The Smith Legacy: 2.5
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We return to the Smith house just in time for a double birthday! Once again, both Olive and Noah's children are aging up at the same time. The two pairs (Aaliyah and Scott and Greg and Chelsea) seemed destined to be close cousins.
Chelsea grew into a cute haircut and her bright blue eyes contrasted beautifully with her dark skin. As a toddler, she certainly looked more like her father in regards to facial features. Everything else was pretty much her mom's.
Greg also grew up looking cute, but looked like more of an even mix of his parents. Olive and Joe looked pretty similar anyway.
(I should warn you--this update is babies, birthdays and more babies. I would've played on speed three the entire time, but I didn't want any social worker visits. That means there's a complete lack of plottiness and instead, there's a plethora of sarcastic, biting commentary. If you're bored, I won't be offended. At all.)
SO. It's time for Ava to give birth yet again!
Considering there were already seven kids in the house (and since Nancy left, only eight young adults), I figured two more wouldn't be too bad. Dealing with seven was difficult enough, but two more wouldn't really tip the boat over, now would it?
Oh, but if it were only two more.
Ava brought three beautiful babies into the Sim World. Three. THREE.
The first of the triplets was Ivy, a girl with a geneticized skintone, her great-grandmother's eyes and her father's brown hair. The second-born was a boy named Taylor, who had his mother's skintone, his mother's brown eyes and his father's brown hair. The last triplet was another boy, named Reno, who had a geneticized (and freckled) skintone, his mother's brown eyes and his mother's black hair.
Here we have Cassidy aptly demonstrating how I felt at this point.
Soon it was time for Clay's twins to grow up and no one was more ecstatic about the event than Clay was. He loved Leya and Tyler with all his heart and for them, he even forgot about how sick he was of eating birthday cake almost every other day.
A day after the twins aged, Olive popped again because she really wasn't done with having kids in college. Because to Olive, that was what college was about. Having a shitload of kids.
Speaking of having enough kids for a football team, it was time for a quadruple birthday in the AHC house! At this point, even Carver and Kittredge were getting sick of seeing all the birthday cakes, but there was nothing they could do. They were really beginning to regret introducing the powerful fertility into the legacy.
It was Hanna and the triplets' birthday!
For these birthdays, the AHC has the biggest turnout for guests, but that was probably because Aaliyah and Scott had both brought friends home from school. Aaliyah was also quite friendly with a lot of the college kids on campus, and she had no qualms about inviting them into the Greek House. If anybody ever wondered what so many kids were doing in a Greek House, they never asked.
Perhaps it was her skintone, but Ivy looked completely different from the rest of her family. Her eyes, while the same color as her cousin Aaliyah's, were twice as haunting (and a little far apart). Still, she was a very cute toddler.
But if Ivy was cute, Reno was just too adorable! Even as a baby, he'd gotten a lot of attention from everyone in the family and he seemed to be a favorite. Perhaps it was his awesome hair or that spacey, doe-like expression.
Taylor seemed to have some kind of middle triplet effect on him. There was nothing particularly special about him as a toddler. He was good at raising his Charisma skill though.
Hanna aged beautifully and reminded her mother a lot of Daria. Not that Ava had ever seen her own mother as a child, but she imagined that Hanna looked a lot like Daria at that age. If you look in the background, you can see what Tyler looks like aged up (I somehow don't have pictures of him and Leya as children; oops).
Cassidy, who I had once marked as my favorite female simply because she wasn't spitting out a baby every three days, betrayed me and jumped on the baby mama in college bandwagon. I had no sympathy for her as she wailed from the pains of labor, all alone on the third floor of the house.
Cassidy gave birth to a lovely little girl named Alyssa. Alyssa was a shade paler than her mother (which was odd, considering Alyssa's father was darker than Cassidy), she had her mother's vibrant green eyes and she had her parents' brown hair.
Some more days filled with diaper changing and the occasional college assignment passed, and soon it was time for more birthdays! This time around, it was Chelsea and Greg who were aging up.
Chelsea grew up well and her party seemed to be going just fine, but halfway through the birthday celebrations, she ran outside the AHC house and had a good cry.
Like a good father, Noah followed his little girl outside and asked her what was wrong. Chelsea tearfully revealed that she'd gotten upset when she saw Noah fighting with Uncle Joe (they just never stopped). Because the kids had grown up in the Greek House, just about everyone in the AHC house had spent a couple of turns playing with or raising kids that weren't theirs. Chelsea was close to both her father and Joe and it made her sad to see them fighting. Noah promised her that they wouldn't fight again, and as much as he couldn't stand Joe, he was determined to keep his promise to his daughter.
To cheer her up, Uncle Trent came outside too and lifted more than just Chelsea's spirits into the air!
Back in the AHC house, Scott and Aaliyah found a different way to get lifted...
