar 2010, 12:47 PM

i have like 7 families i play and write a story about

The Yu famiy My first alphabet legacy, the family now is founder Tom, his daughter Ally, ally's husband John, and their 3 girls Bella, Bree, and Brooke

The Bingo Family A 26 kid challenge, they have 10 kids so far (5 adults, 1 teen,1 kid, and 3 toddlers) them and The Yu's are here http://www.liliheartsims2.piczo.com/?cr=5

The Szczepanek Family a replication of my real-life family, i started out by making my paternal grandparents as kids (along with their siblings) now my dad is a teen, and he has all his cousins and everything! When my dad was a kid i made my mom as a kid, but shes not a teen yet (gotta work on that)

The Meuertos Family ANother Alphabet legacy, this one is my first no-maxmotives family, which is why their last name is a misspelling of the spanish word for dead (i was sure they would die) They are on gen A they have 2 teen daughters named Alice and Ali, and a kid named Angelina Part 1 is here for them (http://sims2and3stories.webs.com/laurasnocheatsims2s.htm)

The Boolprop Family a triple legacy, 3 founders were sisters names Michellle Amanda and Hope, i started when they were kids, and now each one has a child

The Ghoste Family Ghost legacy, founder got married, and had a son and a daughter, then her husband saw a ghost (which means he had to move out) Founder got remarried, and was in the 3rd trimester of a pregnancy when her daughter saw a ghost, and had to leave (but i let her live in an apartment with her father though)

Cent Family snother Alphabet legacy, but this is the last one, the founder has 2 children (anthony and andrew) and a toddler (Alex)

boolprop, Ghoste, and Cent families are here: http://www.themeuertoslegacy.piczo.com/?cr=5

AlexandraSpears

19th Mar 2010, 05:34 PM

Update on my family:

It's Sunday afternoon at the Llewellyn household. Ryan is set to transition to a Teen on Monday evening. Sarah, the toddler, will become a child "tonight." And--their mother has just given birth to twin boys, who will transition to toddlers on Monday evening.

It's going to be a real family circus--remember in the comic strip, it was boy, girl, then two more boys. Poor Sarah is outnumbered! Until she transitions to Child, she's sharing the nursery with her baby brothers Jacob and James. Her parents have lifetime wants of Golden Anniversary and 20 Best Friends and don't have to work, so that makes it a bit easier.

I'm considering having Phoebe, who has just become a Mad Scientist, move from her sister's house to her brother's to help out with her new nephews, since she only works 10 pm to 2 am three days a week.

Is it 8 or 10 Sims you can have on a lot? She should still be able to move in.

Fortunately I made one bedroom big enough for three boys to share, and Sarah has her own. There's a smaller bedroom where the boys can do their homework, plus a basement room that leads out to the beach (I'll have to post pictures) that Phoebe can stay in...I just have to build a bathroom.

ginrouken

19th Mar 2010, 06:01 PM

Is it 8 or 10 Sims you can have on a lot?

Without any hacks, you can have only up to 8 (including unborn babies).

AlexandraSpears

19th Mar 2010, 06:26 PM

Without any hacks, you can have only up to 8 (including unborn babies).

Thanks. I'd heard 8 from some, 10 from others.

Well...I think I'm going to wind up with 7 here. There are already 6 in the family and I'm going to move in the one aunt. She's like a "bounce-around" relative...help with any children, that kind of thing. She's helped one nephew (her sister's son) with homework, she can help her niece (her brother's daughter) when she starts school--her parents are going to have their hands full with the twins.

I might just have her quit her job, since she reached her goal of reaching the top of the Science career. Her brother's a multi-millionaire. She can work on maximizing her Body and Charisma skill points, since she maxed out everything else.

HystericalParoxysm

19th Mar 2010, 06:28 PM

It's definitely 8 sims without hacks. You can have up to 12 total living creatures (that is, 8 sims and 4 pets).

AlexandraSpears

19th Mar 2010, 06:35 PM

It's definitely 8 sims without hacks. You can have up to 12 total living creatures (that is, 8 sims and 4 pets).

Not used to playing large families like this. :) It's a bit of a challenge to me, instead of having 1 or 2 kids. I'm also used to playing Life Stories where you can only have 4 on a lot.

Maranatah

19th Mar 2010, 07:25 PM

I had way too many hoods (and families) in my games so I had to cut it down a bit. Now these are the families, in which I'm planning to concentrate

Nummela: My Legacy family, up to Gen 6 at this point. I really want to get this finished...
Tricoli: My Prosperity/Legacy/BACC, still the only household in that hood
McSkittles: The starter of this family is LL30's Pirate and I LOVE all his lovely kids ^^
Green: My Medieval Legacy-family, still in Gen 2.

Besides these I still have Desiderata valley, Strangetown and Riverblossoms in which I'm playing the neighborhood storyline challenge.

Charmful

19th Mar 2010, 11:22 PM

Currently I'm at a point where the group in University right now are all 2nd cousins (all descendants of my sim self)

To run down the list last names: Newbie, Gilscarbo, Jake, Jacobs, Butler, Nova, Caliente-Henson, Freud, Wheeler, Huffington, Harris, Atteck, English-Chan, Daniels, Jackson

How many generations are you on in five years?! :blink:

aaries16

19th Mar 2010, 11:28 PM

How many generations are you on in five years?! :blink:

I know I should be on like 20 now. But with school and game crashes every now and then and the amount of families in the game, I'm on like 6th generation.

AlexandraSpears

20th Mar 2010, 01:26 PM

My twins have just transitioned to children, and both grew up well (both with Gold aspiration).

For the first time I managed to teach a set of twins walking, potty training, AND talking! I feel like I accomplished something! But I breathed a huge sigh of relief when they became children. First thing they did, have a pillow fight!

Charmful

20th Mar 2010, 05:37 PM

First thing they did, have a pillow fight!

That's adorable! Were they born-in-game twins? Those are always exciting, unexpected and challenging. I have four sets. 2 b/g and 2 b/b.

I had a fake set (I made them as children in CAS and called them 'twins') and they absolutely loved punching each other for fun, just the punch u, punch me game. Now they are YA's and I've gotten pictures of them from every stage playing it, even when visiting home for their mother's birthday they started into it.

AlexandraSpears

20th Mar 2010, 06:00 PM

That's adorable! Were they born-in-game twins? Those are always exciting, unexpected and challenging. I have four sets. 2 b/g and 2 b/b.

Yep, born in game. Their parents were married in college and started having children when they became adults. Currently I have a teen boy, a girl who's a few days from being a teen, then the twin boys.

If I create two Children (or two Teens), lots of times, if I don't want them to be twins, I'll just go into SimPE and change the number of days until Teen. It has to be at least three days' difference, given the length of a pregnancy.

By the time the twins are teens, there will be four teenagers in the house! :rofl:

What's really cute is when twin toddlers Huggle. I think I have some pictures of it.

Charmful

20th Mar 2010, 06:21 PM

What's really cute is when twin toddlers Huggle. I think I have some pictures of it.

Yeah! I've only seen pictures, but I've never caught any of my toddlers do it, or fight over the bottle. I've seen them go dance to stereo music and watch fish though. Toddlers are so cute with their random, uncontrollable actions (that doesn't involve screaming)

aaries16

20th Mar 2010, 06:33 PM

Yeah! I've only seen pictures, but I've never caught any of my toddlers do it, or fight over the bottle. I've seen them go dance to stereo music and watch fish though. Toddlers are so cute with their random, uncontrollable actions (that doesn't involve screaming)

You can control huggle and fight over bottle (be in control of one and click the other and huggle. be in control of the one without the bottle and click on the bottle and fight over bottle). Another cute toddler interaction is when they cuddle the pets. I wish I saw the dance to stereo one more though, and I recently realized that they can watch the fish.

AlexandraSpears

21st Mar 2010, 02:45 AM

You can't click on the stereo to make them dance...you have to direct them to walk or crawl in front of it.

I've never had them fight over the bottle...mostly because I think they're cuter eating mush in their high chairs and there's no chance they'll pick up a spoiled bottle. One of my twins somehow got "stuck," though, and wouldn't eat his mush...so I had Mom get him down and give him a bottle, that helped. Must have been a glitch.

What was really cute was seeing them at the drawing/block table with their older sister. :)

ginrouken

21st Mar 2010, 03:26 PM

You can't click on the stereo to make them dance

Now you can (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,13860.0.html) ;) I love this mod because my toddlers only dance autonomously when I'm not focusing on them, they never dance when I need them to (for pictures/storytelling).

ForeverCamp

14th May 2011, 05:37 AM

Well, just about time for an update with over a year gone by, right? I was reading through my previous post (http://www.modthesims.info/showpost.php?p=3097537&postcount=88) and was busy thinking "Wow, that was a long time ago."

Apparently over the course of the last year (which has included a move to a university 3 hours away and several trips back and forth from home, and a move back home for summer), I have misplaced (I'm not ready to say 'lost') the notebook with the older notes from Pleasantview.

So without further ado, here's the scoop: Pleasantview is now full throttle into Generation 4, with a Gen 5 thrown in there for good measure. They now number 192 playables, spread out over 49 households. Generation 1 (or most of the premades) have completely died off. Generation 2 is pretty much all either mid-life adults and elders.

The Goth-Lothario-Langerak Family:
Alexander Lothario has recently turned into an elder, and is still married to Carolyn Burb-Lothario. They currently have their oldest six children at university, and have another six at home: teenage daughter Palaciada, child quads Apuleya, Elpidio, Laodicea and Polyyxena, and the youngest child, Jirakee. Alexander also had a brief affair with Delilah Livingston-Lothario, who is pregnant with his child.

Caspian Lothario’s life was struck by tragedy: first, his son Benjamin and his daughter Elizabeth disappeared early in their freshman year at Sim State University, and then he was widowed when a house fire killed his wife Christa. After an alien abduction gave Caspian a young daughter, Margaret, he was comforted by old flame Tianna Burb-Broke, and they’ve since married. Caspian is also pregnant again by the aliens.

Caspian and Christa’s surviving son Joseph has graduated university, and recently married sorority girl Brittany Upsnott.

Tirian and Chelsey Lothario are still married. They’re having some financial difficulties, but they’re managing. They have six children: a teenage daughter, Jane, twin child sons, Brandon and Dylan, twin toddler daughters Georgia and Robin, and newborn daughter Lauren.

Aravis Lothario became involved with the man who had forced her to drop out of college, Daniel Dai. Though they never married, they had four children together: twin daughters Faith and Liberty, who are now teens, and two sons, Deacon and Tristan, who are both children. Daniel died recently of illness, something genetic that he had never told Aravis about, until it became evident that the children were also susceptible to the bad gene. Now, Aravis is determined to make the best nurse-mother.

Kaylynn Langerak-Lothario is approaching the end of her life. She still has three teenage daughters at home: Madison, who will be moving out soon enough to begin a new family with her boyfriend, and twins Emily and Olivia, who were born not long after Don’s death.

Herb Langerak married Leah Broke and together they have twin daughters, Avery and Janessa, who are currently children.

Ellen Langerak remained single for some time, focusing her energies on raising her twin boys Devin and Ryan, as well as her ex-roommate’s daughter Lillie Caliente. Then one day she met Michael Broke at a rental unit weekend party and it was love. They married, and now have twin toddlers – Cathleen and Kirkley.

Tyler Lothario married Delilah Livingston, who inherited her parents’ home when her mother Lucy Burb-Livingston passed away. They currently have one young son, Lucien, and though Tyler doesn’t yet realize it, Delilah is pregnant with his adopted brother Alexander’s child.

Jessica Lothario is still single. She’s in the Sim Bin waiting for a place to live in the rotation.

The Caliente-Gonzaga Family:
Fabrizio and Solveig Caliente are still married. They now only have the teenage twins, Aurek and Kent, at home.

Sawyer Caliente married Gordon Nott and moved out. They are awaiting a new residence in the Sim Bin.

Rafael Caliente remarried, to a young socialite named Sandy Fairchild (who is of no relation to Madeline Burb-Fairchild’s late husband). His children with Rose have all grown up and moved out, leaving him to raise a new set of children – teenage daughter Kiara and child son Holden.

Zachary Caliente went to university and married Alexandra Livingston, but both died in under mysterious circumstances on-campus, along with the majority of their housemates.

Alyssa Caliente had her daughter Lillie as a teenager, but later abandoned her in the care of her then-roommate Ellen in pursuit of a carefree life. She regained custody of her now-teenage daughter when it became evident to the courts that she and her fiancée, Matt Broke were in a better financial position to support her child. She and Mat broke up recently, and she’s been left with their three sons, twin toddlers Antony and Cristopher, and infant Emanuel. Lillie does most of the parenting in the family.

Ethan, Sean and Jacob Caliente are all waiting a new place in the Sim Bin.

Giacomo and Sophie Caliente now have six children aged teen and child: their oldest daughter Sunday is on the road to becoming a model scholar, and teenage daughter Afternoon is focused on following in her older sister’s footsteps. Child triplets March, Night and Tuesday are all happy-go-lucky and your average child in Pleasantview. Afternoon’s twin sister November will be discussed later, as she’s become entangled with Pleasantview’s newest scandal.

Alessandro Caliente married his first love Afghana Broke. They have three children: twins Carly and Eric, and Joshua.

Jody Gonzaga-Broke and Kyle Broke have sent their oldest son Callum off to university. That means that they have six children left at home: teenage son Korydon, twins Connor and Kerri, and triplets Caitlin, Keenan and Catrina.

Sarah Gonzaga left home when she became of age, taking her two sons Aleydis and Kiefer with her (the siring of those boys is one of those undercurrent rumours in Pleasantview that never really gets explicitly discussed) and married Brehanu Burb. They’re struggling to make ends meet, which means that sometimes Sarah does some side jobs to bring in enough cash to pay the rent. They recently had twin daughters, Genesis and Tatiana.

Aleydis Gonzaga got his girlfriend Lacey Bertino pregnant – because neither of their families could afford to support both of them and their baby, they’ve married, moved out and are waiting in the Sim Bin for a new house in the next rotation.

The Burb-Broke-Livingston-Fairchild Family:
Samuel Livingston married his university sweetheart Veronica (her maiden name completely slips my mind). They have just welcomed triplets, named in honour of his dead family: Jerome, Alexandra and Lucius.

Allison Burb-Broke had her long marriage fall apart when her husband’s infidelity came to light. She is currently in the Sim Bin, awaiting her turn in the rotation. Right now, she’s contemplating suing for custody of her two youngest daughters before anymore victimizations reach them.

David and Rose Burb both finished university and recently purchased their first house – just in time, because their quads Cainan, Nevan, Reyna and Syrena were getting too big for the basement suite they had been living in. Rose recently gave birth to another son, Jaxson.

Thomas and Robin Burb are also university graduates. They have two daughters still at home: teenager Chantilly and child Poeta. More on Chantilly’s twin sister Leontine later – she’s also entangled in the new Pleasantview scandal.

Madeline Burb-Fairchild was widowed, and is now raising her four children: teenagers Solstice and Canyon, and twin daughters Briar and Tempest.

Tianna Burb-Broke broke up with her husband Matt when it became clear that he was not going to settle down and become a good father figure to their three sons Hurley, Desmond and Fabian. She has now found a good father figure in Caspian Lothario, and Desmond and Fabian are enjoying having a little stepsister to spoil.

Hurley Broke has grown up and is waiting for his turn in the rotation to move into his own place.

The Pleasant-Trimble-Broke Family:
Michael Broke lost his way for some time after the deaths of his first family. After a train wreck of a relationship with Christian Love, Michael felt the tugging of paternal urges. Ellen came along at just the right time, and now Michael is enjoying being a father again. He and his stepson Ryan Langerak are often at odds, given that Ryan is slightly racist against the half-alien residents of Pleasantview.

Rachel Broke has become a modern day Dina Caliente. She’s widely known as the new gold-digger. First, she married Oliver Bertino, having two daughters in the process – teenage Lacey and child Cynthia. Now she’s married old Goopy GilsCarbo (yeah, I’ll bet you were all wondering when Goopy would show up? :p ). She’s just had a baby boy with Goopy – Jeremy.

Lilith Pleasant-Trimble has officially become the second-oldest original resident, after Kaylynn Langerak-Lothario. She’s still working the political system of Pleasantview, and finishing the raising of her teenage daughter Lindsay.
Mitchell and Emmy Trimble recently died in another suspicious circumstance – though they were elderly, and by no means the hardiest couple around, many people are suspecting that their deaths came about when they took a stand against Pleasantview’s new ‘evangelist’. (more on him and his movement later)

Liam and Adam Trimble moved out together, and since that time have split pretty much everything in their lives: right down to their wives. Adam is married to Kelly Tang-Trimble and Liam is married to Rosemarie Kody-Trimble. However, Kelly has two children with each of the brothers: Adam’s children are a son,Caelan, and a daughter, Coralie; Liam has a son, Chevy and a daughter, Camellia.

Elderly Beau Broke has become much feebler after the death of his wife Shelby McLennan-Broke. With all four children out of the house – the younger twins Cullen and Hale have gone off to university, and the older twins Jasper and Rosalie are both married with families – there’s some fear that Beau could not look after himself.

Jasper Broke married Carmen Patch-Broke. They are currently in a rowhouse with their daughter Ariana.

Rosalie Broke married Sinjin Couderc. Because they knew that they wouldn’t be able to afford a larger home for a long time – and they need space, with twin toddlers Amber and Tanner and another baby on the way, Rosalie and Sinjin have decided to move back in with her father and help with the house upkeep, with the thought that they will inherit the home when he passes.

