The Adventures of Ian and Kamal Barros, Writer and Musician Extaordinaires [11]
I feel all proud and stuff - I made it through ten chapters of one "challenge" (so to speak) without giving up on it, and transitioned right into the next generation. I have a really hard time sticking with legacies (TLOM was the first one I actually saw through to the end), so I'm really happy that the Barros family is keeping me entertained.
Anyway, this chapter is ~special in that it's the switch of focus from Addi's adventures to those of her two sons. I'm going to do my best to balance the importance of Ian and Kamal, but I do have my own biases. Regardless, they will share focalization in Gen. 2. Their kids, then, will share focus in Gen.3, because I don't want anyone to leave the house and move out on their own where I can't keep track of them.
I can see this getting out of hand, but I'll deal with it later. Anywhooo, proceed!
So, let's get started!
Fair warning: this chapter is extraordinarily boring, barring the house tour.
We resume this chapter with Youssef's promotion!
...Well, moving right along!
FUCK YESSSSSS. BIRTHDAYS.
On an unrelated note, Ian invited Seraphina over and proposed to her, and then promptly married her.
She moved in and, if I remember correctly, contributed nothing to the family funds.
Long story short, I was giving Seraphina a makeover and when I decided to make her eyebrows the same colour as her roots, they turned brown. She's a brunette! And it suits her so much better.
Also, you can't see in this picture but she has the biggest knockers known to man. Honest to God!
And because Seraphina moved in, it prompted me to think about the long-term: Ian and Kamal will both have families, eventually, and their little beach house didn't even have enough room for Kamal to have his own bedroom! So obviously they had to move.
And while we're still on the subject of Seraphina, here are her stats. Note that she's older than Youssef and younger than Addi.
FML! HOW DOES THIS SHIT HAPPEN TO ME?
Anyway, house tour to take away the pain!
Here's what it looks like from the outside - I did a major exterior reno.
Front hallway/living room.
Kitchen/dining room.
Addi's special bar room.
"Basement" bedroom #1 (it'll be Kamal's eventually). It isn't really the basement, though, because the lowest level of the house is actually the ground floor. You have to go up a flight of stairs to get to the "main" level.
Ian & Seraphina's bedroom.
SPOILERS: they're in bed. We can all guess what they've been doing.
Skilling "room" (more like skilling balcony). This includes Addi's drum set (she's taken up drumming), Kamal's keyboard (he's taken up playing piano/keyboard) and Youssef's drawing board.
Upstairs bedroom #1.
Upstairs bedroom #2
Top floor: the laundry room!
And finally, Addi & Youssef's bedroom (aka the master bedroom).
Oh, and they have a balcony.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming:
So. Seraphina's pregnant. What you didn't see, though, was the 5 billion tries it took to get her that way. I kid you not!
Yaaaaaaay, Addison!
Yaaaaaaaaaaay, Ian!
I SEE A BUMP.
Yaaaaay, Seraphina! (Also, that is the stupidest fucking name ever.)
YAY IT'S KAMAL'S BIRTHDAY FINALLY!
Woooo, trait-choosing! I went for flirty because I decided a while ago that Kamal is going to be a bit of a ~womanizer. There's just one glitch, though:
He's really not much of a looker. Not even a little bit.
Oh well. He's still going to be a casanova.
And speaking of the casanova, he got a part-time job in film!
Hells yeah, Ian's a self-employed writer! 8D
And also, a wonderful father to be!
Here we go!
Ready to see what Addison looks like as an elder?
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Just kidding, she's precious. :D
Woo, promotion!
Woo, promotion (again)!
OMGYAAAAAAAY! *FLAIL*
Ugh. Barely even born and he's already a disappointment. Let me explain:
Ian and Seraphina both wanted to have a girl. And, of course, Morgan came out of Seraphina's little, pixellated womb. FML. Like, do we not have enough boys in this family?!?!?!
I tried exiting without saving and doing it all over again, but unlike TS2 you can't change the results. It is UNWAVERING. D;
Anyway, I gave Morgan the good & genius character traits.
