Just Dance - An OWBC: Chapter 7 - Alejandro
Hello, dear readers, and welcome back to Just Dance - An Officially Wacky Boolprop Challenge! This is the seventh chapter and features the third generation of the Gaga family. If you haven’t read the recap chapter, I suggest you do because it’s been a long time since I’ve last updated.
Oh, and I’ve only just noticed baby Robyn lying on the floor! Her green skin blended in with the background. Hopefully she’ll grow up pretty damn quickly, because infants are almost as tedious as bad apples. It gets a bit tiring when EVERY SIM IN THE HOUSEHOLD tries to force a bottle down the baby’s throat.
Anyway, let’s delve straight back into the lives of my extremely dysfunctional family.
At the end of the last chapter, Lennox (the eldest child of generation 3) grew up from a toddler to a child. Now it’s time for Patti (the second child of generation 3 and also the bad apple) to grow up from an infant to a toddler.
She turns out adorable, with shiny red hair that looks suspiciously like a dye job.
Patti: “Hay err’body!”
This is probably the first and last time in her life that she’ll be happy, what with being a bad apple. Heh. Maybe if you’re well behaved I’ll let you move out when you hit adulthood.
Maybe.
Lennox: “SWEET! I HAVE A BEST FRIEND!!!!”
Obey seemed less than interested in her newfound friendship with her daughter. Oh well.
Meanwhile, in the home of Bowie Gaga and his wife Shelby, other members of the Gaga family are also growing up.
Pam and Eric are twins who have the traditional red hair of the Gagas, with Shelby’s brown eyes. They’re named after Pam and Eric from HBO’s True Blood.
“Yes! Now that I have hands I can make the most of my lack of nice points!”
Yeah. Pam also inherited the mean gene.
Eric, on the other hand... I guess he’s sort of Pam’s bitch, with his 8 nice points.
On the other side of Strangetown (well, on the other side of the road, actually), Chewie (rachou_babou at boolprop) is experiencing the aftermath of unprotected ACR woohoo with a female zombie.
“I AM GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR WEAVE AND SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT TILL YOU SUFFOCATE, YOU NASTY-”
Pfft. This is the thanks I get for giving her the gift of child.
Meet Alejandro, named after the song, of course. I figured it’s probably what Chewie and Pixie really would name their child if they actually had one.
He somehow ended up insanely nice with basically no neat points. Ew.
He was swiftly aged up and given a fabulously large weave. He has the image of the simself family to uphold, after all.
Back at the main lot, there’s a huge power struggle between Totally and Obey, both of whom see themselves as the head bitch in charge of the Gagas.
But we all know who really owns the throne...
“WHO RUN THE WORLD? ME, GORL.”
Preach it, Lady. Preach it.
We’re still slugging away at the Open For Business bonus, and Christian manages to get a gold talent badge in robotics, after a long lifetime of failure. Thank Gaga!
“Blowing bubbles keeps the bad thoughts away!”
... You need some help, gurl. SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP.
Obey puts the career rewards to good use and maximises the charisma skill.
“You little son of a bitch ball. Why don’t you just go home? That’s your HOME! Are you too good for your home?!”
“I’m bored of cooking. WANT FOOD NOW.”
Bad apples will be the death of me, I swear.
If one thing can be said about this family, it’s that they all love to blow bubbles together.
Obey: “Say ‘Mummy is the baddest bitch and Granny is just an old hag’, okay?”
Patti: “Wut?”
Patti: “R-E-S-P-E-C-T FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME!”
Patti learned to talk, but sadly she was taught the lyrics to Aretha Franklin rather than Patti LaBelle. Still, at least now she might not grow up badly like her father did.
Instead of skipping merrily to the school bus for her first day of school, Lennox decided to build a snowman and let the driver wait in the freezing cold.
... As you can tell, Lennox is going to do very well in this family of inconsiderate sims.
Ozzy, being a bad apple, is possibly the hardest sim I’ve ever had to play. Once again he got demoted, meaning we’re further away from completing the Workaholics bonus. WE NEED THOSE 15 POINTS NOW THAT PIXIE HAS COMPLETED HER OWBC, OZZY, YOU DUMB SON OF A SNITCH.
“My grades suck and my teachers hate me. Can I go take arty photos and write deep messages over them in MS Paint?”
Knock yourself out.
Literally.
