The Spritas 4.1
It's been a while! Last time, generation three Zeke spouse had a really crap day in which he lost a fight, got fired, met the social bunny, conceived a child, and died. Some other stuff probably happened as well, but that's the memorable part.
You may recall that last time, Eponine's dad died. Not to worry -- she has her boyfriend Cuon to make her feel better!
Shortly afterwards, it's her birthday.
Here's the adult Eponine!
Oh, and totally coincidentally, it's also Cuon's birthday today.
Adult Cuon!
~birthday kiss~
And now, to get to generation four. :P No, I am not impatient. Why do you ask?
Hahaha. Step one complete!
Eponine's energy bar was in the dark orange, and still she wasn't faceplanting into her food. I was going to make some comment about how resilient (?) she was...
...but then she ruined it and faceplanted after all. Oh well. At least she'd eaten most of the toaster pastry by that time.
The school bus is here...
...and Marius is not on it. He's learning too many lessons from my other, ISBI, legacy.
My first crop of fruit! Hooray!
Donna is still pregnant with Zeke's baby. It hasn't... disappeared or anything. :|
OMFG WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS? The lemon tree is actually... not being whiny?!
Now, courtesy of my graphics card, you get three versions of the next picture.
Version one is the "all OK graphically" picture. I wouldn't mind this picture, except that Cuon is heartfarting over Donna, aka. the MOTHER of the woman proposing to him. That is clearly unacceptable.
Version two is the "missing arm" picture. I don't like it because of the missing arm. I mean, is the oxygen in the kitchen proposing to Cuon? The nitrogen in the kitchen? The carbon dioxide in the kitchen? No, no and no! It's EPONINE proposing, and I think my picture needs to reflect that.
Version three is the "wrongly-aimed" picture. Nothing is MISSING from the picture, exactly, except that Donna disappeared whenever the camera was aimed further up -- you know, at an angle at which you could see Cuon or the ring. That basically makes this a picture of Donna kneeling on the floor.
Regardless of which picture you decided was the true representation of Eponine and Cuon's engagement, he accepted.
Cosette: So, I heard you're pregnant?
Cosette: Well, whatever you do, DO NOT buy it any toys! Toys are suchhhh a waste of money! I mean sure, the kid plays with it for a few years, but then what? They grow out of the toy, and then what are you supposed to do? Sell it at a huge loss? Mark my words, mum: buying toys for your children is VERY UNPROFITABLE indeed!
Donna: ... *minus*
Looks like generation four's growing just fine!
WHAT
Well, Donna, on the bright side... it's not like you can get any more pregnant.
Everyone reacts to this news in different ways. Cedric, for his part, reacts by trying to make enemies with the next generation's spouse.
Cedric: HOW CAN YOU BE SCARED OF GHOSTS?!
Cuon: Ghosts are very scary, OK! :(
Cedric: No, you're just a WIMP! A big, fat nancy boy!
Cuon: stop being so meeeeeeeeean T_T
Donna's home!
Cosette and Cuon: *are rightfully worried*
Marius: LOL YOU GOT PROBED
>:(
Cedric: Thank you, aliens! I hope she now understands the misery I was put through!
You guys are so mean.
Donna ignores her heartless relatives and looks up to the sky, hoping the aliens will come back for her. But they don't.
Instead, they lit her tree on fire. Man, those aliens are kind.
Marius: I'M HUNGRY, FIX IT
Me: ...
Marius: I MEAN IT! DO SOMETHING!
Me: You know, you remind me a lot of your father. He died. Don't be like your father.
Donna has been left traumatised by her alien experience. Then again, you'd be traumatised too, wouldn't you? I mean, these aliens have abducted her, performed all sorts of ungodly, painful experiments on her, no doubt forced her to develop some kind of weird emotional bond with them, then threw her onto the streets at home, causing half her family to laugh at her misfortune, and then to add insult to injury, they set fire to her tree. She has every right to feel upset.
Marius has decided not to attend school for the second day running. He's still on the verge of starvation, so I don't think this means good things for him.
Please note, Marius is getting INTO bed in this picture.
Her boyfriend may have died, but that doesn't mean Donna the Romance Sim doesn't have needs!
It's the Stupid Hungry Trio! All of them are starving, and none of them know what to do about it.
I built the Spritas an underground basement for their gravestones... Zeke lives there now.
Don't you hate it when the deliverywoman turns up with the groceries, and everyone is too dumb to actually accept the groceries even though they're standing right there, so the deliverywoman rings the doorbell about fifty million times until everyone in the entire house has congregated around the front entrance, getting in each others' way, and making it difficult for anyone else to accept the groceries? I hate that quite a lot.
