Patience
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Patience's Home in Sunset Valley - before the move to Dragon Valley
The household in which we find Patience is in Sunset Valley.
I had recently purchased the Stones Throw Greenhouse venue from the store and was having fun with the glass roof pieces. Therefore the house is an 'interesting' concoction of greenhouse roof decor.
https://s5.postimg.cc/406a9zqyv/Patience_House001.jpg
It already has the beginnings of what has turned into my preferred build style for most of my actual game play. I build to suit what I want to do in game, not to emulate some real world architectural style. I want my sims to live in places that are functional for what I want them to do.
This build has a roof top garden and another garden on the ground level and a third in the bottom basement. It has a wishing well and a tree of prosperity on the lot.
This is the household in which I first learned the value of having a wishing well on the home lot. But that's another part of the story and will be explained later.
The Sims living in this house make up the current household.
https://s5.postimg.cc/6vjdguuyv/Patience_Household001.jpg
Lucy Lions.
Lucy is a genie. She is there to help Patience manage the family. Lucy is not related to the main family, but she goes with them to Dragon Valley as a valued close family friend.
https://s5.postimg.cc/x54fzngw7/Lucy_Lions_FT001.jpg
At this point, I was still leaving my genies blue and in default genie outfits. That all changes once we get to Dragon Valley. I like my genies and plant sims to blend and not be easily identifiable by their appearance.
Here is Lucy as she appears prior to moving to Dragon Valley.
https://s5.postimg.cc/krrlsqr7r/Lucy_Lions001.jpg
Lucy's traits are: Supernatural Fan, Family Oriented, Green Thumb, Nurturing, Friendly. Her Lifetime Wish is: Alchemy Artisan
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Patience
At the very beginning of the game her name was Patience Ogalvie.
She married Marty Hansen and changed her name.
She didn't marry again, and I didn't worry too much about last names, so all of her many children have Marty's last name even though he is the father of only the first five.
I did eventually change their last names to reflect who their fathers were.
Patience has had all of her family. Here they are.
https://s5.postimg.cc/ynzu4mngn/Patience_FT001.jpg
I thought about continuing to play with her indefinitely, but decided it would be more fun and much more interesting to explore the possibilities of her offspring. Although there may be a few too many of them for me to give them all large families of their own.
The children have mostly turned out to be confused adults. The four eldest Hansen girls have shown themselves to be particularly confused. A few of the 'original 15' have found a life partner and settled down with them. Most have not managed this and have had confused and 'interesting' lives.
For example, one desperately wanted a baby of her own and seduced her imaginary friend with whom she had a son. When that son was a teen she finally found a life partner and has recently settled down to have a family with him.
Another seduced one of Patience's ex partners and had children with him before marrying him.
Another, when she aged up from teen pursued elderly men exclusively. She refused all suitable mates I introduced her to. I even married her to a perfectly acceptable sim with whom she had a baby and then, when I moved to play a different household, she ran off with another of Patience's ex partners and had several babies with him before he died of old age soon after the birth of their last child. She has subsequently settled for a younger partner and has had babies with him whilst having another fling with an attractive neighbour that produced a baby. I'm not sure exactly how many babies and toddlers are currently in her household. I must go back there to check on her one day. Several of her toddlers were mysteriously turned into fairies by some mischievous wandering fairy that got loose in Legacy Island III one day. I soon put a stop to that.
Another girl met and married an elder from Dragon Valley. She had five children with him before he died of old age. She is now an adult widow with teenage children. Some of her babies may be young adults by now and she's out looking for another partner. Probably there'll be more babies in her future.
Another of Patience's girls lives with another elder townie and has had two daughters with him.
And yet another gave up on finding a suitable life partner but really wanted babies. She currently lives with a Sim she doesn't particularly like and he doesn't seem to like her much either but they do manage to produce babies together occasionally. That's about the only time they actually speak to each other is when they decide it's time for another baby.
Yet others of her children are living happily with their one partner and are raising 'normal' families. And some seem to have decided to never have anyone special in their lives.
After spending frustrating time trying to get this lot of sims to stick with partners I chose for them, I gave up entirely and let them have the partners they choose for themselves. I let Story Progression sort out their mess and if I allow that to happen they seem to stay with their partner after I go to play a different household. If they marry and elder and I want them to have children and the elder is female, then there is always a youth potion they can have to age down to Young Adult.
When some of them didn't find a partner autonomously and I gave them a partner they tend to stay together but don't really behave as if they are married or life partners. They behave as if they are single sims sharing a house.
Here's Patience
https://s5.postimg.cc/69uekqzwn/Patience002.jpg
Patience's traits are: Flirty, Friendly, Charismatic, Great Kisser, Angler. Her Lifetime Wish: Heartbreaker. Patience is a Base Game only Sim.