Skip and Gretchen Broke are about the most boring family in Pleasantview. There’s virtually no drama to be seen around there, even with a teenage daughter, Marcia. (I can’t bring myself to force drama onto them. They’re such a cute old couple. :lovestruc )

Tuck Broke ended his marriage with Allison. He then married Michelle Tse. The fact that his teenage daughter Rhodey seems to be completely incapable of enough self-esteem to say “no” has completely escaped his notice, and Michelle has not been helping matters. Currently, Tuck and Michelle have one infant daughter, Alexa, and Rhodey has a toddler, Hayley, by the paper boy Derek, and is pregnant with her brother-in-law Jason’s child. Tuck and Allison’s youngest child, Lazalea also lives with them.

Jaysefine Broke married Jason Menon, her ‘bad-boy’ boyfriend in her teenage years. While she is aware that Jason carries on with others, it isn’t much of an issue for her – she was the one who first pulled her younger sister Rhodey into Jason’s questionable circle of acquaintances. They have an infant daughter, Quinn.

The University Crew: (RECAP – I haven’t reached Sim State yet in my rotation, so these are all new freshmen)
Callum Gonzaga-Broke
Esther and Judith Broke
Cullen and Hale Broke
Navarrah and Calocero Lothario
Jaden, Lukas, Pacey and Tavian Burb
Leverett Trimble

The Brotherhood Families:
Pleasantview was recently taken aback by the arrival of a radical ‘evangelist’ named Andrew Do, working on behalf of a group called the Brotherhood. At first, he didn’t create much of a stir – his messages preached the conservation of family, the pursuit of peace and the respect for the Almighty – a message that the mostly-conservative residents of Pleasantview found soothing.

But then it started getting strange. It started when Andrew Do, an older gentleman, married teenager Vignette Trimble. And then Leontine Burb. And then November Caliente. Before many of Pleasantview’s residents realized the danger, he had sucked in other members of their town and they moved outside town limits, intent on building a secluded paradise for their families. Now, parents are frightened that their teenagers might be the next to succumb to the honeyed, dangerous words of Andrew Do.

Andrew Do has three wives and six children:
Vignette Trimble-Do, the first wife, is the oldest and now an adult, and has a toddler daughter, Adora. Leontine Burb-Do is the youngest of the three, and the second wife – she has infant quads: Brennan, Claire, Isaiah and Joyann. November Caliente-Do is the third wife, and has an infant son, Elliot.

Skylar Gonzaga was Andrew’s first convert. Already a father beforehand, he has remarried. He has two wives and two new children:
Elise Hourvitz-Gonzaga is the first wife. She has infant twin daughters, Colombina and Evangeline. Melissa Trimble-Gonzaga is the second wife, and is currently pregnant.

Teenager Myron Caliente is Andrew’s second convert. Not even quite fully adult yet, Myron already has two wives and three children:
Elizabeth Ng-Caliente, the first wife, has infant triplets: Basil, Carey and Deana. Rosemarie Jitmakusol-Caliente, the second wife is pregnant.

The Newcomers:
There have been two new families moving into Pleasantview:

Castor and Jane Nova chose Pleasantview to settle down in after leaving Sim State right about the time all the mysterious deaths were occurring. They currently manage to scrape together a living, and are raising their daughter, Amy.

Dominique and Jaquelene McNaven moved into Pleasantview with their three children: Hubert, who will be moving out with Madison Lothario very soon, Clara and Aeary. They have had twins Brayton and Pascalle since their arrival in Pleasantview.
^^ (Don’t mind the odd names – this is actually a family that my BFF accidentally created in Pleasantview instead of a blank neighbourhood. Hubert proceeded to woo and impregnate Madison, and then I was like, “Well dang. Now I have to put them in the rotation.”)

feefifofum

18th May 2011, 06:10 PM

I have one family. The Long family. They live in Wildegard. Alone.
O_O

shawnaleigh

21st May 2011, 04:36 PM

I have only two proper families on the go at the moment...

Airlos - Harry and Isabella Airlos, and their girls, Imogen(Teen), Grace(Child), Mollie(Child) and Ava(Toddler).

Atkinson - Lucas and Faith Atkinson, Faith is the oldest child of Harry and Isabella Airlos. Her and Lucas have triplet girls Sariah, Summer and Sofia (Toddlers).

NatteryakToad

13th Dec 2011, 04:13 PM

I have four families which I play at the moment:

The Tomlin Family: Gracie and Max, and their three children: Aadyn (9), Johannah (7 1/2) and Elliott (5 1/2)
The Rooke Family: Abe and Suzi, and their four children: Joseph (8), Ruth (8), Naomi (4) and Miriam (1)
The James Family: Cassie and Nate, and their eight children: Makayla (9), Sasha (9), Jade (8), Jack (6), Derren (4), Aurora (3), Egan (18 months) and Niki (18 months)
The Heath Family: Casey and Amelia, and their three children (oldest and youngest adopted - biological siblings) Hope (9 1/2), Maddison (8 1/2) and Mannie (4)

Briana2425

22nd Dec 2011, 12:47 AM

My favorite family who I made in CAS Adams Family. There's Bryan the father whose LTW is become Captain Hero or Cop they moved to Pleasantview away from Similar City to get away from Drama right wrong. Serena Adams the mother is a stay at home mom while Bryan her husbànd works they have five kids Shawn Adams Jessica Adams-Broke Savannah Adams-Miller Brandon Adams and Shane Adams.
Shawn Adams went to college he loves rock and roll music and made a fraternity /sorority. House to all the people who also loves music he had a thing Roxie Sharpe but that quickly dismantled because he was her boyfriends I think Amos or Aries whatever his name was best friend and he was going to ruin it. He graduated with honors and maxed out creative skill he found a woman Trixy married her they have 3 kids Rocky Adams Mayham Adams and Roxie Adams.
Jessica Adams and Dustin Broke went out since teenage years he broke up with Angela Pleasant for her she didn't know nothing àbout it in college they soon broke up I moved both in a dorm without realizing it Dustin didn't want to give her up and kissed without me playing him. I mean he actually ran to her and kissed her I was OK his want was to propose to her I mean every time it rolled that want popped up so I had him call his añd her relatives and they had a nice time à the beach and he proposed to her. And she said yes after college they gotten married and had 4 kids Sarah Ethan Daniel and David.
Savannah Adams-Miller she as a teenager first went out with Lloyd Miller a CAS his entire family is. They were going strong but his br9ther Chris Miller was always picking on her mean to her without me playing him until I sent them all to college and I realize he liked and was jealous that his brother weñt out with her bit but anyways. But anyways Savannah ended up marrying Chris. Miller and she preggers with baby their first kid together.

frankokomando

22nd Dec 2011, 12:56 AM

In one of my neighborhoods I have only one family so far. :|

Briana2425

22nd Dec 2011, 01:08 AM

Brandon Adams is a teen and going steady with Lucy Burb she goes around calling her Mrs. Adams Lucianna Burb I change her name because Lucy sounds plain to me. shes certain Brandon will propose to her.
Shane Adams is still a kid but he's a womanizer as a kid I think hell be the next Don Lothario but who knows.

Briana2425

28th Dec 2011, 11:44 PM

I'm currently playing the BROKE/JENKINS FAMILY- Brandi Broke-Jenkins is married to a CAS man of mine Timothy Jenkins. Dustin is married with four kids, Skye Jenkins (Timothy daughter whose wife died) is in college with Beau and Bryan Broke (finally) Now in the trailor is Brandi, Timothy, and their two kids Brittany and Micheal Jenkins I'll probably move them out.
THAN IM PLAYING MY STORY NEIGHBORHOOD OCEAN VIEW
HERE THE MAIN CHARATERS FAMILIES
MITCHELL FAMILY- Scott (dad) Serena (mom) Nicolas (long lost half brother who was adopted by another family long story) Shawn (brother) Sydney (main character) Shane (brother) Summer (sister) Simon (brother) and Sarah (sister).
MANUEZ FAMILY- Jay (dad) LuAnne (mom) Jaleya (sister) Jane (main character) Lily (sister) and Lucas (brother).
GONZALEZ FAMILY- Juan (dad) Maria (mom) Nancy (sister) and Malendy (main character).
MARTINEZ/MC'BRIDE- Jason (dad) Natalia (mom) Leslie (main character) Wyatt (brother) and Liam (brother).
JACKSON FAMILY- Antwain (dad) Sherice (mom) Ashanti (main character) Derreon (brother) Tatianna (half sister) Tatiarra (half sister) and Sha'niya (sister).
GOODMAN FAMILY- Tyrone (dad) Katelyn (mom) Stacey (main character) Anna (sister) and T.J. aka Tyrone Jr. (brother).
FREEMAN FAMILY- Charles (dad) Sharlye (mom) Kyle (brother) Ciara (main character) Charlie (brother) and Tina (sister)
WARREN FAMILY- Ethan (dad) Franchesca (step mom) Ally (main character) Eric (half brother) and Erica (half sister).

Zerillirez

29th Dec 2011, 10:37 PM

I have played Strangetown for quite some time now and I have about...14 households. o_o To name a few:

Curious:
Al: Vidcund's son. He is a Knowledge Sim who cares for his family and has an unusual fashion sense (mohawk and black tutu outfit). Had a brief affair with Caden Beaker (Loki and Circe's son) in his teens; is suspected to be secretly gay.
Isolde the Nice Witch: Nervous' first daughter, who unlike her father is incredibly outgoing and has full playful and nice points. She is a Popularity Sim, and is adored by everyone in Strangetown.
Tom: Al & Isolde's oldest son, a Pleasure Sim. He is incredibly bright, but he is lazy and does not care about his schoolwork.
Greg & Miles: Al & Isolde's youngest sons who are twins.

Smith:
Jill: Johnny Smith's little sister. She is a good person at heart, but as a Romance Sim, she pursues who she wants and doesn't let anyone or anything try to stop her. She's slept with many Sims, including Ripp Grunt AND his wife, Jessica Grunt. She got pregnant with Ripp's children Tina and Becky, who are now at school aspiring to be Celebrity Chefs. Ripp (now deceased) knew about Jill's two children, but he didn't know that he was the father.

Smith:
Elton: Chloe Smith's son. He is full of so much life and aspires to be a Professional Party Guest. He loves his wife Liese, who has taught him to be more responsible for his actions, and his children very much.
Liese the Mean Witch: Loki & Circe's daughter, also Caden's twin sister. She's an uptight, grouchy person just like her parents, but she has learned from her husband Elton to lighten up and to have fun because life is too short.
Constantine: Elton and Liese's son, who enjoys getting into mischief with his siblings.
Hannah: Hannah enjoys making crank calls and teasing other Sims like her two brothers, but sometimes she thinks their jokes go too far.
Vincent: Elton and Liese's youngest son. He has the exact personality as Constantine, and they get along excellently.

BEAKER:
Caden: Liese's twin brother. Other than his wife and sister, all he cares about is money. He is especially critical of others and has his nose turned up most of the time. He had a brief affair with Al Curious as a teen, his darkest secret. If anyone found out, his reputation would be ruined! Also, he doesn't get along very well with my Simself...
Wendy: Caden's wife. She is just as money-hungry, nasty, and mean as her husband. The two of them are expecting their first child, I wonder how the baby will turn out...

That was actually pretty fun to do! I should do this for my other 10 households...

Legendary-Taco

31st Dec 2011, 06:31 AM

There are, currently, only 9 households in my pathetic little neighborhood, most of which are populated by members of the Love family.

Love~
Household of Natalie Love and Gabe O'Mackey. Considering they are the parents of about 21 children, I'm not surprised the neighborhood, for the most part, is populated by them. They have three children currently living with them, Luke, a teenager, and newly born twins, Nick & Kimberly. They have five dogs, Grimalkin (Spelling xD), Rudy, Lulu, Kleenex, Poppy, and some other dog :P

O'Mackey~
Jules O'Mackey was pretty much the adoptive daughter of Natalie. When Gabe married Natalie, I brought her in. I first planned to lock her in a room and deprive her of her basic needs, but I grew close to my simmie :D When she grew, she had a baby, Dana, with Kennedy Cox. Ugly babies they make indeed. She lives with her adopted pet Tucker.

Love~
Household of Aaron and Jess. both children of Natalie & Gabe, Jess being the adult and Aaron being the younger brother. At the time, I didn't have the mod which allowed more than ten sims, so I just wanted to rid myself of them.

Fletcher~
A random family I made. Isabelle and her dog, Darcy. This family is pretty much useless xD

Ottomas~
Just wanted to fill up some of the neighborhood, frankly.

Griggs~
Hosuehold of Melony Griggs and her pets, Sarah and Danny Crittur. Don't play this household often :P

Love~
Like most other households, all kids of Natalie & Gabe. Sebastion moved out with Jasmine, a teen, and Kiana, a toddler.

Love~
Formerly the Smiths, I made a random chick named Abbie Smith, whom got married to Desmond Love. Her name is now Abbie Love, and they are the parents of one child, Tyson, with another one on the way. (Don't tell anyone, but the father of the second baby is Desmond's brother ;D)

Love~
There is also some random daughter of Natalie that lives outside of town. She is hideous and is almost an ogre, if not equal. SHE IS DEAD TO ME.

Peni Griffin

4th Jan 2012, 03:54 AM

I miss my sims - an effect I trust will fade soon, or January's gonna be a hard month - so I'll talk about them. What follows is a mix of actual game history, backstory, and my interpretation of game behavior.

The basic backstory of Drama Acres is that a group of sims were held in virtual slavery in the remote mountain village of Hootin Holler for over 100 years by the Mater D Mining Corporation. The Great Unobtainium Mine Disaster (hereinafter referred to as That Day) killed almost the entire town and revealed the horrors of what had been going on. Mater D company assets were deployed in restitution to the surviving families. All the exciting details of the disaster evolved in dialog during the course of play.

Estic. When the game opened, this family consisted of two sims: Madge Estic (Fortune) and her boy Dom (Family), who moved into a house built for them by the Simulated Housing Company at 1 Poore Street. Madge had done drudge work in the administrative offices of the mine. When the disaster began, she was left locked in one of the offices while the Suits escaped in their helicopters. She was let out by the two miners sent to warn the town and was instrumental in rescuing some of the few survivors, who included her youngest son, Dom, who had not started working in the mines yet. A hard-edged, impatient, and canny woman, she took advantage of every opportunity to educate herself well enough to get employed in the medical field, and though it's unlikely she will ever attain her goal of becoming a Chief of Staff, she has done surprisingly well and greatly enjoys her work. Shortly after sending Dom off to college, she married a second time to a man she met at Lucky Shack Cards and Drink; a representative of the old-money Ryan family so wealthy he considers going to parties and collecting stock tips to be a career. (Mr. Big, in short.) Her relationship with Dom's father was not a particularly satisfactory one, but she insisted on Brady's taking her late husband's name when she married him, anyway. She had no desire to have another child, but Brady - who is much younger than her - was deceptive about his fertility status and she found herself pregnant about the same time that Dom got engaged at college. She left most of the child care to Brady.

Dom was an uninspired student, but he got engaged to a young lady with a trust fund, Maddy Moiselle. Alas, Maddy's mother, a high-powered lawyer, led the defense team for the Mater D executives. She disowned Maddy and has never been seen, and it took quite some time for Madge to warm up to Maddy; nor has she made friends with her grandchildren. However, finding the original house to be too small and inconvenient, she gave it to Dom on graduation and she, Brady, and little Margaret moved into a new house on Easy Street, where Margaret grew up to be friends with her oldest nephew. Now that Margaret (Popularity) is at college, where she pledged Tri Var, Brady is finding the afternoons long, and attempts to distract himself from the temptations of the Diva (with whom he had an affair) by writing romance novels.

Dom's family, meanwhile, is thriving. He and Maddy have had their planned three children - Dominic (Family), Maddox (Knowledge), and Madeleine (Grow up). Dom works hard in the Show Business Career. When Madeleine gets to be a teen, Maddy may get a job; but they are also considering a fourth child. Dominic, whose backyard band frequently performs at Doc Alan's and the stage at Drama Acres Park, has already had his heart broken once and is now dating a younger girl who thinks the world of him, while Maddox has started dating his best friend from elementary school. Madeleine is shy and has few friends, despite her brothers' best efforts to include her in their activities. This is one of those houses the teens invade after school to eat up all the food. Maddy and Dom have substantially remodeled it to accommodate their lifestyle.

Munny - Madge's younger sister Mary Munny moved into a two-bedroom ranch house across from her at 2 Poore Street. It was Mary's husband, Frank, who first realized that the pattern of destruction was threatening the main settlement of Hootin Holler; therefore, Frank (a work leader) redirected efforts away from getting out and toward preventing or at least delaying the collapse of the mountain underneath their families. At the same time, he dispatched his younger son, Ernest, and Greg, another boy who had recently begun work in the mine, to find a way out and evacuate the settlement. It was they who let Madge out. Unfortunately, Mary's toddler daughter Lira was hiding under the house; Ernest and the other boy managed to drag her out, but the house collapsed and they were trapped underneath (while Madge dragged Mary, kicking and screaming, and Dom carried Lira, down the mountain) until George and Gracie Newson, journalists who lived near the Mater D holdings, arrived and managed to extricate them. Ernest and Greg were the last people to see the Newsons alive, but could not go with them because Greg had broken his leg and it was all they could do to get the two of them down. The rescued Lira, alas, who had always been a sickly child, died that night of Unobtainium dust in the lungs.

