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avaricesims Welcome back to the Legend Legacy! After a brief interlude to engage in what I've learned is called "rotational play" for the purposes of story progression, we can now return to the Legend family. I envision this rotational play style to become more and more time consuming as the legacy progresses buuut it's also pretty fun to take a break from doing things "properly" for the legacy family - getting them out and about doing optional, non-story-progression but good story-telling - things. With the others I can fast-forward through important life milestones without stopping to take a million pictures. So I will be continuing to do this a couple of times each generation, or as needed for story-important sims like spares and close friends of legacy household members.
If we successfully complete this legacy, I may then investigate the story progression mod that's available for Sims 4 and see what happens if I run a new legacy with that in place. It'd be kind of cool to have a comparison. I suspect it would be a lot faster (as I wouldn't need to play other households at all) but also, potentially, a lot more chaotic since I would have no direct hand in what neighbourhood sims got up to.
Anyway...
Unfortunately I didn't discover until too late that building a gallery house would wipe out all of Gaia's carefully crafted gardens, including her cow plant. I'm not that sad to see the cow plant go but it did mean starting from scratch with Gaia's profession. No do-overs, though, so I simply bought two new planters, pulled some plants out of the fridge, and got her going again.
The family also has enough money for this nifty elemental display, so I can finally get all the elements Gaia is hoarding out of her inventory. I dream of the day I have a legacy house big enough and expensive enough to have a whole room dedicated to collections, but this is a start!
There's even enough money for Gavin to get a desk and computer to write at, and for Aphrodite to get the art table she needs to progress on her Artistic Prodigy aspiration. Things are definitely looking up for the Legends, although they will have to be careful to earn enough to cover the no doubt massively increased bills heading their way.
Since Aphrodite got her art table, Artemis gets to invite new friend Aldo (the kid from the park in the last chapter) over after school. However, he seems to remember Aphrodite being mean to him and spends his whole visit hiding in Gaia's room, interacting with the babies. Poor Artemis is no closer to the BFF she needs for her aspiration :(
In fact Aldo is the only one around to witness Gaia FINALLY having her adult birthday - her face says a lot about how she feels about that! Like Gavin she is sad no-one celebrated and mopes around for a day. It's really her own fault, though - she's the appointed family cook but isn't high enough in cooking skill to make cakes yet.
And, almost immediately after Gaia's birthday, it's time for her younger twins to age up into children! We're going to have four kids in the household, eep.
Athena is first and...oh boy. She's very expressive, as you can see, but has chronic resting bitch face and is definitely the least pretty of the children so far. Even less so than, erm, interesting-looking Aphrodite. She shares both Aphrodite's red hair and also her Evil trait! So both redheaded children in the family are Evil, one from each set of twins. Wonderful, that should make for some serious family drama. She also rolled the Social Butterfly aspiration despite being Evil.
I've decided that Gaia's green hair is definitely responsible for the random red hair appearing in her children.
Apollo ages up slightly after his twin, making him officially the youngest in the household. And he is the COOLEST KID I HAVE EVER SEEN. Where older sister Artemis' hair is dark brown, Apollo got his father's black hair. You also can't see it behind his painfully awesome glasses but he's the only one of the children with a new eye colour! Aphrodite, Artemis and Athena all inherited Gavin's dark brown eyes, but Apollo's eyes are a really beautiful light brown. Not quite Gaia's green, but I'm relieved there's some diversity.
Apollo rolled the Artistic Prodigy aspiration, same as Aphrodite, and the Self-Assured trait - which I love for such an effortlessly cool kid. So that makes two of the children with Social Butterfly and two with Artistic Prodigy, none of which I expect to complete for this generation but we'll see how we go!
Having four children around necessitated a minor house makeover, so this is their chaotic crush of a bedroom. It's not ideal but it will have to do.
Tell you what though, this arrangement makes the monster under the bed situation, which happens all too often, the most giant annoyance ever. They ALL get disturbed and none of them will go back to bed for ages.
The next day I send Athena across the road from the lot to start work on her aspiration, and she spends some time getting to know these two ladies. She hits it off with Hot Pink here but her Evil trait soon has Yellow Mini Skirt flouncing off in a huff.
Apollo also commandeers the art table from Aphrodite to work on his aspiration. It occurs to me finally to dig through the family inventory at this point, and sure enough Gavin has earned two decorations from his Writing career that are Inspirational decor. I install them in the lounge, where the art table and Gavin's computer are, and now both the children and him can be super productive and creative.
Artemis continues to have Aldo over frequently in a piss poor attempt to get her a BFF, but she so often has sad moodlets from school (she's a sensitive wee bunny) that she's usually not in the mood to socialise properly.
It doesn't help poor Artemis that her twin, Aphrodite, absolutely hates her fellow redhead and Evil younger sister, Athena. As I predicted the two are constantly arguing and irritating each other. On the plus side this means their respective twins are mostly spared the worst of their Evil whims (which they take out on each other). Artemis and Apollo, the two non-Evil children, also start to get along quite well.
(Aphrodite is in pigtails when not wearing her beanie).
