The iPod Legacy

[LadyofShalott]

Well, I’m not really sure where to put this. It’s my first legacy that I’ve ever attempted, but I’m not really treating it like a legacy. And I’m pretty sure I’ve broken a few rules already. So it’s a legacy, but not really a legacy, but I’m still going to try to make it into a legacy. Whatever, I hope you followed that.

Since it’s my first attempt at a legacy, I didn’t really want to create a whole site to post my pictures on, because who knows if I’m going to continue this to the end or if I’m even going to make new ones. But I’ve take quite a few pictures, and I wanted to share them somewhere, cause honestly I’m kind of proud of my simmies. ;D If I continue it for too long, chances are I’m going to break down and set up a web page.

Ok, to start, the whole reason I wanted to start a legacy was to make my sims on my laptop more interesting and make me want to play them more. When I was reading about legacies and the different types (prettacies, uglacies, etc.) and everything, nothing really caught my attention of something I wanted to do. So I kind of created my own style, which I have dubbed the iPod Legacy. In this, every sim born into the family gets a theme song (a randomly shuffled song from my iPod) and are named from the title, lyrics, or artist of that song. For example, my founder’s name is Stephen Angel, whose theme song is “Hey Stephen” by Taylor Swift. His name comes from the title, “Stephen,” obviously, and a lyric in it which goes “I can’t help it if you look like an Angel.” Therefore, Stephen Angel was born. I’m also thinking of inspiring their personalities off of the mood or feel of their theme songs. I thought I could get some pretty creative sims this way, name and personality wise, and hopefully it would interest me enough to play my neighborhood on my laptop. If there’s already something like this around, I’m sorry, I kind of stole it.
So that’s my idea. It’s pretty much a normal legacy, besides the whole song thing. I might ditch it and go on with just a normal legacy if I get tired of it. But right now it’s in testing, and so far I’ve found it interesting.

Anywho, on with the pictures!

WARNING: a large large large amount of picture and word spam below.

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This is my founder, Stephen Angel. For his namesake, see above paragraph. I spent a little more time on him in CAS than normal. I think he turned out adorable, but apparently Bodyshop says he’s only a few features away from a face one. *sigh* I try anyway.

He’s a knowledge sim with a secondary pleasure aspiration and a lifetime want of having a Golden Anniversary. Come to think of it, he has a lot of family aspiration wants.
His personality is as follows:
Sloppy/Neat: 4
Shy/Outgoing: 5
Lazy/Active: 4
Serious/Playful: 6
Grouchy/Nice: 6
And Stephen is also an Aquarius. His turn-ons are makeup and creativity and turn-off is stink. (Who isn’t turned off by stink?)

I moved Stephen in in an empty, but spacious lot and started building his house. I got pretty far too without using any money cheats. It has separate rooms and a roof anyway, so I felt accomplished.
Here’s a picture of the start of the house:





I didn’t take many pictures in the beginning, because all it was was meeting and talking to people (I did get one pic though! ^^). He got a job in the science career, which wasn’t the first choice I had, but it was all that was available. He’ll probably stay in it all his life too because I’m really lazy about changing careers when they already have a job.

One of the first things I noticed about Stephen was he was an avid cleaner. I mean, like OCD cleaner. I always thought it was weird because he’s not really that neat of a sim, but here he was, cleaning everything in the house when I wasn’t looking. I’m kicking myself for not having a picture, but trust me, he cleaned everything, two or three times around. Aw well, at least nothing had the chance to get dirty.

My main goal at this point was to find Stephen a girl to settle down with and start a family. I went everywhere trying to find girls he had chemistry with (and that I liked), but not many good choices came up. Jan Tellerman was my favorite choice, but there was only one bolt between them, and I didn’t like that. I think a townie named Allyn Thomason was my other choice. Stephen had two bolts with her, and she didn’t look horrendously bad, but I didn’t think they looked good together and I couldn’t see me liking her enough to want to play her. A couple days went by and I got impatient. So I decided to cheat a little and make a partner for him.



