Aeon Adams and Eldred Rice II

Read previous posts about the couple here:

Part 1   Part 2

(Very) short summary: Aeon Adams and Eldred Rice fell in love with each other while being in Uni. Eldred graduated and moved in with his BFF Luna Hatter.

The relationship between Eldred and Aeon had cooled down a bit. They say, absence makes the heart grow fonder,  but in this case, it was more like "Out of sight, out of mind". Aeon started flirting with Basic (sheesh, Basic, you are part of the Gustavsson Legacy now, stop that fooling around!), and both Aeon and Eldred lacked a bit of enthusiasm for each other whenever they met.

They were thinking of splitting up for good when Luna decided to invite Aeon over for dinner. One thing led to another, Eldred led Aeon to bed, and I could not believe what I heard: the post-coital jingle aka lullaby. Eldred got pregnant, with twins!!! This is the third unplanned pregnancy in the neighborhood, and the second time it hits a gay couple which is ready to break up (first was Lewis and Dorian who are glad they stayed together).

Here you see a happy Aeon leaving his knocked up boyfriend who is blissfully unaware of things to come.

My Knowledge sims have commitment issues, but always a great sense of responsibility. Aeon is no different, he races through the last semesters of Uni, graduates summa cum laude, and he and Eldred buy a house with a lake. He has no intention on marrying, though. It is fine for Eldred, who is relieved he does not have to raise the twins on his own.

It sounded like a great idea at the time I picked my neighborhood - mountains. A look at the image reveals the reality. This is not a skyscraper, but the road up the hill. In a 90 degree angle. Amazing.

The attempt to flatten the terrain made things even worse. Never, ever will I create a new neighborhood in the mountains. Promised. It is not only the visual insult that is bad. I hate the camera suddenly going up and down again when zooming in and out. I really, really hate it, but there is nothing I can do. Exept maybe move every single house in the neighborhood into the bin and into a new hood, but I am not sure if I want to do it, and if it is safe. I have 38 families in this hood and a bunch more houses, so this would take forever.
Their first breakfast in the new house. Eldred is not shy and brings up the issue with Basic.

"Was that really necessary? An affair with Basic??"



"Awww, come on! It was not an "affair"! I kissed Basic, and I already apologized. I am sorry. Ok?"

It obviously is.



Aeon is desperately searching for a job. They are really low on money, the house wasn´t cheap, and I forget about the money for the maternity leave. Aeon wants to be a Mad Scientist, but the job doesn´t show up for, I don´t know, five days? It drives Aeon nuts and makes him grouchy.



Out of desperation, he picks the job in the Showbiz career, because it brings in the most money, and quickly makes it to Broadway star. Who would have guessed? :-)

The pregnancy goes smoothly. No throwing up, no question marks over Eldred´s head. As a doctor, he should know what is going on.

When he pops, he is aware it was not the pancakes he just ate.




He pops a little more. And looks like, hmm, too much beer?



And then the great moment arrives.

Yes, Mr. Wannabe Mad Scientist, Woohoo is exactly what created the situation you find yourself in now!

The first baby is a girl, and awwww ... totally inherited Aeon´s genes. She looks like a copy of his sister Elaine as a baby and gets named Undine.

The second baby is a girl, too. And for some reason, I did not take a screenshot. Don´t ask me why. Her name is Violet.

And then fate knocks on the door.  Harold Lloyd makes an appearance. He is a sim I made and townified, being curious how long it would take until somebody falls in love with him. He often calls my sims, but mostly married women, Faust Stockhausen hung out in the tub with him, but only has one bolt, he landed in another tub of the infamous Romance sim Roxanne, and I feared for his virginity, but he came out of it immaculate. Sadly, Eldred does not have a tub, but three bolts for the cute guy who is as shy as he is.

They make friends quickly, and my imagination goes rampant. How about letting Harold move in with them? But for the moment I drop the idea, and Harold trots away.

Having newborns is rather easy at first. They mostly lie in the crib.

The guys even have time to study.

I am so unsure what to do with them, so I stop my micromanaging and just let them do what they want.

Aww, I kind of missed that. Raising twins is not an easy task after a while. They have no help except from the creepy male maid Maximilian with the purple gloves who never cleans the shower nor toilet. I am glad Eldred loves to clean, it is a source of pleasure for him to scrub, so his mood is mostly great.

Aeon hasn´t lost his sense of humor, he learned the sea shanty from Juan (Chico) Ramirez, and loves to entertain Eldred in the kitchen.

 And then the girls grow up. Urgh. Undine just needs a new hairdo and is basically cute, but Violet??

This looks more like a mix of dog and baby. Only the eyes and brows look familiar. I am glad there is something like plastic surgery.

Undine is really cute.

She quickly wins over her aunt Elaine´s heart with being a spitting image of her.


 
After some cautious surgery, even Violet looks cute and a bit like Aeon without all the body hair.

I have no idea where Eldred put his genes. Maybe he misplaced them.

Eldred thinks the same when trying to teach Violet to speak.

I did not take many pictures when they were toddlers. It was a mess. Eldred was lucky when he got two hours of sleep in a row. One toddler woke up the other who had just been put in bed. Empty, stinky bottles everywhere. Constant running to clean the potties. A bug which dropped the environmental score really low. I have not been able to find out what is causing it. But the kids grew up well and Aeon finally found his mad scientist job.

