Gustavsson Legacy V - Generation 3

Finally time for another update on the Gustavssons!

Find the previous posts here:

Gustavsson Legacy I   Gustavsson Legacy II   Gustavsson Legacy III   Gustavsson Legacy IV

We left Anders and Basic after their marriage.



Stella, the family´s servo, was feeling kind of lonely, and another family needed a servo. I thought the two might make a nice couple, and lo and behold, they got along really well. Here we see Stella turning Fowler on :-)

Marja likes to hang out with the boys, even in the most inappropriate moments.

 Basic´s belly is starting to show ...

and a few days later he goes into labor in the middle of the crowd that likes to hang out on the Gustavsson estate. I have made it a rule that any unsuspecting passer-by gets greeted and invited into the house, which makes for some lively interactions.

And Aeryn gets born, the first baby (girl) of generation 3!

Basic annoys the heck out of me by constantly rolling wishes to flirt with Aeon Adams. They went to college together, and if I remember it correctly, Aeon attempted to kiss him once, which Basic refused.

Obviously, my memory doesn´t serve me right, it was the other way around. They did kiss while being together in the Greek House, but Basic, is it really necessary to continually roll that want after all those years? Aeon is married, you are married, but first thing in the morning after you get up, the wants panel looks like this:

I even checked the attraction scores via ACR, and Basic has higher scores with Anders, so, really, what is this all about? Stop bugging me with Aeon, this is not going to happen!

We have a saying in German, "Kleine Sünden bestraft der liebe Gott sofort", which roughly translates to "God punishes little sins immediately", and when I next went to the Gustavsson house and Basic got up, he looked like this:

Nice makeup, Basic. I then remembered he went to Cissy´s Beauty Palace, and one of the trainees there ruined his face.

It became quickly clear that raising a baby was not Basic´s favorite task.



Luckily for Aeryn, Stella and Marja were taking care of the baby a wee bit better, although below we see them playing the "pass around the stinky baby" game.

Aeryn grew up into a cute toddler, being a spitting image of Basic.






I had the silly idea to see how well everybody (a household of four grown-ups, a servo and a dog) would take care of the toddler. To cut a long story short, it was a complete failure (except for the dog). The above images were taken when Aeryn tried to get their parent´s attention for hours, but they were too busy telling dirty jokes or making love and paid absolutely no attention to their girl. I gave up that experiment quickly. I love my Sims too much :-)

Just when I thought things were starting to get a bit boring in the Gustavsson household, Anders and Basic telepathically picked up my thoughts, hopped into bed and *bingo*, I heard the lullaby again. They did not even try for baby or anything, it just happened. Oh well. I was curious who the lucky one was:

Hmm, is Anders trying to tell me something? Hanging over the toilet thinking of his husband and puking?

Here we see the proud soon-to-be-daddy singing a sea shanty to the devoted servo Stella.

Anders´ relationship with his father Ingolf is a little difficult. Every day, Ingolf takes a look at the portrait Anders painted of him and shakes his head in disapproval.

And everytime, Anders breaks out in tears.

This might be the reason Anders frantically paints in his rare free time.

 

Another interesting tidbit: Anders picked a career that is the exact opposite of Ingolf´s career - Ingolf was a Criminal Mastermind, and Anders is in the Law Enforcement career and quickly became Captain Hero.

A subconscious attempt to recompense the bad deeds his father did? A subtle (or maybe not so subtle) Oedipus complex thingie? "Hey Dad, see me in my shiny Captain Hero armor? I could kick your a** anytime!" And at the same time that breaking out in tears when Ingolf complains about his painting again. Complex, indeed.

It probably didn´t help the relationship either that Marja and Ingolf found the loveseat in the boy´s sleeping room irresistable and did not care a single bit that Anders and Basic were sleeping behind them. Have you no sense of decency, folks?

The bed seemed equally attractive.

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Time flew by quickly, and Anders gave birth to Thor, who is another spitting image of Basic. Sheesh, where did the wonderful Gustavsson genes go?

Because the post has gotten rather long and image-heavy, read the next part here:

Gustavsson Legacy VI

Cissy Trussard

I want to randomly introduce a few more Sims in my neighbourhood. This is Cissy Trussard, one of the few women in my town.