I’m kind of really proud of how Miyka turned out. I’m not the greatest sim maker, so she really surprised me. I just really like her eyes and mouth (hopefully someone will inherit them . And I think the freckles are the perfect finishing touch! [/brag]



Well, anyway, this is Miyka Mattson. She doesn’t have a theme song since she wasn’t really born in the family. She’s a family sim, also with a secondary pleasure aspiration I think.
Her personality is also an Aquarius with stats of:
Sloppy/Neat: 2
Shy/Outgoing: 6
Lazy/Active: 6
Serious/Playful: 6
Grouchy/Nice: 5
Miyka’s turn-ons are fitness and great cook and turn-off is black hair. Her life time want is to get to the top of the education career by being an education minister.

I moved Miyka into her own house and went back to Stephen to “meet her” (*cough*cheat*cough*).



They have a two bolt attraction toward each other, which is good enough for me. So they went on a date in a diner I created...



…where they had their first kiss.



And had a dream date.

With the spouse thing starting to get taken care of, I made Stephen focus more on his career. His house wasn’t going to get built by flirting with girls!



Sometime during this time, Stephen tried to make, I think it was, toaster pasteries. And failed, resulting in a fire. Luckily I was able to make him stop freaking out and put it out before the stove burned up and he would have to spend renovating money on a new stove.



Also during this time, he and Miyka went into a committed relationship and she later moved in with him, bringing in a whopping $20,000 or more with her (not because I cheated of course… ). This was just enough to fix the house all the way up and buy some luxury items, like paintings and a truck. For some reason I don’t have a picture of the finished one-story house, but I thought it was pretty cute.

They later celebrated with some hmm hmm in the bedroom. And I celebrated by taking an adorable photo of them.



Another cute picture of them dancing in their pj’s:



Miyka actually got a job in the education career, which surprised me because usually the career I want doesn’t come up on the first roll. Spending a day or two having them work on their careers, I decided it was high time for them to get engaged and married.





It wasn’t that big of a wedding, since they only had, like, 2 friends between the two of them. But some other guests graciously came to see them wed.








This is a picture of a picture on the wall. I really like this one.

After the wedding, they went on a 3 day honeymoon, since they had saved up quite a bit of money by this point. They went to the island vacation spot (I can’t remember the name of it - Twikkii Islands maybe?) and booked into a small hotel on the beach.

I think this is a good place to stop. I have more pics, but this post is getting a little full. I’d love to hear what you guys think of it so far.

I’ll probably be back later with more pictures.

[Samantha]

Your founder is cute! He doesn't look that much like face one to me.

Also, how you said about wanting to stay interested in your game, I found that when I began poating pictures of my legacy, it kept me more interested in it, too. Good luck! Can't wait to see more pics!

[LadyofShalott]

Thanks Samantha! Stephen never really looked like a face one to me either, that's why it surprised me. I don't know, maybe Bodyshop was acting up too. It happens from time to time.

And you're right, posting pics does keep my interest up. Actually, I'm starting to ignore my other neighborhood because of it. So many sims, so little time... ;D

[legrande]

Oh your Sims are cute! I definitely wouldn't have said Stephen looked face one! Anyway, I can't wait to see how their genes mash together, I'm sure the outcome will be favourable! :L

Also, the wedding was really nice too! My Sims pretty much always get married in the bathroom dressed in their underwear or PJs. I am such a lazy Simmer.

[LadyofShalott]

Teehee thanks Legrande. I try to have most if not all of my weddings under arches, but sometimes I get really lazy and just throw something together without even bothering for formality. I figured I should do something a little more, well, formal for them though. ;D

Ok, well, I’ve been pretty busy this week with college and everything, but I’ve finally found some time to post some more pictures. Whew!

There is quite a bit of time covered in this post, so there are a few more pics than last time. But around the middle I got bored of pausing the game all the time to snap a shot, so I piled a lot of time together to make it look more full.

Anyway, onn with pictures!

