Helloooo! Welcome to the Booker Spares update!
We have a lot to cover so buckle up folks, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Let's start off with Everivory's new residents, Angelou and Shannon, and Morrison and Lisa!
Angelou
& Shannon Gonzaga
After arriving back
from uni, Angelou and Shannon settle into their new home. As both of their LTWs
revolve around jobs, they spend their time catching up as Shannon gains the
skills she needs.
And then, one day,
after getting a promotion, Shannon decides that there’s no better time in
getting married than now.
In the comfort of
their own home, they privately exchange vows.
And they become
wedded.
Mrs and Mrs Gonzaga,
ladies and gentlefolk!
However, wedded bliss
seems to have dissipated almost immediately when Shannon invites Morrison over
for a booty call.
Whilst Angelou’s
working hard, getting towards her LTW, Shannon woohoos Morrison on the sofa…
And then on the bed.
And Angelou’s none
the wiser.
Two wolves? That’s
unusual.
Perhaps this is a
sign that Angelou, or her children, should become werewolves?
This is one of my
favourite things to do in the winter: build snowmen.
But I like it even
more when couples do it together, it’s just sweet and romantic.
Angelou: “Wow, the stars are so bright out.”
Shannon: “At least help me get the head on this thing.”
There we go, Mr and
Mr Frosty.
The other snowman was
Angelou’s solo attempt after getting home from work earlier in the day.
After reaching her
LTW, Angelou soon discovers that her celebratory woohoo with Shannon has led to
something more.
Shannon’s pleased to
know that a child is on the way.
And I start to panic
because all of Maya Angelou’s prosaic works are autobiographical and I couldn’t
think of a good name for the child…
Angelou: “Be free little fireflies!”
Soon a new baby arrives
in the house (also, what the actual (censored) is going on. Why are all of my
spares getting blond hair and my main family isn’t!?). I ended up naming him
James after James Baldwin (who Baldwin is also named after) as James Baldwin
was a big figure in Maya Angelou’s inspiration when writing and publishing her
autobiographies.
It just seemed
fitting, now James Baldwin has two tributes in my game.
Angelou is very relieved
to have a child in their quiet home. She’s also had a baby pretty late in life,
as she’s about 15 days from elderhood.
To make the family
home bigger and closer, they adopt Charlie.
As well as little
Charles!
I really wanted to
adopt children with Atwood but I decided against it because Offred just seemed
like “enough” for them. But because Angelou had James so late, I decided that
letting her and Shannon adopt was the better solution.
Angelou is very
pleased to have the little tyke in her family.
Angelou: “Look, he even has Uncle Lawrence’s hair!”
We will have to change that, of course…
Anyway, onto
Morrison’s side!
Morrison & Lisa Rossi
Morrison is more than
delighted to have Lisa living with her in their new home. It’s pretty spacious
for plenty of kids.
They also decide to
host their wedding during the night in the middle of summer. Angelou and
Baldwin was in attendance, and thankfully there was no flirtation between
Angelou and Lisa.
In the twinkling
light of the stars above, Lisa and Morrison said their vows.
Lisa: “I promise to love you until my dying breath.”
Morrison: “And I promise you, for as long as I hold your last name,
I shall forever be yours.”
*cough*
Angelou & Baldwin: “Brava!”
Lisa: “Obviously we should start on the babymaking right away, we
don’t want to end up like your sister.”
Angelou: “And what about me?”
Morrison: “Oh, Angie! She doesn’t mean anything by it. She’s just a
family sim so having babies is her most important thing – unlike you, your
career came first.”
Angelou: “That’s right, but I would never use the fact that I put
my career before my family as means to talk down to Lisa.”
Lisa: “Well, you married Shannon
so…”
Angelou: “I’m SORRY?!”
Baldwin: “This cake is delicious!”
Morrison adopts
Poppy!
Lisa becomes quite
enamoured with the little dog and washes her often.
Lisa: “Ack! Poppy, no shaking!”
Surprise! Morrison’s
pregnant!
Bigger surprise! She
had twins!
This is Howard, he has
red hair and blue eyes!
Morrison then hands
Howard over to Lisa.
And brings Sethe into
the world! She has black hair and Lisa’s grey eyes.