Luckily Lennox brought Pam home from school, meaning the main lot would finally get to meet Bowie’s offspring.
However, I soon realised how much of a mistake that really was...
“I’M TAKING YOUR GNOME TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE DIFFICULT. HA.”
NOT MY GNOME, YOU BITCH! :''(
Pam: “I’mma shoot you in the head, where your weave should be.”
Lennox: “*gasp* I no longer feel safe in my home!”
We soon managed to get rid of Pam, however, meaning Lennox could relax and wear her favourite science-fiction pyjamas.
“They remind me of when my dad got probed by an alien.”
Great.
Lady: “Woop! Retro Gaga-family party!”
Christian: “Heh. Those were the days...”
Totally: “I very much regret reproducing. My life was less shit before I gave birth.”
Despite being a terrible mother to her three children, Totally seems to love her grandchildren.
Robyn grows up adorable with a very nice black weave and black eyes.
She has a hell of a lot of nice points, but luckily she’s also neat.
Lennox, on the other hand... Lazy, sloppy and nice are not personality traits I look for in sims, tyvm.
Lady helps us get closer to completing the Workaholics bonus by repeatedly getting promoted. Those 15 points will soon be mine!
I decided it was time to put Totally’s perma-platinum status to good use by creating some smart milk for Robyn. After all, an alien sim child who doesn’t learn their skills breaks every stereotype ever made, and this OWBC does not break stereotypes.
HELLZ YES.
Lennox: “MAMA’S HOME YAY!”
Obey: “THE DAUGHTER I HATE LEAST!”
Obey may hate her mother in-law and Patti, but she loves Lennox.
Obey’s LTW is to reach the top of the Criminal Career, so as soon as the career became available and as soon as the three children were born), I let her join.
Robyn: “I’ll name you Squishy. And you shall be my Squishy.”
Patti: “WHY WON’T SHE SHUT UP OH MY GOD I HATE HER.”
Patti is sort of an emo, despite being a lot happier than her father was when he was a toddler.
Robyn isn’t the only one who’s using Totally’s smart milk. I decided to make good use of Totally, otherwise she was just taking up space and creating lag by blowing bubbles all day.
Patti’s birthday is soon upon us, thankfully. As per usual, Totally confirms her HBIC status by being the one to help the child grow up.
She grew up happily, thank Gaga.
What a BAMF. The Criminal career is well suited to her.
Ozzy, on the other hand...
"It's been two years since I let you go, I couldn't listen to a joke or rock 'n' roll."
My sims? Dysfunctional? Not at all.
Despite Ozzy being batshit crazy and Obey being a part-time criminal, their love remains million dollar strong. Even Ozzy's long-term affair with Lady didn't cause much damage.
OTP :')
Christian: "Watching babies pee is not my idea of a good time."
Mine neither. Still, better you than me!
Patti: "I LEARNED TO WALK."
Lennox: "OMFG. TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE, DID YOU GET VERY FAR?"
Lennox and Patti are as close as two red-haired sisters can possibly be.
Lennox: "Patti, those are the ugliest effing sandals I've ever seen."
SEE? :')
Lady manages to reach the top of the Athletics career! She is genuinely a flawless sim. :')
... Well, not really. But at the moment she is.
Lennox: "WOO THIS IS SO MUCH FUN."
Patti: "Ugh, I'm gonna throw up."
Now it's (finally!) time for Robyn's birthday!
Robyn: "I wish for... world peace."
"Now I get to go to school! HELLZ YES."
She grew up just hours before her first day of school, because I was far too lazy to wait till 6pm to grow her up. It was also Patti's first day of school, due to her growing up over the weekend.
"My first day of school sucked weave."
Well get used to it, because you're a bad apple and will probably never complete your homework. :'(
"My teacher lowered my grade when I suggested that my father's gods were more real than her one."
Gaga is the only god for the sims in this house, silly.
Because I was fed up with seeing my sim children return from school with an empty fun bar, I decided it was time to get them into private school.
So, after a lifetime of me denying her, Lady finally gets the chance to make dinner.
"I AM HONOURED."
Totally decided to put her useless, unemployed self to good use by taking control.
Totally managed to get the Schmooze Points up, but Lady screwed us over by BURNING the lobster, despite her insane amount of cooking skill points. T____T
But we somehow managed to pull it off, and the kids made it into private school. :')
It was at this point that I realised a second bathroom was desperately needed. Seven sims using one bathroom was just too much for me.
