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avaricesims Welcome back to the Legend Legacy! We left Gaia and Gavin trying to raise their children while owning little more than a bed and a toilet, which should be an interesting challenge. There is only one lawn living stage in any legacy and I'm enjoying it while it lasts, but I am also really looking forward to finally buying a house.
Gavin has just finished writing his fifth book and makes around $500 a day in royalties. It all helps, and he's also working nicely through his aspiration. At this stage he needs to write five excellent books to move on, and he's making good progress with that.
All work and no play makesJack Gavin a dull boy, though. Since we have no TV on the lot and Gaia is too busy to entertain him the, er, frisky way, the only thing I can think of is to send him fishing. At least he can sell the fish if he manages to catch anything - we're scrimping and saving every dollar at this point!
Gaia is also doing her part to earn the family some cash and her garden looks truly stunning now. She tends to make over $500 each time she sells produce from it now. The snapdragon flowers are her best sellers.
There's also a lot of baby care going on too, obviously. While it would be nice to have actual rooms so their crying doesn't wake their parents, they were relatively easy babies and didn't scream too often so it was bearable. There's definitely differences between babies on the Sim 4, though - Artemis cried much more often than Aphrodite, who rarely if ever cried unless her needs got really low.
Gaia and Gavin continue to eat at the park on a very regular basis, scrounging off whatever fool Sim coughs up the cash and the effort to actually cook.
And during one such meal Gaia meets the town hobo, who actually looks like a pretty nice dude. Gaia doesn't seem perturbed by his smell and continues eating happily.
Shortly after the twins are born Gaia and Gavin are both invited to J's birthday. I click "yes" to attend without even thinking about it - J is their closest friend after all - before wondering what will happen with the babies. I was DELIGHTED to find they are automatically put into daycare! What a huge improvement from the Sims 3 where you had to call and arrange care, then wait for the nanny to arrive.
J and Gavin immediately do this bro hug thing when they arrive. Lol.
Gaia: lol J you're gonna be old
J: you shut your mouth
This is the best picture I manage of J growing up but as is the norm he doesn't actually look any different so it's not a big deal. The best part is whatever the hell the caterer is doing in the background.
The next day Zoe drops around to see the new babies, and Gaia takes great delight in showing them off the her. This interaction made me laugh, it looks so awkward.
Gaia: see this thing? I made this thing.
Gaia: also this thing.
Zoe didn't interact with the babies outside of this, which was a shame. Gavin looks bored to tears with his cereal and I really can't blame him. I am going to savour buying an oven SO MUCH.
Gaia and Zoe take a quick selfie to commemorate the moment before they leave. This is another gorgeous picture of Gaia that I really love.
Sometime during Zoe's visit Gavin has his adult birthday. And I missed it completely! I am a terrible legacy controller. I wasn't going to have a party for either his or Gaia's adult birthdays, or the twin's child birthdays, because they're saving money. But I also couldn't have a cake baked because the don't have an oven. So Gavin was sad that no-one celebrated his birthday and the only picture I got was him moping in the garden.
The picture IS pretty funny though.
Gaia was originally the exact same age as Gavin but being pregnant seems to freeze Sim ageing and she's now a few days behind him, so hasn't had her birthday yet.
The twins have, though! Gavin is still pouting as Aphrodite grows up with...red hair?! Where on earth did that come from? Gavin has dark hair and Gaia has green hair...when I did her makeover I found out children don't have the same hair colour selection as adults, so maybe they can't inherit some colours. I'm curious to see what happens when she ages up into a teen.
Aphrodite after her makeover. She has a pretty interesting facial structure - she's not the prettiest child I've ever seen - but she's also not ugly. I like her in a tomboyish look. She rolls the Evil trait, and the Artistic Prodigy aspiration. I'm not going to be able to buy anything for aspirations for a while so I'm not sure how these girls will go with theirs, but we'll see.
My picture timing skills for Artemis' age up are even worse than they were for Aphrodite. I don't know what Artemis is doing here, but it sure doesn't look comfortable.
She's much more traditionally pretty than her twin, though. I leave her with the hair she aged into and give her blue clothes to match her sister. I think she's really quite cute. She got Gavin's dark hair and eyes, but Gaia's skin tone. I'm disappointed neither of the girls got Gaia's green eyes but I'm not surprised if it's the case that green is recessive to brown.