Both names are taken
from Toni Morrison’s book, Beloved.
They get a nice
little corner in the nursery.
Here’s Howard a few
days later!
Howard: “Aw, pu-ppy!”
Poppy: “Well, he almost got my name right.”
Poppy: “But I shan’t let him hug me until he came pronounce my name
correctly.”
I think he’s calling
you “puppy” not “Poppy”.
Poppy: “Hmph, even more infuriating for I am not a puppy!”
Here’s Sethe!
She’s a cutie!
Howard and Sethe are
the cutest pair of twins (sorry, not sorry Constance and Rupert, Bathsheba and
Gabriel, Patrick and Clay – my God, my spares had a lot of twins…).
Oh! Lisa had another
little boy named Halle!
She has the full
house to get her LTW, but I might get her have a few more babies for the fun of
it.
Ellis & Uma McMillan
Patrick and Clay are
still as rambunctious as ever.
Patrick: “Oh, you shot me!”
Patrick: “I’m going down!”
Patrick: “Please don’t put me in prison!”
Patrick: “You’re good at this game, Clay. Maybe you should be a
policeman.”
Clay: “Eh, maybe.”
After growing bored
of their cops and robbers game, Patrick and Clay decide to blow bubbles.
Clay: “Huh, this smells particular…”
Clay: *gulp*
NO!
Clay: “EUGH! That’s so gross!”
Clay: *shudder* “I won’t do that again!”
And then he proceeds
to blow bubbles, as if the incident never occurred.
Clay: “If we ever got a magic lamp, do you know what you would wish
for?”
Patrick: “Um, I dunno. What are the choices?”
Clay: “Um… I guess… Money?”
Patrick: “Just money?”
Clay: “Um… I overheard Mommy say to Daddy that having a ‘piece of
mine’ would be what she wants?”
Patrick: “What’s a piece of mine?”
Clay: “I dunno, but Mommy wants it.”
Ellis: “Has anyone ever told you how beautiful your eyes are?”
Uma: “Not today.”
Ellis: “Let me rectify that then.”
Uma: “You’re being very charming today, Ellis McMillan.”
Ellis: “What can I say, I have the most beautiful wife in the whole
world.”
Uma: “Now, that kind of talk will get you everywhere, my dear.”
Uma: “Come on kids, it’s time for bed, you have school tomorrow.”
The next morning,
Clay wakes up begrudgingly.
Clay: “Ugh, I hate mornings.”
Tell me about it.
Patrick seems to be a
little more enthused.
Patrick: “I can see the whole of my bedroom from up here.”
Patrick: “Aww, Mommy! You’re home! I missed you!”
Uma: “I think I see Gabriel Green cutting his hedges in his
underwear.”
Stop spying on the
neighbours.
Uma: “Never!”
The boys seem a
little more excited today as they will be becoming teenagers!
I don’t know who that
kid is, or who brought him home but… He’s there.
They blow their
candles in synchronised fashion.
And voila! Everivory
Fields has two new teenagers!
The more I play these
spares, the more I want to start my own BaCC…
*strokes chin*
Anyway, back to
legacy talk – Patrick rolls Family and wants to be a Captain Hero, and he likes
charismatic, creative sims but hates black hair.
Clay rolls Knowledge
and wants to be a Game Designer (Another one, that’s three in the neighbourhood
now (not including me!)). He likes swimwear and brown hair and hates fat sims.
Hm.
Clay: “Oh yeah!”
*snort* Nice try, mr
Knowledge.
Patrick: “Clay, are you done in the bathroom yet?”
Clay: “Get out, Rick!”
Ellis and Uma are feeling
the empty nest syndrome starting to kick in, their young boys, who had been but
toddlers not too long ago, are now thinking of college and falling in love.
Only one thing to do
about this.
The two decide to try
for another baby.
Hardy & Veronica Hutchins
In the Hutchins' household, Jude and Gabriel spend some quality time together.
Gabriel: “Ew, Jude, you’re standing in dog pee!”
Jude: “And that’s your fault, you little dweeb!”
*snort*
Oh, good gravy.
Mixing a Chow Chow and a Dalmation was probably the worst thing I’ve ever done.
I was too busy
wondering if I could to stop to think if I should.