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Christopher Steel
Christopher is a werewolf. The game did that to him and he was a werewolf before Patience met him in this game. He is a pre-made townie sim who came with Sunset Valley.
Christopher's traits are: Great Kisser, Natural Cook, Daredevil, Angler, Friendly. His Lifetime Wish is: Presenting the Perfect Private Aquarium.
https://s5.postimg.cc/c0kkyh7wn/Christopher_Steel_FT001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/t2df0kmrr/Christopher_Steel001.jpg
I know some people don't like Christopher Steel because he is so accepting of the bad behaviour of his women. However, the effect of his trait combination has been very useful for Patience and she has been happy to stick with him as a lifetime partner.
Patience likes to have the freedom to stray wherever and whenever she chooses and still be able to go home to Christopher. She gave him a son and he seems to be content with that. In her later years Patience was often found out looking for fun after finishing work.
By staying with Patience Christopher has allowed his child to be the only one of Patience's 15 children to grow up with both parents living happily together in the same house.
Perhaps he was fortunate she found him when she had almost achieved her goal of having 15 babies and never came home to him pregnant with another sim's baby.
On the other hand, she only had one child with him when she'd had four or five with each of her previous sim partners.
Christopher is younger than Patience.
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Giles Hansen
Giles is the son of Patience and Gobias Koffi. He is in this household temporarily. He was most likely moved into the household to get some extra skills and to celebrate his birthday. Giles has just aged up to become a young adult.
https://s5.postimg.cc/heof353yf/Giles_Hansen_FT001.jpg
Giles is a witch.
His traits are: Eccentric, Bookworm, Friendly, Family Oriented, Adventurous. His Lifetime Wish: Illustrious Author.
https://s5.postimg.cc/jxa43tpon/Giles_Hansen001.jpg
Giles met and married a sim from Dragon Valley. They have continue to live happily together and have had two babies.
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Craig Hansen
Craig is a werewolf
Craig is the son of Patience and Christopher Steel.
https://s5.postimg.cc/6hn3edh6v/Craig_Hansen_FT001.jpg
Craig is the youngest of Patience's 15 children. So far he hasn't met or married anyone and has no offspring either. I do hope to find him a pretty wife soon and see them have a family together.
https://s5.postimg.org/qet0nc01z/Craig_Hansen001.jpg
Craig is currently still a child.
His traits are: Bookworm, Easily Impressed, Friendly. He has no lifetime wish.
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Christopher and Craig
https://s5.postimg.cc/hv9mpkrpj/Christopher_And_Craig001.jpg
The household in which we find Patience is in Sunset Valley.
I had recently purchased the Stones Throw Greenhouse venue from the store and was having fun with the glass roof pieces. Therefore the house is an 'interesting' concoction of greenhouse roof decor.
https://s5.postimg.cc/406a9zqyv/Patience_House001.jpg
It already has the beginnings of what has turned into my preferred build style for most of my actual game play. I build to suit what I want to do in game, not to emulate some real world architectural style. I want my sims to live in places that are functional for what I want them to do.
This build has a roof top garden and another garden on the ground level and a third in the bottom basement. It has a wishing well and a tree of prosperity on the lot.
This is the household in which I first learned the value of having a wishing well on the home lot. But that's another part of the story and will be explained later.
The Sims living in this house make up the current household.
https://s5.postimg.cc/6vjdguuyv/Patience_Household001.jpg
Lucy Lions.
Lucy is a genie. She is there to help Patience manage the family. Lucy is not related to the main family, but she goes with them to Dragon Valley as a valued close family friend.
https://s5.postimg.cc/x54fzngw7/Lucy_Lions_FT001.jpg
At this point, I was still leaving my genies blue and in default genie outfits. That all changes once we get to Dragon Valley. I like my genies and plant sims to blend and not be easily identifiable by their appearance.
Here is Lucy as she appears prior to moving to Dragon Valley.
https://s5.postimg.cc/krrlsqr7r/Lucy_Lions001.jpg
Lucy's traits are: Supernatural Fan, Family Oriented, Green Thumb, Nurturing, Friendly. Her Lifetime Wish is: Alchemy Artisan
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Patience
At the very beginning of the game her name was Patience Ogalvie.
She married Marty Hansen and changed her name.
She didn't marry again, and I didn't worry too much about last names, so all of her many children have Marty's last name even though he is the father of only the first five.
I did eventually change their last names to reflect who their fathers were.
Patience has had all of her family. Here they are.
https://s5.postimg.cc/ynzu4mngn/Patience_FT001.jpg
I thought about continuing to play with her indefinitely, but decided it would be more fun and much more interesting to explore the possibilities of her offspring. Although there may be a few too many of them for me to give them all large families of their own.
The children have mostly turned out to be confused adults. The four eldest Hansen girls have shown themselves to be particularly confused. A few of the 'original 15' have found a life partner and settled down with them. Most have not managed this and have had confused and 'interesting' lives.
