Yes, folks, I'm back with another semi-update - a Sloane update! I made my way through gen 4, picked my heir, and now have the first baby of gen 5. In other words, I'm half-way there! Woo!
First, let's take a look at our first-born of generation four: Vivienne!
First, let's take a look at our first-born of generation four: Vivienne!
Viv is evil, a daredevil, athletic, a snob and clumsy (now there's an interesting combo - especially the clumsy, athletic daredevil). I was SO HAPPY when she popped into toddlerhood, because she finally, finally brought some new genes into the game. Georgina, the founder, was dark-haired, as was Jon Lessen, her husband. Which meant Lea and Kylie, their children, had dark brown hair. Kylie married Asa, who naturally had black hair, but I changed it to blonde after they got married to add some new genes. When Rosie and Morgan were born, I was disappointed - and confused - to discover they, too, were dark haired. Finally, Rosie married the red-headed Austin, and had...the blonde Vivienne. Yeah, I don't quite get how genetics work in this game. Did Rosie and Morgan's black hair come from Asa himself, and the game didn't recognize the hair colour change until later? Or was it from Asa's family, who were all black haired? I really don't know. For her blonde hair and bright green eyes (courtesy of Austin), Vivienne was chosen heir.
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Next on the docket, we have Mr. Logan Sloane!
I really wish I changed his hairdo before uploading him, especially because he's on the exchange with the others. He's got one download to Vivienne's 12 at this moment, oops. Sorry, Logan.
Logan is good, never nude, a daredevil, a loner and a natural cook. He, too, has a rockin' personality, in a different way from Vivienne. He was a lot of fun to play as a child. Because he's a loner, I built him his very own basement bedroom. I even gave him a toilet, sink, play oven and dining area, so he could enjoy some alone time. With a family like the Sloanes - big, invasive (hello, there are four toilets! No need to all use the same one at the same time, people!) and obsessed with throwing parties, I felt that Logan would probably feel suffocated at home. Surprisingly, we only had one incident of a family member coming down to use his personal toilet while he was hanging out. Considering there are 7 people in the house at any given moment, that's a small miracle. I almost picked him to be heir because I've had, like, 3 males born to the family, but Viv won me over with her genetic lotto win (blonde hair! green eyes!). Logan has a strange, almost green quality to his brown hair (arrgh) and he inherited Asa's golden eyes. Yeah they're nice and all, but so far, Viv is the only child of gens 3 and 4 to escape the golden eye curse. Frig. I'm still pissed Geegee's eyes died out with Kylie. Especially when you consider I've been playing Kylie's descendants. But alas - gen 5 has just begun. I'm sad to report that the first baby of gen 5 has Asa's eyes too, but it's a young generation. There's always hope.
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And our final contestant...Annabelle Sloane, come on down!
Annabelle was not quite an oops baby. More of a panic baby. I was worried that, despite her fresh genes, Viv wasn't going to be quite...heirish enough for the Sloanes. So, I made Rosie and Austin have baby number three, even though I was really sick of babies by this point in the game. And I'm so glad I did, because Annabelle is gorgeous! I think she's the prettiest Sim I've had in my game - definitely the prettiest that's been born to one of my own Sims. It was really hard not to pick her at the last moment to be the heir, because I think she will make some pretty-looking babies! But alas, with her dark brown hair (sigh) and Asa's golden eyes (sigh), she got cut. I suppose I could have changed her hair colour, but I prefer keeping my Sims as natural as possible. I didn't even streak her hair funky colours for her teenage years like I did with Morgan because I was scared I wouldn't be able to get back to her natural colour later on - I don't think this shade comes as a default. I think I'll start calling it Sloane Brown. Anyway, for those interested, Annabelle's stats: neurotic, genius, insane (hoo boy!), unflirty and a kleptomaniac. Naturally, she's a ton of fun to play - I'm pretty sure she lives happily in her own little world.
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So that's it, my fourth generation of Sloanes! It's pretty crazy, actually, when you think about it. I usually lose interest by generation three at the latest. When I played my Shiz family back on Sims 2, I halted at gen 3 because I didn't like any of them. Gen 1 was cool, gen 2 was amazing, but everyone in gen 3 was a douche. Maybe I got lucky this time around and had a fantastic gen 3, with Rosie and Morgan. Gen 4 has been great, especially because all of the kids really like each other, and everyone was close to all of the adults, except for Austin (so Jon, Kylie and Rosie). In fact, the entire family gets on really well, almost too well. There's hardly any drama. If the first born baby of gen 5 is any indication, it's gonna be a good one.
Side bar: I have a shot of Jon holding the newborn gen 5 baby. How cool is that? Yeah he's a ghost, but gen 1 still with gen 5? Pretty awesome. Jon's going to up and die on me, again, at any day now, and I'll be heartbroken. Once they die as ghosts, which Jon is right now, they don't come back. Once that happens, I'm very tempted to bring back Georgina and have her around for a while. I might do that later, say around gen 8 or 9, so she can be there when the last generation, gen 10, is born. I also have plans to name the first born gen 10 baby George or Georgia in honour of GeeGee, who started it all. But that's still a way's away.
Next up, a brand-new family tree, and a link to download Lea, the very first baby of gen 2. I'm trying to find a screenshot, but I might have to go into the game and take her picture from CAS, since I have over 2600 screenshots in my folder. Ugh. I reallly hope I saved Lee and Darcy, because Darcy died the last time I played (i.e., tonight). I don't think I saved them to upload, but I remember doing something with them, so I'll have a look around CAS. I'd like to upload every single Sloane from gen 2 on, if I can. Fingers crossed!