Anyway, Dooley’s a
big boy and I’m scared of him.
Both Veronica and
Hardy have the day off whilst their kids are at school. Veronica uses it to
play video games whilst Hardy paints a portrait for the house.
And when the kids
come home, they do their homework and then study.
Jude then leaves for
college, leaving just the twins at home now.
Hardy deals with the
departure of his first born by playing with Dooley, the youngest of the
household.
You can see Veronica
beginning to heartfart over Hardy.
Even though he’s kind
of an abomination, Dooley is pretty frickin’ cute.
Offred passes by the
Hutchins’ household and Gabriel goes to greet her.
They get along better
than their parents do.
Bathsheba: “Maybe I should get contacts or something?”
Why?
Bathsheba: “Cus I look prettier without glasses.”
I mean… That’s not
necessarily true…
Bathsheba: “Forgetting you now, these flowers smell too good to
ignore.”
Dooley sleeps
peacefully on Gabriel’s bed. I do really love how the pets sleep on sims bed,
it reminds me of how my dog likes to sleep on my bed when I’m playing this
game.
Lucky plays with the
water wriggler as the household sleeps.
Bathsheba: “I just don’t think it’s cool that it’s you getting the
house after we graduate college. Like, what the hell? How is that fair?”
Gabriel: “You’ll be busy opening up so many businesses, you won’t
be here to take care of Mom and Dad when they get too old. Plus, I’m a family
sim.”
Bathsheba: “So?”
Gabriel: “So I’ll be having lots of kids.”
Bathsheba: “Ah, you have a good point…”
Bathsheba: “But I just have one more point to make.”
Bathsheba: “God, Gabriel!”
Gabriel, choking: “Je-sus, WHY!?”
Bathsheba: “This is the culprit, right here!”
Gabriel: “What do I do? She’s trying to ruin my reputation!”
Chill, it's just
me here, Gabriel.
Gabriel: “Oh, yeah.”
Gabriel & Bathsheba: “Ahahahaha!”
Hardy: “Anyway, because I know you’ll be going to college soon and
when you graduate you’ll be very busy to visit often, so… I made you a few paintings
to hang in your first business.”
Bathsheba: “Daddy? For me?”
Bathsheba: “I’ll cherish them forever!”
Bathsheba: “Thank you, so much, Daddy.”
Gabriel: “Hmph, I don’t get paintings or anything…”
You’re getting the
whole house.
Gabriel: “Oh… yeah…”
Lawrence stops by
because today is a monumental day in the Hutchins’ household.
Hardy and Veronica
are reaching elderhood.
Hardy hits first,
losing his hair.
And Veronica goes
next… Somehow that nose she had in adulthood shrunk and became pointier…
Makes sense, I guess…
Uh, Bathsheba, I
think that lobster’s a little off…
Veronica: “I married this manchild.”
Really puts the term
“young at heart” to use, huh?
I don’t know if you
can tell but Veronica is a few inches from the sofa cushion because of Hardy’s
jumping.
Veronica: “I might kill him before his timebar does.”
Well, Gabriel and
Bathsheba will be going to college in the next update so, you’ll have to put up
with him until Gabriel comes back…
Veronica: “Oh, my God…”
Lawrence & Tyler Enriquez
Tyler is still
adamant in showing Lawrence just how much he loves him.
I also added a pool
to the back garden because the small house led to a massive backyard.
Constance loves the
slide.
And Rupert has an
attempt on the diving board.
With low body skill.
Rupert: “Whoa, it’s pretty wobbly!”
Yowch. That looked
painful.
Rupert: “If I could be any occult race, I’d be a warlock.”
Constance: “A warlock? Get real, Pertie. They only exist in books.”
The Enriquez’s now
have a grandfather clock.
Rupert: “Why am I winding it?”
Eh. Because.
Rupert: “IT’S SO LOUD WHEN IT CHIMES!”
Ahahahaha, yeah.
Yeah.
Constance: “Oh, great. Acne. Like my life could get any worse?”
After taking a
shower, Constance gets the acne cream out and goes to town.
Constance: “Out! Out damn spot!”
Constance: “Whoa, I don’t think they were supposed to show this
woman burning to death…”
WHAT.
Constance, turn that
off!