Pop goes the Eponine, pop pop pop...
An uneventful period of time later, here's generation four!
Cuon: Uggggh, a baby! How could this happen to a Family Sim like me? Family Sims don't have BABIES!
Uhh... hate to break it to you, but yes. Yes they do.
Anyway, this is Marie. As in Marie-Antoinette, but I thought I'd never be bothered typing "-Antoinette" all the time and decided to make things easier on myself and just call her Marie. In honour of the French Revolution books piled high on my desk right now, the naming theme is late eighteenth-century France. Marie inherited dominant genes from her mother (black hair, brown eyes) and has a pale skin colour.
Then Donna gives birth to the "oops" child of generation three.
This is Fantine!
Brown hair, dark blue eyes, skin tone I blended myself ages ago that looked like crap in Bodyshop but looks much better in-game, astonishingly!
I have no idea what Marius is bitching about. Let's ignore him.
Cosette was on the brink of growing up badly, so in desperation I sent her on a date with her friend from school. They had a dream date, so Cosette didn't have to grow up badly after all! Even though she kept rolling dumb wants. I mean, PLEASE Cosette, you do NOT need a car while on your date. You especially do not need three cars.
Before Cosette's birthday, though, it's birthday time for the babies!
Marie.
Fantine, sporting unrealistically long hair for a toddler. But I was too lazy to change it.
Cedric is super-affectionate to his great-granddaughter... who isn't tagged as his family. -_-
Then Cosette grew up. And moved out.
Bye, Cosette. We'll miss you :(
Sarah is going senile and likes to share hobby tips with the wall.
Oh, beautiful, Donna. A+
Apparently someone dropped a mouldy old newspaper on the back porch, and this guy was SO DESPERATE to read some news that he stole it. o_O Don't ask me how he knew there was a newspaper there, though. Maybe he's been looking through a telescope.
The orange tree has now inherited the title of "the whiny tree". X_X
Cuon took Marie outside... and left her there. Thanks, dude.
Now ANY passing weirdo can stop and tickle her!! This particular passing weirdo is Owen Piper.
Marius knows how to distract him ;D
WTF? This can happen? (Bainor is the blonde guy Donna was snogging a couple of dozen pictures ago.)
Sarah gets the job of potty-training the toddlers, because... she was available at that time.
More babies! On their way!
Ol' Cedric here is being modest. Not only has he maxed out Creativity, but that also means he's maxed out EVERY skill.
More birthdays! (Excuse the crappy picture.)
Eponine: Good work growing up, honey! I wasn't sure if you were going to make it!
Marie: ... Thanks, mum.
Fantine! But do you see what is going to RUDELY RUIN THEIR BIRTHDAY?
Sarah: Umm, guys? I don't seem to have a pulse any more...
Grim Reaper: No. You see, for you, it is time to die.
Sarah: But I don't wanna die :(
Grim Reaper: What if I throw some alcohol into the deal?
Sarah: Okay! I can hardly say no to that, can I? Bye, all!
Goodbye, Sarah. Have fun with Zeke in the crypt.
Speaking of Zeke...
He's decided to pay us a visit tonight!
I thought Sims actually had to be SCARED to get the memory of seeing a ghost. I don't think Marius was scared at all, he was just standing in the same room as Zeke's ghost. Strange :/
From the look on his face, I'd say Zeke is finding the afterlife quite perplexing... to say the least.
He likes to re-enact his death all over the place. "Look at me, guys! The tree is electrocuting me! *bzzt* *bzzt*"
I didn't get a good picture of Fantine before, so here -- have one! Isn't she cute? A good picture of Marie... will come eventually.
Tending to all those whiny trees has earned Eponine a bronze badge in gardening!
Zeke, it's morning. Shouldn't you have crawled back into your hidey-hole by now?
See? I told you I'd get a good picture of Marie!
Sports is a big deal in this house. It's kind of annoying, because there are lots of OTHER activities they need to do -- like eat and bathe -- that they don't, because they've already walked allllllllll the way outside to play catch or football.
Marie loves the teddy bear.
Uh... I take that back. I think she was trying to build him up just to break him down, if you know what I mean. Grouchiness runs through this family.
Fantine: I don't like bombs! Why can't we all just get along?
Eponine: *minus*
Yeah, Fantine, that's how you get yourself cast out from this family.
Well, at least Marie's not interested in casting her out. They're not actually sisters (auntie and niece...), but they behave like it.
Donna: Yay, I love dancing! :D :D
Cuon: *swoons*
Donna: Um. Ew.
Cuon: *dance dance dance*
Donna: Why did I have to decide to dance??
