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avaricesims Welcome back to 101 Disney Babies! In the last chapter Simba became a child, second baby Kristoff came along, and Snow White contemplated a celebrity donor.
I'm pleased to say she was also willing to be more realistic this time, given Thorne Bailey is a proper celebrity and is also married with two children. Shortly after snapping a fan selfie with him, she met another Sim, famous for an entirely different reason...
Johnny Zest is the disowned second son of Nancy and Jeffrey Landgraab, that infamous Sims family of capitalist monsters. Johnny has rejected the family obsession with wealth and rampant property speculation, striking out on his own with a fancy new last name and flicky blond hair. All in all, he wouldn't be a bad choice for Snow.
She's still holding a torch for Magnus, though - a fellow geek, who invited her to the park. She took Simba along with her so he could work on his aspiration, but immediately went inside and busted out the wines. A girl after my own heart.
So...that child waving at Simba? Sammy Delgato, Justin's youngest child with his wife Supriya, and thus Simba's half brother. Justin had Sammy with Supriya almost at the same time as Snow had Simba - he literally may have gotten Supriya and Snow pregnant on the same night, that cheating bastard. Obviously I say that on Supriya's behalf, since Snow knew exactly what she was signing up for.
Unfortunately for Snow and also my patience, Magnus is stronger than Justin and despite engaging in some playful banter, eventually rejects Snow's advances.
Magnus: look, you're very attractive, but I have a family to think of. I think I should go.
Snow: obviously SOME of us haven't had enough to drink >=/
When Johnny invites her out while she's still out with Magnus, her mind is made up.
Snow: Magnus was kind of mediocre anyway. And I do like a blond.
Simba is summarily sent to the library to work on his typing. Can't have Johnny Zest reminded that there should be no hubba hubba if you ain't got a rubba.
Fun fact, this was a very real sexual health campaign run in New Zealand in 2004 in response to increasing HIV infections, involving an animated rapper singing to a very excited crowd those exact words. Check out Youtube (no rubba no hubba hubba) for a very interesting experience. The early 2000s were QUITE something.
Anyway, Johnny and Snow enjoyed some light flirtation...
Then Snow had to use the bathroom but let's not let that stop us from finishing our wine, right Snow?
Snow: I have been not pregnant for approximately 3% of my entire existence so if I want to drink while on the toilet during a rare break between carrying baby after baby, I will.
BC: Touche.
Life cannot be all wine and flirting with cute blonds, though. At home, Snow plants another garden to try and boost the family income a bit.
Leaving Simba to teach his younger half-brother some things with blocks.
Snow pitches in too though, and actually she's a really good Mum considering how often I have her running around town after various men, but I think Kristoff would rather have Simba because he threw an almighty tantrum about having this book read to him, and he still doesn't look happy about it.
Simba and Kristoff are very close and sweet together, actually. Kristoff idolizes his older brother. Or at least he did.
Because child birthday! And he grew up mean, and immediately started lashing out at Simba left, right and centre. What is this, Kristoff? Your namesake is a giant teddy bear! I should have called you Hans.
I gave him a ruffian-inspired makeover, but he grew up in the Harry Potter glasses and I kept them as a kind of false sense of security. You THINK he's a nerd, right up until he socks you in the jaw. Despite being a snarky little shit, he wants to be a social butterfly. Unfortunately, we didn't do too well on his skills, and he didn't get the Happy Toddler trait like Simba managed. I swear, these kids are growing up so fast, skilling them is really hard.
#foreshadowing
With her two children growing up fast and another bun yet to be placed in the oven, Snow invited Johnny Zest over the evening of Kristoff's birthday. He had the now requisite run in with Justin on Snow's porch, as Justin remains enamoured with Snow and visits her every single day.
Justin: oh christ, another one
Johnny: what?
Justin: ...nothing. Um. Are you here to see Snow?
Johnny: sure, she invited me over. Are YOU here to see Snow?
Justin: I don't know why I'm here.
BC: none of us do, Justin. Take your now-useless sperm and go home to your wife!
Justin does not go home. Peep him watching Snow and Johnny creepily through the front door panes.
Snow: would you like some coffee?
Johnny: yeah, that'd be nice.
Snow: oh wait, my bad, thanks to BC's ridiculous rules I am too poor to afford a coffee machine.
