Silver Valley Orphans

Question

This thread is to share the stories of the young Sims in my games who were left orphans due to the neighborhood stories accidental deaths or their parents dying of old age.

The idea of giving lives to the 'Orphaned Sims' in my games started in my main game save, 'Valley Variety' where I play a mixture of old and new households including some of the descendant households of my original households along with Sims from my 'Alphabet' sim series (most of which you can find in my gallery) but just giving them a regular Sim life and some new random and former 'scenario' Sims that didn't get much of a life before taking a break from the game for a few years.

Anyways, getting back to the poor orphans in my game, when looking through the 'other households' in 'Manage households', I noticed that there were some with just an infant, child or teenager but with no parent. In Valley Variety there were many of them at first due to the 'accidental deaths' even with the regular Sims in the game. I felt sorry for these orphans and decided to give them new lives and parents especially for the 'infants and children'. To create new parents for them I usually use the 'genetic' option CAS to make an aunt or uncle for the orphans to adopt the child. As part of my 'Randomly Coordinated, As-It-Happens style play, I use my dice method to decide whether their new parent come single, married, in a partner relationship and/or have a child of their own.

For the teens, I just add them to my active households and become their guide since teens can live on their own. I don't do this for every orphan teen but some of them were from the regular Sim households like The Roswell's daughter, Katie who was and is still a teenager when her parents died of old age. She is now living in Glimmerbrook in a house I built for her while she finishes high school strives to become a 'Purveyor of Potions'. That way her family name can live on along with my other orphan teen households. I will introduce these households as they come up in my game rotation.

Notes

About three months ago, I decided to create a new thread for my Sims 4 households called Silver Variety Stories. For awhile I was able to post introductions, back stories and current photos of some of my households with help from in getting used to the new forum setup. During the last couple of weeks I haven't been able to post in the thread for some reason. Since I've been thinking creating threads for each of my three game saves and one for the Orphan households, I've decided to do just that. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer or copy my previous posts to their respective new threads or at least the stories that I was unable to post in the past couple of weeks.

silverjansims · Answer

A NEW FAMILY FOR YOUNG VEER CHANDRANVeer is a young child who was left an orphan when his father, Kabir tragically passed away in a fire that broke out in the rooming house they lived in while looking for their forever home.&nbsp; Thankfully Kadir had a younger brother, Tim who had been back in their home country of Simindia (aka India) but had recently emigrated to the desert town of Oasis Springs with his wife, Britney and their young daughter, Neveah who was a toddler at the time.&nbsp; After attending the memorial service for his brother, Tim and his wife adopted Veer as their own so that he would be raised by family and grow up with a new sister.&nbsp;Shortly after adopting Veer, Tim had a new farmhouse/garden style home built for them on a nice lot in one of the more upscale neighborhoods in Oasis Springs that has good schools so that their children could get a good education.&nbsp; Although Veer has been through a lot in a young age, he has not let that get him down and shows a lot of self confidence in everything he does.&nbsp; He is already an A student and is working on his childhood dream of becoming an Artistic ProdigyVeer’s new father, Tim has joined the astronaut career since he loves anything to do with rocket science which will also help with his desires of becoming a Nerd Brain which goes with his ‘geek’ personality.&nbsp; Tim is also a ‘maker’ and hopes to fill his basement hobby room with items that he can make and sell his creations or add them to his home décor.&nbsp; One thing you won’t find Tim doing is ‘fishing’ due to his ‘squeamish’&nbsp; personality.&nbsp; Cleaning up messes are enough to make him uncomfortable. &nbsp;&nbsp;Before Veer came into his life, Tim met Britney at a Humor and Hijinks festival where she was part of the prankster and was drawn to her royal blue dyed hair.&nbsp; They chatted while eating food at the festival and despite her ‘evil’ ways he fell in love with Britney, &nbsp;and it wasn’t long before they were married and welcomed a baby girl into the world whom they named, Neveah.&nbsp; Little Neveah is now cute toddler but is very fussy and always wants her way and gives her ‘Super Parent’ want-a-be a run for her money while taking her frustrations out on her poor brother, Veer.&nbsp; Hopefully she’ outgrow this phase when she starts school.Here ae some photos of Veer, Tim, Britney and his little sister, Neveah.&nbsp; Will share photos of the Chandran family home in Veer's next update.&nbsp;&nbsp;

silverjansims · Answer

Hi Everyone,Hope you're all having a Top-Notch Thursday!&nbsp; Today I'm sharing the story of another young Sim who was left an orphan due to the untimely accidental death of her mother.&nbsp;&nbsp;AKSHARA’S STORYAkshara was raised by her birth mother, Anaya and had never really known her father as he was somewhat a drifter in life and didn’t want to stay in one place for long.&nbsp; Apparently, Akshara’s father left Anaya and his daughter when she was just a toddler to follow his dreams and never looked back.&nbsp; Anaya did her best to raise Akshara and provide for all her needs by working as a botanist in a local exotic plant nursery.&nbsp; One of Anaya’s jobs was to tend to the cow plants that were housed in a special room at the nursery.&nbsp; Although Anaya was always careful when tending to these vicious plants, one of the cow plants grabbed her while she was tending to the plant.&nbsp; Anaya fought hard to free herself but was no match for the extremely hungry plant who ate her up leaving Akshara alone to fend for herself, who by this time had recently started school.In the days after her mother’s tragic death,&nbsp; Akshara would spend a lot of time at the local animal shelter playing with the puppies and helping the shelter workers feed and clean the animal pens to earn a little cash for clothes and other things she would need while living at the orphanage until a new family could be found for her.&nbsp; Thankfully Akshara didn’t have to wait longer for a new mother as the social workers were able to locate her mother’s younger sister, Jennifer who is a local police officer in the Detective career.&nbsp; Jennifer was more than happy to adopt her niece and used the money she had been saving from her career and other jobs from over the years to build a cute farmhouse style home for he and Akshara to live in.&nbsp;While in grade school, Akshara wants to become a ‘Slumber Party Animal’ and because of her love for dogs, she wants to adopt one from the shelter.&nbsp; Jennifer has made a deal with her daughter that if she earns an A in school then Akshara could get a dog.&nbsp; As for Jennifer, she is pursuing her dream of becoming a ‘Computer Whiz’ while working as a detective.&nbsp; As a lover of music, Jennifer is looking to have an any area in the family’s future basement hobby area for the various music instruments she wants to learn how to play.&nbsp; Since Jennifer is a slob, Akshara is the one who generally picks up the clothes her new mother leaves on the floor and puts the dishes in the dishwasher, but she doesn't mind as she is thankful to have Jennifer as her new mother.&nbsp; Akshara hopes that someday, Jennifer will meet and fall in love with&nbsp; the right man and gain a new father. Meanwhile, Jennifer hopes that her ears will survive Akshara's 'LOUD' childhood and teenage years phase.Here are some candid photos taken during Jennifer &amp; Akshara's first week in their new Tartosa home.&nbsp; These photos include special family moments like having&nbsp; a water balloon fight&nbsp; together on Summer Fun Day (one of the extra holidays I created, Jennifer getting a bite to eat, Jennifer playing on her laptop and on-the-job photos of Jennifer at the local police station.&nbsp; There are also photos of Akshara meeting one of her new friends, Courtney Richards who had been adopted by Gavin Richards who lives in Oasis Springs.&nbsp; At the end of the first week of Jennifer and Akshara's first week in their new home they had a visit from vampire Vladislaus Straud.&nbsp;