Marie: Muahaha! I shall now DEVIOUSLY turn the radio off!
Somehow, I don't think they'll mind, Marie. Well. Cuon might.
I don't know which fact is more astonishing: that Donna with her seven creativity points managed to produce this, or that someone paid 45 Simoleons for it.
Time for baby #2! But don't hold your breath...
This baby is a clone (of Marie). I named him Louis.
Marie's reaction was to run away and burst into tears.
Marie: Nooo, I don't want a clone! I want to be UNIQUE!
Fantine ran away to throw a temper tantrum. But I think she was throwing a fit because Donna poked Cuon. As you can see, she blames Cuon for being so pokeable.
I sent these two back to work, producing another baby that will HOPEFULLY NOT BE A CLONE. But it took half a dozen tries. -_-
Dun dun dun...
Cedric: Hmm, death, you say?
Cuon approves.
Oh, man! What a first memory.
Cedric is placed next to his wife in the crypt underground.
Louis's birthday!
Yep. Cloney.
No need to get so excited, guys. Sheesh.
Sarah decides to grace us with her presence, to cry about being dead.
Sarah: Why did I take the alcohol?? It tasted like crap, and now I'm dead!
She takes this out on Fantine. =/
Marius's birthday!
So, he's an adult now. And he moved out.
Donna, why are you so mean to poor old Cuon? You're taking after your dad too much!
Eponine, you've been engaged for ages. You can stop gloating when you receive compliments!
The whole "been engaged for ages" thought triggered a "they should really get married" thought... so I threw Eponine and Cuon a wedding party.
These are the guests: Cosette, Harry and Marius.
They have a beautiful, graphic-glitchy wedding.
Even the mailman is in attendance!
This is how everyone spent the wedding. These four chatted over lunch...
...and these two played chess. The party was a roof raiser.
Cuon: Congrats on your great wedding party, Eponine!
Eponine: That was your party as well! I hate you.
Louis grew older, and is still a clone.
And baby #3 is still on its way! This doesn't count as a birth cliffhanger because it's not a birth, it's a second pop. And on that note, that's all I have for now.
Credit where credit's due for the sims: Cedric Leeman is from rainbowflyer, Zeke Rose (whose ghost and portrait you got to see here) from simmericangirl, Cuon Morzan (and Bainor, and Fines, who made cameos) from sawcat and Owen Piper from dothesmustle. All were taken through pixel_trade.
You may recall that last time, Eponine's dad died. Not to worry -- she has her boyfriend Cuon to make her feel better!
Shortly afterwards, it's her birthday.
Here's the adult Eponine!
Oh, and totally coincidentally, it's also Cuon's birthday today.
Adult Cuon!
~birthday kiss~
And now, to get to generation four. :P No, I am not impatient. Why do you ask?
Hahaha. Step one complete!
Eponine's energy bar was in the dark orange, and still she wasn't faceplanting into her food. I was going to make some comment about how resilient (?) she was...
...but then she ruined it and faceplanted after all. Oh well. At least she'd eaten most of the toaster pastry by that time.
The school bus is here...
...and Marius is not on it. He's learning too many lessons from my other, ISBI, legacy.
My first crop of fruit! Hooray!
Donna is still pregnant with Zeke's baby. It hasn't... disappeared or anything. :|
OMFG WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS? The lemon tree is actually... not being whiny?!
Now, courtesy of my graphics card, you get three versions of the next picture.
Version one is the "all OK graphically" picture. I wouldn't mind this picture, except that Cuon is heartfarting over Donna, aka. the MOTHER of the woman proposing to him. That is clearly unacceptable.
Version two is the "missing arm" picture. I don't like it because of the missing arm. I mean, is the oxygen in the kitchen proposing to Cuon? The nitrogen in the kitchen? The carbon dioxide in the kitchen? No, no and no! It's EPONINE proposing, and I think my picture needs to reflect that.
Version three is the "wrongly-aimed" picture. Nothing is MISSING from the picture, exactly, except that Donna disappeared whenever the camera was aimed further up -- you know, at an angle at which you could see Cuon or the ring. That basically makes this a picture of Donna kneeling on the floor.
Regardless of which picture you decided was the true representation of Eponine and Cuon's engagement, he accepted.
Cosette: So, I heard you're pregnant?
Cosette: Well, whatever you do, DO NOT buy it any toys! Toys are suchhhh a waste of money! I mean sure, the kid plays with it for a few years, but then what? They grow out of the toy, and then what are you supposed to do? Sell it at a huge loss? Mark my words, mum: buying toys for your children is VERY UNPROFITABLE indeed!