Constance: “No way, it’s getting interesting. This might be on Unsolved Simsteries tonight.”
Lawrence, who has a
day off, decides to have his go on the diving board.
Lawrence: “Watch this.”
Oh my goodness!
Flawless!
Lawrence: “How’d I do?”
10/10!
Constance: “This is your captain speaking. Prepare for submersion.
Blub blub blub.”
Allegra has grown
old. Her beautiful black eye patches are streaked with grey. It’s a sad time
for the family…
Even sadder, Lawrence
and Tyler join Hardy and Veronica into elderhood. The second generation is
finally reaching its final farewell.
Fashion Bug! Fashion
Bug!
Constance leaves for
college that night.
Lawrence: “Bye my baby girl!”
Rupert joins his
twin.
Lawrence: “The house hasn’t been this quiet in years.”
Tyler: “I know…”
Tyler: “It’s so peaceful… and nice.”
Atwood & Ericka Shin
Offred: “Oh hey, it’s you. Tell me, is it 1am yet?”
Uh… Close?
Also, hello?
Offred: “Bye!”
Who are you sneaking
out with? A boyfriend? Girlfriend?
Your cousin… Gabriel.
Offred, I don’t think
your mother would like that.
Offred: “Oh, crap! Mom’s not asleep!”
Atwood: “Offred, what the hell are you thinking? Going out in the
dead of night? Who were you with? Tell me.”
Offred: “A friend.”
Atwood: “A friend!? Do I know this friend? It better not be one of
Uncle Hardy’s brats… Offred, tell me it wasn’t one of them.”
Offred: “Do you want me to lie?”
Atwood: *sigh* “Just, go to bed, Offred.”
In case you’ve
forgotten, Atwood and Hardy became enemies during their college years.
Offred: “I just don’t understand. They’re my cousins. Why can’t I
be friends with them?”
It’s… Look, you’ll
get your chance when you leave for college.
Atwood: “Ericka, can you do me a favour?”
Ericka: “Sure, honey. Did I hear you and Offred outside earlier?”
Atwood: “Actually, it’s about that.”
Ericka: “Oh boy, what’s she done now?”
Atwood: “I don’t understand her. She’s been sneaking out with
Hardy’s kids even though she knows she shouldn’t be.”
Ericka: “Hm… You mean to say she’s rebelling against your rules.”
Atwood: “Exactly!”
Ericka: “Surely the easier way around this is to let her be friends
with her cousins?”
Atwood: “Never will I allow my daughter to hang out with that
bastard’s hooligans.”
Ericka: *sigh* “Okay, I’ll talk to her.”
I guess you know you
can’t change her mind, right?
Ericka: “I can’t get either of them to change their minds.”
After school, Offred
completes her homework and then relaxes in front of the TV.
Sensing an
opportunity, Ericka approaches her.
Ericka: “Why don’t I hear you playing the violin anymore?”
Offred: “Mom, what is this about? Is this about last night?”
Ericka, internally: “Ugh, she’s a smart kid.”
Ericka: “Sweetie, I understand that you want to know your family. I
really do, but your mother feels really strongly about Uncle Hardy’s family.
What about Constance and Rupert?”
Offred: “Mom, you know they left for college the other night.”
Ericka: “And you’ll be joining them soon, won’t you? You’ll grow
closer to them then and you’ll forget all about Gabriel and Bathsheba and
Jude.”
Offred: “The fact that you know their names says so much.”
Offred: “Mom, I want friends my own age and Gabriel is cool. I’m
going to hang out with him, whether you and Mom let me or not.”
Offred: “I’m gonna go paint for an hour or two.”
Atwood: “How’d it go?”
Ericka: “I tried, babe, I tried.”
Later that night…
Offred: “Ah, poop.”
Atwood: “OFFRED SHIN!”
Atwood: “I cannot believe you were about to sneak out again! Did
anything your mother and I said to you stick? I will not let you leave this
house with that BOY!”
Offred: “Whatever. I can’t wait to get out of this house.”
Atwood: “I gave this girl everything she could ever want… And she
still wants so much more.”
Welcome to teenhood.
Remember what you were like?
Atwood: “I’m different. I was the outcast.”
Bling Bling and
Cherry have made home on Atwood and Ericka’s bed.