WOOOOO~ to all of these things!
MOAR WOOO~
(Sensing a theme?)
Fuck yessss, no more baby stage!
Okay, so Morgan's obviously the cutest retard ever. :)
Yay promotion.
This is getting tiring now; all they do is sit around and work and get promotions. I miss world adventures!
Speaking of monotony, Morgan learned to walk! (I know, horrible segue.)
YAY TO ALL OF THESE THINGS. *POM POMS WITH EXTRA FAKE-ENTHUSIASM*
Lolololololol.
I decided I wanted to make Seraphina a trashy novelist. All she has written are trashy novels. Giggles ensued.
More yay. So filled with yayness.
Oh, and Ian got his first best-seller!
Did I mention that I'm having him write all romances? No? Well, I am.
Irrelevant birthday is stupid and irrelevant.
Neat trick for bonding with your toddlers: sit down and have your sim play with them while they use one of their skill objects. Serious boost in relationship!
YAY.
See? Told you! Specialized romance author :D
So...much...yayness.
BIRTHDAY, FUCK YES!
WAITWHUT
"INSANE"? "DIFFICULT UPBRINGING"? THE FUCK?!!
NOOOOOOO.
Well, that's oddly fitting for an insane kid.
At least he's about as adorable as they come. He's going to need that, to be able to make friends while insane.
YAY! If you remember at the beginning of the chapter, her LTW was the same as sim!Kelsey (other, slightly discontinued series) - be a self-employed author, which basically meant making 4k a week in royalties. One of the easier LTWs to achieve. :)
So, I know what you're wondering:
What'cha gonna do with all them points? All them points inside yo' bank? What'cha gonna do with all them points, all them puh-points, all them points?
NEW CHARACTER TRAITS, OFC!
I was really sick of her being insane and evil (though having the option to steal candy from her own child and troll the forums was amusing), so I gave her the new traits of workaholic and bookworm. :) More fitting, I think, for her reclusive personality!
Yay Kamal!
And since I'm concluding this chapter for now, I'm going to go put my pom-poms down and throw up. All that yippy has made me sick. :P
- Kelsey
Anyway, this chapter is ~special in that it's the switch of focus from Addi's adventures to those of her two sons. I'm going to do my best to balance the importance of Ian and Kamal, but I do have my own biases. Regardless, they will share focalization in Gen. 2. Their kids, then, will share focus in Gen.3, because I don't want anyone to leave the house and move out on their own where I can't keep track of them.
I can see this getting out of hand, but I'll deal with it later. Anywhooo, proceed!
So, let's get started!
Fair warning: this chapter is extraordinarily boring, barring the house tour.
We resume this chapter with Youssef's promotion!
...Well, moving right along!
FUCK YESSSSSS. BIRTHDAYS.
On an unrelated note, Ian invited Seraphina over and proposed to her, and then promptly married her.
She moved in and, if I remember correctly, contributed nothing to the family funds.
Long story short, I was giving Seraphina a makeover and when I decided to make her eyebrows the same colour as her roots, they turned brown. She's a brunette! And it suits her so much better.
Also, you can't see in this picture but she has the biggest knockers known to man. Honest to God!
And because Seraphina moved in, it prompted me to think about the long-term: Ian and Kamal will both have families, eventually, and their little beach house didn't even have enough room for Kamal to have his own bedroom! So obviously they had to move.
And while we're still on the subject of Seraphina, here are her stats. Note that she's older than Youssef and younger than Addi.
FML! HOW DOES THIS SHIT HAPPEN TO ME?
Anyway, house tour to take away the pain!
Here's what it looks like from the outside - I did a major exterior reno.
Front hallway/living room.
Kitchen/dining room.
Addi's special bar room.
"Basement" bedroom #1 (it'll be Kamal's eventually). It isn't really the basement, though, because the lowest level of the house is actually the ground floor. You have to go up a flight of stairs to get to the "main" level.