Meanwhile, Gaia is stay-at-home Mum extraordinaire. She has a lot of cooking to do with four children around, and she's rapidly improving her skills though unfortunately she's still in a stage of preparing mostly poor quality meals, and the whole family usually have 'gross food' moodlets. She has also expanded and fenced her garden and it's looking lovely! The 'tend garden' interaction is so much easier than having to direct her to water, weed, and spray bugs separately, although it's still a pain in the arse having to fertilise everything.
Gavin spends a fair amount of time with his kids but most of his spare moments are devoted to writing, and he's off at work a lot too. His royalty cheque is growing steadily and it's a hugely important source of income for the family. I find it amusing that he can knock out 1 to 2 books per day - teach me your ways, Gavin!
When he has a day off work, though, he and Gaia still find ways to keep the romance alive through child-free dates at the park. They enjoy harking back to the early days of their romance, when grilled food was all they ate!
For free spirit Gaia, house-living instead of lawn-living comes with some serious downsides.
Gaia: never had to mop the floor on the lawn *mumble mumble grumble*
Although poor Gavin, with his neat trait, perpetually wanted to mop the lawn and was most put out by the constant puddles left around the garden when Gaia watered it, so the fact he no longer gets upset about those is a huge improvement for me!
Between her gardening and mothering Gaia still has free time to see her friends, though, so I send her over to Dina and Zoe's place to meet their child. I have her take two of the friends she met while I was playing other households because they're both Day of the Dead celebrators (although not in garb, obviously). Both had the Sugar Skull interaction available. Neither deigned to give Gaia their skull despite being friends with her. ARGH. I am beginning to think this holiday is doomed for me, although if I can find a grave maybe the Offering interaction will make it work (I have already talked to Jasmine and obtained the stand, but it hasn't helped). I might also try going out at night to ask people for skulls and see if that works.
Dina and Zoe's daughter is adorable, and the spitting image of Dina which surprises me because I would have thought Zoe's genetics would be more dominant (not that I actually have any clue how genetics work in TS4). I'm not familiar enough with these Sims to judge if she got any of Zoe's features but she definitely got Dina's colouring. I don't mind, she's adorable and has the Self-Assured trait, just like Apollo.
Zoe's second pregnancy has also progressed a lot and it's Gaia's turn to be excited for her friend's growing family! Gaia's child-bearing days are complete now - four is quite enough and I'm NOT risking another set of twins - but she'll be a fantastic godmother to Zoe's children.
And we'll leave it there for this chapter. Gaia is enjoying familial bliss (and chaos) and has four lovely children to Gavin. The family are financially stable - though still poor they have all they need and are saving enough to expand the house as they need to. Their transition from lawn living to civility has gone as smoothly as could be hoped, and Gaia is delighted with life at the moment. How will it go as the children grow into tempestuous teenagers? Tune in next chapter to find out!
If we successfully complete this legacy, I may then investigate the story progression mod that's available for Sims 4 and see what happens if I run a new legacy with that in place. It'd be kind of cool to have a comparison. I suspect it would be a lot faster (as I wouldn't need to play other households at all) but also, potentially, a lot more chaotic since I would have no direct hand in what neighbourhood sims got up to.
Anyway...
Unfortunately I didn't discover until too late that building a gallery house would wipe out all of Gaia's carefully crafted gardens, including her cow plant. I'm not that sad to see the cow plant go but it did mean starting from scratch with Gaia's profession. No do-overs, though, so I simply bought two new planters, pulled some plants out of the fridge, and got her going again.
The family also has enough money for this nifty elemental display, so I can finally get all the elements Gaia is hoarding out of her inventory. I dream of the day I have a legacy house big enough and expensive enough to have a whole room dedicated to collections, but this is a start!
There's even enough money for Gavin to get a desk and computer to write at, and for Aphrodite to get the art table she needs to progress on her Artistic Prodigy aspiration. Things are definitely looking up for the Legends, although they will have to be careful to earn enough to cover the no doubt massively increased bills heading their way.
Since Aphrodite got her art table, Artemis gets to invite new friend Aldo (the kid from the park in the last chapter) over after school. However, he seems to remember Aphrodite being mean to him and spends his whole visit hiding in Gaia's room, interacting with the babies. Poor Artemis is no closer to the BFF she needs for her aspiration :(
In fact Aldo is the only one around to witness Gaia FINALLY having her adult birthday - her face says a lot about how she feels about that! Like Gavin she is sad no-one celebrated and mopes around for a day. It's really her own fault, though - she's the appointed family cook but isn't high enough in cooking skill to make cakes yet.
And, almost immediately after Gaia's birthday, it's time for her younger twins to age up into children! We're going to have four kids in the household, eep.
Athena is first and...oh boy. She's very expressive, as you can see, but has chronic resting bitch face and is definitely the least pretty of the children so far. Even less so than, erm, interesting-looking Aphrodite. She shares both Aphrodite's red hair and also her Evil trait! So both redheaded children in the family are Evil, one from each set of twins. Wonderful, that should make for some serious family drama. She also rolled the Social Butterfly aspiration despite being Evil.