Johnny: ....oh, never mind, then.
Justin, distantly: SNOOWWW. I LOOOOVE YOUUUU.
Johnny: does he always stand on your porch sobbing and declaring his love for you?
Snow: quite frequently, yes.
Snow: why don't you come upstairs to my room? You can hardly hear him up there.
Johnny: sure, let me just contort myself strangely so the camera can catch my excellent genetics.
BC: blonde, light green or grey eyes...I like it, yes. You can stay.
Johnny: oh my, Snow. You're so forward...
Snow: I invited you up to my bedroom, Johnny. I think we'd already established that.
Snow: wanna smash?
Johnny: boy do I
This interaction makes me laugh. They always do a little celebration dance, it's so cute and dorky. Gonnagetlaid, gonnagetlaid, yesssss!
Justin, very distantly: I CAN HEAR THE BED FRAME BANGING AGAINST THE WALL. WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME, SNOW? WHYYYYY?
Snow: GET OFF MY PORCH
Johnny: I am strangely turned on right now.
BC: don't tell us your problems, Johnny.
No pregnancy tests allowed, but I consider Snow's morning barf a very good sign.
Apparently, though, Johnny didn't have enough of Snow last night, because he turns up uninvited within hours of his walk of shame away from the house the night before.
Snow: well...I mean, he's already here...
BC: *shrug* you go for it girl, I'm not complaining if we have a free shot at making sure there's definitely a baby coming.
Johnny: will that strange man come and yell about how much he loves you again?
Snow: we can only hope.
Justin: Snow? Snow, are you home? I can see you moving around in there...oh, is that blond man still there? Please let me in Snow...I swear I'm going to leave Supriya...
Johnny: oh yes, that'll do it.
Johnny: thanks for swinging by again, man. I don't know what it is, but having you down here yelling and crying about how much you want Snow really does it for me, y'know? Maybe it's something to do with some other man really, really wanting to get into her pants, but I'M the one getting into her pants...anyway, nice to see you again.
Justin: DDDD:
And so Johnny heads off again, a spring in his step, and a very smiley and satisfied Snow sits down to help her oldest son with his school project.
Surprisingly, Justin stays. Even more surprisingly, he still has a really strong relationship with Snow, despite the many men he has walked in on her entertaining, and all the minus hearts he throws around as a result.
Snow: look, we both know you're not planning on leaving Supriya. I don't WANT you to leave Supriya. Why don't you spend some time with Simba instead of mooning after me all the time?
Justin: I think you're old enough, Simba, to know that I'm your Dad.
Simba: I had figured that out, yes, from the way you keep desperately trying to get into my mother's pants. I figured you had some history.
Someone who we don't see ever is Ronan, Kristoff's Dad, although he sent Kristoff a birthday present and texts him sometimes (these are such cute touches in the game, I really appreciate it). Luckily, Kristoff has an attentive and loving mother to take him to the park so he can be social for his aspiration, and so he can be mean to people, as his heart truly desires. She left Simba to spend some quality time with his Dad at home.
Uh...attentive might be stretching it a bit. But she WAS up all night with Johnny, I suppose.
Evidence of said night with Johnny demonstrated here. Snow is pregnant again!
Snow: did you have a good time with your Dad, bud?
Simba: sure, if you call watching a grown man sob in the corner of our kitchen a good time.
At least Justin also sent Simba a present for his birthday, so Kristoff and him actually do have a couple of toys to play with. The imagination animations are the cutest thing ever.
The next day, Simba and friend Loren - Haley Henrick's daughter, so actually Kristoff's aunt (!!!) - cut school together, but Simba looks PISSED about it.
Loren: won't it be fun to play at this completely deserted place that nobody knows we've come to?
Simba: they will never find your body.
Despite the very scary faces he was pulling, Simba does not in fact murder Loren (thankfully, this would be very inconsistent with his traits, and also dark af), and they enjoy a fun afternoon swimming at Island Bluffs.
Simba then heads right for the library instead of home, with Kristoff and Snow meeting him there so they can do their homework, and who should show up? Loren! Now a teen! She literally aged up during the load screen between the Bluffs and the library.
Snow should probably be helping one of her sons with his homework, but we are still so broke, so she spends the evening fishing instead.
