Occult Refresh!

I would love to see more effects for occult kids! I have noticed that my mermaid toddlers (and infants I think?) get really cute moodlets from baths. But there’s nothing else to it, and you’re right, there’s nothing to indicate a spellcaster child. I don’t have the vampire pack, but I’ve recently been playing with 5 children, starting as infants. A mermaid, a werewolf, an alien, a mermaid, and a human. And I couldn’t even remember which was which beyond the werewolf and alien, because there was no indication! (I mean… I’d have been able to find the mermaid if I gave them all baths. But I dare you to play with 5 infants and only one adult and see how many baths you get done 🤣)

And if I had let the alien wear their disguise I wouldn’t have been able to tell them apart from the others either.

I love the idea of spellcaster infants/toddlers accidentally teleporting when they sneeze. I think it would be really cool if they had various possible magical accidents as infants/toddlers, and a magical control skill as child sims. Imagine child sims starting off still having random sparks or magical accidents, which decrease as they raise magical control, and if they max magical control before aging up to teen it gives them a starting boost to their magic skill…

For mermaid kids it would definitely be fun to have more than just the bath time moodlet. Maybe let them have the hydration need replace the hygiene need from the beginning, and so let things like playing in puddles, shallow water, the water emitters, or the pool all give significant hydration boost. And maybe a few custom interactions, practicing their siren’s lullaby or talking about fish. Maybe if they’re allowed to play in a puddle, the puddle mysteriously multiples…

As for aliens, I would love if they learned differently. Faster, slower, some combo of the two on different skills… or maybe a read mind interaction that increases different skills depending on what the sim whose mind they read is doing. Like increase movement if they read mind of a sim exercising, increase communication if they’re socializing, increase thinking if they’re playing chess, imagination if they’re painting, etc… and then once they become child sims, reading mind can still be available but cause negative relationship. And maybe if they’re tired they lose the ability to hold their disguise.