The Bates Family Legacy [5.5]
Hey everyone!
It's been a while, but I'm so glad to be back with two Bates Family updates (which total about 130 pictures, so get excited). Basically what happened was my trackpad on my Mac started screwing up so epically that it was barely useable; I could hardly get to my email, so naturally playing the sims was an impossibility. Anyway, it got fixed a couple of days ago, and so I've been playing up a storm (the Bates family, as well as a new family in Apaloosa Plains, so that I could play around with pets).
Anyway, last time Matt Bates, Hadley's son, was a player. Terry became an elder (le creys), but a fly one. He also retired. Ariel died (le more creys). Aidan and Gavin became children, and Gavin got the insane trait. He automatically became my favourite. Nora became an elder. Charlotte had fraternal twins, Saad (pronounced Sahd) and Quinn. Quinn was waaaaay cuter than Saad, and Saad was a Gavin clone. Aidan became a teen (and a gorgeous one at that).
See you under the cut!
Usually prom happens later in the teen years, so naturally I was super surprised when it was scheduled to happen only, like, four days after Aidan transitioned.
FAMILY TREE UPDATE:
Rhys is now an adult. Peyton is an elder. FUCK YOU, PEYTON!
I guess it's up to Jolotte to have that fifth grandchild for Nora and Terry.
What.
Gavin likes to strangle himself regularly. I get a real kick out of it.
Speaking of Gavin, it's his birthday! :D
Due to a lacking work-ethic (psssht), Gavin was given the Party Animal trait. Ugh.
At least I can somewhat get behind that outfit. He's got an Indiana Jones thing going on.
...Or not.
Oh, Gavin.
ARIEL! :D
Birthday time for the twins! (And yes, Quinn gets featured in more pictures because she's more adorable.)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK SHE'S SO CUTE!
So far Josh's genetics are translating really well.
Anyway, I'm trying to make Quinn a professional athlete, since I haven't had anyone play that career path through yet. So far, so good!
Saad, on the other hand, rolled the neat trait. He's going to be the Bates new maid helper child.
SO THIS HAPPENED.
Inside the house, Terry and the twins were getting these "react to meteor" things in their cues, and I had no idea what any of them were talking about, so I told them to get back to business. Five seconds later, Charlotte was wondering why it got dark all of a sudden, which I thought seemed really weird. And then a meteor crashed into the yard.
There were five heartbreaking seconds where I thought that it had crashed into the front room, killing Quinn and Saad and Terry, but everyone ended up getting out of the meteor attack alive. Thank God.
However, there was a very large hole in the front yard.
Oh, Rhys. Age has not been kind to you.
No reason for this picture other than to say that Aidan is adorable.
If anyone's curious about what Gavin looks like without his glasses and hat.
Are you beginning to understand why I use them?
Sometimes I don't even know why I send my sims to work if they have to stand in a goddamn line to get inside the doors.
Take Aidan, for example. He spent the full three hours he was supposed to work waiting outside of the studios, trying to get in.
Fuck you, EA. You really shit the bed on this.
Oh laundry gnome, you so clever.
Birthday time!
He's only becoming an adult so nothing's changed here.
Peyton you traitorous bitch. How dare you have no children.
Sometimes I forget how good Charlotte and Josh are at parenting, and then they go and remind me with cute little moments like this.
Prom night!
Hey, Gavin, you actually look pretty dapper--
Oh.
Nevermind.
A for effort, though.
Aidan, on the other hand, looks suave as all hell.
It's almost unfair to Gavin to have him stand beside his brother. :P
Yeah, you go Aidan, you go!
Wait, WHAT. My game just decided Gavin was gay! Which is hilarious, because I'd been asking myself that question for a while, but usually my game just allows me to decide for myself. It doesn't make the choice for me. I laughed probably harder than I should.
I always like putting their prom stuff on display afterwards. I love the difference between Aidan's (prom crown, prom pic) and Gavin's (prom pic, dance trophy from elementary school). I feel like I just should've known Gavin was gay.
SERIOUSLY?
SERIOUSLY?
Gavin had to run back across the street to the school to meet the cop who was "arresting" him, to then be put in the cop car and driven back across the street to his house.
Unrelated: Nora and Terry and their ridiculous cuteness always make me smile. Their highest relationships are with each other, after all this time; it's so sweet. :D
YEAH CHARLOTTE YOU GO CHARLOTTE!
Because of game stupidity and slowness, I was having a really hard time getting Nora to her job on time, so I figured that because she's old and she's completed her LTW, I would let her retire.
And then my game glitched. But more about that in the next update.
See you soon!
- Kelsey