She's actually made an okay start on collecting, although we're still not getting as many double ups as I'd like, which is what we need so we can sell some. This is also the only shelf in the entire house able to display anything, so the rest of the shit she's found she has to carry around in her inventory.
Once back home, Snow quickly bakes her very first cake (we haven't been so good at birthdays yet, okay).
Because it is Simba's teen birthday! At this point I thought it was weird how badly I'd done on getting through Rambunctious Scamp with him. We only have two kids in the house, and usually that is the easiest aspiration, but I only got to the second milestone. I finally, two children and a pregnancy into this challenge, realised the age span was set to short, having defaulted to that. No wonder it was so hard to finish aspirations and skill them as toddlers!! Since it only disadvantaged me, and we're not too far in, I just set it to normal at this point and carried on with the challenge. Fortunately I've only lost a few points for Simba and Kristoff. There's still a ton of kids to go!
Simba is a pretty interesting-looking Sim. Not unattractive, but also sort of looks like a potato. His eyes are quite small, which doesn't help, but I actually like his unusual mouth. He takes hugely after Justin, because Snow has almost cartoonishly large eyes (on purpose, given she's inspired by a Disney character). He rolled Good for his teen trait, so he's much more pleasant than younger half-brother Kristoff, and he wants to be a Master Chef.
Simba immediately gets a call inviting him to join the Paragons after his birthday, and he accepts. Turns out, this is the dumbest club ever - they spend the whole time trying on different pink clothes and doing absolutely nothing else, and they're all adults so it's frankly borderline inappropriate for Simba to be part of the weird dress up club. I'll have to decide if he takes it over and gives it an overhaul, or joins something different.
Know what else is borderline inappropriate? Snow's reaction to bumping into Thorne Bailey again.
Snow: omgomgomg can I have your babies?
Amazingly, she actually managed to introduce herself to him (not a given, because he's a celebrity and she most definitely is not), although he takes off out of there, like a sane person confronted by a much less sane person, shortly thereafter.
BC: young lady, you get back home and take care of your existing children before you embarrass yourself any further.
Snow: I don't care what you think, I'm getting pregnant to Thorne Bailey one day. Just you wait.
She does go home and engage in some actual parenting of her youngest, meanest son, though.
Not that he's really that mean. He sometimes gets snarky with Simba, but he has a great relationship with Snow and is excited for a new baby brother or sister.
The two current kids are not big mess-makers, really, and Snow managed to catch Kristoff the one time he did it.
She even managed to make him clean it up. Parenting win!
And he gets a hug afterwards for a job well done. Precious!
The next day, with the boys at school, Snow TRIES to get some writing done on the book she started forever ago, but stupid Dustin Broke showed up with his stupid fan club and wouldn't stop distracting her.
Even so, some focused effort produces a finished book and...drum roll please...EIGHT WHOLE DOLLARS A DAY in royalties. Wow. We're rolling in it now.
Unfortunately, now heavily pregnant Snow was not really in any condition for a sustained afternoon of hard work, because she was starving and exhausted by the time she finished. I managed to get her fed...
But not to a bed.
Or toilet. Oops.
In fact, she barely gets a few hours of sleep once she does get home before the familiar pains start up.
Snow: ah fuck it.
Kristoff: hehe. You said fuck.
Another familiar, lonely walk down a hospital corridor for our long-suffering matriarch ensues.
BC: you could have called Johnny, you know. He's single.
Snow: he hasn't been by since I started showing. Telling someone you're pregnant with their child as you're giving birth to it seems ill-advised.
Welcome to the world, baby Florian!
Florian is actually named after the Prince from Snow White. He was originally supposed to have a bigger part in the movie but appears just twice, because he was so hard to animate, which like...clearly, from the above picture. That is not a particularly attractive prince, I'm afraid. Someone on the internet said he looks like a young Liza Minnelli and now I can't unsee it, which is unfortunate, but I love the name. He actually is unnamed in the original movie - he is only referred to as the Prince - and opinion differs as to whether he's really called Florian or Ferdinand, but I liked the name Florian so went with that.
Three babies in and three boys...Snow better have a girl soon, I'm starting to get nervous!