Donna: ... *minus*
Looks like generation four's growing just fine!
WHAT
Well, Donna, on the bright side... it's not like you can get any more pregnant.
Everyone reacts to this news in different ways. Cedric, for his part, reacts by trying to make enemies with the next generation's spouse.
Cedric: HOW CAN YOU BE SCARED OF GHOSTS?!
Cuon: Ghosts are very scary, OK! :(
Cedric: No, you're just a WIMP! A big, fat nancy boy!
Cuon: stop being so meeeeeeeeean T_T
Donna's home!
Cosette and Cuon: *are rightfully worried*
Marius: LOL YOU GOT PROBED
>:(
Cedric: Thank you, aliens! I hope she now understands the misery I was put through!
You guys are so mean.
Donna ignores her heartless relatives and looks up to the sky, hoping the aliens will come back for her. But they don't.
Instead, they lit her tree on fire. Man, those aliens are kind.
Marius: I'M HUNGRY, FIX IT
Me: ...
Marius: I MEAN IT! DO SOMETHING!
Me: You know, you remind me a lot of your father. He died. Don't be like your father.
Donna has been left traumatised by her alien experience. Then again, you'd be traumatised too, wouldn't you? I mean, these aliens have abducted her, performed all sorts of ungodly, painful experiments on her, no doubt forced her to develop some kind of weird emotional bond with them, then threw her onto the streets at home, causing half her family to laugh at her misfortune, and then to add insult to injury, they set fire to her tree. She has every right to feel upset.
Marius has decided not to attend school for the second day running. He's still on the verge of starvation, so I don't think this means good things for him.
Please note, Marius is getting INTO bed in this picture.
Her boyfriend may have died, but that doesn't mean Donna the Romance Sim doesn't have needs!
It's the Stupid Hungry Trio! All of them are starving, and none of them know what to do about it.
I built the Spritas an underground basement for their gravestones... Zeke lives there now.
Don't you hate it when the deliverywoman turns up with the groceries, and everyone is too dumb to actually accept the groceries even though they're standing right there, so the deliverywoman rings the doorbell about fifty million times until everyone in the entire house has congregated around the front entrance, getting in each others' way, and making it difficult for anyone else to accept the groceries? I hate that quite a lot.
Pop goes the Eponine, pop pop pop...
An uneventful period of time later, here's generation four!
Cuon: Uggggh, a baby! How could this happen to a Family Sim like me? Family Sims don't have BABIES!
Uhh... hate to break it to you, but yes. Yes they do.
Anyway, this is Marie. As in Marie-Antoinette, but I thought I'd never be bothered typing "-Antoinette" all the time and decided to make things easier on myself and just call her Marie. In honour of the French Revolution books piled high on my desk right now, the naming theme is late eighteenth-century France. Marie inherited dominant genes from her mother (black hair, brown eyes) and has a pale skin colour.
Then Donna gives birth to the "oops" child of generation three.
This is Fantine!
Brown hair, dark blue eyes, skin tone I blended myself ages ago that looked like crap in Bodyshop but looks much better in-game, astonishingly!
I have no idea what Marius is bitching about. Let's ignore him.
Cosette was on the brink of growing up badly, so in desperation I sent her on a date with her friend from school. They had a dream date, so Cosette didn't have to grow up badly after all! Even though she kept rolling dumb wants. I mean, PLEASE Cosette, you do NOT need a car while on your date. You especially do not need three cars.
Before Cosette's birthday, though, it's birthday time for the babies!
Marie.
Fantine, sporting unrealistically long hair for a toddler. But I was too lazy to change it.
Cedric is super-affectionate to his great-granddaughter... who isn't tagged as his family. -_-
Then Cosette grew up. And moved out.
Bye, Cosette. We'll miss you :(
Sarah is going senile and likes to share hobby tips with the wall.
Oh, beautiful, Donna. A+
Apparently someone dropped a mouldy old newspaper on the back porch, and this guy was SO DESPERATE to read some news that he stole it. o_O Don't ask me how he knew there was a newspaper there, though. Maybe he's been looking through a telescope.
The orange tree has now inherited the title of "the whiny tree". X_X
Cuon took Marie outside... and left her there. Thanks, dude.
Now ANY passing weirdo can stop and tickle her!! This particular passing weirdo is Owen Piper.
Marius knows how to distract him ;D
WTF? This can happen? (Bainor is the blonde guy Donna was snogging a couple of dozen pictures ago.)
Sarah gets the job of potty-training the toddlers, because... she was available at that time.
More babies! On their way!
Ol' Cedric here is being modest. Not only has he maxed out Creativity, but that also means he's maxed out EVERY skill.