Mary (Romance), with natural musical talent and considerable charm, has forged a startlingly successful career out of the wreck of her life. She loved Frank a great deal, but she has an ardent temperament, and he - didn't. It didn't take her long after Ernest went to college to discover how easy and relatively painless it was to charm younger men into her bed. She'd feel unfaithful if she remarried, and would never have looked (well, maybe looked) at any of them had Frank lived, but - he didn't live, and he'd want her to be happy. But the only really important men in her life are Ernest and her grandsons, Frank and Mark. Even after expanding her house considerably and decorating it in extravagant and dubious taste, giving expensive presents, and endowing a stage and instruments for Drama Acres Park, she has more money than she knows what to do with.

Ernest (Fortune and my favorite sim ever), for his part, turned out to be a natural monogamist. For genetic reasons, prior to That Day it was recognized that his only decent shot at having any viable kids would be to marry Sage Ann Onions. After That Day, when the social workers looked at the intertwined family trees of the survivors, it was universally recommended that none of the survivors marry any other survivors. But as far as Ernest was concerned, he and Sage Ann were already married, and that was that. He convinced her to feel the same while they were at college. However, the genetic danger was real, so he got his tubes tied. He and Sage Ann focused on their careers. She went into journalism, and he set out to turn Unobtainium mining into a safe enterprise. They built their house on a huge lot on Easy Street, which he picked out and started collecting materials for when he was 12, before there was an Easy Street. One night he was abducted and impregnated by aliens, resulting directly in the birth of his son Frank (Popularity) and indirectly in that of his son Mark (Knowledge). It turns out the aliens untied his tubes. Fortunately Mark turned out all right, taking after his mother's side of the family.

Ernest and Sage Ann have built an excellent life for themselves, but, being very shy, are unassuming about it. Sage Ann presides over a media empire and Ernest is CEO of a mining conglomerate with an unheard of safety record; yet he still drives himself to work in his truck and the kids go to public school. They had a live-in help, a Simdian simmigrant, for a time, until she died, and always treated her like a supplementary relative. Ernest is proud of his mother and always stands ready to defend her reputation. He has caught Brady Estic cheating on his Aunt Madge, and is livid about it. Mark and Frank, on the other hand, are wildly outgoing, and Frank in particular stands up for all the funny-looking kids who get picked on at school. Many of whom are his relatives, more or less. All that inbreeding made for some funny-looking people.

Aerius At 3 Poore Street, Hilary Aerius (Pleasure) moved into a two-bedroom house with her son Greg (Popularity), the one who broke his leg rescuing Lira Munny. Unlike other survivors, Hilary was widowed long before That Day, when her husband Gregor was killed in a mining accident. She raised Greg by herself until he was old enough to go into the mine. The modern world bewildered her, but she set out to enjoy it as well as she could. She remained exceptionally close to Greg, even after he went to college, so much so that he moved back in with her after graduation. This bewildered his boyfriend Ben Gay (Popularity), a product of the foster care system who didn't know his parents and didn't get along with his sister. However, after awhile he married Greg anyway and moved in. They adopted a toddler, John Amos (Family) and became one of the most close-knit families in Drama Acres; certainly they are the only one still confined to the lot they started in! Hilary died a classic hula death and was much mourned, even by Ben, who grew to love her as much as Greg and John Amos did. Greg is currently coaching his old team, the Llamas, and Ben is a popular musician, who has worked closely with Mary Munny and whose solo career is really taking off. John Amos is about to start high school, is in his bff Dominic's band, and dates the girl he dreams of marrying. Their house is party central, and practically the only place all of their old frat brothers will agree to meet without animosity.

Curian At 4 Poore Street, Pierre Curian (Knowledge) survived because he agreed to slack off work and go fishing with his brother-in-law. His wife Marie (Knowledge/Family) and daughter Eppie (Pleasure) were likewise not in the main part of Hootin Holler, but on the fringes, on what is now Poore Street, helping put together the hope chest for her niece Sage Ann's marriage to Ernest. Marie never having been very fertile, this was the entirety of their immediate family, and they know just how lucky they were. Eppie went to college, though not thrilled at the prospect, while Pierre and Marie explored the options provided by this strange new world in which they found themselves. Pierre and Marie are fond of each other almost to the entire exclusion of the rest of the world; and they never troubled to use birth control due to Marie's low fertility. The result is two sons born since That Day: Paul (Knowledge/Pleasure), currently at Sim State, and Marius (Romance), who has just started middle school. Pierre recently became a game designer and Marie is a hostage negotiator.

Eppie lives catty-corner across the street from them and supports herself writing restaurant guides, while her wife Tiffany (Knowledge/Family) is a UFO investigator. Tiffany, growing impatient with Eppie's reluctance to adopt, recently arranged an artificial insemination with a sympathetic Greg Aerius, who is always ready to oblige a friend. Paul will in all probability move back in at 4 Poore Street when he graduates, to look after Pierre and Marie in their declining years and start a family with his high school sweetheart, a Simdinavian Simmigrant.

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And it's time to go wash my hair. I have 46 households and these descriptions only cover 7 of them, so I could be inflicting this on y'all for awhile. :faceslap:

Peni Griffin

5th Jan 2012, 04:36 AM

And I'm back; double-posting rather than editing because I figure in this instance double posting is moderately less annoying that creating a single post that won't fit on one page. Yes, I'm long-winded. But nobody actually has to read this stuff. I'm at least partly doing it to decant it out of my head - if I write stuff down, I can stop thinking it.

Onions - At 6 Poore Street, the corner of Hillside Drive, stands one of only two houses surviving from the Bad Old Days of Hootin Holler, the Onions cabin. Red Onions (Knowledge) built it for his bride - she wanted to be far away from the mines, he wanted to be far away from his father-in-law, and her brother had already built a cabin down here, so he erected a sturdy plank house for her and painted it bright red. Though it has added several rooms and a second story since then, it is still bright red; and it saved a number of lives on That Day.

Although Red's wife Livva Ann (Pleasure/Family) comes from the notoriously fertile Hawkins clan, they only had one child - their daughter Sage Ann. Red and Livva Ann always rather resented the fact that, though Sage Ann (Knowledge/Family) had three or four safe matches she could have chosen from on growing up, she was the only possible match in their age cohort for Ernest Munny. They had no objection to Ernest, per se, just to their daughter's lack of choice in the matter. Red never could get along with his father, either, Frank being a workaholic with a vast fund of off-putting reserve. Hard worker, though. On That Day, things were gearing up for the imminent nuptials, and Red invited both his brothers-in-law, Pierre Curian and Goz Hawkins, and Frank to go fishing with him and stock up on food for the big event. Pierre and Goz accepted, and lived; Frank declined, and died. Red carried around the worst set of survival guilt in the hood for a long time, because of that. He couldn't help feeling that if he'd worked a little harder to be friends with Frank, he might still be alive. Making the guilt worse, he and Livva Ann also couldn't help being pleased that the opening of the wider genetic world freed Sage Ann to please herself. In the end, of course, she chose Ernest anyway - but at least it was her choice.

Red, like Madge Estic, has undergone intense self-study and qualified as a physician; advancing further than her both because of his excellent luck with chance cards, I mean his capacity to genuinely connect with his patients, and because he had the great good fortune of being personal physician to the first pregnant man in the area. Not only was he able to learn by direct observation, but he came into contact with experts in a wide variety of specialties, from each of whom he learned a great deal. This experience made him the de facto expert on the subject in the region, making him the physician of choice for each subsequent abductee, and he has enough material for several papers on the subject.

Livva Ann never looked for a job. She conceived a second child after That Day, a son named Oliver (Family/Popularity), who went into politics after graduating from Sim State and marrying the granddaughter of his sister's live-in help. His wife Billie (Knowledge) grew up in Simdia and has a hard time adjusting to Simerican gender roles. They have moved into the red house, in accordance with Hootin Holler custom, though so far the Old Folks don't need much looking after. Red intimidates her, but she and Livva Ann get along famously, and Billie has started their family with a daughter, Pearl.

And the Hawkinses will have to wait for another day, because there's just so many of them.

DasRabennest

5th Jan 2012, 09:40 PM

Sorry for just fangirling over here but Peni, I really love reading about Drama Acres and am looking forward to hearing more about the Hawkinses especially! ;)

DasRabennest, hoping to once have her game as interesting as yours...

Peni Griffin

6th Jan 2012, 03:16 AM

You have no idea how much that feeds my ego, Rabennest! Thank you. I ought to be trying to make my sims less interesting, as they take up space in a part of my brain that's supposed to be making characters and stories there's some possibility of people paying me to read.

Anyway, careful what you wish for.
Hawkins - Immediately next door to the Onions house is the other surviving Hootin Holler cabin, Hawkins Prime. The Patriarch of the Hawkins family, Goz (Family), at first was just one of many sons of old Swainson Hawkins, and not the most promising one at that. He married to Ima Poore (the Poore family, after whom the street is named, was wiped out entirely That Day); but despite all the care he lavished on her, Ima died while pregnant. Goz, broken-hearted, used to retreat from the main part of Hootin Holler all the way down to the fringes to fish. It was at his favorite fishing hole that he encountered his future second wife, the much-younger Kitty Munny (Family), little sister of Hilary Aerius, skinny-dipping.

What Goz didn't know (and never will) was that Kitty was actually trying to wash off an unpleasant encounter with one of the Suits. She knew if her family found out what had been done to her, they would find a way to kill the Suit - and that would just multiply trouble. When she saw Goz, she said to herself "That's what I need," and rose up out of the water at him to make him forget all about fish. She has convinced herself that the resultant child really is Goz's, though she resembles him in no particular. When they married, Kitty told Goz she didn't want to live in a place that reminded him of anyone but her, so the bank of the fishing hole seemed the logical place to build new; it was this fortuitous placement, and Goz's agreeing to go fishing with Red That Day, that saved this entire branch of the Hawkins family.

The defining feature of the Hawkins family is an overwhelming attractiveness; despite the fact that most of them range, by conventional standards, from "plain as a mud fence" to "ugly as the inside of a dog's mouth." This stems from two sources. The first has been identified by geneticists as a mutation for a pheremone much stronger than normal sim pheremones. The other comes down to education and attitude. Goz's talent for teaching, prior to That Day, had no outlet but his family; and one of the things he taught may be broadly described as the Art of Love. Due to the conditions under which they grew up, it was impossible for Hootin Holler families to maintain many of the taboos still common in the outside world which mitigate against this particular kind of intergenerational instruction. Goz and Kitty's overt and demonstrative affection for each other set an example which each of their children has followed in his or her own way.

Goz and Kitty channeled their survival guilt into a concentrated attempt to make enough Hawkinses to replace those who died That Day. This was of course impossible, and also placed strain on the family's resources. However, despite his lack of formal education, Goz's teaching talent was revealed when he took a job as playground monitor, and he soon found a peculiar place in the hierarchy of the Drama Acres Public School system. This has not been uncontroversial, especially since the sorry spectacles he'd see in the high school parking lot and the dismal state of affairs revealed in his offspring's woohoo ed curriculum led him to become a vocal advocate for woohoo ed reform, basing his philosophy of change on the maxim that "love makes babies." He's currently retired from a position created for him, Honorary Senior Professor of Woohoo Education and Ethics at Sim State. He never spoke to a lecture hall that was less than packed. But he's really too old for that now and is glad to stay home canoodling his wife.

Kitty, of course, had babies. She's a bit of a terror to her sons- and daughters-in-law, not one of whom is really good enough for her children; but it's not for her to meddle, no sirree!

The oldest of these children, Sadie (Romance/Family), long ago figured out the secret of her birth and even got her mother to admit to the event - in private. Sadie is by profession an athlete, whose style and charisma contributed largely to the recent resurgence of interest in women's basketbase. Like her parents, she considers marriage a sacred bond. That's why she avoided it for so long in favor of high-quality promiscuity. She has always been paranoid about birth control, and that she had good reason was demonstrated when she conceived even though she was on the Pill - omitting one of her redundant methods one time was enough to do the trick. Fortunately, the father was her favorite boyfriend, and also the second alien pregnancy in the hood, so he needed to marry as much as she did.

This man, Clovis Point, is a teammate of Greg's, and the only close friend Ernest Munny made at college. The strange friendship between the campus dog and Mr. Sage-Ann-or-Nobody was strained by Clovis's becoming one of the young men Mary disported herself with; but since Clovis's abduction and impregnation with Frank's half-sister Andice all has been mended.

Despite some hiccups, and her insistence on living downtown beyond the gravitational pull of her family, Sadie is still very close with the other teens she went to college with - Dom, Ernest, Greg, Eppie, and Sage Ann - and since the birth of her son Lance she has started making friends with some of her brothers and sisters, who have tended to resent her for never coming around when they were growing up.

Cooper (Family/Knowledge) is the only Hootin Holler offspring to refuse to take advantage of the opportunity to go to college, since he felt at the time that his family needed him. Despite the concentrated efforts of most of his female classmates (especially the blondes; I swear every blonde teen in the townie pool followed him home), he dated little in high school, only going steady during his senior year. After he graduated and his girlfriend went on to Sim State, he began seeing and eventually married Ginger Newson, who had similarly foregone college for the sake of her family. He moved into their household at Newson's Corner, where he had considerable quiet influence on his sisters- and brothers-in-law, and probably saved the high-strung Ginger from nervous collapse. Cooper is the most successful third-grade teacher Drama Acres has ever seen, and sees no need to progress further than that - kid-wrangling is what he's good at, and it covers the bills. He and Ginger have had three children so far: George (Family), Gracie (Knowledge), and Ginevra (Grow Up).

Harris (Fortune/Family)is the sweetest, sexiest, ugliest man in the Drama Acres MSA. He came perilously close to flunking out of school, but built his grades up through sheer hard work and persistence, simultaneously acting as primary caregiver for one of his little sisters and becoming the major contact point of the Hawkins family with their brave new world. At Sim State, he quickly became known as the guy who knew all about women, dating, and woohoo, and found himself advising the entire frat and some of the pep squad on things he felt they really should have known by that time. He himself dated only Gabriella Newson, whom he married on graduation. With the advice and support of his brother-in-law Gavin and his cousin Ernest, he founded Dateanalysis, the premiere online resource for the friendless, dateless, and clueless. He often gives personal advice to the clients he feel need it most. His business has since expanded in a number of ways, but being a verifiable Business Tycoon doesn't distract him from his primary concern, which is making sure that his family is safe and happy. Due to the reluctance of his wife to get pregnant a second time, he has only one son, Harlan (Popularity), though he recently adopted a toddler, Mary Ann, and spends a lot of time peering, with equal parts hope and apprehension, through the biggest telescope money can buy.

Merlin (Knowledge/Family) completed the Hawkins sweep of the Newson women by marrying Georgia, who so far has not gotten pregnant. This is not Merlin's fault, though - she won't go off birth control, and Merlin won't pressure her. He also owns a large telescope and peers through it diligently, having a theory that it may be possible to summon aliens. Although his stellar record at Sim State qualifies him for any number of positions, he has yet to receive a satisfactory offer from a research lab, so he stays home making a particular study of Unobtainium-based mutations in the local flora and fauna. It doesn't bother him in the least that his wife brings in all the money - she found the job she wanted and she's happy, and what more does anybody want than a happy wife?

Pigeon (Fortune/Family), the first child born since That Day, developed slowly at first, but Harris's dedicated care saw her through. Since Sadie removed herself from the family circle, it was up to Pigeon, universally known in the family as "Baby Girl," to define what being a Hawkins woman means in the post-disaster world. Though this is a daunting prospect for a growing girl, Pigeon rose to the challenge, and only Ezekial Gavigan knows how hard it was for her to be consistently what her family needed her to be. Most of her family frowns on and is bewildered by her choice of Ezekial as a husband, as she could have had absolutely anybody she cared to crook her finger at and he's jealous, grouchy, and often bad-tempered, especially to people (other than Harris, who gets a free pass) who call her Baby Girl. In fact it is just this grouchiness she likes - he never directs it at her, and around him, she doesn't have to be perfect all the time. Pigeon doesn't mind that all the men around her lust after her in their hearts. Mostly, she take it as her due and doesn't do anything to encourage it, because that would be mean. When she graduated, Pigeon came home to look after the Old Folks, and Ezekial took the Hawkins name and joined her. They are fixing up the old cabin, which expanded willy-nilly over the years, into something more convenient and attractive. Their first child, Dove, is almost ready to crawl.

Sparrow (Family/Romance) is a semester away from graduating Sim State. Although boys flocked after her in high school, she only ever permitted one to get close to her. When she went to college, she discovered that she had a lot more in common with her oldest sister than she really wanted to; like Sadie, she enjoys the power her combination of pheremones and know-how allows her to wield over men - all men, anytime, anywhere. The young man who interested her enough to date, however, was raised in a lab as an experiment and proved both woefully ignorant and willfully reluctant to put in the amount of work necessary to come up to her standards, and when her high school boyfriend arrived, she found herself drawn back toward him. When Alon actually cheated on her, Sparrow unceremoniously dumped him and took up with Gerry again, but it is far from clear to her where she should go from here.

The twins, Marsha (Knowledge) and Harriet (Family) were born on the edge of the fishing hole, and are a big part of Sparrow's motivation for not dating sooner in high school. Twins are energy-intensive for the whole family! Marsha wishes to follow Cousin Sage Ann's footsteps into journalism and Harriet to be a teacher. They dated Jeremiah Gavigan and Ted Ottomas, who are also twins, throughout high school and confidently expect to stay with them all through college and marry them afterward to continue the spread of Hawkins-based households throughout Drama Acres. They have just left for Sim State, where they'll stay at Alma Mater House with Sparrow, Paul, and George. Compared to earlier Hawkins girls, the road before them appears delightfully smooth - all the hard trailblazing has been done.