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Here are some random honeymoon pictures. I’ve only been playing Bon Voyage for a month or so, so it’s still pretty new to me


Stephen trying to look tough :3


Miyka sporting one of Samantha’s beautiful swimsuits. She also got a pretty nice tan on this trip.




Stephen learning to hula dance with Miyka standing in the background cause she absolutely refused to dance.


I had to laugh at this because the native looks kind of annoyed watching people try to hula. ;D Well, I thought it was funny anway.









Hmm, I just realized I didn’t get too many pics of Miyka on vacation…*shrug*



When they got home, this happened every chance they got. Obviously Miyka learned how to hula behind my back.

A day or so after coming home, the familiar drop-everything-you’re-doing-and-look-at-this camera zoom happened and Miyka got a little rounder.



That glitch that changes pregnant sims hair with their clothes happened. But I kind liked it so I kept it for a little bit.

With number one on the way, it was time to expand my one bedroom one bath house. Luckily I had enough money after the vacation to get stairs, separate rooms, and a couple of windows, but not much else.



Another one of my weird humor pics. I wanted Miyka to watch tv, but instead of actually sitting on the couch, she decided to stand right in front of the tv instead. It was almost like she was too pregnant to sit and was afraid she wouldn’t get up again. And if you don’t think that’s amusing, her foot’s in a book.



There wasn’t too much exciting that happened until the baby was ready to come. In the bathroom.



It turned out to be a girl, so I grabbed my iPod and shuffled it. The song that I got was “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen. Ok, so not the most dignifying song that could pop up, but even though I hate to admit it…. I’m kind of addicted to it.

I wasn’t feeling very creative, so I just named her Rae. She has her mother’s skintone, Dad’s eyes, and Dad’s hair color too, because technically Stephen has brown hair.





This is just a quick shot of the nursery, because I think it’s adorable.



A cute picture of the family. Something tells me Rae is going to turn out a cutie.



I got a little bored during this time, waiting for Rae to grow up, so on one of the days Stephen was home, I had him have a party. It went ok, but I was still sort of bored. Thank God babies only have two days in their lifespan.


Brandon Lillard sure likes those chips.


He was so tired after his party, he took a nap on the couch. I just love it when sims nap on the couch, it’s so adorable!

Finally, it was Rae’s birthday!





I’ll admit it, I was very relieved with how good she turned out to look. For some reason I always get sim babies with itty bitty noses and huge mouths, or noses that are squished up between their eyes and a mouth that touches the very bottom of their chins (yeah, I have a lot of problems with mouths and noses…). So Rae is definitely one of my better looking tots.

She’s a Gemini (woot! I’m a Gemini too!), with a personality of 4/5/9/6/1. I’m trying to think of how her theme song is going to fit into her personality. Maybe I’ll give her an aspiration of romance or popularity when she gets older.

The next steps were teaching her how to walk, talk, and potty.





No, I don’t have a picture of her pottying. Because that would be weird. o.O

In the midst of all of this training, tragedy struck when Stephen got a bad chance card at work and was demoted at least two levels. Poor Stephen, he went around for the next few days thinking about it, either by disheartened sighs or full out bawl fests.



But things started looking up again when I discovered Miyka was pregnant for a second time!





This is just a cute little picture showing Mom holding both of her kids . I think Rae takes a lot after Miyka.

Rae playing a kiddie pool I downloaded:



Finally, we get to her second birthday! I’m pretty excited to see her as a kid at this point.





I’m absolutely in love with her. There’s nothing else I can say. ;D
Except, scratch that comment about looking like Miyka I made earlier. She definitely looks more like her daddy now.

I’ll stop here today. Hopefully there will be some time this weekend or later this week to play.

Hmm… I noticed as I was going through this that I didn’t do the best editing on some of these pictures, what with the red pause lines and boolprop codes in the corner. Also I now notice I forgot to put up the walls a lot before snapping a pic. Sorry about that, like I said, I’ve been pretty busy this week.

Well toodles for now friends, I have a speech Monday that I have to get started on… uhg...

