Divvy's SV Family: Homer Atreus 2025
My current Sunset Valley save's family: Atreus, like the ancient Greek family in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. However, their names are not in the generational or related order of those classics, just used here and there for fancy. If they are already historical and 3000 years in the past, then I feel its ok for them to expire in a video game ... otherwise it gets too sad. They do get to be ghosts too, and their generations continue on.
Book I
Mother and father are Helen and Dardanus, whom I tried modelling in CAS to look nothing like anyone I know. However they did end up looking a little like a couple of my university crowd. I made them as mature-aged, so it wouldn't take long for them to become elders and look different, plus make room in the house. Their son Homer was born in CAS with the Play with Genetics button on the Add a Sim drop-up menu, and raised from toddler to adult in the game.
They moved into the starter home called Shotgun Style - a two bedroom, 1 bathroom, flat, furnished house with a pleasant light wood, green and pink colour theme in the open living areas, bathroom and kitchen. It also has a decent sized yard.
It’s opposite the Alvi household and the Sekemoto's because of being on the corner. It's just down the street, or a short walk from the gym, and just a little further to the school.
Dardanus’ Life Time Wish was “Major Master” – to get three degrees at University, which he got. His degrees were Business, Science and Physical Education.
The second time he went to University, because they couldn’t afford both on the first time with no scholarships, Helen went with him for a degree in Fine Arts, because her Life Time Wish was “Celebrated Five-Star Chef” – to reach the top of the Culinary career. I like them to get that for the “Minus 1” fridge reward.
Here they are lining up for their graduation.
To help with getting a scholarship, and for cash in between the University trips, Dardanus got a job from level 1 at the Military Base because it pays the best, and at first, most often. And so, they’ve maintained a few friends and acquaintances from that career.
Here is Dardanus with his final degree.
The scholarships, emptying their university rental house, books and other junk sold, and a few shifts at their work, improved their lot at home. They decided to keep adding to and improving it until they, I, get sick of it.
"My resume got me a nice job at the Science Facility" Dardanus told Helen.
"Just in time for school" said Helen.
Helen threw Homer a birthday party for his growing up into a Child. All of their work colleagues old and new, were invited. Judy Bunch, Gobias, and possibly Miles work at the Science Facility with Dardanus.
And Emma Hatch works at the Diner with Helen, and Molly French. Later in the game, the other colleague got old, retired, and Ethan, or Dustin Bunch (Langerak) took over.
Homer grew up in the sparkles and got given an Into the Future outfit as his child-formal. He went to the stylist later, because another child, Sandi French, turned up wearing it as well. They ended up best friends at school.
Here he is all styled over, as he strutted to his first day of school.
He grew up with the elite inner circle of Sunset Valley children and teens.
In fact, he was witness to Sandi’s new baby sister’s arrival in the library.
His dad Dardanus wasn’t too far away, so he took Molly to the hospital, and the baby girl was partially named after him, Dar.
Later that week, while the snow set in, Homer and his mum Helen were eating Ratatouille dinner. But someone was late getting home.
“Where is your father?” asked Helen, “He didn’t mention anything about after work”
“He went collecting scrap at the junkyard, for building his inventions. I think I’d like to be an engineer when I grow up,” said Homer.
“Why is he focussed on Inventing while he doesn’t need it at work?” asked Helen.
“He wants to make harvesters, so we don’t gain Gardening so quickly during the egg to omni plant challenges.” Homer replied.
Over at Grady’s Junkyard ... Dardanus had detonated a large pile of scrap, successfully, but got singed and then took too long to get around in the snow to collect it all ...
Who should come by and save him? Sandi French who happened to be in the cabin, with a hair dryer.
“Thank you Sandi, you saved my life” croaked Dardanus between his chattering teeth.
“Can I have some extra rocks and seeds when the school comes to the Science Facility?” she asked.
He arrived home, to where it had been raised onto foundations and been given a small carport. And one of the gifts from their friends either at university or of their secret admirers in the mail, a fancy potted square hedge was displayed on the porch.
After buying and using a great bath from The Store, he realised Homer as fast asleep in his cute bedroom. The selfie of himself and his wife Helen hung in the kitchen, and someone, probably Homer had gotten a portion of dinner out for him.
Dardanus detonated salvaged items in his own backyard when things warmed up a bit. The neighbours, and the fiery came to see, while he ran around collecting up the scrap.
The worst or best depending how one views it, was when he detonated the big scrap pile at the junkyard, causing the biggest explosion nobody never did see.
This is what it looked like after the dust settled.
It was a big job collecting the scrap, and the salvageable items, which was almost everything.
Which he tried to hide in his yard, and we felt rather guilty. Even though the Junkyard still works, Dardanus promised one day he or his family would buy it and restore it.
The next day he disposed of it all, and they did this evaporating thing.
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Gunther Goth got old. He always seems to do so quickly. Or maybe we're just too absorbed in our own game that we forget to watch him progress.
Shortly after is when Dardanus built a time machine because with all of the Inventing he rolled a wish to do so, and to travel either into the future or past. I thought it would be harmless like the Miner, but this little child sim appeared, genetically Dardanus’ but not Helen’s. I could have not saved and played without her existence, but I thought it was interesting, and it might be bad karma or something.
The game told me Dardanus witnessed a couple arguing and that he went to give advice to them to try to help. There was no cheater reputation or angry relationship panel from Helen. There's no ex girlfriend or mystery acquaintance in his relationship panels either. It is a mystery who the mother was. The game has never said.
The game named her Hilda, which I kept. She went straight over to the soccer game that Homer won with his Festival tickets. One of her traits is Athletic as is Dardanus.
While she played, her new bedroom was built.
Plus a hallway and a second bathroom. Homer's bedroom was given a half-more mature look.
Stay tuned, there is more.
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