Artemis rolled the Creative trait, like her Dad, and the Social Butterfly aspiration. If she's inherited her Mum's outgoing nature she'll have no trouble with that one!
And we'll finish this chapter with a cute hug between the girls. Despite Aphrodite's evil trait they seem to get on quite well...for now at least!
See you soon for Chapter 8.
Gavin has just finished writing his fifth book and makes around $500 a day in royalties. It all helps, and he's also working nicely through his aspiration. At this stage he needs to write five excellent books to move on, and he's making good progress with that.
All work and no play makes
Gaia is also doing her part to earn the family some cash and her garden looks truly stunning now. She tends to make over $500 each time she sells produce from it now. The snapdragon flowers are her best sellers.
There's also a lot of baby care going on too, obviously. While it would be nice to have actual rooms so their crying doesn't wake their parents, they were relatively easy babies and didn't scream too often so it was bearable. There's definitely differences between babies on the Sim 4, though - Artemis cried much more often than Aphrodite, who rarely if ever cried unless her needs got really low.
Gaia and Gavin continue to eat at the park on a very regular basis, scrounging off whatever fool Sim coughs up the cash and the effort to actually cook.
And during one such meal Gaia meets the town hobo, who actually looks like a pretty nice dude. Gaia doesn't seem perturbed by his smell and continues eating happily.
Shortly after the twins are born Gaia and Gavin are both invited to J's birthday. I click "yes" to attend without even thinking about it - J is their closest friend after all - before wondering what will happen with the babies. I was DELIGHTED to find they are automatically put into daycare! What a huge improvement from the Sims 3 where you had to call and arrange care, then wait for the nanny to arrive.
J and Gavin immediately do this bro hug thing when they arrive. Lol.
Gaia: lol J you're gonna be old
J: you shut your mouth
This is the best picture I manage of J growing up but as is the norm he doesn't actually look any different so it's not a big deal. The best part is whatever the hell the caterer is doing in the background.
The next day Zoe drops around to see the new babies, and Gaia takes great delight in showing them off the her. This interaction made me laugh, it looks so awkward.
Gaia: see this thing? I made this thing.
Gaia: also this thing.
Zoe didn't interact with the babies outside of this, which was a shame. Gavin looks bored to tears with his cereal and I really can't blame him. I am going to savour buying an oven SO MUCH.
Gaia and Zoe take a quick selfie to commemorate the moment before they leave. This is another gorgeous picture of Gaia that I really love.
Sometime during Zoe's visit Gavin has his adult birthday. And I missed it completely! I am a terrible legacy controller. I wasn't going to have a party for either his or Gaia's adult birthdays, or the twin's child birthdays, because they're saving money. But I also couldn't have a cake baked because the don't have an oven. So Gavin was sad that no-one celebrated his birthday and the only picture I got was him moping in the garden.
The picture IS pretty funny though.
Gaia was originally the exact same age as Gavin but being pregnant seems to freeze Sim ageing and she's now a few days behind him, so hasn't had her birthday yet.
The twins have, though! Gavin is still pouting as Aphrodite grows up with...red hair?! Where on earth did that come from? Gavin has dark hair and Gaia has green hair...when I did her makeover I found out children don't have the same hair colour selection as adults, so maybe they can't inherit some colours. I'm curious to see what happens when she ages up into a teen.
Aphrodite after her makeover. She has a pretty interesting facial structure - she's not the prettiest child I've ever seen - but she's also not ugly. I like her in a tomboyish look. She rolls the Evil trait, and the Artistic Prodigy aspiration. I'm not going to be able to buy anything for aspirations for a while so I'm not sure how these girls will go with theirs, but we'll see.
My picture timing skills for Artemis' age up are even worse than they were for Aphrodite. I don't know what Artemis is doing here, but it sure doesn't look comfortable.
She's much more traditionally pretty than her twin, though. I leave her with the hair she aged into and give her blue clothes to match her sister. I think she's really quite cute. She got Gavin's dark hair and eyes, but Gaia's skin tone. I'm disappointed neither of the girls got Gaia's green eyes but I'm not surprised if it's the case that green is recessive to brown.
Artemis rolled the Creative trait, like her Dad, and the Social Butterfly aspiration. If she's inherited her Mum's outgoing nature she'll have no trouble with that one!
And we'll finish this chapter with a cute hug between the girls. Despite Aphrodite's evil trait they seem to get on quite well...for now at least!
See you soon for Chapter 8.
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