I'm pleased to say she was also willing to be more realistic this time, given Thorne Bailey is a proper celebrity and is also married with two children. Shortly after snapping a fan selfie with him, she met another Sim, famous for an entirely different reason...
Johnny Zest is the disowned second son of Nancy and Jeffrey Landgraab, that infamous Sims family of capitalist monsters. Johnny has rejected the family obsession with wealth and rampant property speculation, striking out on his own with a fancy new last name and flicky blond hair. All in all, he wouldn't be a bad choice for Snow.
She's still holding a torch for Magnus, though - a fellow geek, who invited her to the park. She took Simba along with her so he could work on his aspiration, but immediately went inside and busted out the wines. A girl after my own heart.
So...that child waving at Simba? Sammy Delgato, Justin's youngest child with his wife Supriya, and thus Simba's half brother. Justin had Sammy with Supriya almost at the same time as Snow had Simba - he literally may have gotten Supriya and Snow pregnant on the same night, that cheating bastard. Obviously I say that on Supriya's behalf, since Snow knew exactly what she was signing up for.
Unfortunately for Snow and also my patience, Magnus is stronger than Justin and despite engaging in some playful banter, eventually rejects Snow's advances.
Magnus: look, you're very attractive, but I have a family to think of. I think I should go.
Snow: obviously SOME of us haven't had enough to drink >=/
When Johnny invites her out while she's still out with Magnus, her mind is made up.
Snow: Magnus was kind of mediocre anyway. And I do like a blond.
Simba is summarily sent to the library to work on his typing. Can't have Johnny Zest reminded that there should be no hubba hubba if you ain't got a rubba.
Fun fact, this was a very real sexual health campaign run in New Zealand in 2004 in response to increasing HIV infections, involving an animated rapper singing to a very excited crowd those exact words. Check out Youtube (no rubba no hubba hubba) for a very interesting experience. The early 2000s were QUITE something.
Anyway, Johnny and Snow enjoyed some light flirtation...
Then Snow had to use the bathroom but let's not let that stop us from finishing our wine, right Snow?
Snow: I have been not pregnant for approximately 3% of my entire existence so if I want to drink while on the toilet during a rare break between carrying baby after baby, I will.
BC: Touche.
Life cannot be all wine and flirting with cute blonds, though. At home, Snow plants another garden to try and boost the family income a bit.
Leaving Simba to teach his younger half-brother some things with blocks.
Snow pitches in too though, and actually she's a really good Mum considering how often I have her running around town after various men, but I think Kristoff would rather have Simba because he threw an almighty tantrum about having this book read to him, and he still doesn't look happy about it.
Simba and Kristoff are very close and sweet together, actually. Kristoff idolizes his older brother. Or at least he did.
Because child birthday! And he grew up mean, and immediately started lashing out at Simba left, right and centre. What is this, Kristoff? Your namesake is a giant teddy bear! I should have called you Hans.
I gave him a ruffian-inspired makeover, but he grew up in the Harry Potter glasses and I kept them as a kind of false sense of security. You THINK he's a nerd, right up until he socks you in the jaw. Despite being a snarky little shit, he wants to be a social butterfly. Unfortunately, we didn't do too well on his skills, and he didn't get the Happy Toddler trait like Simba managed. I swear, these kids are growing up so fast, skilling them is really hard.
#foreshadowing
With her two children growing up fast and another bun yet to be placed in the oven, Snow invited Johnny Zest over the evening of Kristoff's birthday. He had the now requisite run in with Justin on Snow's porch, as Justin remains enamoured with Snow and visits her every single day.
Justin: oh christ, another one
Johnny: what?
Justin: ...nothing. Um. Are you here to see Snow?
Johnny: sure, she invited me over. Are YOU here to see Snow?
Justin: I don't know why I'm here.
BC: none of us do, Justin. Take your now-useless sperm and go home to your wife!
Justin does not go home. Peep him watching Snow and Johnny creepily through the front door panes.
Snow: would you like some coffee?
Johnny: yeah, that'd be nice.
Snow: oh wait, my bad, thanks to BC's ridiculous rules I am too poor to afford a coffee machine.
Johnny: ....oh, never mind, then.
Justin, distantly: SNOOWWW. I LOOOOVE YOUUUU.
