Laurince Legacy, Generation 13.4!
Last time, we came to the realization that the Laurinces can never use the matchmaker again. The quads had mixed success dating, and Mal went from a neglected toddler to an ignored child. I aged up the final ginger pink shirt cult kid and he looked like a creepy ginger version of Taylor Lautner. And rolled Grilled Cheese. And got on very very well with Miriam. Mir got his first kiss with Rita the Vampire, who insisted on creeping through the house afterwards, strewing gifts about everywhere. Mara topped her job and got all the skill scholarships and had a sensible teen boyfriend and was rather boring. Marle dated around. In a side update, Link finally gave birth to servo-spawn, twins Marko and Max.
I keep thinking that one of these kids is going to eventually get the pool scholarship. However, evidence has shown the only way for this to happen would be to give a pool table to the Randolphs, because I can't control them when they're teens.
Daryl is now perma-plat and diabolically evil!
SOMEONE had a good day at school.
I brought home one of our cousins!
The whole town is technically your cousin at this point, Marle.
Miriam is nearly as boring of a teen as Mara. All she wants to do is raise her skill levels and get scholarships.
Have a good night working at your secret lair, Daddy!
I don't care if the "game" is to punch each other, if you're doing it hard enough to leave a bruise, you're doing it wrong!
I don't think Marle really cares about playing nice, Leeta.
So, since Marle was whining about her lack of dates or quality thereof or some crap, I used the Crystal Ball again. She got Mr. #20, Oren Manning.
Mir, not to be outshone in meanness by his sister, noogies the hell out of Mara.
Ah, Marle, if your come-ons are driving onlookers to drink, that might explain the success of your past dates. Or lack thereof.
I forgot for awhile that I paint portraits of Laurince spouses in addition to the heirs, so this one happened late in the generation.
Even though this hallway is kinda dark, I like how you can see the founders' portraits from here.
Well, you can't say that we haven't had a full life...
...I don't know, I could tell you what it wasn't full of.
Jo, bitter about her forced monogamy still?
...I still love the open floorplan of this house.
Great, see where your assholery has gotten us, Marle?
That was like ONE good pile of compost or something!
Ooooh and your MOTHER is pissed...hopefully at not just your enemy, but you, Marle.
Mal still exists, and he's getting a birthday. I feel horrible, but he really kinda is that boring. Also, I gave him his birthday a day early. I didn't want him turning into a teen on the same day I should send all the others to college. I don't think I could deal with eight unadulterated days of MAL. :/
Mara greets this walkby, mainly because his name is awesome.
RADOVAN LOVE
Wow, the kid looks surprisingly like Jo!
It is quite surprising, given that the alien eye color seemed to dominate a lot.
Aspiration, and LTW is the same as mommy's.
Mara is more interested in Oren, who's only really got eyes for Marle, unfortunately. Radovan's got an awesome name, Mara, you're missing out!
Why can't one of my controllable sims ever roll bi as a preference? It's only been the Randolphs and their ISBI tomfoolery so far.
I like Mal's looks. It's too bad that I am ELIMINATING the Griff nose this generation, come hell or highwater. There will be no Griff nose sullying my great De-Laurince Genetic Experiment of the future.
Mal's top match in the hood is a townie named Ai Candela. Who has been a townie about as long as Johanneke had been, which means that I've kinda hankered after her. Too bad Mal's not going far in the heir race.
Because he's going far in the ~love race~.
Oh no, what will I ever do, I am going to be ravished by an evil overlord?!
Oh for god's sake, he's finally a mastermind and he still wants to roleplay being evil?
Miriam x Ginger Taylor Lautner = OTP
His real name is Ronan, in case you forgot.
While Miri is a bit on the snuggly side, I'm pretty sure this is a way to distract GTL from the fact that her family members are roaming the front lawn in their nighties.
SQUEEEEZLES
If only I could have a love that strong...
Sorry, blond creepo, but stalking only equals love in bad vampire teen romance stories.
...okay, I stand corrected.
NEW AWESOME TOWNIE ALERT
His name is ION MARK.
However, Ion Mark's visit was overshadowed by another sort of visit altogether.
Oh, did I mention last time that Mara was a criminal like her father? Well, she is.
It's Jo who's off to the great beyond. It's a bit premature, but I have a feeling it's partially my fault with being a little insensitive to her romance wants and desires.
Her only other wants involved phoning all of her other children constantly, which I did fulfill!
