Prosperity Challenge - 11.5 (Days/Years 31-33 - Ebadi)
Ok, don't freak out, but I'm trying something new on this one. I figured since I used Talking Heads lyrics for the entire last update of this family, I could experiment some more. And now for some hilarious commentary! *cue wacky music*
When we last saw Eliseo, he was getting into private school with the help of his underwear-clad mother, Ria, and being obsessed with his kitty Freckles (whose sex I can NEVER remember, we're calling him a boy, I'm sorry if you're a girl, Freckles, I should have named you Brutus or Priscilla or something more gender identifiable). ANYway, it's birthday time for Eliseo.
He's really quite acceptable looking in real life...Eliseo, stand up straight, stop making that face, and what the hell is that on your shirt? Is it obvious to everyone but me? Is that a plume on its head? Is it wearing pink platform flipflops? Is it holding a loaf of bread? NO COMPRENDO.
Moving on....he's rolled Romance, which is exciting after all the Knowledge sims in this neighborhood. I love you, knowledge sims, but it's hard to write stories about your dramatic exploits with the thinking cap and the bookcase. So, yay, romance! His LTW is career related - no lover or woohoo quotas here. Good thing, I suck at those - see: Glen Thigpen, the newly minted grilled cheese sim.
Seeing his parents make out in front of him gave Eliseo some exciting new ideas.
Ria and Amar: Smoochy smoochy smoochy!
Eliseo: WHOA GO DAD!
Then he got upset when he realized he didn't have anyone to mack on. The hormones run fast and wild in this one.
Birthday cake conversation was a little strained.
Ria: Well, honey, are you excited about starting at your new school tomorrow?
Eliseo: GOD MOM! JUST SHUT UP, OK? NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE UNDERSTANDS ME....*sob* *door slam*
Oooookay.
After throwing that little tantrum, Eliseo decides to ask the only teenage girl he knows on a date.
Eliseo: "Hey Denae...yeah my parents are being totally lame...do you like, want to come over and hang out or whatever? If you want?"
Well, he's new at this romance thing.
Everything starts off well enough, although I have to say I have never greeted someone my own age with a kiss on the cheek, and certainly never when I was a teenager, but whatever. It's all downhill from here, though.
Eliseo: *tries to hug*
Denae: No touchy, please.
Eliseo: *tries to hug*
Denae: For SERIOUS, no.
Eliseo: *doesn't learn*
Denae: I WILL CUT YOU.
(I love the increasingly distressed facial expressions she makes. Denae may take Shena's title for my favorite sim in Winterfell.)
Denae: ...How about a nice, platonic game of red hands?
Eliseo: That's disgusting.
What do you think, should I make these two grow up and get married or what? Don't worry Eliseo, I'm sure that wasn't the worst first date in the history of the world. At least I had fun laughing at you.
He expresses his angst in the little used medium of snow sculpture. We'll leave him here now and go check on Ria.
She's invited Rochell (her youngest sister) over to vent.
Rochell: So...I didn't know you were pregnant.
Ria: Pregnant? I'm not pregnant...
Rochell: ...
Ria: ...
Rochell: I'm....sorry...um...
Ria: I'm just shitting you.
Rochell: Ohthankgod.
Ria: I just wish I wasn't pregnant.
Rochell: Um, awkward.
Rochell must have given her some kind of sisterly wisdom pep talk, because Ria seemed to feel a lot more positive about the new arrival after that.
She's back to the good old Ria we know and love.
Just in time for little Audria Ebadi's arrival. So far she looks exactly like Eliseo, and Amar for that matter. (Hi Amar's arm! I'm not ignoring the rest of your body on purpose, you're just kind of boring. Sorry.) I don't think I ever explicitly said that Audria was a *surprise* baby, but yeah. Ria freaked out about being a mom the first time around but then ACR sort of decided it was time for round two!
Oh there you are, Amar. Champion dad, as always.
Aw, even Eliseo the crazy/angry romance teen helps out with Audria.
Well, is anyone really surprised? Nannies: doing it wrong since 2004.
Hey, another birthday! Looks like Denae has forgiven Eliseo for their horrible date.
Audria poofs into personhood. You got a little confetti in your eye there, kid.
Audria: now with new hair! She's a Pisces, and the nicest sim in town - 10 nice points.
The maid and Freckles have a little thing going. This is a daily routine.
Well I made the teaser out of this and everything, but I couldn't work it into the narrative. My plan was to have Ria be all upset over her pregnancy but then talk to Rochell and Anabel (another sister) and then realize the importance of family and be excited about having a girl and have a chick flick montage where she plays in the snow to symbolize her newfound happiness....
But uh, that didn't work out, mainly because it was stupid.
And so we'll end here with a scenic shot of the Ebadi house in the snow at night instead.