For example, one desperately wanted a baby of her own and seduced her imaginary friend with whom she had a son. When that son was a teen she finally found a life partner and has recently settled down to have a family with him.
Another seduced one of Patience's ex partners and had children with him before marrying him.
Another, when she aged up from teen pursued elderly men exclusively. She refused all suitable mates I introduced her to. I even married her to a perfectly acceptable sim with whom she had a baby and then, when I moved to play a different household, she ran off with another of Patience's ex partners and had several babies with him before he died of old age soon after the birth of their last child. She has subsequently settled for a younger partner and has had babies with him whilst having another fling with an attractive neighbour that produced a baby. I'm not sure exactly how many babies and toddlers are currently in her household. I must go back there to check on her one day. Several of her toddlers were mysteriously turned into fairies by some mischievous wandering fairy that got loose in Legacy Island III one day. I soon put a stop to that.
Another girl met and married an elder from Dragon Valley. She had five children with him before he died of old age. She is now an adult widow with teenage children. Some of her babies may be young adults by now and she's out looking for another partner. Probably there'll be more babies in her future.
Another of Patience's girls lives with another elder townie and has had two daughters with him.
And yet another gave up on finding a suitable life partner but really wanted babies. She currently lives with a Sim she doesn't particularly like and he doesn't seem to like her much either but they do manage to produce babies together occasionally. That's about the only time they actually speak to each other is when they decide it's time for another baby.
Yet others of her children are living happily with their one partner and are raising 'normal' families. And some seem to have decided to never have anyone special in their lives.
After spending frustrating time trying to get this lot of sims to stick with partners I chose for them, I gave up entirely and let them have the partners they choose for themselves. I let Story Progression sort out their mess and if I allow that to happen they seem to stay with their partner after I go to play a different household. If they marry and elder and I want them to have children and the elder is female, then there is always a youth potion they can have to age down to Young Adult.
When some of them didn't find a partner autonomously and I gave them a partner they tend to stay together but don't really behave as if they are married or life partners. They behave as if they are single sims sharing a house.
Here's Patience
https://s5.postimg.cc/69uekqzwn/Patience002.jpg
Patience's traits are: Flirty, Friendly, Charismatic, Great Kisser, Angler. Her Lifetime Wish: Heartbreaker. Patience is a Base Game only Sim.
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Christopher Steel
Christopher is a werewolf. The game did that to him and he was a werewolf before Patience met him in this game. He is a pre-made townie sim who came with Sunset Valley.
Christopher's traits are: Great Kisser, Natural Cook, Daredevil, Angler, Friendly. His Lifetime Wish is: Presenting the Perfect Private Aquarium.
https://s5.postimg.cc/c0kkyh7wn/Christopher_Steel_FT001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/t2df0kmrr/Christopher_Steel001.jpg
I know some people don't like Christopher Steel because he is so accepting of the bad behaviour of his women. However, the effect of his trait combination has been very useful for Patience and she has been happy to stick with him as a lifetime partner.
Patience likes to have the freedom to stray wherever and whenever she chooses and still be able to go home to Christopher. She gave him a son and he seems to be content with that. In her later years Patience was often found out looking for fun after finishing work.
By staying with Patience Christopher has allowed his child to be the only one of Patience's 15 children to grow up with both parents living happily together in the same house.
Perhaps he was fortunate she found him when she had almost achieved her goal of having 15 babies and never came home to him pregnant with another sim's baby.
On the other hand, she only had one child with him when she'd had four or five with each of her previous sim partners.
Christopher is younger than Patience.
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Giles Hansen
Giles is the son of Patience and Gobias Koffi. He is in this household temporarily. He was most likely moved into the household to get some extra skills and to celebrate his birthday. Giles has just aged up to become a young adult.
https://s5.postimg.cc/heof353yf/Giles_Hansen_FT001.jpg
Giles is a witch.
His traits are: Eccentric, Bookworm, Friendly, Family Oriented, Adventurous. His Lifetime Wish: Illustrious Author.
https://s5.postimg.cc/jxa43tpon/Giles_Hansen001.jpg
Giles met and married a sim from Dragon Valley. They have continue to live happily together and have had two babies.
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Craig Hansen
Craig is a werewolf
Craig is the son of Patience and Christopher Steel.
https://s5.postimg.cc/6hn3edh6v/Craig_Hansen_FT001.jpg
Craig is the youngest of Patience's 15 children. So far he hasn't met or married anyone and has no offspring either. I do hope to find him a pretty wife soon and see them have a family together.
https://s5.postimg.org/qet0nc01z/Craig_Hansen001.jpg
Craig is currently still a child.
His traits are: Bookworm, Easily Impressed, Friendly. He has no lifetime wish.
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Christopher and Craig
https://s5.postimg.cc/hv9mpkrpj/Christopher_And_Craig001.jpg