This may not be true for the youngest, Kestrel (Fortune). She has yet to see a single boy who attracts her. Girls, on the other hand...And she sometimes wishes Sims2 had such a sport as softball. However, she's not going to worry about that right now. She is much more interested in taking care of Dove and hanging out with her nephew Harlan and her cousins (to a greater or lesser degree) Mark, Frank, and Marius.

That completes the tally of the core families, and brings us up to 11 households out of 46. Next up - Newsons' Corner!

Peni Griffin

6th Jan 2012, 07:25 PM

Newson - Poore Street extends all the way past the edges of the original territory closed off by the Mater D Corporation to dead-end with doglegged Farm Road. On That Day, the only building on Farm Road was the old farmhouse which investigative journalists George and Gracie Newson had bought to raise their huge adopted family in. (I know Mom Newson is identified as "Gloria" in Ginger's bio, but I have never been able to think of the parents of my Newsons by any names but George and Gracie.) The Newsons were often criticized for becoming too involved in the stories they investigated together, as illustrated by their adoption of six children during the course of their exposé of the weaknesses of the child welfare system. They chose the house on Farm Road at least in part because they smelled a huge story in the mysterious comings and goings, complicated bookkeeping, and inaccessibility of the area real estate holdings of the Mater D Mining Corporation, whose stranglehold on the domestic production of Unobtainium made them nearly untouchable. So when the underground rumblings, the unprecedented earthquake, and the simultaneous liftoff of every one of Mater D's helicopters occurred, they were ready. Grabbing their equipment, they told the teens, Ginger (Family) and Gavin (Fortune), to look after their little brothers and sisters, hopped into their ATV, and roared across country into oblivion.

Veterans of execrable foster care, Gavin and Ginger - especially Gavin - did not trust grownups. Not any grownups; certainly not the social workers, and absolutely not those Hootin Holler folks who kept coming around offering to "help." Yeah, right. What business did that lot have to be alive when George and Gracie were, probably, dead? (It took them a long time to face reality on this point - no bodies, after all.) They were determined to take care of everything, and keep the younger kids out of foster care, themselves; and they nearly broke their hearts trying. Not until long afterward did they realize how much of what success they did have was the result of the Hootin Holler survivors running interference for them with the social workers, or how much better off they would have been allowing Kitty, Hilary, or Livva Ann to babysit the twins instead of hiring the nanny, who scarred them all for life.

I know nannies are generally a bad lot but this one was unbelievable - fussing over Garrett, ignoring Georgia, waking them up when they slept in order to trap them in high chairs, feeding them when they needed diaper changes, and strewing the entire house with baby bottles. She never cooked, cleaned, or played with Georgia, though she would play with and talk to Garrett. They'd both be screaming for a diaper change and she'd get Garrett, play with him while Georgia hollered, set him in the high chair, bring him a bottle, take him out of the high chair before he could drink it, bring him another bottle, then change Georgia and drop her on the floor upstairs before heading down to interrupt Garrett happily playing with his bunny, while Georgia (naturally) blocked the stairs screaming, and forcing the nanny to throw routing fits when she finally decided to take Georgia a bottle before she starved. Ginger and Gavin's grades would probably have been better had they skipped school on alternate days to look after the twins rather than hiring her; the environment score would certainly have been better. Gavin might even have been able to keep his after-school job, instead of losing it when he missed the car pool and then pulled an F. The entire family have sworn never to hire another nanny, no matter what they have to give up to prevent it.

The collapse of the entire family was prevented by a) the twins growing to child (they fired the Nanny from Hell immediately), b) their close proximity to Drama Acres Park, where they all got fit and rescued their fun scores in the swimming pool (Gavin was addicted to midnight swims for awhile there), and c) Gabriella (she and Gallagher having astoundingly high IQs despite their disadvantages) being assigned to tutor Harris Hawkins and bringing him home with her after school. Not even Gavin, over the long haul, could displace the sense of grievance over the loss of George and Gracie onto placid, pie-sweet Harris, who was soon best friends with Gabriella and Gallagher, and had introduced Merlin and Pigeon/Baby Girl to the twins.

From this point on, things began looking up for the younger Newsons - but not for Gavin and Ginger, who continued trying to do everything themselves instead of delegating responsibilities. Ginger and Georgia were constantly at odds, and Ginger didn't graduate. Gavin barely graduated, and was grimly settling in to look for a low-paying job, when Ginger lit into him and pushed him, at the last possible minute, to take the opportunity presented by the Alma Mater Grant for the survivors of the disaster, and go to college.

This decision changed his life. For one thing, he moved into the dorm with Ernest, Sage Ann, and Sadie, shortly before Ernest and Sage Ann moved out to their own residence, and was astounded by the welcome he got. George and Gracie's success pulling Ernest and Greg out of the ruins of the Munny cabin, and their valiant but futile, fatal attempt to rescue someone from the mine itself, made the Newsons de facto "one of us" rather than "Downslopers" (the generic Hootin Holler term for anyone from the outside world). Ernest took Gavin over to the frat to meet Greg, so they could tell him about their brief acquaintance with his parents without the other survivors hearing things that it wouldn't make them any happier to know, helped him sort out his major and get his first decent grades, and became both the first friend he ever had, and his major role model.

Meanwhile, back at the farmhouse, Ginger was close to a nervous breakdown, from which she managed to save herself by impulsively adopting a cat. Despite her failure to graduate, she managed to get a file clerk job in the office of Don Miguel, the lawyer who had prosecuted the Mater D executives and now acted as a trustee of the restitution funds and Alma Mater Grant. But her relationship with the younger kids, particularly Georgia, was terrible, and she lived in a constant state of near nervous collapse. Every little thing made her cry. She felt that nobody understood how much it had cost her to push Gavin to go to college and leave her to manage things, that she'd never have a life of her own, and so on. She hit her lowest point on a visit to the Hawkins family, when she got into a shoving match with Georgia and then, when Cooper tried to calm her down, bit his head off and shoved him. And he just stood there and took it. The next time he came over she wanted to crawl under a rock and die, she was so embarrassed, but he acted like it hadn't happened. He even asked her out, and they talked about the college thing, and how to balance responsibility toward your family and toward yourself, and all the things that nobody else she knew understood at all. So, she married him; and the upward trend of the Newson fortunes dates from that day.

Gavin, who still took everything way too seriously, took it on himself to be the one to break it to Cooper's old girlfriend Naenae Straight (Family/Fortune), who was at the sorority and still carried a visible torch for him (Hawkinses are hard to get over), when he got married, when Ginger got pregnant, and when George was born. Naenae pushed Gavin further out of his shell, and realized (in a mirrored arc with Cooper, who realized the same thing about Ginger) that Gavin needed her in a way Cooper never would have. The emotional fragility of the two oldest Newsons requires a steady, sturdy partner; and Naenae, like Cooper, needs to be needed.

Naenae and Gavin married on graduation and built a house across Farm Road from Ginger and Cooper. Naenae and Ginger are friends, but Gavin feels (not without justification) that Cooper judges him and finds him wanting. And Cooper, though he'd as soon cut off his hand as say so, doesn't figure Gavin's much account, standing ready to swoop in any time Naenae and the kids need him to. He particularly thinks it's silly that Naenae is putting off getting a job out of deference to Gavin's "no nanny" policy. Yes, Ginger quit her job when she got pregnant with George, but that was because she didn't like her job. If she'd liked it, Cooper would have been the one to stay home, and he doesn't see where Gavin gets off not being the one making the sacrifice.

Gavin, with a loan from Ernest, started an employment agency for disadvantaged teens, which has since expanded into vocational education, daycare, and other related fields. Naenae does financial consulting from home while raising their daughters, Annie (Family) and Alma (Grow Up), and has recently gotten pregnant again. And if she still dreams about Cooper once in awhile - well, dreams hurt nobody. Annie, who just started middle school, is already dating Maddox Moiselle, and may, by being available as a babysitter, enable her mother to finally enter the workforce when the current embryo grows to child. Naenae just hopes she's not unemployable by that time. Gavin hopes this last kid will be a boy, so he can name him Ernie. Naenae says a daughter will be named Ernestine over her dead body, so if he's going to honor is hero, he needs a boy.

Gabriella (Knowledge) married Harris, and stays happily home pursuing her varied interests. Her literary science fiction novel, Alien Nation, was well-received, but she is continually challenging herself. Her next novel is an animal story for young people, the toughest, most rewarding audience. On the one hand, she didn't much like being pregnant; on the other hand, it gets to her when she sees Harris interacting with other people's children, knowing that he wants more of his own, but will never even hint that she should have them for his sake.

Gallagher (Family) is even brighter than Gabriella, but intellectual work has always been so easy for him that it's hard for him to care about it. All he really wants is a happy, secure, stable family to make up for all that youthful trauma. He married Simdinavian simmigrant Minnie Skirt (Family), who he met at college, and is working as a judge while she is stay-at-home mother for their children Minerva (Grow-Up, but I'm pretty sure she's Fortune at heart) and Eugene, who is still a toddler. They also plan to have a total of three children, and have built their house next door to Ginger and Cooper.

Georgia (Knowledge/Popularity) married Merlin Hawkins and has rocketed up the ranks of professional gamers. She and Ginger settled their differences long ago, and she takes a particular interest in her nephew George, since he was born while she was running late for the bus (she almost always was late for the bus, and walked to school as often as not; she didn't really get into learning till junior year of college) and Ginger was exhausted, so she skipped school to look after him. She'll have kids when she's good and ready, not a moment before, thank you.

Garrett (Knowledge/Pleasure) wasn't exactly spoiled, but he was easily the most feckless Newson. He grew up accustomed to thinking that everybody else was more competent than him, and he should just leave stuff to them. It was Cooper who first started demanding things of him and Georgia by treating things like exploding sinks as "learning opportunities" and expecting him to be able to figure out things on his own. Probably the most significant event of his high school years was his date with Baby Girl Hawkins. She was a freshman and he was a senior, but she ambush-dated him to try out her command of the Hawkins specialty. Being chosen by Pigeon for her first kiss was enough to make any guy think better of himself, and for awhile dating was his primary course of study at Sim State. Living cheek-by-jowl with his best friend, the studious Merlin, however, introduced him to the fun of learning; and when Lourdes Iana (Family/Romance) treated him as someone she could rely on, he found himself wanting to be that person. He and Lourdes live on the remaining corner of Poore and Farm, in a small house with a large fishpond, where they have ready access to family help from all directions. Though he published one book while in college, "The House at Olddaughter's Corner," he's now working the Adventurer career while pregnant Lourdes stays home with their toddler Guadalupe. He's consulting with Cooper on the problem of adding a second story, because Lourdes wants lots of children, and he hadn't counted on that when he purchased the lot.

Due to the concentration of Newsons around the old farmhouse, the area between the dogleg and the intersection is now known locally as "Newsons' Corners." That leaves eight downsloper families in Drama Acres proper before I describe the Downtowners; I wonder if I can fit eight families into one post?

Peni Griffin

7th Jan 2012, 05:38 PM

And the answer is, Just Barely.
Gavigan - Nathan (Fortune/Pleasure) and Mary (Family) Gavigan were the first family to move to the subdivision of Drama Acres after it opened up. They knew nothing about the local history, only that the house was cute and adjacent to the park. Mary was better at producing children than Nathan was at holding down a job, and the house was a disaster. Isaiah (Popularity) became firm friends with Harris in elementary school, and found him the greatest asset a frat boy could have at Sim State. Thanks to Harris's advice, he landed Sophie Miguel (Fortune/Family), abrasive daughter of a high-powered lawyer. Sophie's dad built her a fine big house directly across the street, and Isaiah had absorbed too many Hawkins values not to know what the right thing to do was. Sophie deals with sharing space with her in-laws amazingly well. Nathan is retired with a part-time job and Mary is a big help with the grandchildren, Miguel (Pleasure) and Deborah (Baby). Isaiah's had employment problems, too, but Sophie is a reliable breadwinner.

Ezekial (Fortune) had a hard time growing up. Isaiah went to college about the time the twins were born, leaving him holding the bag - and he didn't like it! He didn't like anything or anybody. Well, maybe his sister Naomi, whom he calls "Mini-me." And then Pigeon Hawkins hugged him in the park... His parents minded when he took her name, but face it, he'd never made a good Gavigan.

The twins, Naomi (Fortune) and Jeremiah (Knowledge) are now on the verge of college. Jeremiah plans to be a doctor and marry Marsha Hawkins. Naomi is very close to Ezekial, who was the first one she came out to. She's dating a girl from across the street in the house that replaced their old one.

Thyme - Hi Thyme (Pleasure) has the distinction of flunking out of three colleges after a single semester of majoring in "party" at each. He had a sweet deal going on with a wealthy widow, but then the blonde he'd been seeing on the side got arrested for prostitution and the court made him responsible for their two daughters. Another court sent him a notice that a girl he banged ages ago had died out west and they were sending him the daughter he hadn't known existed. And then the daughter he'd never been allowed to see, whose mother got religion, showed up on his doorstep with a chip on her shoulder - she'd come out as a lesbian and Religious Mom's cult leader had thrown her out. The widow dumped him, so he scraped together the remnants of his trust fund and moved as far away from her as he could, choosing Drama Acres because Mary Munny lives there. (And yes, that has paid off for him. At least until he meets Ernest, Frank, Mark, or Madge while he's out with somebody else.)

The girls - Spring, Summer, Justine, and Rosemary - all rolled Family aspiration, and quickly became known (except for Justine) as "the boy-crazy Thyme girls." Spring dated Tommy Ottomas till she burned to death in a yard fire. Justine completed Naomi Gavigan's coming-out process. Summer went steady with a Guasimalan simmigrant till he went to college; but she and Justine are on the verge of heading to Sim State, where they'll share a house with the Gavigan and Ottomas twins and George's girlfriend. Rosemary, the youngest, is going steady with John Amos and has made more friends with random phone calls than the rest of her family combined.

Spring's death is the defining event of this family. Hi lives in terror that it'll happen again, and wakes up certain that he's heard Spring scream. Which he has, because her urn is still on the lot. When Justine and Summer leave for college, life will be easier, but also lonesomer.

Skirt - The Skirt family left Simdinavia for reasons best known to themselves. Gene (Fortune) is a scientist and a loner. Though he's getting on in years, he was recently abducted and gave birth to the third alien hybrid in the Drama Acres MSA - his son, Dior. He hates Clovis Point's guts and has not been encouraging in his response to Ernest's overtures. He spent half his pregnancy in denial and the other half planning the papers he'd write, with his offspring as a subject; whether the real live wriggling presence of his only boy child has sent his calculations off the rails, or he'll get over the rush of hormones, remains to be seen.

His wife Lacy (Family) is principal of Drama Acres High School and a friend of Cooper Hawkins's. It hasn't been easy for her, carving out an educational career in a foreign land and language, but she's been managing.

Their three daughters, Minnie (Family), Georgette (Romance), and Polly Esther (Knowledge) have all adapted well. Minnie lives at Newsons' Corners with her husband Gallagher and their kids. Georgette is the reason Gene hates Clovis Point, who inducted her into the Drama Acres dating scene. She lived in an apartment downtown until recently, moving in with Mutti and Vati to help during the pregnancy, and disliked Dior on sight. Hi Thyme is one of her dalliances, and being so close ought to be handy, but he's been reluctant to have anyone over when the girls are home and she's been sparing her parents' feelings by not having anybody over during Vati's pregnancy. She resents how her old beaux are getting married - enough to change her "no married men" policy.

When friendly Polly Esther left for college (where she lives with her True Love, Paul Curian), Mutti and Vati no longer had enough friends for promotion till Georgette moved in. The Skirts also have three poodles: Midi, Maxi, and Cotton.

Ottomas - You know them! Peter (Romance/Family) is balding and writing a sports romance, hoping to retire, while Samantha (Family/Romance) plugs away in education. David (Popularity) has largely dropped out of their lives, having pursued a musical career of which they cannot approve. On the plus side, his wife Susana recently produced their first grandchild; but they live all the way downtown and aren't seen often.

Sharla (Family) had a rough teenhood. Dora died during her transition, and she felt she had to continually be the good big sister and never just herself. She got desperate enough for affection that she set out to steal Margaret Estic's boyfriend Lucas. She didn't exactly succeed; but he did go steady with her at the public school while dating Margaret out of the private. She knew it was wrong, and her best friend Sparrow thought it unnecessary, but a Sparrow Hawkins has no frame of reference by which to judge a Sharla Ottomas! At college, she fell in love with Lucas's older brother, David's frat brother Luis - which wasn't awkward at all! Luis has his own issues, and after a long, slow courtship with much soul-searching, they are engaged. She's moved in with him around the corner (more disapproval, but Sharla's still her mother's favorite child), and the wedding will be celebrated ASAP.

Tommy (Knowledge) carried futile torches for Sparrow and Polly Esther and had despaired of ever having a girlfriend when the boy-crazy Thyme girls moved in next door. Soon he was going steady with Spring. Her death knocked him for a loop. He lives on campus with one roommate, letting his friendships decay and his hair grow out as he pursues his goal of learning the secrets of life and death and bringing her back.