Alas, it wasn't enough, and Johanneke Laurince has the distinction of being the first Laurince in 12 generations to not have a platinum gravestone. She died in GOLD ASPIRATION for god's sake, it's not like I was a cruel overlord.
Kashyyyk still found her ghost hot as she traveled to the cemetery, though.
And he is immediately angered by the pansies he lives with, crying over dead loved ones. Ah, the half-alien sociopathology has to come out sooner or later.
I...I missed grandma!
I honestly don't think watching her die would've been a positive memory.
Oh, you are just being a drama queen pulling drama queen faces.
Hey, Mara actually likes this awesomely named townie.
Unfortunately, the grief is still too strong for her to have any decent interaction right now.
Obviously, Miriam has her own ways of dealing with grief.
Kash hates both grief AND new love!
You can't even get along in front of your depressed mother? :( :( :(
I like meeting new people! There are a lot of people in this house.
...you're new to town, aren't you?
Then I shipped them all off to college because, as you could see from Mara's promotion, the quads had graduated, and Mal wasn't going to accomplish much more in six more days at home, annoying me. Daryl attends what could very well be his FINAL first day at Uni with a kid.
Inappropriate aging, or REALLY inappropriate aging?
Anyway, YA Marle.
YA Mara.
YA Mir, who has a slightly different jaw than Kashyyyk, but still no chance at being heir.
YA Mal.
YA Miriam. If you haven't figured it out yet, the heir field is narrowed down to Mara and Miriam because I am sick of near-clone generations.
I also aged up Ronan, who kinda lost some of his resemblence. Oh well, I gave him tatts and lots of body hair so you can still pretend he's a weird ginger hybrid werewolf if you'd prefer~~
I also gave Marle, Mir, and Miriam some ink.
Ronan is actually a dormie because I'll be damned if I play more sims through Uni than necessary.
Against my better judgment, Miriam got a double bed room, and I didn't have her lock her door.
If you get knocked up, you are spending your entire college career in your first trimester.
All I'm saying, is that higher education has become a business, a commodity. People are making money off of this--the necessary degrees and certifications--the value of the ~experience~, and what do we get out of it? No privacy, congealing mac and cheese, and barely-competant researchers masquerading as instructors!
Mara should know about being swindled, having been raised by a criminal, as well as being one herself.
Can you just make chili for dinner next time? That might placate her a bit.
Ronan's walking by! And I'm stuck doing homework!
1 - You WANTED to do your homework.
2 - He'll always be walking by eventually, he does live there, after all.
I mentioned this in a comment to the spoiler post I made with pics of Gen 13 as YAs, but Miriam's profile is adorably ridiculous.
Mal has attracted an admirer and is pretty oblivious about it.
Marle is the only one who really had a want to join the family frat. So she calls up Gala first. (Pledging was ridiculously easy this go-round, as they were in the middle of summer.)
Apparently, one of Mal's turn-ons is stink.
...I think I liked it better when we all ignored Mal. :P
Here comes Gala~
Don't let anyone tell you that soccer isn't a worldwide conspiracy! I'm sure it's some sort of Ponzi scheme!
...when did Mara become a batshit insane tinfoil hat?
You know, I've heard that the whole sunspot thing was invented by--
Mara?
Yeah?
Why don't you just sit here on the lawn with me and enjoy the summer?
Global clim--
SIT. DOWN.
So what the hell do you think is on Mir's shirt, anyway? O_o
I think Marle did date this guy once, but now that they're living in the same building (and she's not underage), their attraction is blossoming!
So I let them have another date, and it's LURV.
...and she still beans him with the baseball. I guess she really doesn't mean it personally!
Good fight, good night!
Who is that, Alana?
I...just finished the chart. Apparently, she's our...great-great aunt?
The Ilija quads, who I dormified quite awhile ago, are Daryl's great-grandchildren. (They are the daughters of Gen 4 Daphne's son, Edgar.)
I'm quite proud of them. They must know what a condom actually is.
(The previous shot was brought to you by Llama Cam(tm)!)
Where the hell have you been?
Gala...look, I'm sorry we didn't do the frathouse thing last gen. It's not my fault Leeta got impregnated so early on.
I've been here all alone!
I moved the kids into the frathouse, and I realized that the main floor of the house was pretty blah, so I redecorated.
The couch actually stayed the same, and I recolored the chair and painting.
All I did in here was change the wallpaper from one of those neon NL things to one of my own.