Since getting told
off by Atwood, Ericka has stuck to just studying in silence.
Often times she would
dance in the lounge.
… The dogs are
fighting?
Offred: “Oh yeah, this always happens.”
………. Excuse me.
Offred: “Freedom, I can see you!”
Offred leaves for
college tonight.
Tonight is also the
night Atwood and Ericka age up.
They’re both still
very lovely to look at.
Unfortunately, they
need to hit the wardrobe and mirror.
Atwood: “Bye, Offred, I’ll miss you.”
Offred? Don’t you
have anything to say back? You know you’ll miss her too when she goes.
Offred: “I’ll miss her then, I guess.”
Offred: “I guess I’ll be returning after college, right?”
Well, you’re their
only child so yes.
Offred: “Damn.”
Charmain & Blair Jordan
After graduating from
college, Charmain and Blair settle into their new home, contracted by Ricky.
They had the old home
bulldozed, as it held too many bad memories there, and instead had a 3 storey house
built in instead.
And here it is, we’ll
need a big house considering Charmain was at the minimum of six kids.
Bathsheba pops by
with Mickey.
Wedding day rolls
around and Charmain invites her father, Ricky, and her half-brother, Howl, who
is still at college.
On a beautiful
summer’s day, the marriage between Charmain Oxley and Blair Jordan takes place.
Where’s Ricky, I hear
you ask?
Well, he’s right
here, reading an invisible newspaper on the toilet.
Very classy, Ricky.
Charmain and Blair say
their vows.
And Charmain takes
Blair’s last name, becoming Charmain Jordan.
Ricky: “Ah yes, picture perfect.”
Fast forward a few
days and Charmain is now expecting!
But before we go,
let’s introduce you to the newest member of the Jordan house: Honey!
Honey, as you may
know, is one of Cherry and BerryBoo’s puppies that Atwood gave up for adoption.
And here she is, all
grown up. I think she’s inherited the speckles from BerryBoo but because she
has Cherry’s caramel coat, it’s hard to tell.
Oh well, she’s
beautiful and that’s all that matters.
The Oxleys at College
Sophie is still
trying to woohoo her way through college.
So far she’s woohooed
with a few college sims. She takes after her cousin, Atwood, by sleeping with a
cheerleader.
Sophie: “Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten that I’m at college for a
reason.”
Good.
Oh yeah, Howl and
Megan are still here but you’ll soon see that Sophie becomes the focus on this
update.
Getting bored of
waiting for sims to walk past the house, Sophie ventures out to Red Hot’s
Diner.
Where she immediately hits it off with Geoff Rutherford, but I forgot to take photos so...
Oh, hey, Veronica!
Veronica: “Is that my husband’s cousin getting jiggy in the
photobooth?”
You know it!
Ugh.
Marcel gets through another Booker female.
Veronica: “God, I’m so glad my daughter’s not a romance sim.”
Thank the lord she’s
money driven.
Veronica: “I’d be worried she’d sleep with Marcel. God knows he
started enough trouble in college.”
Waiter: “So you’re the lady causing all the ruckus?”
Sophie: “Could I just get the chef’s choice.”
Waiter: “You really aren’t choosey, huh?”
Sophie: “Stop talking.”
Chef’s choice is lime
seared prawns.
A GOOD WITCH!
PHEOBE’S HERE!
SOPHIE, QUICKLY!
Sophie: “Ahem, I’m busy now.”
Marcel: “She seems familiar. Is she related to Bronte?”
Only by blood.
Of course, Mrs
Crumplebottom is not impressed.
Mrs Crumplebottom: “Romance sims like you are a disgrace! Your
mother should have raised you better!”
Sophie: “Hey, my Mom is the best Mom in the world. Back off, you
old hag!”
Sophie and Phoebe
meet and my plan begins to hatch.
Sophie invites Phoebe
back to her house.
Where they woohoo and
fall in love.
I then get Phoebe to
turn Sophie into a witch.
I’m living my Howl’s
Moving Castle fantasy.
Sophie: “I got the magic in me!”
Sophie: “I made it heaven!”
She’s so cute in her
witch outfit.
