Post by LadyofShalott on Aug 12, 2012 2:39:33 GMT
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.
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’mkind 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.
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.
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.
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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.