Cissy was randomly thrown in a household with Jonathan Black, fell in love with him, but he was not ready for a committed relationship with her, which left her devastated for a few years.

She showed up in every single welcome wagon, and is probably the one Sim with the most relationships and contacts in town. As a Pleasure/Romance Sim, she of course fell in love with everybody, but lost interest as quickly as well.

She owns two coiffeur salons in town and is a professional party guest. Her home was a nightmare dream in pink.

Just a few shots of crazy dating Cissy:

Cissy and Elizabeth Cuthbert

Cissy and Matt Hatter

 Cissy and Random Carrion

Cissy never looked like she wanted to get into a stable relationship, until, one day at the coiffeur shop ...

Count Maxim Davidov, the local vampire, showed up and got a quick makeover.  Gosh, I thought he looked cute, and Cissy agreed :-)

It took some more fiddling with the make-up and turn-ons ... 

until they finally hit it off. I never had a vampire in the game, so I was curious how it would be.

Cissy asked him to move in and bought him a coffin.

The Count entertained me with a great show of sinking into his purple-lined sarcophagus, dressed in red pyjamas and a scarf. What an eye-blinding color combo :-)

It did not take long, and Maxim decided to bite Cissy.

She did not wait long to plan her revenge.

Cissy, the Vampire.

They packed their stuff and bought a new house, a dark, castle-like estate without windows, appropriate for the new vampire couple. All went well, until they decided to hug, cuddle and kiss in bright daylight. Speak about burning passion :-)

 

This was the first time I realized having vampires might not be an easy task. All bars were drained, Maxim fell into his plate during lunch.

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse - even in death Cissy stays the fashion victim she always has been.

Then somebody rang the doorbell, and our heros jumped out of their coffins, complaining. Aaaargh!

 

Also, inviting friends over was quite a challenge, because Maxim kept scaring the visitors. I love the completely innocent look on his face. "Who, me? No, I did nothing!"

On the plus side, he obviously is a neat freak. I have never before or after seen somebody do this, cleaning the windows in a shop, since there is no Apartment Life for Macintosh.

  

Aaaand, doesn´t he look just too sexy?

And who can claim having a sexy man who is a sweet pet at the same time?

(I have always wondered what this tiny red zipper-like thing is that hangs around the bat´s neck. Any ideas?)

Cissy bought a bunch of anti-vampire medicine (Vamprocillin-D), because I felt one vampire was enough in the family, and Maxim kept rolling wants that Cissy becomes normal again. That didn´t stop him from biting her though, until I finally added a mod that stopped him from biting everyone around.

Life in the dark and gloomy castle made Cissy feel rather miserable quickly. The poor thing loved bright, pink colors, and living in a house with no windows was really depressing her. I threw out a larger sum of cash, and they renovated the pool room and turned it into a beautiful oriental hamam sort of thing.

Playing a bit with Photoshop:

Hugging and kissing thin air - take a look at the mirror.

But this didn´t help. I should have known that. She just withered away. So Count Maxim, not wanting to lose the love of his life, made the heavy decision to become a normal human again. Aah, the sacrifices you make for love ...

He made a great show out of it.

Nice tan :-) And I love that he still keeps doing his evil vampire show.

First thing I did was putting in windows and redecorating the castle in Cissy-colors: pink, white, magenta. And let them try for a baby. Which obviously worked.

Enjoy your quality time together while you still can :-)

I am so curious how their offspring will look like. Stay tuned! 

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I had a few pregnancies in my neighbourhood, and this was the last baby to come. It kind of dragged on and on. Count Maxim was trying to cook ...

They visited some Uni kids. Maxim sometimes feels like somebody is following him, but this might just be his imagination.

 

Then, finally it was time and Cissy went into labor.

 

As usual, the men freak out.

 

Then Jules Trussard was born. They had a quick and quiet marriage just before birth.

 

  

Instead of hugging his wife, congratulating her and telling her how much he loves her, the ex-vampire Maxim scares his wife to death :-) Great idea, Maxim.

 

Cissy pays him back with an evil prank.

 

They are really a cute couple.

The house finally received some windows, I love how the hammam looks now.