Johnny: does he always stand on your porch sobbing and declaring his love for you?
Snow: quite frequently, yes.
Snow: why don't you come upstairs to my room? You can hardly hear him up there.
Johnny: sure, let me just contort myself strangely so the camera can catch my excellent genetics.
BC: blonde, light green or grey eyes...I like it, yes. You can stay.
Johnny: oh my, Snow. You're so forward...
Snow: I invited you up to my bedroom, Johnny. I think we'd already established that.
Snow: wanna smash?
Johnny: boy do I
This interaction makes me laugh. They always do a little celebration dance, it's so cute and dorky. Gonnagetlaid, gonnagetlaid, yesssss!
Justin, very distantly: I CAN HEAR THE BED FRAME BANGING AGAINST THE WALL. WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME, SNOW? WHYYYYY?
Snow: GET OFF MY PORCH
Johnny: I am strangely turned on right now.
BC: don't tell us your problems, Johnny.
No pregnancy tests allowed, but I consider Snow's morning barf a very good sign.
Apparently, though, Johnny didn't have enough of Snow last night, because he turns up uninvited within hours of his walk of shame away from the house the night before.
Snow: well...I mean, he's already here...
BC: *shrug* you go for it girl, I'm not complaining if we have a free shot at making sure there's definitely a baby coming.
Johnny: will that strange man come and yell about how much he loves you again?
Snow: we can only hope.
Justin: Snow? Snow, are you home? I can see you moving around in there...oh, is that blond man still there? Please let me in Snow...I swear I'm going to leave Supriya...
Johnny: oh yes, that'll do it.
Johnny: thanks for swinging by again, man. I don't know what it is, but having you down here yelling and crying about how much you want Snow really does it for me, y'know? Maybe it's something to do with some other man really, really wanting to get into her pants, but I'M the one getting into her pants...anyway, nice to see you again.
Justin: DDDD:
And so Johnny heads off again, a spring in his step, and a very smiley and satisfied Snow sits down to help her oldest son with his school project.
Surprisingly, Justin stays. Even more surprisingly, he still has a really strong relationship with Snow, despite the many men he has walked in on her entertaining, and all the minus hearts he throws around as a result.
Snow: look, we both know you're not planning on leaving Supriya. I don't WANT you to leave Supriya. Why don't you spend some time with Simba instead of mooning after me all the time?
Justin: I think you're old enough, Simba, to know that I'm your Dad.
Simba: I had figured that out, yes, from the way you keep desperately trying to get into my mother's pants. I figured you had some history.
Someone who we don't see ever is Ronan, Kristoff's Dad, although he sent Kristoff a birthday present and texts him sometimes (these are such cute touches in the game, I really appreciate it). Luckily, Kristoff has an attentive and loving mother to take him to the park so he can be social for his aspiration, and so he can be mean to people, as his heart truly desires. She left Simba to spend some quality time with his Dad at home.
Uh...attentive might be stretching it a bit. But she WAS up all night with Johnny, I suppose.
Evidence of said night with Johnny demonstrated here. Snow is pregnant again!
Snow: did you have a good time with your Dad, bud?
Simba: sure, if you call watching a grown man sob in the corner of our kitchen a good time.
At least Justin also sent Simba a present for his birthday, so Kristoff and him actually do have a couple of toys to play with. The imagination animations are the cutest thing ever.
The next day, Simba and friend Loren - Haley Henrick's daughter, so actually Kristoff's aunt (!!!) - cut school together, but Simba looks PISSED about it.
Loren: won't it be fun to play at this completely deserted place that nobody knows we've come to?
Simba: they will never find your body.
Despite the very scary faces he was pulling, Simba does not in fact murder Loren (thankfully, this would be very inconsistent with his traits, and also dark af), and they enjoy a fun afternoon swimming at Island Bluffs.
Simba then heads right for the library instead of home, with Kristoff and Snow meeting him there so they can do their homework, and who should show up? Loren! Now a teen! She literally aged up during the load screen between the Bluffs and the library.
Snow should probably be helping one of her sons with his homework, but we are still so broke, so she spends the evening fishing instead.
She's actually made an okay start on collecting, although we're still not getting as many double ups as I'd like, which is what we need so we can sell some. This is also the only shelf in the entire house able to display anything, so the rest of the shit she's found she has to carry around in her inventory.
