Very short post update picspam
Well you guys know the pattern, update followed by post update post. I only have a little bit of picspam and chatter about the update this time around.
Because I had very little time or desire to play my game while I was working last month I did some thinking about what I was going to do for the next chapter. I realized that I still had quite a bit of time left on their childhoods and that the younger wave hadn't really been given a fair chance yet. I had a vague plan to teen them in this chapter, and then didn't think I had enough space to do it justice. So I just let the chapter be childhood.
For the longest time I had no clue what I was going to do. What I really wanted was to showcase them as a group, how they interacted and how they all fit in together but I didn't just want it to be a series of random conversations and interactions, I knew I had to DO something fun with them. Last generation I staged the little thing where they decided to break into a house to play hide and seek. I didn't actually show it but it gave me something specific to direct their personalities towards. For this generation it suddenly occurred to me that I should dress them up as their personalities. I'm not sure why I thought of that, but there you go. And that was how they all ended up in costume. Then I decided to stage a make believe game of massive foreshadowing. So that's what you got at the beginning of the update. I tried to blurr the lines between the characters/game and the kids a little by referring to them alternately by their character and by their actual name. It was mostly a silly idea, but it was nice to be able to get the 7 children in once place, doing something together, without it seeming directionless (to me) :-)
The whole dressing up and playing make believe with friends is something I did quite alot as a child. I used to have alot of costumes. And there is a ladder in our house that I, at some point, decided was a ladder to a pirate ship and wrote all over with markers then played on in various outfits. I'm sure my parents were thrilled. We still use it to get into storage, in spite of the fact that it has the the words 'Kipe Out' on it.
Have I mentioned what a sweetheart Rhapsody is lately? I love the faces she makes too.
This one is not too bad on that front either.
I'm just going to talk about Rhapsody and Journey for a minute.
I don't do things like this intentionally, it just sort of happened, but I realized as I was playing them and writing them that I was writing it very close to the way my relationship is with my own little brother. I'm not saying that I'm like Dee, or that he's like Journey. But the 'anything you can do I can do better' thing is very much what we have, except he always does do better. When I was 14 I came first in my school in a nationwide mandatory math test, when he was 15 and took that test he came fourth in the country. That kind of thing. I know that according to the cliché I'm supposed to resent him for things like that, but we've never been in competition and it has very rarely bothered me. But anyway, that's where this little thing with these two came from.
We also very much have the relationship of him needing to be more mature and telling me what to do and rolling his eyes at me when I'm being (deliberately) ridiculous ("So are you going to spend the entire morning lying on my floor for no apparent reason? Because I have homework...") which was where the little bit with them doing work side by side came from.
The younger sibling feeling the need to act mature, and the older sibling being a bit more...wishy washy shall we say, is actually something I've noticed in real life with several people I know, so I guess I figured I'd inject this into the story. And that is my brief babbling on the topic of this sibling couple :-)
Ah yes, now these two. This all sort of fell into place quite oddly. Hugo here, who is the son of the Young family servo, Zola and Brandi LeTourneau, was rolling the wants to be best friends with Turner, who had followed him off the school bus a few days earlier, so I invited him over and had him bring Cayenne along with him. Hugo immediately rolled up the want to be friends with Cayenne so I figured I'd let him. There are only so many interactions when they're kids and when the kids' classical dance came up I immediately clicked on it and started taking pictures because of the cuteness.
Which was when Turner decided to make his appearance and he just started looking at them. I'm pretty sure somewhere in the 'Rules' that's a big no. Friends' sisters for guys are sort of like friends' exes for girls, just inherently off limits.
It also made LOL that Hugo went on to make this face. Like he's going "What? Cayenne? No! Of course not! Never!"
When I decided I wanted to include it in the update I realized I didn't have the slides I needed, I just had pics of them dancing and then Turner arriving, without any preamble. And they weren't particularly good pictures either, so I restaged it just very quickly.
And these two actually made best friends while I was doing so.
These two had been best friends for ages of course.
Outside of the main family I don't really plan who will become friends, it's just who follows each other off the bus and gets along really. But after Turner and Hugo had made best friends I realized that it was a good thing he had a best friend who was a guy because he is mainly surrounded by girls. Requiem and Rhapsody of course, and Cayenne, but also Jane Austen who was his very first best friend. He needs some guys to chill with too.
This picture has no point, I just think it's absolutely adorable.
Cayenne's an odd one sometimes. If left on free will she will either zone in on the nearest child and be the lovely and outgoing and nice and make friends...
...or she will attach herself to the Karaoke machine and refuse to leave it alone. I've seen her do this at two or three houses. It's so strange that she is magnetically attracted to the thing that way.
And that's all I've got this time. I was intending to share my teenagers here so far but I think I'll make a post in a day or two of the teenings so far, once I get the chance to teen Rhapsody. I've teened Em and Turner but there's actually a fairly large handful of kids between Turner and Rhapsody, which I'd forgotten, and I'm trying to keep my ages in line. So I think I still have Larshley twins to teen and then I can age up my main girl. Once I have I will report back with pictures :-)
See you soon!