Ian & Seraphina's bedroom.
SPOILERS: they're in bed. We can all guess what they've been doing.
Skilling "room" (more like skilling balcony). This includes Addi's drum set (she's taken up drumming), Kamal's keyboard (he's taken up playing piano/keyboard) and Youssef's drawing board.
Upstairs bedroom #1.
Upstairs bedroom #2
Top floor: the laundry room!
And finally, Addi & Youssef's bedroom (aka the master bedroom).
Oh, and they have a balcony.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming:
So. Seraphina's pregnant. What you didn't see, though, was the 5 billion tries it took to get her that way. I kid you not!
Yaaaaaaay, Addison!
Yaaaaaaaaaaay, Ian!
I SEE A BUMP.
Yaaaaay, Seraphina! (Also, that is the stupidest fucking name ever.)
YAY IT'S KAMAL'S BIRTHDAY FINALLY!
Woooo, trait-choosing! I went for flirty because I decided a while ago that Kamal is going to be a bit of a ~womanizer. There's just one glitch, though:
He's really not much of a looker. Not even a little bit.
Oh well. He's still going to be a casanova.
And speaking of the casanova, he got a part-time job in film!
Hells yeah, Ian's a self-employed writer! 8D
And also, a wonderful father to be!
Here we go!
Ready to see what Addison looks like as an elder?
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Just kidding, she's precious. :D
Woo, promotion!
Woo, promotion (again)!
OMGYAAAAAAAY! *FLAIL*
Ugh. Barely even born and he's already a disappointment. Let me explain:
Ian and Seraphina both wanted to have a girl. And, of course, Morgan came out of Seraphina's little, pixellated womb. FML. Like, do we not have enough boys in this family?!?!?!
I tried exiting without saving and doing it all over again, but unlike TS2 you can't change the results. It is UNWAVERING. D;
Anyway, I gave Morgan the good & genius character traits.
WOOOOO~ to all of these things!
MOAR WOOO~
(Sensing a theme?)
Fuck yessss, no more baby stage!
Okay, so Morgan's obviously the cutest retard ever. :)
Yay promotion.
This is getting tiring now; all they do is sit around and work and get promotions. I miss world adventures!
Speaking of monotony, Morgan learned to walk! (I know, horrible segue.)
YAY TO ALL OF THESE THINGS. *POM POMS WITH EXTRA FAKE-ENTHUSIASM*
Lolololololol.
I decided I wanted to make Seraphina a trashy novelist. All she has written are trashy novels. Giggles ensued.
More yay. So filled with yayness.
Oh, and Ian got his first best-seller!
Did I mention that I'm having him write all romances? No? Well, I am.
Irrelevant birthday is stupid and irrelevant.
Neat trick for bonding with your toddlers: sit down and have your sim play with them while they use one of their skill objects. Serious boost in relationship!
YAY.
See? Told you! Specialized romance author :D
So...much...yayness.
BIRTHDAY, FUCK YES!
WAITWHUT
"INSANE"? "DIFFICULT UPBRINGING"? THE FUCK?!!
NOOOOOOO.
Well, that's oddly fitting for an insane kid.
At least he's about as adorable as they come. He's going to need that, to be able to make friends while insane.
YAY! If you remember at the beginning of the chapter, her LTW was the same as sim!Kelsey (other, slightly discontinued series) - be a self-employed author, which basically meant making 4k a week in royalties. One of the easier LTWs to achieve. :)
So, I know what you're wondering:
What'cha gonna do with all them points? All them points inside yo' bank? What'cha gonna do with all them points, all them puh-points, all them points?
NEW CHARACTER TRAITS, OFC!
I was really sick of her being insane and evil (though having the option to steal candy from her own child and troll the forums was amusing), so I gave her the new traits of workaholic and bookworm. :) More fitting, I think, for her reclusive personality!
Yay Kamal!
And since I'm concluding this chapter for now, I'm going to go put my pom-poms down and throw up. All that yippy has made me sick. :P
- Kelsey