Welcome back to The
Literal Booker Legacy!
A quick recap:
Bronte, our second
generation heiress, gave birth to two children: Ellis (Bret Easton Ellis) and
Shelley (Mary Shelley). Shelley was chosen as heiress and I contemplated making
this legacy a matriarch but who knows, perhaps we’ll get our first male heir
this generation?
Regardless, let’s get
on with this chapter!
The first thing
Shelley and Heath do when arriving at the Booker household is build a snowman.
Bronte: “No, Ellis, I don’t know when your sister is getting here.
I said I’d call you when she arrives and that is what I’ll do. Goodnight, son.”
Bronte: “I had no idea I raised such clingy children.”
Shelley: “Ahem.”
Bronte: “Shelley! I’m so glad you two made it home safely.”
This is kinda sweet,
this is where these two had their very first date and cemented Heath as the
third generation spouse.
Good evening, Otis.
Shelley: “So, because we both have the day off from work tomorrow,
I figured it’d be best to rush the wedding to tomorrow.”
Heath: “That’s fine by me as long as I get to marry you.”
Otis: “Bark bark bark!”
Did I lose the
ability to communicate with you in the afterlife?
Shelley: “Eek!”
Shelley: “Otis, what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks!?”
I need to change
these beds but I don’t want to upset the ghosts. Shelley and Heath cosy up in
Austen and Cherry’s old bed.
Just a short sequence
of Heath and Shelley being super cute.
That little smile.
She knows she’s getting
married tomorrow.
Shelley woke up early
on the morning of her wedding. She spent most of the morning gazing down at her
soon-to-be husband and began to recall all of the ways she’d been blessed in
her life.
Oh look, the brother
and the sister-in-law are here! It’s wedding time!
Ellis, step away.
Your sister is about to get married.
Can I just… take a
second to gush about how beautiful Shelley is right now?
Just lemme take a
second.
*squeak*
Also, please note
Bronte in the background sneaking a sip of champagne.
Shelley: “Forever and always.”
Heath: “Forever and always, my love.”
Heath Butler becomes
Heath Booker. Lemme give you his stats because I forgot to in the college
chapter, whoops.
Heath is a Family sim
with a LTW of becoming a Minister of Education. He’s neat, shy, active, serious
but nice and likes black hair, blonde hair but doesn’t like custom hair. His
OTH is also tinkering!
Time for the cake
cutting!
Well, Heath is
definitely the attentive kind of husband.
Bronte: “A toast to be new bride and groom! May your reign over the
Bookers be fruitful and as long as my mothers’ and my grandmothers’.”
Shelley: “And yours.”
Bronte: “My reign isn’t over yet, kiddo.”
Heath is just helping
himself to cake in the background whilst his family congratulate him.
Bronte: “Is this party over yet? I’m very tired and all the
bathrooms are occupied thanks to the stupid champagne.”
Nearly there, Bronte.
And with this dance
kiss, the party ends as a roof raiser! Hooray!
And now comes the most important part after the wedding.
The two newlyweds
making their bed.
Synchronised pillow
fluffing.
You know what’s
coming next!
Later in the evening:
Shelley: “My neck really hurts. Do you think the mattress is
stiff?”
Heath: “No, not really. Maybe you’re coming down with something.
Your dress wasn’t very winter-appropriate.”
Shelley: “I looked good though.”
Shelley: “I’ll go run a bath and relax.”
You know, this is how
your mother felt when she fell pregnant with Ellis.
You’re possibly
pregnant.
Shelley: “So soon!?”
Just as Shelley gets started
on Bronte’s portrait, she pops!
Shelley: “Well, I guess Gray wastes no time.”
Hell no, you’re
having three kids and I’m not having the same situation your mother and aunt
had.
Hey, Austen!
Austen: “I sense a new baby approaching. We’ll be leaving soon,
won’t we?”
… I’m afraid so, yes.
*sniff*
The reason why I’m
moving the graves is because ghosts cause the lot to lag and I just don’t want
any issues.