I can't believe that you are constantly on the dean's list, Miri!
Well, I do all of my homework and term papers and go to all my classes, and seek out my professors during their office hours if I need help, and--
...forget I mentioned it.
Oh, hey, who's the cute girl?
Oh, no, Mal, stay away from TYPHOID JENNA.
Aren't you overreacting just a little?
Jenna, still a full-fledged member of the frat from pledge season Generation 7 or so, walks by constantly. I had Mal greet her, heard that she was still coughing from the flu she caught while sexing up Gen 9 spouse Ratna, and banished her from the lot again.
I know six-year-olds think closer to the TV is better, but I thought you two were smarter than that.
Oh no, you won't convince me that the government isn't covering up the existence of alien life!
...Mara. We all still exist, that's proof enough that no one's covering up shit about aliens.
Miriam, even when her fun is so low she can't even make it to a fun activity without whinging, still wants to do MOAR homework.
Ronan obviously agrees with me in that she's absolutely insane. This was his reaction to her "pranking" him.
However, she's not so insane that she scares him away completely! Granted...it's probably because he's also insane.
...you know, I was SO SO SO proud of you two.
At least Miriam's only got a semester and a half left by my Uni playing rotation...and she's going through terms at hyperspeed.
Sorry, Ronan, but every date can't end in an engagement and an impregnation. At least not with the same person every time.
WHY DO I HAVE TO DO EVEN MORE HOMEWORK?!
1) You still WANT to do more homework.
2) Come hell or highwater, you will be out of Uni before that kid is born.
...wait, who said anything about a kid?
You're a knowledge sim who is two missing points away from max skills. FIGURE IT OUT.
...this sucks.
You're telling me. The Delines haven't had a Uni pregnancy in ages. *KNOCK ON WOOD*
I decided that Marle deserves to have at least one big college blow-out. She and Mr. #20 are immediately in the hottub. And, apparently, immediately in love.
That was fast.
Aw, I like that she's still into him, without me even doing a thing.
My :3 face is instantly ruined by placeholder sexings.
After all this time, I might do the unthinkable and make the next placeholder a random university townie instead of a distant Laurince relative. I mean, Gala's already the product of Uni placeholder incest, do I really need to make her family tree some sort of bizarre interlocking ring system?
Why is there a party when I have to study and not have a baby and...
I thought it might be nice for you to get one night off, since you're already in your last semester.
Well, I guess Marle has actually been more popular with the male sex than either she or I thought.
Note the contrast of Mr. #20's reaction to that of the Xenophobic Paperboy's.
I like how Marle's makeout buddy is the PARAGON OF VIRTUE by throwing off Mal's spurned obsessive stalker while Marle's getting slapped and/or kissed by other men. And Lance Laurince, the smartest Laurince cousin EVER, is just watching the insanity from a corner instead of trying to get into a relative's pants.
So...Ronan...I think I'm pregnant.
You're about to graduate, anyway, aren't you?
Well, yeah, but it's unexpected and--
Once you're graduated, we'll get hitched!
GC sims are pretty mellow.
So...you like studying, too?
Let me guess...Marle is currently "occupied"?
If you could call getting irate with the other dude she's in love with "occupied," then yeah!
Well, they say hate is really, really close to love!
(Three bolts, DAYUM.)
Miriam experiences her first pop, which means she'll stop puking. Always a good thing.
One change of top later, and she's got a preg morph.
Why is everyone so mean to me?
Calm down Mara, it was just a joy buzzer.
Miriam's off to her FINAL final!
I...Mir...that's not how a mop works. Or where it goes.
Sorry, aging up into a nonpregmorph outfit won't hide the truth!
What truth? Because, you know, the truth is out there!
Why yes, this is the update of me rushing through things and not taking tons of pictures!
So, it's time to reveal the heir. It's probably rather obvious, but...let's have some pretend suspense!
Yeah, it's Miriam. I reserve the right to get another father if her bitty narrow face and Ronan's wide one don't play nice together. While her aspiration is kinda boring, Ronan's a Cheese sim which is always silly. I also really liked her looks. Despite the alien genetics, she seemed to be the best facial blend of her parents. I also love how her eyes are so close together!
Stay tuned, I will have an update to the upload post soonish (though I have to upload some sims from the Deline hood first), and Generation 14 is going to update alongside Deline generation 10, to help in its epic finish!
...I might be playing the Randolphs next, even after all those words. It is kind of their turn.