[Samantha]

Oh, Rae is adorable (and I like her name, too)! I always love seeing how parents' genetics carry down into their children.

You can get rid of the red lines with this mod. I've been using it for almost a year, and it's literally a lifesaver when it comes to editing.

[LadyofShalott]

Aw thanks . I think Rae is one of the most (if not the most) cutest in born sims I've had. I just love her so much! ;D

Oh that mod sounds amazing! I might have to download it. Pause lines are so annoying to edit out!

[LadyofShalott]

It’s been a while since I updated this thread. I have many many pictures just sitting in my folder waiting to be shared, but I never got around to doing it (grr, stupid school). I'm currently trying to transfer this over to my LJ account (and failing miserably), so this may or may not be my last post here. But anywho, here is part 3 of generation 1.

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I think it was just a day after Rae grew into a kid that baby number two came. It was a Sunday, so Rae was home, but Stephen was at work (which he STILL hadn’t got promoted again in yet).



I was crossing my fingers for a boy, but out popped another little girl. I grabbed my iPod again and shuffled and came up with “Sober” by Kelly Clarkson. Still not feeling very creative, (man, I need to work on that!) I named her Kelly. This is definitely a very interesting choice to have as a theme song. I’m kind of excited to see how little Kelly’s personality is going to develop.

She was born with brown hair too (I’m going to have a house full of brown-haired children), Miyka’s skintone, and I think she had Stephen’s eyes again. Hopefully she won’t turn out an exact copy of Rae. Isn’t there a glitch that sometimes does that to the second born child? I don’t know.

A creepy smile from Miyka, and a sweet shot of sisterly love:





By this point, I had accumulated enough money to finish up the house. It's not the prettiest house ever, but it works. Here’s an up-to-date picture of it:



Around this time, I realized that Miyka was spending so much time being Mommy that she had no friends. So I had her call up a few people in her down time.



Rae is definitely daddy’s little girl. :3







Well, being the second child and baby of the family, I never realized why parents took more pictures of their first child and not as many of the second. But now I think I understand why. For some reason, I have a very little amount of pictures of Kelly, especially as an infant. Is it because I don’t like her as much? Nah, I think it’s mostly because I get tired of taking pictures of babies doing nothing but looking cute. But here are a couple I managed to snag:





Anyway, Kelly grew up a total cutie too. And I was very happy she didn’t look exactly like her sister.

She’s a Libra, with a 4/8/4/6/6 personality.





I think she looks more like Miyka. She definitely has her eye shape.

This is a random picture of Miyka trying a new hobby and failing:



And another cute picture of Kelly and Miyka:



I realized that it had been a long time since Stephen and Miyka had been out of the house on their own and not just buying clothes for their daughters. So I decided to have them have a little date night. I cringed a few times before hiring a nanny (nannies… >:$) and sent them to Bernard’s Botanical Garden in Downtown.






This face makes me lol. *points to avatar* Now I know where Rae gets it. ;D


I just thought this was kind of amusing. They’re too wrapped up in each other to realize there are people floating in back of them. Ah, you have to love the Bubble Blower.


After coming home, they both looked a little tired.

I got back to the house and found the nanny just standing in my upstairs bathroom. Not doing anything, just standing there. I swear, one of these days I’m going to kill them all…



But besides that, she didn’t make too much of a nuisance of herself. And I didn’t spend ten minutes chasing her around the house to say goodbye to her. So all in all, it was a successful night.

I realized at this point that Stephen and Miyka are only going to have two kids. There are times when it seems like the game makes up its mind about that by itself, and this was one of those times. Miyka would just not get pregnant again!! And I really wanted a boy too. They’re getting a little old, but I might keep trying anyway, not sure yet.

I happened to glance at Stephen’s fitness bar about this time and realized he was almost fat. And that just wouldn’t do, so I bought a treadmill, and he got fit.




It looks like he has some cleaning to do…

I’ll end this post with an aw-moment picture of Kelly and Rae. Teehee, Kelly’s face cracks me up…