Shelley: “Are we
going to explain the hair situation?”
So, basically, you’re
having the same issue as your mother. Somehow, the curly base game hair won’t
go with the pregnancy clothing mesh and so I’m changing your hair for the time
being until you’re done having kids.
Bronte: “So, this is what it feels like you have your whole life
squashed into a painting.”
Yeah, basically.
Bronte: “I’ll just be a memory in this house in a few generations.”
Heath got a
promotion! Hooray!
Heath: “Who is that man and why is he making my mother-in-law cry?”
His name’s Gabriel
Green and he basically hates us.
Shelley came home
with two surprises:
A promotion and a
second pop! The first baby of the fourth generation is so close.
Bronte: “Sweetie, I know you’re tired but I don’t think berry pie
is the best place to fall asleep.”
Heath is of course
very excited to be a new father.
This is just to prove
that Shelley reached her LTW whilst at work. $100,000!
I’m gonna keep her on
the Natural Science track though.
Shelley: “Hello! Me time!”
It’s always been you
time.
Shelley: “SHUUUT UUUUP. DON’T ARGUE WITH MEEEEE!”
Shelley: “WHERE IS MY FAMILY?!”
Your Aunt Ericka’s
here if that counts?
Shelley: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW HERRRRR!”
Shelley: *scream*
Heath, I’d wipe the
smile from your face, your wife is not in an agreeable mood.
Heath: “I’m going to be a daddy!”
Not listening…
Come on blond, come
ON!
GOD FRICK-
Okay fine, I’m going
to install a mod that makes blonde and red hair dominant.
This legacy will end
with black hair, I just know it.
AnyWAY! This is Angelou Booker, named after
Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was most well-known for her autobiographies, the most
famous of which is I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings, as well as multiple poetry books. She was also a civil rights
activist.
Shelley: "So, you're the reason Gray makes a big deal about me being heiress?"
No time to waste,
baby number two needs to be here pronto!
Bronte moves Austen,
Cherry, and Otis’ graves to the family graveyard.
And then…
Bronte: “I’m retiring. I’m a grandma now. See yuh!”
Yes! Yes!
Shelley: “This is torture. Can he have an alien baby to balance this?”
Uh… maybe next generation. I’m not planning for alien children right now…
I’m kinda
disappointed how Angelou ended up with skin tone one when her father is
definitely a four. Ah well, sims genetics never really made sense, I suppose.
This is too precious.
Congrats on your
promotion!
Shelley: “Blergh!”
You’re welcome!
Heath and Shelley
share the responsibility of caring for Angelou equally but it’s difficult with
one parent working towards promotions and the other under medical care as they
are expecting a second kid.
Thankfully Bronte is
still around.
Shelley is going to
have her hands full with three kids when she’s done. It’ll be worth it though.
Heath jams out on
Austen’s guitar whilst Shelley dances.
This is where I
remember that Shelley is a playful sim.
I just love her face
sfm.
You’re gonna need to
stop being so surprised, this is two out of three times.
Heath and Shelley are
good parents but the award honestly goes to Bronte, the Romance sim, who seems
to gravitate towards her granddaughter.
Shelley: “I’m pregnant!”
Heath: “I’m so happy I might cry.”
Uncle Ellis and
Auntie Uma? Must be a birthday party.
At first glance, she
looks like a face clone of Shelley, but she actually has Heath’s eyes and lips!
She’s very cute!
Angelou is a
Sagittarius who is sloppy, shy, active, playful and very nice.
First on the agenda,
walk the baby.
If you’re assuming
that a lot of these photos are just taken to showcase how pretty Shelley is,
you’re half right.
Also, who left the
dirty diaper on the floor?
Angelou is honestly
such a good mix of her parents, I’m so happy.
The spinner was a
gift from great uncle Hardy!
Along with that kite.
Shelley popped her second pop, but I missed it.