The twins, Ted (Fortune) and Theodora (Romance), are different as night and day, but thick as thieves. Ted suffered early trauma when Dora died while pottytraining him. Like his older brothers, he has a more artistic temperament than his dad thinks appropriate in a boy. He intends to marry Harriet Hawkins, who calls him "Steady," a name that suits him. Theodora is Peter's little princess, as spoiled and capricious as Ted is reliable, and only feels fully alive when the center of male attention. She broke Dominic Moiselle's heart, lied about her age to date a senior, and cut the biggest swathe among townie boys she could manage. They're about to leave for college

Petra (Pleasure), has just started middle school and is the prettiest Ottomas in history. Despite her sweet disposition, she's the odd one out. Theodora, with whom she shares a room, is the only one she's at all close with, though Ted is more likely to go out of his way to take care of her. She already has a number of friends at middle school, and looks to them rather than her parents for role models.

Ruben - Joshua (Fortune) was the plaything of Romance during his days at the frat, and when he graduated and began his acting career he determined to steer clear of it. Sally Mander (Family) lived downstairs with her boy Gerry. She was in witness protection after testifying against the drug pushers who killed her husband, studying hard and trying to make a good life. Joshua'd never met anyone like her before, and she only had to set her cap for him a little bit for him to fall for her, hard. He adores being The Provider, and a good thing, too, because Sally's taken it into her head that she needs to give him a son, but all she produces since moving to Drama Acres from the downtown apartment are girls.

Sally's boy Gerry (Fortune/Popularity) is at Sim State, living at the frat, and dating Sparrow Hawkins. Thanks to his time as a Popularity teen, Gerry has connections at all levels of Drama Acres society. The only person he doesn't get along with is that jerk Sparrow dated before he came to college. Amanda (Fortune), is a misanthrope, preferring plants to people. But she's best friends with Petra, takes good care of her little sisters, and is proud of her cool big brother. Sarah and the twins, Martine and Josephine, are all old enough to look after themselves a bit, and Sally is thinking about making another attempt to get the little JJ of her dreams.

Iana - Luz Iana (Fortune/Family) and her four children are semi-legal simmigrants who came from Guasimala with her mother Abuela and without her husband Lou, who didn't make the rendezvous and whom no one missed. On first arriving, they lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment on Downmarket Street downtown, where Abuela stayed home with the toddler and Luz found work in the music industry. That was where she met Billy Ghote (Romance), a Simdian simmigrant, who on arrival in Drama Acres dumped his daughter Billie (Knowledge, now wife of Oliver Onions) and his mother Nannie (until recently, live-in help to the Munnys) off in an apartment and set about working as little and woohooing as much as he could get along with. I'm afraid Luz has crappy taste in men. After Abuela died, Luz started pressuring him to get married, and his funds were getting low, so they got engaged and moved into a small house in Drama Acres. Luz was soon pregnant, but they couldn't marry until they found out that Lou was shot by a jealous husband in Guasimala. Billy - affected by regret for his mother's death, pressure from Billie, and pregnancy hormones from both Luz and Billie - bit the bullet and went through with it. So far he's kept Luz from finding out about the women (preferably rich) he sees on the side, including the Wicked Witch, and since their son William's birth he hasn't had much energy to sneak out on "gigs" anyway. All of her children by her first marriage have grave doubts about him, though.

Luz's children are well-integrated into Drama Acres society. Her oldest, Lourdes (Family/Romance), roomed first with Georgette and later with Billie at Sim State. Though she'd sworn not to get all tied down to one man, her priorities changed as she matured and fell in love with Garrett Newson. The oldest boy, Luis (Family/Pleasure), dated another Guasimalan simmigrant during high school, got jerked around badly by a Pleasure sim during his first couple of years at college, and then ran into Sharla Ottomas, whom he'd always thought of as "David's kid sister," and found her all grown up and a treasure undervalued by everyone, including herself. He's worked through all of his fears of turning into a macho jerk like his father, bought a house with help from Luz, and will marry Sharla ASAP. He's currently a dancer, but hopes to find something more stable that her father will disapprove of less.

Lucas (Popularity) is glad Sharla and Luis hooked up. Margaret Estic is the girl he loves. He's at the frat and constantly on the lookout for new recruits, having realized long ago that knowing huge numbers of people was the way to get ahead in Simerica. He wants to go into law and help other people caught in the cracks of the system, like his own family was when they first simmigrated. Lisandro (Knowledge) lives with his weird buddy Tommy Ottomas, and looks forward to his girl Summer Thyme coming, too. Summer and Tommy should be able to console each other about Spring, right? (Tommy was triple-bolted with both Spring and Summer; no drama upcoming in that campus household, nope. It should all be smooth sailing.)

Traveller - I had to change the Traveller background story, as the provided one doesn't make any sense in context. Trent (Knowledge) and Trisha (Popularity) got married and dropped out of Academie La Tour when she got pregnant. They both come from rich families and were able to bum around mostly having a good time while Tina was small, but now she's in school they figured they'd better settle down. They bought a sizable house in Drama Acres and looked for work they could get without degrees. Trent started at the bottom in Oceanography and dabbles in hobbies. He and Tina are close, but he and Trisha long ago burned out their fires, and the fact that he works days and she works nights, on the culinary track, hasn't helped. Trisha is attracted to a lot of guys, but not to her husband, and is never home when Tina is. And there's Billy Ghote right across the street...But nothing's happened yet.

That wraps up Drama Acres proper, and unless someone stops me before I post again, I'll move on to the downtown families next. Twelve of those, plus the two Greeks and Greek Fodder - the other college households are covered by the descriptions of their source families. And then maybe I can really focus on reorganizing my nonfiction and the cut of jeans.

em-em

8th Jan 2012, 12:47 AM

Recently I've been taking the time to appreciate maxis-made sims. So, I've been in Pleasantview.

GOTH ~

Well, before the really bad wedding I made Cassandra go out and she met Ivy Copur. They were constantly having the heart thought bubbles about eachother, and instantly 'connected'. Ofcourse, the outcome of this was a beating from Mrs Crumplebottom and her trusty sidekick - the handbag. ;) I brought Cas home and she wasn't too bothered about Don ditching her, she invited Ivy around and she moved in following a proposal. They got married and adopted a baby boy, then using boolprop I made them have their own child, a girl! I moved them out of the Goth Manor and into their own built home, their kids are now child & toddler and so cute!
Meanwhile, Mortimer met a downtownie called Elle, they were talking, then flirting, then kissing and well she moved in. They got married and Elle moved in. They had two kids, twin boys - Simon & Mortimer Jr. But shortly after Mortimer died of old age, so Elle was left alone. Annoied by the fact her husband had gone, she ressurected him, only for him to die again hours later. This made Elle sad, angry and she felt betrayed by fate, so she began to kill people in seek of revenge. She has currently killed a maid, 4 townies, and two of her 'almost husbands'. I don't know the names of them, but he did propose (she is still wearing the engagement ring), she woohooed with him and got pregnant, with a girl (I've forgotton her name, but shes very pretty). Using the cowplant, he died. Then she got pregnant with someone else, had another girl (Elyon, who is also pretty!), and he died the same way. Elle drinks the milk of all deceased sims and is now at the beginning of her adult-life again. Alexander is out of college in the sim bin, however, he is determined to frame Elle for all of these deaths - including his fathers - and be owner of Goth Manor again. His half brothers (the twins) are in college, the first girl is a teen and Elyon is a child.

PLEASANT ~

Mary-Sue and Daniel are still together, and the Oldies moved in with them since the twins went to college.
Angela and Lilith made friends, and before going to college, Angela wound up on a 'dream date' with Ira Lawson (one of the downtownies related to Jon Tricou) and went to college with him, alongside her sister & Meadow Thayer. After graduating, her and Ira moved to a trailer park and sadly began a bad lifestyle. Drugs, drink, abuse and even worse an unexpected pregnancy made Angelas life hell. Ira was out of control, and when his daughter, Tilly, was born, he didn't care. Angelas appearance changed too, she became a rebellious looking person, as if her and Lilith had switched roles. Ira passed away during a fire which he caused, luckily Angela and Tilly survived. Angela now lives with Lilith and Liliths current boyfriend - Bryant. Angela is in for a shock though, as Dustin and Meadow 'moved away to Belladonna Cove for a break and a change of scenery', which helped Angela to not feel regret over leaving Dustin for Ira. But now, the two are back, and even worse - are engaged! How will Angela cope with this?

THAYER/BROKE ~

They've currently just moved into a custom condo, back to their hometown of Pleasantview with some delightful news. Meadows sister, Jolie, has also temporarily joined them to help with wedding prep. Dustin hears the news of Ira and Angela, and is torn between the two. Who will he pick - Meadow, or Angela?
Meadow however is very, very girly. Its cute, haha.

CALIENTE ~

Since Mortimer is dead, Dina settled for Malcolm Landgraab, and they have one daughter, Melissa. However, shes cheating on him with two people - the maid, Remmington - and Daniel Pleasant. It appears shes cut contact with Don. Will she be caught?

Nina grew lonely without her sisters company, as well as lacking affection. She had a one-off with Daniel Pleasant and had his child. Shes changed her ways and now sees things logically, hoping to build robots for all someday as well as being top of the gamer career. Talk about a change of heart!

BURB ~

I built them a house, and Lucy grew to a teen - and for a present got a place in private school!

I'm keen at the minute to make a series/story about Angela, Lilith and so on, using the background I gave you as its basic plot. Hm, we'll see. ;)

Peni Griffin

8th Jan 2012, 05:18 AM

This is an odd thread to discuss Simlish in...Actually, "please" in German is "bitte schoen." Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of Hochdeutsch, an amalgam of the dialects of the original settlers. (http://www.pgs.org/dialect.asp) And Simlish is a constructed language made of a lot of words from a lot of languages. I've seen it discussed here before.

My Downtown falls into some logical groupings, so here's another installment.
Centowski - Orlando Centowski (Family) pledged the frat because that's what Centowskis do. They're old money and they do things a certain way. Thank goodness he doesn't have to go into the family business - the romance novels he sold in college put him in the "intellectual" track, which means freedom, hurray! Centowskis also marry sorority girls; fortunately, Tri-Var had Amy Jones (Popularity), ex-papergirl. She was raised in foster homes, for heaven's sake, and she knows how to do everything, and she has all kinds of ideas about how to run things, so she can go into politics and he can stay home with the kids. How perfect is that? Now if he can just get her to stop getting all frugal and acting like there's a difference between his money and her money, or like there's something wrong with using the advantages that having it gives her. They live in a luxury apartment; which to her feels like a playhouse, less hers than the sorority was.

Gorey - It doesn't matter about the Crap with Heather, or the Crap with Castor, anymore. Martin and Allegra (Knowledge and Knowledge) got each other over it, though Martin held a grudge against his brother Joshua for a long time. After living together in her great-grandma's old house downtown for awhile, the experimental birth control method they volunteered to do clinical trials for failed, and they decided to get married. Martin took her name instead of vice versa. Everybody'd called the house "the old Gorey place" for so long, turning it into "the Ruben place" would've been mean. Martin kept his job as a doctor. Allegra quit her job as a cop and went out for art full-time. The child, Ruby (Fortune), is also artistic, but since she hit middle-school she's gotten weird. She washed the paint off her face, won't wear black, and wants to grow her hair so she can have, get this, a pony tail! What Allegra and Martin didn't count on was that, by sparing Ruby the forced socialization with chipper rich Philistines that they hated so much growing up, they prevented her from growing the hard edges they did. She's painfully shy and can't do defiance, so she'd rather not stand out. As for the pony tail - Pollux Stacks next door, who doesn't make her feel shy because she's always known him, seems to like them.

About the time Ruby was born Joshua started trying to make up, and Martin found that, now he's past the dumb-jock stage, Joshua's not that bad. That wife he married is weird and Martin pretends he doesn't find that whole pregnant-and-cooking thing she's got going on hot. Jane Stacks is Allegra's best friend in the world, and they also see Sophie Miguel Gavigan, who roomed with them after Jane graduated, pretty often. Mostly they just don't need anybody but each other, Ruby, and their cat Gothpuss.

Stacks - Allegra, Heather, Tiffany, all of them - they made it hard. Castor (Knowledge/Romance) wasn't going to jump through all their hoops, and as for that cousin of Greg's he still thinks about sometimes - well, he'd have had to outcompete that other cousin of Greg's and the mere idea is exhausting. Jane (Family/Knowledge) made it easy. She even arranged the wedding. And it's too much work to cheat on her, though he knows he's still got it - the way women visitors trip over themselves to clean up or take care of the kids when he smiles at them proves that. Castor games for a living - that takes it out of you. So does having three kids so close together. Pollux (Romance) is a chip off the old block. Girls have been following him home since first grade. John (Popularity) has the middle-kid blahs, but he's handsome enough, he'll do okay. And little Nova (Grow Up) is the prettiest girl anywhere. Castor can deny her nothing, though Jane, being in education, is pretty strict about homework; and a lot more concerned about the girls who follow Pollux home than Castor is. Kevin lives down the street, but they never say hi when they pass each other - that guy can bear a grudge. Allegra, Jane's best friend in the whole world, found them this house next door to hers when they realized they couldn't fit all these kids into the apartments available.

Swinging Bachelors - Skylar Todd(Knowledge) graduated without figuring out exactly what he wanted to do with his life, so he drifted a bit. Who knew answering a roommate ad would change his life? Georgette Skirt took him over - new hair, new clothes, new ways of looking at the world - and took him to bed. Nobody'd ever spent that much attention on him before! When she moved out to help her parents during her father's alien pregnancy, the apartment was unbearable. So he answered another roommate ad, and now he's living in one of those old bay-windowed places on Custer with a fellow named Gary "Goopy" Gilscarbo (Romance). When Skylar invited Georgette to see his new pad she helped him break in the couch and the double bed. She seems depressed. Skylar's decided to make something of himself for her sake, and joined the SCIA. Meanwhile, Gary took notice of his new roomie's main squeeze. It bugs him that this college kid (Gary barely got his GED) got some before he did, but after all, he's new in town and hasn't met many honeys yet. He's out there looking...and he knows Skylar's fooling himself thinking he's got any future with Georgette. Why, Gary'd be doing him a favor, disillusioning him.

Pitts-Upsnott - At college, Ashley Pitts (Romance) and Brittany Upsnott (Popularity) ignored the fact that they were supposed to get married right up till Brittany's graduation party, where she pushed the issue (partly to piss off Clovis Point) and they got engaged. But after graduation, Ashley kept playing the field. Brittany got sick of waiting, and got pregnant on purpose. When he heard the dread word "late," Ashley turned pale, but went through with it. Brittany is a cop. Ashley is a professional party guest. For most of the marriage he's been a lazy and opportunistic cheater, the kind of guy who sticks his ring in his pocket and hopes for the worst; but going permaplat has made him bolder. Georgette was mad when she found out he was married, but they've made up. And if the kid their former neighbor just had were his, she'd have said something, right? Although the math does time out...In their own weird, disfunctional way, these two do seem to love each other. Brittany is an expert at not seeing what she wouldn't be happier for seeing, but lordy, how she lit into that neighbor at the slightest provocation! Their daughter Ashleigh (Romance) has no idea she was conceived for a purpose and is far more concerned with connecting with other girls with her proclivities. Daddy's always warning her about boys - he's so clueless! Gracie Hawkins is her best friend in the world, but the daughters of Mom's sorority sisters are so lame! Unlike the frat, that cohort of the sorority has a lot of solidarity, partly because of Brittany's constant desire for parties.

Gay - Leslie Gay (Romance/Pleasure) is Ben Aerius's sister, but they don't get along. She always thought his mother-in-law was hot. (So did Ashley; you have no idea how much time I spent staring at those triple bolts, making up my mind!) She lives next door to the Pitts-Upsnotts. She has lots of improbable friends, some of whom can't stand each other, so her parties are always interesting. She takes credit for Eppie's finding herself, and is proud of her record for snagging otherwise straight women. Her indiscriminate policy of bedding women without finding out what they want out of life has resulted in one Family townie obsessing over her, though. I think that's going somewhere - not sure where yet.

Beare - We don't need to go into the gory details of the college career of Heartbreak Heather Huffington (Family/Romance). Kevin Beare (Family) was the one who couldn't get over her, who understood long before she did that she wasn't evil; just undereducated. Her father was Romance, her mother was Fortune, she was an inconvenience - she had no idea how love worked, only that she wanted it. Kevin forgives her. (Castor, no. Castor can burn in hell.) When she got pregnant, Ben asked him what made him think it was his kid, and the only reply he could make was "What makes you think I care? She can't raise a baby on her own." So they got married, and the baby had Kevin's eyes. They all do, and are also blonde as straw, so Ben can stuff it. Kevin works in show business, which has mostly night hours, which means he's home in the daytime and the kids are home while he's at work, and everything's fine. Heather wants six kids and hasn't any more energy than she ever did, so Kevin works like a dog, but that's his lookout.

They're only up to four kids. Honey (Family/Knowledge) has been in love with Dominic Moiselle since her first day of school. Her best friend, to Heather's puzzlement, is her polar opposite Amanda Ruben, who thinks Honey needs somebody looking after her who isn't afraid to say boo to a goose. Edward (Fortune) is a sweet boy, good with his hands, and every bit as painfully shy as Honey. Cinnamon (Grow Up) is the little rebel, refusing to wear pink. Baby Winnie was supposed to be a boy named Paddington, but maybe next time. Heather sees all her old sorority sisters regularly (they're a big help to a pregnant lady) and is Sally Ruben's only close friend. She's friends with Leslie (Kevin doesn't know about that little experiment), and recently remade friends with Clovis, which has no hidden perils at all.

Thanks for your patience while I get this stuff out of my head.