Once back home, Snow quickly bakes her very first cake (we haven't been so good at birthdays yet, okay).
Because it is Simba's teen birthday! At this point I thought it was weird how badly I'd done on getting through Rambunctious Scamp with him. We only have two kids in the house, and usually that is the easiest aspiration, but I only got to the second milestone. I finally, two children and a pregnancy into this challenge, realised the age span was set to short, having defaulted to that. No wonder it was so hard to finish aspirations and skill them as toddlers!! Since it only disadvantaged me, and we're not too far in, I just set it to normal at this point and carried on with the challenge. Fortunately I've only lost a few points for Simba and Kristoff. There's still a ton of kids to go!
Simba is a pretty interesting-looking Sim. Not unattractive, but also sort of looks like a potato. His eyes are quite small, which doesn't help, but I actually like his unusual mouth. He takes hugely after Justin, because Snow has almost cartoonishly large eyes (on purpose, given she's inspired by a Disney character). He rolled Good for his teen trait, so he's much more pleasant than younger half-brother Kristoff, and he wants to be a Master Chef.
Simba immediately gets a call inviting him to join the Paragons after his birthday, and he accepts. Turns out, this is the dumbest club ever - they spend the whole time trying on different pink clothes and doing absolutely nothing else, and they're all adults so it's frankly borderline inappropriate for Simba to be part of the weird dress up club. I'll have to decide if he takes it over and gives it an overhaul, or joins something different.
Know what else is borderline inappropriate? Snow's reaction to bumping into Thorne Bailey again.
Snow: omgomgomg can I have your babies?
Amazingly, she actually managed to introduce herself to him (not a given, because he's a celebrity and she most definitely is not), although he takes off out of there, like a sane person confronted by a much less sane person, shortly thereafter.
BC: young lady, you get back home and take care of your existing children before you embarrass yourself any further.
Snow: I don't care what you think, I'm getting pregnant to Thorne Bailey one day. Just you wait.
She does go home and engage in some actual parenting of her youngest, meanest son, though.
Not that he's really that mean. He sometimes gets snarky with Simba, but he has a great relationship with Snow and is excited for a new baby brother or sister.
The two current kids are not big mess-makers, really, and Snow managed to catch Kristoff the one time he did it.
She even managed to make him clean it up. Parenting win!
And he gets a hug afterwards for a job well done. Precious!
The next day, with the boys at school, Snow TRIES to get some writing done on the book she started forever ago, but stupid Dustin Broke showed up with his stupid fan club and wouldn't stop distracting her.
Even so, some focused effort produces a finished book and...drum roll please...EIGHT WHOLE DOLLARS A DAY in royalties. Wow. We're rolling in it now.
Unfortunately, now heavily pregnant Snow was not really in any condition for a sustained afternoon of hard work, because she was starving and exhausted by the time she finished. I managed to get her fed...
But not to a bed.
Or toilet. Oops.
In fact, she barely gets a few hours of sleep once she does get home before the familiar pains start up.
Snow: ah fuck it.
Kristoff: hehe. You said fuck.
Another familiar, lonely walk down a hospital corridor for our long-suffering matriarch ensues.
BC: you could have called Johnny, you know. He's single.
Snow: he hasn't been by since I started showing. Telling someone you're pregnant with their child as you're giving birth to it seems ill-advised.
Welcome to the world, baby Florian!
Florian is actually named after the Prince from Snow White. He was originally supposed to have a bigger part in the movie but appears just twice, because he was so hard to animate, which like...clearly, from the above picture. That is not a particularly attractive prince, I'm afraid. Someone on the internet said he looks like a young Liza Minnelli and now I can't unsee it, which is unfortunate, but I love the name. He actually is unnamed in the original movie - he is only referred to as the Prince - and opinion differs as to whether he's really called Florian or Ferdinand, but I liked the name Florian so went with that.
Three babies in and three boys...Snow better have a girl soon, I'm starting to get nervous!
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Total Baby Count
Total Baby Count
1. Simba (m): Justin Delgato
2. Kristoff (m): Ronan Henricks
3. Florian (m): Johnny Zest
2. Kristoff (m): Ronan Henricks
3. Florian (m): Johnny Zest