Today, Korbin's part of this story ended, as he got his final promotion and therefore has done all he is supposed to do. Good job Korbin. No other kids, so now I temporarily leave the McWilliams to head over and play the Crouches, where Melissa and Christopher are now teenagers having been raised primarily by mum and granddad, and lately by step-dad as well (so no, Korbin never did turn out to be a great father, nor did he have more kids).
But I'm getting ahead of myself, let's wrap Korbin up first.
Korbin might have fulfilled his aspiration early on, but his career was another question, and mostly due to Kuttoe's Career Overhaul mod, which meant he needed a degree in Biology to reach the top. No one can fault him for trying:
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and trying:
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but he still managed to flunk out of a term and get suspended. Studying really isn't what he wants to do when he instead can do things like this:
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or this:
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or this:
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A lot of women came and went, but slowly one started to matter a bit more than the others. Meet Lyric:
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Fact is, that in time Lyric became so important to him, that he simply dumped all his other girlfriends. It still took her quite a few times and eventually deciding to pop the question herself to get him to truly commit. But at 36 even Korbin realised that it was stupid not settle down - in practise he already had after all - so finally, Lyric, moved in. Now as I haven't played her until she moved in, I can of course not say anything for sure about her love life, but I imagine that she had a rich love life and did not spend all her time waiting for Korbin to come around. In any case she has been the only one to make him fall truly, deeply, in love.
By this time, Melissa and Christopher were already teenagers (remember, he had them when he was about 20), but what about their growing up? Well as I said, Korbin was never a good dad. He didn't see them once as they were babies, saw them a few times as toddlers, but started trying harder when they were kids. Thank goodness for Get together - without clubs being a single dad having the kids every now and again wouldn't have worked, but now, it did. So every other weekend (roughly), Melissa and Christopher came to spend some time with dad. Usually they went skating, skiing, snorkling or something else active. When it was time for bed, he'd tuck them into his own bed:
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He himself would sleep on a cot in the living room:
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As I said, Melissa and Christopher are now teenagers (have been for a while). They get on surprisingly well with their dad, and is warming up to Lyric who they have just been introduced to:
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But the major influence on their life has definitely been mum. Melissa has grown up to be an arrogant, perfectionist, fast-learning nerd, and Christopher is a business savy, arrogant, outgoing, boy-scout. And here lies my problem - how in the world are either of those two going to be a fun-loving, irresponsible, bar-tender? Not sure how that is going to work, but they are the only kids that Korbin have. My thoughts? I'm going to have to break the order of the challenge and make gen 6 (suburbia parents) into gen 5 instead. It would also solve another issue I have - with the McWilliams' family growing so big (34 individuals so far), I'm having trouble finding places for them to live. Hmmm - food for thought. But first I have to play them, get a feel for them, and see what happens.
So this is me taking a temporary break from the McWilliams' family to join the Crouch family and see what happens.
