Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! One of the benefits of being a cc hoarder is that I don't really have to plan ahead, at least not on a case-by-case basis; whatever I need for the scene that's shaping up while playing is usually right there to hand. And when it isn't I improvise and sometimes that's funnier, like Rhett grabbing a pot instead of a frying pan to run into the fray back during The Mann Act.
Punny names aren't my forte but Sunny (or Sonny) is one of those I'm also keeping on standby, though it doesn't necessarily have to be for a Beech. Sandy must have found her voice in Daytona's home to be able to decree what even Daytona will wear, though perhaps it isn't Daytona's home at all in your hood, belonging instead to the couple. That alone would change the dynamics considerably.
Aw, Goldie. There's always something, isn't there, being the odd one out in that family. And in hoods where Mary's pregnancy proceeds as planned and her father's foibles are as on-display as the rest, I can see where coping with all that, and alongside her mother's recent death, might make her a bit neurotic.
That does put a different spin on things. Primogeniture only seems foreign to my Beeches until we remove the traditional gender clause in favour of the male. Daytona might believe her ideas for her legacy are meritocratic but there are more things influencing the rights of succession in her family, especially since it would never be verbalised that way. She loves Hamilton but Virgie is the one and he'll just be holding her place, should Daytona not live long enough to pass the torch herself...but she fully intends to. Has Hamilton surpassed Daytona on the career ladder in your game? If she's still running things and you've kept their ages as they start out then he is not a young man and seemingly not so invested in his patriarchal privileges that he'd feel a need put his mother in her place and establish himself for the whole town to regard him as the head of the family. But however much habit might mediate their relationship that won't necessarily fly with his wife. I take it no one is doubting Sunny's paternity and you say you haven't corroborated for yourself in game, but some secrets will out of their own accord. Perhaps it wouldn't matter as much because she's a girl? But if Hamilton's not already aware of her infidelity and choosing to overlook it, that could get tricky. His dominance, more than any of the other men as Widespot starts, has been undermined, on several sides. He's sure to need some outlets (his children, affairs of his own?)(mine started to drink a bit too much although he's getting that under control but then advancing in his career, even though it brings him into conflict with his mother, has helped) or some new ideas about the way things should be to hold onto.
Bringing the gender inequality to the fore is an intriguing way to go with this hood. It does still exist in mine, but only the men seem to believe fully or unreflectively in their privileges (even the more benign characters) but they are then challenged by what the women in their lives do if not by what they say. The exceptions would be Mary, oh and Samantha definitely, and possibly Beulah because where else would Mary have learned it - only in her case it'd definitely have to be more 'do as I say, not as I do' to have taken root. And Miss Mary just might be due for an awakening soon because deferring to Junior will not seem quite as right as it might had she ended up with Valentine.
I've been swapping aging mods in and out and fiddling with the ages in game to suit but from what I remember and have seen of others' Widespots, Hamilton and Sandy start out on the cusp of elderhood themselves, which is why I wondered. The highs and lows are relative, of course, and since I'm playing this challenge with timed rotations Daytona's starting Level 6 has actually meant that she's in serious crunch mode if she expects to top her career and become Widespot's first mayor.
Punny names aren't my forte but Sunny (or Sonny) is one of those I'm also keeping on standby, though it doesn't necessarily have to be for a Beech. Sandy must have found her voice in Daytona's home to be able to decree what even Daytona will wear, though perhaps it isn't Daytona's home at all in your hood, belonging instead to the couple. That alone would change the dynamics considerably.
Aw, Goldie. There's always something, isn't there, being the odd one out in that family. And in hoods where Mary's pregnancy proceeds as planned and her father's foibles are as on-display as the rest, I can see where coping with all that, and alongside her mother's recent death, might make her a bit neurotic.
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Bringing the gender inequality to the fore is an intriguing way to go with this hood. It does still exist in mine, but only the men seem to believe fully or unreflectively in their privileges (even the more benign characters) but they are then challenged by what the women in their lives do if not by what they say. The exceptions would be Mary, oh and Samantha definitely, and possibly Beulah because where else would Mary have learned it - only in her case it'd definitely have to be more 'do as I say, not as I do' to have taken root. And Miss Mary just might be due for an awakening soon because deferring to Junior will not seem quite as right as it might had she ended up with Valentine.
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