Peni Griffin

9th Jan 2012, 05:34 AM

Starchild - Jared Starchild (Family/Pleasure) was lonely at college, even with all his friends; until junior year, when he ran into a cute little redheaded nerd girl at the student union. Sara Bellum (Knowledge/Fortune) lived in a residence with Sophie Miguel and another girl. Sophie's dad was representing the girls, the only survivors of a duplex fire, in a suit against the landlord. Sara blew Jared away, and the fact that she was a freshman didn't bother him; he knew a good thing when he saw it, and he latched on. Now they're married and live on the corner of Custer and Mendoza downtown. Jared paints and looks after their daughter, Alta Mira, a little know-it-all who looks exactly like her mom. Sara works for the same gaming company as Castor Stacks and has cleaned their house for them more than once.

Swain - If Erik Swain came across as morose during his college years, it was not without cause. His father died in the line of duty, his mother never got over it, he doesn't want to talk about it, okay? He made good friends in his dorm, and when most of them joined the Greeks (which he had no time for) he and his best bud Jared moved into a residence together. Sam at the sorority used to try to set him up with Georgia Newson, but he saw that ugly Hawkins guy hanging around, he wasn't born yesterday, no way he's going to put himself out there to get hurt like that. The way Jared set out to cradle-rob that little freshman was disgraceful. She and her roommates would come over, and Natalie Drest (Fortune/Family), the other fire survivor, was also studying biology, so he could help her out with the freshman stuff, no harm in that, but that business with her trying to flirt with him, he wasn't having any. He had principles, and she was just a kid. A vulnerable kid. Who needed protecting.

Erik resisted Natalie a looooong time, but it was the kind of resistance that carried its own flag of surrender trailing behind it. He calls her "kid," she calls him "you old prude." He's in law enforcement, she's in medical, and they both get off at 6, which is unfortunate, as it means they have to hire a nanny. Their daughter Erika is a natural artist and from toddlerdom showed every sign of growing into a family sim. Erik dotes on them both almost to the point of smothering. He's ready for another, but Natalie wants to wait until at least one of them has a saner schedule. They're still best friends with Jared and Sara, but Alta Mira and Erika have some rivalry going on.

Bubbler - Skipping over the house where David Ottomas lives, the last house on Mendoza belongs to Ty (Popularity) and Sam Bubbler nee Thomas (Popularity/Family), and their cat/surrogate child Sopa. Ty fancies himself a matchmaker - it was he who influenced Natalie to flirt with Erik at a frat party - but he's not interested in having kids, and neither, so far, is Sam. He's a restauranteur and she's on the artist track. They got fed up with their apartment and moved to the same street as their old friends from the Greek days, getting a deal on the house because it's supposed to be haunted. Which it is, by John Thomas Orphan, a strung-out hippy who starved to death while alien pregnant. Poor thing. They work weird hours and throw parties as often as possible - their childless state means they always have time to help their more tied-down friends stay in touch. Sam keeps thinking something weird's going on and Ty keeps assuring her it's all right, though he can't stand to be alone there himself and doesn't sleep well anymore.

Phoenix - Across the street and down aways, we have The House of Fallen Trees. Formerly the home of notorious rake and polygamist cult leader John Smith Tricou, it has stood empty since the mysterious death of the last owner, sitting on the market with its price going steadily down - a process tracked by the watchful eyes of Lora Wolosenko (Fortune/Pleasure).

The oldest of Tricou's surviving illegitimate children, Lora - like her five half-siblings - was supported by a trust fund, which enabled her to attend Sim State. Her time in Tri-Var overlapped with Georgia Newson, Natalie Drest, Sam Thomas, and her younger sister, Beverly Ku (Pleasure). While there, she began to feel the need for a sense of purpose, which gradually coalesced into a desire to rebuild her family's status from the ashes of her father's folly, including connecting with the half-siblings she barely knew, helping them to find their way, and restoring the House of Fallen Trees to its pre-cult glory. She was still a Tricou, though - her route back to respectability lay through a career in show business. She made a huge splash in the lead role in Oil!: The Musical, and is now a leading lady of some note.

The first half-sibling to join her, while in a duplex next door to fellow Tri-Var Brittany Pitts-Upsnott, was Beverly - Bad News Beverly, as her Tri-Var sisters dubbed her. Lora loves Beverly, but the girl has the sense God gave a golf ball. Probably the only reason she didn't spend her entire trust fund on clothes shortly after graduating was that looking at numbers makes her head ache and she gladly turned control of it over to Lora (who is a real pain about the credit card bills). Beverly's main accomplishment at Sim State was to cheat on 3/5 of the frat in a single semester, though the narrowness with which she avoided bankrupting Tri-Var House while stocking its closets is a close second. So it wasn't any big surprise when she turned up pregnant and, when asked who the father was, replied: "I dunno, some guy." Actually she knew perfectly well it was Ashley Pitts-Upsnott, who she'd banged farewell in a photo booth on the eve of his moving to his new place on King Street; but that wife of his wasn't likely to divorce him and Bev isn't into the marriage thing anyway, so what's the point of even bringing it up?

Prior to Beverly's advent, Lora had advertised for a roommate, and Phoenix McClellan (Romance), a lowly laborer in the food service industry, had responded. Lora'd grown fond of him (not realizing that he had a crush on her), and knew he didn't make enough money to afford a place of his own, so she had Beverly in with her and let Phoenix keep his room. When the next Tricou, Derek Zarubin (Pleasure/Fortune) moved in, no one thought of asking Phoenix to leave. Derek's career at Urele-Oresha-Cham had been marked by vitriolic fights with his frat brothers for bad mouthing Bev and hurting her feelings (who cares if she deserved it, she's his sister!), which were generally made up over the poker table. Derek is gay, and a serial dater, whose only close permanent relationship so far in his life is Beverly. Like Lora, her pecadillos arouse more protectiveness than impatience in him.

Derek's theory is that nobody ever got wealthy working for someone else, and he's willing to hustle for his dollars as long as he doesn't have to punch a time clock. Phoenix progressed all the way up to manager of the Burger Queen under Lora's steadying influence, but his financial contribution and Derek's trust fund did not add up to the price of the House of Fallen Trees by the time Beverly got pregnant. Lora was looking for affordable housing big enough for them all when she went on a date with her old flame from Sim State, Jimmy Phoenix (Popularity/Family).

Jimmy, in some ways the ultimate frat boy, and Lora had always had good times together in college. Unfortunately, so did he and Georgette Skirt. Georgette made things complicated between them, as did Lora's acquisition of ambition while he was still in party-every-night mode. They couldn't seem to get together and they couldn't seem to get over each other. He lived in an apartment across the hall from Clovis Point (with whom he once caught Georgette; and who Lora was dating when Sadie told him she was pregnant, right in front of her - between them, they had soap operatic time of it) and they settled into a routine of "friends with benefits." Until the day he took her to lunch and heard the whole saga of Bev's pregnancy and the house hunt and her being responsible to every-freaking-body down to that nobody Phoenix and nobody being responsible to her. Suddenly everything his friend Harris had been trying to din into his head for years clicked. He'd been waiting for some external force to decide things for him, but it was a simple choice. He could step up for her, and be a man; or he could stand still, and be less.

So they married, and his income and savings enabled them to afford, with some sharp bargaining on Lora's part, the House of Fallen Trees. It's dark, and needs tons of work, and for the moment it's barely furnished. But Lora and Jimmy look at those downstairs rooms and the backyard, and see a party venue par excellance; and at the upstairs rooms and see space for family - the three upcoming Tricous, in Lora's case, and a kid or two of their own, in Jimmy's. Beverly's son, Tri, is everybody's pet, and Phoenix - who likes Jimmy about as much as he resents him - has sublimated a lot of his crush on Lora into putting the moves on other, more accessible women - including Beverly. Who just got engaged to another old frat boy, Jimmy's fellow willing-victim-of-Georgette, Jim Spitzig. There's no date set or anything, but when he asked, Beverly suddenly had this great idea for a wedding dress, so she said yes.

In short, the soap opera continues on its merry way. No one has been into the basement and seen the coffins yet, and no one's seen a ghost. Nor have they figured out the answer to the most urgent question: Where shall we put a powder room on the first floor?

Casa - When Miguel Casa and his wife Eneida applied for visas, their daughter Sue was a child. By the time their legal simmigration finally became a reality and they left Guasimala behind, Sue (Family) had married and her oldest children were teens. (You see why the Ianas went the semi-legal route? Much faster!) Esteban Casa (Fortune) took his wife's name on the visa to simplify the paperwork.

Moving into a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment on Downmarket Street, Esteban and Miguel found work while the children went to school and Eneida and Sue stayed home raising the children and adjusting to Simerican life. After Miguel died during the Llama Flu epidemic, and Eneida had a nervous breakdown, Esteban - who had, in a lucky break, been signed by the Llamas despite being a bit long in the tooth for an athletic career - purchased a three-bedroom, two-bath house, where Eneida died. Esteban is doing well financially, though he'll have to retire soon if he can't land a coaching position, and this worries him. He also has a reputation as a troublemaker, because he doesn't let himself get pushed around, and because he doesn't like to see putas running around on his son Estebanico.

Estebanico (Family/Romance) had a miserable high school career. Simerican girls didn't go for his macho style, and it was impossible to keep properly groomed in that apartment! (0 nice points, 10 neat - he had a public restroom phobia, and the only way to manage that apartment at all was to send people to community lots with showers and facilities, so he was in constant near-aspiration failure, nor could he pick up a girl to save his life). Making his father's ambition to send his kids to college a reality, Estebanico roomed with Jared and Erik till he pledged the frat, and somewhere in there Georgette Skirt took him in hand and showed him how he'd been handling Simerican girls all wrong. He has the distinction of being the first person to woohoo Beverly Ku (and, therefore, the first person ever to catch her cheating). After woohooing it up as much as he could for a couple of years, Estebanico decided it was time to start thinking about the future, and looked around for a nice girl to marry. His attention was caught by Tosha Go (Family), an innocent freshman, in the throes of disillusion after learning that her crush, Derek Zarubin, was gay; newly pledged at Tri-Var; embarrassed at the way Georgia, Sam, and Natalie woohooed their boyfriends sequentially upstairs while parties went on downstairs. Estebanico charmed her like a snake does a bird, and they were soon engaged - but not woohooing. Nice girls don't do that till they're married.

Estebanico graduated, buying the house next door to Esteban and Sue and sharing expenses with his frat brother/best friend/rival, Jim Spitzig (Fortune/Popularity). When Tosha and Estebanico came back from their honeymoon (courtesy of Tosha's parents, who were too busy to come to the wedding), Jim started looking for a place; but then Tosha turned out to be pregnant with twins, Jim made a bad call and got fired from his job at Don Miguel's law firm, and he probably will be staying around helping for awhile. Feeling like a third wheel, juggling babies he has no stake in, watching Tosha make much of Estebanico, and long ago resigned to the fact that "his type" is sluts, Jim impulsively proposed to Beverly recently. But he'd as soon be in hell with his back broken as join the menage in the House of Fallen Trees.

The twins, Stephen and Natasha, will be crawling soon. Tosha would kind of like to get a teaching job, but Estebanico gets crabby every time she mentions it. Tosha's a meek, happy little self-deceiver. She knows Estebanico succumbed to Bev's charms once while they were engaged, but she's sure that's the only time anything like that happened and he certainly wouldn't cheat on her now! She's far too glad to know Beverly is getting married to try to talk Jim out of it the way she knows she should. He'll be good for her, and they can be friends again, and everything will be lovely lovely lovely...

The second Casa child, Susana (Popularity/Family) dated Luis Iana in high school, and is still excellent friends with him. At Sim State, however, she met David Ottomas and fell in love. Her parents are dubious about him - a musician, for heaven's sake! - but Susana joined the military on graduation, putting the entire family on the fast track to naturalization, and she's also just produced the third grandchild, Dave. Susana is a go-getter and believes wholeheartedly in David's career. She loves her big brother, but she also knows perfectly well he's a macho jerk, and she keeps a close eye on the welfare of her dear friend Tosha.

Emilio (Pleasure) is currently at Sim State, living in the frat and having a grand time, dating sorority girl Lily Pond (Fortune) and meddling in his friends' affairs. His last year of high school was marred by the discovery that the cute junior he picked up at the bowling alley, Theodora, was in fact a ninth-grader - and not just any ninth-grader, but the little sister of his friend Sharla and brother-in-law David! (Hey, he hadn't seen her since she was ten! She'd changed a lot!) Though he's never seen a girl around campus who was worth hurting Lily's feelings over, he finds himself looking forward to seeing Theodora again when she arrives soon.

Still at home are Jovita (Knowledge), who was a toddler when the family simmigrated, and Miguelito (Fortune), who was born in the apartment on Downmarket Street. Though Esteban has a distant relationship, at best, with his oldest children, he dotes on his youngest. Jovita went steady with George Hawkins in high school, which worries Esteban - that Hawkins reputation! But she's a good girl, a smart girl, reads all the time, and she'll be staying with a bunch of girl friends on campus, with a couple of their brothers to look after them all. Esteban also worries that he's spoiled Miguelito a bit - he's so sensitive, in middle school already and never been in a fight! But he's also friendly and wants to be an athlete like his Papi, and Simerica doesn't require a man to be as tough as Guasimala does.

Sue isn't worried about any of them. Her children are smart and level-headed and wonderful, and she wishes she could have more of them. But she'll settle for grandchildren. That Tosha doesn't know the first thing about babies, but at least she'll let Sue instruct her. She and Esteban are closer now than they ever have been before, especially since Esteban bought a vacation home and took them all to Twikkii Island after Estebanico and Tosha told them how nice it was.

And that's it for the main hoods. There's five households currently at Sim State, but two of them are total subsets and recombinations of families in Drama Acres and Downtown, so tomorrow I'll tell you about the Greek Fodder and the current roster at the Greeks, and that'll be that. :up:

Peni Griffin

10th Jan 2012, 02:08 AM

I may as well do the Greeks and Greek Fodder as one big family, since they're really an assortment of loose ends tied together, and I can detail the characters with some sort of narrative order this way.

Alon Livingstone (Knowledge) has no idea who his parents were. Adopted by a consortium of mad social scientists with a Theory, he was raised in a lab from an infant until the Llama Flu epidemic brought health workers around. He has no idea what he said to make them react the way they did, but the scientists (whom he doesn't miss) are now at Happy Acres Maximum Security Rehabilitation Sanitarium, and he found himself in foster care with a paper route. The paper route proved to be good transitional therapy for him, and he was able to go to Sim State with a clean bill of mental health, though he still doesn't know what the social workers thought was wrong with him. He's wildly competent, after all, except about cleaning and talking to people.

He was shy for dorm life, but fortunately for him the same could not be said of his dormmates Jay McCullough (Pleasure/Knowledge) and Dulcie deLeche (Popularity). Jay was the next Tricou in line, mostly killing time in the dorm till he could pledge; and Dulcie was an online friend of his from New Guasimala (and no, she didn't need a visa - that's a state, not a country, sheesh, didn't you learn geography?). She's from the upper crust of the state, descendant of hidalgos, and her people have been in Simerica longer than the Tricous and Centowskis put together. Dulcie came east to attend Sim State because she was tired of the desert and Jay made Drama Acres sound like so much fun! She pledged Tri-Var as fast as she could, and she and Jay are dating like whoa, without much thought for where, if anywhere, that might go. Laid-back Dulcie thinks all of her friends should be friends with each other. It's a trial to her that Jay learned from Derek the fine art of blaming all of Beverly's problems on somebody else. Though his short attention span enabled him to make up with all his frat brothers, he never has forgiven Sharla for stealing Luis away from his sister; and Dulcie thinks Sharla's a doll. She keeps trying to make him see reason, but he can't be in the same room with Sharla without picking on her.

Alon wrote a children's book, Paper City, and is trying to write another; but Sparrow Hawkins has turned him inside out and upside down till he doesn't know what he's writing about anymore. She spotted him at the University Way Shops and started talking to him like she talked to strangers every day. She read the book and told him it wasn't a book for or about children, but about a philosophy of child-rearing for people who believed in philosophy but didn't believe in children. She taught him to understand why people (like her housemates; cripes, the things he'd hear in her house!) go in for woohoo, but kept saying he "wasn't ready" for it himself. He begged to differ! She acted like it was a part he had to audition for and a final he needed to study for, instead of a pleasant instinctual urge to satisfy as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Amber Dawn arrived on campus. The illegitimate daughter of a midwestern crime lord, she came to Sim State to establish herself in society and acquire the skills necessary to extend his criminal empire all the way to the east coast. She pledged the sorority - rather against her own inclinations, but the Greeks are a great way to make connections. She'd really rather hole up in a shed and learn to make robots. She met Alon at various Greek parties, and found him delectably hot and naive. Also, that homely stuck-up Sparrow Hawkins (where on earth does a girl like that get off acting like the Queen of Sheba? And why do all the boys get that glazed look in their eyes when she comes round?) needed taking down a peg. So she asked Alon out. Her mother always told her the way to a man's pocket, heart, and everything else was through his pants, so he didn't hear any "not ready" nonsense from her! They wound up engaged. She expected this to cause drama, but it didn't go the way she expected it to at all, and she's a little in awe of Sparrow these days. It weirds her out that Sparrow turned being dumped into some sort of perverse triumph. She needs to learn how that was done!