The impression I have a preference for Undine might not be entirely false. I just have a weak spot for the Shadowbane werewolf gene. So, again, no picture of Violet, who was in bed already. Thanks heavens!

After the birthday celebration, Aeon and Eldred just fell into bed, totally exhausted. They are still there, recovering from raising the twins. Stay tuned, there might be an update sooner or later! I always want to have a family vacation, maybe this family might be the lucky one.

Shadowbane Clan

Now to one of my most favorite characters, Rae Shadowbane. As mentioned earlier in the post about Nero and Adrian Delacroix, while searching for new bodyshapes and skins, I discovered this cute furry Lycan/Werewolf skin by SynapticSim. Rae was the first Sim created with that skin.

 

Rae moved into this old castle which was quite depressing in the beginning.

Rae is a knowledge Sim in the medical career. He was studying very hard and spent most of his evenings quite lonely. He eventually made friends with Adrian, who had been part of the welcome party.

They got along really well, became engaged and were ready to marry when Rae all of a sudden decided he wanted to procreate. Adrian was already used to a lot by being with Nero, and he agreed.

Swiftly a female Lycan/werewolf lady got created, sweet Sheena, a Party aspiration Sim:



Sassy and fresh, isn´t she?? :-) She had a few dates, then one day Raeburn passed by her house, and it did not take these two long to get along well with each other.



She enjoyed the luxurious and spacious house, and she willingly agreed to be the mother of Raeburn´s children.



 
 




She had met Edward earlier while still living alone, and the closer the end of her first pregnancy came, the more she longed for Edward, so Rae and Adrian agreed to let Edward move in with them.

It was quite a wild househould by that time :-)

I had never played a household that large before, and things did not improve when the first baby Akira was born.

 Akira grew up to a cute little girl, with a Lycan skin, too.

The two couples Rae/Adrian and Sheena/Edward got along well with each other, and there was always somebody there to take care of the kid´s needs. According to Adrian, all could have been well until Rae and Sheena decided to have another baby. This was somehow the straw that broke the camel´s back, and as soon as Antonius was born, Adrian moved out and back in with his former love Nero. Edward wasn´t too crazed about it, either.

 

 
 

Oh, these ugly children :( I hardly have any toddler pictures of my kids, because they are so terribly ugly. Glad they grow out of it eventually :-)

Akira, their first child, grew into a teenager and had her first love with Nureon. I noticed the absolute lack ingame of appropriate teenage boys who would qualify for a first kiss, so I created Nureon and his father Oreeon Darknight to remedy that. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could create your dream mate like this? :-) It is the same Nureon who later fell in love with Adrian (see this post).

They looked like the perfect couple, but sometimes your Sims have a mind of their own. At least mine have :-) Akira had recently grown up into an adult and her parents threw a birthday party for her brother Antonius. Akira spotted Tony, and this was the end of her relationship with Nureon. Poor Nureon!! But he was still a teenager at that time, and there was nothing from stopping Akira getting what she wanted, and this was just TONY! She did not care that he was already in a long-term relationship with Richard. She hung on the phone for hours, trying to build up a relationship with him.

Here you see Akira, hidden behind the flash of Antonius growing up, with a love bubble about red-haired Tony over her head, who just speaks with Nureon. This was also the party where Nureon met Adrian (the guy in grey on the left) and began to notice Antonius.

See the determined look on her face? :-)

How it did continue with those two? Continue reading here.

Antonius had grown up into a cute teenager, and instead of looking for a nice girl to fall in love with, he fell in love with Nureon. I do not know why 2/3 of my neighborhood is gay or at least bi, but hey, that is the way it is :-)

Here they are on their first date in the Deepest Purple.

More about these two in a separate post! (which has yet to be written)

Shortly before Antonius moved out, Raeburn became a little tired of living in such a lively household. He had been a very reliable and caring father who really took care of his responsibilities, but when Sheena decided she wanted to have a baby with Edward, this was too much, and he kindly asked them to move out. At first they were quite upset, Sheena the Pleasure Sim had thoroughly enjoyed the amenities of the Shadowbane household, while Edward had been struggling to become a chef, lost his job, then got it back. But after they had found their dream home, they were happy to stand on their own four feet, had their baby Dorian on the day of the wedding, and all was well.

See more about them here.

Back to Raeburn!

One of my most favorite images of him. I do not know why he glowed like that, I had that happen only one other time with another character, Ontario. At first I thought it was because he had repaired the broken fitness machine :-), but Ontario had just played his bass. No idea what it is, but I love it.

Rae had a family burn-out. He was so happy when everybody, including all the pets that had accumulated over time, had finally moved out. He is not particularly outgoing, so he enjoyed the solitude, looked at the stars, studied, invited some friends over once in a while. And then of course he got bored :-) Or rather, I got bored with him. But since he showed up in every single welcome party for each new character I created, I got to see him once in a while :-)

This is how he met Jeremiah.

They had a very loving relationship for a while, with Jeremiah supporting him in setting up Rae´s restaurant "Di Lorenzo", but, alas, fate works in strange ways, and when Rae was in yet another welcome party, he met Matt. Meet Matt, the Mad Hatter:

He is the guy on the sofa, a little hard to spot, channeling Harold Lloyd :-)

Matt, would you mind coming over here, so the people can see you a bit better?

Here is Matt, having tea in Wonderland, his amusement park:

This was when I started to learn how to use OMSPs :-)

But I am jumping ahead. Head over to this post for more infos!