I’ve had mixed results from genetics. I have quite a few sets of twins in my saves, partly because I like playing with large families, but the genetic results are pretty interesting. I have one set of twins who look a lot like their mother with black hair and brown skin, but have their dad’s green eyes (he is white and blond). Then I have another set of twins who are both pale redheads (both their parents are also pale redheads), but one has their dad’s brown eyes and the other has their mum’s blue eyes. And, in yet another save (told you I like twins/multiples!!) one twin looks exactly like her mother with brown hair and green eyes, and the other looks exactly like her father with blond hair and brown eyes. Both parents are white, but don’t have exactly the same skintone.
I often find that you don’t truly see any family resemblances until the child becomes a teen. I have one mixed-race family (no twins here haha) where the son looked very much like his mother as a toddler and child, with tanned skin and blond hair (as opposed to his dad who is black and has black hair), but when he became a teenager I noticed he had his dad’s facial features.
I’ve not had an instance where a kid gets a skintone that’s completely different to what their parents have, that’s bizarre.