I've decided that Gaia's green hair is definitely responsible for the random red hair appearing in her children.
Apollo ages up slightly after his twin, making him officially the youngest in the household. And he is the COOLEST KID I HAVE EVER SEEN. Where older sister Artemis' hair is dark brown, Apollo got his father's black hair. You also can't see it behind his painfully awesome glasses but he's the only one of the children with a new eye colour! Aphrodite, Artemis and Athena all inherited Gavin's dark brown eyes, but Apollo's eyes are a really beautiful light brown. Not quite Gaia's green, but I'm relieved there's some diversity.
Apollo rolled the Artistic Prodigy aspiration, same as Aphrodite, and the Self-Assured trait - which I love for such an effortlessly cool kid. So that makes two of the children with Social Butterfly and two with Artistic Prodigy, none of which I expect to complete for this generation but we'll see how we go!
Having four children around necessitated a minor house makeover, so this is their chaotic crush of a bedroom. It's not ideal but it will have to do.
Tell you what though, this arrangement makes the monster under the bed situation, which happens all too often, the most giant annoyance ever. They ALL get disturbed and none of them will go back to bed for ages.
The next day I send Athena across the road from the lot to start work on her aspiration, and she spends some time getting to know these two ladies. She hits it off with Hot Pink here but her Evil trait soon has Yellow Mini Skirt flouncing off in a huff.
Apollo also commandeers the art table from Aphrodite to work on his aspiration. It occurs to me finally to dig through the family inventory at this point, and sure enough Gavin has earned two decorations from his Writing career that are Inspirational decor. I install them in the lounge, where the art table and Gavin's computer are, and now both the children and him can be super productive and creative.
Artemis continues to have Aldo over frequently in a piss poor attempt to get her a BFF, but she so often has sad moodlets from school (she's a sensitive wee bunny) that she's usually not in the mood to socialise properly.
It doesn't help poor Artemis that her twin, Aphrodite, absolutely hates her fellow redhead and Evil younger sister, Athena. As I predicted the two are constantly arguing and irritating each other. On the plus side this means their respective twins are mostly spared the worst of their Evil whims (which they take out on each other). Artemis and Apollo, the two non-Evil children, also start to get along quite well.
(Aphrodite is in pigtails when not wearing her beanie).
Meanwhile, Gaia is stay-at-home Mum extraordinaire. She has a lot of cooking to do with four children around, and she's rapidly improving her skills though unfortunately she's still in a stage of preparing mostly poor quality meals, and the whole family usually have 'gross food' moodlets. She has also expanded and fenced her garden and it's looking lovely! The 'tend garden' interaction is so much easier than having to direct her to water, weed, and spray bugs separately, although it's still a pain in the arse having to fertilise everything.
Gavin spends a fair amount of time with his kids but most of his spare moments are devoted to writing, and he's off at work a lot too. His royalty cheque is growing steadily and it's a hugely important source of income for the family. I find it amusing that he can knock out 1 to 2 books per day - teach me your ways, Gavin!
When he has a day off work, though, he and Gaia still find ways to keep the romance alive through child-free dates at the park. They enjoy harking back to the early days of their romance, when grilled food was all they ate!
For free spirit Gaia, house-living instead of lawn-living comes with some serious downsides.
Gaia: never had to mop the floor on the lawn *mumble mumble grumble*
Although poor Gavin, with his neat trait, perpetually wanted to mop the lawn and was most put out by the constant puddles left around the garden when Gaia watered it, so the fact he no longer gets upset about those is a huge improvement for me!
Between her gardening and mothering Gaia still has free time to see her friends, though, so I send her over to Dina and Zoe's place to meet their child. I have her take two of the friends she met while I was playing other households because they're both Day of the Dead celebrators (although not in garb, obviously). Both had the Sugar Skull interaction available. Neither deigned to give Gaia their skull despite being friends with her. ARGH. I am beginning to think this holiday is doomed for me, although if I can find a grave maybe the Offering interaction will make it work (I have already talked to Jasmine and obtained the stand, but it hasn't helped). I might also try going out at night to ask people for skulls and see if that works.
Dina and Zoe's daughter is adorable, and the spitting image of Dina which surprises me because I would have thought Zoe's genetics would be more dominant (not that I actually have any clue how genetics work in TS4). I'm not familiar enough with these Sims to judge if she got any of Zoe's features but she definitely got Dina's colouring. I don't mind, she's adorable and has the Self-Assured trait, just like Apollo.
Zoe's second pregnancy has also progressed a lot and it's Gaia's turn to be excited for her friend's growing family! Gaia's child-bearing days are complete now - four is quite enough and I'm NOT risking another set of twins - but she'll be a fantastic godmother to Zoe's children.
And we'll leave it there for this chapter. Gaia is enjoying familial bliss (and chaos) and has four lovely children to Gavin. The family are financially stable - though still poor they have all they need and are saving enough to expand the house as they need to. Their transition from lawn living to civility has gone as smoothly as could be hoped, and Gaia is delighted with life at the moment. How will it go as the children grow into tempestuous teenagers? Tune in next chapter to find out!
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