Sophie: “Huh, I need an eye of newt to cast this spell…”
Howl: “Okay… This is a strange study book? I thought Sophie was
doing philosophy like me…”
Howl: “You won’t tell if I sneak a look, right?”
No, ‘course not.
Howl: “YOW!”
Sophie has begun to
sparkle.
And then Howl and
Megan graduate.
They’ll be moving in
with Wynne and Ricky and we’ll be catching up with them in a short while!
Wynne & Ricky Oxley
After graduating,
Howl and Megan move in with Wynne and Ricky as their lives are soon coming to a
close.
Megan is very giddy
about starting her new life in such a wonderful home with a vibrant history.
Ricky is still very
much in love with the cats.
As night falls over
the first day of Howl’s return home, Wynne sleeps with a smile on her face,
glad to have her little boy back home with her.
Megan and Howl sleep
peacefully in their bed in the newly done-up attic, excited for the quickly
approaching wedding day.
Ricky: “I can only hope they give us grandchildren before we pass
on.”
Wynne: “We’re lucky that Megan is a Family sim then, otherwise we’d
never have grandchildren. Don’t forget how my mothers’ badgered me about
grandchildren, let’s not do it to Howl and Megan.”
Charmain and Blair
dropped by later in the week.
Ricky is very excited
to be a grandfather soon! He couldn’t stop rubbing Charmain’s belly.
But of course, his
wife also gets the affection she needs and deserves.
Wedding day! A
heavily pregnant Charmain arrives on foot whilst Sophie emerges on broom.
Sophie: “I heard someone was getting married so I had to stop by!”
Howl: “You were invited.”
Sophie: “I mean, I guess I was but don’t pretend it’s not an honour
for me to be here!”
Howl: “Just give me a hug, you dork.”
God. Why do these
sims have the most inappropriate formal wear?
Howl and Megan
exchange their vows and become Howl and Megan Oxley.
Howl then spins his
new wife under the arch.
Wynne: “You became a witch!? Have you gone mad!?”
Sophie: “Chillax mother, it’s for the greater good, I promise you.”
Wynne: “You’re driving me to an early death, you wretched child!”
Megan: “Just because you’re a witch doesn’t mean you can cheat at
chess too!”
Sophie: “Oops, hehe!”
Once the party ends,
Sophie is out of there, flying away on her broom.
And Megan and Howl
are left to their own devices which leads to…
Baby Morgan!
He’s
inherited Howl’s nose but I’m unsure about the rest of his genetics.
Now a mother to a
grabby, exploratory son, Megan decides to adopt a hairstyle that is more out of
the way.
Ricky seemed to have
gotten his wish.
He met his first
grandson and then passed away.
Goodbye Ricky, the
first spare to pass away.
Oh dear, Megan and
the cats are devasted.
Not as distraught as
Wynne though.
Wynne: “Noooo! He was the love of my life.”
I’m sorry Wynne, I
know how hard you had it until you met him. I’m truly sorry.
Wynne: “Ricky!”
Howl, having lost his
father, took some time out of his evening to observe his young son, now
suddenly aware of the brevity of life.
We interrupte this broadcast to show sim!me getting swindled.
I finally got a haircut LMFAO!
Wynne spends more of
her time looking after little Morgan.
Morgan is also Howl
and Sophie’s son in Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways, I couldn’t resist naming Howl’s son
after him.
Wynne: “Death cannot come fast enough.”
Oh come on, I know
you miss Ricky, but what about your grandson Morgan? I think he wants to spend
some time with his grandmother.
And so they play
catch in the front yard.
However, later that
night, death came knocking on Wynne’s door.
She almost jumped at
the chance to be with Ricky, her mothers, sister, and sister-in-law again.
Howl is devastated by
the loss of his parents, especially since they happened to close to one
another.
And there’s Wynne’s
urn, the last of the first generation, gone.
Howl, come on!
Howl: “I thought it was a cat!”
Speaking of cats,
October also passes away…
And that’s the end of this spares update.
As they seem to be getting longer with more families being added I have decided to only update on the households with active spares in which means Charmain's family, Howl's family, and Sophie's updates will be reduced to footnotes at the end of the next update. This will be how it goes from now on. Hopefully when Hardy, Lawrence, and Atwood go the updates should shorten a little bit...
Thank you for reading!
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