More birthdays! (Excuse the crappy picture.)
Eponine: Good work growing up, honey! I wasn't sure if you were going to make it!
Marie: ... Thanks, mum.
Fantine! But do you see what is going to RUDELY RUIN THEIR BIRTHDAY?
Sarah: Umm, guys? I don't seem to have a pulse any more...
Grim Reaper: No. You see, for you, it is time to die.
Sarah: But I don't wanna die :(
Grim Reaper: What if I throw some alcohol into the deal?
Sarah: Okay! I can hardly say no to that, can I? Bye, all!
Goodbye, Sarah. Have fun with Zeke in the crypt.
Speaking of Zeke...
He's decided to pay us a visit tonight!
I thought Sims actually had to be SCARED to get the memory of seeing a ghost. I don't think Marius was scared at all, he was just standing in the same room as Zeke's ghost. Strange :/
From the look on his face, I'd say Zeke is finding the afterlife quite perplexing... to say the least.
He likes to re-enact his death all over the place. "Look at me, guys! The tree is electrocuting me! *bzzt* *bzzt*"
I didn't get a good picture of Fantine before, so here -- have one! Isn't she cute? A good picture of Marie... will come eventually.
Tending to all those whiny trees has earned Eponine a bronze badge in gardening!
Zeke, it's morning. Shouldn't you have crawled back into your hidey-hole by now?
See? I told you I'd get a good picture of Marie!
Sports is a big deal in this house. It's kind of annoying, because there are lots of OTHER activities they need to do -- like eat and bathe -- that they don't, because they've already walked allllllllll the way outside to play catch or football.
Marie loves the teddy bear.
Uh... I take that back. I think she was trying to build him up just to break him down, if you know what I mean. Grouchiness runs through this family.
Fantine: I don't like bombs! Why can't we all just get along?
Eponine: *minus*
Yeah, Fantine, that's how you get yourself cast out from this family.
Well, at least Marie's not interested in casting her out. They're not actually sisters (auntie and niece...), but they behave like it.
Donna: Yay, I love dancing! :D :D
Cuon: *swoons*
Donna: Um. Ew.
Cuon: *dance dance dance*
Donna: Why did I have to decide to dance??
Marie: Muahaha! I shall now DEVIOUSLY turn the radio off!
Somehow, I don't think they'll mind, Marie. Well. Cuon might.
I don't know which fact is more astonishing: that Donna with her seven creativity points managed to produce this, or that someone paid 45 Simoleons for it.
Time for baby #2! But don't hold your breath...
This baby is a clone (of Marie). I named him Louis.
Marie's reaction was to run away and burst into tears.
Marie: Nooo, I don't want a clone! I want to be UNIQUE!
Fantine ran away to throw a temper tantrum. But I think she was throwing a fit because Donna poked Cuon. As you can see, she blames Cuon for being so pokeable.
I sent these two back to work, producing another baby that will HOPEFULLY NOT BE A CLONE. But it took half a dozen tries. -_-
Dun dun dun...
Cedric: Hmm, death, you say?
Cuon approves.
Oh, man! What a first memory.
Cedric is placed next to his wife in the crypt underground.
Louis's birthday!
Yep. Cloney.
No need to get so excited, guys. Sheesh.
Sarah decides to grace us with her presence, to cry about being dead.
Sarah: Why did I take the alcohol?? It tasted like crap, and now I'm dead!
She takes this out on Fantine. =/
Marius's birthday!
So, he's an adult now. And he moved out.
Donna, why are you so mean to poor old Cuon? You're taking after your dad too much!
Eponine, you've been engaged for ages. You can stop gloating when you receive compliments!
The whole "been engaged for ages" thought triggered a "they should really get married" thought... so I threw Eponine and Cuon a wedding party.
These are the guests: Cosette, Harry and Marius.
They have a beautiful, graphic-glitchy wedding.
Even the mailman is in attendance!
This is how everyone spent the wedding. These four chatted over lunch...
...and these two played chess. The party was a roof raiser.
Cuon: Congrats on your great wedding party, Eponine!
Eponine: That was your party as well! I hate you.
Louis grew older, and is still a clone.
And baby #3 is still on its way! This doesn't count as a birth cliffhanger because it's not a birth, it's a second pop. And on that note, that's all I have for now.
Credit where credit's due for the sims: Cedric Leeman is from rainbowflyer, Zeke Rose (whose ghost and portrait you got to see here) from simmericangirl, Cuon Morzan (and Bainor, and Fines, who made cameos) from sawcat and Owen Piper from dothesmustle. All were taken through pixel_trade.