After a few moments of there not being a birthday or a birth, Olive simply wasn't having it and so she went into labor in the middle of the main hallway.
She was my favorite once upon a time, you know?
And so Olive brought twins--a boy, Jaden and a girl, Soren--into this world. Jaden had his mother's skintone (I think--or maybe it was a shade lighter), his father's green eyes and his mother's black hair. Soren had a skintone a shade or so darker than her mother's, but she had Olive's brown eyes and Olive's black hair.
Not to be outdone on the baby scale, Cassidy got herself knocked up again. The trend in births began to seem like a conspiracy.
Another birthday. This time, it was only one kid aging up, and that lucky kid was Alyssa (Clay and Cassidy's child, if you're lost or confused. I know I certainly was).
Alyssa ages well and looks almost just like her mother, except for the black hair. She's a cute toddler and goes off to do toddler things, like the other half of the AHC house population.
Cassidy continues to irk me with her pregnancy.
The Smiths continue to have birthday parties. This doesn't seem like much of a Greek House or much of a college experience, does it? Even Carver and Kittredge had more fun in college than this generation. Anyway, it was the triplets' birthday. Big whoop.
Jesse, who remained neglected because he had no children, showed that he was slowly but surely nearing aspiration failure. Whatever Jesse. A quick booty call would probably bring you back up into the gold. Stop whining and making out with a mop and do something with yourself.
More birthdays. -sigh- Do you see what I mean? Like, I can't even be original with these captions. I can't make a plot out of this. What is this? Jeebushuckingcrust.
Anyway, it was Olive's twins' birthday and they aged pretty well. I didn't think either of them was as pretty as their parents just yet, but I wasn't concerned or anything. I think Soren's cuter though. :)
Ivy, Reno (and Taylor, although I missed getting a picture of him) all aged up without a birthday cake celebration because there were too many pop-ups and I'd forgotten it was their birthday. Although, I'm sure the rest of the house isn't too torn up about not eating birthday cake for dinner for another night. Anyway. Ivy looks very exotic in my opinion and Reno just looks badass. Lord knows what Taylor looks like.
The most exciting thing to happen? The gypsy walked by and planted this little gem on the edge of the lot. Of course, the Smiths are forbidden to touch magic lamps ever again, basically, so it was sold within the hour.
Cassidy went into labor. YAY ANOTHER BABY OMGAH I'M SO ~*EXCITED*~
(I somehow missed capping the 'there's a new baby in the family' screen. Huh.)
Cassidy gives birth to this little gem, another baby girl named Ara. She looks almost just like her older sister, just with thicker eyebrows. She also might have a slightly darker skintone.
And finally, a birthday I was excited about. It was time for Scott and Aaliyah to age up into teenagers! I was so excited for this birthday. I didn't think anything was going to go wrong with them aging up into teenagers on a college lot...
But, of course, teenagers don't last on college lots and pretty soon, these two had aged into young adults. Now, this was creepy considering they were technically the same age as their parents. Not cool. But it was also uncool because their teen years had just been skipped. Completely. I was not down with that. But there was nothing I could do, so I let it be.
Chelsea turns out to be a mean bully. Not surprising considering her parents have an average of maybe one or two nice points between them. She repeatedly makes Hanna cry. I've yet to see Hanna stick up for herself too. These two have the worst relationship of all the cousins.
Aaliyah wasted no time slipping into the college lifestyle. I think this is Mitch Indie. To be honest, I have no clue--I was just glad that she didn't end up pregnant.
MOAR BIRFDAYS BUT NOW WITH CELEBRATION STUFF CAKES WOO WOO~
(I hope you're enjoying my commentary, at least.)
(If you even made it this far, that is.)
Alyssa (a child now) and Ara (the toddler) grow up pretty well. Both look more like their mother than their father. Cassidy's okay with that.
Hanna's crying about something--probably one of her uncles and someone else fighting--and Ava goes to comfort her. It's a cute picture, so I took it. Sue me. (The comfort interaction always gets me though.)
CASSIDY.
STOP IT.
I was so tired of all of them and their goddamn children that not a single one of them got a graduation party. In fact, they won't even get captions 'cause I just want to hurry up, post this and get on with the heir poll. I have actual plotty ideas running around in my head, and I'd like to get back to them.
Above is Ava.
Noah.
Jesse, bless his soul.
Olive.
I blame you for all of this.
Joe.
You too, Joe.
It takes two to tango.
Clay.
LOL @ preggers Cassidy running after him.
Miss Cassidy herself.
And finally, Trent.
I apologize profusely on behalf of the amazing crap that is this post. I promise we will return to our regular programming in the next update. In any case, a heir poll should be up on both my LJ, at SWG and at Boolprop in the next five minutes or so, so...yeah. Look out for that.
Thanks for reading and a pat on the back if you actually read this entry. My god.