Heath: “Hello little baby, your mother and I cannot wait to meet
you and I bet you can’t wait to meet your big sister and your grandmother.”
Angelou, internally: “Why are my parents so weird?”
Here we goooo!
Wow, this was a quick
birth. Another girl! More black hair.
This little angel is
Morrison, named after Toni Morrison.
Although most well known for her novels, Beloved
(which she won a Pulitzer prize for), The
Bluest Eye, and The Song of Solomon,
Toni Morrison was also the recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She also wrote a slew of children’s
literature.
Leroy: “Must protect the cub.”
Bronte: “I cannot get to the baby. Move!”
Bronte, like her
mother, has adopted using the kitchen sink to wash her grandbabies.
Shelley: “Night night, my big girl.”
So, I was just
casually playing the household when I notice the water wriggler going off. At
first I thought it was a glitch and then I noticed Leroy playing.
A better lit shot of
the doggie playing in the water!
Shelley: “Oh, I’m pregnant again!”
Yes, this is it
Shelley, no more after this.
Shelley: “That better be a promise, I swear.”
Just a little shot of
Angelou playing with blocks (this is also where I got the notification that
Angelou’s OTH is tinkering like her father) as Morrison just does what babies
do.
Aww no baby, don’t be
sad. Your daddy will be here soon.
Heath: “Say Daddy.”
Angelou: “Seeing as you freed me from that hellhole. Daddy.”
Today is also
Angelou’s last day of toddlerhood so Heath takes advantage of the little time
he has left by tossing her in the air.
Heath: “I can’t believe our girls are growing up today.”
There’s not just one
birthday!
There’s two!
Angelou goes first.
Heath, not to be
outdone, blows out Morrison’s candles for her.
Here we go!
Oh! Morrison has
Heath’s nose! That’s so cute!
Morrison is a
Capricorn who is super neat, shy, lazy, super playful and nice.
Not going to lie, I
think Angelou might end up being beautiful.
Heath: “Are you sure you should be drinking that in your
condition?”
Shelley: “Are you going to tell your pregnant, tired wife who is
raising your two children that she can’t have a cup of frickin’ coffee?!”
I missed the second
pop again. Whoops.
Because it’s the
middle of summer and Shelley is on maternity and Bronte is taking care of
Morrison, I let Shelley cool down by playing with the water wriggler.
Morrison: “ANYONEEEEEE!”
Angelou returns from
her first day at school and her father, now a high school principal, decides to
help her with her homework.
Both Shelley and
Heath have rolled wants related to the kids. Shelley wants to get Angelou into
private school and Heath just wants her to get an A+.
I’m going to get the
kids into private school for the first time in this legacy.
Bronte teaches
Morrison how to walk.
Why are you pouting?
Oh, she’s smiling
now!
No lie, if I were to
have a family in the future, this likely how it would look. Just replace the
husband with a wife hahahah!
I’d be on the PC
playing the sims.
Bronte: “Goodnight, my petal.”
Bronte: *mwah*
Later that night,
Shelley got a special delivery.
Why are you in the
bathroom?
Shelley: “I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A SHOWERRRRR!”
Just think, this is
the LAST baby!
Shelley: “GOOOOOOD!”
Frammit. Black hair,
brown eyes. Can I please get some variation in this legacy?
Anyway! Ladies and
gents, baby number three is a boy!
This is Baldwin
Booker, named after James Baldwin. James Baldwin is likely more well-known
recently for his novel, that was adapted into a movie, called If Beale Street Could Talk. However, for
me, he is more well-known for his controversial novel, Giovanni’s Room (which broke my heart but is also so worth the
read). James Baldwin is also known
for his activism as well as being an unapologetic black gay man in America.
With Baldwin’s
appearance in the family, we leave this chapter behind!
Next time: Lots of birthdays!!
Next time: Lots of birthdays!!
Also, I've managed to package all of the Bookers up to, and including, Shelley and Ellis. If anyone is interested in downloading one of them, please let me know :)
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