McSmith Legacy 1.0 & Heir Poll - Now with 20% More pixel_trade!

So with Generations having come out and EA releasing both the memory system and the ability to manually change life stages without buying it I decided to give the game another whirl (since I never even played with Late Night I just sheeple bought it and then ignored the game).

'Sides I have to see if I like it enough to warrant buying Generations and Pets at the end of the year. <.<


Spouse by rhiannon_alexis.

Note: Since I don't have generations I made childhood go obscenely fast and not all my pictures saved properly. So I apologize in advance for the erratic nature of this first update...





Meet Babylon Jack McSmith aka Babs our crinkly eyed founder. Unfortunately in my reinstall I forgot to include my ear hack so all awesome-eared Sims are now sadly just big eared.



Since she has the desire to max out both her Athletic and Martial Arts skills Babs sold most of her furniture to afford a trip to Sim!China and pick up a sparring dummy. She's very thrilled to be here.



Piece of Stick 1 Babs 0 Grasshopper has a long way to go before she beats this one.



But eventually (three days later) she did well enough to show off a couple of new suits and head back home taking PoS with her for more rematches. Sadly she couldn't afford Wood Chopper, but next time. Next time game.



Coming home Babs discovers her home suspiciously empty of anything cool so she wanders down the street and who catches her eye? None other than Laquaan by the lovely and awesome rhiannon_alexis. It's like he magically fell from the sky and just happened to move in there or something...



Laquaan seems to like what he sees...



Promising start!



But like in all my TS3 efforts Babs was denied her first kiss. He's a legacy tease!



Not to be thwarted (get in muh legacy now!) Babs swiftly buys the Eye Candy perk and invites him back to her place. Several hours later (he's shy, it was hard) he's receptive to her suggestion that they go steady!



He even gave in to that kiss. :D



And with possibly a lack of ability to think straight due to sleep deprivation he also accepted her ring.



And they got married post coital. Priorities Laquaan has them.



I find it ironic that pregnancy now takes as long as infant & toddler hood combined in my game...why can't we adjust that too EA?!



I also didn't realize that pregnant sims aren't allowed to use exercise equipment or the training dummy so I'm really happy I made her handy because Laquaan can't turn on the faucet without breaking it.



Soon after it was time for the first possible heir.



And as soon as she was done right to the exercise machine. Just bam. No cuddle. See you later kid I have to go burn off those prego-pounds. <.< Good mothering skillz Babs has them...



Ripley sees you and she does not approve.



Better shot. Laquaan struggled to take care of the kids despite the fact that I gave him childish to substitute my lack of Nurturing. He's shy so apparently his own spawn are just too awkward for him to be around.



Babs is very pleased to be pregnant again...



She got into it when she realized that she didn't have to spend all day upgrading the household this time.



I'm proud to announce that Ripley learned all her toddler training skills. Though she didn't have time to play with any skilling toys.



Aw whose my sullen little derp? Then I heard screaming...



Babs terrifying the paper girl with her labor.



Laquaan actually sat down, started eating his soup and then realized she was in labor and panicked.



Then went back to his soup...anyway let's welcome...



Sigh. Hang on a bit...



Come fishing with Ripley for a while.



Kennedy McSmith! Just like his sister he's got the nice skin blend of his parents and his dad's blond hair. However unlike his sister who inherited her mom's light purple eyes and his father who has light blue eyes...his are brown. Okay.



Laquaan is interested in him, he's just pretending.



There we go.



Unfortunately all Kennedy managed to learn was potty training before it was his birthday. Look his dad works a lot to keep them in free diapers and his mom had a lot of hard sleeping to do!



Final baby! Clyde McSMith who has all of Babs' coloring.



Kennedy is not amused at being handily tossed aside...



Meanwhile Ripley is growing up gloriously! Yes, I certainly wasn't ignoring her or anything!



And Laquaan plays favorites.



This isn't awkward in the slightest EA! *headdesk*



Silly faces make everything better. Except not really!



Oh hey! Guess who can finally go back to that Lifetime Wish! Go Babs; beat the stick!