Alon's ego was devastated that she turned right around from him and took up with Gerry, who is fat, pulls Bs, doesn't have nearly as many skill points or any publication credits - in short, in all ways, he's inferior to Alon, and yet a week didn't pass between Alon getting engaged and Gerry being allowed into Sparrow's bed. Gerry wouldn't rub a man's inferiority where it counts in his face - but there's only so much of that crap he can take, and Alon won't leave him alone. Dulcie keeps trying to mend fences. Emilio, however, is prone to stir the pot in what he imagines to be Gerry's favor.

For her part, Amber - annoyed that Alon is not over Sparrow - started checking out guys at the College Sports Center and got an eyeful of Tommy Ottomas. Yes, he's not playing with a full deck, but he's got enough cards for both her criminal and her possible revenge-dating needs. Daddy always said a clever monomaniac was a useful resource. She hasn't made up her mind yet, but it won't hurt to make friends with him.

Amid all this drama, the next-to-youngest Tricou, Daniel Kim (Pleasure, but you knew that) came to campus, rooming with Alon till Rush Week. Daniel wants to be an entertainer, doesn't know his family particularly, and dated Theodora Ottomas, but doesn't know she's coming to campus soon. After only a single semester, he doesn't have a place in the storyline yet, but with Theodora on her way, the final Tricou needing to be brought in soon, and the general liveliness of the Greeks, I'm sure he'll find himself one soon.

And, finally, Lily Pond (Fortune) came to Sim State from a different, more urban state, attracted by the small-town atmosphere, the excellent economics program, and the distance from the judgmental eyes of her family. She was created by randomization in CAS - everything from appearance to turn-ons rolled for with my trusty polyhedral dice - and I was rewarded with a triple-bolt match for Emilio, who has always been hard to find dates for, even when I toyed with the idea of freaking his Papi out by making him gay. Although she pledged Tri-Var for business reasons, she isn't all that into the sorority thing and is best friends with half the frat but none of her "sisters." Evidently one of those women who gets along better with men on a day-to-day basis. She looks after the garden Tosha started and enjoys long hikes, toymaking, birdwatching, videogames, and Emilio. She knows, because the guys are always kidding him about it and because she's BFF with Sharla (with whom she stayed for less than 24 hours before she pledged; Sharla must be a great roommate, because everybody who shared that house with her loves her to death), about his inappropriate dating of Theodora, but she's not apprehensive about her advent. She's just a kid, after all; and Emilio's older, wiser, and with Lily now. If anything, Lily probably hopes to be able to provide a little big-sisterly guidance in Sharla's place, to pay forward Sharla's kindness to her.

And that's the lot! Thank you for your patience. You may now resume your regular course of posting. :beer:

DasRabennest

10th Jan 2012, 11:33 AM

Thanks a lot for what you've written, Peni! ;)

I feel my own neighbourhood is so dull now :D But I have to remind myself that I have just started it and it'll probably will be a bit more interesting when it has more 'history' than it has now...

DasRabennest

Peni Griffin

10th Jan 2012, 01:55 PM

And thank you for your interest! I know that's a lot of material, and I'm impressed you read it all. I expect your game is just as interesting, really, when you play it. Remember I started with a lot of backstory, and even so a lot of what I wrote here didn't exist when I started.

I didn't know precisely how most of them were related till after I'd observed their relationships for awhile, and back-engineered things like Madge and Mary being sisters. I knew Red Onions was the brother of Marie Curian when I built them in CAS, because I gave them both red hair, but I didn't know he was her little brother. And Ernest forced his love story with Sage Ann on me - I was going to set him up with Jane Stacks, and had a vague idea that Sage Ann was a lesbian! Nor did I have any idea that the Hawkinses were woohoo gods, till they started scattering lightning bolts all over the hood; or that Red didn't like Ernest's father, until they had a conversation about it in-game; in which I found out that the real reason Frank wouldn't go fishing was that Ernest wasn't going to be able to build up enough credit at the company store for the wedding present he wanted to buy Sage Ann, and Frank didn't want to lose hours that he could spend to help him cover the cost of it. Red's response was the only instance of an actual cuss word in my dialog so far; there wasn't any other possible response. Not that would fit in the little window.

Interpreting the game actions into a story, and hearing the dialog, and so on, is a habit of mind. I'm in that mode constantly, because writing stories is what I do. You may have to make a conscious effort to engage with your sims on that level a few times, but once you get the habit, you'll find it happening automatically, and realize that there's nothing dull at all about your sims!

NatteryakToad

13th Feb 2012, 09:55 PM

I made a new neighbourhood about 4 months ago when I got bored of the old one and the families are just entering into their third generation. So:

Tomlin: Popular girl Gracie Richards (Family) and geek Max Tomlin (Knowledge) somehow, although nobody remembers how, ended up together and had three children. They are now somewhat boring elders; Gracie makes teddy bears all day and Max is glued to the computer giving finacial consulting - when he's not working as a mad scientist, that is.

Their eldest son Aadyn (Romance/Family) first dated Hope Heath, and then got bored of her and cheated on her with her younger sister Maddison, whom he got pregnant, and then left. He's now a chef, living with his wife Makayla (I think the Family secondary kicked in) and baby son Lennox. Makayla is also pregnant with twins.

Aadyn's younger sister Johannah (Knowledge) is married to Joseph Rooke, and just gave birth to her first child, Adah Johannah Suzanna Rooke. Joseph and Johannah had a bit of a tough time whilst she was in college and he was running the family business, but now they're back together again, things are looking up. Johannah is in the education career, but I forget what her exact job title is at the moment.

The youngest child, Elliot (Family) is living with his fiancee Aurora James and their baby daughter Josette. Elliot runs a shop selling fresh fruit and vegetables from his garden and fish from his pond.

James: Cassie (Family) and Nate (Knowledge) James became the baby machines of the hood when they popped out eight children, starting and finishing with a set of twins. Cassie was recently widowed as Nate suffered incurable pnemonia after contracting the flu from work or his children one too many times. However, she and the children are living quite comfortably on their savings; Cassie has never worked a day in her life, and doesn't intend to start now.

Makayla (Pleasure) is the oldest James child by a matter of minutes. She has only ever dated Aadyn Tomlin, who she went on to marry, but I can't see it staying that way for very long; she's the kind of sim who will leave him with the (soon to be three) children and move on.

Sasha (Family), Makayla's twin, married his high school sweetheart Hope James after a brief blip in their relationship by the name of Aadyn Tomlin. Sasha is a military general and they have two sons: Jason, who just aged up to child, and Thomas Nathan "Nat", who just became a toddler.

Jade (Knowledge) was always the quietest of the James bunch, the one lost in the background as a kid, being only a year younger than the twins. She was the first to go to college and now works as a Marine Biologist, living in her own little house right next door to her next brother...

Jack (Fortune) has big dreams for his future. A just starting out businessman, ametur artist, Jack also seeks to prove that aliens do indeed exist, even if he has to be abducted by them to prove it...

Derren (Popularity) has just moved into a place of his own and is trying his luck as an athete. He's rattling around in his four-bedroomed house, looking for a woman to share it with.

Aurora (Popularity) got fed up of being ignored and persued a relationship with the somewhat older man, Elliot Tomlin, although things seem to have worked out, and they're now engaged with a baby daughter, Josette.

The second set of twins Niki (Popularity) and Egan (Family) are just about to head of to college with Egan's girlfriend Miriam Rooke, leaving Cassie all alone...

Rooke: Abe (Family) and Suzi (Fortune) Rooke had big dreams for their lives, in the shape of a handmade toyshop that has grown into a babycare empire, although they now take a back seat, leaving all the hard work to their children.

Joseph (Fortune) is the only son and heir of the Rookes. He now runs the family business with the help of his teenage sisters and has just got married to Johannah Tomlin. He was secretly disappointed with the birth of his daughter Adah, hoping for a son to carry on the family name - if he doesn't produce an heir then the name will die out.

Ruth (Popularity), Joseph's twin, moved out as soon as she could, and started her own business selling pottery and paintings. She soon succumed lure of one of her customers, Amin Sims (Popularity), who has since moved in although they're not yet married.

Naomi (Knowledge) is in college with her three-bolt-chemistry boyfriend Mannie Heath. She can't wait until they graduate and marry, simultaenously wanting a family and a career which looks possible as her boyfriend followed her to college because he couldn't be without her and as a family sim would be perfectly content staying at home and raising children.

Miriam (Popularity) works in the family shop part time as she finishes high school ready to go to college with her boyfriend Egan James and his twin sister, her best friend.

Sarah (Family) is the youngest of the Rooke clan and again can't wait to go to college, find a nice guy and settle down...

Heath: Casey (Family) and Amelia (Popularity) Heath struggled to have children and so adopted Hope. Then Amelia fell pregnant with Maddie. Then they adopted Hope's brother Mannie. Then they tried desperately for number four, and with IVF concieved octuplets. Two died before birth, but the remaining six survived and are now twelve. Amelia is an ex-professional athlete and Casey stays at home and has home-schooled all nine of their children.

Hope (Family/Pleasure) is married to Sasha James and the two of them juggle their jobs (Hope is a police officer) and their sons.

Maddie (Pleasure) resented the bond biological siblings Hope and Mannie had, and that played a great part in her relationship with Hope's then boyfriend, Aadyn Tomlin, who fathered her son, Casey Jr., now eight. Maddie tried valiently to be a single teenage mum, and eventually met Seth Couderc (Family), who refuses to marry her, but nevertheless cohabits and fathered her daughter, Bella.

Mannie (Family/Pleasure) was adopted by Casey and Amelia after two years of bouncing from relative to relative, and imediately bonded with his biological sister Hope. He's now in college with his girlfriend Naomi Rooke, and is ready to get married and be a dad.

And the sextuplets: Francesca (Popularity), Alexa (Fortune), Isaac (Pleasure), Toby (Family), Holly (Romance) and Felix (Knowledge) have just become teens, so I'm still working out their personalities and what the future has in store for them.

Cole: Luke (Pleasure) and Leonie (Family) have just moved to town with their two-year-old son, Harrison. They're simply there because I wanted Derren James' eventually wife to have a child and a backstory; Luke is abusive and with Derren's help Leonie and Harrison will escape from him whilst Leonie simultaneously lets Derren under her guard and falls in love with this hopeless unshaven athlete.

On a mildly related note, does any one have any advice on how often I should create new families and add them into my hood? Primarily I want the sims in it to be decendants of the Tomlin, Rooke, James and Heath families, but I let rather too many of the second generation sims to marry each other and as a result I won't be able to go much further without a serious amount of inbreeding unless I let them marry townies or create new families...

Peni Griffin

14th Feb 2012, 01:45 AM

I can only tell you how I did it.

At first, I loaded all the premades families that had children - the Newsons, Gavigans, Ottomases, and (when I loaded Bon Voyage), the Travellers. I also played the premade college students at Sim State, at first just the ones already in households, and then, when the Greeks ran low, the ones in the student bin. I also had a Wonderful Idea and made my simmigrant families, and have never regretted it although the challenge I was playtesting turned out to be too hard to get structured properly. They add a lot of variety and interest to the hood.

Townies who become sufficiently involved with playables marry in, or in the case of teens move to college, when appropriate. That's how I got my Tricou bastards, another bunch I've never regretted, though since they all have the same father I've had to feed them in on a set schedule. Since getting FreeTime, instead of relentlessly ignoring townie children, I age them up when playable acquaintances age up; I am slowly using up all the children and replacing them with teens I can send to college when appropriate. I also seeded the adoption pool with six multi-racial toddlers.

Now that I'm trying to control the size of my rotations more, I am only allowing myself to add one CAS family per sim year, on the first day of spring (my year starts with spring) at 1 Poore Street (the first house ever played). This family can be of any size and configuration, and so far has been used address a teen girl shortage (see the Thyme family, above). When one of the Greeks is in danger of falling below three members, I send either send a townie teen to college, or create a freshman of the appropriate gender, depending on present circumstances/ my mood. I have twice invited roommates to move in, and added the Gilscarbo dude by accident with ChristianLove's Gussy Up program.

DamascaRamza

6th May 2012, 12:45 AM

The answer is a lot of families.

Ramza Family: My first and main family that I don't use as much anymore, it's my sim Damasca and his two kids Axel and Azhure (What I'd want to name my first son and daughter if I had kids), Damasca is a single dad and is a great dad to his kids, the kids are happy as they can be and are popular at school (Well I assume they are, since they always bring kids home or have kids showing up to see them), they all reached lifetime happiness and I just can't be bothered to age the kids into teenagers because they're too cute. The mother cheated on Damasca after the two kids were born, so Damasca left Belladonna Cove with the kids and moved to Plesantview, where he lives now with the kids.

Raetos Family: The Raetos family is a single dad who has six kids and a dog (He really got around in his younger days and had four kids and adopted two.), he looks after them as well as he can, but with his erratic work hours, the kids aren't as close to him as they should be, the kids mostly spend time together and enjoy each other's company, they aren't that popular at school, but they're good friends with the Ramza family.

Lairon Family: The mother's a single parent whose sexual exploits got her knocked up with twins that belonged to two different guys she hooked up with at the same time (Actually possible, but very uncommon) and after giving birth to them, she mostly focused on herself and her exploits, her daughter is aware of what her mother's truly like and has little to no respect for her mother, but her brother is blissfully unaware and she wants to keep it that way.

Ares Family: Happy couple who met in college and got married, they had a son named Faris and they adore him, they recently had a baby girl they named Alicia and they couldn't be happier. They're my ordinary family.

Madrigal Family: Married couple with three kids in a two bedroom apartment, it's pretty cramped, but they make it work. Not much goes on there.

Stantler Family: A gay couple who adopted two kids and are a very happy family together, the kids are now teenagers and trying to adjust.

DasRabennest

6th May 2012, 01:57 AM

I'm playing my (pregnant younger) Self-Sim, her husband and daughter in a Sim-Version of our old house at the moment and I'm hoping for their second child to be a boy, like in real life. ;)

Also I'm trying to add Sim-Versions of my family and friends to the neighborhood but it's a big chunk of work building their homes...don't know if I'll have the patience to really make it.

DasRabennest

frankokomando

6th May 2012, 02:45 AM

Right now the only family I'm really playing is the Reid family. The Reid family is my attempt at doing a legacy challenge. They're probably some of the dumbest sims I've ever had.

RM-Keyblade-Mistress

6th Feb 2013, 02:31 AM

Well, lets see.

Jim Hawkins (I made my version of Treasure Planet's Jim Hawkins on my Alternate Etherium story with my friends, Kendall and Vincent. and if only this place has the Treasure Planet CCs, then I would have the original Jim Hawkins) He and his wife, Rebekah Masters, live in a peaceful neighborhood, and Jim has a job in the police department.

Rebekah Masters (My character) A scientist on Space Station 77 (Alternate Etherium), and a loving wife to Jim Hawkins. She works as a scientist in her neighborhood, making medicine and discovering new species.

Cassie Hawkins Daughter of Jim Hawkins and Rebekah Masters-Hawkins, and is Caleb Hawkins's fraternal twin sister. She is one spoiled child when she was a toddler, but as a teenager, her parents won't let her do things the other teenagers are doing, going out pass curfew.

Caleb Hawkins Son of Jim Hawkins and Rebekah Masters-Hawkins, and is Cassie Hawkins's fraternal twin sister. He's the responsible one in the family. Although he's grouchy, he still cares for his sister. Though for some reason he sneaks out at night.

Amaya Malkavian

19th Feb 2013, 01:00 AM

Let's see....

Strangetown...I have couple of families there
Lavitzon:
Amelie Lavitzon was married to Kris Fouler. She lived in the house with him and her brother Caleb. Caleb never liked Kris, so he moved out and got engaged to his gay boyfriend Daerren. Kris was flirting with every female in the neighborhood, only to cheat on his wife with Rachel Evilner, who happens to be filthy rich. XD Amelie caught them in the 'act' and she kicked him out of the house. After some slapping, shoving and such. Kris moved in with Rachel and they are planning a wedding.
Amelie is currently dating Daniel Overgaard, a danish police officer. >_> Daniel is considering to propose her.

Estheim:
Daerren lived alone, until his boyfriend Caleb moved in. They got engaged and eventually married. They are happy, but both of them hate Kris.

Haruno:
Hikaru is a single mother of young female genin Sakura. >_> Sakura is so in love with Sasuke and Sasuke is a bastard. Period.

Hatake:
Kakashi is in relationship with Amaya. And they are foster parents of Naruto. Naruto is just overjoyed about that. He has a crush on Hinata.

Hyokari:
Yukito is young japanese emperor. His brother Takeru moved out of the castle and lives practically across the street with his fiancee Rikku. Yukito has a personal maid Aiko. He secretly loves her, but refuses to tell her. And vice versa.

Inuzuka:
Kazuya and his wife Tsume have a lovely son Kiba. Kiba loves Ino, but Ino has a girly crush on Sasuke. However...Ino secretly wants to be with Kiba. :D

Livestrong:
Carolyn is a single mother of a little boy named Snow. Her husband died in the accident and she lives in old farm cottage. After some time, she met a widowed man named Matthew Crow and they are much in love. They are planning a wedding and he likes her adorable son.

Luksson: (I hate them and I'll purge them)
Kristen has a sister Valeria. Valeria is in love with Sebastian. Sebastian's sister Laura is in lesbian relationship with Kristen. They are so annoying. -.-

Namikaze:
Minato is married with Kushina and they want their son back, but Naruto prefers to stay with Kakashi instead. >_>

Uchiha:
Itachi lives with his little brother Sasuke. They are always arguing, fighting and Itachi tends to be the boss. Sasuke doesn't like it and cries in his room instead. >_>

SusannaG

19th Feb 2013, 06:28 AM

I have 12 households at present in my BACC, which is the only neighborhood I've been playing since last June or July.