Patti: "DADDY! CATCH THESE FIREFLIES FOR ME."
Even though Obey (for some reason) seems to be completely unaware of her, Ozzy dotes on Patti, his bad apple daughter.
Private school uniforms? CHECK.
Well, that was certainly unexpected.
"This weird boy with lesbian parents and a huge-ass weave followed me home."
Excellent.
Ale: "Erm, hi, I'm all alone. Is no one going to give me any attention?"
Robyn: "Gurl, d'ya hear that white boy whining?"
Lennox: "Mmmhmm. I say we take his weave as punishment."
Ale needs to learn that you don't mess with pseudo black girls, one of whom has ginger braids and the other of whom has a shiny black wig. Sigh. I blame his terrible mothers.
Pandora: "Your son is as big as a sumo wrestler, if you catch my drift."
Totally: "THE FUCK?!"
THIS BITCH WON'T LEAVE US ALONE.
Ale isn't really used to affection, so this is probably his first hug. I mean, one of his mothers is a zombie, the other one has a secret persona named Velna, and he also lives with my simself, who probably spends most of his time envying Ale's huge-ass weave.
After a lot of hard work, Ozzy finally manages to unlock the Education career reward, which will make skilling much easier for my halfwit sims. :')
Despite the fact that Bowie spent his whole time in the Gaga house retrieving our gnome after it had been stolen, he decided to join his daughter Pam and steal it from us.
Hopefully someone brings it back, :'(
Anyway, the end of the challenge crept closer as Lennox spun into a teenager.
She rolled the fortune aspiration, which I decided was much better than another having romance sim in the family.
Enjoy being a teenage while it lasts, Lennox, because soon you'll be off to college with your sisters, your cousins and Alejandro.
I made the mistake of throwing her a party, and it soon turned out to be more of a flop than Bionic. But Zombie!Pixie (PixieDust, who has just completed Second Time Around, a highly fabulous OWBC) and Chewie fell in love, which more than made up for it.
Totally: "LOL HER PARTY FLOPPED!!!!"
Lennox, however, is too busy concentrating on skills for her scholarships to listen. I refuse to make the same mistake I did last time and spend most of the college years in poverty, thank you very much.
Lala: "HEY, YOU, OVER HERE! ... I just want a friend..."
Lauren (animeangel1983 over at boolprop) is one of the few smart simselves in my game, apparently, and runs the hell away from this dysfunctional family.
"That teacher gave me bad grades, so I gave her a bad disease."
Patti: "I'M JUST ONE BIG, EMOTIONAL WRECK. COULD YOU GUYS GO GET ME SOME GELATIN AND A KITTEN?"
Pam: "Aw hell to the no. I'mma go make my presence known in the kitchen."
Both Pam and Eric followed the kids home from school today, meaning the Gagas finally got to meet Eric! :')
Lennox starts working to work on earning the Overachiever scholarship.
"I have no time to have a life!"
It's for the best.
Soon Shelby (Bowie's wife and the mother to his two children) makes a visit to the house, too.
"The wolf chased me in, actually. I'd never choose to come into this dysfunctional house of my own free will."
Oh, Shelby.
WE MIGHT NOT BE POOR THIS TIME! Yay! :')
Robyn is smashing school like Lady Gaga's smashing the charts. Patti, on the other hand...
Meanwhile, back at the Simself household, Alejandro has been aged into a teenager. He rolls the Popularity aspiration, which is fairly refreshing.
I also decided this would be the perfect time to age up Marielle McGaw (aka Pandora), in the hopes that it would put a stop to her creepy friendship with Ozzy.
Random Police Officer: "LET ME JOIN OMFG!"
Chewie: "Hahahaha... Hahahahaha... No."
Back at the main lot, Lennox soon reached the top of the Architecture career. As her grades are already A+, she becomes an overachiever and gives me more money in scholarships. Thank Gaga. :')
And this is where I shall leave you! Thank you very much for reading and for sticking with the Gagas. I have the pictures sorted for the next few chapters, so it shouldn't take me too long to update again (hopefully).
Next time:
Birthdays galore - six sims grow up.
The Grim Reaper shows up twice.
And Lennox, Patti, Robyn, Eric, Pam and Alejandro all head off to the Gaga college house, where Olivia is placeholding the money, furniture and pictures against her will.
Thanks again for reading!