Laquaan taking some personal time to jam out on a random street corner. I think it's ironic that the terminally shy sim is the one that rolled the want to go perform publicly. Also his Lifetime Wish is to max three skills so I put him in Music to bring in money and work on Guitar/Logic at the same time. Bonus!



Here's Clyde. Nope no one is playing favorites in the household...



I'd like to pretend I'm doing this, but no Babs and Laquaan both favor Clyde.



Ripley decides to take out her frustrations in life by painting beautiful landscapes.



While Kennedy writes hard hitting and critical non-fiction about his family.



You know...for parents that swarm that baby when it comes time for cuddles or snuggles they had no qualms about flat out refusing to teach him. I had to get Ripley to intervene so he could at least learn to poop in a bucket and talk.



Keep on with that A plus parenting Babs! Note the constantly absent Laquaan...



Clyde didn't quite get to walking before he aged up as ridiculously as possible.



Ripley really wanted to go fishing first thing in the morning...



And barely got a chance to before she was immediately picked up. I really wish that more rowdy kids had the chance to try and flee the police or something.



I can only imagine it this way:

"Hey mom! Mom guess what! Even though you saw me leave to go fishing I still got picked up by the cops! Then I got to ride in the squad car and work the siren! It was fantastic!"

"That's nice honey, mommy has to go...talk to daddy about this..." *shifty eyes*



Meanwhile Kennedy grew up sometime between the adults 'talking' and his sister getting busted. Or was it the night before while everyone was focused on not caring about Clyde's birthday?



Kennedy taking out his middle child frustrations on the stick...



Babs learning how to meditate (which I thought was pretty awesome).



And to celebrate she took the kids out to the community pool.



Then had a picnic party in the parking lot for this family is ghetto! Laquaan was legitimately at work this time.



That night it was Ripley and Clyde's age transition again (a few days passed, I didn't manage to get a lot of pictures...mostly it was the kids being delinquent and not wanting to attend school).

Anyway...Ripley's school friend Noel is helping her celebrate.



Then promptly ignored Clyde in favor of the stick. Noel, you're banned from the house from now on...



Clyde decided that he needed to get revenge on the stick for ruining his birthday, but instead got schooled.



Laquaan & his guitar Lola Ripples OTP forever!



Babs finally maxing out Athletic! With Stinky Justice!



And the family could afford not only a tiny room for Ripley, but also a chess set! Oh legacies. You start off so damn poor and then within two generations they'll be living in mansions with a live in butler. <.<



They also got a washer/dryer unit that Clyde was victorious over! Woo!



Then it was Kennedy's YA transition as well and I decided rather than playing through a few more days to get to Clyde's I'd just do a double birthday. Sorry bbs. Kennedy got screwed again and Clyde missed out on flunking high school with his adamant refusal to go! They suffered!

And with that...

ON TO THE HEIR POLL!

I intentionally didn't share their traits until the end so that people could get the full picture of just how gloriously messed up most of these kids are! They either grew up mediocre or I had the worst random rolls. Constantly.



Will it be Ripley McSmith?

Ripley aspires to be an Illustrious Author (Master Painting/Writing)
Traits: Easily Impressed, Good, Loves the Outdoors, Excitable & Bookworm
She's the best mix of her parents with a blend of their skins, father's hair, mother's eyes and mixed features (though she favors Laquaan).



Or perhaps Kennedy McSmith?

Kennedy wishes to be an International Super Spy (Level 10 Law Enforcement Special Agent Branch)
Traits: Excitable, Athletic, Mean Spirited, Snob, Party Animal
He also has the mixed skins and his dad's hair, but inexplicably brown eyes. He favors both his parents.



Of maybe Clyde McSmith?

Clyde desires to be a Paranormal Profiteer (Level 10 Ghost Hunter)
Traits: Neurotic, Grumpy, Couch Potato, Hopeless Romantic, Charismatic
Clyde favors his mother completely in the skin, hair & eyes department. He actually looks remarkably like Kennedy facial feature wise (though his body is thinner).

Now it is time for you to decide because I can't!

The plan is each kid will get with a pixel_trade since there's been a submission explosion over there with spares getting hitched and knocked up first so I'm guaranteed McSmith cousins running around.