Adams:

Paul, an Elder Male. Virgo Knowledge sim, Romance secondary. Chess fiend. His son is Douglas, a lawyer (pretty successful one, too; currently at level 9, I think). A Cancer, who is Popularity/Knowledge. He likes chess but doesn't like to start the game. Oh yes, and he's a werewolf. Dreams of becoming a Journalist. His wife, Helen, is an adult plantsim. She's a Taurus, and Popularity/Fortune. The other chess fiend in the house. She often plays all night. I have their sunlamp right over the chess board.

They have two children, Colin, a future werewolf (and he's messy enough to be one), and Daisy, a future plantsim.

Burnside:

Ellen, our founder, who dreams of becoming Mayor. She is a Taurus, in politics, and currently a congresswoman. (She's Popularity/Family.) Her husband is Arthur, who runs Burnside's Junk Shop. He's a Leo Fortune sim, with a Popularity secondary. They have three daughters, teens Caroline (Capricorn/Popularity/Family) and Grace (Cancer/Knowledge/Fortune), and little Virgina, who is still a child. She's a Gemini. They hold open house on Ellen's days off as a usual rule.

Coleman:

Anna, an elder Libra/Knowlege/Fortune sim, who owns Anna's Pots 'n' Things and Coleman's Greengrocers. (She has a gold badge in pottery.) Her son is named Mark, and he's an attorney, though not as successful as Douglas Adams. (He's Sagittarius/Family/Pleasure.) His wife is Eleanor, a grumpy witch. She got a job as a dancer recently, as it is her LTW (and the career is now open). They also have three daughters, teens Juliet (Sagittarius/Knowledge/Popularity) and Anne (Sagittarius/Knowledge/Family; they are not clones, as their distributions are different), and Lark, who is still a child. She's an Aries, and is the resident neat freak (She has 10 points in everything except niceness. She has NO nice points, but is less grumpy than her mother.). Lark's hobbies are cleaning and sports. Juliet is a witch, like her mother. Anne will inherit the pottery shop from her grandmother, as her OTH is arts & crafts, and Juliet the grocery.

Denton 1

Edward's a werewitch, and owns The Craft Shop, which sells witch goods and sewn goods. He's an enthusiastic witch, and his hobby is arts and crafts. (He is Libra/Knowledge/Grilled Cheese). His wife, Lucy (Pisces/Knowledge/Fortune) is also a werewitch, and the town's resident mechanical genius. They have three sons, all still children: twins Clark and Gregory (both Geminis, different point distributions), and Adrian (Sagittarius). Clark and Adrian are future witches, and Gregory a future werewolf. Edward is more cheerful now that there are three other GC-secondary sims in town, so he has someone to discuss Grilled Cheese with.

Easton 1

Benjamin (Aquarius/Knowledge/Pleasure) runs the local bar, The End of the World (and with about 5 more customer stars it'll be Level 10 and I'll have a business slot open). His wife, Karen, is Pisces/Knowledge/Fortune, and they have four children; one daughter, Katherine (now a teen, but I forget her stats), and three younger sons, Peter, Sean, and Gabriel. Katherine and two of the boys are Sagittarius, and Gabriel's a Virgo.

Denton 2

Edwin (Scorpio/Family/Popularity) is Edward's brother, and also a witch. He is even grumpier than his sister, Eleanor Coleman, and started most of the fights which opened Law positions. He's the local policeman on the beat, and a sports fanatic. His wife, Edith (Pisces/Fortune/Popularity) is a fishing freak, as she wants to become an oceanographer, and that's the only way that's happening. (I have harder badges. This may take a while. Keep fishing, Edith!) They have three sons, Henry, Jasper, and Felix, all Aries, and two of them are future witches.

Easton 2:

Luke (Aquarius/Fortune/Popularity) is the local college professor (though I don't have a college), and Benjamin's brother. He married a townie, Aline (Pisces/Knowledge/Popularity), and they have two children, Sandra (yet another Sagittarius) and Christopher (Capricorn). Sandra got her father's huge nose, and Christopher his mother's small eyes and nose; can't wait to see what they look like when they're older (they are both children).

Fisher:

Miles (Aquarius/Knowledge/Fortune) is a musician, although it is his wife, Celeste (Leo/Knowledge/Family) who is the music fanatic. They have two children, teen Thomas (Scorpio/Popularity/Pleasure), and child Miranda (Libra). Celeste and Thomas both have some alien features.

The Dinglewood Ashram:

Founded by Shaggy (Aquarius/Romance/Grilled Cheese) and Sunshine (Taurus/Popularity/Grilled Cheese) Rodgers. His steady girlfriend, Mary Allen (Sagittarius/Knowledge/Grilled Cheese), moved in, and she and Shaggy have a son, Justice Allen. Sunshine has a son by a townie, Ziggy Rogers, who is about six hours older than Justice. My favorite household. They are all laid-back nature fanatics, and make their living from organic farming, money trees (in a stand-in role), and The Hippie Hop Coffee Shop (where the locals go to giggle and blow bubbles).

Gold:

Tyson (Sagittarius/Fortune/Popularity), a part-alien, and his wife, Sharon (Sagittarius/Knowldge/Fortune), run the local gym. (They are smustle addicts. This looks remarkably like aerobics class.) He's also a dancer. She's expecting their first child.

Hart:

Owen (Virgo/Popularity/Family) is a plantsim, and also a journalist. He's obsessed with his chessboard and his fish tank.

Ingalls:

Elder Marianne (Libra/Fortune/Knowledge) dreams of owning five successful businesses. Her first will be a bakery, I think, as her daughter, Victoria (Aries/Pleasure/Family) has the most cooking points in town (7 or 8, I think). Victoria's a dancer at present. Her son, Carl (Cancer/Pleasure/Romance) is a teen, and also a werewolf.

As yet I do not have a downtown, university, business district, or vacation locales. Gotta earn 'em!

supersimoholic

28th Feb 2013, 12:24 AM

My new neighbourhood Leeton is on year 7. The first borns are now children and all the oldest adults are coming up to 30 soon, which means families without children (only two of them) need to start thinking about kids.

The Quinn Family:
Leo Quinn (Pleasure) owns the local Robotics shop, called "Robotosaur". His wife Lorna Quinn (Knowledge) is a home maker, although they don't have children yet. Lorna is the first and only person so far to achieve her Lifetime Want of maxing all 7 skills and become Perma-Plat. The newest edition to their family is a Servo named "Prototype" as he was the first Servo to be activated. Prototype was taught to make other servos and now spends most of his time making stock for the store.

The Loe Family:
Paul Loe (Romance) bought a community lot and intends it to become a Formal Clothing store, but has yet to open it. His wife Jenna Loe (Family) is a taylor and was in the process of making the clothes to sell, but once baby Robin arrived, they had to sell the sewing machine to buy a crib. Now they are only getting by from selling the vegetables in Paul's small patch in the garden. Jenna Did have a job at Cole's Flowers but when Hank Cole sold the business she had to leave. Robotosaur has an opening but she'll be competing with her ex work mate for the job. I mentioned their only child, daughter Robin Loe who is a child right now. She's very smart and learns things very easily. The last two to join the family are two Large Dogs, boy Duke and girl Prinny, who are currently expecting pups.

The Cole Family:
Hank Cole (Pleasure) Did own a flower shop, but when it wasn't making enough money he decided to sell up. His wife Philis Cole (Knowledge) works at Robotosaur, but doesn't do much else. Philis doesn't know if she wants kids at all but knows she'll probably regret it if she doesn't, and she's running out of time. Hank and Philis are the most passionate of all the couples in Leeton by far. They constantly go on dates and woohoo all the time. This might be a problem because the mayor has put a ban on all contraception until the population grows, so they've not been as intimate, because as stated, Philis is still making up her mind.

The Chase Family:
Aiden Chase (Romance) is a good father, and he also works at Robotosaur. On top of that, he has a huge gardening plot, 6X6, in his garden that he's always tending to. The Chase Family found like very hard at the beginning and at one point were sharing one crib between 2 newborns and a toddler because they couldn't afford another! But once the first yield came in, they were fine. His wife Natasha Chase (Family) is baby crazy! She just loves having children and has been very lucky so far. Her first pregnancy gave her a son, Elliot Chase, who is now a child. Her second pregnancy gave her natural twins, a boy, Howard Chase and a girl, Denise Chase who are toddlers now. Her third and final pregnancy (to date, she's only 28 atm!) gave her ANOTHER SET of NATURAL twins!! Also another mixed gender set, girl Genine Chase and boy Marcus Chase, who are still newborns.

ieta_cassiopeia

28th Feb 2013, 02:08 AM

This may take a while... ...though since my neighbourhood's had no new Sims in it since I last repopulated it, and I made a paper list of who needed to be in the re-population, this task is for once plausible for me. Taking the families of SimHampton, and ignoring pets (and warning that it's a pretty long list):

Aspir - Pauline lives with Brian Aspir-Formiga and Lenore Aspir-Formiga in a converted barn in south SimHampton. Two of her children, Ra and Anna, are acolytes in the local monastery.

Aspir-Chee - A line branching from the Aspir family that nobody outside it will admit exists. Elizabeth lives alone in east SimHampton.

Aspir-Formiga - Another line branching from the Aspir family tree. Lenore and son Brian live with Pauline Aspir in a converted barn in south SimHampton.

Lenore's other children, twins Ishneet and Ishmeet, are acolytes in the local monastery. Uncle Luis (who is the point at which the Aspir and Aspir-Formiga lines separate) is a Cleric-Brother at the same monastery.

Barratt - Ethan is married to Holly Shin, who kept her name after the wedding. They live in a small house in west SimHampton with Ghanima Logarint, Rashida-Labana Logarint, Rashido-Labano Logarint and Sanjay Ramaswani.

Beaker - Circe lives at her lab with Nina Caliente, Imane Caliente and Castor Bell.

Bell - Castor is currently a test subject at Beaker Labs Inc., hoping to be cured of a serious illness. His great-aunt Starla is in prison for improper use of power while working as a senior politician.

Bradshaw - Scott is a member of the Planning Council.

Bruty - Sandy, the sole known member of the family, is the newest member of the Planning Council, having previously been a TV dance star.

Burb - Elizabeth, mother of Jennifer, who in turn is mother of Kimberley (a fiery red-head who tends to dress in tartan), Haf and Otto (black-haired twins; Haf is the sociable one and Otto the family intellectual). They all live together in central SimHampton.

Her aunt Lucy, and cousin Blake, are currently live-in servants at the Hick household.

Caliente - Nina and daugher Imane live at Beaker Labs Inc. with Circe Beaker and Castor Bell.

Capp - Samantha lives with daughter Jeannie in a dorm at SimHampton University (forgotten which one). Long story. Sons Hal and Tybalt live in the fraternity, while Desdemona lives in Dynasty Dorms.

Cheo - Rumoured offshoot of the Chii family, though nobody has ever confirmed or ruled out the possibility. Boeb is second-in-command at SimHampton SpacePort, working with Cynthia Gwyn and Amica Saerin.

Chii - An offshoot of the Jones family. Celiné is a member of the Planning Council, and the BaneForce's espionage agent there. Her sister, Mission, is a Valgon living in Nehankori Enclave, with children (Cilegia and Circolo) that she formally adopted from Celiné.

Cormier - Ricky is a member of the Planning Council. No relation to Rick Contrary despite the similarity of names.

Gavigan - PC Mary Gavigan runs SimHampton Prison and also looks after her son Isiah. Her husband Nathan is recovering from illness in a small house next door.

Gibson - The only member of the family known so far is David. He's in SimHampton Prison for murdering Natasha Una.

Goodie - Faith lives alone in west SimHampton. Husband Herbert is a live-in servant at the Picaso household, while daughter, Deborah "Debz", is learning how to use magic from Joleane Sunrina in her house.

Green - Gabriel lives with Jane Stacks in a farm in central SimHampton.

Gwyn - Cynthia Gwyn currently lives and works at SimHampton SpacePort with Boeb Cheo and Amica Saerin. Father Afra is an inmate at the Nehankori Asylum.

Hick - Nathan and daughter Rebecca live in central SimHampton. Son Dustin lives at SimHampton University's fraternity. Mother Mama and aunt Aghminien are the Planner for Finance and Chief Planner of the Planning Council respectively.

Jones - Junior Princess Jones (first name Emmy) is deputising for the ill High Princess Monty I. The true power behind the throne is her father, Kell/SimBane. His ex-wife Sivafel and prospective future wife Nerys Turner-Jones live with them, in a huge castle in north-west SimHampton, across the river from everyone else. Emmy's aunt, Celiné Chii, is a senior politician in the Planning Council.

Lillard - The only known member of the family, Brandon, is a kilt-wearing member of the Planning Council.

Logarint - Ghanima, daughter Rashida-Labana "Lab" and grandson Rashido-Labano live in a small creaky two-up, two-down house in west SimHampton with Ethan Barratt, Holly Shin and Sanjay Ramaswani. They tend to trip over each other every time they move.

Maguire - Kirsten lives alone in central SimHampton, wondering when her friend Samantha will grow up again and join her in some more adventures.

Maleficent - Banestoy is the manager of the local retirement home, which currently houses Katy Thorne and is also staffed by Romeo and Beforril/BaneLeader Monty. Name not particularly indicative of her nature.

Monty - This is one of the bigger, more complicated families. The theoretical head of the household is High Princess Monty I (first name Bianca), but she is currently ill, confined to a room on the upper floor of the Monty's castle. The castle is situated in east SimHampton, far from other Sims' houses. Her mother Isabella is the family touchstone, her excellent cooking bringing together children with very different loyalties. Younger daughter Bianca would also live there, but she is currently serving time in prison for conspiring against the rightful ruler of SimHampton (i.e. her own sister).

Oldest son Romeo, and his rumoured-pregnant wife Beforril/BaneLeader (second-in-command of the evil BaneForce) live at, and work in, a retirement home in west SimHampton. Romeo knows BaneLeader's loyalties, but has so far been unsuccessful in convincing her to become good. They live with Banestoy Maleficent and Katy Thorne.

Younger son Mercutio is at university, sharing Dynasty Dorms with Desdemona Capp and Rick Contrary.

Newson - Siblings Garrett, Ginger, Gabriella, Georgia and Gallagher live in a wonderful big two-storey house in west SimHampton. Their brother Gavin lives in the SimHampton University fraternity.

Nigmos - An offshoot of the Smith family. Urbani and Johnny are both children of Pollination Tech #9 and Jenny Smith, and each is the head of a household. Urbani (long black hair, tends to wear exercise gear all the time, pretty stupid) lives in south SimHampton with toddler daughter Tehrha.

Johnny lives in the foreigner's section of the Nehankori Enclave with younger siblings Pollijake Smith, Pollihenri Smith and the older Martha Smith (the younger Martha Smith died during the last cyberstorm), all of whom are teenagers.

Ophelia Nigmos is hidden in a secret area of the Nehankori Enclave. She lives alone.

Pedersen - Bella is currently in prison for starting a riot. Her husband John and son Najib are missing, though vague reports indicate they're alive... ...somewhere.

Picaso - Twins Elandrae and Elandré live at their hairdressing studio in north SimHampton, with servant Herbert Goodie.

Pleasant - The only surviving Pleasant is Mary-Sue. The fact she was in prison for the relatively minor crime of starting a riot may have saved her life, because the rest of the family was in Alegnia Viaduct's monastery when the entire town was destroyed in a cyberstorm.

Ramaswani - Priya lives alone in a pretty house in central SimHampton. Her husband Sanjay is a live-in servant at the Logarint household.

Roseland - Cyd lives alone in a house in west SimHampton. He's still fanatical about training dogs.

Saerin - Amica is the leader of SimHampton Spaceport, living and working with Cynthia Gwyn and Boeb Cheo.

Shin - Holly lives with husband Ethan Barratt (who kept his name post-marriage). They share a small house with Ghanima Logarint, Rashida-Labana "Lab" Logarint, Rashido-Labano Logarint and Sanjoy Ramaswani.

Smith - Sadly a shadow of its former self. Ignoring Sims in the Nigmos branch of the family, Jill is the most senior member of the family. She is in the Planning Council.

Her sister Jenny-Jersey lives alone in east SimHampton. Brother River lives in the foreigner's section of Nehankori Enclave with Paul Corsillo and Payton Wade.

Stacks - Jane is seriously ill and is currently confined to a tent. She lives with Gabriel Green on a farm in central SimHampton.

Summerdream - Titania and distant relative Placeholder (yes, he really is called that) run the SimHampton Elven Educatory, in a secluded meadow in east SimHampton. Among their students are Titania's daughters Amy and Melissa, and son Eamonn.

Titania's husband Oberon, along with son Olli, are live-in servants at the Monty castle. Titania and Oberon's daughter, Bottom, is an acolyte at the local monastery.

Sunrina - The sole remaining signatory to the SimHampton Independence Grant, Joleane Sunrina, lives with Koaxis Velduz, Deborah "Debz" Goodie, in a grand old house in west SimHampton, overlooking the river.

Thorne - Katy was a gypsy and now lives in a comfy retirement home. Living with her are staff members Banestoy Maleficent, Romeo Monty and Beforril/BaneLeader Monty.

Velduz - Koaxis, the oldest elf in SimHampton, lives with Joleane Sunrina, and Deborah "Debz" Goodie, in an old house in west SimHampton.

Ya-Telehixia - Zatreia lives alone in a pink house in central SimHampton.

Ying - Taylor and sons Scott Jr. and Ralp live in south SimHampton.